mean_bean279 @ mean_bean279 @lemmy.world

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This is the ideal dog body Hollywood is pushing on us.

Really digging with the “US is barely better” by going back to 1988…

This fighter jet incident last month was definitely an unexpected incident, but a far cry from shooting a civilian aircraft out of either our own airspace, or a surrounding sovereign country’s airspace.

This whataboutism is hilarious if not so misguided simply for trying to say “America bad too.”

Honestly, why even bring up the US? It’s not like as if these stories have to do with us…

Same, I live in the nicer part of town and have the lowest tax rate in my city, but for Costco I go to the not as nice city next to me and their Costco is always so easy compared to ours.

I completely agree about the rich area people blocking the isles too. Just pull off to the side.

Left side is also people that haven’t achieved anything, but swear “I’m working on something big bro. I’m making moves.”

Right side is every sales organization with people pulling 200k a year while ignoring all of their actual lives and then dying off early.

I come from a family of Mexicans who are all Trump supporters. In this case it is the Mexicans fault too. If I recall Trump support among Hispanics is some of the highest in Republican history with 45% of Hispanics voting for Trump.

This is all tongue in cheek of course. They’re all too stupid to realize what can, and likely will, happen to them.

Outside of Nissans CVT yall are absolutely sleeping on their interiors. Given the price they compete in they’re doing some really amazing work.

Mitsubishi has also had the rather nice Outlander PHEV. The Mirage needs to go as it’s just too crappy and soils the brand, but their work has been fine. I owned an Evo and I’d love another, but that didn’t make them money.

Toyota has also been steadfast against BEVs (which I can sort of understand, but their Bz4X is a shit attempt) and their new turbo motors have had some reliability concerns.

Subaru builds the ugliest cars on the road with all that plastic now and their motors continue to suffer head gasket issues.

Honestly a Honda-Nissan-Mitsubishi corp would be capable of keeping up the fight. Especially given Nissan was an early player in the BEV game.

Then we could use our nukes instead of diplomacy! Nothing like wiping countries off the map because we disagree with them.

That would be minimum 15% of their budget wiped out. If we force other US charities (really just 1) to stop, or “convince” them not to we could be talking about a 30% decline in revenue.

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You cannot upgrade your towing/payload beyond what is stated on the sticker. That’s a legal mandate and if you’re pulled over and checked you will be cited.

Engine displacement doesn’t have a lot to do with towing. Coolers, braking, frame, and electrical control systems all play a factor as do your suspension (axel, shocks, springs and any control arms/trailing arms) and steering systems.

The 4Runner is an old platform, but it’s important to remember that Toyota probably didn’t want to equip it and rate it beyond the current payload due to people being able to step up to a Tacoma which is largely the same but made for towing and hauling more than a 4Runner. Even though the Tacoma also isn’t the best at towing and payload.

Canadians are just the pale version of Mexicans. What is poutine if not a carb covered in sauce and what is a wet burrito if not a carb covered in sauce. Coincidence? No.

I’m pulling all of this from memory, so YMMV… Victoria was a paid person from Reddit who worked on the AMA subreddit only. Her job was to basically go around and get celebrities and other interesting people to do AMAs and then would help schedule them and coordinate the whole thing. In some cases even helping to type out answers. If I’m recalling correctly Reddit just got too corporate and decided to terminate her out of the blue. The community fought back, but nothing big ever changed or happened. After she went away AMA basically turned into a shitshow of no one actually doing anything. She was legitimately a powerful tool at Reddit but they just got rid of her.

For a lot of the OGs on Reddit it got worse after the whole AMA Victoria thing. That was really when Reddit went downhill. Before that Reddit was amazing with AMAs that kept you refreshing constantly to be live in the chat, and posts that were funny and discussion that felt a bit more meaningful.

The people downvoting this post and disagreeing are the same ones that thought Kamala would dominate the election. The game has changed and some liberals/progressives have their heads so far up their own ass that they’re not talking to “real” Americans and listening to what they’re talking about and how they perceive the world and state that it’s in around them. Dems, and by proxy Progressives and Liberals, have a problem with marketing their successes and ideas. They also don’t understand how to beat someone back like Trump who is so ridiculous it creates a loop.

This is going to end up being the worst news and democrats always forget this. Trumps next pick will be worse. It’ll be somebody effective, but awful. He’ll find some MAGA nut job that’s basically hitler ideology with an actual law background and years on a bench. I was hoping dems would back Gaetz a bit because he’s so utterly stupid at least it would shield us for a while.

I think that’s my line of logic though. Why not accelerate. We either speed up the collapse, or we prove that “running government like a business” gets us this mess. The dems have for too long played the game of appeasement with complaints and limits. If the people want Trump, and they’re fine with the horror that brings them give them the whole package. It’s not like as if we can say “well but brown people will suffer more” or “trans rights” when all of this is being eroded away as it stands.

My view is that this is a longer, cultural issue and sometimes putting it all out on display is a better option than just sitting idly by as things deteriorate.

Given the “will of the people” with Trump having won a majority of votes, and given the statement “never interrupt your enemy when they’re making a mistake” I feel like the dems should just help nominate all of trumps picks. It’s a more crazy idea admittedly, but I think these are the interesting times we live in. Gaetz would literally be ineffective and hilariously stupid. Which would mean that every legal case wouldn’t matter over the next few years. If he picked someone (evil) competent like Barr again we’d be radically fucked. Gaetz means we have a chance of nothing happening for a while.

What’s the “dumb ass take” from this? Because based on what just happened a lot of this is accurate. Sad, but accurate.

Just drove around the bay (Concord to Atherton, Santa Cruz to San Jose, and then back to SF before going back home). There was a lot of trump flags and supporters on bridges and vehicles driving around. There’s a lot of Trump supporters even in Progressive Bay Area regions. Lots of tech bros now are big Trump supporters. That said, the west coast has far, far less than other regions.

I think the audio detail was so high because it helped to sell the realism of the game. Go back and play those early games and they don’t look nearly as good as my brain remembers, but the audio helped to fill in the lack of gravel looking texture and leaves tussling sounds in bushes that had two twigs on them.

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