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  • Imagine if angels performed a miracle that allowed a tater tot and a McDonald's hashbrown to produce a child, after which someone found the least expensive way to replicate that product by mundane and industrial means.

    Hearty, weighty, and substantial, yet still crispy on the outside while soft on the inside.

    I like to use the sauce packets to draw little designs on them, elevating an already divine side dish into the perfect amuse-bouche.

  • Re: Regular vs. Curly fries.

    Clearly, this debate sparks from a deep cultural ignorance of what it truly means to eat at an Arby's.

    Although this practice was interrupted for a while by an episode of sheer corporate madness, the only proper potato-based side dish are potato cakes that have been set upon the wrapper of a large beef and cheddar to catch the excess cheese and sauce that falls from the sandwich.

    Only once they have been drizzled in a combo of surplus liquid cheddar, horsey, and Arby's sauce can you truly appreciate what potatoes were meant to be.

    Much like eating an Ortolan, it's best to cover your head with a handkerchief while indulging, so as to hide the shame of such a decadent meal from God.

  • Poor working memory nerds gummy cluster

  • This is what it boils down to. The first person/org that can win their trust and assure them that basic needs will be met and they won't be forgotten after the dust settles will have a massive following overnight.

  • Have to agree. And this is pervasive enough that lazy articles about tweets are now a major percentage of online "news". So-and-so destroys x-and-such on Twitter!" So what? It doesn't change anything or anyone's mind.

  • It could just be the circles I travel in.

    However, I remain doubtful of her having any real impact on national affairs and skeptical of her motivations.

  • Granted.

    But she's got a huge hole to dig herself out of. Let her start with this and move on to apologizing to the people she baselessly attacked for personal gain,, publicly supporting legislation that helps people, supporting the people who've been hurt by the policies she helped enact, and voting against her party when it'll help her constituents and not just her lobbyists. It's political suicide, but it's the right thing to do.

    I'm not convinced she's breaking ranks even. Her career is based around the idea that any attention is good attention. She's been out of the spotlight for a while, and really has nothing to offer the nation orher than a willingness to say whatever egregious bullshit gets the cameras back on her. I don't have a lot of hope that she'll be a bellweather for any trend.

  • That'll fix it for sure. I'm positive they take her opinion seriously...

  • So... US History, I've got you:

    Okay, in 1607 we started a colony in a place that would later be famous for having a lot of racists. For about a hundred years we were happy fucking over Native Americans, then people wanted to stop paying taxes, so we had a war with England. We won, with a lot of help from the French, but we don't give them much credit. We spent another 3/4 of a century fucking over Native Americans, building shit, and importing slaves, mostly from Africa. Then we had a Civil War about the slaves, killed each other a bunch, and in a huge surprise that no one saw coming, the part of the country that had all the industry won. We set the slaves free, so we could continue to treat them like crap. Then we went back to fucking over Native Americans, built a bunch of stuff (some of it was pretty cool), and started fucking around with the rest of the world. We started bringing in immigrants when things got shitty in other parts of the world, because we needed people to expand and someone else to be prejudiced against. We had some economic issues because some people wanted to be really rich, I'm sure taxes factored in there somewhere, but we pulled ourselves out of that with a couple of big wars and then we sorta took over half the world. We went to the moon, and appointed ourselves as "all around cool guys", although there were still a lot of issues with minorities and a big fracas about civil rights that some folks still haven't gotten over. But we thought we had to be tough guys to keep the USSR from making communism a thing, so we kinda ignored all that and started spending money on nukes and proxy wars instead of going to the moon. Rich people decided they didn't want to pay taxes again, and Reganomics mindfucked a generation of people into thinking you can run a country anywhere other than right into the fucking ground that way. After the Soviets made a mess of their half of the world and fucked off, we decided that things were too quiet and really started fucking stuff up in earnest. We pissed off a fresh batch of people in the middle east, because oil, and just kinda stirred the shit pot everywhere else because we were the biggest kid on the block. We also started the habit of surveilling everyone after some terrorists attacked us. Some of what we did might have been helpful, but there's so much chaos and so many pissed off people now it's hard to tell. Fast forward and some of us have figured out that we're causing problems, but we're neck deep in the sunk cost fallacy and busy letting people continue to promise us they can run the country better if rich folks pay less taxes.

    TL;DR: It's taxes all the way down.

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  • It kinda looks like tennis for the unathletic, which means I should fit right in, but I have zero interest.

  • An optimist invents the airplane. A pessimist invents the parachute.

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  • This weekend I built a shed in my back yard, which was a nice bit of father-son bonding, and stockpiled ammo in case civil unrest causes widespread violence to break out in our neighborhood.

    Definitely a strange vibe.

  • I like to point with both hands, and with my feet if I'm in a good mood.

  • Cut off internet for people who pirate... Those people are now unable to stream anything... Sacrifice thousands in potential revenue over an infringement that maybe cost them a few dollars, if that... Deter no one because everyone thinks they won't get caught.

    Good move. Smart guys.

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  • I like Focuswriter, it's a little more feature rich than Notepad, but it stays out of your way and has that same "Just me and a blank page" vibe.

  • That's the only possible upside to the nation sinking into a dictatorship, at least we'll never have a duly elected President Beast... Silver linings and whatnot.

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  • If course it's unsurprising. The man has a very clear pattern of surrounding himself with people who he believes will do and think exactly the way he wants, and then cutting ties with them anytime they deviate from his expectations.

  • Federal employee unions are well connected, have good lawyers and already fucking pissed. This is gonna be a fight.

  • They can't even look him in the eye. They know he's telling the truth and they're full of shit.