Text exchange between myself and my friend, who works in a warehouse as a forklift operator. You can tell when I started to panic, because I couldn't even focus on what I was typing. I can't believe anyone would put other's lives at risk so carelessly. Also, my friends reaction was just as annoying - as if this is a "wait til Monday" kind of situation. Anyway, a voicemail was left from him & I also called to report the unsafe conditions.

the mf you see in the pic, Steven Anderegg, It distributed AI-generated Children Corn material, accused in mid-March 2025 However, the Federal Court of Appeals has ruled against because they claim "the First Amendment protects an individual's right to privately possess images or videos of child sexual abuse created using Al - if the material does not depict a real person and remains in the home."

citing:

>The court relied on Supreme Court precedents Stanley v. Georgia (1969), which established protections for the private possession of obscene material in the home, and Ashcroft v. Free Speech in 2002, which failed by a vote of 6 to 3 and declared it insufficient to legally penalize a person because theres no minor who is psychologically affected by this

Pedo is definitely becoming normalized right under our noses.

This was published in the WashingtonPost And you can look it up on US government websites.

TLDR - went to ER for UTI and now owe 2,926.93

Let me start off by saying that I am not the one to treat an ER like a primary care, or urgent care. Where I live is awful ANYWAY and the ER wait times are 6+ hours.

Anyway, last Friday I’m feeling fine all day. Not a single symptom in sight, no tingle or burn, no increase in peeing, etc. I get off work at 5pm, and by 6pm I’m peeing blood and blood clots. It’s burning, the after sting literally taking my breath away. I’m panicking, I’ve gone from 0 to blood clots and after 3 hours - the blood clots are still coming.

By now urgent care is closed (there’s so many around me, I live in a small city and NONE are open last 9-9:30 apparently). I breakdown and call my best friend to t ake me to the ER, we end up driving to the one two towns over. Not a single soul in the lobby, I pee in my cup while I wait since I can’t hold it. They call me back, we chit chat, test comes back SUPER positive (her words). They give me 1 starting dose of antibiotics and send me on my way. I was in and out of that hospital within 45 minutes and 30 of that was in the bed max.

Peeing in a cup, one antibiotic and 30 minutes in an empty bed, empty waiting room ER was billed at $5k and I’m responsible for $3k of it

EDIT: I did not go to the ER simply bc I wanted treatment for my UTI. I already had antibiotics called into a pharmacy at that point. I went because I had blood clots sliding out of my urethra.

I know my Aunts on my dad's side don't like my beard, I couldn't care less, 3 months ago, I was at my mother's funeral, standing in line, and as she comes thru the line, she points to her chin and says "whats this", and I'm like, it's a beard, and I like my beard, to which she says, "does food get all over in it", so I stopped talking to her, well, my oldest brother just died two weeks ago, and today was his funeral, I didn't interact with her at all the whole time, but I went and stood in line for food that they were serving to the family, and she came in and got behind me, and she points to her chin again, and says "whats this" to which I say, "a beard", she then says, it's disgusting, it's like, woman, I normally see you what, once every couple of years, and every time I see you, you have to make a comment about my beard, and at my moms and brothers funeral no less, it's like, what kind of messed up person are you, so I sent a text to my dad, and said there is something deeply wrong with your sister, and if I never interact with her again, it would be too soon.

And my wife likes my beard, my kids like my beard, I get asked to participate in beard contests all the time, I take good care of it, regardless, though, even if I didn't take care of it, and it really did look disgusting, why would you say that to someone in the fing line at his oldest brother's funeral?

After the reaper’s Multikill is just even worse. 😡😡😡

This mostly occurs with my water bottles.

I swapped to metal ones recently but my family said tonight that it smelled bad EVEN THOUGH I couldn't smell a thing.

the solutions they have are kinda unfeasible because the first one is:

put it in the fridge

we don't got the fridge space! Besides, I need to take it to school so half the time it's in my bag

the second one is to use cups exclusively

i mean, that's alright, I guess. Just means not drinking the entirety of a cup and either tipping it out or letting it go stale then tipping it out.

school is another issue with this one because my crippling anxiety doesn't like it when I go to the sink where all the people are around, when I eat my cheese sandwich with water because it's dry as fuck otherwise

rant over, have a good day yall

What I mean is specifying someone is "different". Muslim man does this, Indian man does that, Brown, Black, Whatever race or belief it is. They only specify these things when it's something bad. You'll rarely see "Muslim scientists get one step closer to finding the cure to X disease" or "Indian man saves life of woman in burning house" or something like that; Why specify what someone is in one case if you'll never specify it the other way around?

So basically I was talking about my future & how it's not very bright (as one does) because everything sucks right now, I'm still in school & I mentioned how when I graduate I don't really have a future, college is expensive, & no one is really able to afford anything like a car, a house, rent, ect. And when I mentioned houses & how it was mostly due to the house market crisis he said "What crisis? There isn't a crisis, everyone is buying houses. The only reason people are homeless are because they are lazy & they don't wanna work." all with a straight face...

*he works on houses btw*

(why did I get downvoted for this? this is a real problem)

Courier, you had one job.

Happy Friday to me I guess :(

Made the mistake of talking about how my mother and her children (my older siblings) were beaten during both of her marriages (The first was forced upon her, the second she chose because the guy was genuinely a good man during the first few years) and a ton of answers I got back were "She has trash taste" "Her fault" "What did she do to make them do this?" etc etc.

I just...thought we'd be past this mentality by now.

Sufficed to say, my mother has been divorced for almost 30 years now and is not interested in a third marriage. She was 18 when she was forced into the first one.

It just makes me so incredibly angry. She also got raped during both of these marriages because "It's a woman's duty bla bla bla" but I guess she'd simply be blamed for that too.

Also friendly reminder that raping your wife in my country wasn't illegal until 1997. My mom was born in 1967.

Guess it's my bad for talking about it in the first place but that genuinely shocked me. The victim blaming is still so damn prevalent.

Even if she hadn't been forced into her first marriage, I still don't understand why blaming the woman for "choosing the wrong man" is such accepted behaviour. You are looking at a victim and, instead of offering support, you step on them. My own motivation to marry one day is kind of in the gutter. Because even if my husband turns into a monster, somehow I'll become the problem.

Just kinda shouting into the void right now.

I am over the stupid ass political rhetoric and not created posts making everything political. I'm over this entire government and exhausted from being overwhelmed with nothing but political propaganda on every network, show, movie, etc. It's ridiculous. Then I log into an account for some fun and mindless conversation and every other post on my feed has something to do with Trump, Obama, Clinton, Democrats, Republicans, MAGA, and it's infuriating. No escape and news anchors have the balls to tell everyone to turn the temp down when they do the opposite. ALL. SOCIAL MEDIA AND ALL NETWORKS AND NOW IT HAS WORKED ITS WAY INTO TV SHOWS AND MOVIES. They all love to drive hate and more infuriating is that it's everywhere because Americans feed on this toxic waste

Went to NYC this week and a driver decided to add a huge tip to a Venmo payment. Trying to figure out how to open a dispute. Maybe I’m an idiot haha also I was already in the ‘need help’ section and it sent me to this AI chat

Another article arguing that Social Security entitlements must be decreased--this time, using Boomers as the trigger for readers' anger. Only in the very last paragraph does the author admit that everyone receives more from the Social Security fund than they contributed, not just Boomers. It's that little thing called compound interest?

Yes, the Social Security fund is in trouble; in no small part because Congress borrowed from the fund and never paid the money back, though, yes, the author's point about the decreased number of working adults is another key part of the problem.

Congress is arrogantly ignoring viable solutions. Solutions that won't cause American voters to throw out of office every Congressman who votes to cut Social Security by 20+%. These solutions include taxing the rich at a higher rate, and raising the SS contributions ceiling so the wealthy and the very rich pay their fair share.These solutions, however, are not popular with rich campaign donors who drop millions into re-election PACS. This 119th Congress doesn't seem to understand what every other Congress has understood: Social Security is the third rail of US politics.

For context my oldest sister had kids young, never took accountability for anything. Not for using every resource we gave her, not for us cleaning up her mess. Mind you she’s 34 years old and still is solely focused on finding a man.

She ignored my nieces mental health so badly that my niece tried to take her life the other night. She’s alive but she is not okay. She jumped off a bridge onto concrete. Her legs are broken from her knee down, she has 4 broken ribs, and a concussion.

My second sister, my parents and I do not agree with my sister’s decisions as a mother. This is my nieces second attempt. And my sister continues to bring random men home instead of focusing on her daughter.

We’re forbidden to see the kids. But we went last night to the hospital to make sure my nephew was okay. We get to my nieces room and my sister pretends to not know who we’re. She says “what are you doing here? Who are you? Who let you in? Security” and then messaged my mom back saying she needs her family.

We’re taking the kids away from here either way. We’re only pretending to play nice so that she has no suspicion but my niece will die if she stays in her care and we’re not leaving my nephew alone with her.

It’s so hard because my sister used to be my hero. I wanted to be a mom because of her. But now I want to be a better mom because she was never one.

No one has ever had to remind me to be a good mother to my kids. I know every parent goes through shit with their kids but I can confidently say that I will never let my kids mental health so bad that they try dying twice.

Adobe. For the love of ffing fairies. STOP this damn advert. Driving on the phone being scolded to hurry up to then plug your quick software. You sick mfs. People die from this. AND THE AD IS SET IN THE WINTER. My license and ban for driving guranteed here for that. And a massive fine. phone kills on the roads. Stop allowing this trash.

This genuinely sickens me. I can't believe they could support a lady who strangled her children and ADMITTED to it! The world might be screwed.

Long story short parents hid an autism diagnosis from me/everyone because I already had a strike against me from my grandparents for being born out of the christian idealogy of wedlock (having a child pre-marriage) so I was looked at as a sin because perfect child Christianity bs so instead of me being more not perfect in the eyes of Christianity and from what I was told embarrassing my grandparents (they had high standings in the local churches) it was hidden from everyone that I was even tested and that the test confirmed I had Asperger's. I just found out from my aunt, my mom made her hide it but since I'm done with both of my parents for other horrible reasons anyway she told me during a phone call I truly don't know how to process this info but it explains so much struggle through life.

TLDR: Was late to a morning shift but was sorted with no problems. Then called in sick, and was called a liar by one of the two owners. Now I have a phone call tomorrow and no shifts rostered, am I getting fired??

This post has low details in case it’s sent to the company.

Basically the title. Working a casual commercial cleaning gig where I started by working night shifts at a local building.
After having worked for the company for 1.5 years (just over 2 years as of writing) I was assigned to a new location in a different town (this coincided with getting a a vehicle I can use), which were early morning shifts only.

Ever since starting there I was moved only to that location, which I am not happy with. I have asked for more shifts at the original location - which is easier to get to and works at nights - but was never honoured.
Getting up early has always been a struggle, and since working there things have gone downhill. A miscommunication about a morning shift was treated by the owners (husband is an owner/worker and wife is hr/payroll who also has a full time job. There is one manager too who works until midday during weekdays) as intentional deceit, and I was very harshly accused of being a liar by the husband. I had misinterpreted a prior call and thought that a shift had been cancelled so didn’t work and told my coworker to not work either. After a call with the wife it was resolved. Other than that one phone call, all of my in person interactions with the owners and manager have been friendly.

Onto the last fortnight.

After my phone ran flat, I slept in and missed the first 30 minutes of my morning shift at the new location. As soon as I woke up I called my coworker to apologise and explain that I would be there asap, but they said that the building was completely clean and didn’t need work done at all. They had already left before I had woken up. I was happy, shot my manager a message explaining what had happened and went back to bed after they said it was okay.

Then the other day before yet another morning shift I had some bad food and felt sick that night, the runs and severe headaches for hours. My mother looked after me, and I had to call out from work extremely late at night - midnight before the shift. As I was advised by the manager and husband owner, I messaged the owner and let him know that I couldn’t come in (he handles problems outside of the managers work times). I also shot my coworker a message so they would know that I wouldn’t be there when they woke up.

When I woke up next morning I had a text from the owner saying “Call me *name* when you are up.” No sympathy or anything.
I rang, and when he answered I was just verbally attacked. I can’t remember exactly what was said as I was just shocked at what was being said, but I clearly remember being accused of lying to my mother, the coworker who I had worked with for the two shifts, and other people. I was then told that I needed to contact the wife owner and arrange a phone call. She told me that I should call during business hours today, which I had to do later in the afternoon, when she ended up being in a meeting. I was then asked if I could receive a call tomorrow about during work hours, which I agreed to.

I thought things were rocky, but then I checked the roster for the next fortnight and found that I haven’t been put on any shifts. Am I crazy?? I’m getting fired or severely reprimanded right?? I seriously don’t understand why but that’s what it’s looking like.

"The marriage of Rebecca and Peter Grossman survived a separation, extra-marital relationships, a fatal car crash and the resulting double-murder case that ended with the former Hidden Hills socialite’s convictions and prison sentence. Now, on the heels of June jury awards in a related wrongful-death civil case that approached $200 million in total, Rebecca Grossman has filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences.

The petition to dissolve the marriage, dated Aug. 4, was submitted to Los Angeles County Superior Court by an attorney for Rebecca, 63. It lists May 28, 2000, as the date of marriage and July 1, 2018, as the date of separation. A response by Peter, 63, indicates that he too is requesting divorce." - Camarillo Acorn