EldritchFeminity

I don't expect the party to still exist 365 days from now.

I mean, if the shareholders can pull a pump and dump before the economy hits the fan...then that's absolutely what's going to happen. Thinking about anything beyond the next quarter is not standard corporate practice.

Saving this for future discussions because it's absolutely spot on.

Also, for any Republicans complaining about Obamacare, kindly remind them that it was started by Republican Mitt Romney.

It really depends on where you live and the kinds of bins you have. I keep my bins in my garage because we get snow (used to get snow? Climate change and all that), and there are times when I can smell even just the normal household garbage inside the house. I also live in a duplex, so my entire downstairs is a single large room with a kitchenette off of it, meaning that when the garbage cans stink, they stink up the entire downstairs of the house.

I think the cans the town uses just don't have a great seal on them, as I've heard other people complain about similar issues with the smell, and my parents even have a separate small can they keep outside specifically for their dog poop that they toss into the actual garbage right as they take it out to the curb so it doesn't stink up their house.

Luckily, I've never had the issue of people tossing their poop into my cans, but I've heard tons of people complain about it. People not picking up after their dogs at all, however...that's a different story that's so bad around my neighborhood that multiple people have installed signs about it.

I surely don't know what you mean. They're to keep the raccoons out! That's why they're on a piece of velcro, so they're removable!

Sarcasm aside, absolutely. Even if you wouldn't get in trouble for people hurting themselves by going into your bins, you could probably get in trouble for messing with town property or something. It's just the kind of thing I immediately think of after growing up with stories of "Let me take care of that for you" about a guy who's probably doing 30 to life for prostitution and selling heroin/whatever else the Hell's Angels get up to.

Oftentimes, these kinds of people don't bother to check if the bins have already been picked up or not, so you get a bin that smells like dog shit for the next week.

Your friend sounds very creative, I'd personally go for gluing a piece of velcro to the inside lip of the handle with razor blades on it. Of course, I'm also not an engineer, just somebody whose grandfather was friends with the #2 Hell's Angel for a state who would ask if he wanted him to "take care of" problems like that. The old razor blades and broken glass in the root ball trick worked wonders when somebody was repeatedly stealing the shrubs out of my grandfather's pots.

Many people do this after the bins have already been emptied, meaning that for the next week, you have to deal with a bin that smells like dog shit.

Reminds me of a story from when I was younger of a guy who killed 3 people with a katana at a drug deal gone bad at a local motel. The courts ruled it was self-defense.

The most cyberpunk "street samurai" shit I've ever heard. Just needs to have the dude deflecting bullets to seal the deal.

It will be.

Aye, as an American, I have only a limited view of the big picture, but my understanding of it is that while it was definitely a politicized issue across the globe, a lot of the far right extremists were emboldened to make it such a big issue by the actions of Trump and the Republican party in the US.

Like that convoy of Canadian Trump rioters who can't even vote for him if they wanted to because they live in Canada. Trump's been a poster-boy for crazies all across the globe.

Not "tyrannic" yet, but Project 2025 is 3 months away.

Republican voters don't care about being helped. They simply want somebody to blame for their problems. They would happily jump on a grenade so long as they could jam an immigrant underneath them on the way down.

The Republican voter doesn't believe that they're poor - they're just temporarily embarrassed millionaires. Any day now, the money will drop out of the sky and into their laps. So they happily march to toe the party line as it hurts them over and over, because they think that one day they'll be the ones stepping on everybody else.