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Cake day: February 15th, 2025

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  • Yeah fuck off.

    I’ve been overweight my entire life, over five decades now, and these drugs are nothing short of a miracle.

    In addition to changing how my body processes sugar, it kills any desire I have for any particular food as well as hunger.

    They like to say that it “silences food noise in your brain” and that works as a description but it doesn’t convey just how truly profound that is.

    You can tell that it works, BTW, by how much they charge for it.

    I’m down a little more than 30 pounds in 90 days. Given enough time I will be slim/normal for the first time since the 1970s, and I don’t appreciate chucklefucks calling them a scam.

    You know what’s a scam? HFCS. Sugar in everything.

    These new drugs though - not a scam. At all.





  • All that surveillance and they let all the criminals go free anyways…so, what’s the point?

    They’re not using these to catch criminals - that’d be like expecting anti-gun laws to give murderers pause. No, they use them to make people like you and me pay hundreds of dollars when the light goes from yellow to red while we’re in the intersection or close enough to it that we couldn’t safely stop without stopping literally in the middle of it all. That’s what this is about - making people like us pay. Not actual criminals who commit a crime that they would be arrested for.



  • Agreed. I have a compromise. They can put in all the cameras they want - but absolutely cannot, upon pain of losing 50% of their total budget for a year per violation - outsource or subcontract the operations or anything akin to the operations of the system at all. Hire IT staff to run it, pay people to process the data. No you can’t use AI. Do this or fuck off, Seattle.

    I will never ever forget when a red light camera came to Redmond, at the turn leading to driving through Microsoft’s campus. Can you guess what happens when you piss of a bunch of smart motivated people who have money and aren’t necessarily the kindest people? That shit got challenged and removed after about six months. I still see the stump/the concrete it was embedded when when I go to my buddy’s house, and it warms my heart literally every. single. fucking. time.


  • Why do so many people constantly just misframe this argument as “it’s the people who didn’t vote’s fault!”

    That’s easy, it goes like this:

    If you and people like you had all voted for the Democratic candidate instead of witholding your vote because she wasn’t anti-Israel enough, Trump would have lost.

    Then it continues:

    If Trump had lost, this wouldn’t be happening.

    Therefore:

    It’s most directly Trump and his Nazi party’s fault, but voters who didn’t vote for Harris 100% share the blame for helping to elect Trump.

    Easy motherfucking peasy.

    Oh, you don’t like genocide? Then why’d you help enable it? And if you can pull your head out of Gaza’s asshole for a minute, why’d you enable the equivalent in the US with millions of deportations?

    I suppose you think it’s Democratic voters’ fault. What, should have have all boycotted the vote so Trump could win harder? Do you think that’d have helped? If Harris came out as super anti-Israel, so that such voters would deign to vote for her, that she’d still have carried enough swing states to win? Because she wouldn’t have, that’s just reality.

    Congrats to everyone who pulled this off; now Gaza, the USA, AND Ukraine are fucked. Well done! Xi and Vlad applaud you too!