As if he cares about his family. I mean, he does in passing, but you know he’d give them up in a heartbeat if it held any advantage whatsoever to him personally. Well, except for the one he wanted to fuck, but she’s too old now. So even her.

We seriously need a plugin that replaces all words spoken by Trump’s mouthpieces to be replaced with static and line noise. I’m tired of reading the lies. It’d be one thing if they were interesting, but they’re so lame.

missiles that shit them down

What a terrible way to go for those planes, though. :(

It also showed there was a 460% increase in assaults on ICE officers in that same time period, from five to 28.

Gee, wonder if that’s anything to do with them going out and assaulting^[1] US citizens en masse…

A tiny bit of good news in an ocean full of sewage? I’ll take it.

I’m all for getting them more solar and getting more of them with stable power. And more weapons against Russia.

Nothing better than preying on those who least deserve it and who can least afford it. :sigh:

Well, yes, I’ll be off looking for them next time I need to use an archival site. I’m bummed to learn this crap about archive.ph.

Weapon of motherly destruction?

Dammit. Everyone’s been using that site to get around paywalls because it works well. Now I have to go find another one that works as well. :|

Can you explain what you mean?

Ahhhhhh, gotcha. Well, something like that can indirectly hurt because lower wages means shittier employees who care less and make crappier food slower. Many fast food locations across all the brands suffer from this. But if you have a good one with good service and food quality, it’s more likely you’ll patronize them.

For a long time I didn’t eat Burger King because the only ones near me were crappy. But we’ve moved to a place where we have one that’s decent, so it’s something I get very occasionally.

But yeah, most of fast food’s problem is the larger problem of companies in our country: Nobody can afford to buy anything. Or rather, at all levels, budgets are tighter. :)

When I want to reply and tell someone to fuck off because I disagree with them, I try to remember the pleasant results of NOT doing that, so a reply like this helps me be a better person, thank you <3

Yeah, why are you two still here on my lawn‽ ;-)

Richard Simmons.

Y’know, I grew up making fun of him, but as I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized that homophobia isn’t funny, and the more I read about him, the more I realize he was generally a pretty sweet and caring dude trying to help people. All the hate he got was really unjustified. Our society sucks sometimes.

For me, it was my first day at Texas Instruments. I had to show up to a mandatory Outlook training session (which was hilarious as I was being hired for a helpdesk position. I’d used Outlook since the first version in 1997 and supported it…). A guy came in and turned on the televisions.

I called my wife, who was working in the flight path of DFW airport. We also tried to get hold of my stepmother, who was working in the tallest building in downtown Dallas at the time.

It was much chaos, as I’m sure you remember, as nobody really knew what was going on or what further attacks might happen.

So for me, I was a young adult, married for about a year and a half when it happened - I got to live half a decade as an adult in the pre-9/11 world.

It’s hard for me to remember that for newer generations, all this bullshit that really started taking off hardcore after 9/11 is normalized. I saw our rights being taken away, the constant fear increase, the hatred for Muslims that blossomed into racism coming back out of its dirty closet, the rise of fascism.

It wasn’t always that way. :(

Hydration is good. If you hydrate a LOT, remember to have some electrolytes in there somewhere. You don’t need a lot, but some.

Also, the “eight glasses of water per day” thing was made up whole cloth. It is not medically nor scientifically a thing. The best advise is: Drink when you are thirsty. Unless there’s something wrong, that’s your body’s way of telling you it needs hydration.

That said, if you exercise or get your body’s signals confused, thirst might not work perfectly for you. Generally, if you’re exercising, bored, hungry - having a glass of water might be just the thing and usually doesn’t hurt anything, so give it a go.

'75 here. All you youngsters can get the hell off my lawn.

Actually, what I’ve noticed is that I don’t so much feel older as I do the “kids” keep getting younger. Was I like that at their age? Yep, probably, but I felt mature and adult then. To some degree. That thing about how you never really feel like an adult? I still get that a little bit. But after three decades of being an adult, it has also set in a bit.

Mostly, I’m opinionated, and I remember things from the past 40 years because I was alive for them, so they aren’t history to me, they are a part of the life I experienced.

So as you guys get older, I think you’ll find that - like whatever happens after Trump, unless it does continue to get worse (which is quite possible), there will come a time when a younger generation won’t know what it felt like to live under this fascism, and you, having lived through it, will have your mind blown because it’s history to them.

Which I guess has helped me when I think about figures from history and the past in general. While I can’t imagine living before the era of cars, I do know that whatever time frame you look at - to the people living at that time, it was all contemporary and modern. And so when you see people that had relationships with other people and arguments and such, you really do realize that we’re all human.

Also, the older I get, the more I realize just how precious life is. And when you’re young, you really are going to live forever. But every single day that passes is gone forever. Every month takes you further forward. Each year goes by and never comes back. When your 20s are gone, they won’t ever return. Don’t let that upset you, just make sure you aren’t coasting along and wasting time, waiting for what comes next, because if you spend you life waiting for what comes next, you die without anything ever coming next. Don’t “make every moment count” - do take time to relax. Just make sure that you are not ONLY relaxing, and don’t put everything off to the future. Do what you can to enjoy the life you have as best as you can while also trying to keep improving things.

My understanding is that it always tries to give you 2-3 route options. It defaults to what it thinks is the shortest, but it gives you a couple of options that are slightly longer. You might prefer those other options for various reasons.

But if there aren’t a whole lot of altenate options, the 2-3 options for slightly longer routes might include “ridiculous” things like this. It doesn’t know. It wouldn’t know why you wouldn’t always want the shortest route, but of course as humans, we have preferences and knowlege Maps doesn’t have.

I’m not sure where the question is coming from, but stagnated wages means that as prices rise due to inflation, people make the same wage and their spending power goes down. And when their spending power goes down, they have to spend more on necessities like rent/mortgate, transportation, groceries. It leaves less disposable income for things like fast food, entertainment, et cetera.

Thinking about the original ads this is parodying… it’s wild to think that they had to explain the idea of chocolate and peanut butter together. I think we take that for granted these days. heh.