frog_brawler @ frog_brawler @lemmy.world

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I agree with you and I am trying to take advantage of it. Bought SPY calls @570 for tomorrow. I imagine by Friday it will drop substantially again.

Mike Johnson after Vance

I bought a switch and those Zelda games during Covid. When I moved, the switch got boxed up. It’s still in the box today.

I’ll be skipping Switch #2 - $80 games reinforces the decision.

I hate to say it, but Musk was right; this guy is a moron.

Well, Democrats are better for the economy than Republicans, but when you break it down they’re just another capitalist party, and the real issue with everything is…

Money.

It’s in the financial interests of billionaires for people to vote Republican. As such, they’re bankrolled and spend that money on campaign ads, attorneys’ fees getting laws overturned, attorneys’ fees keeping people buried in frivolous lawsuits, keeping people stupid by defunding education, and generally speaking people aren’t always smart, swimming in information or totally plugged in.

Billie Jean in my ass.

Yes, agreed… but not really relevant.

Christianity is the big tree that encompasses all faiths that believe Jesus is the savior, son of god, etc. Catholicism and Protestant are both branches on that tree.

That was how it worked when I was a kid 🤷‍♂️

Gotta find all of the eggs to get the last clue where the candy is.

It’s those damned horror comic books!

You saw what’s going on at Gitmo and El Salvador right?

Outstanding advice for folks in your comment.

For real… No bullshitting you, he did a triple take when I told him that. I was way more accommodating than I should have been but I was also curious from an academic perspective.

Sounds a lot like my experience. Was this Florida?

I’ve had my car searched before. It was unlawful.

This was over 20 years ago when it happened. I was about 19 at the time and in college. The cop ordered me to sit on the curb while he tore up my car. I was a dude with long hair at the time and when he pulled me over for the tinted windows he said that he, “saw shake in the backseat.”

The shake in the backseat was fiction.

Car got torn up, he said he thought my eyedrops were GHB and that he wanted to test them. I told him that’s fine.

He came back to me after a few minutes and said that his test kit is expired and that he was going to call someone else out to test it.

Second cop comes up, he’s less of a dick than the first guy. Goes to his trunk, fucks around, determines his kit is also expired.

A third cop comes out. Also, less of a dick than the first guy. They test my eyedrops and determine they are eyedrops, not GHB.

First cop resumes tearing up my car.

First cop asks me, “where are you going?”

I tell him I’m on my way to work.

He asks me if I am in school. I replied, “yes, UCF.”

He asks, “what are you studying?”

“I’m a junior in the pre-law track with a minor in criminal justice.”

He then decided he was going to “let me go.”

The whole time this is happening there’s an older dude with long grey hair sitting across the street with a couple of grocery bags watching the whole thing. Cops asked him what he was doing a couple of times and he would tell them he’s watching what’s happening on the walk home from the grocery store. After the cops were gone, and I was doing my best to reassemble my car, he came by to say he was going to be a witness for me in case something went down. He went on to explain how he was a Vietnam vet and when he got back to the states he had been arrested for smoking a joint, and has subsequently hated cops ever since. He then told me his son is a lawyer and if I needed help with this scenario to get in touch.

Awesome guy. He was 100% the shit.

The second and third cop were pretty reasonable for cops.

I hope the first cop ended up getting repeatedly gang raped in a prison.

I’ve put myself into a position that I should never have to iron again.

You need to work on your reading comprehension.

I am against the death penalty too. I absolutely agree with your reasoning, but it's not my primary motivating factor. For me, as callous as it may be, I'd rather that taxpayers not foot the bill for the legal process involved with trying to put someone on death row, and then the subsequent legal process of flipping the switch, pulling the trigger, injecting the needle... whatever. The expense to the taxpayers is of a greater cost than lifetime incarceration.

The death penalty is hypocritical too. I cannot get on board with the lack of logic surrounding, "Killing someone is a crime, and you did that so now we're going to kill you."

Off topic, so sorry about that... but is there a list of people maintained somewhere that will absolutely never be called for jury duty? If so, I suspected that I'm on it. I thought that by now (age 41), I'd have at least gotten a summons or something to show up at least once. I've never even been asked to show up.

Yea, those people should be re- educated.