GooberEar @ GooberEar @lemmy.wtf

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I already mentioned it: I firmly believe that if there's any chance of stopping this mess, it's going to require working together and finding common ground with everyone who has been harmed, regardless of voting history, political affiliation, morals, and rationale. Divided we fall. We've already seen how being divided works out.

My experience with Pandora's music recommendation is similar to yours. Pandora's stations are significantly better at introducing me to new music that I like and playing older music that I prefer than any of the other common music services that I've tried. It's night and day, honestly and makes me wonder why/how Spotify and Apple (among others) can be so terrible at it for so long. Pandora has basically always been great at that one thing.

I have family members who moved from state to state around 20 years ago until they found one that would approve their disability statuses so they no longer had to work and would qualify for the whole smorgasbord of government assistance programs including medicaid.

They think most people who are receiving these benefits are just lazy and that there would be more money for people like themselves who need that money if these programs were slashed. They believe only those other (i.e. lazy) people will lose benefits.

There's literally no reasoning with that mentality. They seem to think this is all entertaining.

I guarantee you that once they are personally affected, and I'm pretty sure they will be affected at some point, they'll turn on this administration.

I have many problems with this, but the hardest pill to swallow is that I'm going to have to be the bigger person and accept them with open arms because at the end of the day there's no stopping this unless we're all united.

Plus an extra 2000% of your RDA for mercury!

Personally, I don't think this is all that weird, but I like cold leftovers. My preferred breakfasts are things like cold pizza, cold mac and cheese, cold mashed potatoes, etc.

For some reason, my friends and family think it's gross and they always say things like "I don't know how you can eat that cold."

Home made potato chips and ketchup are a really good combination. I've tried it with different brands, styles, and flavors of store bought chips and it's okay-ish when I'm in the mood. I've never tried to eat them like a bowl of cereal, though.

Here's the deal. If Kamala had won, the C-word people would be 100% blaming it on her. If inflation had cooled, the C-word people would have been praising Trump and giving him 100% of the credit. But since Kamala didn't win and inflation is up, it's all Biden's fault according to the C-words.

And truth be told, under NORMAL circumstances, it would be too early to place much blame on the new president. But that's the thing, these aren't normal circumstances and a lot of blame does fall on Trump.

For one, he literally promised that he'd tackle inflation on day one. Now, any reasonable person knew that was a lie, but when a leader makes that kind of statement and fails to deliver, the blame falls on that leader.

But mostly, we knew the circus was coming to town, so reasonable people took steps in preparation for the chaos. These numbers are a reflection that the circus delivered. Even if things ultimate end up getting better, chaos and instability are not good for the average American, and this is a reflection of that.

Hunger Games reject villain, IMHO

I just hate what's being done to the Palletstinians.

Makes you wonder why so many people want to go fishing in this spot to begin with.

Why not make it an even 100 billion is what I would ask if I were uninformed, which I am, so it's what I'm asking.

JD VANCE has now entered the chat.

I live in a solidly conservative area and I heard a surprising but also encouraging conversation this morning at the doctor's office.

When I walked in, there were a handful of folks in the waiting area and they were talking supportively of JD Vance, so presumably conservative voters. It was off putting for me and I was immediately a bit irritated that I can't even go to the doctor without having to listen to this bullshit.

But as the conversation continued, they actually started talking about how super wealthy people worth hundreds of millions aren't paying their fair share of taxes, how they're ruining towns and making middle class people pay for it, and things like that. Specifically they were talking about some of the environmental damage done to waterways by rich people (they mentioned someone specific but it wasn't a name I am familiar with and I don't recall what it was) and how the clean-up is being paid for by middle class tax payers.

So, while we might all disagree substantially on a lot of topics, I think a disdain for super wealthy / elites not paying their fair share is some common ground to build on.

Nice. Now can anyone find the original image so that I can actually see what's going on? Very hard to make out anything behind the layers and layers of compression, recompression, screenshots, and compression again.

Call it lame if you will, but I would love to see him lean more into the surreal but supernatural side of Art. Like a modern Freddy Krueger from Nightmare on Elm Street 3 and on. Let that fucker emerge from a balloon. Have him inject a victim with cotton candy until they explode.

Something I find fascinating about this photo is that, aside from the pink azaleas, this photo looks like a scene you might find in some higher elevation parts of the USA Appalachian mountains.

With the price of furniture these days who can afford to sit anymore?

Well, it's subversion of the common trope where the giant group of angry bad guys circle round to watch as they each fight the protagonist one-by-one. Like the gargantuan army of White Walkers that suddenly lined up to take on Jon Snow one at a time.

No, she was just upset that you were wasting all that time grooming yourself instead of spending it more appropriately on things like petting her.

Gosh, this is so stunning and shocking. Never would have seen this coming, I mean, he doesn't even look like an antifa drag queen.