I’m 37 and have a long beard. I agree the bears helps convincing I’m old enough. But I remember I was offended I got asked my ID all the time. “Do I really look that young? When are people going to take me seriously as an adult!” Now that I’m never asked anymore, I feel old.

I was hoping Karens would stay on reddit, but…

I have a hard time handling all the bad shit in the world. I noticed lately I open Lemmy much less because of all the doom posts. I already deleted reddit and disabled YouTube. Lemmy is all I have left as social media, but it’s getting less attractive by the day.

They don’t even check my ID anymore 😢

However, it will develop a stale flavor and texture in the fridge. To prevent this, freeze the bread. Home made bread often molds fast, so refrigerating or freezing the bread is a good option. Store bought bread can stay good for longer, so for the best taste storing it is outside the fridge is best. Source.

I have 3 kittens, 10 weeks old. They wake me up by having a WWE wrestling championship on top of me. Hitting with folding chairs and everything. At 6am.

“ooh hooman, are you awake? What a coincidence, we too! Well, since you’re awake anyway, you might as well give us foodz pleazzz”

This is how Chuck Norris lights up a cigarette

Stick looks similar. But stick feels less worthy.

Every movement with a gun sounds like there’s a loose screw in it (it always clicks). Also it usually has a clip of 300+ bullets.

Every mouse or keyboard input into a computer, every loading bar, every screen popping up makes screaching sounds. Except when having a failing DVD drive or broken hard disk I’ve never heard any computer making these sounds.

A secret tracking or listening device has a blinking red light and beeps.

Every car, always with airconditioning, drives with open windows because of the window reflections. Even during rain, extreme heat or highly contagious zombies trying to bite you through the open window.

Ah ok. I thought in freedomland it wouldn’t be much different, but usually a missing person claim should be passed onto the missing persons division of the responsible police force with a unit like that. But if anyone says “nope, bye” you can always try somewhere else. Or Google it, or ask chat gpt.

You’ve gotta compensate your penis size with your car. This is just basic science.

If he, or the mafia doesn’t want him to be found, there’s not much you can do.

But in all seriousness: yeah, when someone is missing they should be reported as such at the local police, who can contact the embassy’s office in the country they were going on holiday. Many parts of Italy are very safe, rich, modern. But there are also parts where you will get hurt, especially as a tourist. Loads of poverty, gangs, mafia, corruption (particularly the south).

“grisly results”. Are you sure? I think the pressure failure of the Titan submarine was closer to “grisly”. Transit tube failure scores lower on the pressure failure scale. /jk

I want one to get beer from the fridge to the couch. I could move the fridge next to the couch, but if a pneumatic system is an option, I assume I don’t have to explain which would be the better choice by a land slide. Cool beers on the couch, in the garden, in the bath tub, etc. I could fire my wife.

Of course I’m joking, I would never exchange my wife for a pneumatic tube system. I don’t have a wife.

If South Korea does this, he’ll tell his fat buddy Kim to send more shit balloons over the border.

My parents do this all the time. “Yeah, we just came back from the funeral, it was beautiful.” So apparently my aunt died. “Oh yeah, we thought it wouldn’t interest you”.

At the same time, they call me to tell me “So, Henry had to go to the hospital, he’s in a bad state. We though you’d want to know.” So apparently someone from their neighborhood who I never met or heard of has some bad health.

I don’t know in what country you live. I live in The Netherlands, one of the richest countries, with police which is very mild compared to other countries. They are ‘trained’ to de-escalate, to use the least amount of violence, to try to talk first. A force they ‘try’ to be inclusive, with a reasonably high percentage of women and different ethnicities, promoting to be open to LGBTQ+.

I can tell you with certainty, they are biased and racist as fuck, corrupt, abusive, above the law.

I assume you view the world through (male) white glasses from a rich country within the EU? The cops are there to protect your rich white privilege, you don’t have a clue what it is like for poor people and people of color. Police is not what it is supposed to be in an ideal world. They should be abiding the law, enforcing the law, protect ALL citizens, be unbiased, treat everyone the same whether they are rich, poor, whatever their religion or ethnicity, whatever gender, political view, etc. They fail on all these points. Even in progressive countries like The Netherlands or Germany.

Next to that, the far right is on the rise. They love to enable and use the police to enforce their will.

Look at all the protests. The protests by the left are struck down with brute force and loads of arrests. Protests of the right are mostly left alone, with maybe one or two arrests if any. Here in the Netherlands farmers were left alone to lock down the entire infrastructure of the country, for many days, with loads of destruction (including driving a tractor into a municipality building) with barely any arrests or consequences. The cop who opened fire on a tractor which drove at him fast and refused to stop got into trouble, not the guy driving the tractor.

A hand full of climate activists blocking a single road were beaten and arrested with brute force, after which they got hefty fines.

So fuck the police.

Assange fled to a consulate in London. After years of annoying everyone in that small building he thought it would be smart to unveil sensitive information on the government of that consulate. So, they kicked him out by letting the British police in, now he’s getting prison time because fuck freedom of press apparently. Snowden fled to Russia. He would have never seen the light of day if they would have cought him. Probably Guantanamo Bay torture for the rest of his life. So their situations are different, I don’t know why that would make a difference to the trust in them.

Both have a strong moral compass, otherwise they wouldn’t have done what they did.

I’d rather trust and believe whistleblowers with a very strong moral compass, acting in the interest of the general public, then big tech companies hoarding in our data, breaking copyright and privacy, all for those tasty billions. Those companies only have a moral code towards their own bank account.