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Im moreso talking about news headlines. Leaving the EU was an incredibly serious situation and the news media made a cutsie pun nickname for it and said it on TV with a straight face.

Just as a side point, saying “someone else also does it!” doesn’t further anyone’s understanding of anything in my opinion.

I live in Ireland- the UK press, and to an extent, possibly as an effect, the general public, use these infantilized, gross ass cutsie words to describe things. Footie (football). Chockie (chocolate). It makes me nauseated.

yeah well being from pennsylvania I would have no trouble believing it. philly is philly, and pittsburgh was barely democratic leaning, but drive 40 minutes in ANY direction and you might as well be in kentucky.

Once, up in clinton township, I was standing in a doorway of my uncle’s house and his neighbor said “are you white?” and i said “yeah” and he demanded I come out into the light so he could see me. I was about 11 years old. I was terrified.

what part of the country do you live in? Im from PA but I moved to Ireland a good long while back

don’t ever try to stop people from practicing out-group homogeniety (or in this case in-group homogeniety)

My older neighbor got a call from a guy who called her “mom” and said he’d been in a car accident, and there was a problem with his insurance, so he was in real trouble if he couldn’t pay cash for the damage, the other guy was gonna call the cops, and he needed $2,000 to give to the other guy for the damage.

She said “Tim?” and the guy said "yeah mom its Tim and kept repeating he was gonna go to jail for not having insurance cause it lapsed just this week and he needed to run to the store and he was in an accident.

She withdrew 2k from the bank and some guy came and said he was Tim’s friend and he needed to go right then the cops were gonna arrest Tim.

Apparently, he snatched the money out of her hand and ran to his car and left. She felt very foolish.

No don’t misunderstand, if BB made a new phone I’d preorder. I just think this post couldn’t be more full of shit

yeah, me neither…

voip.ms has been great, and I was able to get help through the chat window basically immediately each time I needed it

there is no way this is legit, guys.

if you’re jonsing for the physical keyboard, I don’t hate the titan slim. Its no key2, but it types. you can install blackberry keyboard on it, also.

if you want a better, more private OS, I hear GraphineOS is quite good, and you can install it on a Pixel, then use the Clicks Keyboard case with it. https://www.clicks.tech/en/products/clicks-for-google-pixel

This post is silly.

thats right. letters are just arbitrary little squiggles, and if you look at any of them too long they lose the heuristic you associate with them and the fact that theyre just little squiggles becomes visible.

I dont think one word or another is more or less likely to cause this effect.

id be pretty sure that the broadband expansion to rural areas projects in the biden administration was working on will grind to a halt if they havent already.

how maga people watch musk and dismantle public services and give billions of dollars in subsidies to musk’s businesses and still think they’re fighting for them is just otherworldly levels of cognitive dissonance management

no listen, the fediverse is good! you should try the fediverse!!

I was walking along the shore in North Myrtle Beach and some jackass had colt .45 in a cowboy holster around his waist. He was walking with another chubby dude who was pretty obviously his friend. Never before have I seen such a fuckin chode

you just outgrew it. same shit, different words of the day

when is the last time you were in Germany and spoke in English to someone under 30?

No I got it, the song.

The thing is the first two posters changed the lyrics to fit the topic.

You just typed the lyrics to the actual song.

dude, if you don’t have anything to contribute just don’t type

yes, he’ll be tormented by the feds to the point he’ll take his own life.

where are you? Im in Ireland and use eBay all the time, and when there’s been a problem it’s always been rectified