PhilipTheBucket
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There’s a friend of mine who had a roommate who was a Sword Guy. People made fun of him and his sword sometimes, and life moved on as it does.
Then one day some kids who had had a disagreement with members of the house started hitting the front door with baseball bats, trying to break in and wreck up whoever they found inside. About the time they broke through the door Sword Guy came quick down the stairs with his sword. It happened basically exactly like in the anime. He said some weird edgelord shit, but also, he didn’t sound like he was backing down and he was holding a real fucking sword. The kids with bats did the math and decided they didn’t want to get sliced up today, and they left.
I won’t say that Sword Guy became cool on that day but people definitely remembered it positively. Because at the end of the day, when the barbarians were at the gate, who came the fuck through? Sword Guy.
16·1 day ago- Branding. Have recognizable stuff, people get a little hit of dopamine from seeing your logo and the style when it is unique and they recognize it.
- Production values. Have them.
- Consistency over a long time to let the algorithm build up an audience, as it does. Presumably, how people react to your videos has a lot to do with it.
- Hire some dudes in China to play it a few thousand times in one of the those big racks of cell phones.
Check out the whole line of cars that could be getting through right-to-left, but there are two jerkwads who insist on not moving their car a foot or two apart to open up the little space and let them proceed.
Turns out the real America was in the hearts of the world this entire time
It’s crazy to me that none of the people in the right lane of traffic are just escaping off to the right. Everyone’s just sitting.
Maybe there was a process of natural selection, where all the people sensible enough who could get out got out, and it was 100% stubborn people remaining by the time the picture was taken.
I do think of that mentality “But I don’t want to go right, I want to go straight, I’m not turning, everyone needs to get out of my way so I can go straight, I’m waiting here until that happens” as an American thing, but I guess we don’t have a monopoly on it.
Sao Paulo: AMATEURS
EXECUTIVE (tentative) Well, Will, I'm not exactly sure what you mean, we've already offered you a position.. Cut to reveal: Chuckie sitting across from the executives, hair combed down, wearing his Sunday best. CHUCKIE Since this is obviously not my first time in such altercations, let me say this: Chuckie rubs the tips of his fingers together, indicating "cash." The executives are baffled. CHUCKIE Look, we can do this the easy way or the hard way. The executives are completely blank. CHUCKIE At the current time I am looking at a number of different fields from which to disseminate which offer is most pursuant aid to my benefit. (a beat) What do you want? What do I want? What does anybody want? Leniency. EXECUTIVE I'm not sure-- CHUCKIE --These circumstances are mitigated. Right now. They're mitigated. Chuckie puts his hands up, as if getting a vibe from the room. EXECUTIVE Okay... Chuckie points to the third executive. CHUCKIE He knows what I'm talking about. The third executive is baffled. CHUCKIE A retainer. Nobody in this town works without a retainer. You think you can find someone who does, you have my blessin'. But I think we all know that person isn't going to represent you as well as I can. EXECUTIVE Will, our offer starts you at eighty- four thousand a year, plus benefits. CHUCKIE Retainer... EXECUTIVE You want us to give you cash right now? CHUCKIE Allegedly, what I am saying is your situation will be concurrently improved if I had two hundred sheets in my pocket right now. The executives exchange looks and go for their wallets. EXECUTIVE I don't think I... Larry? EXECUTIVE I have about seventy-three... EXECUTIVE Will you take a check? CHUCKIE Come now... what do you think I am, a juvenile? You don't got any money on you right now. You think I'm gonna take a check? EXECUTIVE It's fine, John, I can cover the rest. CHUCKIE That's right, you know. (turns to #1) He knows. Chuckie stands up and takes the money. CHUCKIE (to exec #1) You're suspect. I don't know what your reputation is, but after the shit you tried to pull today, you can bet I'll be looking into it. Any conversations you want to have with me heretofore, you can have with my attorney. Gentlemen, keep your ears to the grindstone.
Two people can both be pieces of shit. And it’s actually pretty common for disingenuous trolls to get behind obviously popular causes, it helps build their brand. And additionally, it’s certainly possible that Peter Thiel wants to destroy the Democrats and thinks that removing Chuck Schumer will disrupt some watered-down anti-fascism that the Democrats are doing in congress any time they get their heads out of their asses, and also that removing Chuck Schumer is an absolutely vital step to reduce the horror in our governance and the ceaseless losing of elections by Democrats.
The problems in Washington are a lot deeper than any given individual and are mostly bipartisan. There is a reason why these absolute corrupt spineless buffoons keep getting elevated to these vaunted positions, and removing one buffoon is not going to right the ship. That’s one thing that makes zero sense to me about “Democrats are part of a corrupt system, so therefore stop voting for Democrats and presto the corrupt system will be fixed!” But, also, a change of leadership away from the absolute worst that the Democrats have to offer can absolutely be a good thing even if it disrupts in the short run.
Yeah. “We’re sorry for his family that he’s dead, regardless of who he was as a person, that’s gotta suck for them.” Totally fine.
“And here this embodiment of literally everything wrong with America, directly responsible for the deaths of thousands, instrumental in weakening the norms of integrity and public interest for his own financial gain and helping in some small way to lay the foundation for our current debacle, a punchline of corruption and slaughter, infamous in the news and reviled in public life, he’s got my vote though! You see I am not willing to deal in uncomfortable truths even when the public can see them unanimously” could have been omitted.
Just to make sure, it is still a good idea to have a contractor over to take a look. Water may have been in the walls for a while before it came out the downstairs ceiling, and if you now have issues with mold or rot, they will be cheaper to resolve the sooner you start trying to resolve them.
The US is providing about a quarter of Ukraine’s defense budget at this point, the EU another quarter, and Ukraine the remaining half.
For the size and money disparity between the countries, it is surprising that the US is doing so little. The US military industrial complex has a bad habit it gets into where it often will give enough aid not to lose, but also not enough to win. Dan Ellsberg called it “The Stalemate Machine” and explained how it works in pretty heartbreaking detail.