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  • Oh Lord it's all blurring together on me. You're right. I don't get the theory either then.

  • Yeah it's pretty far down my list too but I think the theory goes that Hilary wanted him dead because if he ratted on Bill then it would hurt her election chances. Plausible enough as far as motives go. Still, I agree that Trump is the obvious choice.

  • The only thing that makes me hesitate on that one is.. Trump or the Clinton's or whoever could have had him assassinated in prison, I don't believe they would have gone through the added effort of keeping him alive. He's gonna have a hard time sourcing kids now so why bother? Certainly not because any of the list of suspects values friendship or loyalty

  • TBH if using my death to get rich was an option and my wife didn't take it, I'd haunt her ass.

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  • To be clear, I'm not using attractive here to mean "physically beautiful" but instead "possessing qualities the other person wants in a partner." Weird was a word choice for humor but I was essentially saying, "have more attractive qualities than unattractive qualities." While recognizing that what one person finds unattractive, another might find attractive, and vice versa. By definition, simplifying a complex interaction of human wants and desires into one dimension, rendering it intentionally useless as advice, for the sake of trying to be funny.

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  • Nah I think it's a pretty simple algorithm still: don't be weirder than you are attractive. It's just that there's really wildly varying ideas on what's weird or attractive.

  • I think that's called "appeasement." It's worked great throughout history.

  • He went on an unhinged racist rant about Black Lives Matter in 2023, ending with something along the lines of "white people get as far away from black people as possible." More details on his Wiki page but that's the high level.

  • It was a wild character arc. Paraphrasing heavily...

    90s "Corporations are stupid and abusive to employees"

    2001 "What if we're all just fragments of God? Why do we fight each other?"

    2009 "Place bets on the people you hate most, they always seem to win."

    2023 "Black Lives Matter is a racist hate group."

    2025 "Trump will fix everything. Also please get me into a medical trial daddy."

    I was really holding out for the redemption arc but alas.

  • I'm a little sad about it. I liked his writing in the late 90s/early 2000s. Very anti-corporate. Imperfect but fairly progressive. It seemed like he was just a hippie at heart. I wish I understood what happened to him. From the outside looking in my best guess is falling victim to his success, he began to think too highly of himself, and maybe a bit too much paying attention to Fox News. It was a wild turnaround from my perspective.

  • I'm sorry, you're still being too optimistic. Protecting the economy COULD include things like "free vaccines" or "wearing masks" to keep workers from getting sick. What I learned was "don't trust doctors or vaccines, all your body needs is Natural Immunity and veterinary medicine" is a real take shared by an alarming number of people.

  • The big issue I don't see talked about enough is how the image of masculinity is set by advertising. There are traits that have been traditionally masculine for generations, sure, but linking those traits to actions is a role western society has abdicated to advertisers.

    There's no genetic reason a big truck is masculine. That was sold by advertisers. For a while there actually, conserving nature was viewed as a masculine responsibility.

  • I wonder if I could become a big Antivax YouTuber but just leave in little oopsies to try and convince people subtly that I'm wrong.

  • There was a movie about this called John Q.

  • It's not exactly that I wish to harm any of them. It's just that they all believe in strong individualism and I'd hate to help them when they have made it very clear that needing help is weakness in their religion. I'm sure they'd feel much better burning than receiving help from anyone.

  • There's a part of me that kind of feels like this could work if you just do it right. Like the idea is kind of cool, in a way.

  • Had a Windows PC hooked up to my TV in I think 2008, before streaming boxes and mass adoption of Netflix. Then it was dualboot for a while starting in I think 2015, originally with Ubuntu. Now it's full time CachyOS Linux as of 2023.

    It's always been great. Wireless keyboard with the built in trackpad, plus originally 360 controllers but now 8BitDo Ultimate controllers. Plus I use it for homelab tinkering.

  • Sure, absolutely, but then people shame people for having a used one too so it's just hot potato.

  • I don't get the "just sell it" crowd. Your solution is playing hot potato with a car. Like someone is still getting that car. Unless you manage to sell it to Tesla themselves I guess, but it's my understanding that they only take them on trade-in.

    So the choices you're proposing are: Sell a car so it's now Someone Else's Problem, which isn't a great look for you. Or scrap a perfectly usable car creating a bunch of waste, which isn't a great look for you.

    Just let people have their old cars, geez.