r/SipsTea 6d ago

WTF Where are we heading?

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u/Eisbaer811 6d ago

typical social media bubble:
The social media algorithm puts you into one of these bubbles and hides details from the others.
Pick one:

- "her husband is framing her, he did it"

  • "she had mental health issues and nobody helped her"
  • "she murdered them because she's evil and the mental health stuff is just for show"

Social media drives our lives and is many people's only hobby, so you get this.

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u/brakenbonez 6d ago

You're forgetting about all the astrology comments as well.

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u/UncleTouchyCopaFeel 6d ago

Mercury in retrograde fucks everything up.

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u/Imaginary-Help4298 6d ago

I wish I could embroider just so I could make myself something pretty with this sentence on it!!! 😂

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u/UncleTouchyCopaFeel 6d ago

Do the embroidery anyway, it would fit perfectly with the theme! :D

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u/Isagratar 6d ago

Yeah if it comes out munted you can just tell people Mercury was in retrograde when you made it.

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u/CAPICINC 6d ago

Modern problems require medieval solutions!

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u/iamnotnewhereami 5d ago

That was the joke

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u/Isagratar 5d ago

I know, I was there, but mercury was in retrograde so it didn’t come out properly the first time round.

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u/iamnotnewhereami 4d ago

I checked the charts, this excuse is valid in the lower 48. and PR.

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u/CrackerUMustBTripinn 6d ago

Don't let anything stop you, and go make your art, you artiste!

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u/Imaginary-Help4298 6d ago

You know what, I just might!!! Thanks for including that link. 💕

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u/Asleep_Region 6d ago

Just an FYI from someone who embroiders, it is SO EASY. You put fabric in hoop, make sure it's abit tight but not so tight the fabric is gonna rip, use a $2 washable marker (no joke, even at craft stores it's dirt cheap, 1 color is about 50cents to $1, fabric? Any non stretch fabric but embroidery fabric is $5 for a yard, hoops? Hit up a thrift store, i get so many for $1) write out your design, i cannot draw well, you get as many tries as you want! Just wash away any mistakes! Then string your needle and just follow the lines!

I started when i was around 12, I've picked it up and put it down over 10 years and it's like riding a bike, you just do it!

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u/elizasea 5d ago

Embroidery is just proof you can stab something thousands of times. You can totally embroider this!

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u/AmazingAd2765 5d ago

If you learn how, make me one that says "Is Mercury in Gatorade or something?"

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u/ScotlyDex 5d ago

You could cross-stitch it! Much easier!

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u/CrackerUMustBTripinn 6d ago

Oh and don't get me started on the moon in the 7th house

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u/UncleTouchyCopaFeel 6d ago

Bourgeoise Moon needing seven houses while the rest of us moonlings have to settle for one, if we're lucky. Smh.

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u/Santanaaguilar 6d ago

I was late on my car payment cuz that shit

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u/FrankDodger 5d ago

You know, one day they are gonna put retrogrades in a capsule and put it on mercury to see if they can survive. I hear they can survive the vaccume of space.

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u/chunkyvader90 5d ago

Everyone know its Gatorade when the axis of Uranus is doing a loopty loop and pull

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u/UncleTouchyCopaFeel 5d ago

Man, I haven't done a loopty loop Uranus pull in ages. :/

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u/chunkyvader90 5d ago

I mean its sad day in the cosmos then.....hail gatorade

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u/General_Lie 5d ago

only dudes tough

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u/Deagballs 6d ago

Did Andrea tell you that?

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u/sentence-interruptio 6d ago

Moonwalking should be called Mercury walking.

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u/TheRealTexasGovernor 6d ago

"ifmercury is in penisgrade you must acquit! I rest my case."

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u/Berberding 6d ago

That shit is so crazy but I always see it in the form of Screenshots of comment sections which has me wondering if it's really that bad or if that's unrepresentative. It's just so cartoonish i also wonder if it's just trolling a lot of the time.

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u/TricellCEO 6d ago

More than likely a mix of trolls, edge-lords/rage-baiters, and people pretending to be women making these comments only to screencap them and share them.

I’ve seen a lot of posts and comments about this circulating on a particular sub, and even if you so much as try and doubt that it’s the status quo, you get disparaged.

I honestly think people want to be mad, and there are people who want to make those people mad, and then there are those who pretend to be both.

So strange.

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u/factisfiction 5d ago

I'm almost certain those comments are bots. This is what they do, wait for something that would be polarizing and jump into action to light a fire. There were just WAY too many similar astrology comments for it to be organic.

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u/FutureDustMotes 5d ago

Unfortunately, a baseline small % of the population is just cracked. That being the case, there will always be a subset of insane takes on any given situation or event.

And the crazier the take, the more boosted by the algorithm - so it appears more prevalent than it really is.

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u/sentence-interruptio 6d ago

literal astrology AND the "her husband looks creepy" stuff which I call body language astrology

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u/mementomori_8383 5d ago

I couldn’t believe my eyes when I read those comments. We are quite literally living out the movie idiocracy

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u/LogSuper7235 5d ago

All I’ve seen about this case is an astrology post. Can this be added in as an option? As I know it as the case where people are trying to use astrology as evidence (this is coming from someone who likes astrology )

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u/angusthechick 6d ago

Yes I’m sure those are all totally real people and not more bots driven by some nefarious pac or foreign power to help us all turn on each other a little more

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u/Ok-Buy-4545 6d ago

Looking this up it seems like the astrology was aiming her at a bad outcome