There’s a part of me hoping dudes going along with it to aid in the others escape, solidarity style, and he’s got some iron clad alibi his lawyer plans to deliver in the courtroom that means they can’t convict him.

The fake anime with the weird forehead people, yeah I know it

Insurance claims are approved or denied by medical professionals. In the state of NY it’s even required for a specialist to approve or deny specialist care.

Some doctors are just absolute scum.

I’ve been seeing Christmas shit in stores since before Halloween I don’t wanna hear any shit this year about the war on Christmas.

If there’s a war on Christmas, it’s fucking winning.

I don’t think Santa = swastika but it is super tiresome when Halloween ends and suddenly there’s Christmas shit everywhere. I know it’s more a factor of capitalism than Christianity, but it even infects the meager Hanukkah end caps we get. There’s frequently products being sold that are clearly just Christmas goods painted blue and white (argh) paraded around as Hanukkah goods. Fuckin blue and white pine tree tchotchkes? C’mon what the fuck is that? Hell, one year I saw “chocolate Maccabes” which were literally just chocolate Santa candies in a different foil.

It’s all expected, it happens every year (though the holiday seems to take up more of the calendar each year), but damn is it tiresome. And don’t get me started on the music!

I’m noticing your username and I’m thinking I know why we have different experiences

I uh think we maybe have had disparate Lemmy experiences but I’m curious to see the oddity you’ve found

Real granko of you to post this now

Men, women and everyone in between.

Also, crop tops kick ass in the summer. Breezy…

It’s all about attitude.

I got a belly and I get a lot of positive attention when I rock a crop top.

A zoo in Thailand. The hippo’s name is Moo Deng which translates to bouncy pork. It’s adorable.

It’s kinda cool to be living through Cold War 2, I bet my dad felt similar reading propaganda in his youth

Ads are hell. Political ads are another level. I do my best to avoid em whenever possible. It just sucks to dwell on the state of politics in the US.

I think the election getting closer does this. Especially among American Communists who are going to be perpetually frustrated by the DNC and RNC media getting pumped at them.

I sympathize, but it is kind of annoying. Tho I think they see it as a form of agitprop to put politically minded “humor” (in quotes because it often isn’t even funny, it’s just pointing out the disconnect between messaging and action of the parties) in the eyes of a typically non-political audience.

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No, you’re right. They’re gross. They’ve been gross and remain gross.

I’ve got a flagship Samsung device from 2020. The screen has cracked in an unimportant way on the front and over one of the camera housings on the back, but I can’t even tell which camera is affected by it, so I guess I didn’t need that one anyway.

Hate the camera bumps. Sucks that those became standard.

I was looking into getting a new phone but it just seems like a waste of money.

The Huawei devices look good and for a fair price, but I can’t even get them in the USA. So… I guess I keep this?

The foldable looks kinda useful for reading and in use with a stylus, but they’re so much money… and I bet that thing gets dust in it and scratches easily.

Have phones gotten any new exciting features in a while?

I remember enjoying upgrading my phone in the aughts and early tens, but it seems like most devices have plateaued and they’re all pretty much the same now.

The exception being foldables, but I’m not really sure that’s something I want or would use fully.

No, we don’t have that kinda thing in the USA. Shame, though, sounds interesting.

We have “farmer’s markets” which can be a place where you buy direct from farmers for far below store prices, but more often than not it’s become a way for farmers or businesses that call themselves farmers to sell “artisanal” goods for far above store prices. These aren’t regulated by any government authority and while they had been a way to get quality produce for less by cutting out middlemen, they’ve been commercialized and have become another expensive way to get food. Although you can find some very high quality meats and other rarities at some that are hard to find elsewhere.

What’s an APMC?