It gets even better when you add:
And
Tab Stash lets me stash a big ridiculous research or shopping session I’d want to return to, under a nice collection label for later.
And Auto Tab Discard will essentially unload open tabs you haven’t touched in a while, so they’ll load from scratch when you “wake them up”, but they’re not hogging all your RAM. It’s fantastic.
Lol “Fox & Friends”. More like “Murdoch’s Monsters.”
I was also thinking that businesses are bought and sold all the time. My local mechanic seemed to change owners once every several years.
I’m feeling the same way. I’ve been mostly “stuck” in wherever I just ended up. Part of me really does fantasize about fleeing somewhere better, especially being in a part of the US with an absolutely abysmal education record (and it shows. Oh boy.)
But besides the resources, I don’t have some ultra compelling reason for a non-volatile nation to bother letting me in.
There’s cool people here, and I try to get along with whomever, but forming relationships feels really high stakes these days since contested politics and tribalism is infecting every facet of peoples’ lives.
Me in highschool. Man I thought I’d have those friends forever. It was really cool how socializing wasn’t so high-stakes back then. I kinda knew everybody of all sorts there, and could hold a conversation with almost anyone.
Once I had to move away to the middle of nowhere after graduation, and they got jobs and stuff, I was left with one (1) single friend that actively sought to catch up with me regularly. He earned the top spot of “best friend.”
The rest just forgot I existed because I decided to drop Facebook. (And I provided alternative methods to reach me.) My once best pal would usually respond to “How’s it going man? :D” with “Work.” That’s it.
I realize one of the biggest fantasies we see through our screens and on our pages is a group of fellows with unbreakable bonds. From sitcoms to superheroes, and now even tabletop gaming, I think we all just want a group we can struggle and rejoice together with, and that’s become such a coveted grail of a thing.
But the world is designed to isolate and busy and fatigue us as adults, and everything has gotten so socially tense and high stakes it’s hard to form anything with new people beyond mere acquaintanceship, because you can never be sure who people really are anymore.
Lol sorry I didn’t mean to get all deep there lol…
Username checks out so hard LOL.
It’s a hard fact of life that friendship compatibility isn’t a transitive property. I lament that differing people I like to hang out with, likely wouldn’t wanna hang out with each other.
And then I’m like “How the heck do friend groups get started then?!” Lol
Fair disclosure: Haven’t watched the video yet, but I’m honestly very appreciative of your counterpoints here. And I agree! A militocracy ain’t good news, either.
And you’re right: Taking him out over “unpopular policy” doesn’t make logical sense under a reasonable society.
I’m also aware that our civil checks and balances that should be putting the brakes on stupid policies are falling apart, because they’ve been carefully staffed by zealots heavily in favor of a single-minded, monolithic ideology.
However, I’m honestly wondering where the line is, that a leader’s blatantly criminal activity can officially brand them “unfit for office” and bear consequences.
Like if he actually tried to just kill someone for no reason in Times Square, as he boasted he could, could anybody stop him? Or is it just “rules for thee, not for me” and we actually have a king now?
Because you know if “We The People” stepped in to stop that, we’d all get gulag’d.
If he decides “lol yeah let’s annex Canada.” Can our forces deny such a stupid order? Even though he is, technically, “their boss”?
Impeachment historically seems like a “strong suggestion” more than a solution.
According to USA.gov:
The presidents impeached by the House were: Andrew Johnson in 1868 William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton in 1998 Donald John Trump in 2019 and 2021
Presidents Johnson, Clinton, and Trump remained in office following acquittals by the Senate on all charges.
It sounds like The People can’t really do much but demand that their officials follow through, but even then, it sounds like justice is never actually carried out.
It’s honestly terrifying to think about, and I wish we knew what to do that was actually effective to reverse course on this absolute insanity.
Imagine that guy being able to reach his own back lol.
Yeah I’ve pretty much gotten used to it, whenever I hear about human-friendly working conditions, it’s never coming from the USA lol. I still hold out hope.
Happy for you regardless. :)
U S perspective here.
I keep remembering that oath our armed forces repeat so much: “… To defend against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
What in the flippin’ hell do these bastards gotta do to be considered “domestic enemies”‽
Because apparently directly provoking all our neighbors to attack us out of self defense, or allying with friggin’ Putin, along with a million other treasons, aren’t qualifying enough? Who over there is gonna actually protect and defend the Constitution and the People of the United States of America?!
Because dammit we haven’t lived this frickin long, through countless crises and bullshit, just to get shot or bombed by a Canadian we should’ve been sharing pancakes and beer with!!!
FULFILL THAT OATH YOU LIKE TO RECITE SO MUCH. OR COUNTLESS INNOCENT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DIE OVER ORANGE CALIGULA’S EGO.
The way these “theories” are thrown around these days with such an air of legitimacy is truly terrifying.
This absolute miracle of communication at our fingertips, and it’s 99% noise, dangerous noise, vying to worm its way into whatever cracks in the human psyche it can find. At the least harmful, it’s persuading ads. And on the other end, people are flying out to go join ISIS or Ruzzia because they got algorithmed into a Facebook group or absorbed enough TikTok radiation.
I miss when the internet “wasn’t real life.”
Not sure about your upbringing, but I know I also didn’t really have the means to do anything truly stupid.
Where’d this kid get the resources to go globe-trotting to a freaking war-embattled fascist state? That’s what blows my mind. Someone responsible for him was complicit in his self destruction.
Either extremely impressionable, or maybe had his account handed over after he was pulled off the street and conscripted into a ruzzian meat wave.
Either way, tragic waste of human life, being anywhere near involvement with their military.
Wait til 'e hears about NASA. 🫢
Have you had that lovely experience where some giant camera overhead shows you it’s recording your face on the screen as some kind of deterrent?
That deterred me alright. From shopping there.
Man I always hear such good things about Aldi. They started building one near us and I got excited. I was gonna see what the job situation was like because I heard they were kinda based.
Nah. It’s reportedly a Taylorist hamster wheel. Unrealistic productivity metrics that, if you really bust your butt, are rewarded with tighter metrics. Sucks, man.
Not sure if convention DM or just has REALLY understanding friends. :D
> Be me.
> Report a story about other religious groups having hot takes on the Pope dying.
> F to pay respects :(
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> Randos are all over it. Apparently they didn't like the guy.
> They're mad a guy from a different religion was humane about it and not trying to start a holy war.
> They're throwing around words like "crusader" hoping for another holy war because they're bored and missed the first one.
> And I get paid to post their stupid meaningless opinions.
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(Old timey PSA voice)
"Oh no, what was that loud and terrible noise that shook your entire house, school, or workplace? You’ve likely just heard The Future! First things first, Billy, do not look directly into The Future.