This bullshit isn’t even on the dotard anymore. He is clearly unwell. This is on all Americans: do something about your demented asshole. Call your fucking senator, call your fucking congressman: demand the 25th amendment be invoked.

You are undervaluing the importance of planning the structure and content of what you are writing. The first draft is where future excellence is established. No amount of editing can fix a bad foundation - you can’t polish a turd.

Well, MAGA has always had a figurative (and, apparently, literal) boner for Spartans.

If that is their intention, I can dig it. I thought it was straight-up ridicule.

I am.

To answer your question, though: no. Some people are doing GREAT. It may not be a majority of people, but anyone who was rich in 2015 is now super rich. The super rich are now obscenely rich. Even a majority of the moderately well-off - e.g. people who own their houses outright or people with >3 times their annual income in investments - are doing pretty damn well. That is part of the reason that Trump, no matter how vile or incompetent, never dips below 30% approval. People will overlook all kinds of evil when their bottom line is improving.

Why would this deserve an Ig Nobel prize? The implications of this study are important and highly relevant to the social predicament that western societies face. This is science getting directly to the root of the problem with humanity. If we want to hand out prizes ridiculing useless science, maybe consider baldness treatments etc. (hats already exist).

Minor adjustment: ‘Trump’s Strait’

It has an Achilles’ Heel ring to it.

JD does not believe this, of course. He is just tellin’ 'em what they want to hear. If you offer JD a shiny quarter, he will assume any position or belief you require. When Trump is finally hanging from a lamppost (and oh god, let that day come soon), JD will go right back to saying that he was against Trump from the beginning.

Oh no! you’ve activated the infinite cringe spiral!!!

Seriously, though, people worry way too much about what other people think. Mostly, they are thinking about their own shit and not you at all.

I agree if they are outdoor shoes. When I heard that Americans wear shoes in the house, I was initially “WTF”. However, someone explained to me that they wear indoor shoes, not the same shoes they wear outside

Thanks. I am so tired of this moral purity bullshit. It’s just people trying to excuse themselves for letting trump happen.

I deleted my accounts and came here. Occasionally, I would still browse reddit - but I haven’t posted or commented since that day. I am not alone, either: the quantity and quality of content on Reddit has noticeably declined. I used to go up to 10 pages deep (250 posts) during a browsing session; for the last year, I have been seeing repeat shit on the second page. Reddit gets boring after, like, 15 min tops.

I can’t use their app: it is terrible. Seriously, the person who designed it should take up farming. The new reddit browser page is just as bad. While typing this response, I navigated over there in another tab to confirm how bad things have gotten: I could see 2 posts. Two. Fucking. Posts. before I had to scroll (which I did not do, by the way). Reddit, get the fuck out of here with that bullshit.

Now that I can’t browse old.reddit.com without an account, they have lost even the meagre advertising revenue my viewing generated.

Reddit did not survive the API protest. It’s bleeding out, slowly. For me, Lemmy is the front page of the Internet now.

Qobuz has a big library and I can almost always find what I am looking for. I also tend to listen to whole albums, so I like the way Qobuz is organized. They have human-curated playlists for discovering music, as well as a ‘similar to this’ section under each artist. Really, their service is very similar to apple music, but I wanted to avoid American services.

So that absolute morons can say stuff like “the Nazis were socialist, it’s right there in their name”

The Internet is too useful. Email, online banking, and the ability to find reasearch materials are essential to me.

However, i have abandoned all social media except the fediverse. I only use youtube for specific instructional videos - not for entertainment. If i am looking for fun, i look somewhere else. One exception: Qobuz for music (they are a French streaming platform).

So you’re saying there’s gonna be a run on TP? I better head to the store!!

Don’t worry, Americans. These tariffs will eventually be overturned and the government will be forced to hand that money right back to the rich corporations that rule over you.

This is what he means. In fact, I think he is specifically referring to Canada. The first time Trump brought in tariffs, Carney initiated a little bond market run, causing him to back down. It was the first “CO” in TACO. Trump has been bristling since then.

I hate how the headline tries to trivialize the fact that America is threatening to attack its former allies on the basis of trade irritations. This guy is fucking mental.

It stops some people.

Maybe cigarette taxes are more effective, though. Maybe we could tax gambling proceeds.

You are right. I didn’t mean to be cavalier about heroin addiction - I was just being a smart-ass.

In fact, I don’t mean to be cavalier about gambling addiction either.

Here is what I really mean to say: when you learn about gambling through a mathematical perspective first (as I did), it NEVER seems appealing. All casino games are rigged so that the house wins most of the time. Sports betting is similarly biased to ensure that the only participant who routinely profits is the bookie/betting parlour. For me, knowing this takes the fun out of it. It’s like reading the last chapter of a mystery novel first, then trying to slog through the book anyway. And what a spoiler: in the end, you’re gonna lose.