A neighbor once aggressively confronted my wife and I to tell us not to walk past his house. Our offense was that some time prior we had laughed at his Trump flags (yup, multiple) while walking our dogs and he heard us through his Ring cameras while spying on the neighborhood.

In the course of the interaction, the person made veiled threats against us and our dogs, and repeatedly tried to tell us where we could and could not exist. It’s a public sidewalk. Obviously we did not alter our route, but I did start carrying a knife and making sure the dogs were not eating anything her may have put down and that we were consummately courteous (cleaning up pet mess, making sure they didn’t tromp into landscaping, etc).

Mind you, this was before Trump took office the second time. He took those flags down by April 2025 and later apologized to me - telling me the flag removal was a removal of support for Trump.

Which is great, but his vague threats could have been construed as death threats. Our ‘threat’ to him was a threat to his ego.

Well, I thought my misinformation was funny.

It’s to check to see if commenters know how to escape the symbol. Congratulations! You passed!

Source: I made it up.

Wait, so they suspended someone who is already on voluntary leave and has been cleared of the allegations by literal international judges? At the same time, Judges who supported the investigation have been personally sanctioned and treated as if they are terrorists.

It’s almost like Israel’s threat to destroy him and the court is coming to fruition.

She must have been able to.

She was notorious for lying to her doctors, but her medical history should have reflected that she smoked. She was on oxygen for smoking-related emphysema!

This is going to sound really fucked up, but my mom apparently bought specified disease insurance.
She smoked from before she was 18 up until after her last chemo treatment, and she still had her treatment covered 100%.

It didn’t cover everything - only medically necessary things. She tried to get the doctor to do an experimental procedure on her, and the insurance wouldn’t cover the procedure. It covered live-in hospice, but not a nursing home, etc.

I thought this sounded familiar.

Twitter collected user phone numbers and email addresses for the stated reason of account verification/security. It then used that data for advertising.

It’s currently banned from profiting from deceptively collected data, is required to allow users to utilize MFA not tied to their phone number, must assess the privacy and security risks of new products, must disclose data breaches to the FCC, and limit employee access to user private information.

Not that a Republican FCC would enforce the rules, but this would make it official that Twitter can do all those things. Expect Musk to be sliming into the DM’s of everyone.

I guess the ‘reasonable’ part of reasonable accommodation is highly subjective.

The people in my neck of the woods will range from 65 to 85 sometimes! It’s why I’ve adopted a more passive approach - because people are randomly hyper aggressive.

I must have.

My wife is an anxious passenger. I usually set the adaptive cruise control to whatever matches prevailing traffic, and stay in the outermost lane unless I have to pass someone. Most of my driving is honestly trying to make sure if someone does something stupid, I’m reacting to it in a calm way.

A lot of people have big feels about controlling the road.
The adaptive cruise control is interesting - if I’m a few hundred feet behind someone long enough for it to “lock in”, I know their speed because my car is pacing them.

It’s fascinating to see people suddenly accelerate after miles of the same speed on a relatively empty road because I moved into the passing lane, or (conversely) slow down because they’re alongside a slow vehicle and not in danger of being under-passed by another driver. The ego and herd mentality is something to behold.

No response of substance.

Oh, sorry. Comment snuck up on you too fast? Put you ill at ease while you thought you were the only person on the internet?
What are you gonna do, claim personal offense and use that as justification to return the offense ten-fold?

There is another option. It’s minding your business.
We can’t know the justifications or dispositions of others, but we can choose not to pick fights with strangers. In fact: choosing to avoid confrontation could save a life! Someone else’s, or even your own - you don’t know who you’re messing with on the road. 🌈💫

What I’m hearing is you require other drivers to drive deferentially in such a way that caters to your ego in order for you to drive safely and avoid conflicts, otherwise you drive like a sociopath for sport?

I just bought a Mac mini for $50 from a local university’s surplus store. I plan to use it as spare hdd space for another device (it came with a 1tb drive), but even being older, it’s still very capable.
Perhaps a similar device could work for you?

Responding with an implied insult is transparent and seems small. It was already fairly dumbed down.

Your defensiveness is getting in the way of understanding my statement. The issue was a lack of faith in your audience.
This isn’t Reddit, and you don’t have to act like that here.

I’ll do you one better. (Well, worse…)

He had $296k CAD in his Shopify/PayPal accounts and sent out these pills to 1,200 people. That’s about $250 CAD / $180 USD / 155 Euro per transaction - minimum, assuming he had not withdrawn funds from those accounts.

Anyone with a welding/industrial supply store nearby could beat him on price without having to ingest anything. Painlessly, too.

I find your comment infuriating and I don’t exactly know why. It feels like you’ve tried to explain things for a less intelligent audience. If someone said that to me, I would struggle to fix my face.

You don’t have to use your first sentence to say that designers design designs, and you don’t have to spend two sentences (“The reasons […] but some are.”) to make a qualifier.

You could just say “Those fucks probably did it on purpose because there’s no law preventing them from it, and they will keep doing it, too”

Errybody knows companies are gonna roll you if they can get away with it.

Truthfully - can’t have shit under capitalism.

Detroit was one of the first great American cities and it became hollowed out under the big and little effects of capitalism (and other kinds of isms that lead to the inequitable distribution of resources).

The consolidation and destruction of local news stations is just another outcome of capitalism.

I appreciate that you stuck with it and worked to figure out what they were talking about - or, well, at least - got them to cross-check such a confidently incorrect statement.

Not the person you’re responding to:

I’ve not heard that before.
Would you elaborate? Is it all genitalia-referencing name calling, or ‘twat’ specifically?