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Lauren Boebert’s son arrested on sexual exploitation of a child charges (r/news)

• sortasolar: [She’s a hypocrite.

The hypocrisy isn’t that Lauren Boebert has a messy family. Everybody has a messy family.

The hypocrisy is that she built a whole political brand around turning other people’s worst facts into permanent public identities: registries, panic, public shaming, “protect the children” theater (pun intended), etc.

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Taylor Farms recalls salsa and guacamole over salmonella risk (r/news)

• littlepup26: Friendly reminder that you can identify Taylor Farms products by looking at the production code stamped right next to the “Best By” or expiration date on the package. Letters like TF,  TFRS, TFRB, or TFPM indicate the item was packed at a Taylor Farms facility, even on store-brand or private-label products.
• 1877KlownsForKids: Guys, I’m starting to think those boring government folks who make sure our food is safe to eat might be important.
• TheGaslighter9000X: Third fucking recall for salmonella in a week? Jesus. Walmart and Chipotle now this.

Wildfires burning in British Columbia force 20,000 to evacuate (r/news)

• Regnes: Summer in British Columbia has been dystopian the past decade. You smell the smoke in the air, you hear of the devastation caused to entire communities, you see the refugee camps and support services being setup around town, and each year you wonder if this is finally going to be it and it will be your turn to flee for your life.
• ol_lordylordy: We cancelled our week long vacation in the interior because of air quality. Its insane to be in. There was a summer a few years ago when we had to clean our picnic table of ash every morning. It sucks that planning around forest fires has become part of the process for such a beautiful part of the world
• humansomeone: So happy Carney and Smith are building a new pipeline to vancouver. Keep the oil flowing for us all. Such a help while the country burns around us.

What was considered a major sign of status 10 years ago, but is now seen as cheap, cringe, or a waste of money? (r/AskReddit)

• Kobe-62Mavs-61: It wasn’t “status” but 10 years ago I feel like podcasters needed to be a bit more professional and prepared. Now it seems like every loser you know has one and the production value is atrocious.
• sagewhat: Limos
• Leading_Emergency218: A blue checkmark

Who’s the most famous person you went to school with? (r/AskReddit)

• nkmetcalfe: My grandmother went to school with Jim Jones. I remember when I found out I asked her if they were friends or ever hung out, and she snapped back, “NO! He was weird then, too!”
• KnittingKitty: I went to college with Jim Morrison (The Doors). Yes, I’m o-l-d.
• ravenlynne: The guy who founded Khan academy was my valedictorian.

What is the WORST song you have ever heard? (r/AskReddit)

• beefstewforyou: A really bad Christian song from the 90s about cartoons getting saved.
• brittlebk: 1-877-Kars for Kidz
• GamesOfOdin: Baby Shark. Not because it’s technically the worst song ever made, but because once it gets into your head, it apparently signs a permanent lease there. 😂

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A 2-year-old at the center of a Texas brain-death dispute is taken off life support and dies (r/news)

• lilsqueakyone: Google Jahi McMath. That was a crazy situation. She was declared brain dead, but her parents refused to accept it. She has 2 death certificates 4 years apart.
• comefromawayfan2022: It’s sad that a two year old died. But I think we all knew that this was the outcome all along. That poor child died the day she drowned
• commandrix: I feel bad for the 2-year-old. Sure, you want to give the kid every chance to recover if recovery is at all reasonably possible. But at some point, you’ll do better to admit that there’s no point in keeping a brain-dead husk alive.

Child standing in seat and refusing a seatbelt cancels flight from Victoria, airline says (r/news)

• JurgusRudkus: Something very similar happened to me on a flight from PDX to LAX when my twins were 2.5. I was traveling alone with them and the entire journey was exhausting. On departure my son didn’t want to sit down in his seat and the flight attendant made clear that if he didn’t, the flight wouldn’t take off. So I had to literally strong arm him into his seat and PIN him down while he was screaming like he was being boiled in oil. It was the single suckiest moment of my life as a parent thus far but there was no way in hell I was going to let my child disrupt an entire plane full of people.
• succsforever: Every parent who has had a grouchy traveler child will read this and say “well, I’m not doing so bad”
• ninjplus: victoria sub has people who were on the flight talking about it. The girl was around 3 and they wasted an hour trying to get the child to stay in her seat while the runway was set to close soon. Totally idiotic on all levels. Dipshit useless parents who are fully to blame and crew members who should have turned around early enough to kick the family off so the rest of the passengers could get to their destinations. I would have been pissed.

What is a dark or unethical industry secret that you can finally share because you no longer work there? (r/AskReddit)

• lawlesstoast: The shear amount of mice present in long term care facilities. The city I live in, I have worked multiple sites. All have infestations they cannot control.
• Grim1067: The major cell carriers are pure profit in terms of the actual service. Most just don’t manage the infrastructure well on a regular basis. And most executive relations teams will just about give you what you ask for as a “one time exception”
• Cuddarfish: Not really “dark” but the markup you’re paying on prescription eyewear is absolutely criminal. Lenses + frames is a few dollars worth of materials.

Redditors who lost their spouse, what secret did you find out after their passing? (r/AskReddit)

• Dry_Clothes7489: My husband was conning gay men out of money via romance scams…
• daffodil-tears: Not me but my mom. She looked in my dad’s nightstand and found a little bag of white powder. Suddenly, all the little straws she’d found in his laundry made more sense.
• prunepicker: Ex-spouse. He had an affair while we were dating (1972), which resulted in a son, born three months before our wedding. I found out two years ago.

Medical workers, what is the scariest thing you have ever heard a patient say? (r/AskReddit)

• AlaskaTech1: I work in traveling eye care. When I was up in the Alaska bush, I saw a 21 year old patient who came with her 2 year old baby for an eye exam. She told me she became blind in her left eye when her boyfriend (notice I didn’t say ex) got drunk and punched her so hard he detached her retina. I was stunned and my face showed it. She then said, “Don’t worry. Everything is better. He’s nice to me now.”
• belfry_bat: Behavioral health patient once said to me “I’m a vegetarian because otherwise I would eat people.”
• quiksilver2101: Had a 2 vehicle head-on collision I responded to. Both occupants in one car seemed ok, then the driver says his back hurts. I asked what the pain felt like, and he said it felt like burning, almost like something was tearing…not too long after that he tanked very quickly and that was it..

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ICE will release body camera video only when seen in the agency’s ‘best interests,’ policy says (r/news)

• Koru03: Well at least they’re openly admitting what they already do…
• JohnnyGFX: At this point we’re going to have to abolish ICE and form a new agency to handle immigration enforcement, because ICE is not redeemable.
• adham06: So never, gotcha. Absolute asshats

US unexpectedly lost 23,000 jobs in July as slump in growth continues (r/news)

• Small-Sample3916: How is this unexpected? Job market has been crap for a while.
• TheCarrzilico: A loss being called a slump in growth is an excellent use of doublespeak.
• rabidstoat: Economist expectations were for 80,000 to 95,000 job gains.

What is a “poor man’s meal” that you still eat and genuinely love, no matter how much money you have? (r/AskReddit)

• illustrated_womxn: This is gonna sound weird, but I grew up poor and this is such a nostalgic comfort meal for me. My parents called them “hotdog boats”. Split a hotdog lengthwise, load the top with leftover mashed potatoes, cover in cheddar cheese and bake.
• ginger1009: Beans and rice. I love beans and rice.
• PhotographLess6194: Grilled cheese and Campbell’s tomato soup

What is a real-life “cheat code” you use everyday that everyone should know about? (r/AskReddit)

• Red_Squirrel__: Being nice to people around you. Makes their day better and usually gets you most of the things you want
• Barbaranln: no matter what your problem is always be polite to customer service people
• Annual-Two1507: Leave 10 minutes early, tbh - it kills the annoying panic when traffic, parking, or a delayed train shows up.

What was the reason your friendship ended with someone? (r/AskReddit)

• doesthishurt94: I realized I was just a placeholder for when she couldn’t get anyone else to show up for her.
• Ecstatic-While-2473: No reason, sometimes people just evolve in different directions
• RumorsOFsurF: Cancer took him. RIP Thomas.

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State of New Mexico sues Justice Department and Todd Blanche, saying they blocked its Epstein probe (r/news)

• everyones_typo: Blocking an investigation into child abuse and sex trafficking to protect powerful people is disgraceful and unacceptable. The truth must come out, and survivors deserve full accountability and complete transparency without federal stonewalling.
• tabrizzi: I wonder why they chose to block that type of probe.
• you_killed_my_: This November is the last chance to prove to the world you aren’t a protector of predators

Women tell BBC of rape and abuse at Army teen college (r/news)

• Fritzkreig: The military needs to clean up the culture even further than they have tried; as a veteran it is a disgrace that they have not got all this shit squared away by now!
• RooneytheWaster: And this is the Army that all the flag-botherers want to force youngsters into?
• Worldly-Ingenuity843: Well that’s a depressing read. It seems that not only do the instructors not care about sexual assaults, they actually expect the minors to have sex while on campus.

What got so expensive that you just stopped buying it? (r/AskReddit)

• Valuable-Brief-2291: Concert tickets
• SearchUsers: Fast food in all its forms. A dunkin bagel currently costs what 6 bagels do at the store… and its hard and old.
• lawlingalltheway: Eating out/coffee. I started cooking and bringing my own lunch and coffee to work.

What’s the most backhanded compliment you’ve ever received? (r/AskReddit)

• EnergyDr1nk_L0ver: “Wait you’re like, actually smart” Like ty but what 😭
• Kinkybenny: “You don’t sweat much for a fat guy” 🫤
• Cement421: My sister once said, “I’m so fat and stupid” and my grandmother responded, “darling, you’re not fat.”

What is something that is heavily romanticized, but is actually awful? (r/AskReddit)

• annyy_28: Not taking no for an answer when someone rejects you
• Anonymous_Coder_1234: Pirates. Much more horrible and less romantic than the media makes it seem.
• SpicyPunk: Climbing the corporate ladder

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Three lions die in zoo as Japan battles extreme heat (r/worldnews)

• PPGN_DM_Exia: Japan is sadly not known for its high quality zoos, not in terms of visitor experience or animal welfare. I went to the Tennoji Zoo in Osaka and it was very run down and depressing.
• alexsensei: Japan must have pretty lax laws for animal welfare, based on what I saw out there. I went to a small zoo off of Himeji Castle and they had a pen for two polar bears that couldn’t have been more than 8x5 metres. And the heat was stifling. It was dreadful.
• phiwong: This seems like incompetence. Losing one might be a fluke but 3 and they all show signs of dehydration?

Man charged with setting Spokane’s largest wildfire went to prison for killing his father (r/news)

• SparklingSloth: I don’t understand how purposely starting a wildfire that destroys lives and property isn’t charged as a form of terrorism
• JordanPetterPans: Imagine if this guy was just in a mental institution all along??..
• paypaypayme: America has a serious problem with antisocial freaks. There’s something about our society that breeds these type of weirdos. Perhaps its a lack of the whole village dynamic of ancient humans. Everyone’s in their own little bubble insulated from each other. Is it the fault of the idyllic suburban dream?

Chipotle pulls jalapenos from some restaurants amid salmonella probe (r/news)

• OuterSpaceBootyHole: To eat at Chipotle during an uncontained food contamination crisis is to not give a single fuck about anything
• Inside-Yak-8815: Everywhere I go to eat (or get food) has a salmonella outbreak a few days later, wtf is going on?
• ThisNameIsHilarious: Boy it would sure be nice if we had a regulatory agency to help track, fix, and prevent this stuff.

What is a sign that someone is emotionally unintelligent? (r/AskReddit)

• Whatabouttheteachers: Every hard conversation becomes an argument
• thunderfart_99: They have great difficulty seeing other people’s perspectives.
• Wooden-Wolverine-917: a complete disregard for how their actions affect others + the assumption that just because they feel something that that makes them right

What is a 9/10 or 10/10 game that you’ll never play again because of one small thing or section? (r/AskReddit)

• scalectrogenic: Metal Gear Solid V - I really enjoyed it first time through, but cannot be bothered with crawling through the hospital at the start again.
• yuuzhanbong: I love Far Harbor, but FUCK the Dima memory sequences
• Happy_goth_pirate: Uncharted, loved the damn thing but honestly the jet ski/ exploding barrels section was so frustrating, I’ll just skip that installment

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Two Deaths Linked to Cyclosporiasis in Michigan (r/news)

• Money-Lifeguard5815: I miss eating lettuce and other fresh produce 😭
• Valturia: Remember, FDA said everything is fine. Dying to lettuce is the new norm.
• aakundun: Deregulation at work. Profits over people.

Iran says no talks are under way with United States after Trump calls off attacks (r/worldnews)

• MyNameisClaypool: Why is the market still reacting to what he says? Everyone knows it is BS, but the market reacts as if it is not, makes no sense.
• KamKorn: He already got his market manipulation….. it doesn’t matter what you say Iran
• WearmyMark: Why people are surprised when Trump lies is a mystery to me. He did so regularly during the pandemic to try and keep everyone (and the markets) calm. He thinks the ends justify the means. He doesn’t understand or care that he is harming his own reputation as well as the nations. He doesn’t care if he makes himself a laughing stock. Whenever he opens his mouth he lies. It is at the core of his character.

What hobby or job has a divorce/breakup rate that feels like it’s close to 100%? (r/AskReddit)

• 0x14f: Not so much a job, but medical students don’t stay in relationships
• the__mom_friend: Stage Technicians, especially roadies who follows shows on tour. I realized during the last few weeks of my senior internship that every single stage tech employee was either a.) A divorced chain smoker or b.) Married to a person who worked the same shows they did.
• Slow-Rutabaga-7241: When bodybuilders use steroids, there’s one called Trenbolone, or ‘Tren’ for short. It’s also called divorce in a bottle because of the side effects of mood instability, irritability, hypermania, and apathy.

Coffee addicts, \$1,000 a week (tax free) for the rest of your life, but you have to sacrifice your daily fix. What are you doing? (r/AskReddit)

• movealongnowpeople: Is caffeine the fix, or is coffee the fix? I’d have no problem abandoning coffee. Caffeine in general, I’ll still take the money but I might be a giant prick for a few days.
• Nouvi_: As much as I love my freshly made coffee every single morning, for \$1000 a week, I would drop it with no hesitation.
• sofa_king_we_todded: I enjoy my morning latte ritual - I’d probably pick up some other morning ritual like rolling around in fresh wads of cash

What was it like when Obama was elected President? (r/AskReddit)

• WinterFilmAwards: Times Square became an enormous party. People were singing and dancing and hugging each other. Older black people were just openly weeping and couldn’t believe it happened in their lifetime. So much joy and hope for a better future
• benlau: We literally partied in the streets and hugged strangers.
• valkrycp: Kind of a collective sigh of relief for the majority of the country especially the youth and the minorities. It genuinely FELT hopeful - like the future is going to be better rather than worse.

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RFK Jr tells US families to vaccinate children against measles amid outbreak (r/news)

• nerfedbeyblade: The smart and responsible people were already doing that
• Harry_Mud: So now RFK Jr changes his mind and tell parents to do what they should have already done. How nice of him… What a dumb ass……………….
• Brease: It’s easy to be anti vaccine when herd immunity is doing its job. These fucking ghouls are seeing the consequences of their bullshit.

Family to sue after woman released from ICE custody froze to death (r/news)

• supercyberlurker: I forget what that’s called, where they drop a person off miles from anywhere with insufficient clothes in the freezing cold. It’s purposeful and has a name.
• CedarWolf: This sounds like ‘starlight tours’ are back. History may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme.
• GeorgeStark1: They knew she was suffering from mental illnesses. They should never have left her alone.

For women who NEVER wear makeup, what lead you to that choice? (r/AskReddit)

• jmills23: Laziness, prioritizing sleep over it, the cost, I never had the patience to learn how to do it well, I didn’t see the point in doing make up to make my face look natural, and it made my face and eyes feel gross.
• FluffyProgram9566: Didn’t want to self-enable body dysmorphia. Makeup is a slippery slope when your mind starts telling you you’re ugly without it.
• ApprehensiveMix7312: Sensory issues, I don’t like it on my face it makes me want to peel my face off when it’s on

Former homeless people, what were some of the places you slept at night that were safe? (r/AskReddit)

• ineverbot: Weirdly the best one was this little grassy spot surrounded by bushes on one of those medians in the middle of several busy lanes of a downtown street. It was like a little parkette with a statue or something and because it was in the middle of a busy street no one ever went there to sit or sleep because it was loud af during the day
• pestyfinesty: A man I knew who volunteered at a homeless shelter told me once that a man staying there said the hardest part of it was that there’s nowhere you’re supposed to be—anywhere you are, you can be made to leave. That really stuck with me.
• AfraidComposer7682: Senior year in college I chose to live in my pickup truck with a cover on the box, so I could afford books. I went to school in the Midwest. No heat. I had a sleeping bag and some thick blankets. The coldest nights were below zero Fahrenheit. Graduated and often think of the sacrifices I made to get a college education. Glad I did it, and would not recommend it. Winter was brutal.

How do you feel about Trump selling early access to his social media posts for \$100K per month? (r/AskReddit)

• xXx420BlazeRodSaboxX: Why the fuck is the President of the United States selling ANYTHING!?
• Evil_gEek: Insider trading openly.
• Odd-Elderberry-6137: Grifters gonna grift and so long as Congress acts like his lapdog, nothings going to change.

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LAPD officer who recorded colleagues’ racist comments charged with felony eavesdropping (r/news)

• Drox88: Prime example of what happens when a “good cop” does the right thing.
• Biggle_fuzz: Well, just more evidence that even if we got good people to join the police to change the system from within, we couldn’t.
• Calm-Maintenance-878: Hmm…facing 13 years? So if the officer wanted to correctly report it, he should provide no proof, from a legal standpoint? In the event he simply told HR and HR spoke to them…what’s next? They deny the comments and HR can interview…but only use word of mouth? I feel like there should be a loophole to record without consent, since I don’t get this. I get how it can help but clearly, I see how it can hurt.

Colorado declares town abandoned amid water and leadership crisis (r/news)

• legitimate-criminal: A 56-person town lost its entire government because four women threw hands at a board meeting over tap water. Peak local politics.
• Fuck-WestJet: They should reach out to their congressional rep, Lauren Boebert, for support. I’m sure she will be effective in resolving their governance problems….
• AstronautInitial3642: A town of 56 people turned a clean water emergency into a feud so toxic that even the people sent to help walked away. Losing municipal status may be the first functional decision made there in years.

Olive Garden employees, what do you do if someone doesn’t say stop when you’re grating their cheese? (r/AskReddit)

• nondescriptun: We used to have contests to see who could grate their entire block the fastest. At some point I’d just keep speeding up until I was cranking it like Tarantino in a shoestore.
• ImSoCul: the cheese doesn’t actually just spawn from the grater btw. I’ve had a friend sit there for a while and the block ran out. then they grabbed another block and politely resumed. I assume at some point they’d be “oh we ran out of blocks let me go to the kitchen” and they’d disappear and never come back.
• shamo0: The room fills with parmesan. There are no survivors.

Which company lost your business (potentially forever) this year? (r/AskReddit)

• JubbsJB: I quit smoking so Marlboro lost my business hopefully forever
• iuxv_: Doordash, the driver stole my order and they refused to compensate me
• bekmoto: Safelite- technician fixing a rockchip on my car at my house fell off my porch. Gave him first aid, took him to the er. He clearly broke his pinky. I have a normal porch with steps. A month later they sent me a lawsuit. Wasn’t even the technician suing me, Safelite was suing me for workers comp. We were deep in cancer treatment for my 10 year at the exact same time. They made an estimated \$2.5 billion last year. Scumbags!

People who lost a significant amount of weight, what piece of common diet advice turned out to be complete BS? (r/AskReddit)

• Local-Copy4401: The eat small meals all day thing was total bs for me bigger meals with long breaks between them worked way better for my hunger
• Possible-Egg5864: Breakfast being the most important meal of the day. I find I personally do best just drinking coffee until lunch time. If I eat breakfast I get way hungrier throughout the day 🤷‍♀️
• Anencephalopod: The eating 5 small meals a day thing. It makes it much harder to stay in a deficit, and it becomes like 5 really small sad meals instead of 2 - 3 more satisfying ones.

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Justice Dept. admits Reflecting Pool renovation was flawed, drops case against former Olympian (r/news)

• Kaucer: The government was trying to make this man a Felon and remove his rights and they just get to walk away calling it “flawed”. Deeply unserious system we have set up here
• spottie_ottie: fucking idiots, the most embarrassing administration by 100 miles
• trout_or_dare: I guarantee the right wing podcasters are still pretending to be pissed about this and will claim from now until the end of time that the guy deserved 10 years for this.

Trump backtracks from promise to let Ukraine build Patriot missiles (r/worldnews)

• skibbin: Man famous for not sticking to agreements doesn’t stick to agreement.
• eternalguardian: Lied. Trump lied. Stop using soft language to disguise his terrible actions.
• 2-travel-is-2-live: I guess Ukraine needs to backtrack on its promise of sharing drone technology with the US.

Do you sleep with the bedroom door open or closed, and why? (r/AskReddit)

• Shoddy-Patient9948: Closed. To keep the invaders out.
• gliterellaclitorella: Closed, so the ghosts etc. can’t get to me.
• chaoslorduk: Open to allow my cat to join me in the night (He gets sad)

To anyone who made a massive amount of money very quickly: What is something you thought rich people did that turned out to be completely fake? (r/AskReddit)

• Useful_Amphibian3817: I thought rich people had some secret “grown-up” mindset; in reality most are just regular impulsive idiots with more buffer. I also expected constant luxury, but a lot of them still cheap out on random stuff and quietly stress about status.
• MommySasha34: That they all have great taste. Money doesn’t buy taste. It just buys expensive ugly things
• TRex_Chef: Spend money for attention. Most rich people are the cheapest bastards I know.

Anyone here hit reset on their career at 35? How did it go? (r/AskReddit)

• eking85: Went from being a chef to working in IT. I tell people I went from Sysco to Cisco.
• kaljr82: I did at 40 and it was exactly what I needed. Went from being a Probation and Parole Officer to getting my masters degree and now I teach Kindergarten.
• Temporary-Still1416: Just quit construction job. Will be starting a civil engineering degree in September. Let’s see how this goes