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Nobody would have believed you, anyway. Expectations were so high, you would have just come across as a hateful troll.

I haven’t witnessed the edit you mention, but it sounds like it fits in 20 minutes. 🤣

I know it’s ancient history, but I still can’t get over the spectacular train wreck of Star Wars Episode One. So much hype, so much hope, and then you get a two hour arcade game promo with Jar Jar Binks. It was like George Lucas had picked every single terrible trope of 90s movies and packaged it neatly into a movie.

Pet Shop Boys, Always on my mind, IMHO much better than the Elvis Presley original.

American population: about 400 million. Cost of the war in Iran: about 20 billion per day. 20 billion divided by 400 million: about 50 dollars a day.

Every single person in America spent the equivalent of this Trump phone in ten days of this war that has lasted more than six times as long. How the man is still America’s President, I don’t know. But the saga of the $500 cult vaporphone sure explains a lot.

I mean, the moment they make you pledge something about liberty, you know it’s phony. You are either free or you have to recite the pledge. You can’t have both liberty and mandate for the same thing.

Long Train Runnin’ is one of my favorite train songs, because the sounds mimic typical train noises.

I was actually expecting the opposite: that there would be lots of bans because Blahaj is such a visible target for trolls and haters.

I am very happy that the communities there are peaceful. Y’all deserve to flourish and grow and be your best selves, and the rest of us doesn’t do enough to deserve you.

I think that’s the key. Obama increased the debt - to get out of the Great Recession. Trump increased the debt - to give billionaires and corporations huge tax cuts. Biden increased the debt - to stimulate growth in green industries and manufacturing. Trump increased the debt again - to give billionaires etc etc.

Just the idea that the yearly budget of the Pentagon is going to go from $800 billion pre-COVID to $1500 billion indicates the people are not a priority.

You are very welcome and thank you! It used to be my home, too, and I absolutely love love love it. One day, I’ll be back and the remaining 23 14ers will be very afraid!

Definitely not little, it’s actually the 8th-largest state of the USA, and larger than many countries (it’s a little smaller than Italy). It’s a weird one, because the West and East side are totally different: mountainous on the West side, flat in the East. The population lives mostly on the border between the two side, is very highly educated, mostly liberal for the USA, and is absolutely obsessed with the outdoors.

The mountain side boasts some of the most gorgeous landscapes on Earth. The orogeny that led to their creation was rapid, unusual (in that it was mid-craton and not on the edge), and recent, so that they are jagged and rough and wild. If you’d like to get an idea, just look up “San Juan mountains” in your image search engine of choice.

For what it’s worth, I had the same instant reaction as @faythofdragons@slrpnk.net. In particular, (a) if he’s nearing retirement, then he’s way too young for the type of behavior, and (b) the belligerence and anger reaction when contradicted match what I’ve seen with family that had dementia, and it sounds like that’s new.

As for the question at large, I can’t confirm your experience. Where I live, older people behave just like younger people when it comes to stating opinions or telling stories. They are more stuck in their ways, no doubt, but I guess it’s harder to change the way you do things if you’ve done it successfully one way for 40 years.

20% income difference? Wait until you hear about the cost savings of not having unplanned children!

Fair enough. Although then Boris Johnson won the election, so someone was happy with his shit show Brexit, no?

OMG the ones that voted for Brexit despite having a retirement home in the EU and then got kicked out for not paying taxes were hilarious!

“What do you mean we need a visa? THIS IS NOT THE BREXIT I VOTED FOR!!!”

Don’t forget Reddit! That has always been a skidmark-filled guilty pleasure.

That reminds me of the (apparently real) complaint by a British couple vacationing in Spain, who were outraged that nobody had told them so many people would be speaking Spanish. 😀

Why yes of course they would push it - they generate it themselves and pay themselves generously!

How long have you not used Spotify any longer? Because I would have agreed with your assessment in the past, but I gave up two years ago because new suggestions sounded more like promoted music than anything related to my taste.

I do understand why the state wants to prosecute him, but I also think the public deserved to know what Snowden revealed. It’s definitely the kind of thing the pardon power was created for, not for drug lords to bribe their way back into freedom.