BranBucket
@BranBucket@lemmy.world
- Comment on Tankie 2 days ago:
I’d even take crappy photo edits over this.
- Comment on Beer is for GIRLS 1 week ago:
IPA: If Pinecones were Alcohol.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 1 week ago:
Well, if you take good old-fashioned violence out of the picture, money. Or specifically a lack of it.
Sanctions, selling off US debt, more retaliatory tariffs, blacklisting US investors and companies, anything that pulls cash out of the US economy and puts it somewhere else. Turn off the money tap, make the mega-donors hurt bad enough and the dystopia machine will eventually grind to a halt. Don’t think for a moment that the current squad of high-functioning sociopaths that are enabling this are principled enough to stay the course after a few of their mega-yachts are repossessed. They’ll flip sides again and again just to try and keep that horde they’ve built up. Someone just has to prove to them that the threat is serious, because right now, they think everyone else is helpless against them.
Additionally, the majority of Trump voters cited the economy as a primary reason for voting for him. A good portion of them were probably lying to cover for being racist and just wanted to see POC and the LGBTQ+ community suffer, but if you crash the US economy hard enough, you can still hijack a big chunk of Trump’s public support. It’s the same as with mega-yachts, but here we’re talking pickup trucks, ATVs, and rent-to-own furniture.
Few problems with this. 1. It’s slow. 2. It’ll hurt everyone else economically because US businesses have hooks set real deep in a lot of places. 3. Other nations have a wealthy elite with similar sway who want Trump in power for various reasons and might not play along. & 4. Whoever replaces the US might turn out to be just as big as bully in a few years if we’re not careful.
Still, it needs to be done.
- Comment on elixir of a god 4 weeks ago:
OBLIGATORY I’M NOT A DOCTOR DON’T TAKE THIS AS MEDICAL ADVICE FIRST.
Monster runs about 160-180 mg per can depending on variety. Coffee is about 80-120 per cup, depending on the bean and roast.
A 400-500 mg dose of caffeine daily is considered safe for most people according to Wikipedia. So 2-3 Monsters a day for a heavy caffeine user isn’t a crazy amount.
Now, when you look at Bing and Reign, which IIRC have around 350 mg per can, those numbers go up real fast, but you’re still not going to get close to the approximately ten grams of caffeine needed for it to be a lethal dose, you’d puke long before you got that much liquid in your stomach.
Also, the physical effects of caffeine abate over time. Users build up a tolerance fairly quickly, and it gets to the point that the twitchiness, elevated BP, and higher heart rate aren’t really present like they’d be for someone who doesn’t consume a lot of them. Again, paraphrasing Wikipedia here. So a moderate user probably isn’t on the verge of an infarction at all times, as the media seems to enjoy impling.
It’s mostly just soda pop with extra caffeine, and caffeine is bitter, so they jack up the sugar content to compensate. That’s a bigger issue IMO.
But overall, there are likely millions, if not billions of people who down two or three energy drinks daily and don’t drop dead. So while the caffeine numbers seem extreme, it’s really the sugar, artificial sweetners, and probably unhealthy lifestyle that goes with being a chronic user that will cause the most damage over time.
- Comment on The car of the guy who insists that you have a terminal case of TDS 1 month ago:
The kinda person who does this to their car won’t believe it’s true, while simultaneously defending it as him doing nothing wrong because all the liberals say it’s okay to stuff like this, which also doesn’t mean admitting Trump actually did it, because he didn’t, and this is also proof that Dems did much worse things, even though it’s not real and just a plot to destroy Trump and let Satan rule over the world.
- Comment on The car of the guy who insists that you have a terminal case of TDS 1 month ago:
TDS is a Swiss army tool for controlling what their base thinks and dealing with negative press. I don’t know if it evolved organically or was created, but promoting the idea that anyone who says anything negative about Trump is hysterical, jealous, and irrationally hell-bent on destroying him has been insanely effective for them.
You can already see it in use with the Epstein files along with their other grand slam propaganda tools.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
That’s an absolutely crushing schedule.
When I think of “middle aged family man”, I think of a salaried employee or tradesman working a 40 hour work week, and supporting kids with the help of a spouse who’s either a homemaker or earns additional income. Which mostly describes me.
You’re comparing apples to oranges. I work occasional overtime and it always knocks my dick in the dirt for a week or so. All things considered, just surviving what you’re describing is an achievement.
You’re doing an amazing job and I hope you can find a situation that gives you more time off soon. You deserve it.
- Comment on I ate: Arby's Steak Nuggets 2 months ago:
Imagine if angels performed a miracle that allowed a tater tot and a McDonald’s hashbrown to produce a child, after which someone found the least expensive way to replicate that product by mundane and industrial means.
Hearty, weighty, and substantial, yet still crispy on the outside while soft on the inside.
I like to use the sauce packets to draw little designs on them, elevating an already divine side dish into the perfect amuse-bouche.
- Comment on I ate: Arby's Steak Nuggets 2 months ago:
Re: Regular vs. Curly fries.
Clearly, this debate sparks from a deep cultural ignorance of what it truly means to eat at an Arby’s.
Although this practice was interrupted for a while by an episode of sheer corporate madness, the only proper potato-based side dish is potato cakes that have been set upon the wrapper of a large beef and cheddar to catch the excess cheese and sauce that falls from the sandwich.
Only once they have been drizzled in a combo of surplus liquid cheddar, horsey, and Arby’s sauce can you truly appreciate what potatoes were meant to be.
Much like eating an Ortolan, it’s best to cover your head with a handkerchief while indulging, so as to hide the shame of such a decadent meal from God.
- Comment on Time to make your decesion 1 year ago:
Wallace. Wallace probably doesn’t give a fuck anymore, and once you gain his trust, is going to say some hilarious shitnas a result.
- Comment on 'Moana' is the most streamed movie of the last 5 years with more than 44 billion minutes of stream time - Streaming Movies Right 1 year ago:
I haven’t seen Moana 2, but the first one has got a lot of kid appeal, and I found the music to be more appealing and fresh than other big animated productions.
If you’ve ever had a kid fixated on a show with an absolutely grating soundtrack or character voices, you’ll appreciate and encourage any interest they show in something with nice music.
- Comment on BACK IT UP 1 year ago:
He rants about the FDA suppressing things big pharma can’t patent… Did they not develop and patent these?
- Comment on ‘NCIS’ Prequel Series About Young Gibbs Ordered at CBS 2 years ago:
But, Gibbs is the least compelling character on the show. Maybe I just see things in a different light, but the only thing that separates this from a big standard police procedural is watching all the other characters try to deal with the fallout from Gibb’s standard issue most-tragic-backstory-ever trauma and solving the mystery of why he hasn’t been shuffled off to a desk job where he can’t do much harm yet.
All of the supporting characters had more depth, development, and more relatable back stories.