ilinamorato

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ilinamorato ,

Ugh. I hate it when geriatric populist fascists accidentally stumble into a halfway decent joke.

“I notice it keeps tilting to the left,” Trump joked, “Like too many other things!”

I guess he is an "entertainer," so it shouldn't be much of a surprise that his jokes are better than his platform. Double entendre definitely intended.

Of course, to everyone watching—at least, to everyone watching who isn't behind Trump—it's pretty clear that everything is actually tilting to the right, and becoming a whole lot more unstable.

4ish years ago when I bought a house I was convinced not to get a house inspection, would it be crazy to get one now just to make sure it's all good?

Was 25 and super nervous, so when the realtor was like "oh yeah they just check for basic stuff, but I looked around and it looks great" I was like "Oh okay, this is so astronomically expensive every penny saved is good..."...

ilinamorato ,

Get it inspected. And next time you buy a house, try to get the seller to pay for the inspection as part of closing. They probably will.

ilinamorato ,

Totally. Our house is worth almost double what we paid for it before the pandemic. And during one of the lockdowns, we refinanced to a 15-year mortgage at the same monthly payment as our 30-year had been. All of which means that if we were trying to buy this year, we'd be paying four times as much over the span of the loan.

Golden handcuffs, though. We can't move for the next ten years now. Thankfully we don't want to.

ilinamorato ,

Until the city decides to get rid of the subsidized bus system because "Uber is a better service and covers the routes anyway" and then they jack the price sky-high.

ilinamorato ,

They're probably not considered "in public."

ilinamorato ,

What a bizarre hill to die on.

ilinamorato ,

There's a van in my neighborhood with a manifesto painted on every visible outside surface about how God entered the driver's body. It's a unique design and gets attention. And I would never want to drive it.

ilinamorato ,

Bing, not Edge.

ilinamorato ,

"If there’s no massive cheating" is such a meaningless phrase that they could use it to mean anything afterward. "Oh no, I heard someone say that their cousin was a cashier at a store where their coworker overheard a customer talking on the phone about a letter that their post office received from Russia on election day, so obviously there's massive cheating and Trump should just be in office."

That said, I don't know that this rises to the level of "outrageous" in modern political discourse, sadly. A "foolish" position, definitely. "Corrupt," perhaps. "Morally bankrupt." "Anti-democratic." But the position is much more reasonable than most Republicans are willing to grant these days, and that's what's truly outrageous.

ilinamorato , (edited )

"(A) Tennessee woman (who was) denied (an) abortion after (finding out her) fetus’ ‘brain (was) not attached’ slams (Tennessee's abortion) ban"

Hope that helps.

ilinamorato , (edited )

It's valid English and grammar, but it's a potentially reasonable position that anything which requires a specific domain knowledge to interpret may be valid but isn't perfect. You kind of have to know how journalists shorten sentences to make headlines in order to read it correctly; most native English-speaking adults do have that domain knowledge, but clearly not everyone since OP didn't have it.

That said, I don't know why this specific headline tripped OP up. It doesn't seem particularly ambiguous or difficult to me.

ilinamorato ,

Johnson is "we're electing a president not a pastor" incarnate, with all the short-sightedness and tomfoolery that comes with it.

ilinamorato ,

Did his son get an email about it?

ilinamorato ,

It's compounded by the delusion that the US's traffic engineers base all of their decisions on now.

"It'll be fine, it's been here for 60 years."

ilinamorato ,

They saw what MKBHD's honest reviews did to Fisker and Humane and said "can we stop that from happening?"

ilinamorato ,

Math is red, Language is yellow, History is orange, Science is blue OR green depending on the focus (physical science is blue, biology is green), Music is purple, though I was a band kid so I usually used the bigger music folders you got from the instrument shop. Art is whatever color science isn't because I'm not going to use the folder anyway and the sketchbook is always either a painting or brown.

I could also hear arguments for switching math and language.

ilinamorato ,

Your school made you get folders for PE?!

ilinamorato ,

Republican kills dog, is asked questions about it: "This interview is ridiculous"

Republican commits many crimes, is charged & prosecuted about it: "This trial is ridiculous"

Republican agrees to terms allowing himself to be recalled if five people agree: "This congress' inability to accomplish anything is ridiculous"

Republican kills a border bill that gives them everything they have been asking for for twenty years: "The situation at the border is ridiculous"

Republican passes huge tax cuts but increases DOD appropriations: "The budget deficit is ridiculous"

Every single problem, the GOP makes worse. But sure, the problem is pointing that out.

ilinamorato ,

Five years ago the average person didn't even know his name, or care. Honestly, even today the average person doesn't know who he is. My mom barely does. But those people still buy cars, and some of them still buy electric cars.

ilinamorato ,

I just popped open an incognito window and searched "best electric cars" and checked the top ten results: all of which mentioned Tesla, and only one of which mentioned Musk. And that mention was "say what you will about...," which is fairly noncommittal about who he is or what he does. Most people aren't scrolling Reddit or Twitter or especially Lemmy all the time; they Google a question, and when they get the answer they think "oh, I've heard of a Tesla, my buddy Jeff has one" and so they go ask Jeff whether he likes it or not.

Now, in 2024, his name is probably far more recognizable. But five years ago, especially before he bought Twitter? If they did see his name, it would probably have brought associations of rockets if anything.

Or look at the Google Trends results for his name. There's a spike in May 2020 (when his baby with Grimes was born), a slight bump in 2021 when he was on SNL, and a huge spike in 2022 when he was forced to buy Twitter. Aside from that, the interest in Tesla has always been much higher than the interest in Musk, and people have been less curious about him than about Taylor Swift (for instance).

People just don't care about the CEOs of most companies they buy stuff from.

ilinamorato ,

That presumes a lot more brand awareness than I think the average person has. Like I said above

Most people aren't scrolling Reddit or Twitter or especially Lemmy all the time; they Google a question

—in this case, I think, "best electric car" or "electric car consumer reports" or something—

and when they get the answer they think "oh, I've heard of a Tesla, my buddy Jeff has one" and so they go ask Jeff whether he likes it or not.

Admittedly this is just my gut reaction. But there's no really good way to test it out. "Tesla" is a tricky search term to nail down on Google Trends, since it could refer to the company or the inventor and has the confound of being searched a lot by people who are terminally online, for one reason or another. Unfortunately there's no way to select "only normies" in the viewer.

ilinamorato ,

Presidential Immunity is Democracy

Prohibition is freedom

History is woke

ilinamorato ,

"Rarely?" This is anecdotally very false, and I don't think I'm that much of an outlier. Do you have stats on that?

ilinamorato ,

"When Wolf 359 is in ashes, then you have my permission to die."

ilinamorato ,

The really funny thing to me about this is that this is canonical Star Trek because of Nemesis.

(Picard = Shinzon (genetically) = Tom Hardy = Bane)

ilinamorato ,

Disco doesn't take place in the Kelvin universe, and even if it did, Musk lived before the timelines diverged.

ilinamorato ,

Fair enough.

ilinamorato ,

Kirk and crew traveled back to our past from the prime timeline, though. We have no evidence that the Kelvin timeline Kirk did the same thing.

ilinamorato ,

Only once? Those are rookie numbers

ilinamorato ,

There are SO MANY Men In Black references in this thread and NOBODY is pointing them out and it is driving me CRAZY

ilinamorato ,

The galaxy is in Orion's belt.

ilinamorato ,

Ok thank you, that makes me feel a lot better to know that at least you intended the reference.

ilinamorato ,

Definitely seems like the easiest one on the list, but I'm pretty sure you'd vomit before you got very far past a dozen.

Also the LD50 of 100 is for someone who's 150lbs. That's fairly light for an adult who's capable of eating a lot of cupcakes.

ilinamorato ,

If you're heavier than 150lbs, the chance is even higher than that! (And you definitely will be by the time you've eaten 100 cupcakes)

ilinamorato ,

There's a conspiracy theory (not entirely without merit, but generally assumed to be baseless) that people with negative information about the Clintons end up dead suspiciously. Epstein was one such person, under this theory.

ilinamorato ,

That's the biggest hole in the theory for me. If they're willing to disappear people, there are a lot of people they seem to have missed.

There's a sort of counter theory that says that the Clintons themselves started the conspiracy theory as a way of putting all Clinton dissent under the heading of a conspiracy, and honestly I find that much more believable.

ilinamorato ,

Right, there are a lot of possible names to blame for Epstein for sure. Like I said, it's a theory that's largely considered to be baseless. The Clintons have a lot of faults, but I haven't seen any indication that they're into assassinations.

ilinamorato ,

No, it never made sense because it never accomplished its stated purpose. It only ever suppressed the will of the majority.

ilinamorato ,

Microsoft is already getting their money from the corpos, it's the 'freeloading' public they are trying to squeeze revenue from.

Yeah, those bums who only paid for the software once.

ilinamorato ,

Any sane person in such a situation would just use the dates. "As you recall, during the April 23 meeting..."

ilinamorato ,

Given that the facilitator is insufficiently pedantic while reciting the minutes from the previous meeting, I would assume that the club has not existed for long enough that the year could be ambiguous.

ilinamorato ,

Those in attendance would be aware. The chair said "as you might recall," implying that they were present at the previous meeting.

ilinamorato ,

I was in the path of totality. Which was amazing, but there were a LOT of people crowing about "something" happening during/after the Eclipse.

ilinamorato ,

No, it was usually the rapture.

ilinamorato ,

But less bad than Fentanyl and other C-IIs, it sounds like.

ilinamorato ,

I think more accurate is that White Castle has an incredibly polarizing flavor. More than almost anywhere else I've ever eaten, people either love it (some even become devotees and will travel across multiple state lines to get it, and their Valentine's Day special event books up months ahead of time) or they hate it (as, apparently, you do). It's almost exactly 50/50. There might be like 1% of people who are like, "yeah, I mean, it's ok."

ilinamorato ,

It's definitely not the way it used to be. I wonder what's up with that.

There's a distinctive flavor difference when McD's food gets cold. With most food, it just tastes like the same food except it's cold; but with McDonald's, it goes from smelling appetizing and tasting decent to smelling horrible and tasting worse. The thing I have noticed is that, in the past decade or so, that window of flavor has gone from a gradient to a really stark dividing line, about 20-30 minutes after the food is cooked.

ilinamorato ,

Actually, in the second edition, Schlosser added an epilogue talking about how much things had changed in a positive direction in the decade or so since he published the original. So if anything, I think the downturn in quality is probably due to the removal of the artificial stuff. Maybe it's just proving that they never used good ingredients to begin with.

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