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  1. Guys. Friends. Amigos. It's like you have forgotten the two immutable rules of this era. 1. It only gets worse. 2. There is no bottom. Things are going to get so, so, so much more pathetic. There will be shit like "The Donald Trump Honorable Award of Best Donald Trumping in the Americas," presented by Venezuela and Colombia as an easy way to get Trump off their back (well, that, and their "investment" of a few hundred million in Trump Coin). Imagine how absurdly pathetic and shitty things could get. Then quadruple that. Then quadruple it again. Then toss it in the trash, because it's still nowhere close to how absurdly pathetic and shitty things will ACTUALLY get.
  2. There's an Instant Pot recipe for hard-boiled eggs. I don't use the Instant Pot for much (I cook, I don't do lazy crockpot shit very often). But gotdamn, it cooks them perfectly and the shells peel right off. When it's deviled egg time, we pull out the Instant Pot. I need to try it for soft boiled eggs too, see if that works.
  3. ^^^^ This. The words mean whatever the Trump DOJ says they mean. They may well decree that "pending indictments" means that everyone must eat meatball sandwiches next Tuesday under penalty of death. Nothing. Actually. Matters anymore. Someday, everyone will get it. But that someday will be way, way, way too late.
  4. There's an argument to be made that he's already BEEN pardoned. "I further direct the Attorney General to pursue dismissal with prejudice to the government of all pending indictments against individuals for their conduct related to the events at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021." This language has been used, BY THE TRUMP DOJ, to conclude that even J 6-adjacent crimes (such as separate firearms offenses found in searches of homes of J 6ers etc.) have been pardoned. If I was his attorney, I would absolutely argue that he's already been pardoned by Trump.
  5. Because when all you value is money and power -- and you have no independent self-worth, integrity, or dignity -- it costs you nothing. Would you or I do it? No, because fuck that guy, I have pride and honor. But for men with no honor.....if they are given the opportunity to multiply their wealth simply by handing over an engraved plaque they picked up yesterday from Bob's Trophies and Muffler Shop, and lavishing empty praise on a pathetic narcissist, they are gonna take that opportunity 100 out of 100 times.
  6. That's some bullshit. Great poetry comes from human authors, like James Joyce. Behold the tear-inducing beauty of this work: "At every fuck I gave you your shameless tongue came bursting out through your lips and if a gave you a bigger stronger fuck than usual, fat dirty farts came spluttering out of your backside. You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I fucked them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole. It is wonderful to fuck a farting woman when every fuck drives one out of her. I think I would know Nora’s fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women. It is a rather girlish noise not like the wet windy fart which I imagine fat wives have. It is sudden and dry and dirty like what a bold girl would let off in fun in a school dormitory at night. I hope Nora will let off no end of her farts in my face so that I may know their smell also." Man. That fella could WRITE.
  7. Just more easy fellating of the most fragile ego narcissist in the history of our planet. Make up an award, give it to him, you are ingratiated and he'll let you do whatever you want. It's all childishly transactional.
  8. No disagreement there, but the way we GET there is by ensuring that none of those excessive risk takers are large enough to be a load-bearing pillar of the economy, such that their failure would cause larger collapse. Don't make YOUR risk so great that it would materially damage OUR economy. Kind of like we don't let people use their homes as bomb-making factory - because your failure would cause massive harm to surrounding structures. The underlying social contract involves such trade-offs. If we want to encourage people to take large risks in the pursuit of large reward and large "innovation" (and maybe we do, there's definitely a good case to be made), then we should also ensure that they - and they alone - bear the burden of that risk. Because, spoiler: they, and they alone SURE AS SHIT will reap all of the reward if it pays off.
  9. I mean, that's literally our national motto under this regime, so....yeah.
  10. The phenomenon emphasizes the wisdom and need for real anti-trust law and enforcement. Sure, let these fuckers go out there and leverage to the hilt, and crash and burn. Just none of this "too big to fail" shit (which, when you let one or two entity's become that dominant, is an actual thing -- their failure could lead to total economy disaster). It is bad policy to (1) allow an enterprise to get that big/economically dominant, (2) gamble with its own life, (3) lose, and then (4) say "nope, you can't let us crash, we're too big and too important, use the people's money to bail us out." The thing is, item (4) is not untrue in many such cases. So....don't let it become true. But, we have no interest in doing that. As a society, we live to serve monopolies and oligarchies, and you and I have no purpose other than to be a source of revenue for those things. That's fucking fucked. The economy should serve and benefit its citizens, not vice-versa.
  11. When the market is skewed by stupid debt financing that creates an unsustainable bubble, that's a problem. It's not like we haven't seen this umpteen times before. Loads of debt financing flows to asset X, inflating the price of asset X which is pretty harmful to ordinary consumers that actually need asset X. Then, the debt bubble inevitably pops, consumers are stuck with asset X that they overpaid for, and we all have to bail out the mega-players who got fucked to the tune of billions of dollars for their Vegas gambles on said debt financing. It's legal. It's just dumb, harmful, and destructive. Unfettered "capitalism" has its downsides. This is a known one, and not only have we done nothing to mitigate it, we've gone under the hood to remove all speed governors and soup up the engine, so when we hit the wall, we hit it at ludicrous speed. Lather, rinse, repeat.
  12. I'm just sticking around for the discussion of how Immamac is gonna keep this discussion board going in a post-electricity world. I presume we'll be leaving sketches of dickbutt on a cave wall somewhere?
  13. This. If you show vacillation and inconsistency as a negotiator, then your counterparty will spend their time working on YOU, and trying to change your approach, instead of negotiating on the ultimate issue. Don’t walk in the door all loosey-goosey. Walk in firm and with a united approach.
  14. They’re too busy covering his room with antifa paraphernalia. There will surely be a file in there saying “antifa to-do list: sent by Joe Biden,” and shit like that.
  15. Yeah…way to draw out the family’s agony and grief, assholes. Plenty of solid flags indicating suicide. And saying “but suicide doesn’t make sense” is no rebuttal at all: suicide is very often not a rational decision. You could come up with all kinds of reason why the deceased shouldn’t have done so….but those reasons weren’t enough. It doesn’t make sense. Shit, it’s why the word “senseless” exists.
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