A poor and thinly veiled attempt by internet service providers to keep costs down and limit services by blaming users for using "too much bandwidth", despite receiving billions in government subsidies meant to expand and improve national internet infrastructure, but which were instead maliciously pocketed by internet service executives.
Customer: "How the fuck am I over my monthly data cap?"
Internet Service Representative "If you would just look right here in the contract you signed, we can arbitrarily fuck you over by making up whatever numbers we want. And we don't care if we get caught because whatever penalties we pay is a tiny fraction of the profit we make from our illegal schemes."
When people become economically desperate, and fraud, scams, cons, and grifts become common.
"No one has any money left and everything costs too much. Watch out for scams and keep to yourself."
"Too late. I helped some old boomer pick up her groceries and she accused me of damaging them. She demanded I pay for them or she would call the police. What has our country become? It hasn't just gone adrift, it's gone agrift."
To recognize when something supposedly legitimate is actually fake.
"This product seems good. It's got a perfect 5 stars, might as well buy it now. Also, did you see this latest counterfeit scam?"
"All those reviewers have only one review on their profile and it's only for that product. Also, that article is from a satire website. Learn to fakespot."
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When people play the victim card and bend over backwards to be as offended as possible when they really aren't. Using hissy fits, political correctness, character assassination, and a false sense of moral authority, the outrager hopes to gain power and public recognition for their brave act of justice as well as a sense of control over their meaningless existence. Often accompanied by demands for financial compensation for their "pain and suffering".
"Why do we have warning labels that say 'Contains peanuts' on peanut jars and 'Contains milk' on milk cartons? Can't we just go back to using common sense instead of having to litigate everything in fear of lawsuits?"
"We only have the outrage culture to blame."
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The traditional browsing of reddit while taking a poop.
krashmo: Wow.. I haven't laughed that hard in a while. It made my reddit poop quite a bit more interesting.
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A tool used to keep people satisfied with not knowing how much they are being fucked over.
"America is the greatest nation in the world. It's perfect and nothing needs fixing. It literally can't improve! I already have the best possible lot in life."
--American one lost paycheck away from homelessness
"American Exceptionalism is the best! I can pay my workers poverty wages, and they won't even do anything about it because they don't know any other way of living! Let's make sure things stay that way."
--American Billionaire
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Tentacle porn where the victim or victims are willing participants, thus giving consent for sexual intercourse with said tentacles
Tentacle porn is great, but consentacles are the best!
I wouldn't mind having some hot consentacle sex right now.
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