10 hours ago, Nokra said:

Fuck your neighbor as you fuck yourself.

3 hours ago, Spork3245 said:

 

Should be a "m" at the end there, BUT, nonetheless! 

Image deleted?

3 minutes ago, 5timechamp said:

….so in this GOP controlled House what would be Gaetz punishment? a yellow card? loss of his parking space? we know they get separate consequences..

He only gets paper straws with all his beverages.

Trump did it.

Jesus is someone tapping their phone lines? That's some really detailed insight.

Who? 

It looks a lot better than I expected. 

CNN called it for Trumpster Fire

On 12/31/2023 at 1:27 PM, Kal-El814 said:

 

Imagine paying $44B to be the main character on your favorite platform only to be reminded that you’re just an NPC in the game’s starting town. 

So evidently Mr. Beast gave it a shot...

Mr. Beast Posts Video On X, Streams In $250,000

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...his recent experiment on X garnered a massive 155 million views, and as you might have guessed (given this star YouTuber’s popularity—all channels combined he boasts 233 million YouTube subscribers), this news created waves across social media platforms.

In a tweet, Mr. Beast hinted at a potential twist in his windfall, stating, “Advertisers saw the attention it was getting and bought ads on my video (I think) and thus my revenue per view is [probably] higher than what you’d experience”.

So best case scenario, he's not making back the millions it costs to make his videos.

Considering the millions of office chairs that businesses go through every year, and how infrequently this happens, I think you can rest easy on the sheer improbability of this.

At least those officials can go to bed every night (in their homes that they own) satisfied at a job well done.

Yeah he's impressive!

1 hour ago, CayceG said:

When I got my job I began renting an apartment. I still have the fridge magnet they gave me where they wrote the monthly rent. It was $671 a month. The same unit now at the same complex starts at $1300.

Yup. Same here. Where we are now, because we rent from a private renter we can never move because what we get for $1235 would easily cost $2k+ anywhere else in Orlando.

Year before last my wife was finally able to ditch her beater car and now we both have decent running vehicles for the first time in our marriage. I cashed out some retirement to be able to get it, and pay off some debt, but the debt has only come back. We've slowly managed to get to a point where all our major needs are taken care of and we both have stable careers, but it's been a long road and it will be a longer road yet if we ever want to own our own place.

Kids are financially out of the question but we also don't really want any.

I read that yesterday. I was tempted to post it in the WSJ thread about American optimism as a counterpoint. Actually I'm not sure why I didn't. 

But yeah seems like millenials have spent basically the entirety of their adult years so far unlearning the wisdom of their parents. What was once unequivocal ground truth about how to live has collasped and been swept away by runaway socioeconomic inequality. Older people in our family literally don't understand how we're always broke and we can't put any money away for emergencies or expensive purchases.

In the early 80s my parents had jobs straight out of college and immediately moved into a house in their mid-20s as soon as they were married. But then they couldn't afford to put my sister and I through college, and even after explaining how so many college educated people I know can't get jobs in their field and are saddled with a mountain of debt, my mom has still always felt like I should get a degree because that will magically solve all our money problems. She just can't let go of that idea.

To boldly go....all over the damn place.

People are way too hard on Trump. It was probably just from the red Crayola marker that he used for his coloring book.

OK well this was on my YouTube home page so I didn't have to look it up.

Fox Hosts Baffled By The Stock Market Breaking Records, Try to Credit Trump

3 hours ago, Nokra said:

I can already hear Fox News and co. saying that this is the delayed result of Trump's policies.

I'm pretty sure Trump & Co have been saying that but I'll be damned if I'm gonna look that up.

That's @ort's job.

Nothing galvanizes the left quite like 15 week abortion bans.

12 minutes ago, Pikachu said:

Democrat Keen claims victory in Florida House District 35 special election

Wow I had no idea this was going on lol

4 hours ago, cusideabelincoln said:

I do not notice this issue, but I don't use Adblock. I use Ublock Origin and Adguard.

 

 

Add the following code to the My Filters section of uBo and you can block Youtube ads and not get the "video player will be blocked" message from Youtube.

 

 

youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)
youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)
youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, [])
youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)

 

 

I have Premium but I'm sure some folks will appreciate that.

Hot take: Ubisoft isn't wrong here. We're going to have to get used to it because that's the trend. Buy a game, watch as the server it relied on closed down, or the digital distribution rights of the platform expired and it disappears from your library.

Get used it, because that's already the reality.

3 hours ago, CastletonSnob said:

Also, Trump only got 51% of the vote in the Iowa caucus.

 

That's uh, not good for a former President and overwhelming favorite to win the Republican presidential nomination.

That also doesn't mean he'd only get 51% of the GOP's support in a general election.

7 minutes ago, osxmatt said:

I think approval ratings have largely become irrelevant, a dying grasp from the old political guard. 

It could be, or that could be copium. But the warnings issued against Trump in 2020 that no President with approval ratings that low has ever won re-election still haunt me.

11 hours ago, Jason said:

 

As I've said before, while Trump being on the ballot definitely makes me extremely nervous because if he's on the ballot then it's possible for him to win, I still think Biden beating Trump in the second election in a row is a much easier task than Biden beating Haley.

Biden isn't going to have an easy time either way with the way his approval numbers keep dropping. He's lower at this point than any President in the last 70+ years.

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