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BrickHorn

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  1. Or we could learn from our sordid past and make better decisions.
  2. That before-and-after photo set nicely illustrates the core characteristic of today’s right wing: mental health issues indulged. The party is just a giant co-enabler group, its members constantly reinforcing each other's unhealthy behaviors and thought patterns. They’ve let themselves go, mentally, and they’re dragging the whole country down with them. No one in the party is going to intervene on Guilfoyle’s behalf. No one will help. They will just nod along and encourage her to keep accelerating towards a bad end.
  3. Why?
  4. Are assless chaps really considered “tactical?”
  5. Yes, of course. And the effects of settler colonialism on Palestine will linger long after that policy ends, which may happen at some point.
  6. I chuckled this morning at the ironic condescension of posters equating slavery — a practice that was abolished in the US 160 years ago — with a colonialist policy that continues to this day. Y’all motherfuckers need Jesus analogical reasoning practice.
  7. #1 - That ad is awesome. #2 - it will not convince a single Trump voter to change his mind. Those idiots are immune to facts and logic at this point.
  8. Younger Americans are unhappy because the American dream is increasingly unavailable to them. College is insanely expensive and admissions are unbelievably competitive. Upon graduation, they are often saddled with crushing debt and housing costs that make home ownership a pipe dream. We offer no social safety net. Health care is expensive and soulless. Pensions are a thing of the past. Our laws and courts are increasingly hostile to labor, and much of the available work is in the exploitative gig economy. States are undoing child labor protections and a wave of fundamentalist bullshit has eroded the quality of public education. Profits trump well being in critical industries like air travel, utilities, and pharmaceuticals. Greedy assholes sold too many Americans on the false gospel of Jesus The Capitalist and they’ve dragged us back into the dark days of the Industrial Revolution. And you wonder why young Americans who suffer from the resulting policies are unhappy?
  9. And Trump is a billionaire. So fucking what? Maher is a moron and always has been.
  10. Except that he doesn’t know anything.
  11. Of course that’s what he thinks. He has a simpleton’s understanding of the universe. Put him on ignore or at the very least stop quoting his stupid bullshit.
  12. Add Bob Dornan to the list, too.
  13. Ricky Schroder. Kirk Cameron. Scott Baio. James Woods. Rob Schneider. Roseanne Barr. Kid Rock. Ted Nugent. Jon Voigt. Jim Breuer. I guess celebrities don’t have to stay out of politics so long as they’re washed-up D listers and really stupid.
  14. George Mason University. What a surprise.
  15. This reflects a superficial model of economics. Sure, price represents subjective value. But, over the long term, humans value useful things. Occasionally markets go irrational based on a FOMO mentality, but people eventually recognize useless assets for what they are and prices and volume crash. Look at what happened with NFTs which are, ironically enough, essentially just crypto tokens that are nominally tethered to something tangible.
  16. In ways that force the kind of technical care and safety measures that beancounters would otherwise cut for short term profit purposes.
  17. So are you in favor of more stringent regulations of commercial airlines?
  18. Crypto is worthless as a currency because of its volatility, transaction costs, and inability to scale. So it has become nothing more than an investment asset. But unlike other assets, crypto offers no dividends, rents, interest, or utilitarian value. Its only value is speculative: when you buy crypto, you’re gambling that someone else will buy it for more than you paid. It’s entirely a bet on a rise in the price of the asset itself, also know as a “greater fool” bet. Crypto enthusiasts will bounce back and forth between currency-type and asset-type arguments for it. But the former are completely irrelevant. Aside from stable coins (which have their own issues), crypto is not a form of currency and thus any attempt to justify crypto based on analogy to fiat is invalid. The relevant question at this point is whether crypto has sustainable value as an asset.
  19. Yes, someone please tell us who owns this InceLorean so I can sell him on my new crypto project.
  20. Exactly. As I recall, the various regional promoters sat on a board that chose world champions. And the champ’s job was to cycle through the different promotions to wrestle the local hero and make him look good. They picked a guy who could wrestle an hour a night every night, put a less capable performer over, and put butts in seats. Flair traveled from state to state wrestling each company’s top guy, pretending to get his ass kicked for 55 minutes, and then somehow cheating to win or eking out a DQ loss or finding some other cheap way to retain the belt. The local fans would come away thinking their guy proved himself superior to the champ and only lost due to bad luck, which surely wouldn’t intervene in the rematch. (What are the chances Flair could escape certain defeat through pure dumb luck a second time?) And then they’d rush to buy tickets for the next time Flair came to town.
  21. It’s not a pen if the fouled player has a Liverpool badge on his chest. Thats the unwritten rule.
  22. With a dinged up squad, we dominated City. Should have won that one by three goals.
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