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Also, just like, the ever-present issue with abortion bans - don't ban safe abortions and then also get rid of things like free school lunch, educational programs, birth control, and affordable medical care. Even if you don't want the child someone put inside of you, it's not like if you choose adoption that means you just don't have to pay for medical bills anymore. My mom had to take out a loan to pay for my hospital bill when I was born. And I was wanted! How fucked up is it to force women to have babies they don't want and then stick them with the bill, after they've gone through a pregnancy that might have killed them? Not to mention that if you're pregnant you also need to buy new clothes even if you aren't planning on keeping the baby.

And that's aside from the fact that abortion is medical care - even for wanted pregnancies. Sometimes the fetus isn't viable. Sometimes a miscarriage happens and an abortion is necessary to remove all the remaining, um, bits. Because if those parts don't get properly removed, that's how sepsis can happen like Frogman mentioned.

Abortions ARE medical care. It's billed as such even when a patient has come in with miscarriage symptoms. Because a miscarriage IS AN ABORTION, just not one that was actively started by someone.

Josh Hawley is a putz. I want a new senator.

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kid rock is like if the Onceler was Snoop Dogg's racist Wario

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happy 10th anniversary to my profile picture

I love you Coppy. You're forever in my heart.

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hello it's me, I have nowhere else to rant

My mom was born in the 50s so was working when personal computers were new. She learned on the type of computers where pressing ctrl+alt+del would basically be an emergency shutdown procedure (today it opens a menu to open the task manager instead). This was the era where screensavers existed because the stuff on screen would literally burn into the monitor glass if it didn't change within a certain timeframe.

So tell me why this woman who was there when computers would basically explode if you wore the wrong color around them is so staunchly against ever SHUTTING HER FUCKING LAPTOP OFF?

I bring this up because her laptop just suddenly stopped working. It was fine, she closed the top, and then opened it later and it's off, and the cable won't do anything (after many, many, many attempts to fix it - by me. And do I ever get a thanks for spending all fucking day doing tech support when all I'm doing is just fuckin googling, which she could easily do herself? NO).

I'm not an expert but I'm sure her laptop wouldn't have had this problem if she ever actually shut it off. I think it's been off precisely never this year. It automatically restarts to install updates sometimes, because she can't be bothered to just save her work and restart the laptop. Sometimes my computer takes 30 minutes to actually start working when I turn it on, but I still turn it off every night because I know computers need to sleep. And I assume since she's older than me and learned about computers before I did that she ALSO KNOWS THAT? BUT NO

On top of that, she treats her laptop like shit so the bottom part of it is cracked all over, so I couldn't even get the bottom off to look at the battery to try another troubleshooting solution - because you have to pry it off along the hinge first, and it's cracked an inch from the inch. So the more I try to pry it off there, the more the bottom cracks.

This woman screamed at me for accidentally dropping a carton of eggs once in like 1998 and I still refuse to ever bring eggs inside the house because it scarred me so much, and here she is treating something much more expensive like it's a fucking rag doll.

And you'd think with this being her third laptop where the track pad has become unresponsive because she does the whole fucking "THE INTERNET IS SLOW BUT MAYBE IF I PUT 300 POUNDS OF PRESSURE ON THE BUTTON THAT WILL MAKE THE WEBSITE LOAD FASTER" shit, even though she HAS A TOUCHSCREEN.

And if you read all that and thought "and I bet even though she's like that, she gives you this disgusted reaction whenever YOU get mildly annoyed with technology" you'd be right. Yeah sorry mom sometimes my fuse is short with YOUR fucking technology fuckups and having to walk on eggshells around YOU my entire life, and my sister when she still lived with us, and I get reward for helping you by never getting any thanks and hearing about how hard it is *for everyone else* to be around me.

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eyyo so I've been writing a book and want to be an author or whatever and I hate it. Everyone's advice to get successful is to have a social media following, but like how the fuck do you do that for writing if you aren't already a popular author Am I supposed to post 60 tiktoks a day showing off my word document?

And like on one website that's advice for getting literary agents there's a thing for anecdotes, and all these people who are like "Oh I got an agent right away even though I've never published anything before, also I'm friends with 40 published authors" like??? What about the rest of us????

I hate it.

So like I have to preemptively make a massive social media following despite just being a random unpublished person, and THEN publish the book, and THEN hope enough of my followers buy it, and THEN get new followers from the book, and then also market it. Because apparently the traditional book publishers don't actually do anything anymore so you still have to market your own book even if Penguin is publishing it, but in exchange for doing all the legwork for your own book including hiring an editor you also have to give Penguin money, so why don't I just self-publish??

ugh being dead would be so much easier than this, I hate it here.

Also my feed is like 60% blogs I don't give a shit about that I don't follow, is this normal now? Dumb.

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firing up predictions for 2025. I am a prophet of doom so

Delta Cruise Line disaster, but a weird one (I want to say... monkeys are involved?)

youtuber child slavery scandal

Trump and Musk have a cold war standoff against each other with proof of their respective scandals, rational people point out there's already proof, nothing happens to either of them

almost a hurricane in late April, downgrades at the last second

another classic anime gets the reboot/remake treatment but it's not nearly as successful as some of the others have been (I want to say Yu Yu Hakusho, but that just had the live action show so I'm not married to this guess)

some sort of botanical disease leads to a temporary tomato shortage which leads to a permanent increase in all tomato-based products for no reason (greed)

shocking celebrity death that hits everyone really hard the way Robin Williams' death did

Anywhere from 5 to 30 more big name youtubers are outed as child predators, but NOT the one with the child slave

Cher Broadway album (okay I'm just trying to manifest this one, PLEASE CHER)

Cheezit creme Oreos are announced as an April Fools joke and released as a limited flavor later in the year after immense media response

another person who's been missing for 30 years turns up alive, having deliberately left to start a new life

dog in the news for successfully using the self-checkout at Target

another weird youtuber scandal in.... September. Something way out of left field, like they're a serial killer or the lead singer for Here Come the Mummies. Probably neither of those, but something really weird

this one's easy, but another common youtube sponsor gets called out for being a scam. I mean, they basically all are. I'm gonna go with Rocket Money or Aura. Maybe both. Maybe the co-founder of Bombas will turn out to be a serial killer or the lead singer for Here Come the Mummies.

Lots of other predictions but they're all obvious and easy ones - you know, Rowling says more transphobic shit just when you thought she couldn't get any worse, Trump says he also wants to purchase Venezuela or something as I guess the 55th state at this point (Canada, Mexico, Panama Canal, and Greenland are the 51st-54th), 3 youtubers I follow post a whole one video the entire year. Boring and obvious stuff, you know.

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I'm came here today just to have a place to complain

So that "man vs bear" shit that's going around right now, some guy decided to explain the situation by saying like "oh if there's 7 pieces of chicken and 3 are poison, and someone told you to eat the chicken you wouldn't want to because you know 3 are poison" and so first of all I'm surprised that the women who are into the "bear good" argument are even okay with a man explaining this anyway

But my main issue is that is the exact same argument Mitt Romney made in like 2012 to defend racism and Islamophobia. Remember? "If one M&M is poisoned you wouldn't want to eat any of them" as a metaphor for not letting Middle Eastern muslims into the country?

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The Beatles, Backstreet Boys, The Beach Boys, and presumably two bands that may or may not start with the letter B.

I mostly listened to Broadway musicals in high school tbh.

I literally can't think of what the other two bands might be, I had a lot of like one song by one band going on in my itunes back then. I think maybe Michael Jackson and um... oh, Off-Kilter. Duh. I had three of their CDs.

mine would probs be: one direction, taylor swift, ed sheeran, the script and coldplay 

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I really didn't have "the people in charge of the National Novel Writing Month forums/website knowing they're employing a pedophile and doing nothing about it even though that pedo is modding the part of the forum for minors" on my 2023 bingo card.

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This is really cute and all but why does tumblr think i need to see it every single time i log in now

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some people hate looking through their facebook memories because they're so cringey

I always liked doing it because it was fun to reminisce about whatever nonsense was happening

But I noticed this year that like... wow... even in 2008 nobody liked me enough to ever respond to anything I said. Quotes, references to tv shows I was watching, music I liked, things I was doing, jokes, events in my life, funny pictures, the three separate times I accidentally predicted covid.

It's really fun looking back on your life and wondering if anybody actually ever liked you at all. And then I see people posting the same kind of stuff I do and oh everybody just loves it when they do it.

iT gEtS bEtTeR

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I still do that. My ipod will only charge or connect to the computer if you put something heavy on one end of it or curve the cable in just the right way - not the cable's faults, it's the ipod's. Like 80% of my computer's storage is just music that I haven't gotten around to listening to and most of my itunes is still stuff I have to fix up so it displays nicely.

I can't stand streaming music tbh.

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I really appreciate that on Miraculous Ladybug even though Ladybug, Chat Noir, AND Master Fu all know that adults are better Miraculous holders - they're stronger, more powerful, and don't have a limit of using their power once before detransforming - they all still only give miraculouses to other teenagers and not to adults. Can you imagine how BOSS Marinette's dad would be with like the tiger miraculous? I wanna see Alec giving the gift of jubilation after "Wishmaker" instead of Rose. Show me Jagged Stone as the rooster or something.

I mean putting aside how much most of the class SUCKS so I don't think they deserve miraculouses - I mean Sabrina sure sucks, and everyone always ganging up on Marinette about being like an attempted murderer whenever Lila says anything... blah - the people with the power to distribute the miraculouses KNOW that adults are more powerful with them, so why not give some trusted adults the miraculouses?

Although to be fair every single adult in Marinette's life has let her down tremendously over and over again - her parents also believe Marinette is a terrible person based on ONE accusation, Ms. Bustier always defends Chloe (oh gee Marinette yeah Chloe ruined something you worked hard on as a gift but she has trauma or something idk) and does nothing to support her other students.

Actually I'm pretty sure Gabriel was more supportive of Marinette than any of her teachers ever were. He approved of her design work and work ethic. He probably could've been a great mentor to her if things had gone a little differently... a LOT differently.

I know all the teen characters get the powers because of the target audience, it's just kind of silly that in-universe everyone knows it makes more sense for adults to have the powers.

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I am so confused by this fucking website, I log on multiple times a day for 4 days a month ago and just keep seeing the same 3 posts every time, and then I come on now and I'm seeing tons of news posts but also one of those same 3 posts

???? How do people use this place

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I got tipsy on peach bellini slushies at a vineyard once, that's the extent of it.

That made me sound so suburban, lol, it was a "drink and plant succulents" thing that my mom's cousins took us to.