I’m curious what it means to own an island like that. What happens if someone approaches? There seems to me to be a lot of fun to be had with that if you got a big enough group together. Do you think there are guards for the island? Maybe making miserable the lives of people who enforce the will of billionaires is a fun next step in the step-on-the-peons game the elite like to play.
That was my first thought as well, but goddamn has my ‘willing to believe’ meter been ground down to nearly nothing these days. Poe’s law lives, and its phenomena are horrific.
I’d peg that as a bigger reason for failing then. That was the true selling point of starbucks. You buy an overpriced coffee/sugarsnotmix and then use it as a meeting joint or workspace for an hour or two. I hated the trend of just-out-of-college colleagues suggesting (and getting) starbucks as a meeting location. No, I don’t want to bring my laptop to starbucks and sit around a table talking about our work for an hour or two. I have to shut down at the office, drive or get a ride to the shitjoint, re-set up everything again, and then try to keep my voice low enough to not annoy others in the place and high enough to be heard over everything going on… grumble grumble.
It could be good coffee. I use an Aeropress occasionally
Ah! Found the problem!
You’re making coffee? It’s going to be awful. Drink tea like a real human.
Lulz, that was such a good movie. I’m still annoyed by the nukes somehow needing the code to explode apparently uploaded to them at the very last second, but that’s just a small quibble. Plus it was the first time I got to see machine gun rabbit, so that was a real treat.
I think there’s a community here (classic gamers? retro gamers? patient gamers?) that is similar. I keep meaning to go in and say hello, but my massive ‘want to stay away from discord’ paranoia keeps me from it.
It still happens on fucking lemmy of all places. Looking at that stupid cbsnews url with revulsion…
God, I’m so far out of the loop on things that I didn’t know it wasn’t itunes.
Americans are complacent. Part of it is living paycheck to paycheck, and part of it is that the bread and circuses have quite a few psychological tricks and chemical boosts to make them much more addictive than anything the romans could have dreamed of.
That “push hard” bit will need to be as extreme as the bombing campaign against the vietnamese was in order to get any action.
There are a lot of fates that are terrible. Deportation is hell, but so is a life where your ‘potential’ (with all of the baggage of that word) is never realized, especially if it’s because opportunities are now denied you.
I think the numbers aren’t even universal when comparing states or countries. As soon as you see the other car’s lights is as good of a rule as any. I actually know the numbers for my area, and it’s not like I use them to calculate when to turn them off.
It’s only fun if you don’t get caught. They say juvenile records are sealed, but you’d be amazed how much it can fuck up your life.
Maybe it was just the size of the convention center (30 foot ceilings, holy volumes of air, batman!), but that was my experience as well.
I think it’s more that baseball has slowly become an ‘elite’ sport, and republicans (who have their cultural image shaped by elites) want to be elite. Rich kids can definitely still pursue baseball as an alternative to polo. Meanwhile, basketball is still viewed as a sport where you can go to that basketball hoop at the park, work your way up from a kid through school trying hard, and make it (even if basketball players now have the same ‘academy’ style training facilities that they came from just like baseball has had for a few decades). I have at least one acquaintance who did the whole ‘traveling high school team’ thing for basketball now.
The image still in people’s head though, is of charles barkley and (shit I can’t remember his name) the other houston rocket guy who played at their local community center before playing for the rockets. The center still had their pictures and stories up on the wall when I was last in houston. It still feels like people come from that path. Contrast that with my acquaintance from high school who eventually played pro baseball where it was more something along the lines of: moved to a high school with an elite, known team; went to a baseball trainer after school; played in the amateur, organized leagues outside of school; had parents arrange meetings with scouts, coaches at colleges, and toured each program; played in college; kept going to a trainer during college; then finally went to amateur/pro baseball.
Interesting. I know japan has that weird kfc-at-christmas because of the successful ad campaign, but it’s always korean fried chicken that I hear about being special.
I think the people at the top are supposed to represent the ideal that the side wants. Republican farters want women in dresses and men in suits (likely doing business), where the democrats want, I guess, casual friday? It’s accurate for the red dicks, at least.
Just let me be clear, it incenses me just as much as you, lol, but here’s the thing, run on sentences are much worse for us in the interim and we need to circle back around so that that issue becomes a lesser thing, lest we forget the true horrors of english perpetuating themselves through a normalization of nominalization that makes a trivialization of our original lines in the sand aaaaand now I’m just getting into the weeds with my niche micro-interests and brought in too many limes.
“Exceeds expectations”
“Exceeds expectations”
“Exceeds expectations”
“Exceeds expectations”
‘Well, nanner, you got one write up, which is lower than 95% of the company, so looks like you’ll only be getting 1.5% instead of the 3% for average, and I don’t personally give out the 6% raise I’m allowed to.’ - my fucking supervisor, while other supervisors hand out everything like candy (not really, they just shower their favorite)
And a very large amount of nimbyism and zoning for residential areas. Capitalism has so many ways to attack the common man’s wallet.
On the one hand, yes, ruining 401ks and iras for middle america people who still have investments would be sad, on the other, ruining the investments of rich fucks would be joyous. We’re not going to get out of this hellhole we find ourselves in by coddling everyone invested in the system.