After meeting your parents, 90% of the time I think, "The apple didn't fall far from the tree." It's not necessarily good or bad, but you're probably more like your parents than you realize.

Okay so, I’m about to out my age but

I will NEVER forgive Kenneth Braunaugh for cheating on Emma Thompson. I also actively dislike Helena Bonham-Carter bc she was who he cheated with.

Blake Shelton tweeting about running over turtles on the side of the road. Trash behavior.

There are many reasons to hate ellen degeneres but her telling dakota johnson she wasn't invited to her party when she WAS made me really hate her.

The big scam: religion

A tax-free industry gets people to believe that happiness, health and economic prosperity truly depends on the frequency of attendance and the extent of donations ,

The Catholic Church used fear and indulgences to extrude wealth from hapless participants.

Modern religion uses HOPE as the way to bleed congregations and keep any abbherant thinking in check.

Gotta accrue those golden nails for your heavenly ✨️ mansion.

Worked a month as a pharmacy clerk, health insurance price disparity is insane, especially on things like insulin.

SocraticIgnoramus:

This is also why you can’t ever get a straight answer in medicine regarding how much a given procedure costs. Everyone’s got these contracts with wildly different prices, but they know that can’t say “$5,280 with Cigna, or $37 with Medicaid” so they give all kinds of non answers.
The American healthcare system’s lack of a transparent fee schedule should literally be against the law.

Software as a Service models. No one needs or wants their software to update and change formats every few months. We all just want a stable software that we can learn to use for a few years before a major performance upgrade. There’s no reason why you shouldn’t still be using Microsoft Word Millennium edition.

Finding out who sponsored "influencers." The largest sponsors of "clean Tok" are cleaning manufacturers. Those makeup videos? Sponsored by makeup companies. All the "tradwife" and farm life videos? Sponsored by far right media groups. It's ALL a scam. All of them are being paid behind the scenes to push certain goods or a certain lifestyle. TikTok is literally just watching short commercials with less transparency.

In the USA?
- Teachers
- Lawyers
- Scientists
- Engineers

Because education, law, and science are suddenly considered anti-American. Without education, everything eventually crumbles.

Even before this Trump administration, Americans have been losing jobs to foreigners that are better educated than us. We’re losing those jobs because Americans just aren’t qualified, simple as that.

At the rate things are going right now, we won’t have any professions left that require a brain.

I hope it’s influencers.

My friend is an artist. She made a living off commissions on Twitter. That site going to sh**e and the rise of AI has already caused her to lose 80-90% of the commissions she was getting a few years ago. She’s currently working a minimum wager to keep what she can in her account while she figures out what to do.

draggar:

This is one of the saddest parts of AI. We thought AI would take over mundane tasks so we could pursue things like the arts, yet here we are, doing mundane things while the arts are being taken over by AI.
Even our community alerts pages on FB are now adding AI generated images with every post. It's annoying AF 99.99999% of the time.

Technics 1210 MK 2.

The Fender Telecaster and the Gibson J-45.

Zippo lighters.

Fiskars scissors.

Singer sewing machines. Such delicate components yet they can be repaired to last a century.

Paper clips. It’s one of the most brilliant designs of all time. It’s cheap, one part, and extremely functional. It barely changed from its invention.

Any Victorinox comes to mind to go along with the leatherman theme.

Lego.

Elon Musk.

sappy6977:

Space x has gotten $20 billion from DOD and NASA to launch satellites that he uses to sell his Internet. And he's in charge of government accountability. 😫

jetblakc:

Aside from the obvious things going on now and his sh**ty treatment of his daughter and employees, Elon musk has a ton of s*xual a*sault accusations that just go away.

Kanye West has erratic behavior.

AboveTheLights:

Untreated bipolar disorder will do that.

amesann:

I wonder if some people empathize with him because so many of us suffer from mental illnesses. So they'll excuse his behavior as "not being himself." Others just cannot look past his music and will worship him no matter what he says or does (I mean, look at how many MAGA freaks there are).

Zuckerberg. Bezos.

Two billionaires that just can't help but inject their stupid faces into our lives. While continuing to get away with shady s**t.

Anthony Kiedis admitted to statutory r*pe of a 14 year old when he was 23 or 24 in his own autobiography and I don’t think he was ever arrested. If that’s what he’ll tell you just imagine what he’s not.

Occams-Chainsaw_:

Kiedis is currently dating a 19 year old.
He's 61.

Kennet Copeland.

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I don't get it. The guy looks exactly what I imagine Satan would look like as a person but people think he's holy? Seriously creepy.