MisterBastahrd

My grandmother died of a cerebral hemorrhage. It wasn't because of the cholesterol medication she took. It was because she was on blood thinners, was old, and tripped and hit her head on the dresser while preparing for church.

No, we can't, because it rarely ever works out that way.

I've yet to work at a family owned company where the children were anywhere near as competent as their parents, and I've worked at multigenerational companies, so imagine that.

The one I spent the most time with was a publisher whose founders were Tulane educated intellectuals who walked the walk and talked the talk. The next generation sounded like they fell off an alligator tour air boat with the intellect to match. Their children are the dumbest group of human beings I've ever seen graduate from high school. Utterly and completely useless for anything other than getting hammered on the weekends and keeping random desk chairs from rolling away. Yet they were guaranteed jobs, even as the company's numbers continued to dwindle and they continued to use far more resources than they contributed. No Christmas bonus? That's because they needed to pay these morons enough to live in the same neighborhood as their father, meaning that they needed to make about 80% more than anyone else in their roles.

Ownership is not leadership. Leadership takes a set of skills that many people don't possess, and it's less common with the children of the well-off.

A journalist is supposed to pursue the truth, not be a firehose for incoherent stupidity. I'm sorry your education system failed you.

Having a PhD in a field doesn't make you an intellectual. It means you worked long enough to have a defensible dissertation. I know some absolute morons who have PhDs.

Joe Rogan has a platform because he will allow any idiot on his show and just babble about whatever it is they want to talk about. He's not a journalist, he's a 3 hour ad placement masquerading as a podcast. Lex Friedman is even worse because he gives the impression that he's an intellectual but he plays the same game. At least you know going in that Rogan behaves like a meathead.

Even worse, he'll throw gasoline everywhere just like he did last time and throw the match right before he leaves the room. Fuel prices and the Afghanistan withdrawal were both done specifically with that in mind.

You are quite plainly lying.

She proposed controls on gouging, which is already codified in even the reddest of red states.

Given that Trump's economic policies are primarily the cause of inflation in the US, not sure what your point is. He printed and gave away 8 trillion dollars when combined with his tax cuts for the wealthy and people wonder why the cost of everything went up. Corporations across the planet were the beneficiaries of corporate welfare as governments printed money to battle COVID, and then they pocketed the profits and told their employees that they couldn't afford to give them raises.

You will find no bible more dogeared and highlighted than from an American evangelical, who so strongly needs to justify the reasons for their superiority and hatred that they will beat a concordance to death. They aren't interested in facts, they're interested in their version of "truth," which are two completely disparate and antithetical concepts. Just look at their support for the idea of the Rapture, a concept which is found nowhere in the Bible, and whose very idea has been incredibly harmful given how religion informs voting decisions in the US.

None of the names associated with the gospels had anything to do with the writing of said gospels. All of them were composed after the deaths of these people.

They have a union. They don't have to "move on." They get to negotiate. That's why they have a union. If more companies had unions, then more companies would be forced to treat their employees like people.

There's no data to support the idea that they have a massively bloated headcount. Just because you don't know the extent of what they do doesn't mean that they aren't doing it anyway.

A 2.5% annual wage increase doesn't even cover inflation over the past few years. That is a complete non-starter.

You are comically uninformed. If the NYT were even remotely progressive, they'd have been consistently flogging the living shit out of Donald Trump and his idiotic, dementia-driven behavior behind a podium for months now instead of pretending like we should accept it as normal while excoriating Harris for behaving like a mainstream political candidate.

It's called jealousy. They've got all these big brains and nuanced thoughts and somehow not a one of them accomplished something that got that kind of recognition at that age.

Didn't have the motivation? So what? They did.

The things they did seem obvious? Yes, I bet they do in hindsight. Touch screens on cell phones seem obvious today too.

I use three types of tools in the kitchen:

For anything that requires cooked goods to be intact, I use metal. Spatula, fish spatula, and a large spoon for serving.

For anything that is going to be stirred, I usually use wood. It's hard enough to scrape fond off the bottom of the pan but it isn't going to damage non-stick, to the little extent that I use it.

For viscous dishes, I use silicone. The ability to get the very corner at the bottom of the pot and actually get the stuff up is great.

I don't know what I said that made you need to explain this to me when it's obviously already what I said.

It still takes activists to prioritize it, because otherwise the task just gets lost on a list of things nobody will ever get to.

Ever stop to think that the fancy restaurants they're going to are using these artisan bakers? The vast majority of high-end restaurants are not baking their own bread or doing their own pastries. They're outsourcing them because of the sheer amount of space you need to do that sort of specialized work.

The 3am baker currently exists because the people who benefit the most from the exploitation of labor have the extra money to buy artisan products. My great grandfather had a bakery. He and my great grandmother would bake their product and my grandfather and his brothers would deliver the product to local businesses and homes.

And then corporate breadmakers came in and made it impossible to compete from a price standpoint. Quality disappeared, and variety was subsequently crushed. The only people keeping his businesses open for a while were those who had fortunes that existed from owning a ton of land. They still wanted their oval loaves and fresh french bread and muffins.

People complaining they don't have money for groceries with their collection of different colored $40 stainless steel mugs in the background.

Only difference between internet slapfights over superheroes and the Crusades is that we aren't starting hundred year long wars because Superman is better than Spider-Man.

You are painfully unaware of the difference between being a Youtube video creator and being a streamer. Mr. Beast is not a streamer. He is a packaged video creator. PewDiePie is a reaction video creator who occasionally streams. They are not what people think of when they think of streamers.

To be a professional streamer usually takes a combination of talent and concentration that most people simply don't have. But to say that you can't become one? LOL.

The AVERAGE millionaire streamer on twitch is so painfully unedited that they end up getting banned a couple times a year for saying stupid things live on air. Twitch and their sponsors practically THROW money at them to spend an hour or two to sponsor content. There's an entire backend bounty system which is only available to partners which will pay you based on your audience size. I've seen a guy with 3K viewers get a $30K check for 3 hours worth of sponsored content.

I disagree. For one, Bork had already been refused a seat on the Supreme Court. Secondly, it's the first time that a mainstream political party ever succeeded in "othering" another group of straight white capitalists purely with propaganda.

There used to be a time when retired US politicians with decades of service were still respected in retirement. Granted, this was before Gingrich's hyperpoliticizing of every bit of minutiae in America.

Then Fred Thompson, not satisfied with his $250K an hour lobbying gig or his acting career, decided he also needed to start hawking reverse mortgages to the elderly, and that was a wrap. Before people were willing to look past the lobbying... stopped being a thing after ole Fred was caught on TV and radio right next to the gold bouillon sellers.

Meanwhile, I'd be working a backhoe in the middle of nowhere Louisiana if someone hadn't put books in my hands and forced me to read them under penalty of failure. Standards aren't standards because they're fun. They're standards because you need them to have fully functioning, working societies.

The US political system is currently in a state of utter dysfunction because people have decided that facts "just aren't interesting."

I come from a small town that is dominated by chemical refineries. I know people who are electricians, HVAC repairmen, plumbers, pipefitters, and process operators. You know what scares them more than anything else in the world? A corporate policy against overtime. Many of them will pick up any extra shift they can get. They LIVE for plant turnarounds where they're basically paid 24/7 for a couple of months to essentially eat, breathe, and sleep at the plant to be on call because it's how they go financially from a lower middle class lifestyle to being solidly middle class. This is what pays their mortgages, their hunting leases, their bass boats, and the limited edition F-150 to do all that stuff with.

Makes perfect sense to go to the people who practically worship the guy when you want to know factual details about his history.

Sanctions are hurting Russia financially. Putin doesn't care because he can extract wealth from oligarchs in whatever manner he sees fit. That's the benefit of being a dictator who has a wealth of knowledge on how to watch his own back after his career in intelligence work. He'll just tell his people to create some propaganda and everyone will fall into line.

If the past 8 years have shown us anything, it's that we are capable of electing incredibly stupid people who likely would get us into war if being blown back into the stone age weren't a possibility. I like nuclear weapons for that reason. It scares tyrants into complacency on the larger scale.

The entire purpose of nuclear armaments is to make certain wars too nasty to fathom engaging in. If their organization didn't exist at all, we'd still have exactly the same number of nuclear war casualties since the 1940s.