What does this all mean?!

We had those in elementary school, along with corpses and a decapitated rhino. Maybe that explains Gen X.

Got a couple of drill bits like that. They won’t fit in any of my power tools, you really do have to use the hand crank.

When you lose a customer due to broken trust, they ain’t coming back.

You can sure donate to them! LOL, they claim $42,000 thousand in donations. When you go to the fund me site they got $25.

How much you wanna make a bet I can throw a football over them mountains?

Be thankful that enough of us are armed that the fascists aren’t yet kicking down doors. Can you imagine where we would be if they could enter any home without fear?

The song is basically hyping how he’s so rich he’s got a Cybertruck.

You forgot CEOs and landlords.

You should have kept the Mac, seriously. I often had no response trying to get laptops back from employees and was asking HR if we couldn’t get a form for new hires to sign regarding company equipment returns. Can’t remember the reasoning but HR told me the company is basically powerless to force the issue. In any case, the legal costs of suing you would quickly stack higher than $7K.

I laugh when people think I should be scared of the alligators around here. Only time I’ve seen them, they were hauling ass away from me. :)

No, not going to redneck into a lake full of 'em, but they’re mostly wussies, like most other wild animals.

Crocodiles? When I first took my Filipino wife kayaking on the local swamp, “Are the crocodiles here?” “Nah, no crocodiles.”

Crocs? Not fucking around with those boys.

Used to be! When I was a kid and we had 3 or 4 TV stations to choose from, and they all pretty much reported the same factual news. Being seen as having a bias was poisonous. People picked a news anchor to watch according to how trustworthy they felt he was. Imagine that!

I’ve seen folks on here hating NPR for unbiased reporting, because the reporting didn’t say what they wanted. Haven’t listened in for a few years, but when I did NPR was solidly unbiased.

They could present a story where you thought, “How could there be ANY other side?”, and yet presented the other side without prejudice. Some people don’t like that. Because some people don’t understand journalism.

The people joining ICE may not be who you think they are. No journalism has scared me quite so much as this article:

https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/two-days-talking-to-people-looking-for-jobs-at-ice/

Right on! Humans have lived through horrors that make 2025 a cakewalk. We’ll hang in, we’ll survive. We’re the toughest multipurpose animals this planet has ever produced, the AR-15s and Toyota Hiluxes and Swiss army knives of mammals. Not the best at any one thing, but we can do it all well enough.

Things are bad now, maybe especially for us Americans. Who among us thought we’d see fascism taking root?! Maybe I’m old and idealistic, but I didn’t see Trump 2.0 coming, not again. But we’ll survive, we’ll live on. History is always two steps forward, one step back. We Americans are seeing the “one step back” for the first time.

Mostly all agreed, but the populace isn’t starving, not even close. I’m not arguing that we’re not suffering, only that we’re nowhere near suffering enough for a revolt. But damned do I like what you’ve written!

The Cybertruck owner would certainly have standing to kick off a lawsuit. But yeah, the validity of the contract is in question.

The notion is explicitly a legal definition in America.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

It’s right there. The government cannot fuck with you for talking shit, but anyone else can.

Um…

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