A few years ago my mother was in a rehab facility due to a car accident. Most of the people there were just elderly and in need of full time care.

I found it amusing that every single handicapped parking sign in the parking lot was bent over at a 45° angle.

In my opinion,

Plutocracy pretty much.

Ochlocracy no.

The supremely wealthy in this country have an oversized amount of control. However, that's mostly because we let them.

You only have to look at all the efforts that go into limiting voting in this country to see that voting still works. However, efforts to keep the citizens ignorant or limit their choices has effectively made the US a plutocracy.

The mob doesn't get to have much influence now beyond what the wealthy elites are willing to allow.

There are some positive signs that American democracy isn't dead, but I'm honestly not very hopeful. The vast majority of voters just want their bread and circuses.

An Ice pack or cool, wet cloth on the back of the neck can cool a person down quickly regardless of their menstruation status.

Bleeders?

The piece missing from Idiocracy that makes it a comedy and not a prediction: an educated, wealthy class that profits from the ignorance of the people.

I've never understood the weirdness.

When my wife and I were dating in high school, she was over at my house on her period and leaked through her pants. I got her clothes to change into, got out the Shout, and washed and dried her clothes.

The alternative would have been ending the date, which made no sense to me.

Gen X was born closer to world war 2 than to today

Damnit, I didn't need to read that this early in the morning.

The only thing that bothers me about buying feminine hygiene products is all the boxes look the same to me. There's 10,000 options, and all I have is a small, blurry picture on my phone that doesn't quite match any of them.

However, that's more related to the struggle of working someone else's grocery list.

Also, since it wasn't said, "Learn Powershell in a month of lunches" is available as a free pdf download.

The looks you get when you tell your contractor you want plaster, not drywall.

They had to find a guy who still knew how to do plaster walls when we redid our bathroom. He was well past retirement age.

Absolutely unfun semi-related fact:

Sometimes when one eye is injured, the injured eye has to be removed or your body will decide the uninjured eye is bad and your immune system will destroy it.

Sympathetic Ophthalmia

If the injured eye has no chance of recovery, they scoop it out.

Yeah, the immune system can be moronic. Intelligent design my ass.

However, there's something extra special about getting poked in one eye and having your own immune system decide that an eye for an eye means your good eye has to die.

The trouble with having the world's tiniest violin is you can never find it when you need it.

Chess.

Maybe for flower beds, but it's not good to use contaminated fertilizer for food crops.

Emperor of the North

My immune system pisses me off constantly.

It let COVID through three times despite me rigorously keeping up to date with the vaccines as much as possible, and at the same time it has destroyed my thyroid gland and it has declared cherries and peaches as terrorist infiltrators.

I feel like if my immune system is so bored it needs to attack harmless things, I should never have to deal with any actually harmful thing.

It's like a cop that beats up an unarmed teenager, but hides when someone is shooting up a school.

The fascists still believe we can vote or eat out of it, it they wouldn't be working so hard to break voting.

After they were bought out there were a lot of reports of scams and ripoffs.

People still buy from Newegg?