chapotraphouse LaughingLion • 2d ago • 100%

the last time i ate inside a fast food place

i watched a dude, who was alone, eating his burger get up from his table and walk into the bathroom with his burger, still eating it, then 3 minutes later come back out still finishing it off this was before covid and i still think about it sometimes

chat LaughingLion • 2w ago • 100%

"Why wouldn't you evacuate!?" A post from someone in the path of a catastrophic hurricane...

Poverty. The answer is always poverty. Evacuation is not free and never has been. Currently sitting in the Tampa Bay area while a category 5+ hurricane comes barreling at me. I'm in flood zone D next to E so I shouldn't have any issues there. In a building that is solid brick/cinderblock construction, built like a bunker. Don't worry about me. I got water, food, and enough fat to get me through the winter as they say. The one thing I don't have is the hundreds or thousands of dollars it would take to drive 2+ states away and get a hotel for a week. I simply don't have it. Then you have all these people in places like Missouri or Montana posting this question about why people would not evacuate. We don't have the goddamn money. It's not hubris. We SHOULD evacuate. I don't see any of the people saying this offering up a spot on their couch. We should always evacuate... somewhere other than the house of the person who thinks we should, apparently.

chapotraphouse LaughingLion • 3w ago • 97%

i see adequate hate for france here

could be better but honestly keep up the good work

chat LaughingLion • 1mo ago • 100%

Abortion is Self Defense

Post.

chat LaughingLion • 3mo ago • 100%

I think the American left isn't focused enough on "poison pill" legislation.

No, seriously. Just like any system ours has loopholes and contradictions, we all know this. I think the left in America isn't focused enough on legislation that would almost certainly be challenged by SCOTUS which, in their decision, would open up an even bigger can of worms to overturn than to just keep in place. I think the goal of this should not be to try and force a decision to uphold but rather to force them to swallow the poison pill and further harm the fascist project in the USA. Literally goad them into an overturning of whatever law you passed that requires such an opinion as to have broad sweeping repercussions. I don't have any ideas because I haven't thought much on it. However, I think there is some opportunity in this idea and enough people ruminating around it has potential. It seems to me the rightwing kind of already engages in this. So why not the left? Isn't eroding the legal constructs of the capitalist state in our best interests?

memes LaughingLion • 4mo ago • 100%

An American citizen says to a Chinese citizen....

An American citizen says to a Chinese citizen, "In my country we have freedom of speech. I can stand in my country's capital and scream *'Fuck America'* and nothing will happen to me." The Chinese citizen replies, "In my country we have freedom of speech. I can stand in my country's capital and scream *'Fuck Israel'* and nothing will happen to me."

chat LaughingLion • 5mo ago • 100%

AI is actually coming for your job. It came for mine.

If you are white collar then it's going to "disrupt" your field. I work in tech. I got laid off last year. I wasn't at Alphabet or Amazon or anything. Much smaller company. But AI "optimization" has ravaged the tech industry and not just programmers. Admins, database specialists, network specialists, developers, you name it. Our job market is absolutely fucked. In my county, a major metro area in the US (like, top 10) craigslist used to be the place to get real job postings. If it wasn't a recruiter then your odds of getting a callback from a job posting there is pretty high. There are plenty of postings for other fields like mechanics and tradesmen and so on. For the few tech categories: nothing in the last month. Zero postings. Not even recruiter ads. Literally nothing. It's a wasteland. I've been told to "go back to school." I'll be 41 soon. I'm still paying off my computer science degree. It's worthless. What else should I go for? Accounting? HR? These are going to be taken by AI, too. Will it be a mistake? Sure. They don't care. They'll do it anyways. When I got my degree my wife and I were homeless. We just got back out of the hole in the last 10 years. I was finally building savings. It'll be gone in 60 days. She was laid off on Friday. Her industry is in property finance. Another gutted industry. She has to change industries, too. What is to be done?

chapotraphouse LaughingLion • 6mo ago • 100%

Sick of this "man-made" humanitarian crisis in Gaza

Should be described as "human-made". Women hold up half the genocide.

news LaughingLion • 10mo ago • 100%

Jackson Mississippi Police have been burying people in a field behind their jailhouse without notifying next of kin.

jacksonadvocateonline.com

No, this isn't 1960. 2008-2023 is the date range. Only records were kept for people buried after 2016. One of the bodies is a man who was hit by an off-duty officer. The PD said they could not identify him. His exhumed body had his wallet in his pocket with a state issued ID and an information card with his home phone number on it and current address. They charged his mother $250 to reclaim his body for a proper burial. That same woman had her brother killed by the same police department when they brutally beat him to death on the side of the road. A pig went to prison for it. Death to Amerikkka. Fuck this demon cracker nation.

chat LaughingLion • 10mo ago • 98%

[Long effort post] I have been married for over a decade and I'm falling in love with another woman

Over 16 years ago I fell in lust with my wife. She was an older woman and family friend going through some hard times in a relationship and I was a young man in my early 20s feeling lonely and getting over the hardest breakup ever. I heard about her troubles and reached out. Misery loves company. We chatted for a while before she finally cut things off with her ex and I steered the conversation towards romance and sexual talk. Soon we were sexting. Sending nudes. We lived over 1000 miles apart. We would have phone sex regularly. Then, we planned a trip to New Orleans together. It was going to be our getaway. The day we were supposed to fly out everything was cancelled because Katrina made landfall. Months later I made plans to travel to her and stay a week. My childhood friends that I still keep in touch with and father lived nearby but I was going to see her primarily. I stayed at her place that week. Our time together was AMAZING. Everything was dream. We cried when I had to fly out and I knew we were a thing and there was no returning to normal so I got right to making permanent plans. She was completely on board. We weren't in lust anymore. I loved this woman. I told my family that I wanted to move back to her area to be closer to my friends and my father. I told them I was going to be her roommate because I had reached out to her and she had an extra bedroom at her place and could use the extra income (all true). Everybody bought it and we kept the charade up for a few years. We weren't roommates and it was almost everything I hoped it could be. The secrecy made it so much more exciting. There was one problem. She is an alcoholic. Even in the beginning I knew but I never really grasped how bad it was. Her blackout drunk does not seem to be blackout drunk. She slurs words and stumbles around but is otherwise often pretty lucid. You know she's drunk but not in an "I won't remember any of this and will act like a fool" kind of drunk but she was totally that drunk. Often. When she wasn't she would be functional alcoholic drunk. I think in 17 years you could count the days she was stone cold sober on your fingers and toes. Eventually we told my family of our relationship. It was a little awkward but it went well. They accept our relationship completely. After some years and many struggles (the 2008 crash left us homeless for a while) we were able to build up a life for ourselves. We are barren, so no kids, but after a few health scares for us both we got married. 10 years seems like yesterday and for all our struggles it really has flown by. I love my wife and it has been so worth it. A few months ago, of her own volition, she got sober. I had tried to help over the years with that but it never worked. It's very hard to watch someone you love so much slowly kill themselves. It had caused a lot of dysfunctions in our marriage and we've gone through rough patches. I'm happy she is sober but the sober her is not who she was for the past 17 years. She is a different person now. And I'm falling in love with that person. We talk almost every night. We lie in bed as naked lovers and hold each other and build each other up. My sober wife's bedroom preferences are not anything what her alcoholic bedroom preferences were. She is warmer to me in general. She is kind. This is not who I married. I think part of me misses that person but a much greater part of me loves this new person more. It's been 17 years and I'm courting her like we are dating anew. We are rediscovering ourselves and our sexuality together and I couldn't be happier. I love my wife so much. She is named after a Greek goddess and my heart worships at her temple every day. Sorry but no TLDR, comrades. If you want to know you have to read.

traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns LaughingLion • 11mo ago • 100%

injected my testosterone too far down my leg yesterday

don't do it my knee swelled so bad it hurt like hell apparently this can happen feels better today but make sure you inject T in the glutes or at least a good way up the quads

chapotraphouse LaughingLion • 11mo ago • 100%

this is why we goon

gotta be ready for the sperm patrol in case you go out unexpectantly

chat LaughingLion • 1y ago • 100%

the charity bucket by the counter

is just a tip jar for the staff, right like surely none of the minimum wage workers are actually passing that along so the corporation that exploits them can use those donations as a tax writeoff, right

fitness LaughingLion • 1y ago • 100%

Protein Shake Pro-tip - Use Gelatin

I don't know why it took me so long to figure this out. Add a little teaspoon of your favorite unsweetened gelatin-based pudding dessert powder mix to your protein shake. I put in vanilla or cheesecake or chocolate flavor but whatever you like and then I give it a good blend with a blender or milk frother. It doesn't really change the flavor much at all, adds less than 5 calories, gives you collagen which is good for joints, and makes a GIGANTIC difference on the texture of the shake. No graininess. Just a silky smooth drink even if you are just using powder, water, and a small bit of gelatin. Night and day. EDIT: One caveat for our vegan/vegetarian comrades - research this. Some flavors of pudding are vegan/vegetarian friendly and some aren't. It even varies within the same brand apparently. I'm not vegan but I don't want to advise you folks to violate your dietary needs. Be well.

i went to protests and drove her car. tried to be careful, parked waaaay far away and so on and walked towards the thing, didnt bring a cell phone the whole deal. well now its a while later and she got a citation in the mail for "reckless driving". letter reads "we were reviewing our records and found that you have an outstanding citation..." blah blah blah. its from SIX YEARS AGO when she was stopped at a red light and someone hit her and drove off. she filled out a police report for insurance reasons and they are saying they highway patrol gave her a ticket back then. but the letter is from our counties clerk of the court. whatever, i know what this is its targetting harassment. they clearly were pinging license plates and picked hers up and they are targeting people. so she calls the highway patrol to get it cleared up. heres the problem WHEN ON THE PHONE WITH THE HIGHWAY PATROL SHE TELLS THEM THAT SHE THINKS THIS IS FROM WHEN HER HUSBAND WENT TO PROTESTS AGAINST THE COPS AND THAT THEY ARE TARGETTING HER FOR POLITICAL REASONS AND SHE THINKS THE HIGHWAY PATROL ARE GOING TO HELP HER IN THIS i cant i literally cannot even like wtf why are liberals like this i love her to my own goddamn peril but she is so fucking naive she actually thinks the organization she admits is corrupt and oppressive is going to help her going forward i cannot ever tell her about any political activity im involved with. i cannot trust my own spouse