Okay, I do like some music from the 90’s. Some of it straight up sounds like parody now, though. I wasn’t sure WTF was going on when I heard “Too Close” for the first time.

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Man, if it was that easy then China and the West would be having a much better time, and Israel a much worse time (since the Gulf countries are also rich).

He knows that he can’t really sustain tariffs because prices would really rise, and a massive recession would kick in, so he bluffs by delaying the dates.

Does he? Or does he just think the markets panic for no reason every time he tries?

People close to him have said tariffs being good for the economy is like a pathological fixed belief he has.

C’mon, we all know that’s the NSA’s job.

the unshittified internet

If you were in the 1% or whatever of the developed-world population that had it, a nice collection of bookmarks and an hour to load every image over your shitty dialup.

Like, I’ll go ahead and say the internet has gotten worse, but only after a decade or two where it got much, much better.

As for the rest of the stuff, the 90’s were kind of a sweet spot. The Cold War was over, the new gilded age was just starting to gather and some of the 20th century problems were on their way out. Leaded gasoline, rampant littering, near-disposable cars and cigarette smoke everywhere are more 1980’s and earlier in my head.

90’s music is often terrible to my ears, by the way, and grinding was weird.

Wow, that really puts the impact of covid in perspective.

I mean, most of the people here didn’t mention it at all.

Yes, it’s better to be gay in America in 2025 than 1995, although might not be trending in a good direction now. Probably black too, although that’s been a painfully slow process by comparison.

The kid won’t remember. That poor dad will never forget. Damn.

I’d take this over most of the stuff the guy with kidney problems mentioned, absolutely no question.

Man, you must really hate deep water for it to make this list.

Which was weird, because honestly that flattered the police in no way.

Yes, that’s a pretty famous moment for your parent’s lines to start coming out of your mouth. TBF the reaction to that seems to be “I can’t become my parents” more often than “they were right”.

This. This so hard.

Like, it doesn’t matter how smart you are, you’re working with only a little bit of data on a world filled with lies, which tends to beget bad ideas. And that’s not even getting into the non-rational drivers kids can have.

I’m guessing the average Lemming was a weird little nerd. I was.

If anything, my own parents had trouble recognising I actually still was a kid.

As I understand the headline, it could just as easily be someone in the prison that tampered with the data. That would be the simplest explanation, then.

After reading the article, it’s not even clear it was tampering, as opposed to conversion and compilation of the original file formats. And apparently, if the footage is what it appears to be, he actually did kill himself.

It truly is just a handful of unscrupulous, malignant narcissists that have ruined everything (including the planet) for everyone else.

No, that was a much larger group effort. You and me can’t wash our hands of it. Like, even if you ignore the majority of stuff they don’t own, we let them do that.

Okay, I’ll be a bit more direct. Go talk to the aliens about it, maybe they have time. I believe the hexbear way of saying that is “disengage”.

From the article:

The plane’s fuel was tested and found to be of satisfactory quality,

I believe in conspiracies as a general concept, like the two guards, and I believe governments have classified programs. When it gets to a certain point where vast numbers of people are involved in covering up something huge perfectly, you run into the problem of everything being possible and nothing being falsifiable, though.

In practice, people don’t believe in conspiracy theories because they honestly assess it’s the neatest way to explain the world, it’s because they get emotional satisfaction out of the community and the feeling that they know something which other people don’t. There’s psychology literature about it and everything.

What I said is my goto answer when I suspect I’m about to be arguing about melting steel beams or whatever, because that’s just a waste of time.