Got_Bent @ Got_Bent @lemmy.world

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Of all possible outcomes including but not limited to losing the election and going to prison, people ignoring him will be Trump's biggest nightmare.

Next up: a full congressional investigation into Wikipedia

This is that God damned Clinton's fault. It was his administration that overextended the reach of the federal government to hinder the freedom of globetrotting American pedophiles!

Obligatory /s

This comment along with the description of her whip as "tactical" took me down a small Google rabbit hole, and I can't figure out what makes a particular weapon (or in some cases a flashlight) "tactical".

The definition of tactic is a plan or action for achieving a goal; a maneuver. So would a leather whip have no goal while a metal one does?

It sent a fundraising email

Trump's response to everything, good, bad, indifferent, or wildly spun

Yeah mine was 1980. Didn't know they kept it in that long!

And suddenly Maine sees a huge spike in solar and wind installations.

I remember when I was a kid, the Guinness book of world records had an entry for most cigarettes smoked at once. There was a picture of a guy with a whole bunch of cigarettes stuffed in his mouth smoking them. Great reading material for kids back then.

This is what I got. I see the difference. This is with no tossups.

Real clear politics still has trump with 297 electoral votes. Long way to go. I certainly like how things have been trending lately though.

I thought we were talking about Buzz Armstrong. Guy was so fast he changed his last name to Light-year.

Hoofta.

Not that I need to tell anybody here, but if there's an arena with bigger egos than politics, it's academia. I'd pay money just to watch the carnage.

Eighty not eight. I didn't even typo that.

About ten years ago I got a ticket for an illegal u-turn as the sign prohibiting it was about the size of an index card so I didn't see it.

I acted genuinely surprised when she told me why she pulled me over and shrugged my shoulders like oops. Ok you got me.

She proceeded to try her damnedest to find something else to stick me with including the fact that I had purchased my vehicle while living at one address while my license reflected a different address where I had moved. It's illegal to not update your address on your license, so she thought she had a gotcha, but I easily shut that little stunt down.

I had my then thirteen year old daughter in the car with me and the officer was questioning her trying to get her to say that I was kidnapping or trafficking her or something like that. That didn't work either.

I took my ticket and went on with my life.

A few weeks later, I saw in the paper that she got popped driving drunk with a child in the car.

I've never had such a satisfying chuckle though I felt terrible for the child.

I'm curious where this is. They won't even arrest you solely on possession in most of Texas anymore. Now it's mostly used as an add-on to other charges to make the plea bargain less favorable.

I recently deleted my LinkedIn for two reasons:

1. Endless horseshit recruiters coming at me with bullshit jobs
2. I come from a large firm. LinkedIn became what I would describe as occupational hubris as I would see partners from there making prideful post after post about increasing the toxicity of the place in words that made them sound all wise and stuff

I would further see many posts about young people abandoning pursuit of the profession and there being a dire shortage of entry level recruits. Responses to these posts always address lowering the educational and certification requirements, but never address the reality of working eighty hours a week, getting shat on, berated, and dehumanized the entire time for about sixty grand a year with maybe a five to ten percent chance of moving up to the real money.

Fuck all of them right in the eyeball with the white hot barbed penis of Satan himself.

Every once in a while, I'll drive by that building. When I do, I open up the sun roof and throw them a Bronx salute out the roof as I pass by. I know somebody actually saw me do it because word got back to me about it. Petty I know, but satisfying nonetheless.

I make maybe one third of what I could if I had stuck it out, but I still make plenty to live on, and that increase would require me to be somebody I refuse to become.

I've taken to deadpan saying, "I can't tell if you're joking or not."

Doesn't work well with strangers, but it works with people who know me and have some level of understanding of the whole thing.

I've become too old to be marketable in free agency so I'm stuck, but you better believe the day it's financially viable to do so, and not a minute later, my happy ass will walk out into retirement and never look back.

This sounds like a modern day version of the Schlitz mistake back in the seventies where they cut the quality so much, so fast, that the formerly largest brewery in America became a worthless brand that nobody trusted.

The b-school lesson from this was to drop the quality of your product more slowly so people wouldn't notice.

I figured no big company would ever suffer consequences from shitty product ever again because they'd figured out the drip instead of the open floodgates.

I hope more companies get to enjoy this fate, especially food producers.

I never can decide if Snoop Dogg is an evil genius who got away with it or if he's a great illustration that redemption can actually happen.

If the latter, we are most certainly approaching criminal justice the wrong way.

Before we talk about acquittals or dropped cases, I still feel pretty strongly that he was no angel when he was younger. Today he comes across as downright wholesome.