Bush 2 is a direct line to trump. From courting the evangelicals and bringing their supply side Jesus to the front to legitimizing stubbornness and agressive ignorance as quality in a presidency. He ran on not skill, competence, and education, but “who do you want your drinking buddy to be?” Literally. If you were around when he ran the unofficial question was “who would you rather have a beer with?” Hence the news paying attention to Obama’s occasional beer, and Obama having a drink with whomever.

Bush mashed the accelerator pedal on all the things needed to make it easier for the far right to swoop in and take over.

Some.

Keep it up, dude.

There has to be at least one furrowed brow among them.

You can never go home again.

The act of leaving means you and possibly your home and the people around it are now divergent. It loses the familiarity that made it comfortable.

Nobody gets out of life alive, life is a terminal condition.

Just setting expectations. Hopefully the realization that you only get one go at it, so try to live while you can.

Spare the rod, spoil the child.

I remember this because so many use it as a validation of punishment - the allusion to beating the child with a stick. What it means is to guide a child like a shepherd guides a flock using a crook or whatever. Teach and guide a child so they grow up well.

Everyone can be jealous of what you got, but nobody is jealous of how hou got it

Pretty self explanatory.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Just a tired old truism that young people just don’t appreciate what they have. Either health, time, looks, whatever. It’s true. They can’t. It’s like not appreciating breathing until you have a bad cold and realize the value of not having a plugged up nose.

There’s this golf course that used to be Trump Links that I drive past once in a while. It’s “Bally Links” now, but it’s ugly AF. No trees. I think it was landfill that got converted, they probably can’t grow anything with deep roots there because plastic and toxic waste under it. Soon as I saw this article this is the golf dump I thought of.

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We passed the “barbaric” marker a long time ago.

“Learn” hahahahaha

Did having centralized control and monitoring of coolers save a fake number of man-hours on a spreadsheet instead of paying a store employee already on the clock to check temperatures occasionally?

They’re going to keep doing it because the spreadsheet says the risk is worth saving those fictional man-hour costs.

Until they stop supporting the device for OS updates and apps stop functioning. I have a couple older iOS devices that we still use but they cannot update past iOS 9 and 12, and some apps have ceased functioning in one way or another. So they’re fine for a little web browsing and the like, but that’s about it.

Saving up names for houses to raid and disappear people later.

They don’t use Yandex, but it appears they might share datacenter resources.

I don’t know anything about the linked source or how trustworthy it is.

Translated: this has nothing to do with immigration, the problem is the $120 it takes to fill my brodozer and my grocery bill has doubled. Now I care.

Are there? I’d like to see those numbers. I was earning 16/hr 20 years ago and after state and local tax, health insurance, and mortgage it was choosing what bills wouldn’t get paid until late fees racked up. We weren’t living large, our living space was just over 1,000 square feet.

16/hr 20 years ago is equivalent to about 27/hr today. So I have a hard time beleiving 22/hr is going to be much more than beans ‘n rice for a family - assuming this is a normal work week and not someone pulling 60 hours and OT.

This is in ukraine’s best iterest.

Russian (and Chinese among others) bots drive political unrest, primarily by supporting right wing and nationalist provocateurs to destabilize governments that support Ukraine or NATO.

If Zelensky can silence the trolls, he has a better chance at continued support.

“Trump will win” a race he’s not in?

If you’ve got excess floaters you should have your eyes checked. It can be an indication of something else going wrong.

Some context

They didn’t listen to the scientists.

Somehow I think AI would go from “Super Intelligence” to “that libtard tree hugging computer made of parts from commie Chy-na” as soon as it told them to do something legit that would inconvenience them or disagree with their narrative.

Because those unwashed masses cling to him, want to be near him. He can’t stand them because he thinks he’s the smartest person in the room and everyone around him is stupid. He’s classist AF.

So instead of hiring actual people again, they’ll look for cheaper engineers and robots.