I’m still convinced that fat people just don’t have this feeling. Like when I eat too much, I legitimately feel sick. Stomach aches, neck and chest pain, nausea, lethargy, it’s awful. I’m on the borderline between healthy and overweight (even though I have basically no fat on my body). I have no idea how anyone functions while eating enough to gain and maintain all this weight. It’s completely insane to me

the charts are what people are actually listening to

But this statement by itself is incredibly disingenuous. Artists and record labels literally have to pay Spotify to get their songs to be played in the algorithm. Yes, it is technically what people are listening to but it’s actually almost always which record company decided to break open their wallet the most for that particular song.

Acting like common slang is somehow incongruous with “philosophical” conversation and voicing that opinion is hilariously hypocritical. I urge you to consider what it is about that language that upsets you so much and take some time to work on it. I use common slang mostly because the point is obvious and using big words makes people feel like the speaker thinks they are above everyone they are speaking to. I wrote out that entire long ass sentence instead of saying you sound like a conceited jackass because I know you edge from unnecessarily long phrases.

Nah, it was pretty obvious. It’s not his fault y’all are dumb as fuck. It happens! Just be happy you learned something today

Imagine if he was our president

Lots of people on YouTube talk about this a lot. It’s something that you won’t really find a direct source for, but is obvious once you start looking into it. Reagan changed everything in the US, after his presidency every president since has pushed neoliberal policies. Low social spending, low taxes, lots of bailouts and subsidies.

It applies to the parties as a whole too. Republicans create a problem, Democrats say they want to fix it but can’t because Republicans are blocking them, they wait for everyone to forget about it and then they do it all over again. When Democrats have full power they could go back and fix those problems but they never do. And they never get anything done when they have the power. They just move the goalposts, focusing on problems that require help from whichever part of government is Republican controlled. That way they can pretend they’re trying to do something and blame Republicans for blocking it.

It’s a mixed bag. Many of them focus too much on policing the rules as strictly as possible and lose sight of the spirit of the community. They are a necessary evil in my opinion, but they shouldn’t be appointed with zero accountability as they currently are. Elections and community votes to remove mods that abuse their power should be more common.

Using /s is utterly pointless and I can prove it, although I doubt you’ll read it.

If someone legitimately doesn’t get the joke, adding a /s won’t make it funny to them, at most all it will do is prevent them from replying with some kind of attack. So I guess if internet harassment from incompetent people that can’t read sarcasm actually affects your mental state, adding a /s is a decent band-aid replacement for the therapy you obviously require.

In most cases, the S is “necessary” because your joke wasn’t funny, and the S will not make it funny, it’ll just make people pity your lack of humor.

Lastly, in the case where people get the joke, as soon as they see the S they will no longer find the joke funny. It’s the equivalent of saying bazinga after every joke. It’s not funny, it’s just annoying, and it ruins the few times you actually manage to tell a good joke.

And feel free to keep shitflinging, I am neurodivergent and I don’t need morons like you self-ruining your jokes in the name of some random internet people with no social awareness.

I legitimately think reddit would be better if everyone who used the phrase “cake day” was permanently IP banned from the service. And hate subs aren’t really a reddit tradition, more a general Internet thing, but go off I guess. Also, fuck the S, it’s the second most unproductive and inane reddit tradition

Legit Chicago. No work on the CTA that desperately needs a new line (or several), but just spent $800m ($300m over budget) on the Jane Byrne Interchange and immediately started work on Kennedy for another $150m (will end up being at least $300m). I can’t help but imagine if they took that billion and spent it on the CTA instead

John Green truly is a treasure. As usual, there is no such thing as a moral corporation

Cake days were by far reddit’s most unproductive and inane tradition, they should’ve died long ago. I will personally see to it that every person wishing or attempting to wish a happy cake day is verbally harassed until they delete their account.

Sometimes you have to fucking do something. We can’t make big changes overnight. Start small. Organize soup kitchens in your community. Or a community garden. Or start holding party meetings and recruiting people to the cause. And stop making excuses for “leftist” murderers just because they’re “leftist”.

No, in uneducated American circles you would be correct but in actual political discourse a leftist is truly a leftist. A liberal is an American “leftist”.