In the ranking of helpfulness of comments:

-Providing a source

-Providing an explanation

-Just not commenting at all

-Making a snarky reply that contains no useful info and tells people to look things up themselves.

Who do I tell? Their answering machine? Their poorly paid staffer who has to answer calls?

Maybe I should just go talk to my front door knob, or quietly whisper my complaints into a pillow. It would accomplish the same thing.

Lol, it’s a bill dude. That’s how bills work. The bill is called The Epstein Files Transparency Act. There is nothing special about this bill that would make it go straight from the House to the Justice Department. It still has to go through the Senate and be signed into law by the president before it takes effect.

You fell for the bait. And I get it, you’re probably scrambling now, looking up the actual reality of the situation going “No… No, that can’t be right… If that was how it worked then all this would be meaningless, and if this is all meaningless then why would every news site and social media board be talking about it as if it wasn’t? People would have to be complete, ignorant, fucking idiots for that to be the case…”

And now you know why I’m going bald.

The alternative global language is Mandarin which is even more of a mess

…“If”?.. Do people just not understand the bare fucking basics of how the government works?

It won’t release on Tuesday. Not because of any kind of cover up, but because it’s only in the House right now. If on Tuesday the House votes to release it… It goes to the Senate. And they won’t vote on it that same day. There is no “if” it releases on Tuesday because there is literally no route for that to happen. And even moving forward, it’s extremely unlikely to ever get released this way.

That’s why I’ve been pulling my hair out at all the idiots going “OMG we got the 218 signatures now! They’re gonna vote to release it!!1!”

Yea… In the House. Then it goes to the Senate. Then it goes to Trump’s desk where he’s essentially guaranteed to veto it. Then it goes back to the house who now needs a 2/3rds majority, which they don’t have.

That’s how fucking bills work. We learned this in fucking grade school with schoolhouse rock. “Oh we have the signatures now!” is completely meaningless. It’s like celebrating you won the lottery when all you’ve done is buy a ticket; you still don’t stand a snowballs chance in hell.

Yea, but idiots feel better when they think the people dismantling society are all secretly miserable and are only doing the things they do because they have hurt feelings, rather than being a part of a coordinated effort to consolidate of power into the hands of the wealthy and getting everything they ever wanted.

Sophisticated PC gamers: “Graphics aren’t that important. The surge of indie games has shown that fun gameplay is really the only important factor. If big companies really cared, they would spend more time making sure their game was enjoyable to play rather than worrying about dumb things like hair physics and background animations.”

Also sophisticated PC gamers: “OMG the new Pokemon game looks like CRAP! Why would anyone bother to play such an ugly game that looks like it came out 10 years ago?!”

Well yea because Season 2 was hot garbage juice. Season 1 was fantastic, was really hyped for the next season. But holy shit did they drop the ball, didn’t even seem like the same show. Several of the episodes didn’t even have cars in them!

I’m always extremely wary of post-mortem criticisms of hated figures. Especially when that criticism is about physical characteristics. Just way too many instances in history of people making shit up after the fact like “and he had a small penis too!”. Take the supposed autopsy of King Charles II of Spain which includes such gems as his body “did not contain a single drop of blood”, that his heart was the “size of a peppercorn”, and he had “a single testicle, black as coal”.

Not saying the people making these claims on Hitler are wrong, but it sounds very similar to other instances of historians not letting the truth get in the way of a good story.

Yea, it’s an honest mistake that could happen to anyone! I mean, who among us HASN’T ordered an online prostitute who we thought was barely legal that turned out to be underage? There’s no way to avoid it!

Here’s a little thought experiment: If someone offered you a magical pill that could keep you healthy and fit and you never had to work out again, would you take it?

If the answer is yes, then it’s because while you may like the results of working out; deep down you know the actual act of working out fucking sucks. If such a pill existed, you wouldn’t keep lifting weights or running on a treadmill just for the hell of it.

It’s fine to like the results of working out. Hell, I like the results. I like being healthy. I like not having heart problems. But I’m not going to fucking delude myself like a gullible idiot and say that what it takes to achieve those things is somehow enjoyable. Because it’s not. Working out is fucking awful. Just because it’s the only option doesn’t mean I have to pretend to like it.

Golly gee, you’re telling me that the reason I dislike the shitty activity that sucks and make me feel terrible is only because I’m forced to do the shitty activity that sucks and makes me feel terrible? You’re saying that if I trick my brain into thinking that the shitty activity that sucks and makes me feel terrible somehow isn’t shitty, doesn’t suck, and doesn’t make me feel terrible; I’ll somehow believe it? Sorry, my brain doesn’t work like that. It tends to reject blatant fucking lies, especially when they come from myself.

I’m sure there are people who practice self-flangellation that have convinced themselves that they like it. Doesn’t make it any less of a stupid activity that anyone with sense would recognize is fucking awful.

I bet you’re also a morning person who just doesn’t understand why people struggle waking up and being productive.

This is a fucking lie. I work out to keep my blood pressure down and I HATE it. Every fucking day I hate it. “IT wIlL feEL WeIrD NOT tO HiT tHe gYm-” fuck off. No it doesn’t. Every second I’m at the gym I wish I could be laying down relaxing. It also doesn’t get easier. Oh the workouts do, but the motivation to go? The awful post-workout routine of being exhausted and needing to shower but STILL having to cook and do all the household chores that need to get done that day? The desire to do ANYTHING else besides go to the gym? That does NOT get easier.

I’m so fucking tired of working out. If I didn’t have blood pressure issues, there is no way in hell I would subject myself to that BS 5/7 days of the week. There is no enjoyment from this activity. People talk about post-workout endorphins and I feel like they have to be bullshitting because I’ve never felt anything of the sort. Just a vague relief that it’s over… At least for that day.

I’ve seen this criticism a couple of times and I’m not sure I’m following. He was reading out the pledge that service members were taking on the field, you know the thing people do where the officiator says the words your supposed to say and you repeat them back? “State your name” is a pretty common thing in that when the person repeating the words is supposed to say their own name.

Are people upset because they think Trump should have said the oath himself, and thus, should have said his own name? Because that could cause some confusion with the soldiers repeating his words.

The only other thing I can think of is that people are just so pants-shittingly stupid that they couldn’t connect that he was reading out a pledge for soldiers to follow, and instead thought he was just reading from a teleprompter or a script and fucked up by not saying his own name. I really hope that’s not why people are upset because, holy shit how fucking stupid do you have to be to think that?

Hell yes, two joysticks! My biggest gripe with the first steam controller is that I could NOT get used to using the touchpad as a joystick.

Completely unrelated, but did you know that if all 4 tires are slashed on your car, insurance will typically cover the replacement; but if only 2-3 tires are slashed, you have to cover the replacement cost yourself?

To be fair, it’s a block of salt. Not only would microbes have a hard time surviving on it, but you can just run water over it and the top layer will dissolve away.

The one that constantly pops into my head is where I saw a woman making ceviche. Except she didn’t add salt directly to it. Instead, when it was time to start cutting everything, she pulled out a 10lb block of pink Himalayan rock salt from her fridge “that you can get from any specialty salt store” and used that as the cutting board so the dish would absorb some of the salt.

I was just stunned. In what way is that any better than just adding salt? In fact, it’s far worse since you have no way of controlling how much salt is going into the dish. And what the hell is a specialty salt store?!

Oh man they’re really feeling torn into! I bet they’re sitting in their mansions just racked with guilt and shame over how upset their constituents are! I’m sure they feel just awful for their staffer who has to reply to all the messages they get with a bland, form letter that addresses none of their questions or concerns.