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@ternbicycles.com This was a frustrating and inconvenient place to get a flat tire. Please make sure your supplier is cleaning out the tires before putting the tubes in. I found this in between the tire and tube. Bought in Germany in July of this year.

Fill in the blanks: If [Country/Group A] attacked [Country/Group B], I would feel compelled to take drastic action.

If your mustache is dark in color, and then parts of it start to go white or gray then that is pretty cool. However, if the area below your nose stays totally black but the rest of the top of your lip has gone pale and grey AND you live in Germany then it is time to shave. Or dye it at the least.

Etiquette is a symptom of a bad system. Telling people they "shouldn't" can never be the solution.

Germans will say an event has live music and then they will have a DJ and 100% not understand the difference.

"You haven't submitted your comment! Are you sure you want to leave the page?" Is the only window I see as much as the one asking if I want to allow cookies. No, I'd like to keep my family and friends and freedom so I will not be submitting that comment for real, thank you.

TIL; When someone gives you a gift, "I'm going to light this on fire and throw it away." is only appropriate when the gift is a candle.

I really dislike it when people post about how a dad didn't want a dog, and then the family gets one anyway and then they take pictures of him playing with it or whatever. Someone can know it's a bad idea and still attempt to make the best of a bad situation. It doesn't make it ok or good to do.

Asking for a resume in order to apply for something off of LinkedIn is so wild to me. You already have all of the info in the best possible format. Not respecting an applicant's time because your organization refuses to accept a working system is a sure sign your company isn't good to work for.

Does anyone else get upset at their incorrectly applied nail polish only because of their phone's thumbprint scanner?

Hear me out... A Monster's Inc sequel where dads are powered by groans and that's why they do dad jokes. You could do 90 minutes of audience torture. And if you really lean into the groan-up humor then parents could enjoy it too... especially the dads.

Maybe the revolution that could bring people together in some kind of effective solidarity is to just completely end any kind of wealth redistribution through taxation. End all tax "incentives", welfare, & subsidies. Keep all the normal taxes at normal rates. See who the real moochers are.

The biggest flaw in the modern screen based fingerprint reader is that it's a constant reminder of how poorly you did your nails. IYKYK

Possums live for only a year or two for the most part, but the oldest one recorded lived over 6 and a half years. That's like a human living until they're 250. I hope all of his possum friends were as impressed as I am.

Neurotypical people be like, "Hey you should come over Saturday at 3, we'll hang out." And then be confused when you confirm on Friday, and then really shocked when you show up Saturday at 3. If you don't want me to come over, stop inviting, and then confirming, that you want me to come. I'll come

If the future has history books, it will be very embarrassing for us; for them to read about how close we came to destroying ourselves because it was more entertaining to do so than living well.

These things rhyme because English is dumb: Newt Suit Boot Lute (And if you're American) Route And while some came from Old French and some came from Norman, these have been in English since Old English. So the inconsistent spellings was a choice being made. A dumb choice.

Guys I've got a great original idea. What if there was a world of people with superpowers, but a bad guy appeared who could steal superpowers from other people?!? Wouldn't that be wild?

For all those who believe that innovation only comes from the panic that capitalism causes I often ask people what they would create if they didn't have the panic that capitalism causes. Those things are often better than the things available to us today through capitalism. I'd write software.

Some of the countries which will have No Kings protests have kings and it's a weird vibe.

Asking someone for help, and asking someone to do their fair share are different, but much closer than some people think. Forcing someone to do something, and dictating HOW someone do something are also different, but much closer than some people think. Forcing people to do things is bad. FYI.

I really want a supercut of some Republican congressman going from yelling about small government to saying the executive branch doesn't have to uphold the constitution and citizens don't have the right to due process. I'll bet he wouldn't even have aged that much.

As an immigrant I really wonder when the impulse is going to hit me to pull the ladder up behind me. Because I definitely don't feel that way yet. Given the behavior I've seen, I was led to believe it was immediate.

If abundant, free, 100% clean energy was invented tomorrow, then dirty energy would still be used and the climate and pollution crisis would still be happening until it was stopped by worldwide regulation. The exact same arguments would be made by the polluters as are made today. Don't wait.

If anyone ever even pretended to give half a meh about "her emails" then they should be LOSING it over needing to conduct an audit of DOGE employees to verify they are properly practicing data security practices and nothing has been copied or transferred.

How many times does it take for Missouri government overturning the direct will of the people before they just give up the farce and stop voting? It's clearly just a waste of time.

The timeline from: "It's your fault you can't afford a house" -> "It's your fault you couldn't afford an education" -> "It's your fault you can't afford food" Was shorter than I thought it would be. It's their fault society sucks. Not yours. But we can damn well FIX it.

If nothing happens or the current administration is even emboldened as a result of the protests, then unfortunately people must realize as a tactic this specific method didn't work. More action must therefore happen. Just don't burn the Reichstag, Communists, because we know what happens next.

NT's be like: I don't like how you said that. Me: That's funny because I'm actively harmed by the actions you actually took. Weird how people are going to be on your side now.

I think Amber Ruffin should just hold a press conference and tell all the same jokes she was going to say.

The first lines of the "first they came for" poem were socialists and trade unions. And there's a very good reason they always come for them first. Solidarity is the only thing that defeats tyranny. Solidarity forever.

I have never seen a refutation of the necessity of infinite growth of capitalism that considers earth a closed system, or anything like it. They always give examples of countries, or at best, collections of countries within a single economic market. Even if space is an option, it's impractical.

I'm very concerned about the trend of the ruling class to purposefully defund or otherwise break systems which gather data for results, to make it more difficult to show their policies are harmful for most people. Not only government, you also regularly see this in large organizations of all kinds.

I'm hesitant to defend culture, behavior, language, or anything else if it is my own. Because I'm concerned my bias would cloud my judgement about something I might be doing that could potentially be bad. But I'm becoming increasingly concerned that I'm the only person who is hesitant about this.

I feel like lots of things age poorly, but remembering what they were like at the time they make more sense. And then there's "The Way You Make Me Feel" video from Michael Jackson. It's fucking terrifying.

I watch a nature program about a moose. So I want to read more about moose. So I put "moose" into my search and it autocompletes to "moose knuckle" And I automatically hit enter and now I have moose knuckle in my search history. Now 80 billion dollars worth of tech can cater my ads perfectly.

We've been shown Republicans don't mean what they say repeatedly over the past 30 years at least. We need to stop trying to have discussions with them about their future plans as though they are meaningful. Their entire agenda is lying. Stop falling for it, it's embarrassing.

I thought Tim Curry was dead until I realized I was thinking of Alan Rickman. Neither one of those guys would be upset by that mix-up though, would they?

I think using collective action to build community against things that don't matter so much might be the best way to eventually organize against the important shit. The powers that be won't be so ready to destroy those communities, and it will be a low stakes fun way to get people involved.

Gestures and symbols are meant to represent movements, vague subjects. And they can be confused, as there are only so many gestures and symbols that can be made. So instead, I prefer to look at what someone has purposefully published to see what their opinions are. ...Oh. Oh my. This is worse.

When a recipe has a section where you need to put a whole pan inside the freezer, it makes me realize that this kind of thing is for people living a lifestyle that I am not a part of.

I'm just saying Lt. Aldo Raine should give him something he can't gaslight his way out of.

In over 40 years of Mario lore they don't seem to ever explain why a plumber is so into jumping.

Whether or not things scale matters. It also matters how they scale. If something scaling badly does more harm than not doing that thing then we should not do that thing, or not scale that thing, or at the VERY least, not scale that thing in the bad way! This problem comes up so much.

Would a president declare and conduct a war against a sovereign nation without congress's approval, and enact a draft to do it? Well, do you think that the American people can learn a lesson from Vietnam? Do you, really? Please site source.

Problems are not proportional to the patience you have to understand them.

I've seen more urban wildlife than I'm used to here in Germany. And I really wonder what they think is happening on New Year's. It's got to feel like the apocalypse with all the fireworks.

Can we talk about how "I wanna wish you a merry Christmas from the bottom of my heart" isn't a sentiment that requires utmost sincerity? Like the difference between wishing me a merry Christmas with a passing indifference has an identical effect on both you and me. Or is it too soon to discuss?

1st thought in Berlin: nice train station. 2nd: Wow, the station announcements sound very similar to the voice in Papers, Please. 3rd: ....oh, right. Guess that makes sense.

I often feel like people don't care enough about the current preventable tragedies taking place around the world; then as those tragedies end, or change into some new paradigm and the details of the past horrors come to light; it really hits me. I don't need to know these things. I was already sad.