Hi, I'm Paul. I like planes, science fiction, radical politics, That Gay Shit, memes, & video games.
I've resolved to start posting more memes here.
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30 maleish bi he/him/they
Love local coffee shops. your “refugees are welcome here” sign goes really well with the one that says “bathrooms are for paying customers only”
You’ve clearly never had to deal with people doing hard drugs in the grocery store bathroom and it shows.
Bro I literally manage a coffee shop with an open restroom policy, and I prioritize enforcing that policy and making sure everyone feels comfortable. I’ve dealt with everything from the easy end of the spectrum (people quietly doing hard drugs) to a lady ripping all her hair out and setting it on fire in the sink. I clean up after this stuff day after day and I still feel VERY strongly about the fact that human beings should be allowed the basic decency of a place to poop. Yes, I very frequently end up having to kick someone out of the bathroom for doing drugs, and when I do I always offer them a cup of water on their way out. Because they’re a person and I give a shit…
It’s safer for people to do drugs in (clean) public restrooms than it is for them to do it on the street.
It’s also ableist to deny someone the use of a bathroom. There are countless gastrointestinal disorders that cause bathroom urgency and potential incontinence. There are other conditions, like pregnancy, that necessitate quick and easy access to restrooms.
also what makes you think a paying customer wouldnt misuse the toilets in some way, and a person using it without buying something would?
contrary to popular beliefs people with money do drugs, and homeless people need the toilet just like the rest of us
Having a sharps container “for medication injection” in our bathrooms has dropped the amount of needles I find in the bushes and planters down to a whole 2 in the past 4 years since we rolled them out. I used to find them so often I got in the habit of wearing cut resistance gloves in 90 degree weather in case I had to pluck napkins out of the landscaping.
I read a lot of the notes and I really can’t say enough how the “you couldn’t pay me to clean up other people’s shit” comments kinda piss me off. It is not that serious, it’s really not. You dump a bunch of Triade III on it, let it sit for 10 minutes, wipe it up.
If it’s watery you throw absorbent on it like you do throw up, we use a kitty-litter type clay based absorbent. You put a trash bag in the dust pan and sweep it all into the bag.
Takes me 15 minutes to clean an absolutely destroyed bathroom stall in a place that sees THOUSANDS of people daily. It’s a shopping and restaurant area that opens up into a nightlife location after 5pm, with some bars opening at 3pm and several restaurants becoming full nightclubs after 9pm. You pay for parking, but anyone can walk in off the sidewalk and not pay a dime and just hang out until 2am.
On a busy night I cover 3 location’s restrooms (2 venues have multiple rr) but on slow days I’m covering around 7. 7 buildings, thousands of drunks, I get a LOT of bio spills.
Our sharps containers are toolbox-looking things that hang on the wall with a flap that allows things to go in but not come out, ever (rip to like 5 phones that I know of), when full it gets closed, locked, and sent to be incinerated. I literally never touch a needle anymore. If I find one on the ground outside we have sharps shuttles which are long plastic tubes that look like giant tampons with a flip top, you put it on the ground, step on it to hold in place, and sweep the sharp into it. Takes like 20 seconds.
The answer to this entire issue is to TREAT SANITATION WORKERS BETTER not make going to the bathroom a fucking ordeal. Pay me I will clean your bathrooms, let homeless people piss with dignity!!!
Spotify Premium ad: “Imagine playing music without interruptions! Infinite skipping! Replay the song you want! And even do it offline? No ads! Whatever songs you want! For a small monthly payme-” Me: *nods, turns off Spotify and turns on my MP3 player and does all the things they offer, but for free and with songs they don’t even have*
For those of you who might not know how to do any of this:
To convert CD audio into mp3s, you just follow the steps here
To play mp3 files, you download an mp3 player like Winamp here and away you go
On mobile? There are plenty of free mp3 players for your phone available, too, so check them out
You don’t need to be tethered to an online streaming service for your music. Be free.
You can also rip audio files from youtube and find files all over the internet. It is far easier to come across great and lesser known music if you dont limit yourself to spotify.
when i was younger, you could literally put a cd into the computer, attach your mp3/4, open the files, and just drag the song files into your device files, and you’d have them.
Not because I’m scared of the dark but because I’m alone. Nighttime is my emotional low point where I’m at my most vulnerable. Where thoughts flow free and anxiety runs unchecked. I live alone and no amount of online chatting or text messaging can fill the void.
Paranoia runs rampant. Anxiety has no check. No amount of logic can quell the tsunami that is my unhealthy mental state.
Nothing can quell the tide of my anxiety and paranoia about the immediate future. But at night it is worse because I’m at my emotional low point of the day when night falls. I’m alone and I’m alone with my thoughts and fear takes hold.
Another point for why it’s important to own your own copies of music and media, and not use streaming services, is because the copy you own can’t be taken back.
(This is also a good time to remind people that yout*be to mp3 converters still exist).
And this is one of the reasons why I still own an MP3-Player + an extensive MP3 collection consisting of songs I ripped from various sources. Nowadays I mostly rip my songs from Spotify because of the audio quality. And since I’ve had people ask me how to do this in the past, here’s a short tutorial:
Install Audacity
On the microphone symbol, select either “Loudspeaker/Headphones”, “What You Hear” or “Stereo Mix”. The exact name may vary depending on your sound card but it’s usually one of these.
If you don’t see one of these, either your sound card doesn’t support it or you have to enable it first. In that case, right-click on the loudspeaker symbol in the system tray on the task bar and select “Open sound settings”. Click on “Sound control panel”, then go to the tab “Recording” and enable the device by right-clicking on it.
Click on “record” in Audacity and play the song.
Once the song is over, stop recording and click on “File/Export/Export to MP3″
I get my music ripped from YouTube. It’s allowed me to get music not commercially available, such as music from older games I like. Yeah artists aren’t being paid, but artists get most of their money from touring, not downloads and streaming so it means some big ceos aren’t getting my money. There are apps out there that are direct support of the artist and I highly recommend them
Genuinely fucking UNREAL that the CDC announced you can stop wearing a mask after you’re vaccinated as if not a single person in that process knew they were giving a free pass to every single covid denier and anti-vaxxer, as if they were not even aware those were tremendously loud movements already creating problems for everybody else, or they were aware but somehow did not connect that their one little announcement would unleash the floodgates and probably create its own surge of new cases as any piece of shit can just claim to be vaccinated and breathe their rancid breath all over every “essential worker” now forced to politely serve them anyway. For real this one mere tweet is going to get people killed and everyone even partially responsible for it should have to face some severe fucking consequences.
When your domme is getting deeper and deeper and you start thinking maybe you signed on to more than you can handle but your ego won’t let you throw in the towel
