Lol, yeah, THAT strategy would keep it at 99 cents.

TBF I’ve met scrum masters and product owners who think they’ve hacked the system by adding this to story AC, so…

Right now my company calls it “Investing in IST”

Hello Wildcats!!

Weber Cooks

Fucking love those. Absolutely required for a “Pee-Off in the Trough” competition. One idiot bar put up dividers and I’m still mad.

This kinda reminds me of when Beavis and Butthead first came on the air. Panned as the stupidest thing on TV.

When it came back in the 2010s, it was exactly as stupid. However, relative to what ELSE was on TV? Suddenly it was relatively high brow. It was easily the smartest show on MTV. By a LOT.

Putting super Gover in the first Iron Man? Nonsense. Putting him in whatever they do next? IMO it would generally raise the bar. No offense, MCU superfans.

… Did they both involve sending weapons to Israel?

This is exactly my point. You’ve made it better than I ever could have.

The minute you buy into identity politics, you’ll reject what is front of your own eyes because you fail to seperate an issue from the whole. If “they” are wrong on the “issue”, then you’ll diminish the “issue” to protect the whole, thus protecting your identity.

Biden and the world and the current Democrats are absolutely fucked the dog on Israel. That doesn’t mean the Democrat turd sandwich isn’t still better than the giant douche, but there is no godly reason that one can’t evaluate issues honestly.

If you want to take this one step further, it’s the the inevitable result of identity politics in general.

Once you decide to generalize away per-issue stances just to paint them “left or right”, “red or blue”, “my team your team” then it becomes trivial to make an argument that both sides are the same, or conversely that both sides are polar opposites. Whatever suits you.

Republicans and Democrats both shovelled weapons to Israel. They are thus, as a whole, identical. Indistinguishable. Republicans are erasing reproductive Rights. Democrats are trying to guarantee them. They are thus, as a whole, complete polar opposites.

Generalizing from the specific is a convenient mechanism, but error prone, and it leads to absolute trash discourse… Which in turn leads to a failure of consensus for specific demands to make during a protest.

“No Kings” isn’t realistically actionable.

Not even about what you want, it’s what do you want MORE.

Do you want to be in a privileged position of elected power faithfully serving the best interests your constituents?

I got in deep shit because of a stupid “creative writing” project where the inciting incident was prewritten and you had to finish it. It was something like “you threw a rock and accidentally hit a car and dented it, and you felt terrible so…” , obviously bait for apologizing.

Fuck that. In mine the character refused to admit wrong-doing, went insane and was institutionalized and eventually lobotomized (a la jack Nicholson).

DEEP shit.

If he doesn’t solve problems with chmod 777 then he’s already more competent than the ops teams at my fortune 500 company

I think you raise a good point, but I disagree with your conclusion as I understand it.

My read of your thesis was “There aren’t more in the US, they just get more attention so appear to be a higher relative proportion”. If I misunderstood, then my b.

I do think the feedback loops actually entice people to emulate those behaviours. I think there is an inductive effect.

I also don’t think it’s strictly tied to world-power status either. I think the “Manifest Destiny” mindset which predates world power status plays the bigger role. The unbridled entitlement culture feeds into emotional reactivity. “I WANT something, so I DESERVE something, so I’m going to TAKE something”.

I’m not going to say that emotionally reactive idiots are exclusive to the USA. They clearly aren’t. But I think there are centuries of USA-Specific culture (predating world power status) that feed into a higher-than-global-average instances.

I want to know what such a book store smells like inside. Is it more books or more building?

Pilots are 100% on their phones in the air.

They shouldn’t have been on the plane and shouldn’t have been anywhere NEAR the terminal either.

Imagine the pilot’s buddy in the terminal texts him in the air like “lots of cops on the tarmac, wonder what’s going on?”

If their hand had been tipped that they were on the plane or on the ground, there is a real chance that everyone on that plane would die.

Fucking Maga racist homophobic Calgarians (checks notes)… Constantly electing a gay Muslim mayor.

Oh, shit… yah. Everyone can relax then. Rule of 3.

Ozzy and hulk hogan

Rule of 3s