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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Don’t forget about DC residents not getting a congressperson or senator

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

My head canon is that it flew straight into the TV and snapped its neck

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Not sure about sales, but Gibson pretty heavily markets on the boomer nostalgia/“prestige” factor. Their line up is stale, the don’t adjust for modern specs and features younger guitarists are looking for. They’re not bad guitars, but the prices are inflated relative to the quality.

Perfect example, they recently released a recreation of the ‘59 humbuckers, for a thousand dollars. Not a whole guitar, just pickups. There’s no good reason for pickup set to be over like $400, maybe $500 dollars .

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (8 children)

You could swap “Harley” for “Gibson” and it would all still be true.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Harley Davidson’s are overpriced pieces of shit riding on name recognition/nostalgia.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago

Because the self-own isn’t in having a small penis. The self-own is in making it blatantly obvious they’ve got a hangup on their penis size (which might not even be that small; a lot of men with size anxiety are of average or even above average size), and they’ve turned that hangup into a reactionary, backwards politics. They’re telling on themselves that they think restoring a white aristocracy will make them feel better about their manhood.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago

Bro be mad that there’s too much civilization in Civ. He’s also full of shit; Civ had the “first to Alpha Centari” win condition since the beginning, it was never military conquest or bust. Hell, the way I played Civ II back in the day was to build up massive wealth stores, keep bribing opposing civilizations’ cities to rebel, then once they were down to only a city or two I’d switch to communism and then invade them and win.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I expect the freeze-peach warriors to be all over this. Annnnnny second now.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 7 months ago

Here’s an idea: maybe if Gaza wasn’t being turned into a genocidal open air prison by Israel, young Palestinian men wouldn’t be spurred to violence.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Means justify the ends type

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

He wasn’t wrong though, a Cruz presidency would have been 12x more psychotic than Trump’s. But because it’s always The Most Important Election Of Our Generation and the Republican candidate is always the most extreme of all time, they can’t say “This Republican candidate isn’t great but he’s far from the worst.”

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Either they don’t understand where political power comes from, or they entirely understand and are trying to convince everyone else “no no, political power comes from the pomp and circumstance of the ceremony, really, we promise.”

 

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Long story short, I’ve always been supportive of the trans community and individuals, trans rights are human rights, all that good stuff. However, I’ve never had someone in my personal life transition, until now; my FIL told my wife that they’re now a MIL. So there’s two sides to this request:

First, any general advice, resources, etc., on how to be supportive/helpful for her during the transition, and advice that would be more specific to someone that’s transitioning as a senior and as a trans woman that wouldn’t respond well to overtly left wing resources on the matter. Yep, she’s a lifelong Republican, was optimistic about Trump although I have no clue how she stands on him now (as an aside though, oh boy were the rants about drag queen story times ironic in hindsight).

Which leads into the second side: while she has started on HRT, she’s still not publicly presenting as feminine, and we haven’t told our son/her grandson yet. We’ve discussed the general concept of people who are transgender with him, but that’s not the same thing as him processing grandpa becoming grandma, and he’s at an age where I have no clue how he’s going to take it. So I’m looking for any recommendations as to how to discuss what’s happening with him, maybe some books (like third/fourth grade level) that do a good job of presenting the concept for a younger mind.

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