Posts by Kyle Nelson2

Everything is just sliding backward at this point

coastalwalker9 said:Personally, I think most people just need a little love and attention. 🙂
Do you really believe everything starts at home?
If things are stable at home—if parents are attentive, caring, understanding, yet firm when necessary—and if a child spends quality time with their family and friends, do you honestly think a random advertisement can turn them into an idiot?
Sure, it might distract them or fill their head with nonsense for a moment, but once they realize something feels off, they'll find their way back to reality.

smart girl

Mind Your own business

Larry Walker24 said:Can someone please give me an actual definition of what trolling even is? I’m starting to feel like every second person on here is just a troll, and honestly, the mods seem to have zero clue how to actually define it.

Given how people are getting slapped with those 25-point penalties for trolling, maybe they should just change the wording to "being an absolute nuisance."

You’re seriously underestimating just how much Stockholm Syndrome the average American citizen has developed...

Interesting idea, I guess... but what's actually in it for us? What are the prizes?

🕺

So, you're thinking about borrowing money from someone just to cover you until the month is up?

Look, if you're in construction, there's plenty of work coming up in the next month, whether it's over in Chicago or down on the coast... and with that new site opening up in Austria on July 1st, there’s bound to be even better paying gigs available.

If it isn’t self-censorship, then it’s just straight-up censorship by certain moderators who demand that users prove every single thing they find online is true. Even if you actually provide proof, they just move the goalposts and find some other excuse to keep censoring your posts.
Plus, when I—in my specific case—express views that directly clash with what a moderator thinks (like in the Politics sub), those posts just get nuked.
When I ask why something was deleted, I either get a) absolutely nothing back, or b) a response that sounds more like a gutter argument than a moderator. A moderator should have some vocabulary, some tact, and actually understand their role instead of acting like... well, something else.

Self-censorship isn't even the biggest issue here, because Reddit isn't the only place to vent. I know plenty of regular users—successful people, if you want to call them that—who just don't bother posting anymore..

So, you’ve got this completely dysfunctional woman jumping into these toxic relationships—if you can even call it a relationship when it’s just sex driven by pure greed. At the same time, she’s keeping some guy on her friend list just so he can sit there and pity her life instead of actually dealing with his own...

She gets the cash for an apartment, he gets the sex, and what do you get?

dustyheron5 said:What an idiot—the validity period on these passes is way too long. They should shorten it to 24 hours, just so the entire country does nothing but issue passes for the next day.

I knew he was incompetent, but he manages to surprise me with a new level of ineptitude every single time.

He and "his" police force are the primary reason we’re in this mess; so many people have been bypassing isolation protocols—everything from those tourists coming in from Turkey to the endless crowds of skiers from Tyrol and other resorts.

I guess when all you have is a hammer, everything starts looking like a nail...

offtopic:
So, uh, what's the UK actually like? Like, do you spend much time hanging out in the pubs there or what?

Amy Gonzalez30 said:Word on the street is the Ministry of the Interior is going to take over the whole thing and start issuing these new permits with unique codes.

I lose faith in every single Police Minister.

Maybe we need the Democrats... but they’re out here pushing ideas about year-long mortgage moratoriums instead of actually doing anything useful...

Nicholas King said:Honestly, the Secretary of the Department of Justice shouldn't even be uttering a sentence like that—not even at a private family dinner.

I don't see what the big deal is...
I mean, I'm almost looking forward to when the loyalists for the ruling party head out to visit relatives for Easter. They'll realize they need a road trip, and instead of seeing their families or eating Easter eggs, they'll just be glued to the TV watching some calm Prime Minister explain why staying home is the only dignified way to act, supposedly for our own long-term good.
And hey, elections are coming up at the end of the year.

#svakaRitDojdeNaŠekret

Edit: Jokes aside, I think this is pure idiocy. We have a population roughly the size of California.

I mean, how many people actually died in which country? I guess I’m always going to be putting a question mark next to that kind of stuff.

Jessica Booth48 said:Just for context, some places have thousands of people per square mile, while my town has maybe thirty. Now we have to spend our time justifying to these local sheriffs why I need to drive to the next county just to pick up my prescription... as if they suddenly gained some kind of divine authority overnight. Nobody is asking for permission to stroll through malls or hang out in public squares; we’re talking about basic necessities. In small towns like ours, we're effectively under lockdown, even if they don't call it that.

To me, this whole restriction thing feels like pure bureaucratic bullying against regular people. It’s mostly born out of total incompetence from the government, paired with opposition parties that are even more clueless.

I said this a long time ago—everyone who tested positive or was told to self-isolate (whether they traveled back to the US or were just exposed) should have been put in hotels. Those places are sitting empty anyway.
We would have had 10,000 people in actual quarantine, and the rest of the country could have functioned normally. Instead, what we have is this half-baked quarantine that might be okay for a month, but staying like this until June is total nonsense.

If we had actually put those 10,000 people under supervision in hotels, we wouldn't be seeing these incidents where parents take their kids to the doctor instead of isolating, or those 800-plus people getting caught breaking quarantine... but I guess then the government would actually have to put in some effort to organize housing. Instead, they just write fines and dump all the responsibility on the other 300 million Americans to just rot at home.

I honestly want to know how they expect to handle cases where someone actually has to leave their county.
It could be anything—seeing a specialist, an emergency dentist visit, pregnancy complications, or even going to a funeral for a close relative...

Bureaucrats have decided that life just needs to stop, and anyone who pushes back gets labeled an enemy of the people because, hey, they're "just trying to save lives."
And another thing, why aren't they testing more people? Everywhere else, everyone has to wear masks... EVERYONE!!
Not here. What, are they cutting corners on healthcare now? Are they expecting people to pay the price for their cheapness? People are going to start voting with their feet, just like they always do...

fadedranger162 said:Honestly, major props to you for sending this out. And seriously, huge respect to whoever actually had the guts to say that stuff right then and there. Everyone loves to point fingers and act like all of China went into total lockdown, but they’re conveniently forgetting that those strict quarantines were only happening in one or two provinces. The rest of the country was still grinding away just so everyone else could keep living their lives like nothing was happening.

I can't even begin to process this. 👍 I honestly don't get why people are fighting so hard against increasing the number of tests. Like, seriously? And don't even get me started on our testing capacity. It’s absolutely mind-blowing that we only have three labs—counting both the government ones and private outfits—in the entire country capable of handling this. To make matters even worse, one of those three is currently sidelined because they're missing some essential equipment. It's a total mess.

Look, maybe we can’t squeeze in any more testing right now, but honestly? We can just spin that to sound better by saying we’re running at absolute max capacity. If we frame it that way, it sounds productive. Otherwise, it just looks like they’re dragging their feet on the job we’re all paying them to do.

It’s like people are totally ignoring the upside of that approach. If you actually find out how many people are infected right away—even if it’s just a rough estimate—you can get them isolated immediately. That’s how you actually slow the spread. Once you've got a handle on that, you can finally loosen up some of those suffocating restrictions so life can actually start feeling normal again.

Those little number cards they use at places like Plodin? Total mystery to me too. Like, seriously, why is it such a massive struggle to just track how many people walk through the door and head out? It’s not rocket science.

I mean, you see those YouTubers who have been posting about their lives over in Shanghai, right? It’s pretty obvious from what they're showing that all the other provinces were under lockdown too. They just didn't call it a quarantine. I guess they just chose different words for it, maybe.

Adam Collins4 said:Look, there are some of us who spent three or four weeks at a time out in the Appalachians or near the Rockies back in the '90s—while snipers were popping off and grenades were flying all around us, much to the delight of the local kids...

And we did it without any connection to our families... because technology basically didn't exist, and I won't even get into the other reasons for that...

But you people? In this era of high-speed internet, smartphones, and endless apps, you think being alone for a little while is some kind of crisis...

If things actually got real—if you had to dodge the police or bust through blockades—you’d be running.

I agree, there's no point in this debate. You honestly have no clue what actual shit looks like—especially when your mother or your wife is waiting at home, praying you actually show up alive...

Or what it feels like every single time you say goodbye before heading to a post where you won't be back for weeks...

Or going back out into the field for the first time after being wounded, trying to deal with the chaos in your own head while watching your mother refuse to let go of your hands...

There are things you haven't experienced, and you should just thank whatever Bog you believe in that you didn't have to.

This is a minor issue that can—and must—be fixed...

Nobody said it would be easy, but the sheer amount of pathetic whining here is getting a bit much... especially considering everything modern technology provides.

What's the actual difference between your stories and those tales soldiers used to tell their kids just to teach them discipline?

Back then, there was always just a small group of people on the front lines while the rest of the country tried to live as normally as possible.

Right now, it feels like the entire country is stuck in the trenches on the front line.

Adam Collins4 said:But you aren't even complaining about the economy—you're just upset because you can't go see someone...

That is a completely different issue; the economy is moving along as well as it can...

But, since you brought up the economy...

If the government shut down all the potential hotspots—restaurants, bars, various shops and small businesses—and limited how many people can be in places like grocery stores, pharmacies, or repair shops, then why on earth are they allowing people to travel dozens of miles and potentially spread the virus?

Are you guys seriously not watching what's happening in the UK, Spain, or France?

This isn't about being heartless; it's just how things are right now...

They locked down their states. They shut down Lombardy, which has like 10 million people, but they did it everywhere else too.
Down here, they basically locked down every tiny little town... that's just a totally different situation.

Lawrence Reed3 said:Yeah, Jane Doe, it's probably best to just stay quiet and not go bragging about anything.
Personally, I think it's kind of a drag that I got put in isolation because of work, especially since my chances of actually getting sick are super low.
Now I'm just sitting here wondering how I'm going to justify missing work, since my job isn't exactly something I can do remotely.
I guess I'm just worrying too much—it's not like I'm under house arrest or in prison, so nobody's actually out there trying to limit my freedom.

You basically *are* under house arrest; it's just that instead of the police ordering it, the CDC did.