This is something that hit me like a ton of bricks after living abroad for a bit. It definitely made me think a lot about how much more pleasant things are when people are at least marginally considerate of others, and just how little some people seem to do it in the US.
Have y’all ever listened to or seen anything about Hegseth? He’s prattled on about this “warrior ethos” shit endlessly and was literally too stupid and incompetent for Fox fucking News. This is exactly the kind of stupid shit he’d pull.
Until it’s politically valuable to do so.
It’s pretty at this point he does. At one point I was very confused by the “emptying out mental asylums” talk, but after hearing him say something along the lines of “And you have the immigrants coming here from asylums, they’re literally sending us insane people”, it’s pretty clear at this point he absolutely thinks “asylum” means “mental institution”.
Unironically, this was exactly how the announcement at my old company went. Literally, someone getting paid millions of dollars a year basically saying “Yeah we made this decision on vibes alone”
The issue is legitimately that they’re all a bunch of massively racist fucks and were told for over a decade how the world saw us as a laughing stock (because we had a black man as president), despite being ridiculously popular on the world stage, and so they think just by having a rich white asshole suddenly we’re respected again, even though he’s truly the biggest laughing stock ever.
Sony has OLED TVs now, likely using the exact same panels in the equivalent LG TV. One huge plus of Sony TVs is they run Android and so installing custom patched apps is pretty easy.
I’m certainly not holding my breath, but it wouldn’t be a bad hail-Mary play for them
Honestly, knowing the dire straights the NRA has been in the past 10 years or so, it wouldn’t be a bad time to try and rebrand. Right wingers aren’t nearly as big fans of them anymore after they’ve rolled over on basically every gun rights case that’s come up, so I’m kinda hoping this is an actual attempt at doing something.
Also, a small wet/dry vac!
I love when people see deer here in North America. You’d think they’re seeing a unicorn, when it’s just some plain ol’ mule deer.
Honestly, I have hope that things won’t get that bad. Realistically, Trump could have easily already had his own Sturmabteilung outright murdering opposition members and doing far worse. Things are bad, but given the effectively unlimited power he’s got right now, they’ve been weirdly reserved with how they’ve used it. They certainly posture and bluster like they’re ready to do so, but have generally only done so in a largely performative way.
The difference is the Wehrmacht didn’t have hundreds of ICBMs, nuclear subs, aircraft carriers, and the ability to land an entire military base anywhere in the world in a week’s time.
New Years? I’m taking a week off work and my family is gonna have to call a search party to find me I’m gonna party so hard.
Eventually, yeah. I had an issue with contacts when I was younger as I have to wear thick toric lenses, which allow very little oxygen through. I would wear them way too long, and I was warned that continuing to do so could cause eventually cause blindness
Vance doesn’t seem the type to go down on someone.
They’re super special electrostatic headphones, so they have to be run with a special type of amplifier, and the one they come with come is absolutely insane, and is a huge part of the cost. Honestly, I bet you could cost cut the whole thing down to under $20k, but you’re paying a LOT of money for stuff like the fact that the amplifier case is made of marble and has one of the coolest boot sequences imaginable, where all the tubes and knobs rise out of it and retract back in so the whole thing is seamless. It’s very much one of those things that get built when engineers are handed a blank check and told “We don’t care what it costs, have fun”
I’m curious as to what makes it so nice? My gut reaction is to say “It’s literally a rod of metal with some checkering”, but I’ve been in enough hobbies to know that there are some very fine details that make a world of difference.
I like the theory that they are literally possessed by demons and it actively rots them at an accelerated rate.