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lennybird

@ lennybird @lemmy.world

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  • MAGA singles are looking for love in Washington. It’s a challenge.

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  • When Morgan Housley, 29, moved to Washington for her job in April, she had some non-negotiables for the conservative man she was looking to date: He had to “love the Lord,” genuinely enjoy going to church, and be able to “provide and protect, emotionally, physically, spiritually, all of those things.” A fit, athletic man she could go on runs with.

    So far, Mr. Right has not materialized. Instead, many of the single MAGA men she’s seen are … “Not fit, workaholics and not taking finding a wife seriously,” Housley says.

    LOL so the only one who responded was Stephen Miller.

    Also, wonder if she meant alcoholics.

  • UPS mass layoffs as 48,000 jobs cut

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  • Not too mention people holding their cash and toning down holidays massively, like my family is doing.

  • Donald Trump Reveals He Underwent MRI Scan at Walter Reed Amid Growing Speculation Over His Health

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  • In fairness the US healthcare system does prioritize rich people. You can get preventative MRI scans if willing to pay.

    The question is, did any other US President have preventative MRIs done? I've never heard.

    I was thinking how it could be the next step in preventative medicine if as part of one's annual physical that not just bloodwork but a full-body MRI could be granted in a universal health care system.

    Imagine what that could do in stopping issues before they snowballed, and the value for medical studies...

  • Weird how they can't look at themselves

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  • I remember at the age of 16 my older sister who at the time taught AP US Government trying to explain to me the difference between Political Party and Political Ideology and stupid me not quite getting it.

    By 20 I was heavily invested in politics and learning US history and I could easily understand how ideologies could flip party banners.

    Yet I speak, in real life, to Trump supporters up through their 60s and they cannot grasp this.

  • Weird how they can't look at themselves

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  • I believe Ram 1500s have the highest rates of DUIs last I read.

  • But there were SO MANY dealbreakers before we even got to that point

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  • Perception is reality.

    Control news, social media, and church and you can distort/gaslight reality.

    Only the better educated can sometimes see through bullshit.

  • What's a movie quote that gives you goosebumps?

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  • Interesting! I have the inverted perception. All subjective of course, and it probably has to do with my being less interested in the gritty thriller aspect of the other two. That said I thought Riddick did a great job blending the two. If you haven't done so, I highly recommend watching the "Unrated" version of Riddick and the Director's Cut of Chronicles of Riddick which elevate both films significantly.

    CoR had so many big, unique characters and good actors. Lord Marshal, The Purifier, Karl Urban as Vaako, Dame Vaako, Keith David as Imam, Judi Dench as the Elemental, etc. In our house, it's one of the most quotable movies up there with Sin City. Some of the cinematography is stunning, too.

    Yeah nothing as groundbreaking as Blade Runner for instance, but just one of those films that has such high replayability for us.

  • What's a movie quote that gives you goosebumps?

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  • Mediocre!? Thems fightin' words!

    Chronicles of Riddick is a hall of famer in the sci-fi world building space romps! So many good lines.

    I modeled the teacup and put in Riddick's lines when equipping or striking in Skyrim for my wife lol.

  • Whats the best voice acting in any video game?

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  • Not necessarily the biggest roles but I've always appreciated:

    • The narrator in the original Medieval: Total War (intro for example). Set the mood.
    • Prophet of Truth in Halo 2.
    • Dunmer male voice actor for Morrowind.

    The first and last especially set the atmosphere so well.

  • Whats the best voice acting in any video game?

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  • I can't speak for Alyx as I never got a chance to play more than 10 minutes and I know the voice actress changed for Alyx. But Episode 2, wow. It's a treat to play the game with commentary. The end of Ep2 has Merle Dandridge (Alyx) getting emotional discussing the final scene.

  • Trump is ‘gonna be president’ in 2028, MAGA leader bluntly declares: ‘There’s a plan’

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  • Bannon sieg heiled. Fuck em.

  • Breaking: U.S. Supreme Court to consider whether to revisit marriage equality

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  • So much for individual freedom and small government, huh.

  • Then they fight you: How the ‘No Kings’ protests are winning America | A massive turnout of 7 million and a panicked White House showed Saturday why the No Kings protests matter, a lot.

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  • I think both are kind of true. They have more power than perhaps any administration in history given how stacked the Supreme Court is and how subservient the entire GOP is to Trump and the billionaire apparatus.

    That said, I DO sense a panic of how so many months have gone by and midterms are right around the corner. With Trump's approval-ratings plummeting to Jimmy Carter levels already and their lack of justifying consolidation of power while Democrats are energized — IF they don't succeed by next midterms, GOP are going to lose pretty big.

    Prop 50 Yes in California is a must as well.

  • Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines Event, California Officials Say

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  • Holy shit they had to close a 17 mile stretch of the I-5 for this bullshit? For those unfamiliar that's a major artery linking LA to San Diego. Talking an 8-10 lane highway.

    But kudos to Newsom for closing it for traffic safety and going against the hubris of the military claiming it was safe.

    What a way to mark 250 years of the Marines with a couch fucker and shells detonating over the interstate.

  • Republicans mostly silent as millions of Americans protest Trump on No Kings day

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  • To be honest, we shouldn't even need Republicans to turn the tide. We just need to get people off their asses and stop pushing both sides bullshit.

    Democratic primaries will be fast approaching and now is the best time ever to support Democratic candidates like AOC (likely to primary Schumer), Mamdani, Talarico, Chakrabarti, etc. and get out the AIPAC crap.

  • Plane crashes onto a Massachusetts highway, killing 2 on board and hurting 1 motorist

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  • I'm reading pilot error is around 70% with 10% being mechanical? Either way, the amount of regulatory oversight, having 2 pilots on commercial flights is far safer. Leaving aside the fact that a single engine is a single point of failure while all airliners must be verified to fly with half their engines working.

    I think while pilot error can lead us to believe we can train ourselves to be above the problem, we must also understand the nature of GA and single points of failure leave little room for error, again, unlike commercial aviation where there are often multiple levels of redundancy.

    So for me personally, I just can't bring myself to do it. Especially considering that driving is already one of the most dangerous things we do on a daily basis and I only do that mostly out of necessity.

  • Plane crashes onto a Massachusetts highway, killing 2 on board and hurting 1 motorist

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  • Private single-engine planes (under GA) have somewhere around the same or worse fatality rates to riding a motorcycle. Don't think I'll go up in one, at least while my kids aren't yet adults.

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    No Kings Protest vs. Trump's inauguration

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  • This is Obama 2009 inauguration vs Trump 2017 I believe. Though most Trump supporters probably wouldn't know this anyway.

    Still, DC had a great turnout for the No Kings Protest!

  • How do you beat the propagandists?

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  • The problem is that this has been decades in the making. A lack of education in the likes of civics, us history, critical-thinking skills (fallacies, research and analytics). If such education is a vaccine against false rhetoric (bad propaganda), then to reverse course is going to take an extremely long time.

    Neurons take time to rewire no less, and if you didn't arrive to your worldview by rational means, rational logic will not get you out of that overnight.

    The only short-term solution I see is redirection of existing anger to the billionaires, and using mockery and satire as a way to short-circuit people's preexisting biases. For whatever reason, this breaks barriers like little else.

  • ‘It’s a bad idea’: MAGA lawmakers admit Trump’s foreign policy no longer ‘America first’

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  • America First in right-wing rhetoric is like the Socialist in NAZI or Democratic People's Republic in North Korea.