LillyPip @ LillyPip @lemmy.ca

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Can’t we have both?

I want Squirrel Girl to mob him with 1000s of squirrels, dragging him from wherever he is to the top of the Golden Gate Bridge, then dangle him by whatever nuts he’s got on him.

Then I’ll be happy.

Make Attorneys Get Attorneys.

Look, all I’m saying is give Pis a chance.

This cannot be real, wtf. This is cartoon levels of ineptitude.

Or sabotage by someone heading out? Please let this be resistance sabotage they haven’t noticed yet.

Reality really is testing my empathy lately.

There’s no excuse for this.

It’s not that people don’t have mixed ancestry in other countries, it’s that nobody mentions it or cares. Americans seem weirdly obsessed with it.

Trump quotes read by Zapp Brannigan

This is objectively true:

Trump Taj Mahal paid the largest fine ever levied against a casino for having “willfully violated” anti-money-laundering rules.

And it’s not just any money laundering, but specifically for the Russian Mafia:

Throughout the 1990s, untold millions from the former Soviet Union flowed into Trump’s luxury developments and Atlantic City casinos.

And:

Over the past three decades, at least 13 people with known or alleged links to Russian mobsters or oligarchs have owned, lived in, and even run criminal activities out of Trump Tower and other Trump properties.

“They saved his bacon,” says Kenneth McCallion, a former assistant U.S. attorney in the Reagan administration who investigated ties between organized crime and Trump’s developments in the 1980s.

It’s entirely possible that Trump was never more than a convenient patsy for Russian oligarchs and mobsters, with his casinos and condos providing easy pass-throughs for their illicit riches. At the very least, with his constant need for new infusions of cash and his well-documented troubles with creditors, Trump made an easy “mark” for anyone looking to launder money.

From Trump’s Russian Laundromat (July 2017)

The actual origin was darker than that.

It comes from Steve Bannon’s (not trump’s) plan to take control of the government by moving tens of thousands of people (pieces) into strategic places in state legislature over the course of the past 8 years, culminating in the Supreme Court. Bannon referred to it as playing 4D chess in articles on Brietbart and podcasts like 10 years ago.

Everything was sticky, too. Sometimes you’d put your quarter in the rim above the existing quarter, then after like an hour and half a pizza later, you’d realise your family was alone in the place and nobody had approached the machine. You’d go back and try to pick up the quarters, but the placeholding one was basically glued to the glass by coke and who knows what, obviously having been there for weeks.

Kind of amazing the coin slot didn’t glue itself shut.

He got the shit batch of bargain worms from Wish. He can’t even play the Holophoner.

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.

You’re absolutely right, but as a UxD, until these platforms learn UxD, they’ll never work. They can’t.

It doesn’t matter how great they are, the vast majority of people won’t learn. And they shouldn’t have to. That’s why big commercial apps are better – good designers need to eat, and big companies can pay for their eggs.

It doesn’t matter how good your model is, without great UxD, you’re dead in the water.

I believe he chooses his own clothes, just not that he actually puts them on. It’s a bit amazing that he doesn’t wear the same Darth Vader costume every day like some toddlers insist upon doing.

He seems like the sort of idiot who could strangle himself trying to figure out how a shirt works, is what I’m saying.

I’ve had a scene for a horror novel bumping about in my head for a while:

Guy breaks into a house late at night, wearing a mask but unarmed, goes to the kitchen to grab a kitchen knife with which to subdue the elderly couple living there (he knows because he’s cased the place).

He’s surprised by the elderly woman who’s suffering from insomnia, but he’s closer to the knife block, so he has the upper hand, and he grabs the closest knife on the block.

Woman: After a brief moment of initial shock, she lifts her kettle from the burner. ‘Are you planning to kill me with a paring knife?‘.

The startled home invader looks at his knife, sets it down, and grabs a larger knife.

Woman: ‘That’s a bread knife.’ She pours her tea. ‘Would you like to try again? Look for one that’s not serrated.’

Guy drops the bread knife, tentatively lifting knives from the block.

Woman: ‘Vegetable knife, poor choice. Keep going. Fish knife, okay, but not the best. How would you like to kill me? Are we talking stabbing or chopping? It makes a difference.’

The scene goes on from there.

According to the popular vote, yes. But the popular vote hasn’t mattered for many, many years. Of the many things Trump has shone a spotlight on, this has been the most blatant.

e: It only sways the results if enough members of the EC are more afraid of the populace than the party leadership.

I love it when the Nazis make themselves this punchable. Makes it easier for the sentiment* to take hold.

e: autocorrect fail