[-] [email protected] 86 points 15 hours ago

Everything is possessive. My wife, my husband, my girlfriend, my boyfriend, my significant other, etc. "Someone to call my own" isn't really strange; it's not super common, but definitely not that uncommon, either.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 16 hours ago

Last I'd read, there's no consensus that he actually voted for Trump. Dude's views were all over the place.

Regardless, if someone takes Trump out, I will literally lose no sleep or tears. I don't advocate for violence, but MAGA sure as fuck does. Reap what you sow and all that.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago

Quite a number of far right idiots are, unfortunately.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

All valid and fair points.

Regardless, I truly hope we never have to find out either way. The human species is capable of incredible things if we just set aside historical, cultural, and petty differences and worked towards a common goal of lifting everyone up. Wars of aggression are barbaric and unnecessary and I hope one day we all mentally evolve past such tendencies for mass violence. It's a naive pipe dream, but one can always dream.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

If nukes started popping off, there'd be zero reason to send in ground forces until it was all over. Lastly, I'm not convinced Russia's nuclear program is much better off than NATO's. So many interviews with nuke watch officers talking about how old and decrepit our silos are. The DoD supposedly approved a modernization package a few years ago for all of them, but I'm still skeptical how efficient the targeting is on everything and how well they'll avoid missile defense systems.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Agreed, wider and thicker with maybe a wavy/ ridge texture on the bottom half of the mustache and slight rounding/flaring on the sides that narrows to the top.

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1262480275/ron-swanson-250fp011911_400x400.jpg

Feels like that's a good reference pic for OP.

Edit:

But I do prefer #2 more. Like others have said, it's simpler and easier to tell the expression.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Very true, especially in countries like the US:

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/29/1172775448/people-murder-unsolved-killings-record-high

https://thehill.com/homenews/3878472-nearly-half-of-us-murders-going-unsolved-data-show/

For the US, the national average is around 40-50% for unsolved homicides. Some states/cities are even higher. Pretty depressing, really. We live in a heavy Police State society and yet law enforcement fails so badly in their primary purpose.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

In today's dollars (US), that's roughly $90,000. Depending on what a large volume means, that's not too shabby for a random CIA grunt. I also try to remember that not all classified info is actually that worthwhile. When I worked for the government, sending generic emails on a classified network could make them classified (unless you properly marked them as Unclassified, which most workers didn't due to laziness).

[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

Oh for sure, they've made some progress and there are a lot of D reps and senators who want to do much more, I didn't mean to imply otherwise. But, the modern American public at large act like the president is some grand arbiter of getting laws passed single-handedly. Many ignore that it's Congress that's the most dysfunctional component when it comes to actually getting things done for the last two-some-odd decades. Hell, we have tons of people that chalk up the entire state of the economy on a single person every election cycle, it's craziness.

Anyway, my point is that anyone that's actually paying attention in good faith knows it's almost entirely the GOP blocking healthcare reform. But, as we've especially learned these last 10+ years, many Americans don't pay attention to reality.

[-] [email protected] 39 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

That 8 years thing for healthcare could easily backfire. The majority of Americans are very fed up with our healthcare, and Democrats haven't done much to fix it this administration either (not entirely their fault, we have a gridlocked Congress and Senate, after all). The concept of a plan quote is hilarious, though! My friends and I plan on using it at work from now on.

Anyway, even most Republican media outlets have conceded that Harris won last night. As for the MAGA cult itself, I honestly haven't bothered to go down that internet hole yet, nor am I likely to. I'm sure there's countless bots/trolls spinning the story and creating a fake reality already, with plenty of zealots lapping it up because their collective delusion requires it.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Right? For a game to be a collector's item, it needs to still be able to function in its intended capacity. Additionally, they need to be considered good. Most games that become a collectable do so when they transition into the "classic" category, usually 20+ years after they released. In 2050, no one's going to think, "Oh man, Concord was hailed as a masterpiece in its day, I need to own that piece of history!"

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