Et tu, Barney?

Ahh, if it isn’t like that.

Hey, do I come into your house to insult you?

It’s a calling card. Everyone knows what happened, not a single soul will comment on it. Unless they fancy being the next up for flight lessons.

Signed.

There could be (rare) upsides. If they go through with 50% or higher tarrifs, electronics prices in EU might come down due to dumping.

Seems rather bulky for a ring also. I wonder if it snags on a lot of things while using your hands normally.

While horrendous, a great many of them (or their families) are completely complicit, so my empathy for them is a lot lower than it probably should be.

Of course, my heart does go out to those who had no hand in this monstrosity, although they will still equally be affected by it.

“It’s a big club and we ain’t in it,” but Trump and co. don’t feel the need to put up the facade anymore.

Bingo. Instead of “hiring” (paying off) politicians, they’re just doing it themselves. They’ve lost any and all care about keeping up appearances. After all, what are we going to do? Sue them?

Whoever wrote that was spot on though. Source: not a rooster but I have been called a cock before.

Of course, they’ll be able to do tremendous amounts of irreparable damage to society.

Gaza has already been flattened and its people have been psychologically tortured into being unable to fight back.

This genocide is already well underway, not “about to start”.

The amounts of copium in this thread are extinction-level.

Everything you just said is 100% valid and you are simply correct.

The thing is, it’s not a measure of a healthy mind to thrive in a profoundly sick society where the worst of the worst have won long ago.

There’s this thing called depressive realism which posits that depressed people, by and large, perceive reality much closer to how it really is than neurotypical people.

Essentially, “normal” people have an (innate or learned) positivity bias. Which is usually a good thing. People like us are the outliers.

But positivity bias in a world where it’s actually harmful is another thing. The majority of people are walking headlong into their own extinction while going “Ehh, it’s not so bad”, while we should ALL be positively irate and picketing the homes (not companies) of our owner class 24/7.

But it hasn’t happened yet and at this point I don’t know how bad things need to get before people realize what’s going on.

Ukraine is facing an existential threat. If they have the in-house knowledge and capability to do this, they absolutely should.

If Russia gives up tomorrow, the war will be over. If Ukraine gives up tomorrow Ukraine will be over.

Touché.

I meant clearly easily attainable by others. If I start comparing myself to them, well, it’s like comparing a '97 Pinto vs a 2022 EV.

I will, thanks! No matter how long it takes, I will never give up on him.

Quantum awkwardness. I for one am in a permanent state of possibly awkward.

A “good” thing from a bad thing: my 6 year old computer monitor decided to croak today. As it’s currently black friday deals, I managed to order a new one fairly cheap-o.

No thanks.

Hhaha, I’m going to start referring to my depression as “that dopamine shortage” or even “the great dopamine shortage”.