I hope I have never done this to anyone 🥺

🤩 makes me want to buy some mountain dew and invite someone over for some games and music!

I definitely would have felt EXTREMELY COOL playing dead rising to drowning pool when I was 12

That’s increasingly not true. Local businesses barely exist anymore, soon your only option will be, like, great clips. Not sure what you mean about squeezing over inelastic demand. They can raise the prices of a pillow but they can’t make a profit when only 1% of the population is buying pillows

This isn’t really sustainable though. Regardless of how rich you are, you only really need 1, maybe 2 pillows. You can only get so many haircuts in a year. They do absolutely need the poors.

I don’t recall any hype around it at all except that it was a thing that companies made. Most of them require glasses so I really don’t understand how they thought that would ever catch on.

They are surprised VR isn’t really taking off with inflation through the roof huh?

Thank you. That definitely lines up with my experience moderating subreddits and communities.

What’s the 90-9-1 rule?

“I love my son,” the U.S. representative told USA TODAY in response to a request for comment. “We take these allegations very seriously and pray for everyone affected during this challenging time.”

😑 Pretty good standard PR line I guess

(…) likely referencing accusations that have been making rounds online about some of the mod’s leads and whatnot – a situation I’d argue is worth a quick Google as it gets quite dark and might be a tad too heavy here.

Why cover a story but only halfway? How embarrassing.

But renewables are already cheaper than fossil fuels and the rest of the world IS going to move on, we can’t stop them, he is limiting our ability to produce energy at the same time the economy is being propped up by new data centers

lol, I think this is the most important takeaway here. We feel a natural pull to understand as critical thinking humans, but at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter if it’s maliciousness or incompetence

So it’s not just that he’s stupid, it’s the russian asset thing?

Is he actually sabotaging us on purpose at this point?

Lol there has to be some challenges on YouTube like that. I bet they are fun to watch. Like the bunny that defeated the cathedral beast on a DDR pad.

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I never would have heard about this if not for the fediverse

There’s actually a surprising number of people who still use both. People who feel they’ve been wronged are usually pretty vocal about it. I’m not saying they’re exaggerating or lying or anything either, mind you, just pointing out that’s the way the human mind works. Capital One pissed me off and I told everyone who would listen for like a decade after, but no one really volunteers info about uneventful relationships.

Sorta. That ruling allowed them to use race as a criteria, but not the criteria for stopping someone. So the ACLU is seeking to prove that racial profiling is the primary and often only sorting criteria ICE is using, which is currently not allowed as far as we know (or it will force the courts to just admit that racial profiling is 100% open season now).

They’re also calling them tonks, which isn’t so much a racial slur but refers to the sound a flashlight makes when they hit someone over the head with it. It’s not just that they’re no-no words, it’s that the language they are using is very much linked to the violence they are also doing.

There are ongoing cases about the Pretti / Good murders also at a minimum, so it’s not an either-or situation.

That’s not to say that any of this is good or acceptable, mind you. The fact that the country didn’t absolutely grind to a halt over all of this is a massive failure, of course.