@gracklebirder1 Yeah this is something that happened TO Los Angeles first, this is the Mexification of these cities
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@DAKKADAKKA1 He absolutely always had the weird twisted elf ear, from day one with Jon Stewart
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@SlumRNA_Dog As if most women wouldn't turn their nose up at food that some man on her street cooked and showed up with
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I’m a man so I don’t value some other guys wife making us a casserole. I value other guys helping me move some heavy shit my wife bought into or out of my house. I also dont care what women think of me for not making a casserole. It’s just not important to men.
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As a recipient of people asking me to help them move because I’m big and strong and own a truck, I can confirm that 85% of moving helpers are men. And a good chunk of men being asked to help you move are working full time jobs. I’m thinking men and women are… le different?
emily may@emilykmay
as a recipient of meal trains after baby's births and other surgeries, I can confirm that 85% of the meals were made by women and a good chunk of those women were working full time. men, you can do these gestures too, even though you have jobs!
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@markomihkelson So are you guys still holding meetings on how you're going to run our blockade on behalf of Iran, or what?
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NATO is a force multiplier for the United States. Europe is its strategic depth. The US presence in Europe is not an act of charity - it is an investment in America's own security. Turning away from Europe would be a strategic mistake of historic proportions.
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@revenant_MMXX It's funny reading the Little House books to my kids, people just sent their kids to the schoolhouse when they felt like it. It was always a bad day when the Big Kids decided to show up, because they might beat the shit out of the teacher and then just leave again
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"Education" as we know it today is an extremely recent idea, the "sitting in class" 100 years ago would've been primarily for kids smarter than the average pupil today and certainly much smarter than you
netsky remix@iron_redux
Do right-wingers understand that 100 years ago you had to sit still in class too?
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@captive_dreamer I sat next to an NGO immigration lawyer at an event, I told her a friend needed help. She was exuberant, gave me her card, offered to help. I told her he was a South African with hard science grad degrees. She literally turned her chair around and stopped talking to me cold
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Not only that but it's basically impossible for someone from Europe or Australia or Canada (well educated people who share heritage with Americans) to get naturalized. Would love to see a country breakdown and I imagine it's mostly second/third worlders
Logan Hall@loganclarkhall
We were naturalizing 70-80K foreigners every month???
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@justhere4fun87 @BEisenhart I mean, just do the math. If you have a kid at 21, and that kid has a kid at 21, you're a 42 year old grandparent.
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Being in your early 40s is weird, man. People around your age are in every stage of life. You have people who are grandparents. You have people who have newborns. You have people dating 25-year-olds. You have people celebrating their 20th wedding anniversary. Some of them look 60, and some of them look 30. All the bases are covered when you are in your early 40s.
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@TheBrandonMorse I'm watching this and fighting the innate urge to pull that hair into a ponytail
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This game is dragging out the innate dad instinct of every male gamer and it's driving fatherless people into fits of rage.
PRAGMATA@PRAGMATAgame
Your name is...Diana #PRAGMATAMoonBytes - Part 15
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@nonregemesse Every time I'm reading GRRM or Stephen King specifically and a sex scene comes up... They're written in such a way that I can't help but picture them hunched over the typewriter, sweating and panting while writing them.
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@RetroGamerArt One of the most gorgeous games of all time when you account for the time of release. Factor 5 were wizards.
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@lastofcam I play Mario Kart with my beloved children on a bigger TV than that
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This is what being married with no kids looks like.
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@st_louis_stan You can own your employer if your boss says your hair looks nice, what are these women talking about being forced by implication into sex acts?
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Little known trick here but if your boss asks you to suck his dick you can actually get up and leave the room without sucking his dick
emily may@emilykmay
if you are alone with your married, two decades your senior, very powerful boss and he "asks" you to give him oral sex, he does not have to physically coerce you for you to comply. that's the point, that's why these men do it this way.
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So, let’s game this out. A Chinese flagged tanker pays the toll and transits the strait. We interdict it? What if the tanker is escorted by a Chinese warship?
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@PJones1776 @HarmlessYardDog Maybe they should get their vassal in line?
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@HarmlessYardDog What’s China going to do about their oil being blocked by the US Navy?
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Here's the screenshot for the curious.
Battle Beagle@HarmlessYardDog
The US Navy is now blockading the Strait of Hormuz.
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@gaulicsmith Didn't Pakistan lie to both sides? They thought we were now open to their 10 points, and vice versa
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The funny thing about this idea that Trump allegedly floated in negotiations, that Iran can set up a toll booth at Hormuz but they would split the income with the US, is that it highlights a really underappreciated feature of Trump: he's the least zero-sum thinking POTUS, ever.
To be clear, the idea is ridiculous, piggish, and totally contrary to international conventions. It would be a joint US-Iran piracy venture. It's dead in the water.
But in negotiations that follow five weeks of brutal kinetic war, who else would turn to his adversary and say, "hey, I have this whacky idea, just hear me out, you make some money, I make some money, it will be all good"? Only Trump.
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@BigBearBummers So many people thought "hey, I go up to Big Bear 3 times per year... I can get a house, rent it out every week, make a huge profit, and just block it off when I want to go up!"
Every time we rent there it's very clear that nobody has been in the house for a long time
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Cheap money allowed a bunch of people to own vacation homes who otherwise wouldn't have been able to, and good Airbnb income (aided by a pandemic that increased demand for local vacations in the mountains rather than flying) made it even more affordable.
But it was only affordable if those factors stayed true. And now that rental demand has come back down to earth and insurance/maintenance costs have doubled, many owners are headed for the exits because the math no longer works.
The problem is they are selling into an environment where interest rates have doubled and strapped consumers aren't thinking about buying second homes (or starting STR empires) – which is why prices have plummeted to 2021 levels or lower in most areas.
People who have to sell for financial reasons are stuck between taking a huge loss all at once, versus eating shit every month until "things get better."
TLDR: A lot of people got caught up in a speculative frenzy, and are finding out it was too good to be true.
Kitty@Kitty29784
@BigBearBummers I’m oddly invested in this now, thanks to you. So, was it all speculators who bought these at the top or remote workers who have been called back? This looks like the Canadian market - inflated by money laundering.
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@FaucciMane I was airsick on the way into Portugal when I was 14, busted into the hotel room bathroom and was faced with this duo. I had to choose quickly, and I picked the bidet to throw up three meals into.
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Wow cool, my Air Bnb in Rome has one of those home drinking fountains in the bathroom. I’ve always wanted to try one out
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@BashirElim4Ever @martianwyrdlord You're clearly REALLY invested in this Mary Sue thing, holy shit. Wild stuff. I'm going to block you before you find my home address and start shouting about Luke Skywalker through a megaphone
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@StarFox6441 @martianwyrdlord No one did that to you except yourself, and you’re never gonna be an adult until you accept responsibility
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Naturally she fails to understand the meaning of Mary Sue entirely. It does not mean "girl character", it means "perfect character who can do anything with no limitations".
Luke Skywalker was a half decent pilot with a degree of natural ability with the Force that takes him years to develop. He isn't particularly good at anything else.
From the very beginning of The Force Awakens, Rey is an expert pilot, a master martial artist, a top spaceship mechanic, and within five seconds of finding out that the Force exists ascends to the level of Jedi Master. She's also hot, smart, brave, and all the other good things. She needs neither assistance nor instruction. Character growth is unnecessary and impossible. Her only struggle is getting people to admit her natural perfect awesomeness. And even this comes easily to her.
Fandom Pulse@fandompulse
Daisy Ridley says calling her character in Star Wars A Mary Sue is sexist: “The Mary Sue thing in itself is sexist because it’s the name of a woman. Everyone was saying that Luke had the exact same [capabilities]. I think Rey is incredible vulnerable, and nothing she’s doing is for the greater good. She’s just doing what she thinks is the right thing. And she doesn’t want to do some of it, but she feels compelled to do it. So for me, I was just confused.” Is this why modern Star Wars fails because they can't understand criticism?
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