Got_Bent @ Got_Bent @lemmy.world

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Like Greg Abbott or Ken Paxton are ever going to give two flying fucks about constitutional rights.

Send the scam a hundred bucks, lose it, sue Google for fraudulent endorsement.

(Yes yes, this wouldn't work in the real world against Google's legions of lawyers, but I like the thought exercise)

It's not what other people think. It's what the Starbucks customer perceives what other people think.

On the rare occasion that I buy retail coffee, it's usually from the Race Trac gas station which has machines that grind the coffee beans and brew it fresh by the cup - nothing to erect a historical statue over, but a solid coffee for a low price.

When Starbucks loving coworkers see me walk in with my ghetto gas station coffee cup, they'll generally mock me for it.

So I suppose you and I each have our own anecdotal data samples, and they apparently vary from each other quite a bit.

Too bad it wasn't a bed because then we could talk about how short the bed skirt was.

Gen X here. At this point in my life, seeking out healthcare might not bankrupt me as I've got a whole two deductibles in my health savings account, theoretically allowing me to get sick twice over the remaining twenty five years or so of my life.

Even with that luxury in my back pocket, it's so hard wired in me that even driving past a doctor's office brings bankruptcy, that I don't even try.

Wild card for me is that I engage quite a few doctors on personal finance matters and have learned that many of them are just as bad as their insurance and hospital executives are. They'll perform a less beneficial but more costly procedure because their God damned neighbor just got the newest Ferrari and they need to one up them. I have literally experienced Dr. X asking me if Dr. Y was doing better than him. It's disgusting behavior into which I've no desire to place my life and four generations of medical debt.

I will happily die younger solely to leave a clean estate for my daughter in favor of giving it all to those shitheads for an extra couple months of excruciating pain extended life.

It's affordable status.

I doubt say, a Gucci handbag is of significantly greater quality than a handbag one might buy from target, but the former has that sweet, sweet logo.

Also, see Payless sold discount shoes at luxury prices — and it worked

They were overall pretty good until the owners fucked them over. Not unlike the A's today.

Should've gone with Washington Senators and Cleveland Spiders. Commanders and Guardians are just never going to appeal to me.

This one is a true story:

I was in Dallas Love Field with my daughter several years ago.

I said, "You know, this is where John Kennedy landed only a few hours before he was killed. Show some respect and try not to make an ass...assin of yourself."

Roughly fifteen years later her eyes still haven't come back from rolling into the back of her head

I'm still proud of myself for coming up with that little airport joke on the fly

I know it's hard to imagine since you've pretty much got to pay to exist anywhere today, but malls were a place to just exist. I spent hours and hours wandering around the mall in the eighties without any money.

Expanding on the thought, it was perfectly ok to be, get this, a TEENAGER existing without any money in a mall!

They're being pedantic about how the original question was worded in a gotcha attempt. Not worthy of a response.

As some unidentified doctors played fruit ninja on my eggplant when I was born, this upgrade is not available for my character.

So I just went and revisited that whole thing. I remember it vaguely, but not any details.

The gist was that Murphy was deciding whether to have the baby or abort it and the Republican vice president says she's terrible for having it because she's not married.

Of course, I guess the intent was that she was supposed to marry whoever got her pregnant, but it presents as she should have aborted it. Interesting in today's forced birth environment.

https://archive.md/6eScl

Somehow he'd still have a voice in prison. Kinda like all those interviews with Ted Bundy and Charles Manson et al.

His biggest misery would be to be alive and completely silenced.

Tailgating. It's gonna kill you eventually so let's streamline the process.

Also fuck you, especially when I'm in a god damned exit lane.

Michelle: When they go low we go high.

Kamala: Let the meme trolling begin!

If we do end up descending into a Draconian hellhole of an autocratic dictatorship at least the election run-up is going to be exponentially more entertaining than it was going to be with Joe.

I say that dictatorship part because don't think for a second that the GOP is gonna just roll over and die. Expect hard-line challenges to vote counts in every single swing state.

I'm not sure if this is the same case I read about recently, but it was something along the lines of there being some other much more minor conviction and the AG is arguing that the thirty years spent on the wrongful conviction shouldn't count towards the time given for the other conviction.

I'd suppose the real motivation is hiding from the enormous civil lawsuits that will be coming in.

Unlike the Democrats who had not yet put forth a candidate, the GOP has officially nominated theirs. The Democrats could turn the tables and get a successor off the ballots