Mellibird

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

This was the first election, since I came of voting age, that I didn't receive a voting pamphlet that told me about all the individuals running and where my voting site was. I had to go out of my way to look up my county's ballot measures and to find my voting location. To say I extremely upset about this, is an understatement.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I was about the same. Around junior high I was like, "wtf am I doing?" For me the first part was "under God," that got to me. I had found it weird as a child even to say that and then I realized I didn't want to say that at all. I thought it was strange when supposedly, we're allowed to believe whatever we want. I never felt the connection or belief in the Catholic God (what I was, very, loosely raised under) and it started there. Hand on heart omitting , "under God." Slowly it progressed to just standing and saying nothing. It's probably been well over a decade since I've been in a situation to say the pledge, but if I were, I know I wouldn't stand anymore.

I also, do not always stand for the National Anthem.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Reading about the $100 from your link literally made me gag. I had no idea about this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Ahhhhh... Love that line. My brother and his fiance just had a baby and are debating on vaccines or not. They asked me, I said, it's always better to get them and protect your child from as much as you possibly can. Like all of us here are vaccinated. I recommended that they follow what their doctor recommends. My dad chimes in with, "Doctors don't know everything, they're just trying to sell drugs for the pharmaceutical companies, that's all they care about." I looked at him and said, "As someone who studied biology in college, there's a lot that a lot of us don't know. But seeing as that doctor has had significantly more training than I've had, let alone you, I'm going to trust them more than some random article I've read online." He stopped talking to me for a large portion of the day after that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I would have early voted if I knew I could. I legitimately didn't know that was an option for myself until if was over. I thankfully was able to go on voting day, so it's ok. But for the first time in my voting life, I never received my voting pamphlet with all the usual info as well as my voting location. I had to look everything up and that really made me mad. So I could easily understand some people legitimately missing their opportunity to vote because they weren't provided the information to be able to get out there and do it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

As someone who previously worked in food manufacturing, getting your products into Costco was a huge deal. But also, the Costco audits were a huge deal and boy are the ones I dealt with thorough. It made me respect Costco even more.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

You can try out Boost.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Definitely more than 5 years. I still remember some fires back in 2009 that we're jumping the freeways and I had to wait over a day and travel almost triple the amount of time to make it back home while being worried the whole time that my family's house would burn down.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I also see this pinned on my instance.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

I feel like depends on the cat. I found mine as a list kitten that we assumed got outside and then was starving and almost dead. He's always been N indoor cat. Had never seen a mouse in the 8 years he was alive. I go out of town for a day and night and come back to a decapitated mouse in the apt. Fool took care of shit without even knowing. Then years later, we move into a house and a mouse gets in some how. My cat finds the mouse, kills it, walks around with it, then drops it in the hallway for us to clean up. If he had been taught how to catch mice when he was a kitten, I he wouldn't have been starving to death. But when a mouse showed up, he knew exactly what to do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

To my understanding she failed the baby bar 3 or 4 times... I believe she's been at it for... 6 years now or maybe more and is behind those who simply just went to college for their 4 years.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I had to explain to my mom the other day about server wages and she didn't even believe me at first.

Not to defend server wages in any capacity, but the utter fact that she didn't know the wage nor the federal minimum wage absolutely astounded me. And when she tried to tell me to vote for Trump because of no tax on tips, I told her, "then just tip in cash," she was stuttering and moved on from the topic.

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