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I mean...I don't think the appropriate response to someone who is videoing their neighbor call the cops on them and reporting a fake assault is "STOP SNITCHIN'", but ymmv

No I agree these people should be called out, I’m more speaking about what the phenomenon does for its participants than whether it should be done.

it's kinda like 17th century ideology, that the 18th century was like ... wtf is wrong with you petty ass people and your puritanical bullshit?!

I think the problem is that the truly "karen" behavior (i.e. putting a person of color's safety and even life potentially at risk by calling cops for nothing or for petty bullshit) doesn't really have any existing mechanism to deter it or punish it -- there's no criminal statute that would be adequate, even if such a statute would be enforced, which it likely wouldn't. So there's a case for internet vigilante justice, but at some point it seems like it just turns into delight at throwing rotten fruit at someone, not to mention that by embodying systemic racism in "Karen" we can kind of make a human sacrifice to cleanse our sins.

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The first time a Black female friend called a white coworker "Karen" or "Brenda" anecdotally I was in gales of laughter about it. I didn't realize (two years ago!) that it was already a term that referred to something specific, I just thought she was deliciously sassing her coworker.

it was definitely a good zing for a while

cleaning your ears with cotton swabs is fine unless you’re being a terrible clumsy doofus and trying to actually jam it in the canal.

-bob marley

I will join your uncool conservative party, because otm.

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i'm a little paranoid about sticking cotton swabs in my ear, so i wrap a bit of extra-soft, natural cotton around the tip of the swab just to soften it up a little before going in

When a hill is died upon so passionately it suggests a paraphilia

(That’s amore)

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cargo pants

mambo dance

right wing rants

Like I use cotton swabs to clean electronics but only because they're already here because otherwise I would just use something else, so I don't understand why people are buying cotton swabs or why they exist at all if people aren't generally using them to clean out their ear holes. Which I admittedly do. Mostly to own the libs.

why are you using cotton swabs to clean electronics? ... unless you are talking about the sound heads on a reel to reel tape machine ... not ideal if you are working in a tight space as sometimes bits of the swabs will come off and then you may have clean surfaces but you have bits of white fluff in your electronics which creates other problems.

I use them all the time to clean up solder flux, etc. There are fancy ones that leave less fluff, but the regular ones work fine, for the most part.

Yes, I spring for the premium swabs (premaswabs, as I call them) so swab dander is never an issue.

Swab Dander is my porn name

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oh that's not Eddie Money ...

A man covered his face with tattoos and turned his eyes black. He says it cost him his kindergarten teaching job

This man is an idiot and an attention whore (and also CNN is, as always, a complete garbage 'news' organization burying the lede on this non-story about someone who remains employed as a teacher for all other grades but was only transitioned away from the five-year-olds that he seems to have gone out of his way to scare the shit out of).

tbh i would've likely loved having him as a kindergarten teacher

I hate him

He said he hoped to show his pupils that they should accept people who are different from the norm.

wait how is anybody supposed to make out his pupils anymore

Old Lunch otm on both points.

On the other hand, the guy looks pretty cool/terrifying and should definitely pursue a career as an extreme music front man.

From a customer service standpoint, every single interaction I have ever had with someone who works in government has landed on a spectrum from grossly disappointing to enraging. Social security, inspections & permits, police, department of transportation, traffic engineering, dept of natural resources. All utterly useless stupid clods when not actively deceptive and evil. I am definitely beginning to understand why someone would want to do away with the whole thing. Like, maybe my faith in the power of strong government is magical thinking. Something I want to be true to salve my horror at being ineffective at changing anything by myself.

I’m sorry Peace,Man that you had those experiences. As a lifelong local government official I have tried to treat every citizen seriously and with the highest professionalism.

Whenever someone rants to me about incompetence in government, it fuels my belief that it comes down to a lack of funding.

I envy that you are able to sustain this belief and have not had numerous experiences to the contrary. There are definitely departments and agencies where this is the case, though. There are others that have plenty of funding but are driven by incompetence, laziness, and a culture of buck-passing. Somewhere there has to be City Building Departments that actually work to encourage building, as opposed to, delaying and preventing building, and even repairing of existing buildings !!! Maybe this is my penchant for championing the underdog and not living in places where things work well because maybe those places are also boring? Idk

people should definitely be paid to make things harder tho. j/k. maybe it's lack of funding but i think the bigger problem is that most people are forced to work and they could not care less nor should they.

yes, I think apathy is related to perceived laziness. otm

I find it hard to believe that female candidates actually get interrupted more than male candidates during debates. We just watched Trump literally not let Biden get a complete sentence in for much of the debate. But even removing that outlier I’d bet that Harris didn’t get interrupted more than the average national candidate in a debate.

Dunno about that, but it certainly feels like Democratic candidates get interrupted more often.

In any case it seemed weird to me that that was the takeaway that took hold when the presidential debate was just one long string of interruptions.

According to CNN's clock, they had about equal speaking time - but that's not necessarily a good measure of who interrupted whom, how long they were both trying to speak, or the extent to which Pence spoke over Harris.

That said, I am not sure that this can or should be measured quantitatively. It's not whether you interrupt but how you interrupt, when you interrupt, what you say, how respectful or dismissive you are. Lots of people perceive a longstanding, persistent imbalance. As a white dude I'm not sure I should be the person to tell them they're wrong.

I mean the bigger problem wrt these debates in general is that the moderators moderate jack shit.

high school parliamentary style debating has better moderation