durdenhobbes
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durdenhobbes
6d ago
Covid lockdowns were directly responsible for the end of my dream career, my marriage, and my faith in humanity. Six years later, I share in your anger as I navigate a similar PTSD this time of year.
durdenhobbes
19d ago
People don't drink anymore, so bars and clubs are out.
Beg your pardon? I think alcohol sales are down roughly 2-3% from a few years ago, but people certainly still fill up all the good bars in any major city on the weekends, at minimum.
durdenhobbes
20d ago
Yeah that’s less than nothing, unless she values her time and sanity at zero.
If the story is accurate as you say, I’d have been going to every local news station, calling up his competitors to let them know how to market against him, maybe buy a billboard or two myself…
durdenhobbes
20d ago
A tenth of a five-figure sum? So a few thousand dollars? Surely she spent more on 2 years of legal action than that.
Should have told him to suck a fat one, and leave the 1-star review.
durdenhobbes
27d ago
The United States has been a vassal state of Israel for the entirety of my existence. How is this suprising news to anyone?
durdenhobbes
27d ago
you sure have to put up with a lot.
Nah, you really don't. Recognize that the juice ain't worth the squeeze, and bring balance back to the force.
durdenhobbes
30d ago
Most of the media hates Israel and tends to uncritically publish anti-Israel propaganda.
What do you base that assertion on? My observational experience has been the polar opposite.
durdenhobbes
1mo ago
I think the social expectations surrounding childrearing has more to do with it than the breakdown of any longstanding disinformation campaign. Until basically now, families had 4+ kids, and the oldest would start taking care of the younger ones from age 6 or so (this was my grandmother's responsibility and lived experience, as my great grandmother died in childbirth of the youngest sibling). If you lived on a farm, you'd be pitching in with chores from the time you could walk, and you were much-needed labor. Get out of line? Get the belt. And so on. This was a hard living, but it built children into little adults rather than the coddled tyrants that you describe.
Fast forward to today, and it's no wonder than parenthood is so all-encompassingly exhausting. The "gentle parenting" trend has made children the rulers of the domain and the adults their indentured servants. And parents do it to each other, constantly trying to one-up their peers with lavish birthday parties, 5-figure caches of toys in dedicated playrooms, chauffeur services to endless activities, and general capitulation to absolutely anything Little Johnny and Janie could ever demand. Get out of line? Uhh, "don't do that, I guess?".
The pendulum will swing back, because as a parent currently trying to wage this war, I can confidently say that it is not a sustainable state of affairs.
durdenhobbes
1mo ago
but the thing being in Spanish without even subtitles really did feel like a fuck you.
Felt exactly the same way, until I saw some of the translated lyrics on X and quickly realized why they wouldn't be on network television
durdenhobbes
1mo ago
durdenhobbes
1mo ago
“Deserve” seems overly charitable.
durdenhobbes
1mo ago
We’re all just human
durdenhobbes
1mo ago
I don’t think there’s any serious doubt at this point. Ghislane was that user.
durdenhobbes
2mo ago
Those unis are insanely badass. Well done, sir.
durdenhobbes
2mo ago
There's some good discussion lending credence to this theory (including better video than I've seen elsewhere) in this thread
durdenhobbes
2mo ago
As in, the left gets what they want politically, or they get a hot war?
durdenhobbes
2mo ago
Yeah, I'm glad I've never owned one. That's been standard on all but the most basic cars since at least the 80s. What money-grubbing bastards.
durdenhobbes
2mo ago
What car company? Just so I can be absolutely certain to never buy one.
I think this is a major contributing factor in the oft-discussed "enshittification" of everything. The world has become increasingly flat, and increasingly bland. Car companies don't take risks, and everything they sell is some shade of grey with maybe some blue scattered in. Companies increasingly recognize that any small "lifehacks" or perk can be monetized, and our sense of hope and wonder fades away. Even Disney World has MBA'd itself into a place I would no longer remotely describe as the "happiest place on earth".
The phenomenon stems largely from corporate consolidation, as well. You used to have a bevy of media options and ownership groups, which could bring multiple flavors of radio stations and newspapers to even a mid-size town. Now they're all pretty much owned by the same handful of companies. And how many quaint local mom-n-pop stores have succumbed to Amazon and Wal-Mart?
durdenhobbes
3mo ago
To me at least, that's what it felt like we were doing during the three Trump campaigns. Never in my life did I expect to be involved in such a polarizing political environment, but the cause felt worthy enough that I made sacrifices to endorse it. I'm sure others experienced the fractured relationships, social ostracization, and professional hazards that came along with supporting the man who seemed to be the only one willing to stand up against the zeitgeist.
And then you get stuff like this and you just kinda throw up your hands and realize you've probably been duped once again.
durdenhobbes
3mo ago
you need to make sure that the people who control how the public is molded are not evil or stupid.
The question is how? And don't say "vote".
durdenhobbes
4mo ago
Yeah I'm getting "504 Bad Gateway" (or something close to that) errors all the time lately. Thought the site had shut down for a minute.
durdenhobbes
4mo ago
A number of men at the church I grew up in attended Promise Keepers meetings/events
durdenhobbes
4mo ago
Yeah my hungover brain realized that a moment later, but I decided to leave the post as written anyways.
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