durdenhobbes
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durdenhobbes
21d ago
Is your friend's name Dennis, by any chance?
durdenhobbes
21d ago
I prefer to keep my head as far away from the spindle as possible when I'm operating a lathe, personally.
durdenhobbes
23d ago
It's funny, because I remember studying that same case in PolySci and thinking to myself, verbatim: "wow, so our legal system is literally just whatever some powerful dickhead wants it to be".
durdenhobbes
24d ago
My question becomes: how would a random teacher in California know that this specific event would have unusually-lax security?
durdenhobbes
24d ago
I assumed he meant with Iran.
durdenhobbes
25d ago
I mean, given the premise that you’re attempting an assassination of the most powerful people on earth, how else would you better phrase it? Came across as shockingly self-aware, to me.
durdenhobbes
29d ago
If the legal statutes allow for that level of immorality, they should be considered entirely irrelevant. Human systems are for human beings, not the other way around.
This scene from Gran Turino probably best embodies why guys banter in profane and seemingly-offensive ways: it's a counterintuitive means of signaling a deeper intimacy beyond the typical small talk that would take place in a conversation with a stranger or casual acquaintance. The subtext is, "I can say absolutely (well, nearly) anything to your face, because you know that I love and care about you at the end of the day". Because most men traditionally would never say that actual phrase out loud.
From personal experience, it's also an amusing way to get reactions from oblivious eavesdroppers who are like "wtf are these guys' problems with each other?"
durdenhobbes
1mo ago
- Yep
- Also yes
- Ditto
- Unfortunately yes as well
- No, not for those of us paying attention
- Who cares
- No, I don’t think opinions have changed much; still a stupid idea
- Which ones?
- Doesn’t matter. Trump has dissolved his own coalition, and there’s no getting it back at this point
durdenhobbes
1mo ago
Covid lockdowns were directly responsible for the end of my dream career, my marriage, and my faith in humanity. Six years later, I share in your anger as I navigate a similar PTSD this time of year.
durdenhobbes
2mo ago
People don't drink anymore, so bars and clubs are out.
Beg your pardon? I think alcohol sales are down roughly 2-3% from a few years ago, but people certainly still fill up all the good bars in any major city on the weekends, at minimum.
durdenhobbes
2mo ago
Yeah that’s less than nothing, unless she values her time and sanity at zero.
If the story is accurate as you say, I’d have been going to every local news station, calling up his competitors to let them know how to market against him, maybe buy a billboard or two myself…
durdenhobbes
2mo ago
A tenth of a five-figure sum? So a few thousand dollars? Surely she spent more on 2 years of legal action than that.
Should have told him to suck a fat one, and leave the 1-star review.
durdenhobbes
2mo ago
The United States has been a vassal state of Israel for the entirety of my existence. How is this suprising news to anyone?
durdenhobbes
2mo ago
you sure have to put up with a lot.
Nah, you really don't. Recognize that the juice ain't worth the squeeze, and bring balance back to the force.
durdenhobbes
2mo ago
Most of the media hates Israel and tends to uncritically publish anti-Israel propaganda.
What do you base that assertion on? My observational experience has been the polar opposite.
durdenhobbes
3mo ago
I think the social expectations surrounding childrearing has more to do with it than the breakdown of any longstanding disinformation campaign. Until basically now, families had 4+ kids, and the oldest would start taking care of the younger ones from age 6 or so (this was my grandmother's responsibility and lived experience, as my great grandmother died in childbirth of the youngest sibling). If you lived on a farm, you'd be pitching in with chores from the time you could walk, and you were much-needed labor. Get out of line? Get the belt. And so on. This was a hard living, but it built children into little adults rather than the coddled tyrants that you describe.
Fast forward to today, and it's no wonder than parenthood is so all-encompassingly exhausting. The "gentle parenting" trend has made children the rulers of the domain and the adults their indentured servants. And parents do it to each other, constantly trying to one-up their peers with lavish birthday parties, 5-figure caches of toys in dedicated playrooms, chauffeur services to endless activities, and general capitulation to absolutely anything Little Johnny and Janie could ever demand. Get out of line? Uhh, "don't do that, I guess?".
The pendulum will swing back, because as a parent currently trying to wage this war, I can confidently say that it is not a sustainable state of affairs.
durdenhobbes
3mo ago
but the thing being in Spanish without even subtitles really did feel like a fuck you.
Felt exactly the same way, until I saw some of the translated lyrics on X and quickly realized why they wouldn't be on network television
durdenhobbes
3mo ago
durdenhobbes
3mo ago
“Deserve” seems overly charitable.
durdenhobbes
3mo ago
We’re all just human
durdenhobbes
3mo ago
I don’t think there’s any serious doubt at this point. Ghislane was that user.
durdenhobbes
3mo ago
Those unis are insanely badass. Well done, sir.
durdenhobbes
3mo ago
There's some good discussion lending credence to this theory (including better video than I've seen elsewhere) in this thread
Seconded. If you break everything down to its molecular structure, then yeah life is pretty goddamned stupid and no one should try for anything. "The only philosophical question is suicide" and all that.
Sometimes you just have to let fun, stupid things be fun and stupid. I do this all the time with sports, Christmas, raising kids, etc.
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