brygphilomena

Deviant usually carries some TSA compliant folding scissors in his kits. I know fiskers makes a pair. And their scissors are usually decent quality.

So you think it's smarter to wear a seatbelt, you wear yours but are somehow annoyed that it might ding at someone else for something you yourself think is unsafe and wouldn't do?

Yes. Or for my backpack thats in the backseat and sitting just right to trigger the sensor.

The backseat warning is so kids don't get left in the back as easily and neglectful parents have an extra step to ignore which plays against them in court. Are you somehow for some reason for children playing pizza oven because their parents neglected them?

Don't misconstrue my words to say I'm for roasting kids. But I am against the constant alerts without any means to turn them off.

I'm just curious, are you also against it being illegal for fridge doors to be produced with a latch that only operates from outside the fridge?

That's a ridiculous false equivalency. The things I'm against are annoyances, not trapping people in cars.

Cars make noises for fucking everything now. I'm not against rear view cameras on the surface. But mandating things like that also mean mandating a screen in the car, usually the infotainment system. And I prefer cars without screens.

Any single thing, I'm not particularly against. But it's been a cumulative effect where there are too many things where I can't make a decision on how an object I bought and own behaves.

It's shit like not letting me, as a passenger, use half the damn infotainment because the vehicle is in motion.

Dinging noises for seatbelts, for instance. I always wear mine. But I don't think cars should annoy you if passengers don't. Or if I put something in my backseat.

I genuinely just want a basic car. No frills. No nav, no infotainment, just a basic radio with Bluetooth. I don't want lane assist, or for the car to have radar when parking telling me how close I am to the drive thru window.

Oh, definitely.

Fuck carry weight. Fuck inventory management.

Unless there is a serious, compelling reason and they game is about that, let me turn off micromanage shit. I want to explore the world and dungeons and not worry about whether all the loot I can pick up is worth it or to decide each and every single item whether I want it or what I need to toss to pick it up.

While I agree with much of what you said, there are other issues with psychology and psychiatry that they often can't treat some environmental causes or triggers. When I was suicidal, it was also the feeling of being trapped in a job where I wasn't appreciated and couldn't advance.

If I were placed in an inpatient facility, it would only have exacerbated the issues where I would have so much to deal with the try and be on medical leave before I got fired for not showing up.

That said, for SOME mental illnesses ECT it can be a valid treatment. We don't know how the brain works, but we've seen correlation where ECT kind of resets the way the brain perceives the world temporarily. All medical decisions need to be weighed against the side effects and determined if the benefits outweigh the risks.

The other issue with inpatient facilities is that they can be incredibly hard to convince the staff that you are doing better. All actions are viewed through the lens that you are ill and showing the staff you are better is just trying to trick the staff to get out.

I cringe when I see our flag everywhere and I can't stand the national anthem at every sports event.

I don't want to be proud of my country because I was born here. I WANT to be proud of it because of how good of a place it is to live. I want to be proud of a place that takes care of my neighbors. Provides us with enough food, healthcare, and housing. I want to be proud of a place where knowledge is invested in and the population is educated. Where people can make art and music because their needs are met.

But where I live is stress inducing.

My neighbors are being rounded up and deported.

People are going hungry and SNAP benefits are being restored after being used for political leverage. Where we throw out more food on a daily basis than it would take to feed everyone for a month. Where too many people rely on food banks.

Where healthcare is tied to employment. Where even after paying in for years, some profit seeking corporation can override what my highly educated, licensed doctor says is "medically necessary." Where after years of payment, I can just lose the ability to pay for healthcare. Where being sick is used as a reason to prevent people from being able to get healthcare.

Where homelessness is increasing and we have more vacant houses than we have homeless. Where corporations have the ability to buy up every house and artificially keep people paying them rent until they die.

Where there is a ware against people having access to books. Where the government wants to decrease the standards for education. Where a large portion of the populace want religious texts being the basis for teaching than science. Where our higher education institutions are being blackmailed by the presidents and his regime. Where teachers can't make a living and still are expected to spend their own salary on school supplies for their classrooms.

Where people seem to believe that art and music are only worthwhile if you can make money off them. Otherwise artists need to "get a job" to pay for food, healthcare, and housing.

Where liberalism is taking hold and regulations are being rolled back that protected the citizens from being taken advantage by corporations. All in some bizarre lie that "you too can be an entrepreneur and these regulations are somehow depriving you of your freedoms."

As an American who has been against the "pledge of allegiance" since I understood what "pledge" and "allegiance" meant. It's hard to convince people around me how much propaganda we are subjected to daily. How we indoctrinate our children. Like, I have spent hours trying to convince people how insidious the "pledge of allegiance" is. And they just think it's good to follow your country.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/

I'm amused that if this does get stopped by judges, and the other one recently reportedly blocked for the same reason in another state, that if California redistricts their maps it's really going to be the GOP shooting themselves in the foot.

Have you looked at the towns on that site?

So many are just "possible" and they don't list ANY supporting evidence or links to primary sources. I was super intrigued because I thought it was a cool resource, but my city has one comment saying that someone who supposedly lived there in the 50s heard someone say that blacks weren't welcome.

Some have literally no comment even.

It doesn't even say these ARE current sundown towns, just ones they someone suspects could have been LITERALLY EVER IN THEIR PAST.

I agree. Stats, z-scores, and significance would be way more useful. If only to offset how easy it is to lie with statistics.