Yesterday I tried to buy a game for my Nintendo Switch off craigslist. In my city the custom is for the buyer to meet at the seller's house.
Well, I got profiled. She got one look at me and refused to open her door. I pleaded with her over the intercom system, and she opened it a crack, just enough to slip the game through and no more. I tried to hand her the money instead of sliding it through the crack in her door, and she freaked out and shut me out. I went back to my car and called the phone number from the ad. She told me I look like a criminal, accused me of sabotaging her security camera, said I was scaring her kids, and threatened to call the police.
I just wanted to play Luigi's Mansion 3.
I can never fathom the life choices people have had to make to wind up so fucking stupid and emotionally immature (a nicer way of saying 'racist', I guess lmao) like that. You're already selling a goddamn Nintendo Switch game on Craigslist of all places, so why have a goddamn breakdown over some S T R A N G E R showing up at your house in response to the listing?? Not knocking CL but it is definitely the sketchiest way to buy/sell shit - hell, I picked up a microwave back in June from a local listing and point blank refused to meet the seller at their house & wound up offering them an extra $5 to meet me at the Walgreens nearby, because fuck exactly what you went through. Wish I could figure out why the Karen even bothered with CL instead of one of the many alternatives that is seen as 'safer' like ebay or FB marketplacce lmao.
When I lived in Vancouver, it was expected that you meet in a public place like a train station to make the sale. Around here though, everyone wants you to come to their home. And they won't tell you their address more than an hour in advance because they're scared you'll burglarize them. It's not a great system.
I remember buying a used switch for 20 dollars at Main Street - Science World (fuck Telus) station once.
Sorry to hear that bud. People can be fucking trash. :angery:
Nah, she didn't pass me the game. She was just setting up to do the exchange through a firmly held 1cm gap in the door.
call in for PD to do a wellness check on her kids. If she is that crazy odds are she is fucking up.
if not it is hilarious for a poc to call the cops on her for being suspicious.
Don't do this. It is rare for kids to be better off in a foster system.
Hi all!
I will be visiting your beautiful website for a few months (from 9/11 to 4/20) and me and my boyfriend were wondering if we could get some help around fitting in. Basically, my boyfriend is an anarcho-Bidenist (lib, racist, corrupt, senile, even a sprinkle of unwanted touching and hair-sniffing!) but I am slightly more based. I am 47.3% Maoist with the remainder of my politics a shake up of Posadism, Anarcho-primitivism and whatever Matt Christman was talking about on his last vlog. So as you can imagine, depending on the website I am seen as either a lib or incredibly based. I would guess that on ChapoChat I would definately stand out as being less of a lib than the average user, and as you may have noticed this has been worrying us as we are preparing our posts. I would really appreciate if anyone could help us out here, because we really need advice:
Would any precautions such as hex bear spray be needed?
Will the fact that we are a mixed politics couple mean we should avoid certain c/comms on the website? (We will be posting on computer stations with monitors side by side mostly)
Both of us are former redditors and channers, will that be an issue for the mods or even the comms?
Is it safe to also go on twitter? (He has always wanting to retweet some of Virgil Texas' posts!)
We really just want to avoid being seen as stereotypical libs, pick the correct pronouns and post based Twitter screenshots (maybe upvote a few!) so any advice is welcome Chapos. Thank You!
I find it really hard to believe the original reddit post was real. It was a bit much, especially given that it was on a throwaway account
Went through 6 surgeries in 2 years and thought i was finally over it. Got a new job that pays decent enough and was just getting the hang of it and today I could barely walk out of there. Gonna have to go back to my surgeon and probably lose my job. Gonna go through all that again just to live in this decaying capitalist nightmare once I'm done. Sometimes it doesn't seem worth it.
That sucks comrade. Remember that just living is a revolutionary act.
Dear diary,
I think I made my boss mad this morning. He brought up the debate. Said he didnt watch it, but wanted to talk about it. Conversation hit to the DNC being extreme, and I went mask off, finally after years.
Background, I live in a highly conservative/fascist area, it's a militray town in the south east and boss is proud catholic air force retiree. I began to drag the american right as being out of touch with the world. He threw the " so I'm out of touch" line, and said yes with no hesitation. My dragging of everything right of center, including the center itself, most likely of earshot of clients for an event continued. We went separate ways and he hasnt talked to me since, going by my office multiple times.
Damn it felt good to finally say something, and not play route the conversation game.
I hope everyone has a great/safe weekend :)
Edit: I'm a coward so this is a big deal for me lol
That is a big deal, imagine if even one person went to research one thing you said and thats the first breadcrumb in a trail to leftism. o7
That would be far and away great, but I wouldn’t bet on it :/ These people are extremely rich.
Your response to him asking if he was out of touch should have been asking him how many people have died overseas from American intervention.
They honestly believe they're saving the world, and that those were bad people. The propaganda has been extremely successful.
Thanks, but I'm going to talk myself out of this compliment.
I've known his family through his daughter for a decade, and if they fired me good luck finding someone who can understand this environment for table scraps (everyone is either on furlough or partial unemployment). So basically a near no risk pop off lol.
But thank you, I'm still slightly surprised/pleased I did it.
I have online classes that don’t have mandatory Zoom meetings and it rocks. I wake up at like 10:00 on a school day, play some games and watch the Sopranos, then do my work whenever I want
I'm in my early 30s and was considering getting an MBA or law school until I looked at the prices. The prices have a whole new meaning to me at this age because I don't see a loan that I don't have to worry about for years - I see a lifetime of savings for a piece of paper, the first one of which I got (my undergrad) has done extremely little for me. Law school in my state (WA) would be a minimum of $250k plus the loss of three years of wages - a total loss of half a million dollars. All because I thought it would be cool to be a public defender, which makes.... $50k a year. A third of what I'm making now without a law degree. The economics of school these days makes zero sense. Thank god I was really only out of pocket $13k for my undergrad all said and done.
The economics of school these days makes zero sense.
It makes perfect sense if your intent is to keep poors from being lawyers.
Just thinking about the Hunter S. Thompson quote, the one about "how many more of these 'vote for the lesser evil just this once' elections" we are gonna have. Long after his death, it appears it has not stopped.
He'd be telling you to vote for Biden, though.
How do all these people who have lived through this time and time and time again acknowledge that lesser evilism fails, and still push for engaging in it.
Vote for who you want, except Trump or JoJo, but damn, don't tell me who to vote for if you know it doesn't matter.
Yeah the Freak Power run for Aspen sheriff was cool and all, but IIRC he was involved in the RFK campaign
Maybe we should face the fact that these people overwhelmingly have no idea of how to obtain, wield, or oppose power.
Those who did weren’t allowed to live.
"How many more of these stinking, double-downer sideshows will we have to go through before we can get ourselves straight enough to put together some kind of national election that will give me and the at least 20 million people I tend to agree with a chance to vote FOR something, instead of always being faced with that old familiar choice between the lesser of two evils?"
I like how Trump AND Biden's plan for climate is just "hope the low end estimates are the correct ones because we have to win Pennsylvania." Maybe humans aren't gonna make it.
Biden has to get elected, Jack. It's incrementally better. Americans are toddler level stubborn and don't want to change their lifestyles an iota, Jack.
Ever notice how it's haram in US politics to suggest anything that would end up fucking with peoples (managers) 401k's, yet it's perfectly acceptable to be open about having social security and medicare not exist in 20 years?
Like its OK to argue for policy that fucks with the retirement of the poor, the young, and the disabled, but we can't do anything about the economy cause it would effect stocks which would effect 401ks which is largely for people above the working class.
I don’t really know what a 401k is, but for my context I’ll say this: The financialisation and privatisation of everyones pensions gives us all a personal material reliance on the success of capitalism. There’s a decent chance that the state pension won’t exist by the time I retire (or the qualifying age will be pushed well into the 80s), so we have save the money ourselves - and as I’m not paid enough to ever afford retirement, I have to put the money into investments to cover the shortfall, actively propping up & growing the capitalist system.
Basically it’s a project to link our lives to the eternal expansion of the market
401k is just a program that locks your retirement money into the stock market in exchange for some tax breaks. You can contribute up to 18k/yr into an account. Since this is ore-tax you lower your tax burden. Then you get taxed on the money when you take it out in retirement, but with more tax breaks again. It’s a rich persons retirement plan.
That’s what we get instead of pensions. A really shitty savings program that most people can’t afford to use. They use this farce to justify equating the stock market with the economy.
Ah, ok sounds like the same thing as a personal pension. It’s basically the only type that exists here anymore - The old style has been mostly replaced. It’s going to be such a disaster when my generation reaches retirement age
Oh yeah, it's just going great. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/17/ideal-retirement-age-for-millennials.html
Yea it's honestly fucked up how swaths of people's "jobs" are to pick and choose what gambles to take with the money set aside to care for a person so they can enjoy life rather than work. It's too communist to just ensure that people can stop working and live
my insurance covers ffs :shocked-pikachu:
:party-blob:
I just have to get another therapist to agree that I'm trans.
:party-blob: :party-blob: :party-blob:
heck yeah! might already be the hottest comrade on the block, but now youll be melting people like its that one scenefrom that movie with the antifa-colonialism
gonna have to start calling you joan, cause you the real ark
lol my tooth got pulled last week and my denta expires in two weeks
Wait how does one find this out? Ive never thought to check my insurance
so it's supposed to be in your policy doc but mine doesn't actually explain it (or literally anything else about trans healthcare) there. I was actually afraid for a while that they'd just deny me ALL trans-related stuff as a consequence. kaiser perm has a trans health coordinator you have to work with to set up care with their doctors and she explained it to me as part of setting me up with a therapist so I can start the process for bottom surgery, endo, etc., when I called to get that process started.
from the docs I've looked at, kaiser is the only non-employer specific insurance provider that covers ffs? or at least I haven't seen a single other one that covers anything other than hormones, bottom surgery, and hair-removal for the purpose of getting bottom surgery done. they also cover facial hair removal and voice therapy and updated my medical records so my doctors know my name and pronouns before I even meet them -- I got super, super lucky and it feels so humanizing to get this very basic level of respect. it's bullshit that this isn't a baseline for trans healthcare but I still feel grateful as I know how hard and expensive this is otherwise.
hope that helps!
Thats super awesome! I suck at finding this kind of stuff. Heres hoping mine is somewhat similar.
One of these days... If i can just do hair removal that will fix like 90% of my issues
electrolysis is so, so painful :angery: and they'll only cover like 10 sessions a year (which for me will only get a patch of skin the size of my chin).
I did laser for six sessions, but its not a permanent solution. I get bad trichotillomania after like 10 hours post shave and can spend forever fucking with my face.
Have you gotten any tattoos before? Ive heard the pain is comparable, but would like more comparisons
yea, I did 12 laser sessions right when I started transitioning and it thinned things out but my skin is too dark for it to finish the job.
so I think I'm a bit weird as my skin is much, much more sensitive overall than any other part of my body. so I can get piercings without any issues but I suspect tattoos would be awful for me. so electrolysis is extremely painful for me. it easily hits a 9/10 on the pain scale after all the pain management stuff (lidocaine, tylenol, ibuprofen). codeine brought it down to an 8 which was manageable for me but it's bad enough that it's very nearly traumatizing (I'm having a fear reaction just remembering the experience) and I had to stop when I ran out of codeine. to compare, the generally accepted consensus is that more painful piercings are a 5/10 and that's about where my daith piercings came in for me. so I know I'm not just blowing the experience out of proportion. I have no clue why my skin is so much more sensitive but it very consistently is.
so I say all that to say that your experience probably won't be similar unless you have a similar problem. I hope that helps some!
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I haven't used bendy straws or paper cups in a decade, drive a near-zero-emissions vehicle, and am unhoused.
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the planet is still on fire.
someone help me budget this pls.
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No, I got that feeling too. It’s insane how much of a warmonger Biden is. The comment about North Korea reminded me of how Bush Sr described Iraq before we invaded.
Biden’s foreign policy is going to be neoconservative as fuck
The desire to make China “play by the rules” is so suicide via stupidity.
Have to hate any other world powers though. Because reasons.
Yea this and austerity policies are so clear, both from who he is cozying up to and what he says. The next trump is gonna be based
a vote for biden is a vote for another few million dead middle eastern people
If you didnt see it the pentagon is working with the taliban and supplying reaper drones to them in order to fight ISIS in Afganistan. Link
Ehhh I don't think we're at nuke phase just yet. Biden will probably do another Syria or Libya rather than an Iraq invasion. We can't invade Iran, it's like Afghanistan but with an actual big military. He's stoking the Iran fear to increase sanctions and get involved in a proxy war.
One or two presidents after this election is when the empire crumbles.
Whenever I put music or a podcast on in my office, there's roughly a 90% chance someone will walk in within the next 30 seconds and I have to pause it. I am going to start testing this theory and recording the results.
It's like how I could be working alone somewhere for an hour and no one will be around, but if I fart, someone will walk behind me 10 seconds later, or worse, suddenly want to have a conversation. I always say that if I'm ever lost in the wilderness, all I need to do is rip ass and someone will magically appear within seconds.
I just imagine you sitting alone in an office where you face the door, and having been alone for hours you lift a cheek, squeeze one out, and behind you someone says "oh hey, john_browns_beard" and walks out of the office all cavalier.
better mental ability? false! everyone knows the arachno-syndicalists are a psychic commune.
longer lifespan? false! the arachno-syndicalist lives well over eight centuries, on average, with ideal conditions seeing the longest lived approaching a full millenium.
stronger? false! the arachno-socialist can lift nearly four times their own body weight with no particular training.
reject humanity, return to arachno
Fuck. That cheap? The school I went to just called the feds on me after hearing I smoked a joint and put me in jail. That shit cost me $32,000/year and they took away my credits after I got charged lol.
It's all good, if it wasn't for that experience I'd still be a tech bro libertarian probably. The system is even better at radicalizing people than we are sometimes.
Personally the actual course/learning part was not worth the money, but the social & life experience absolutely was. It was relatively very cheap for me to go though, if I lived in the US and had to get a massive predatory loan to attend I couldn’t justify it.
You’ve gotta take the bad with the good from uni imo. Even as someone who got a worthless business degree, I still learned a lot and helped me become more of an independent thinker. I made great memories from the clubs I participated in. It was also a necessary step in radicalizing me as it opened myself up to new experiences, beliefs, and ways of life
I got a business degree and sat in my dorm room playing an MMO for four years. I got nothing out of it and I don't use my degree for anything other than a resume filler. It makes me sad to know I could have just lied about going to school and saved myself four years and a lot of money, it's not like any of my employers have ever checked.
Just get ripped dude, ripped and bald is a good look. Some people are way into hair but plenty of them don't care much or at all
