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- Comment on "Summer 2026 is going to be amazing".. World Leaders: 6 hours ago:
The people “bringing it about” are absolute fucking idiots if they think that.
The person who brings about armageddon is the antichrist, those who follow him are supposedly condemned to hell until whatever end of time scenario the bible has.
These Talibangelicals couldn’t be dumber. But they keep proving me wrong.
- Comment on The Iranians HAVE to realize that demanding the release of the unredacted Epstein files as a condition to re-open the strait of Hormuz is probably the strongest card they have right now... 6 hours ago:
What power is it over someone who is under no threat from it? I mean, if they actually did it and trump was immediately removed from power for it I’ll eat my hat, but from the look of things my hat is completely safe.
- Comment on "Summer 2026 is going to be amazing".. World Leaders: 9 hours ago:
Bunkers are a short-sighted, narcissistic, stupid false sense of security. If TSHTF and we go global with nukes it just means you’ll die last while presiding over a largely dead planet. I’d imagine the vast majority have only the occupant’s short range survival needs met and absolutely no plan for the tools, seeds, materials, etc. needed to survive the following years and decades.
- Comment on The Iranians HAVE to realize that demanding the release of the unredacted Epstein files as a condition to re-open the strait of Hormuz is probably the strongest card they have right now... 9 hours ago:
Why? The files are meaningless at this point. Nobody was prosecuting trump or anyone else in the US over this.
I can’t stress enough how little the files matter to him. The only people constantly relating the files to this war are people on social media and a few offhand quips by public figures.
Trump is going after oil. Both Venezuela and Iran were attacked (depending on what minute you were listening as it changed a dozen times) ostensibly for regime change, but everyone knows that’s bullshit. He’s trying to control oil and energy prices. Multiple sources point this out, meanwhile the US press is saying shit like “Here’s what the Trump administration is doing to lower oil and gas prices. Is it working?” CBS news, “Trump’s unshackled presidency puts him at the center of the economy.” CNBC.
It’s another, giant grift attempt to put himself in charge so he can coerce and bully other countries to get what he wants.
- Comment on How would you actually tax the ultra wealthy? 18 hours ago:
I’d refine that slightly - tax loans on anything except those for a primary residence, and loans used to create businesses that employ less than 100 people, or any business in service of the loan recipient. I’m sure that could be refined quite a bit. The intent being that they can buy a primary residence like anyone else and not be taxed on it - restrictions would apply like they’d actually have to live there, not sell it for “x” years and not build another primary residence for “x” years or then be taxed on it. The businesses would have to be big enough to be useful, not a business of rich guy’s 2 buddies that would just use the “fake” business to throw venture capital back in the rich guy’s business, or the rich guy buy a yacht and the “business” be him paying his own crew through a shell company to drive him around in his own yacht.
- Comment on Security lines at JFK airport, NYC 19 hours ago:
There are several terminals with security checkpoints, this does not represent “JFK Airport” as a whole. This shown terminal is T5, JetBlue’s terminal.
- Comment on Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing? 19 hours ago:
The issue is when people are so self-absorbed they treat everyone like idiots, so the “stare” becomes a default.
- Comment on The Three Stooges are back on TV 19 hours ago:
The Stooges had to be smart enough to play dumb.
These guys are dumb trying to play smart.
It only works one way.
- Comment on [Jason Schreier] AAA game budgets estimated around $300 million. These budgets are almost entirely dev salaries + overheard and have nothing to do with executive compensation (which is mostly stock) 1 day ago:
Here we go again acting like rich people don’t get paid. It’s not the poor CEO’s fault, we don’t actually give them much money ~just millions in stock options~). It’s all the fault of the people that do the actual work.
- Comment on False Fronts 2 days ago:
That’s a good use of it.
- Comment on False Fronts 2 days ago:
It’s not a pleasant word. It’s basically pain or difficulty.
Childbirth is another “in the throes of…”
- Comment on You can just do stuff. 2 days ago:
If anyone didn’t know this was Asimov’s Nightfall like me, you can read it here.
- Comment on PlayStation Store Dynamic Pricing Is Real 3 days ago:
Yeah, I get what it is. But I’m wondering who the culprit is that really opened the door for it.
- Comment on PlayStation Store Dynamic Pricing Is Real 3 days ago:
Gotta love everything being “stock-market-ized”. Where did it start at the consumer level? I wanna say solidly with entertainment industry. The one that simultaneously sells tickets to events and also operates the resale business. Sell a shitload of tickets to scalpers, then people have to pay extra to buy the “market” price for the ticket. Uber and Lyft certainly had to contribute with their “surge” pricing methods. PC parts were a big one with the shortages of everything from GPUs to HDDs over the last decade plus, but those didn’t affect the general public.
- Comment on Woke 3 days ago:
I live in fear of the “asleep” people being in charge.
- Comment on Tastes like lyme 4 days ago:
Still waiting for the lyme vaccine to finish and become available.
- Comment on Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead 5 days ago:
Charging someone for literally nothing plus the opportunity to be charged more again later.
- Comment on Seems easy.. 5 days ago:
Doubling down on tacticool. Pants and suspenders. Angled foregrip and the vertical knife grip.
- Comment on The Art of the Deal 5 days ago:
For himself.
- Comment on Are Americans Actually Idiots? 5 days ago:
About 35% are undoubtedly and rigidly so. The truly unfortunate part is that they’re motivated idiots. They are actively and aggressively ignorant and very much want to impose their idiocy on the rest of the country.
- Comment on where? 6 days ago:
5 if you want interesting.
7 if you want an angry doctor to insult you and ignore you for the remainder of the flight while he sleeps after a couple vicodin.
- Comment on Normal 1 week ago:
Pink Panther lookin’ his age in retirement.
- Comment on ShitpostID: 4185519047 1 week ago:
12k likes for an inane corporate ad post? Gotta be mostly bots.
- Comment on I want to be... 1 week ago:
Here you go:
- Comment on Anon owns nothing and is unhappy 1 week ago:
When companies stopped being able to actually make anything new, they then choose to find new ways to extract profit from the customer. Far cheaper than expending money on R&D, retooling, etc. They all decided to become landlords of the worst kind, squatting on their tech and extracting rent while ensuring the rest of us own nothing.
- Comment on Horrorposting 1 week ago:
- Comment on Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse? 1 week ago:
We have the same problems reddit does. It’s just that it’s a smaller userbase and downvoted comments don’t disappear here like they get pushed down on reddit. So you don’t get downvoted as much, but your controversial or unpopular take remains visible for opposing opinions to attack. And yeah, there are mini-brigades here too. Make a comment about a subject that has importance to a particular instance and you get insta-downvoted multiple times, but your post will probably recover as the rest of the groups view the conversation.
- Comment on Share this with 5 people or it gets ya 1 week ago:
That’s the one.
- Comment on Simple, Stupid, and it always works 2 weeks ago:
The OG one.
- Comment on Share this with 5 people or it gets ya 2 weeks ago:
