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7 months agoWell, it’s mostly private surveillance so it’s ok. Muh property rights and all that.
Thing bad when gubment does it. Thing good when corporation does it!
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I got a write-up for sitting on an SCO machine for all of 2 minutes when it was a ghost town in the store. Got called into the manager’s office and they showed me the footage.
It was surreal. Creepy as fuck. A reminder: we’re watching you.
Sometimes I stand around and look at the cameras, point at them even. I’m watching, too.
Work in retail. The amount of cameras is downright dizzying. Sometimes more cameras than people.
Warning ⚠️: Nasty Images, Creepy Crawlies
A lot of folk will never know they have bed bugs - the only indicators being blood from squashing them in one’s sleep, filth in their nests, blood from their fecal matter, and their eggs.
For me, I’ll know I have them when my skin looks like this after sleeping.
It is the itchiest thing imaginable. So much worse than mosquitoes or other insect bites, in my experience. When they bite, it feels like an electric shock. I’ll jolt, scramble on my bed looking for the villain, only for their ridiculous speed to make it impossible to catch them in the act.
I get paranoid even thinking about them. If I feel what feels like a bite, I won’t be able to sleep. I’ll spend all night lifting up my mattress, my bed frame, looking underneath everything, opening every vent, and checking every corner. They’re sneaky as shit, though, and can prove almost impossible to find. Worse still, they’re amazing climbers.
If you see stains like this on your sheets or pillows, be wary. You likely squashed a few of the monsters in your sleep.
They can hide anywhere. I don’t have pictures of it, but my parents had doors with grates/vents on them, and they were stained dark red and brown from the bed bug infestation. They can get in your outlets, too.
Imagine a blissful night of sleep being interrupted by this thing crawling on the back of your neck. I picked one off of me and I swear I was stunned. I started squishing the fucker in my fingers trying to figure out what the hell it was before throwing it across the room. In hindsight, I should have flushed it down the toilet. It probably would have survived, regardless. The bastards survive almost anything, especially bug sprays specifically marketed towards killing them.
Don’t let the images or my descriptions make anyone reading paranoid. It feels like even mentioning the words “bed bug” is enough to manifest them into existence, sometimes. You probably know if you have them. If you’re worried, be on the lookout for stains like those in the spoiler, and cylindrical off-white tubes about the size of a pen’s tip. Kill on sight, and show no mercy. They will show you none.
Thanks for the advice. My parents constantly get them, making it nigh impossible to spend the night at their house.
I swear it was so bad when I lived with them it horribly exacerbated my unaliving tendencies. They’re cursed little monsters (I’m allergic, too!) and the world would be better off if they were annihilated imo.
omg
This is a joke, I think. I think it’s kinda funny in a really fucked up kinda way lol.
I mean, he talks about using the momentum he’s gained here to literally reverse Brexit , and claims he wants a “new lover” who looks like his dead wife. I really hope it’s somebody running a really long joke.
I’ve taken to calling it (voting for the Other Guy) harm redirection. That is perhaps still too charitable a take.
tw: gr**ming
spoiler
I remember as a youth (think 10-12) I had multiple online “relationships” with people who outwardly told me they were 20, 24, 30, 19… etc. etc. This was on WoW and IMVU.
Some of them knew I was 10-12. Others thought I was 15.
I also had some pretty good online relationships that I look back on both fondly and cringily… with others my own age.
What’s the difference?
I would not say without a fight. The Finnish Whites massacred the Finnish Reds (…and by extension anyone at all thought to be sympathetic to workers).
https://www.marxists.org/archive/serge/1930/year-one-sa/finland2.html
The victors massacred the vanquished. Since ancient times class wars have always been the most frightful. There are no more bloody and atrocious victories than the victories of reactionary classes. Since the blood-bath inflicted on the Paris Commune by the French bourgeoisie, the work had not seen anything comparable to the horrors of Finland. From the first shot of the civil war, “belonging to a workers’ organization in White territory meant arrest; to have been an official in such organization meant execution. The massacre of socialists reached such proportions that it ended by interesting no one.” At Kummen, where 43 Red Guards fell in battle, nearly five hundred persons were executed! There were “hundreds” executed at Kotka, a town of thirteen thousand inhabitants. “They didn’t even ask their names; they just led them away in groups.” At Raumo, according to a bourgeois newspaper, “five hundred prisoners captured on May 15 got the punishment they deserved the same day.” “April 14 in Toeloe, a suburb of Helsingfors, two hundred Red Guards were killed with machine guns … The Reds were hunted from house to house. Many women perished.” At Sveaborg the public executions were set for Trinity Sunday. In the neighborhood of Lakhtis, where the Whites took thousands of prisoners, “the machine guns worked several hours a day.” “On one day alone two hundred women were killed with dumdum bullets; pieces of flesh flew in every direction.”
31·11 months agoIt’s unwise to assume truth regarding breaking news, especially when it’s continents away. We mustn’t so quickly forget the “Russian bombing” of Poland that wound up being a Ukrainian misfire. Panic damn near caused WW3.
comrades of the sea 🐋
I will say I work in a very dangerous or crime-heavy location, so we have to deal with cops a LOT. An obscene amount. There is a rather arduous process involved… store management needs to be there to grant access, a warrant is required, etc.