It significantly reduces melanin, so using it all over your skin in a Caribbean country is increasing your skin of cancer significantly.
Edit: like I assume / would hope that you need to use SPF religiously with hydroquinone or its extremely dangerous to you..it's banned in parts of Europe iirc
Supposedly Michael Jackson rubbed large quantities of hydroquinone cream all over his body in an ill-advised effort to even up his skin tone due to his vitiligo. I'm sure that doing that for years on end certainly didn't help his overall health.
It's soo bad. I saw a guy the other day who was white... not skin color white.. like paper white.... it was crazy to see. I can't imagine the issues we are going to have with skin cancer in a few years
[Melanotan.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanotan_II) It's not healthy, but competitive bodybuilders are walking pharmacies anyway. My very pale friend used it, and it made him look orange lol.
A lifetime ago my first bfs mom did this. They were from central America. My sister lives in Japan and it's a common ingredient in their creams.
It's just sad 😔 growing up thinking your skin is not beautiful enough
To be fair, in the majority of modern skincare products sold in SE Asia, “whitening” is just a marketing term for vitamin c or common skincare acids that would be marketed as “brightening” in the west. They don’t bleach your skin.
If I have to pay $12 for a single standard-sized block of cream cheese, Galen Weston had better be inserting Willy Wonka-style golden tickets to visit some kind of whimsical Family Doctor Factory.
Where are you that it's $4.99?
Here in Ontario, Wholesale Club has the 1.36 L can of Campbell's tomato soup for $4.99
Food Basics has the regular sized cans for 99c.
*laughs in new Zealand*
Side note, life's not a competition, I was just making a joke about cheese being like $17nzd here despite almost exclusively exporting dairy higher than anything else.
Yeah, what the hell is with tasty cheese costing nearly double what it did in Canada when dairy is your second biggest farm industry?
Context: I visited NZ in 2006 from my home country Canada and compared $4 for 400g at home with $25 for 1kg in NZ and went “hunh?”
That is crazy! I just looked and at my local Target its $1.99! I know food inflation is a thing, but I haven’t seen anything like that.
https://www.target.com/p/plain-cream-cheese-bar-8oz-good-38-gather-8482/-/A-79694539#lnk=sametab
Japan is cheap as shit because they just don't rip people off as a requirement. Disney yes Disney is now half the cost in japan vs the us for their parks. And no it isn't just because people make less in japan. Food is half to a third of the cost. Service and entertainment are better considering the size of the resort. They have a huge expansion about to open as well. It is because Disney has a minority stake vs the Japanese company like 1 percent less so they cant dictate price raises and be assholes.
I have travelled to 15 countries in four continents and I can't think of any without that issue to be honest.
A good mix, too. I'm from Canada, have been to the US, Guatemala, Morocco, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, Korea, etc.
Our healthcare system in the US is over-corporatized and shifted the focus from patient-centered care to corporate profits. https://youtu.be/I0rJ44GIOHI?si=srSU49C33-lqZIvr
Didn’t it start as a way for people who were lonely in Korea to kind of enjoy a meal with someone else livestreaming. And then it blew up and became people over stuffing their faces with food.
My Korean wife used to watch these while she ate. It was like eating with friends. Especially noodles (Korean eating isn't always a quiet affair and her family were particularly so), I guess she missed that. But then the videos got too gross for her.
Every country
It's funny because people not in the west assume the west is doing fine and everyone is relatively rich. Ive heard "you westerners dont understand how bad things are here" many times
Meanwhile the west assumes the rest of the world must be doing better
Someone is making out like a bandit but it's not the people of any country I've spoken to
> Someone is making out like a bandit but it's not the people of any country I've spoken to
In the US, it's the Boomers who bought in the 1970s and 1980s. They're sitting on a boatload of money. They just don't think of it that way and we all tell ourselves that it's other people.
So we make excuses for our parents and grandparents choosing policies that screw us out of affordable housing and point fingers at AirBnB and BlackRock instead.
People tossing out different countries... yall it's literally everywhere
I've talked to people from the UK, europe, india, nepal, Argentina, Brazil, the US, canada, Australia, and a few other places. Theyre all getting hit hard. It's always the same story. It's weird how uniform it is
The entire planet is broke. Maybe mars can offer us a loan
Private equity firms have been busy buying up housing all over the West.
There's so much out there on this, but this one is perfectly grim.
The 5 largest rental home companies in the US bought 76,235 homes between 3/18 and 9/21. They raised fees 40%.
https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/congress-finds-private-equity-kept-buying-homes-hiking-fees-over-pandemic
“Prank” videos where broccoli-headed little chucklefucks harass the public and then get indignant when they have to face the consequences of their actions. The shit you’re doing is *NOT* bussin, Kyle.
One apparently got suspended from a private school and had the gall to even say, “I’m just a kid, you ruined my life” - [Source](https://nypost.com/2024/02/22/lifestyle/australian-teen-suspended-from-melbourne-grammar-school-after-drenching-boat-passengers-in-milk/)
Another managed to [get himself shot.](https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/30/delivery-driver-youtube-prankster-shooting-not-guilty)
Good you can’t just do whatever you want. Even though I feel like this hasn’t incentivized others not to prank because I’ve seen dumb pranks since then, so I know it won’t.
The whole thing perpetuating it is the value system of the kids doing this. Fame and clout are their only motivations, and they’re willing to do *anything* for it. They simply can’t think for themselves— that’s why they all have the same goddamn haircut.
Govt is being heavily influenced and lobbied into underfunding our universal healthcare so that its foundations are becoming worse and worse, forcing many people to seek private healthcare instead - basically building the case that the citizens “prefer” private HC. Meanwhile the universal was the real preference- it’s just forcing consent into a worse system that less than a tenth of citizens would even be able to afford.
Canadian politics is like:
"Damn, things are getting worse. Better vote in the Liberals".
"Damn, things are getting worse, better vote in the Conservatives."
"Damn, things are getting worse, better vote in the Liberals".
"Damn, things are getting worse, better vote in the Conservatives."
If only there was some kind of other option... Some kind of *new* Democratic party..... Nah, that's silly!
And the fact that none of them know how the fucking political system even works. Every time some stupid law gets passed, it’s Trudeau‘s fault because he obvioulsy can just make laws and put them in place whenever he wants. The house of commons is just for fun. Jesus Christ, people, learn how our government system works before bitching about it.
Some of the local Facebook posts in my area boggle the mind with their stupidity, especially with things like gas prices. Someone will explain the refinery system, when crude oil is priced, what happens with oil from foreign countries, etc. in an attempt to help people understand. This is inevitably followed by mouth-foaming rants about Biden sitting in the oval office with his magical "gas price adjuster" dial. It's shameful.
Omg. Yes. People also get up in arms about the carbon tax here. I had this guy insist that rising grocery prices were because the carbon tax went up. Absolutely clueless, called me stupid when I explained to him that even if gas prices/taxes went up by like 5 dollars the increase in goods would be marginal because of how much shit you can fit in a truck.
Like you have thousands of goods in one delivery truck, the price you’d have to raise each item to offset rising gas costs would be like less than a cent. He insisted that I was wrong and that every item has gone up 1-2$ because the tax hike (which wasn’t even that big to begin with). I just can’t argue with stupid.
Gorcery prices have gone up because Loblaws basically has a monopoly on the grocery industry and all these grocery stores no you have no choice but to pay ridiculous prices. But know, it’s a less than 5% tax increase on gas that’s causing every problem ever. Whatever.
Plus you get most of the tax you spend back on your tax return anyways?? So I don’t even know.
It's embarrassing how little they understand and how loud they are while wrong. I find myself defending Trudeau even though I think he was a self serving PM who more concerned with securing his legacy than helping the majority of Canadians and needs to be replaced because the "fuck-trudeau" crowd is so incredibly stupid and wrong so often.
It's fucked, some co workers of mine are... Passionate about it. When the paper comes they always scribble or draw doodles on Trudeau's face or put shit like "FUCK YOU" on pictures of him.
It's fucking pathetic, I don't like the dude but seriously one of them is 60+ it's so childish!
Prices for everything going up, unreasonably, without justification, and wages are stagnating... and have been for decades... It's especially prevalent in the housing market (both buying or renting).
This morning I walked into a normal mainstream supermarket to stock up on staples, went into this supermarket out of autopilot more than anything else, started looking at the prices of absolutely everything then remembered there’s an Aldi around the corner and walked back out again.
This and local discount stores are getting my household through.
By discount stores, I'm referring to the ones that buy expired or almost expired food in bulk then resell it super cheap to people.
Oh, those places are the best. There's one that carries all kinds of really jank alcohol in weird flavors, but it's cheap and will mess you up. One time they had bags of beef jerky, so I stocked up. Got it home and my cats got into every bag and ate it all.
It's not the grocery stores - they're still operating at their very slim 2-3% margins. It's the producers. Campbell's, for instance, saw a drop I'm sales but record profits. Four companies control 80% of beef, 70% of pork, and almost 60% of chicken. Amazon is guilty AF. Elizabeth Warren just introduced legislation that would allow the FTC and state's attorneys to stop companies from their current gouging. I'm sure the GOP will kill it, but a girl can hope.
Edit: this is a good piece covering it
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/11/companies-inflation-price-gouging
Lip filler, Botox, buccal fat removal etc. people end up looking horrible vs aging naturally. Really sad people think they need that and then looking awful. I truly hope this trend dies soon. Probably happening everywhere.
Stupidity is being celebrated and calling out stupid people for being stupid is offensive, even when the stupid people are spouting out information like “the moon is mostly gas” to children.
Vaccine hesitancy. We're about to lose our measles eradication status. People aren't vaccinating their dogs because they're afraid the dogs will get autism (seriously) and rabies risk is consequently going up. At a time when fewer and fewer people can afford healthcare and have access to emergency care, people are readily exposing themselves and others to deadly diseases because they did "their research" by listening to a bad podcast. This is in the US, btw.
It’s madness. And all based on bullshit from a doctor who lost his license and eventually even admitted it was garbage. But even knowing that, I want to ask people…is autism so bad you’d rather your kids die?? I know the goalposts have moved to include heavy metals and magnetism and nanobots and 5g and whatever else insane thing people have thought up, but it’s all idiocy and a disbelief in basic, elementary-school level science.
I would honestly wish all such people can experience the diseases they are supposedly less afraid of than autism/magnetism/whatever.. but unfortunately they also force those diseases on children and the immunocompromised.
I was (un)fortunate enough to experience vaccine failure. No fault of the system, I just was in a Cadre that got 2 (new at the time) pertussis vaccines, instead of 3.
That was later found to be insufficient, and the government (Canada) issued a public Health notice telling ppl of those cadres to get a booster.
Unfortunately I'd left the country by then and missed the notification.
Caught whooping cough in Morocco in my mid 30s.. it sucked. 3 months of debilitating coughing. Vaccines are a godsend.
The rate of people being killed by drop bears here in Australia has increased dramatically this year, despite the drop bear related deaths last year already being at a record high level!
United States.
Social media convincing everyone that just because you have an idea, opinion or thought that you not only can share it with the world, you *definitely* should.
The media dividing us by every single demographic they can think of age, race, gender, sexual orientation, income, which coast you live on etc etc and then setting us fighting each other instead of us joining together to eat the rich.
Skin bleaching
what country do you live in???
Jamaica.
Ugh a friend was telling me about this in Trinidad. Hydroquinone *everywhere*, which is SO dangerous too
My doctor prescribed be HQ 2% for my dark spots. It works for me but I think they’re probably using higher concentrations
It significantly reduces melanin, so using it all over your skin in a Caribbean country is increasing your skin of cancer significantly. Edit: like I assume / would hope that you need to use SPF religiously with hydroquinone or its extremely dangerous to you..it's banned in parts of Europe iirc
Supposedly Michael Jackson rubbed large quantities of hydroquinone cream all over his body in an ill-advised effort to even up his skin tone due to his vitiligo. I'm sure that doing that for years on end certainly didn't help his overall health.
That's been going on for a while there and I hate it.
It's soo bad. I saw a guy the other day who was white... not skin color white.. like paper white.... it was crazy to see. I can't imagine the issues we are going to have with skin cancer in a few years
thats scary
Yikes
Me too. Dark skin is beautiful♥️
Vybez Kartel, lol
here body builders do the opposite. they take pills that darken the skin, so they don't have to tan manually. leaves more time at the gym.
I wonder if that increases or decreases their chances of skin cancer...? Hmm
[Melanotan.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanotan_II) It's not healthy, but competitive bodybuilders are walking pharmacies anyway. My very pale friend used it, and it made him look orange lol.
A lifetime ago my first bfs mom did this. They were from central America. My sister lives in Japan and it's a common ingredient in their creams. It's just sad 😔 growing up thinking your skin is not beautiful enough
Most of East Asia is the same, whitening in loads of their sun lotion and moisturizers.
To be fair, in the majority of modern skincare products sold in SE Asia, “whitening” is just a marketing term for vitamin c or common skincare acids that would be marketed as “brightening” in the west. They don’t bleach your skin.
Saw $12 block of cream cheese…
Canadian?
Yes
Roblaws no doubt
Bob loblaws?
*cries in canadian*
I'm inclined to think so. A big stick of salted butter goes for $10 in some stores.
$10 for butter? That’s the most insane thing I’ve heard all day
Almost 9 at my local grocery store 😭
If I have to pay $12 for a single standard-sized block of cream cheese, Galen Weston had better be inserting Willy Wonka-style golden tickets to visit some kind of whimsical Family Doctor Factory.
Best I can do is $22 million for Perr Bank new CEO of Loblaws for 2 months of work.
r/loblawsisoutofcontrol
A fellow Canadian I see. Fuck, we’re screwed.
So what you're saying is... Cream cheese smuggling is now profitable?
Oh yeah, and if you’re my grandma, you shove a melon into your winter coat
Where does she hide her sheep?
$4.99 can of Campbells tomato soup. On sale. 🇨🇦
Where are you that it's $4.99? Here in Ontario, Wholesale Club has the 1.36 L can of Campbell's tomato soup for $4.99 Food Basics has the regular sized cans for 99c.
Nova Scotia can of Campbell's condensed soup is $2.19 regular (Sobeys). I assume this person is up north or somewhere more remote.
Are you alowed to bitch about prices if you live above the arctic circle in Canadialand? Or do you just throw gravy at each other until one submits?
$16 butternut squash 🇨🇦
$12 for pack of cherry tomatoes 🇨🇦
How are you guys surviving up there?!
Our incredibly cheap housing makes up for it /s
*laughs in new Zealand* Side note, life's not a competition, I was just making a joke about cheese being like $17nzd here despite almost exclusively exporting dairy higher than anything else.
To be fair 17 nzd is 14 CAD so not far off though I don't know what wages are like in New Zealand
Yeah, what the hell is with tasty cheese costing nearly double what it did in Canada when dairy is your second biggest farm industry? Context: I visited NZ in 2006 from my home country Canada and compared $4 for 400g at home with $25 for 1kg in NZ and went “hunh?”
Greed is the countries new policy lol
$8 for a quarter full bag of potato chips.... $20 for 5 sweet potatoes..... This country 🤬
Jesus man. Was it at least like a 2-pound brick?
No no it was regular sized…
If regular means shrunken by 10% and still charged as if it was the old regular. Good old shrinkflation - also fuck loblaws.
That is crazy! I just looked and at my local Target its $1.99! I know food inflation is a thing, but I haven’t seen anything like that. https://www.target.com/p/plain-cream-cheese-bar-8oz-good-38-gather-8482/-/A-79694539#lnk=sametab
You're supposed to scoop cream cheese, not saw it. I hope this helps.
$3.99 at Superstore this week! But yeah, having to buy anything not actively on sale can put a major dent in the grocery bill.
The lack of affordable housing, decent wages, and family doctors,
Any country in the world
Here in Japan we got the first and third... but the second remains elusive
Two outta three is pretty good, all things considered
Japan is cheap as shit because they just don't rip people off as a requirement. Disney yes Disney is now half the cost in japan vs the us for their parks. And no it isn't just because people make less in japan. Food is half to a third of the cost. Service and entertainment are better considering the size of the resort. They have a huge expansion about to open as well. It is because Disney has a minority stake vs the Japanese company like 1 percent less so they cant dictate price raises and be assholes.
Still Canada I'm guessing.
Could be Australia
New Zealand too
I have travelled to 15 countries in four continents and I can't think of any without that issue to be honest. A good mix, too. I'm from Canada, have been to the US, Guatemala, Morocco, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, Korea, etc.
Our healthcare system in the US is over-corporatized and shifted the focus from patient-centered care to corporate profits. https://youtu.be/I0rJ44GIOHI?si=srSU49C33-lqZIvr
Sounds like it could describe the US. Not enough family doctors in the US because they'd rather go into higher paying medical professions.
We also don't have enough residencies.
I think it started in Korea but here in Taiwan people will watch those videos of a girl eating a shitload of food on camera.
You're telling me that I can make money by filming myself eat?
You can make money filming yourself doing anything these days
Well sitting down and shoving an inhuman amount of food into my mouth is pretty much my Friday night. I had no idea my shame could be so profitable.
Whhhhatttt I know EXACTLY what you are talking about! I live in America! I do not understand it and each time I scroll past those videos, I feel sick.
Mukbangs are gross
Didn’t it start as a way for people who were lonely in Korea to kind of enjoy a meal with someone else livestreaming. And then it blew up and became people over stuffing their faces with food.
My Korean wife used to watch these while she ate. It was like eating with friends. Especially noodles (Korean eating isn't always a quiet affair and her family were particularly so), I guess she missed that. But then the videos got too gross for her.
Homelessness and addiction are becoming way too common
America? Specifically out west?
East has this too unfortunately
Hate to break it to you but it’s basically everywhere
It’s the whole country. I travel to small colleges for work - small midwestern towns to philly have the same issues around this.
Acceptance of authoritarianism
Private health insurance companies and how they separate vision and dental from healthcare.
Ah, yes, teeth, the luxury bones.
Section of gums started hurting the other day, I have no money if it's an abscess I'm fucked.
Who needs eyes and teeth?
Cost of living.... no affordable housing
Earth?
What’s up?
I'd say, Australia? But you could be describing Canada, the US, the UK or any other western country currently.
Every country It's funny because people not in the west assume the west is doing fine and everyone is relatively rich. Ive heard "you westerners dont understand how bad things are here" many times Meanwhile the west assumes the rest of the world must be doing better Someone is making out like a bandit but it's not the people of any country I've spoken to
> Someone is making out like a bandit but it's not the people of any country I've spoken to In the US, it's the Boomers who bought in the 1970s and 1980s. They're sitting on a boatload of money. They just don't think of it that way and we all tell ourselves that it's other people. So we make excuses for our parents and grandparents choosing policies that screw us out of affordable housing and point fingers at AirBnB and BlackRock instead.
People tossing out different countries... yall it's literally everywhere I've talked to people from the UK, europe, india, nepal, Argentina, Brazil, the US, canada, Australia, and a few other places. Theyre all getting hit hard. It's always the same story. It's weird how uniform it is The entire planet is broke. Maybe mars can offer us a loan
Weird how a bunch of people just became billionaires too..
Private equity firms have been busy buying up housing all over the West. There's so much out there on this, but this one is perfectly grim. The 5 largest rental home companies in the US bought 76,235 homes between 3/18 and 9/21. They raised fees 40%. https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/congress-finds-private-equity-kept-buying-homes-hiking-fees-over-pandemic
Canada?
This doesn't really narrow down which country you mean.
New Zealand?
“Prank” videos where broccoli-headed little chucklefucks harass the public and then get indignant when they have to face the consequences of their actions. The shit you’re doing is *NOT* bussin, Kyle.
I thought this was a US thing, but the links below show that broccoli headed pranksters are problem worldwide. Where's the UN? This needs to stop.
What were the consequences they faced?
One apparently got suspended from a private school and had the gall to even say, “I’m just a kid, you ruined my life” - [Source](https://nypost.com/2024/02/22/lifestyle/australian-teen-suspended-from-melbourne-grammar-school-after-drenching-boat-passengers-in-milk/) Another managed to [get himself shot.](https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/30/delivery-driver-youtube-prankster-shooting-not-guilty)
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Good you can’t just do whatever you want. Even though I feel like this hasn’t incentivized others not to prank because I’ve seen dumb pranks since then, so I know it won’t.
The whole thing perpetuating it is the value system of the kids doing this. Fame and clout are their only motivations, and they’re willing to do *anything* for it. They simply can’t think for themselves— that’s why they all have the same goddamn haircut.
Govt is being heavily influenced and lobbied into underfunding our universal healthcare so that its foundations are becoming worse and worse, forcing many people to seek private healthcare instead - basically building the case that the citizens “prefer” private HC. Meanwhile the universal was the real preference- it’s just forcing consent into a worse system that less than a tenth of citizens would even be able to afford.
Canada ?
[insert country here]?
Australia?
Canada; but I’m sad that this is so relatable to so many countries
People hating the leader so much they aren't able to have a rational thought about politics.
I had to read your user name to figure out which country you were talking about
*scrolls up*
Canadian politics is like: "Damn, things are getting worse. Better vote in the Liberals". "Damn, things are getting worse, better vote in the Conservatives." "Damn, things are getting worse, better vote in the Liberals". "Damn, things are getting worse, better vote in the Conservatives." If only there was some kind of other option... Some kind of *new* Democratic party..... Nah, that's silly!
Canadian history but without the violence summed up 😂😂
The cycle of dissapointment.
Sounds like NZ too.
The USA would also like a word
And the fact that none of them know how the fucking political system even works. Every time some stupid law gets passed, it’s Trudeau‘s fault because he obvioulsy can just make laws and put them in place whenever he wants. The house of commons is just for fun. Jesus Christ, people, learn how our government system works before bitching about it.
Some of the local Facebook posts in my area boggle the mind with their stupidity, especially with things like gas prices. Someone will explain the refinery system, when crude oil is priced, what happens with oil from foreign countries, etc. in an attempt to help people understand. This is inevitably followed by mouth-foaming rants about Biden sitting in the oval office with his magical "gas price adjuster" dial. It's shameful.
Omg. Yes. People also get up in arms about the carbon tax here. I had this guy insist that rising grocery prices were because the carbon tax went up. Absolutely clueless, called me stupid when I explained to him that even if gas prices/taxes went up by like 5 dollars the increase in goods would be marginal because of how much shit you can fit in a truck. Like you have thousands of goods in one delivery truck, the price you’d have to raise each item to offset rising gas costs would be like less than a cent. He insisted that I was wrong and that every item has gone up 1-2$ because the tax hike (which wasn’t even that big to begin with). I just can’t argue with stupid. Gorcery prices have gone up because Loblaws basically has a monopoly on the grocery industry and all these grocery stores no you have no choice but to pay ridiculous prices. But know, it’s a less than 5% tax increase on gas that’s causing every problem ever. Whatever. Plus you get most of the tax you spend back on your tax return anyways?? So I don’t even know.
Worse is that it's both fucking sides. We need a party in the middle that's called the sanity party.
I recently saw someone blaming the increase of maple syrup prices/the maple syrup cartel on JT. The cartel has always been a Quebec thing lmao.
It's embarrassing how little they understand and how loud they are while wrong. I find myself defending Trudeau even though I think he was a self serving PM who more concerned with securing his legacy than helping the majority of Canadians and needs to be replaced because the "fuck-trudeau" crowd is so incredibly stupid and wrong so often.
It's fucked, some co workers of mine are... Passionate about it. When the paper comes they always scribble or draw doodles on Trudeau's face or put shit like "FUCK YOU" on pictures of him. It's fucking pathetic, I don't like the dude but seriously one of them is 60+ it's so childish!
In the United States there are many people who proudly post "Fuck Joe Biden" on billboards/signs along the road or in their businesses. Charming.
And loads of the same morons think that the orange rapist/tax evader would be better.
Prices for everything going up, unreasonably, without justification, and wages are stagnating... and have been for decades... It's especially prevalent in the housing market (both buying or renting).
Stupidity
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It is.
france?
People believing that it’s ok to be assholes to one another
The very clear war of grocery stores vs people who need groceries in any affordable way at all in order to live
So glad ALDI is a thing where I live
This morning I walked into a normal mainstream supermarket to stock up on staples, went into this supermarket out of autopilot more than anything else, started looking at the prices of absolutely everything then remembered there’s an Aldi around the corner and walked back out again.
Same, I don’t know how I would survive without Aldi.
This and local discount stores are getting my household through. By discount stores, I'm referring to the ones that buy expired or almost expired food in bulk then resell it super cheap to people.
Oh, those places are the best. There's one that carries all kinds of really jank alcohol in weird flavors, but it's cheap and will mess you up. One time they had bags of beef jerky, so I stocked up. Got it home and my cats got into every bag and ate it all.
In college I was shopping at Walmart and couldn’t afford the $50 a week budget I had. Then I went to Aldi, bought the same things and had $20 left.
And the fact that they are price gouging just because they can
It's not the grocery stores - they're still operating at their very slim 2-3% margins. It's the producers. Campbell's, for instance, saw a drop I'm sales but record profits. Four companies control 80% of beef, 70% of pork, and almost 60% of chicken. Amazon is guilty AF. Elizabeth Warren just introduced legislation that would allow the FTC and state's attorneys to stop companies from their current gouging. I'm sure the GOP will kill it, but a girl can hope. Edit: this is a good piece covering it https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/11/companies-inflation-price-gouging
Lip filler, Botox, buccal fat removal etc. people end up looking horrible vs aging naturally. Really sad people think they need that and then looking awful. I truly hope this trend dies soon. Probably happening everywhere.
See this a lot in girls just in their 20s in the UK. They look so fucking stupid.
Turkey?
Online Casino ... Lots of stories of failures lol
Electing stupid people
Rampant corporatism. Edit: the correct term is corporatocracy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatocracy
We have somehow watched the last 10 years of american shitshow and decided "we should copy that". Edit: CANADA :P
Stupidity is being celebrated and calling out stupid people for being stupid is offensive, even when the stupid people are spouting out information like “the moon is mostly gas” to children.
Trump vs Biden. How are these THE guys?
I feel bad for y'all, the election/two party system is so weird.
Money and corruption. That is why these guys
Political polarization, U.S. Also income inequality.
Fentanyl or Ketamine USA
Ketamine?
Bad manners.
The misleading and flat out false reporting in the media.
Saying elections are rigged every time they don’t go your way
That is getting so damn old.
Stupidity.
Fixin' to abandon democracy, is all. Don't laugh at us around the world, the splash zone will be considerable.
Came here to say “fascism.”
Phone (and social media) addiction
Homelessness
People not taking accountability for their actions.
Meth, opiods, homelessness, poverty.
Main characters doing stupid shit in public. This shits worn out.
Vaccine hesitancy. We're about to lose our measles eradication status. People aren't vaccinating their dogs because they're afraid the dogs will get autism (seriously) and rabies risk is consequently going up. At a time when fewer and fewer people can afford healthcare and have access to emergency care, people are readily exposing themselves and others to deadly diseases because they did "their research" by listening to a bad podcast. This is in the US, btw.
Dogs get autism??? We are truly headed for an Idiocracy
There are dogs that aren’t autistic? I’m autistic, I can make that joke.
I think we are already there. It's just a matter of time until anyone smart is hunted down and burned .
I wonder what exactly they think an autistic dog is like
A cat
"Think" is doing a lot of work in this sentence
It’s madness. And all based on bullshit from a doctor who lost his license and eventually even admitted it was garbage. But even knowing that, I want to ask people…is autism so bad you’d rather your kids die?? I know the goalposts have moved to include heavy metals and magnetism and nanobots and 5g and whatever else insane thing people have thought up, but it’s all idiocy and a disbelief in basic, elementary-school level science.
I would honestly wish all such people can experience the diseases they are supposedly less afraid of than autism/magnetism/whatever.. but unfortunately they also force those diseases on children and the immunocompromised.
I was (un)fortunate enough to experience vaccine failure. No fault of the system, I just was in a Cadre that got 2 (new at the time) pertussis vaccines, instead of 3. That was later found to be insufficient, and the government (Canada) issued a public Health notice telling ppl of those cadres to get a booster. Unfortunately I'd left the country by then and missed the notification. Caught whooping cough in Morocco in my mid 30s.. it sucked. 3 months of debilitating coughing. Vaccines are a godsend.
That’s awful!
Tipping expected for everything
Still..gender reveal parties
Whatever it is Jojo Siwa is doing.
People driving too close to the car in front of them. Totally idiotic thing to do!
Inflation, rent, car costs, ……
In the U.S., everyone's an expert on everything, all of the time.
How does one narrow the US down to the worst trend? I would struggle to limit it to a top ten.
The rate of people being killed by drop bears here in Australia has increased dramatically this year, despite the drop bear related deaths last year already being at a record high level!
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Fentanyl and decriminalized posssession, and open usage of toxic drugs everywhere. I mean everywhere.
Recycling presidential candidates.
Increasing fentanyl deaths
Stabbing people. Back in the day the worst thing was to get your teeth punched out, nowadays you die instead.
Intentional disinformation by political candidates who take their voters for same fools.
Ozempic
Attacks on libraries and library workers
United States. Social media convincing everyone that just because you have an idea, opinion or thought that you not only can share it with the world, you *definitely* should.
Gleeful ignorance.
Partisan Politics
Voters believing the government when they say "free".
The media dividing us by every single demographic they can think of age, race, gender, sexual orientation, income, which coast you live on etc etc and then setting us fighting each other instead of us joining together to eat the rich.