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guy who thinks food was significantly harder to chew 17 years ago

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saw a woman comforting her sobbing child saying “i already told you, you have to keep looking forward, looking back just gets you hurt” and i thought she was sharing a beautiful life lesson about the importance of letting go of regret and resentment. but it turns out the kid just wasn’t looking where he was going and ran into a wall

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honestly if teleporters ever got invented during my lifetime i would be the most annoying analog boomer about it. my grandkids would be like ugh, grandma, why don’t you just take a teleporter trip to come visit us, we all do it all the time and it’s obviously safe and i would be like absolutely not. it kills you and reconstitutes a copy with your exact memories. you are consciously my grandchildren and i do not hold it against you but i know in my heart that you are nothing but copies of copies of copies borne out of irresponsible technology use. i am not touching that devil’s elevator as long as i live. i will take an airplane and you will wait for the several hours it takes for me to come visit you

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the fact that i still have to unlearn shame… like come on that’s literally the most embarrassing thing to not have unlearned yet

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Today I fell down the stairs while texting and when I got to the bottom I realized that I had hit the “audio message” function and sent them an entire 30 second recording of it

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Here’s a good one

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love the CC function on emails. "you should know about this but you don't have to take care of it."

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i still remember the time i admitted to my mom that i had only recently realized that our childhood home only had one bedroom, and that was why she slept on the couch, and that she didn't actually prefer the couch. only to have her say, "no i think couches are better" and then when she dumped her shitty boyfriend she got rid of her bed and put a sectional in her bedroom.

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“what if kids identify with something and it ends up just being a phase-?” good. stop teaching and expecting kids (and adults honestly) to formulate permanent traits and ideas of themselves. everything in life is a phase. that doesn’t make it any less legitimate while you experience it. let people explore themselves and know it’s okay if what you think about yourself changes.

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We need etsy to get bought by someone who will run it like the navy i need to only see small businesses in eastern europe weaving baskets by hand and anime yaoi keychains with original fanart

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"neurotypicals have this special way of saying 'okay' that makes you feel like shit after infodumping your special interest" anyone can do that actually

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why must reductress hurt me in this way

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i know i am in my twenties but respectfully nobody i went to high school with should be getting married. it stresses me out. we r only twelve yrs old

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rotting

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By the way the cameras in self checkout, there is one in the big dumb screen they point at your face to show you a big badly lit picture of yourself so you know how much you're being watched BUT they don't care about that camera, it barely does anything.

Above the self checkout, usually there is a little light for assistance and they put a second smaller camera in that post above you. And if you cover THAT camera, several managers will tell you that you "can't" and call it a "security breach" if you do. Also, there is a third camera above the self checkout which is too high to reach, which also is filming you, plus the hundreds of other cameras in the store. So if you actually want to go shopping like a normal person not being filmed every second, you can't actually. Also at this point corporations are so used to having every piece of information they want about us with no questions asked that it becomed a hostile action to do something as mild as partially stop yourself from being filmed for five minutes.

Anyway it looks like there's some clamps I can use to secure a golf umbrella to a shopping cart, so I might try that out. This is a fascinating experiment because I'm very boring and too much of an anxious wreck to steal anything, and I like people so I'm pretty friendly, so basically a very boring customer and even pleasant right until I covered one camera with a post-it note, and then I started getting lectured by a petulant child by an angry store assistant manager. Which I think is kind of a microcosm of how online data privacy is regarded in the USA right now. It's not just weird to conserve the tiniest modicom of privacy, it's an immediate aggression flag for authoity.

It's one of those things you can trace everywhere, the whole principle of why run if you didn't do anything wrong, why hide something if you're innocent. At the end of it all, everyone is guilty until proven compliant.