skulblaka @ skulblaka @sh.itjust.works

Please do not perceive me.

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That is not a reasonable bar by which to judge any living human being.

You might deserve it, I'm pretty confident saying the trans kids and legal immigrants who are being disappeared off the streets probably don't.

QAnon was the precursor to MAGA. It depended on stories of "deep state conspiracy" to sow distrust in the functional parts of US government, then quietly disappeared once its function was performed.

All this to say, it was a blindingly obvious psy-op that rolled up as many idiots as it could into one giant katamari ball of civil unrest, then loosed that ball toward US elections in a specific effort to remove Democrats from power.

I have a feeling I'm going to be getting a lot of use out of this one soon

The unmentioned subtext here is that the steam deck emulates Switch games better than the native hardware plays them, will likely also play Switch 2 games, and costs less at $399 while also giving you access to around 80% of the PC gaming space as well.

Switch 2 is a bad deal

BRC is an incredible replacement though. It's not quite the same as OG Jet Set Radio, and I think that's okay, but it is very clearly walking around with JSR's bones inside. Besides which it has probably my favorite video game soundtrack from the past decade.

Have you looked around outside recently?

I use "We'll burn that bridge when we come to it" pretty frequently myself

Not really. This is another thing that falls neatly into Boots Theory.

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. ... A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. ... But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socio-economic unfairness.

A new car, well taken care of, will support a driver for a decade or more. A used car, especially a cheap used car, will have problems you don't know about and you can safely assume the previous owner did not properly care for it if not outright abused it, that will be true more often than it isn't.

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American, I bought a 2005 Honda Civic in 2020 for $7,500

Nepenthes does about the same thing but isn't managed by a corp.

I would call them "unfit for their position" as a judge's personal beliefs have zero influence on the written law and a judge's job is to interpret the law as it is written. If you're bringing your personal politics into the courthouse as a judge you have failed your job requirements.

I am happy to see a liberal judge in our current situation, because conservative judges have been flagrantly abusing their positions for many years now, but the parent comment is correct. Having a liberal vs a conservative judge should be nonsensical. Unfortunately the nonsensical is commonplace in America now.

People taught AI to speak like a middle manager and thinks this means the AI is sentient, instead of proving that middle managers aren't

However bad you think that is, it's almost definitely worse.

TL;DR: The CyberTruck is 17 times more likely to have a fire fatality than a Ford Pinto, a car endlessly memed on by an entire generation for its flammability.

You should go read that article, because it's short, but just look at this chart I pulled from it.

The entire joke/phrase centers around the fact that leopards act according to their nature, which is well documented and easily predictable.

If you put a piece of tasty meat in front of a leopard, it's going to try to eat it.

Only a fool would expect otherwise.

Dealer torches their own stock that they can't sell, blames protestors, and gets to write off all those cars with insurance payouts instead of just sitting on them

Fucking same, man. Guy I used to work with was 57, alcoholic, had like 3 teeth left, bad attitude, the works. Looked like a man-rat hybrid had been drinking moonshine and gasoline for two centuries. Brought a new woman home from the bars at least once a week. Some of them half his age. I know he wasn't rich either because I'd been to his house before and I occasionally had to lend him some cash, so it's not like he was flexing with money.

I got to actually hear him put the moves on somebody once and I don't remember his opener but I shit you not his winning line was "Yeah I tell ya, I'm hung like a pimple but I've had some good practice with it, wanna come see?" and a little wink and I swear on my ancestors it fucking worked, it's insane, I thought I was having a stroke.

You're allowed to say fuck here!

42% of American households contain at least one firearm. That 42% includes every single American cop, who will shoot you dead in the street without trial with no remorse or repercussions if given the opportunity. It also includes every white supremacist terrorist, who will shoot you dead in the street without trial with no remorse, and maybe some repercussions if your family manages to get them into court and you get lucky with the right judge.

The other 58% of us do not own firearms and, generally speaking, are afraid for our lives.

I'm with you, and I agree with your general sentiment, but most people are afraid to die. It's ridiculous to expect people to have a competent plan to assassinate a president under normal circumstances, let alone when our police forces are killing people in the street or disappearing them, gaining national news attention for doing so and seeing zero repercussions. The people who always made a big stink about having their guns and using them to prevent tyranny are the people that are destroying our nation. They ARE the tyranny.

Regular people are generally nonviolent and scared. What you're asking is equivalent to asking why nobody just walked up and stabbed Genghis Khan to death. Like, yeah, it's probably possible to do, but five seconds of thinking about it should make it pretty apparent why nobody took that opportunity.

Besides which, several Americans have taken shots at him already.

I've spent my entire life watching the "minority" Republicans successfully squash, blockade, deflect, filibuster, or poison every single bill any Democrat has ever put forward to make anyone's life better, while simultaneously presenting and passing their own bills that make everyone's life worse in service of their own paycheck.

Now that the tables are turned and a similar sort of action is required of the Democrats to literally save the foundations of our democracy, they do nothing.

That's why.

I've been a proud Democratic supporter and blue voter my entire life and I'll continue to vote for them if I continue to not be offered better options. But I'm not happy about doing it anymore. I no longer trust the Democratic party to be a bastion against fascism and that's just the long and short of it. The most basic showing of resistance against any of this bullshit probably would have locked in my vote for Democrats for the rest of my life, but they can't even do that. We have Bernie Sanders and AOC doing the same things they've done their entire lives, and every other person is just sitting back in shock watching their office get looted and doing nothing about it.