Crazy attracts crazy.

Extreme isn’t extreme enough for some people.

I do not understand why people cannot see him for what he is. He’s shown everyone over and over again exactly what he is. Yet somehow they tell themselves this time he’ll actually do something right.

Maybe if someone enlisted long enough to get the GI bill for education and used it things would be different, but if one only does short military time and leaves with no further self-improvement the odds of being better off financially probably aren’t great.

Fuck this.

Yeah. Don’t even know what to add to that. Maybe some boomer culture as well, how they had whatever issues that the modern generation doesn’t have and point that out as some kind of hardship while simultaneously being likely to have had the most stable career, technological, and economic progress of any generation in history.

Meanwhile they busily edit anything a Democrat says to indicate something other than what the context of the statement was.

Yet another beautiful story about how a young person has to sell their youth in order to afford medical care in America.

Deeply /s

TIL hebophile and ephebophile, two words I didn’t want to know existed.

Brutha I didn’t change the subject and argue points my opponent wasn’t trying to make in order to make myself right about something. You are literally an example of what I was talking about.

Argument by hyperbole.

Trying an argumentative fallacy yourself? A little red herring or straw manning? Nobody said anything about a classroom.

In no way did I suggest the opponent should know what fallacy they are using or that there are rules for the rabble online, the fallacies are mentioned so that you, the reader, would know what people do in an argument that make it not worthwhile, and that the opponent is using them to avoid conceding anything.

One can also infer that using those techniques, even unknowingly, are still common bullshit arguments by an opponent that isn’t discussing in good faith when presented with objective facts. Again, why it’s a lost cause to argue online.

Trump wasn’t a client. He was a partner.

99% of all arguments on the internet. Someone is almost always going to engage in some kind of pedantry, butwhatabout, technicality, argumentative fallacy, etc. to try to make themselves right and/or imply the OP was wrong in some way. They are not open to having their mind changed. Especially when it comes to politics, and there’s essentially no hope for religion at all. This generally applies to IRL discussions, too. At least the internet argument you can just walk away, block, or unsubscribe to any replies to the thread.

In the same vein…expecting anyone to change. People have to change themselves, and it’s not up to you. You can’t make it happen except maybe in the most extreme situations, and even then it might be iffy.

And I hate to say it, apologizing on the internet. Once the downvote train starts and shitting on the offender’s posts there’s almost no way out and any apology isn’t worth the effort. I find this kinda hypocritical seeing as there are numerous internet posts about the value of admitting you don’t know something or might have it wrong, and how we shouldn’t shame people for admitting that, yet if someone screws up and apologizes they’re usually hosed. Just reinforces not apologizing.

AI making up stupid, factually incorrect, or absurd responses: Ignore those issues. Copy/paste as a source without checking. More AI!

AI making factually correct but inconvenient responses: Let’s put lots of effort into making sure that doesn’t happen.

That’s not how that works. There are no separate residential lines for police.

The rest, that’s not how that works, either.

This right here. BofA made over a billion in overdraft/NSF fees. Keeping poor people poor.

It’s pretty much a street with a bunch of expensive trendy outlet shops on it. Like UniQlo, Gucci, Breitling, or whatever. Same trendy shit that’s always grouped together.

Run all the samples through a computer, write a prompt telling it to create music in the style of (x), and keep tweaking the prompt to reiterate the result until something desirable emerges. No skill or understanding of music required, just keep hitting “generate” or whatever until something gets spit out that sounds good.

Vs

Thousands of hours of music making experience, understanding of musical styles, lyric arrangement, composition, heck…even music theory and the ability to read and write musical notes…and take all of that and make something original that, with permission of the original artist, uses modified clips of others’ tracks.

Sampling isn’t the defining difference.

Probably saw it in some passing meme while he endlessly scrolls Twitter and Truth Social between golf and Mar a Lago.

Maybe that was the plan. Get a bunch of pissed off voters to elect dems in various places, then wait a couple days to “fuck over” everyone after the seats had been won and vote for the republican legislation.