grabyourmotherskeys @ grabyourmotherskeys @lemmy.world

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Basically a really obnoxious zombie at this point.

You'd think. For some people, they have a solid appetite no matter what. I have "forgotten to eat" about three times in my 50+ years.

Just assuming I theoretically did a lot of drugs when I was younger you can also assume I also allegedly kept up my habit of eating. Other more famous examples include John Belushi, Chris Farley, etc.

"He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting" is the quote, I think.

Still voted for him, I bet.

Originally in NYT but covered by other outlets: https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-voter-hes-not-hurting-the-people-he-needs-be-hurting-msna1181316

Back in the day, I used to try to get everyone to use PGP for their email. Only a couple people did it, even though I would set it all up and provide unlimited tech support.

That's just how it is.

I wrote a comment about this earlier today. People who have been brainwashed to believe total nonsense often act in ways that are rational to them, but irrational to people who see the world through different eyes.

That's fine until it's violent action.

The alcoholic who thinks he's "fine to drive" believes he's perfectly rational. He's drunk all the time and no accidents. That's wonderful until he kills a family some night.

This type of behavior (and many other things) make me question the rationality of the electorate in democracies.

It seems like people do really irrational things all the time. This is generally due to cultural norms and the information they are most exposed to.

If you think the Democratic party in the US is in league with people who extract adrenochrome from terrified children to use as a youth elixer and you think Donald Trump will stop this, then, yes, Donald Trump is a rational choice.

The facts underlying this are completely irrational and unproven but your cultural norms make you think "I don't need proof, if I did I'd be questioning my religion, so feeling like it's true is enough" plus "if I question this narrative, I will be shunned by the people I want/need the most."

Again, believing this or at least acting as though you believe this, is rational in terms of ego protection and in group status.

For people who are scared of being excluded (which might mean physical violence, loss of jobs, loss of family, etc) anything is better than that.

This will happen if sentencing involves jail time.

Same and also Man's Search For Meaning. Really puts modern life into perspective.

This is probably triggering for some people one of the points of it to confront the worst aspects of humanity and how you can come back from it. I hesitate to recommend it as it is very difficult to read for many (all?) people.

This is really sad. An alternative life for this guy is dressing the way he wants as appropriate to his activities that day and the only remarks are to compliment his outfit here and there. What a sad world those people have made for themselves.

I use a ball mouse and so I can't adjust the width of the drawing tools easily. Greenshot is a little less slick much easier for me to use.

He probably thinks he can't be held accountable because "privledge".

This and fusion, neck and neck.

Who? Eric "we get all the money we need from the Russians" Trump?

Just listen to his inauguration speech. Major Hitler vibes.

"My calves are so well defined in these pumps, I'm going to try to make this work at the office."

Frankenstein's monstergate

She would actually give a crap about children's literacy so let's do that.

She is basically saying she lied under oath. She has immunity now for her cooperation so she's on borrowed time. Once she testifies against Trump the mob will turn on her. Until then she'll try to get as much as she can out of this.

I'll be honest, that's good enough for me until Trump fades away like a bad odor.

If you were an arms manufacturer (military industrial complex) and needed a controlled environment to test out various surveillance, antipersonnel, nonlethal (we all know these can be lethal) gear (and various software for face recognition, sigint, predictive modeling, etc) in various settings, it's hard to imagine a "better" set up.

Where are they going to go?

How easy is it to control the supply of everything going in so you know what you are up against?

How simple to watch the area with satellite imagery?

How risky to get too involved know Israel has nukes and the US in its side?

My mind goes there sometimes. A lot of gear comes out of Israel "because they need it".

Now, look, I am not antisemitic. I'm just a person who has seen enough to know that no normal person wakes up the morning and wishes the world they are raising their kids had more violence. That's the work of sociopathic business people and their government pals craving power. It has nothing to do with the average persons culture, social status, or ethics.