They don’t think it be like it is, but it do

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  –Elton John

My mom was a conservative along the lines of McCain and Romney. My sister and I played a part in converting her, but Trump did the heavy lifting.

I’m surrounded by Trumpers, they’re everywhere around here. So far I’ve talked to one with regrets, and he knew better.

What really gets me is how he’s now complaining about stuff I warned him about back in September. He voted red because he thought it would help his imminent retirement. Also he didn’t like Kamala.

This guy really thought the whole platform they’ve been pushing would settle into business as usual, and now he’s a shocked pikachu.

Master using it and you can have this

The other source in the comments says this only impacts about 250 customers. I suspect the Trumpies among them will quickly talk themselves into thinking that’s money well spent for one more Let’s Go Brandon. After all they’re conditioned to double down on taking it in the shorts and liking it.

I’ve read that many people with actual OCD don’t appreciate the condition being bandied about as a catch all for others having hangups over trivial things.

And if anyone thinks safety people never hamstring operations over silly ideas of risk, or turn into little dictators feeding their egos, think again.

I think of them as an extension of HR. Their purpose is to protect companies.

Some of their more asinine findings are merely efforts to show they’re being productive; companies expect returns in all things.

A Canadian Snowbird jet crashed ~2-3 miles from my house. It was Friday evening, fresh home from work, and heard the boom. My ex actually saw it come down.

The Snowbirds had been practicing for an air show over the weekend. Investigation revealed the pilot’s restraint harness had come loose, making him lose control.

I think the plot was lost when the piracy/drm wars reached a peak and set new norms. The ‘talent’ that emerged steadily became performers rather than artists and put out disposable, largely formulaic pop made with protools.

Nearly all the mainstream now are what many would have called sellouts prior to all this.

Maybe there will be a move back to quality over quantity. Granted quality music is still being made, but by and large the current listener just wants to jump from the current sensation to the next after the staleness sets in.

Long story long the internet changed a lot of things, attention spans are eroded, and we’re still learning how to deal with all of it.

Does the west wing get better? Similar to OP I watched the first few episodes and couldn’t stand it. It came off to me like the typical big network show of that time, with unrelatable characters, cheesy dialogue, and cliched storylines.

Yet I’ve seen lots of praise for the show…and memes with Martin Sheen’s character that I like. Would you say there’s a point when the show starts to get into its groove?

To hear Russell Crowe tell it, Gladiator 2 may suffer from this

…here’s Tom with the weather.

It’s not a war on drugs, it’s a war on personal freedom, okay?

I’m with you there. SFTD hit a great balance between dark and light. I think Josh needs Nick Oliveri’s approach, though I know he had his problems (maybe still?). Musically though, I think they’re a case of a whole being greater than the sum of its parts.

“I’m literally dying of thirst. I can only pick from two glasses of water. One is poison and will definitely kill me. The other tastes bad and may give me the runs, but I’ll survive.”

“I have it! I’ll drink neither and wait as others pour the poison water down my throat for me!”

Yeah based on the photos I see, it seems like lots of complicated fuckery goes into all her exposed parts.

It’s like the alt-1985 Biff reality came to pass.

Any reasonable person looking at these circumstances say 10, 15, 20 years ago would think 'No, that could never happen. He’d be barred from office, maybe even imprisoned."

And yet, here we are. This timeline, for the US anyway, deserves to be pruned.

A steady stream of people showing up daily with nothing, starting from scratch, is not a crisis to you?

What do we do with those who show up to find all the farm jobs in Idaho and other places are filled? Furthermore, do you condone the treatment refugees receive while working these jobs?

There are certainly racists opposed to letting in refugees, and a lot of them make policy on such things. But minimizing the long term need to assist the ongoing influx of people as purely racism isn’t productive. We have no solution for what to do with all of them.

Leaving drugs completely out of discussion, this is a humanitarian crisis. Do you think just opening up the border and letting whatever happens afterward work itself out is the answer?

Dusty Deevers, lmao. I went to elementary school with him for a few years. You don’t forget a name like that. Trust me, he comes by the dipshitidness honestly from growing up in that Oklahoma town. It’s isolated and simple, and at least 50 years behind the times. I wouldn’t call anyone from there wordly.

I was obviously just a kid at the time, but an opportunity came and I noped the hell out.

You’d think corporations would learn from these types of failures. But no, not as long as endless growth is the overall plan. The yes men will keep cutting corners at the expense of safety and quality.