I don’t think I ever encountered anything than most of trumps tweets.
I’ve already told that story but anyway: a relative told me that the GDPR was a conspiracy from Europe to destroy the European internet (why? why not!)
So that guy literally deleted his own web site (full of old stuff, it was a big project) so that… he would not be forced to delete his own web site by the big bad Europe.
He is also anti-vax, and allergic to Wifi and Bluetooth… except when he is in our house filled with Wifi and Bluetooth (but we have never told him, he could die!)
Crank it up to 15!
What kind of knob has 1.3076744e+12 notches?
Best thing I can find is a 15! knob. Is that what you were thinking of?
He is also anti-vax, and allergic to Wifi and Bluetooth… except when he is in our house filled with Wifi and Bluetooth (but we have never told him, he could die!)
A relative of my husband always requests we turn off the router, because she’s allergic to 5g. She starts feeling nauseous and itchy when it’s turned on. We used to sigh and just do it.
However, I’ve found out she’s not actually allergic to 5g or wifi, it turns out she’s actually developed a reaction to the power light. Ever since I put a tiny bit of tape of the little green power light, she stopped complaining about the wifi entirely! My husband won’t let me tell her about this amazing medical breakthrough though, I wonder why.
Your call is important to us. Please stay on the line and a representative will be with you shortly.
I’ll toss in a voice menu with no option for buttons and mashing zero doesn’t get you a rep.
The damn things pick up on every tiny, insignificant noise in the background, too. You don’t have to say anything and sometimes it’ll go, “Sorry, I didn’t get that.” No shit, I didn’t say anything, someone simply slammed a car door shut outside.
Good luck to all the parents who try to navigate those menus while their kids are around…
Add tthe newfangled ai bots into the voice menu and it’s a back and forth between your problem and “I don’t understand your problem, could you repeat that?”
Can you still curse at them to get an attendant?
And their inevitable fuck you of “I couldn’t understand you, please call back and try again” before they end the call
“Please listen carefully as our menu items have changed.”
I promise that everyone in this subthread hates phone systems less than I do. And there is a good reason you all have these infuriating experiences.
And the reason is stupid.
I have had to set those up, we likely hate them on a very similar level.
“Call volume is higher than normal”
The fuck it is. If anytime I call is ‘higher than normal’, change what your “normal” baseline is or stop lying to me.
The normal volume benchmark is taken at 3AM on a national holiday, which also is on a Sunday.
Ladies and gentlemen your 47th President of the USA…
Trickle down economics.
The war on drugs.
There are more, list them lemmy.
Nixons war on drugs was a distraction from nixons international disasters, especially with the vietnam war and his watergate scandal.
You don’t get it though! If you just let the absolute greediest people in the world keep all their profit then they’ll definitely share with you!
I actually had a coworker say a few months ago that he’s a Regan Republican because he believed in trickle down economics… I literally said “really man? And how many more decades of being wrong do you need before you realize it still doesn’t work, is five decades enough?” To which he didn’t have a reply…
Just top of my head I recall a pre Covid conversation between me and some lady in my neighborhood who confidently told me the flu shot wasn’t even worth getting because it doesn’t protect you from the stomach flu…
Some woman walking her ancient beagle and smoking a cigarette I tell her how cute her dog is and I’m wearing a mask. She tells me it’s good I’m wearing a mask to “protect your respiratories” because… they were installing 5G in the area
I’m sure there’s so many more
Oh recently in a car the person driving takes an illegal left, against a red no less, to get on the highway. I tell him it was an asshole move and you don’t get to pick and choose which traffic laws apply to you or not. He then tells me because “no one tried to stop him” it was ok?? I was like what?? Like in your car, like they should have hit you with their car to stop you (reminder it was red so they needed to run a red light to hit him for the purpose of telling him not to run a red light) otherwise it was fine for you to do? And he deadass said “yes”
He then tells me because “no one tried to stop him” it was ok??
This sounds like a really effective argument as it’s so stupid that it takes all the wind from the sails of the person arguing against you.
That COVID was a plandemic so that states could send people into lockdown, during which they could install 5g. I asked who they were and only got ramblings in return.
Some old lady was over fir dinner and she asked me why i only eat certain things. I told her that i don’t eat meat. It took some time for her to compute and fired back: but you can eat fish. I said, no, because they are animals too. You could see the gears spinning again before she said that banger: i don’t think that’s true, because they don’t even bleed.
I never got why people think fish is not meat.
Einstein never proved anything and what he said were just stories he made up
I just remembered that a former coworker of mine was sure that the real 2020 election results were 80% for Trump.
I remember someone else saying that it’s ridiculous how someone can be so smart and believe something so stupid. Because that’s the issue: The person who made that claim is objectively a smart person, but he fell into a conspiracy hole of some sort. He was let go from his job because he could work on our clients’ ships because he refused to take the “depopulation shot” (covid vaccine)
funny thing is covid is the depopulation instead of the vaccine.
believing in FLOURIDE-FREE toothpaste, different brands /off brand ones do the same thing. they dont provide any benefit at all. its a placebo effect if you look at the reviews, and then the ingredients people said they have cleaner whiter teeth, no sht, its because these other toothpastes are highly abrasive thats why they get a clean feeling from it,ends up being more damaging because of its abrasiveness., plus people are confusing ingesting flouride in childhood with flouride use in adulthood. and then comes the complain that thier teeth health dint get any better or they still getting cavaties.
Been telling my family that more expensive toothpaste is just the same shit with literally a different taste for years.
We’re still buying the expensive colgate crap instead of the cheap stuff that does the exact same thing… Because they say, quote, “it tastes worse so it must be worse”…
I hate that 9/10 the only decent bubblegum flavor is Disney branded. Mint toothpaste makes my lips and tongue swell and I have no idea why because mint tea and candy is fine. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My guess is the food uses real mint but the toothpaste doesn’t and you’re allergic to the mint substitute.
likely its comes from mint oil they use, oils can be very irritating to the gums. apparently peppermint contains menthol, could be behind the irritation it can cause? apparently spearmint barely contains any menthol. it seems its likely the menthol in pepperminted toothpaste that cause irritation. could not figure out why some off-brand ones are causing it. just checked on some reviews of toothpaste with mint, its mostly the mint+ menthol likely peppermint. since spearmint taste much milder than peppermint (which gives you that fresh cool feeling)
My mom has lichen planus in her mouth and can’t use any kind of minty toothpaste.
that is bad, yea you know its too much mint if it causes burning sensation. some can cause ulcers if its too much mint. i developed chronic chelitis because i used some of the ones with lots of mint, or the off brand ones. i assume its the kids branded one of crest?
the new version of the old varieties have a ton of mint. i think its due to shrinkflation from covid. crest pro supposed to be 4.6oz(old) is very hard to find and its like a very plesant taste without the mint, the new one is 4.3, with overpowering mint oil.
i have been considering getting kids version of crest, i might do it this time.
Not liking the taste is a valid reason to not get cheap stuff though
yea, but what pisses me off is that they don’t say that. They say better taste = more better overall.
If they just said they like the taste more I’d not mind but they always make shit up man
I don’t remember. I can’t let things like that live rent free in my head, and people are always upping their game.
A team of American soldiers were wiped out by a huge red haired sasquash in the mountains of Afghanistan.
I would be facinated to hear this one.
It’s a creepypasta called the giant of Kandahar:
Sony is choosing to support Marathon over Destiny 2.
