I have this pretty young account on PieFed (lemm.eerefug.ee) and got your message. I'm not sure why. I did a search for ponder.cat to see what it was about (not about to tap a link in my mobile app!)
I feel like I'm constantly surrounded by people who want to talk about last night's game and all the dominoes that need to be in place for home team to make it to the finals.
Yeah, but if the state is constantly working it's ass off to stop other states from getting that federal assistance, they should go fuck themselves.
I really want, at this point, blue states to unionize this stuff on their own and let those red states deal with their own shit like they keep demanding
There's an unexpected amount of philosophical rants and theory dropping throughout the book. Welcome, but unexpected for people who go in to read an action novel.
The question was can I pour oil down the drain. The "Rule of Thumb" (a general catch-all rule that plumbers use) is if it can't rinse away with water, don't pour it down the drain. I replied to whether you can pour olive oil down the drain. I don't know why you started talking about washing dishes.
Can't they just lie to me? "We've installed overhead ai systems with x Ray lidar invisiview technology throughout the airport, so no more need for security!"
Fucking even keep charging us for the fake technology and line your pockets. But let us all just walk to the damn terminal
I can't tell if people here are pouring their grease down the drain.
The answer is don't. "It will be fine" for the person who told you that it will be fine, but it will absolutely fail for you. You know that by now. Also that guy is lying and already had to snake his drain but won't tell you that.
One of mine is in high school, and as much as I hate the confirming culture, especially because it's led by morons and marketing, I choose the same path. I allowed my (now high school kid) to participate in all the awful crap that I would never do myself when she felt middle school pressure. She was in the popular kids group.
The caveat has been it all comes with extreme education from my end. Not demeaning or condescending. I over-preach about marketing/ads/influencers and constantly question why people make the choices they do. I question everything though. "How do you know that?" often leads back to tick tock.
In my experience, the OTHER kids are now getting smarter as they age. Mine is now able to live her life how she wants and is still with that same group , and the kids (I shit you not) look to her for purchasing advice. The vanity kinda goes away as their brains leave that dumb social hierarchy age.
Note: My kids are/were decked out in Nike. We live by the world headquarters and a good chunk of the kids' parents work there. If that isn't peer pressure, I dunno what is!
Not even close to a true statement