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daguerrean
9m ago
It seems like he got the worst of both worlds. To everyone with any taste or class he looks like a low-class idiot with a bimbo whore wife, but compared to basically any non-obese 18 year old she looks awful. He should've either gone the Jerry Seinfeld/Leo Dicaprio route, laughed at the haters and had his fun or sucked it up and married someone tasteful. He's dealing with all of the cost and none of the benefit.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
13m ago
Just to emphasize: conduit and pull strings. You want both, because even with conduit it's easier to use the string than to run a fish tape.
it_is_so_weird_to_be
15m ago
What exactly does Bezos gain from being married again?
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
17m ago
"Unreal isn't woke", they said!
Did you follow Redot further, btw?
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
18m ago
One of the richest men in the world is throwing a scandalous marriage with a classless woman
Bezos was born in Albuquerque (before Breaking Bad, known mainly as the place Bugs Bunny took a wrong turn at), to recently-wed teenaged parents who divorced shortly thereafter. Class? Why would you expect it?
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
18m ago
Told you you should have went with Redot ;)
Back to Tina's commentary:
Now that the 55- year-old bride Sánchez has proved that landing the fourth richest man in the world requires the permanent display of breasts like genetically modified grapefruit and behemoth buttocks bursting from a leopard-print thong bikini, she’s exuberantly and unapologetically shown that the route to power and glory for women hasn't changed since the first Venetian Republic.
Ouch.
This Tina Brown seems awfully bitter and judgemental about another woman's appearance for a supposed feminist. I wonder what her problem is.
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
23m ago
Something I ran into today: https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/epic-cplusplus-coding-standard-for-unreal-engine#inclusivewordchoice
Good thing I can now code Boomer Wish Fulfillment, Minority Slayer 2000 and Dubiously-Consensual Intercourse Simulator in a fully inclusive style. Thanks to whoever wrote that coding standard!
Well, rich and high status men had mistresses alongside their wives, so Jeff could have gone that route. But clearly Lauren was bent on trading up so out with MacKenzie and in with Lauren, and she knew exactly what bait to dangle in front of him - sexy. Sure, some of us catty females would call her trashy, but Jeff is a man of simple tastes. Give him boobs, he's happy.
And many men would agree with him, the only surprising thing is that this is not twenty-five (instead of fifty-five) year old replacement Mrs. Bezos. Lauren really must have some charisma going on 😁
Kings had to turn schismatic or murderous before they could do what Bezos did there.
It's not exactly Henry VIII, Catherine of Aragon, and Anne Boleyn, but the topic does invite comparison! The first marriage(s) ended in divorce in 2019 but it took until now, six years later, for the big wedding. So like Anne, she managed to hang on to her man through the years and get a ring on it eventually!
Stellula
23m ago
Lauren Bezos is not exactly my cup of tea aesthetically, but she’s probably really fun to be around. She’s also likely pretty smart, or at least smarter than most other women. She’s a helicopter pilot, for one.
Jeff is also extremely white trash coded, and has a very strange apparent short man complex. “Hey look at my hot wife with her huge tits and huge ass and huge lips and she gets all these things out for the world to see all the time when we’re in public” is pretty normal for a man his age who just went through a divorce. He is human, just really rich.
HereAndGone
26m ago
Oh, she's worked hard and is working hard to keep looking that toned. As you get older, muscles get saggy so to keep her arms from the dreaded bingo wings that's a lot of gym hours (maybe some discreet surgery as well, but since she's always showing off her arms and shoulders and there's no signs of scars, either it's very good work or she hasn't had to resort to it just yet).
So I give her credit for that. She's kinda wrecked her face (that trout pout!) but she hasn't done anything (yet) about the signs of crows' feet around the eyes, so she's being more subtle with what work she's having done. But those boobs are not all real as Nature provided them.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
27m ago
I went to a smaller school that often had take-home essays and even exams (up to the professors, more common in smaller honors classes). While cheating might have happened somewhat, it is possible IMO to instill a culture that expects people to follow the rules even when they aren't being watched closely. But it was occasionally enforced by expelling violators.
Botond173
29m ago
For the second - there is no found cure yet for people not giving a shit for the common good under socialism.
How about even more beatings?
voters-eliot-azure
patently unbiased
32m ago
Same with Brandon Johnson in Chicago. The man has made enemies out of nearly every faction aside from the highly-controversial Chicago Teachers Union, who basically blessed him with the position.
Humorously enough, Chicago would've been put in a bizarro-world situation if the opponent had made it in (Paul Vallas), with the Fraternal Order of Police pulling the strings instead of the CTU.
I think either way Chicago's budget would've been fucked, which is the number one issue anyway.
voters-eliot-azure
patently unbiased
35m ago
Nit: when did our definition of socialism become so drowned-down? Is anything that's not free (free-as-in-captured) market capitalism now considered socialism? The only "means of production" that Mamdani is suggesting be owned publicly are a few grocery stores, no? That's hardly a "seizure" of means.
Is FoxNews blocking the term DemSoc from taking off in the US?
pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
38m ago
You might better have used the term "understandable" rather than "fair". By calling it a "fair response" you are invoking the connotation of "fair" as "just, right, natural" which strongly implies that you believe that socialism is the correct outcome.
voters-eliot-azure
patently unbiased
39m ago
- Government solves problem
- Rent seekers are inconvenienced, lobbyists are deployed
- Problem comes back with a vengeance
Many such cases.
gattsuru
42m ago
Hm. Don't remember that phrase. Maybe this or this touch on similar themes, but they don't have that word specifically. And while it's definitely the sort of discussion Balioc goes over a bit, the phrase itself feels more like raggedjackscarlet or the-grey-tribe... except they don't have it either.
Do you remember about how long ago it was linked? Pre-COVID? Pre-split-from-SSC?
siikr.tumblr.com can be better for searching if you know the tumblr's name than either google or tumblr's built-in-search, though it's still not good.
WhateverHappenedToNorman
43m ago
Jeff could have destroyed his marriage for a nubile twenty-something with naturally big assets
Is this not evidence for the opposite of what you're positing?
Bezos could've gotten a brain-meltingly hot twenty-something model/influencer/plausibly deniable escort. But he chose a high achieving, age appropriate woman (Who, yes, looks pretty bimbo-ish).
I do 100% believe he's on TRT, and that this affected his preferences.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
46m ago
7 zillion people do far trashier things every week. Is it because he's rich? We abandoned the whole "leading by example" idea for aristocrats ages ago, and Bezos is no aristocrat.
IGI-111
God was a dream of good government.
50m ago
Why is anyone paying attention to them?
One of the richest men in the world is throwing a scandalous marriage with a classless woman, and you wonder why gossips everywhere are talking about it? The story is basically tailor made for that market. Only Prince Harry's shenanigans could surpass it.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
50m ago
Is it a reasonable requirement to declare that all of society's problems are caused by a group of genetic untermenschen? I feel like asking for another Bukele is at least on-par with it under current conditions, and the latter is quite a bit more humane.
Throwaway05
50m ago
Would you feel more comfortable with this process if we were able to produce date that illustrates that patients admitted with homicidal ideation are equally or more likely to kill someone as felons?
Fundamentally we need to establish what level of problematic behavior disqualifies from gun use. Some amount is clearly appropriate there are people dumb or crazy enough to say "if you let me have a gun I'm going to kill X." Clearly they shouldn't be allowed to. Felons? Stickier not every felon is likely to kill someone but it's a good broad category. You could attack this laterally by making assault on healthcare workers a felony and charging it 100% of the time, but that would be even more overkill - it happens a lot and we try and let it go because a good number of people who do this aren't likely to cause trouble or are likely to cause a minimum of trouble.
While my co-workers (of most non-surgical specialties) are certainly politically motivated at times, and are unlikely to write a letter in support of someone owning guns because they don't believe in that for political reasons....and at the same time they aren't going to abuse the commitment process for political reasons. I could say its because of historical abuses leading to lots of ethic changes on this, I could say its because of the increased lawsuit risk, but realistically a large chunk of it is just because it's so infrequently anything other than intensely obvious (at least outside suicide, suicide risk gets a bit stickier).
Patients who are sick tend to be really fucking sick and unless you've seen it it's hard to understand. Your usual crazy schizophrenic homeless person wandering around on the street was deemed safe to go home. How bad do you think the ones who get dragged in are?
chooky
56m ago
I had bad drywall subs, so I am not sure. Theoretically, a high quality drywall crew would work faster (so not a big cost increase) and cleaner, but drywall is considered shitty entry level work so it is very hard to find a high quality crew.
But basically what happens is that the painters blame the trim (who blame the drywall) or drywall people who blame the framing (which cannot be redone), counting on you and GC to just run out of patience. GCs dont think drywall is real work, so they sub it out without much quality control. Also, at this stage the GC is counting money and will probably try to get some margin by cheaping out on drywall. Results are probably a lot better with new construction than remodel.
3 day wedding, renting out Venice, and tons of money to throw at it. Not as elaborate as the big Indian wedding but then again you can't have a Getty wedding every day, either.
Mostly you'd be watching this for the fashion, but since I think her fashion sense is trashy, no. But it's Gilded Age conspicuous consumption wrapped up in environmental and philanthropic babble, so good gossip fodder.
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