ChickenLadyLovesLife @ ChickenLadyLovesLife @lemmy.world

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They're all here already. That's who's been propping up his real estate since the '90s.

I'd go with Hopper from A Bug's Life. I'm sure he's a huge threat to Dave Foley and Julia Louse-Dreyfus, but I ain't worried about no grasshopper, even one voiced by Kevin Spacey.

It's wild to think how much worse the air pollution situation used to be there, too, before emissions controls. Being sandwiched between westerly winds and mountains is not ideal for breathing.

Biden and Garland should’ve put throttle down on a five-alarm-fire investigation into election.

For that matter, Obama should have conducted an investigation into the 2016 election when he still had the power to do so.

Accuse your enemy of what you intend to do

It's ironic that Hitler's "Night of the Long Knives" (when the Nazis arrested and eventually murdered numerous brownshirts and their leader, Ernst Roehm) acquired that name because Hitler himself used the expression in a speech that he gave immediately after the event. In the speech, he accused Roehm of having been planning a "NIght of the Long Knives" himself, directed at Hitler and the other Nazi leaders. Quite unintentionally, the phrase came to describe Hitler's actions.

In the 2000 election cycle, electronic voting machines manufactured by Diebold used Microsoft Access as the underlying database for storing vote counts. Only techie oldheads will remember this, but in the world of electronic data storage Access was basically a toy. Access databases did have an audit table (which tracks every change made to the data), but the audit table was hand-editable.

I used to take my cat to an old horse vet out in the country. Like, he had literal horse stables for when horses would come in, and I'm pretty sure the dude was in his 90s because he'd opened his practice in the 1950s. He had to give her some medicine one time and I said he wouldn't be able to give it to her in pill form because she was very resistant to being given pills, like bite-your-brain-off resistant. He said "son, I've been pilling cats for decades; I won't have any problem giving her a pill."

He ended up needing multiple bandaids and had to give her an injection, and she was only a six pound cat. I was never more proud of her than that day.

Any attempt by the Democrats to forestall this would have allowed Trump to paint them as anti-American traitors. So the Democrats did nothing and Trump painted them as anti-American traitors.

And it's not like withholding some tax revenues would have any effect on Republican spending. Despite their bullshit "fiscal conservatism" rhetoric, they've had no qualms whatsoever about running enormous deficits for more than half a century now. A tax strike would just produce more debt and give Republicans ammo to blame it all on Democrats.

Most people have their federal tax withheld by their employers and do their taxes in order to get back their overpayment. Are we all going to not do our taxes and leave that overpayment in the government's coffers? Are employers going to stop doing the withholding? Neither scenario is very likely.

There was also the two world wars to consider in terms of horse deaths. Of course those horses died for a noble cause: helping humans slaughter each other in even larger numbers.

They say the two happiest days in a horse owner's life are the day they buy the horse and the day the horse tramples them to death.

I used to hang out with behavioral psychology grad students (BF Skinner types) who did a lot of research with pigeons. They transported the birds head-down in juice pitchers with air holes punched at the bottom; they just held the pitcher up to the cage and the bird would jump into it, sometimes so hard they would knock themselves out. They loved that lever-pressing shit - it helped that they were kept at 80% of their normal food intake to maximize the reinforcing effect of the pellets.

A person in my neighborhood still has a TRUMP LOW PRICES KAMALA HIGH PRICES sign in their front yard, albeit partially hidden behind a bush. Unremarkable except they're black and living in a subsidized housing development. You just can't make shit like this up.

A disproportionate number of them become NFL quarterbacks. Who then end up playing for the Cleveland Browns, which kills them.

Uh, is that really a "portrayal"? Dude hangs out with Jake Paul.

That's an Irish name and it's pronounced "Doug".

I bicycle past a catholic church that has a banner that says "JESUS WELCOMES YOU WITH OPEN ARMS" and a drawing of Jesus nailed on the cross. I'm like ... wait a minute, is that actually a joke? Jesus' arms are open because they're nailed to a piece of wood?

And yet having sacrificed himself, he's now back hanging out with his Dad in heaven and having a great time. That's not a "sacrifice", it's more like a bad time at summer camp.

Sam Kinison had a routine where he was pretending to be Jesus explaining why he hadn't returned yet: "yeah, I'll be back as soon as I can PLAY THE PIANO AGAIN! OH OHHHHHHHH!"