It strikes me that they’ve spoiled us. If I had never seen another OK Go video, I would likely be very impressed by that, but by their standards, it was only pretty good.
It strikes me that they’ve spoiled us. If I had never seen another OK Go video, I would likely be very impressed by that, but by their standards, it was only pretty good.
It’s those roughly squared off, dirty, slushy heaps of packed snow that were plowed out of the way after the snowfall and are the only thing left after the rest of the snow has melted.
By design.
And the 1% are going to ride it out in their purpose-built private enclaves, then buy the world at disaster auction prices and make themslves into feudal lords.
I can’t see any situation in which I would.
Mostly I have zero interest in sucking any dick (other than maybe my own, and I’m not that flexible).
But beyond that, $20 just seems wrong no matter what - if I wanted to do it, $20 would be pointless and if I didn’t, it wouldn’t be near enough.
The timing here is what makes this move particularly baffling…
It’s only baffling if you cling to the ever-more-laughable belief that the Democrats are any sort of meaningful opposition.
If you instead simply shift to the ever-more-supported belief that they are in fact essentially oligarchic co-conspirators, then the timing makes perfect sense.
That whole family is just rich white trash, aren’t they?
Yes.
If you qualify, they’ll contact you.
If my government the government that’s managed to weasel its way into power over the land on which I happened to be born proposed an initiative to tackle fraud, I would look for the catch, because it’s guaranteed there would be one.
“Lefties keep calling us Nazis but they don’t even know what Nazis are, and oh yeah, by the way, all of these people over here should be killed because they’re an inferior race.”
Even setting aside the staggering psychopathy of the modern right - their complete and utter disregard for the lives of other human beings - I don’t even begin to understand how any human being could have so little self-awareness.
Preach.
It’s not a coincidence that it was Democrats who coined the term “flyover country.”
And it’s not a coincidence that “flyover country” won’t vote for them.
And they’re okay with that. They’d rather lose than lower themselves so far as to associate with the unwashed masses.
This isn’t ignorance or missing the point - they know exactly what they’re doing.
In the terms of the cliche, they’re trying to have their cake and eat it too.
They want the immediate gratification of being rude assholes, so they do it just long enough for that initial rush, then they back away to try to avoid the consequences.
I don’t have one.
I have a very simple process for dealing with all of this - I never check my framerate in the first place, so I never know what it is.
I just play games If there’s noticeable stuttering or lag then I maybe try to do something about it, and if there’s not, then I just play and don’t worry about it.
This isn’t even a political issue really.
Trump’s ENTIRE motivation is the prospect of his family making a fortune in Gaza waterfront real estate.
I think that if humanity can manage to survive long enough, anarchism is inevitable.
It’s essentially the adult stage of human society - the point at which humans collectively and consistently, rather than just individually and situationally, can be trusted to generally do the right thing simply because it’s the right thing and therefore the most reasonable thing to do.
For the time being and the foreseeable future though, humanity is nowhere even close to that. Through the course of history, human society has managed to advance to about the equivalent of adolescence. There’s still a long way to go.
In spite of that, I do identify as an anarchist, but my advocacy is focused on the ideal and the steps humanity as a whole has to take to achieve it. I think it’s plainly obvious that it cannot be implemented, since any mechanism by which it might be inplemented would necessarily violate the very principles that define it. It can only be willingly adopted by each and all (or close enough as makes no meaningful difference), and that point will come whenever (if) it comes.
Chrono Trigger - SNES, 1995
This is a coup.
This has apparently become a new vector for transferring bribes - Trump files a suit, and then the corporation that wants influence pays a “settlement.”
I don’t disagree.
Still though, compared to Needing/Getting or Here It Goes Again or The One Moment or I Won’t Let You Down…
I’m not trying to put down the video or anything - it’s just that it struck me watching it that OK Go have sort of painted themselves into a corner. They’ve put out so many jaw-droppingly awesome videos that at this point, anything less than jaw-droppingly awesome is almost a disappointment.