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@Kingsidney99 @joejangleson @traecrowder You act like it's a good thing that he declines his salary because taking it would mean accepting that he works for US and not the other way around. Instead he's getting paid billions by others who don't have the interests of the American public in mind.

@joejangleson @traecrowder Trump isn't paid. Try again you ill informed commie fuck.

How can anyone possibly defend what ICE/Border Patrol is doing?!

@SkyeSharkie Right. Visual minimalism is what you go for when you have a product that doesn't need to shout at you visually to get the sale, like Studio Ghibli movies in Japan, for example (not my photo). Ironically that can make minimalism attention-getting in contrast until it's everywhere.

It's also why japan still looks like this, because people go outside, walk around and make purchasing decisions based on what grabs their attention. The spectacle of colorful outdoor facades, ads, costumed advertising callers, it's all only valuable to the companies if there are people outside to attract! The childhood you lament is gone because you stopped wandering around outside.

this is entirely the result in a shift in marketing. back in the day, people would wander around outside and look at things, so stores and restaurants had to be these big attention grabbing advertisements for themselves, people would literally only find them by spotting the colorful bullshit and being interested because people existed within the world. that meant crazy 3d billboards, giant animals on your McDonald's, bright colors everywhere. the point of change was Yelp, Google reviews, social media presence - all the colorful superstimulus moved into the internet, in crazy short form video commercials and colorful images - they didn't need to spend money on all that in person any more because no one was finding them like that any more, they began to find everything online. just think about it, when you want to go to a restaurant, you don't drive around and look at options, that's what people used to do! now you go online, where all the missing superstimulus colors are! they abandoned spending extra money on the locations because it was no longer accomplishing the thing it was always there for: marketing.

@MartyRobbins_ @phadetheplex @crampell Yes, that's exactly what you're doing, thanks for confirming.

Some people will commit human rights violations rather than go to therapy

@JWhitebread1 @BradRTorgersen I don't take engineering advice from so-called Arthur King.

@KithKanan @BradRTorgersen

Consider also that less than 30 years separate the two operational airframes. We went from four-engine, airscrew, straight-wing, subsonic bombers with 10 crew, to a supersonic, dual-turbofanjet, swept-wing, single-seat, multirole fighter-bomber in under 3 decades. Men who flew as raw USAAF recruits in 1945, were still wearing the USAF uniform in 1974.

@BradRTorgersen @WDE2011 Now do this with the B-52 and <hypothetical 7th generation fighter>

@WDE2011 Hell, the last USAF operational B-29 flew in 1960. F-15 first test flight? 1972. Pretty amazing.

@JWhitebread1 @BradRTorgersen No, because absent genuinely disruptive technology never guaranteed to occur where and when you need it you're now dealing with a mature industry where the easy improvements have been made and the remaining ones possible become increasingly expensive for smaller and smaller gains

@BradRTorgersen Wow! I guess now that we are 50(!) years past the F-15 we should have flying saucers with warp drive! Right?

@asglidden @FrankPulpwriter @DaddyWarpig It requires some planning around/awareness of the terrain to use well (ex: for area denial, blocking off escape routes or protecting a vulnerable flank) for sure.

@FrankPulpwriter @DaddyWarpig Yes, this is the right approach. But nothing says they have to escape toward the party!

If you’re playing AD&D, this isn’t a problem. Stop trying to play the Magic-User like a fighter, focusing on direct damage, and start looking at the spells available to you because they’re supremely vicious even at Level 1. MU are lateral thinkers and support masters, not direct fire. Ponder THAT orb.

@theKageRyu @AlysssaHazel IDK, it's always been the same amount of meat as two cheeseburgers - less than a QPC, Whopper, Jumbo Jack, Dave's Single, Famous Star, etc. It's the smallest 'premium' burger on a major chain menu now. Wendy's was snarking "where's the beef" about the tiny patties in the mid-80s.

@AlysssaHazel 30 year ago the Big Mac was actually delicious, and large. I always prefered the whopper though. So what I'm saying is...you tried it 30 years too late.

Guys. I had a Big Mac for the first time in my life today. ...why do people like McDonald's again?

@caseyphillips @sciaticant @cmclymer Oh, and if I HAD developed an *actual* expensive condition, there was another word that's come up again lately: rescission. Insurance cos or snivelling trumperatchiks, but either way it means "we're cheap dealbreakers in expensive suits who want you to die if it'll save a nickel"

@caseyphillips @sciaticant @cmclymer As the then-employee of a small business that didn't offer health insurance, I watched my individual insurance premiums quintuple in the years before Obamacare passed, and since by that point I had a pre-existing condition if I dropped that plan I wouldn't be able to get another.

"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system." This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

@FrothyFriar @LJamesRice Also, lose the side emergency exit doors with crash bars. What kind of evil overlord cares about building to code or protecting retreating invaders and their own henchmen from crowd crush?

@FrothyFriar @LJamesRice Trap the glass to explode when broken, sending hundreds of tiny dagger-sharp fragments at high velocity straight for the adventurers' faces with a significant chance of blindness for those without eye protection.

I'm installing these at all my dungeon entrances to keep out all your damned 10' poles!

@DungeonNoir Some of us still remember the old ways.

I hate saying if you know, you know But…

@janky_future @Brink_Thinker My perspective on the 70s may be a little different because the sleepy beach/college town I grew up in was "the murder capitol of the world" for a while there with multiple active serial killers.

@janky_future @Brink_Thinker There WERE tho, we mostly just didn't know as many details because news reporting was more local and the threshold for blowing up a story into major national news was higher without 24 hours of cable news channel programming to fill.

Be Honest.. Did parents really just let their kids wander the neighborhood all day with no phone and just say... be back before dark?

@tassonephoto @gregoryjon @GovPressOffice My local (independently owned franchise, so survived corporate going under) Radio Shack store seems to be fully capable of doing business here in California.

After their bankruptcy and closure of every store, like most Americans, we thought Bed, Bath & Beyond no longer existed.  We wish them well in their efforts to become relevant again as they try to open a 2nd store.

@hardtruth2025 @NintenBoss64 @moultano Eh, I'm not whining. I'm mainly on android because I don't want to re-buy all the apps I use and learn a different UI unless I have to. Apple makes quality products, and I've liked the Macs I've owned over the years even if I'm mainly Win/Lin. They're just not an orgasm in a box.

This alone justifies switching away from a MacBook. You do not want a giant heavy transformer torquing your outlets, blocking your outlets, or being a trip hazard. They should have dropped this design a decade ago.