USPS will never text you unless you have your account set up that way. My mom sends me these texts asking if they're legit, and I always ask, "Did you order something?" No. "Well, then why would you have a delayed package?"
Again, USPS will not text you like this, and they use a .gov domain.
The cops you can look up that save lives and help people,
Which police department let that shooters murder their town's school children are you referencing when you say "save lives?" Because I distinctly remember dozens of cops, armed to the teeth, sitting idly hy while children were murdered down the hall by a lone gunman.
How many lives did those brave, life saving cops help? Or should we discuss George Floyd, were those cops just saving his life when they responded to a call about a counterfeit $20 and took a man's life?
Or did you mean the countless sex workers that police have "saved" from the streets by arresting them and giving them criminal records? How many lives are the police saving by fucking prostitutes "fOr ThEiR jOb" during undercover stings and arresting them?
Tell me, how many lives were saved during the BLM protests where police met unarmed, peaceful protesters with weapons of war, decked out like they're invading fucking Fallujah?! Go ahead, I want a fucking number of lives that have been saved by police attacking peaceful protesters, I'll fucking wait.
Every single cop is a bastard, full stop. They're class traitors who hide behind "protect and serve" so they can beat and abuse minorities and kill with impunity.
Tell me, where are all the good cops calling for an end to qualified immunity so all the bad cops can finally be filtered out? Where are all the good cops calling for department settlements to be paid out of the department's pension fund instead of the town/city budget, paid for by taxpayers?
Where are all the good cops calling for police funds to be diverted to other public services, which would alleviate some of the work burden on police? Cause any time I've heard talk about police budgets, it's often them complaining that the town is giving $15,000/year for transgender services instead of giving that money to the police and their $1 billion budget.
Where are all the good cops calling for the police to be disarmed, or to be barred from purchasing surplus military equipment? Where are all the good cops when warrants are illegally issued and no-knock raids are carried out?
Tell me, where were all the good cops telling the world to "say her name?" How many police from the St. Louis PD have come forward and disavowed their coworkers who shot and killed Breonna Taylor while she was sleeping in her bed?
I don't recall the PA Fraternal Order of Police ever apologizing for using a black child as a propaganda piece during the BLM protests, but then again, the whole department is full of good cops, I must just be misremembering. I do vividly remember that Philadelphia PD dropped fire bombs on apartment homes, burning down a neighborhood block, so were they good cops too?
I'll answer for you: they don't exist. Once you put on that badge, the only race you care about is your fellow Thin Blue Coward folks. Cowards who couldn't cut it in the military, so they have to LARP as soldiers against their own population to feel like they're contributing to society in any meaningful way. Cowards who need guns and military grade equipment to feel "safe" against peaceful, unarmed protestors while they exchange hand shakes and coffee with armed fascists attempting to do peaceful protestors harm.
So is that what makes the cops good cops, that they stand in solidarity with fascists and tell them they "really appreciate those guys and their help?" Or is that just more "good cop in the background doing good cop things" that I must be completely unaware of?
Or is it the fact that cops kill over 1,000 Americans per year, and over 10,000 dogs per year, is that what makes them good cops, killing family dogs because it's too much effort to try and deescalate a situation? You're right, that makes them saints! Especially all the nonexistent good cops I hear criticizing their cohorts about these practices (this is a joke, there are no good cops, and none of them have ever criticized any of their fellow officers behavior).
But keep licking the boot of people who would have zero problem curb stomping you and then charging you for damage to government property for bleeding on their boots. All those BS photo ops, like the Chief of Police who knelt with protestors after the George Floyd protest who then went on to talk about how we need to just arrest and put away these "animals" in warehouses where we'll let a generation die, and then once all the "problem people" are gone, Amazon can turn them into warehouses.
Clearly there are just a plethora of good cops, you're right, it's completely unfair to criticize them for anything I've listed above, I mean, they're not doing anything to change any of it, so that makes them good cops, right? Or are you just implying that a cop giving a kid a lollipop during a photo op makes up for all of the atrocities committed by police?
Edit: And to be clear, I'm a veteran who never saw combat but also doesn't pretend to like these fucking badge wearing snowflakes, and I also say this as a grandchild of a retired cop and cousin to a potential state trooper and former Marine.
All cops are bastards, don't wanna automatically be a bastard? Don't be a cop.
The last time I went to the doctor was over a year ago, and it was because my mouth/throat was in so much pain I called my friend, who lived 30 minutes away, and begged her to come take me to urgent care while bawling my eyes out.
The initial nurse that comes in is this dude, and I hate male medical professionals when I'm male-presenting: it's like this fucking machismo bullshit. He's trying to do the thing where they swab your throat or are just looking back there, and he's asking me to open wide, and I'm trying but I'm in excruciating pain and apparently couldn't open wide enough.
So he drops his hands in this exasperated/annoyed gesture and goes, "C'mon man, it's not that bad, open up."
I lost it. "Get the FUCK out of this room and send the actual fucking doctor in here! How dare you tell me I'm not in fucking pain when I can't fucking swallow or breathe without tears welling up! Get the FUCK away from me, NOW!!!!" Funnily enough, my mouth was open plenty wide after I lost it on him, and he scurried out the room as soon as she got his swab.
Woman doctor comes in a few minutes later, sees me bawling my eyes out while my friend is comforting me. Doctor doesn't give me any shit while she's examining me, and turns out, I had a serious infection behind my tonsils, not strep like douchebag kept telling us it probably was while telling me to "man up."
Doctor gave me some steroids and told my friend that my, "throat was in really bad shape," and that she was putting in a rush order for antibiotics at the pharmacy. I was to take the pills immediately when we got home, and again roughly 4-6 hours later (this was around 4 o'clock).
She ended our visit with, "Listen, if you take the second pill around 10, and if you're not feeling any better by 10:30, you need to go to the ER for emergency surgery, those tonsils are gonna go septic." But "c'mon man, it's not that bad." 🙄
The pills worked, I survived, but my blood boils just thinking about the whole situation and how comfortable that dude was in his attitude towards patients in pain.
Minus the 2+ weeks they take for the holidays.
Correct: I have had two jobs where I only worked 32 hours/week, but was considered a full time employee with benefits and all that.
However, just because your employer considers you full-time doesn't mean other organizations will. When I was getting my mortgage, it was with one of those 32 hr/week jobs, and my loan company would not sign off on an approval until I could show a paystub with 40 hours/week.
I told them I'm considered full time at my company at 32 hours, and they basically said that's great, but their policy is 40.
Just got a commission to make a charcuterie/cutting board for a friend of my brother's.
Beyond that, little gifts for friends/family that are long overdue, most notable being a rosary bead holder for my mom.
This troll... How big we talkin'?
And do we need to worry about him trying to get in muh boy's soul?
Can I construct a new, small bridge, every day, and throw my poop off of it?
Like, what is the definition of a "bridge" here, because if it's just a structure going over a deep space in the ground, can I just dig a big whole in the backyars and then, as I said, build a new one every day?
Follow up if "yes": can you reuse building materials, and if so, where's the Ship of Theseus line where it's no longer a "new" bridge?
Funny way to apologize to someone for unjustly calling them a Nazi.
Edit: Eh, I'll just save us both the headache (moreso me) and drag is blocked. Bye drag and the victim complex you hide behind, from this nAzI to you.
Still waiting for my apology.
Might take some playing around with, but I've managed to get it down to where my joint kinda smokes like a cig when I use my lil rolling machine. Lots of trial and error (and playing around with different brands of papers and such), but I got there.
If you've ever smoked pipe tobacco, you're probably familiar with the 3-compress rule for packing the bowl. First you fill it to the top and press down with the same force you'd use to shake a baby's hand. Then refill and compress with the force you'd use to shake a woman's hand, and then a refill and the force of shaking a man's hand.
When I pack the flower in, but before I push some aside to make room for the filter, I only use a woman's handshake and a baby's handshake to compress it all, and my joints tend not to canoe or go out too often.
Regardless, I hope everything works out for you and it continues to help your arthritis.