It was the only thing she really had to do in order to secure a victory and she flat-out refused. Also, she could have spent less time with Liz Cheney and tanking all the momentum she had gotten in the summer.

The said part there is truly that the you needed a parking lot more than greenspace.

This is literally about whether the word can be trademarked, not about whether it’s a real word or not. You should not speak on language until you have a basic grasp on how to even read one.

Conservatives and centrists learning from mountains of readily available information, about events that often happened within their own lifetimes? Good luck with that, and I really do mean it because we need it.

There was a quote I saw recently that said something along the lines of the idea that if your satire becomes indistinguishable from that which you’re satirizing it ceases to be a joke and just becomes more fuel for your target.

And yet it only goes to very few people. When they don’t pay for basic preventative care, the more complicated issues grow in cost in such a way as to outweigh their “savings”.

The US is a country that believes that not paying your rent or replacing the batteries in the smoke detector is a fantastic way to save money. Joke country.

The only reason marriages lasted longer back in the day was because women were essentially indirectly forced to be with men. The whole bank account thing in the US is a really good example of how screwed women were. There were a lot of very long marriages that were deeply unhappy.

Nowadays, women get at least some amount of freedom to choose their partners and hundreds/thousands of years of men not having to actually be good people has meant that many of us are lonely and blame the women for having some standards. Good communication and mutual respect go a long way and those are the marriages that last these days.

1080 and 1440 is a pretty big difference. 1440 and 4k, not so much. Definitely agree that there’s a point with settings where you just don’t really notice the textires/reflections/etc. when you’re playing the game.

Right? I know the hard shit is hard and I’m not going to make demands for it, but I’m getting real tired of the fact that I get more hate for telling people they shouldn’t reward the bad behaviour of evil people than the evil people get.

Consumers: “But I wanna watch this show! I’ll literally die without it, you don’t understaaaaaand!”

That would make too much sense. They are operating a vehicle, regardless of whether or not said vehicle has a “human driver” there is a person who is allowing said vehicle onto the road and is the person at the top of the chain of authority which sent those vehicles out.

Like, if I sent out a swarm of killer drones no one would argue that it was me who killed people. Of course, in today’s world, you can have insurance companies supercede medical instruction, leading to the deaths of thousands, and that’s not even a news story.

They aren’t smart, not even a little bit, they’re just playing on easy mode. There is nothing clever about what they’re doing, and in fact it’s pretty easy to grasp and is often incredibly public. The reason they keep winning anyway is because the citizens are lazy and ignorant, and most of the US are dumb as rocks even if they’re “educated”. Most people in general aren’t even that bright, it’s insane what they will fall for.

Oh, I don’t mind them at all, and people who do are weird for that. There’s a use case for plastic straws for people with certain disabilities but it’s rare. The important thing is that I still understand what that push was trying to do. I can be ok with the results while not being blind to the true motivations.

The stupid part is that it 100% is. The plastic straw thing was to shift blame onto consumers so we’d blame ourselves instead of the big energy companies. The “AI data centres are cool” people are the same ones as before, now telling everyone how we need to give up more of our meager existence to serve the rich. Energy companies also love it because they can check prices to the fucking moon.

The Steam Deck is objectively excellent, what the hell are you talking about? Yea, that’s way more expensive that it was only a few years ago and people need to not accept the price, but still.

I had a recruiter call me up and ask me how I hadn’t found a job with all these postings. Like, lady, they’re not real!

These jobs are the ones where they don’t hire enough people and they genuinely believe that they you can give them 100% every minute you’re on the clock. It’s high-pressure and fast-paced because they’re stupid and set insane deadlines with the client without consulting you first. Nevermind that they’ll bust out the “well, I stay late every day, too!” and you’ll get fired soon after if you say “yea, and your quality hugely suffers for it.”

Their definition of “lazy” conflicts heavily with reality. They work hard, not smart, producing rushed, shitty work that takes them twice as long to do because they haven’t given themselves even 10 minutes in the last decade to learn a new skill or tool in the software. I worked with a grown adult in 2023 who wouldn’t upgrade from AutoCAD 2013 and he was the drafting manager. He wasn’t the only one like that, either.

A lot of people who don’t pay much tax but who really hate it don’t want to think even that hard about it. They love when a billionaire says taxing the rich won’t work.

Or what? What are you(plural) gunna do about it? They keep getting away with it so what is this “when” you speak of and what’s going to happen?

Even small children and animals learn very quickly that empty threats are far more cringey than scary and begin ignoring them almost immediately. These are grown people who’ve lived their whole lives without consequences and you think they give a shit?

If I’m ever envious of someone doing work in places where they should be relaxing, please kill me.