durdenhobbes
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User ID: 1307
durdenhobbes
2d 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
3d ago
durdenhobbes
6d ago
“Deserve” seems overly charitable.
durdenhobbes
10d ago
We’re all just human
durdenhobbes
10d ago
I don’t think there’s any serious doubt at this point. Ghislane was that user.
durdenhobbes
14d ago
Those unis are insanely badass. Well done, sir.
durdenhobbes
18d ago
There's some good discussion lending credence to this theory (including better video than I've seen elsewhere) in this thread
durdenhobbes
18d ago
As in, the left gets what they want politically, or they get a hot war?
durdenhobbes
30d ago
Yeah, I'm glad I've never owned one. That's been standard on all but the most basic cars since at least the 80s. What money-grubbing bastards.
durdenhobbes
30d ago
What car company? Just so I can be absolutely certain to never buy one.
I think this is a major contributing factor in the oft-discussed "enshittification" of everything. The world has become increasingly flat, and increasingly bland. Car companies don't take risks, and everything they sell is some shade of grey with maybe some blue scattered in. Companies increasingly recognize that any small "lifehacks" or perk can be monetized, and our sense of hope and wonder fades away. Even Disney World has MBA'd itself into a place I would no longer remotely describe as the "happiest place on earth".
The phenomenon stems largely from corporate consolidation, as well. You used to have a bevy of media options and ownership groups, which could bring multiple flavors of radio stations and newspapers to even a mid-size town. Now they're all pretty much owned by the same handful of companies. And how many quaint local mom-n-pop stores have succumbed to Amazon and Wal-Mart?
durdenhobbes
1mo ago
To me at least, that's what it felt like we were doing during the three Trump campaigns. Never in my life did I expect to be involved in such a polarizing political environment, but the cause felt worthy enough that I made sacrifices to endorse it. I'm sure others experienced the fractured relationships, social ostracization, and professional hazards that came along with supporting the man who seemed to be the only one willing to stand up against the zeitgeist.
And then you get stuff like this and you just kinda throw up your hands and realize you've probably been duped once again.
durdenhobbes
1mo ago
you need to make sure that the people who control how the public is molded are not evil or stupid.
The question is how? And don't say "vote".
durdenhobbes
2mo ago
Yeah I'm getting "504 Bad Gateway" (or something close to that) errors all the time lately. Thought the site had shut down for a minute.
durdenhobbes
2mo ago
A number of men at the church I grew up in attended Promise Keepers meetings/events
durdenhobbes
2mo ago
Yeah my hungover brain realized that a moment later, but I decided to leave the post as written anyways.
durdenhobbes
2mo ago
This is the internet and people lie, but scout's honor I got perfect scores on the math section of the PSAT, the SAT, and the GMAT. I could not for the life of me remember how to expand (1+s)^2. I run a business, lots of accounting-type math, but haven't given the slightest thought to quadratics in two decades.
Kinda scary how you just... lose stuff over time.
durdenhobbes
4mo ago
10-15 years lines up pretty precisely with the advent (or at least the widespread acceptance) of online dating and hookup apps. Dating and sex are commodities now, and the experience is significantly cheapened as a result.
durdenhobbes
4mo ago
I'd say in any given amount of cash I withdraw, I get one maybe 3-4% of the time
durdenhobbes
4mo ago
I understood a few of those words.
But seriously, could you give a little background/context/de-abbreviation for the elderly among us?
and apparently some old guy falsely confessed to the crime in police custody which is strange.
This is the part I've been wondering about today. I saw a video of them taking that old guy into custody and he was yelling "SHOOT ME!" over and over. Maybe he's just a random crazy, but part of me wondered if he wasn't in cahoots with the shooter as a willing patsy designed to take the fall and/or run interference long enough to allow the real shooter to escape.
edit: found this X thread which seems to really flesh out my hypothesis, complete with a getaway plane and everything
durdenhobbes
5mo ago
I thought XP was pretty much the pinnacle of personal computing, before I switched to OSX.
durdenhobbes
5mo ago
I initially read this as "in which way is she otherwise disabled?"
durdenhobbes
6mo ago
This is maybe the funniest comment I've seen in all my years on SSC/CWR/Motte
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.
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