As someone who has an undergrad in history … You’re depressingly right. Studying history is just watching people keep making the same mistakes over and over again and every so often there are improvements made to the human condition. A eureka moment here and there.

Mostly, you get to learn humans are mostly terrible. All of us, really, have some serious flaws and arguably that is what makes humans human but it’s insane to watch in slow motion my country succumbing to fascism. I wonder if I’ll get rounded up; I sure hope not.

It does blow to like call a thing years in advance and watch it happen and then have to just deal with it even though we could have stopped this.

Whatever, we all will get what we deserve for electing Trump. Madness.

That games general vibe always reminded me of Blasto

https://youtu.be/4gMT1t36-kg

Pretty sure they’re talking about New South Wales, Australia?

They used to have that at a few grocery stores by me but don’t any more. That was fuckin awesome, just used an app on my phone.

Try ordering ahead with curbside pickup if you haven’t yet and it’s an option for you.

If not … Idk … You’ll be alright. I actually prefer self checkout and to bag my own stuff so do keep in mind people have the literal opposite feelings on this topic too.

Not to say anyone’s right or wrong, but I do agree with the post you replied to, I bet so many people were mad they couldn’t just make a list and hand it to the clerk. I wonder how many tried at first to give the cashiers or other employees a list to get for them and then were surprised when they said they had to go get it themselves.

Now we’ve gone full circle with the curbside pick up stuff! I really like it, but sometimes they do bag stuff nonsensically but no big deal.

There’s a giant asterisk on their website where it says the “up to 50k in bonuses” but it doesn’t actually have anywhere that explains what the asterisk actually means (like the terms of the benefit and bonus eligibility).

That asterisk definitely should just read: “you’re definitely not getting 50k, this is a blatant lie and you’re gonna get fucked like the rest of Donnie’s little helpers”

I think that’s really up to interpretation. Her age seems to fluctuate in historical texts from her time.

She easily could have been younger than 18.

People didn’t really have any age of consent laws or any of that and her birth year can only be roughly estimated. So I’d say pick another princess lol

The left is armed. Lots of us own firearms; we’re just quiet about it because we don’t make guns our whole identity because we’re not fragile man children.

Trust me, right now there is not an appetite for violence. If things keep getting worse sooner or later we will hear more about ICE getting killed. Probably in a year or less since they’re expanding the American Gestapo.

That’s just not how the economy works.

The people that immigrate work. They have labor value. They’re consumers too, they’re literally just people like you and me - and zooming out to macro economics that’s all we are. The human widgets in the machine.

Trying to blame immigrants for the ills of society is a fool’s errand.

Maybe instead of pumping up shareholder value in stocks, most of which are not owned or shared by the actual labor, there could be an increase of wages and benefits through taxation. Hell stocks could be given to the people who are making that revenue for the company and not to just like the pockets of the investor class who are literally making money by simply having it.

I don’t think people prefer to be exploited for their labor but when the USD goes farther than your local currency and you’re already in bad enough straights it is worth the hardship for those folks.

Also all of this is ignoring one very obvious fact. IT IS ILLEGAL TO HIRE UNDOCUMENTED MIGRANT WORKERS. Maybe … just maybe if the companies and farm owners followed the law they claim to care so much about the demand and the benefit of “illegal” immigration would cease to exist.

And she’s a Trump supporter.

And she’s a Trump supporter fucking moron.

This feels like it should be blatantly against the Florida State Constitution or something JFC - like the fact a Governor can even do that is absolutely wild.

I get they typically, at least in my state, will get to replace a rep if one is removed for xyz reasons but not to the extent of whatever fuckery is going on in the land of DeSantis (honestly still can’t believe he won that election).

perhaps the worst thing about this absolute assault on democracy and institutional election fraud is that it hasn’t made the national news at all. Florida Democrats serve at the pleasure of the Florida Governor. If he doesn’t like them, he’ll simply replace them with a MAGA, and nobody says a word.

I don’t understand how that’s even legal.

LOL the end of that news segment

Most officials said “no comment” though one did speculate the Russian might have been drunk.

This world really is wild.

Honestly, I can see how someone would think insects and animals are different things given that we never call them animals like 99% of the time.

Plus they’re so different than say, a cat or bird or fish, it almost feels like they shouldn’t be called animals.

Of course, insects are animals, but I’ve heard people say way dumber things than that, things like, “Trump is not a pedo.”

And somehow this thread thinks that’s harsh or petty?

Is literally any person complaining about this guy setting reasonable boundaries paying him money to do this work?

No they’re a bunch of entitled assholes who need a fucking wake up call.

She’s going to prison for at least another 15 years before she’s eligible for parole.

But I hear you in the car accident bullshit

Oh yeah this by the way:

Surely after these first 2 cases someone would have communicated to Louis how this was bad, right?

Made me laugh. You know damn well if anybody said anything it was an attaboy with a high five.

Honestly, I think what he got lambasted for was almost innocent compared to all the other #metoo stuff.

I’m pretty sure what he did was, at the time, under the guise of a consensual sex act that the other party agreed to. Now of course there is a power imbalance and he admitted as much (His statement is here) but I found it pretty mild compared to all the wild shit happening and that happened.

I’ll admit it’s gross and he did abuse his power over those women but he owned up to it and was honest. Huge difference between jerking off with someone watching/participating and actually raping someone though and that distinction is important.

Everyone look!

(Crowd looks up at the sky)

It’s Captain Pedantic here to save the day!!

That little guy in the background looks like a stuffed animal!

Almost too cute to be a real dog ❤️