Somebody’s got a tiny widdle nose!

The first lesson is that a lack of conscience can be a huge advantage when it comes to accruing power, attention and wealth in a society where most other human beings abide by a social contract. The second lesson is that nothing we get for ourselves from the outside world can ever adequately substitute for what we’re missing on the inside.

This is the thesis of the article, if you wanna save a click.

What struck me from the first day I met Mr. Trump was his unquenchable thirst to be the center of attention. No amount of external recognition ever seemed to be enough. Beneath his bluster and his bombast, he struck me as one of the most insecure people I’d ever met — and one of the least self-aware. He’d crossed the bridge from Queens to Manhattan but he remained the product — and even the prisoner — of his childhood experiences. As he told a reporter in 2015, “When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same.”

These observations have resonated with a lot of us over the last N years.

I hope a monsoon strikes the location where they meet with zero warning.

Well said.

They have a two year window (contractually) to get this done. I expect this will be the thing that ends them.

Sounds similar to how California doesn’t allow gift cards to expire, I guess? Is that the same idea?

I just tried it out using the same search string that I’d, just prior, run on the goog:

how many permutations of 9 digit number

Results were not encouraging.

Israel is a terrorist state committing genocide. Iran has its own issues, but Israel is run by monsters.

We’re aware. This will surprise no one who has been paying attention and has thoughts exceeding that of a potato.

Nothing. There would be no replacement and the pledge would fade from memory.

Brittni and Marcus Silva divorced in February 2023, a few weeks before Silva filed his lawsuit. The defendants alleged in their countersuit that Silva was a “serial emotional abuser” in pursuit of revenge and that he illegally searched Brittni’s phone without her consent.

Sounds like a class act.

He’s five minutes away from a stroke or heart attack.

Lithwick pointed to legal reporter Linda Greenhouse, who asked on Slate’s podcast how Roberts could "have been so clueless about where this opinion was going to leave a court that has already been really battered in public opinion ever since the run-up to Dobbs?… What this says to me is that he and other members of his majority live in a kind of bubble.”

He may have been able to persuade himself that he was doing something positive. Alito and Thomas don’t live in a bubble. They are very consciously forcing their dogma on the rest of us with no sense of guilt or shame.

Because the majority of people in the USA (where I took this thread to originate based on context) have multiple sets of clothes. Someone who can afford internet and a device to get on Lemmy likely has multiple sets of clothes, even if they are all low-cost or run-down. You’re not convincing me of anything other than you being stubborn.

The violent arrest stems from a morning call from Circle K employees who reported that a White man was causing problems and wouldn’t leave the store, records show.

Of course you get called about a white guy and end up assaulting a Black guy. That’s pretty much the job, sadly.

Finally, some good news.

I didn’t specify the quality of clothing. I specified the intent. If you only have torn clothing, you would wear the least torn.

I meant general computer backups, I just had trouble phrasing it correctly. As in, you and I probably didn’t backup our computers properly until we lost something. That’s how most of us get into backups. Similar here.

Agreed. You fucked up and now hopefully you learned from it. The reason any of us have (typical local) backups is because we lost data, whether a little or a lot. This is no different.

I think if I was accusing the mother of the richest asshole on the planet, who literally sued advertiser for not advertising after telling them, “fuck off,” I’d be pretty careful how I said it, too.