ChickenLadyLovesLife @ ChickenLadyLovesLife @lemmy.world

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My parents watch PBS Newshour and are very anti-Israel because of what they're doing to Palestine. One night, PBS ran a piece about how Israel's PR was labeling any criticism of Israel's action as "anti-semitism" and my folks were naturally incensed by this. The very next night, PBS ran a piece about the statistically increasing occurrence of anti-semitism in the world - without any discussion of just the possibility that much of that increase is due to criticisms of Israel being labeled as anti-semitism. My parents, of course, were then incensed about all the anti-semitism.

I used to work for a cable company whose name rhymes with "bombast". Our iOS app was barely rated above one star, with many reviews along the lines of "I gave this app one star because you can't give an app zero stars". Bombast regularly sent out company-wide emails requesting employees to download the app and give it five stars. I don't know exactly how many employees they had but it obviously wasn't enough to make a dent in the awfulness.

They had also just won the Consumerist "worst company in the world" contest (while being the runner-up the two years prior), and they sent out emails telling employees to download that spreadsheet and vote for any other company. Thank god for BP and Deepwater Horizon!

I enjoy using "you can't solve problems with your mouth".

I just realized Ike was our last (openly) bald President.

make people love even the filthiest of things

This is why Karl Rove's nickname was "turd blossom".

Don't forget the bridge-residing trolls, splitter!

At this point, even if we just get the same shit from a different asshole (which we would), I'd be happy to see conservatives turn on trump. It would just be so satisfying.

Fun fact: that event (Hitler's 1934 purge of Ernst Roehm and the brownshirts) got the name "Night of the Long Knives" because Hitler used the expression (which dates to the middle ages) in a subsequent speech to describe what he alleged Roehm had been planning against Hitler and the Nazi leadership. Unexpectedly, journalists and historians used the expression to label Hitler's actions.

an election that at this point doesn’t matter either way

It distracts from the one before it and the one after it.

Writing bug-free code?

Everybody have fun tonight ...

Lol "landed". We are fucking desperate for drivers. So desperate that one of our drivers totaled two cars in one day last year and didn't even get suspended.

One thing I actually liked about my last company was that our team-building events involved great food, copious amounts of alcohol, and edibles. True, I had to bring the edibles myself, but nobody complained.

Don't leave Fetterman out of your list. He castigated his fellow Democrats for daring to call Trump a convicted felon, saying we're supposed to be the party of "forgiveness and redemption".

Republicans have been targeting the fifth grade level for decades now. Trump's innovation was targeting the third grade level.

Karoline Leavitt. How dare you misspell her name like that? Ks are very important to these people - she only needs two more.

Man, I'm used to not believing his quotes are real, but I wasn't expecting to not believe a pic of him was real. That's really him! Guy probably hasn't seen his own penis in years.

I briefly had a Windows Phone circa 2010 and it had fantastic sound. It even had a little folding stand so the speakers could be uncovered.

there once was a time that when boomboxes were pretty common

I'm from the boombox era. They fucking sucked way harder than people playing music on their phones, because they were way louder. The music was better at least, although I didn't appreciate that at the time. Nowadays I love hearing old-school hip-hop out in the wild.

I just did one of my 50 mile rides this morning on a bike trail, and I passed a bunch of people with their phones mounted on the handlebars, watching videos of some sort. Like, I guess I could see having a GPS app open, but watching videos? Why the fuck are you even out here? Get a stationary bike and be safe at home at least.

Many people riding and walking on the trail are playing music through their phone speakers instead of using earbuds. It's somewhat less annoying since you don't have to be around them for long, but it's still annoying.