BranBucket @ BranBucket @lemmy.world

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Dude, me too, and I would kill at it.

Sadly, based on skills and the job market where we're at, I can make more working.

Wallace. Wallace probably doesn't give a fuck anymore, and once you gain his trust, is going to say some hilarious shit as a result.

The longest standing argument between myself and my family is about the color of my mother's very 1950's bathroom.

They say it's battleship grey.

They're wrong. The tile and most of the fixtures are a dull, dusty light blue. Only the marble around the sink is a true grey color, which is why it looks so obviously out of place. The room gives me fits and no one else can see it.

It's a feature, not a bug. Part of the plan all along. If it weren't for the charges getting dropped, I'd say it's the whole plan.

He rants about the FDA suppressing things big pharma can't patent... Did they not develop and patent these?

Yup.

One headline after another about how much trouble Trump was getting himself into by pulling stunts like this, and little to no consequences for it.

I got a sneaky suspicion that the "Liberal Media" actually loves him. They can make millions on low effort rage bait headlines for the next four years.

That and self-promotion. Never forget that people like him have a pathological need for attention. It's pure speculation, but I can imagine that when buying Tesla and promoting it as his own, he expected that he'd be hailed as a savior by those concerned about the climate. When the cracks started to show and the people began to rightfully critize him, he pivoted to another group of rabid fan boys. I would hazard a guess that as long as he gets a steady supply of money and praise, he doesn't really care about any of the issues he's currently championing, he just needs someone to make him feel popular. You'd almost pity him, except for the fact that he's willing to fuck over millions just to feel better about himself... so fuck Musk.

Absolutely. Musk and RFK look uncomfortable, Junior barely knows where he is as usual, and Trump looks relaxed and pleased. You know exactly who's idea this was.

It's once again time for me to chime in and recommend "Amusing Ourselves to Death" by Neil Postman. The man was a prophet.

A rather astute observation found in an unlikely place, and one of my favorite move lines of all times.

The ship was built as simply as possible and fueled with the precise amount needed for it's weight, there was nothing else to jettison besides the young woman. The plot was intentionally structured around an impossible scenario because the editor of the magazine the story originally appeared in wanted to subvert the "engineer action hero saves the day with a clever idea" trope that was common when it was written. The heavily contrived scenario is the weak point by most people's estimation, but overall the writing is well done and characterizations are very good.

The story bugs a lot of people due to the total lack of any safety margin for such an important mission as delivering emergency medical supplies. A guy named Don Sakers even wrote a rebuttal called The Cold Solution that was meant to point out a few things the original story overlooked without the idea of a bare minimum ship being changed.

I'm no psychologist or sociologist, but it seems that most of the people who treat their kids this way had kids because of external expectations or for status. They treat their kids like property or as an extension of themselves. Raising them to be cis no matter what is not about their child's well-being, it's about how having a trans child makes them look in the eyes of their bigoted, greedy, status-seeking, peers. When their kids come out as trans, they see this as a personal attack on their place in the pecking order.

In general, they treat even their cis children like shit, because they don't think of their children as people, children are just assets in what they think is some kind of cosmic dick measuring contest.

It's incomprehensible because it's pathological and generally sick.

He knows. He knows it's bullshit. He doesn't care that it's bullshit. It gives him and people like him more power, and that's all he cares about.

I had intended the 'Carry on' as a sort of friendly valediction, but this was a fun bonus.

Well, that's certainly a unique approach to dealing with a national crisis. Carry on.

And I suppose you're the only one of those around, right? So why tear into people about the state of the US if, by your own admission, it's probably a lost cause? There have to be better ways for you to kill time until the end.

Good lord, they absolutely would have gone with her.

Now who's being defeatist?

I live in deep red country, and work in a deep red career field, a lot of today's Trumpers have never forgiven Obama for being black, popular, and competent. They took it personally. Harris is going to mobilize the fuck out of them.

I think she's the right pick, I think she can govern well, I'm voting for her 100%. But the Dems need to be prepared. This was a dammed if you do, dammed if you don't situation for them. But replacing Biden isn't even a fraction of the work they're gonna have to do, and AOC is on point for speaking up about it.