sp3ctr4l

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 hours ago

Can you provide a source proving you were born yesterday, or can we all agree that's a generally reasonable assumption?

Here's Walmart:

https://united4respect.org/reports/walmart-political-spending-2024/

Amazon:

https://united4respect.org/reports/amazon-political-spending-2024/

I very much hope I do not need to explain NewsCorp's 'political contributions' of all kinds to you.

Or WaPo, which Bezos personally intervened in, to prevent them from endorsing Kamala.

... The person you are incredulously doubting made a broad and general statement that is broadly generally true, but I am guessing you would want a comprehensive analysis of every company and corp in the US to validate the truth of it...

... When, as demonstrated above, it takes an entire organization to figure this shit out for even a few major corps, because our laws regarding political donations have been fucked since Citizens United, and you have to do a massive effort of sleuthing to untangle the nested shell corporation like structure that is now commonplace in PACs.

Costco is probably the only major retailer that leans more Dem than Rep.

...In the event qualifications are relevant to you for assessing claim veracity, I all say this as a person who has degrees in Econ and Poli Sci, one of many specializations being Poltical Economy, who has worked for MSFT and a Fortune 500 import export middleman firm based out of Seattle that is 100% certainly shitting its proverbial pants right now.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 hours ago

And that is what I would describe as the only kind of miracle I believe can actually happen.

Roughly on par with 'bailed out of an airplane, crashed through some trees, landed in a snowbank, only suffered a few fractures and actually lived.'

Something like that happened a few times in WW2.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

* curb your enthusiasm theme plays *

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (3 children)

Can Starbucks please die already?

I say this as a native Seattleite, who used to love going to actual coffee shops, comfy hangout all day and study or do work on a laptop... type coffee shops...

Untill Starbucks appropriated that aesthetic, and then turned into a corporate fast food franchise, and drove basically every actual independent coffee nook out of business.

Fuck Starbucks, fuck everyone who thinks their coffee flavored milkshakes are coffee.

... I will die on this hill.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 hours ago

... Set up firefox for windows via wine, if its a webapp?

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

derp, i made that joke, but before seeing your comment, should have replied to you!

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

My head canon is this guy had a kid with a woman of opposite patterned people from this episode, and somehow our boy here ended up with every single recessive gene possible.

I wonder if plaid is possible...

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, I was gonna say, did the pilot live?

Good number of hydroplane/powerboat deaths/maimings over the years...

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Sha na na na na na Shingles, eeeeek!

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 12 hours ago

Knowing Randall, I wouldn't be surprised if he actually got his own DnD group, or conducted some sort of poll, where he actually asked people already in certain alignment categories to describe their own egg carton balancing patterns... or lack thereof.

That would come closer to the actual alignments self representing...

But also I have no idea, this is just my head canon now rofl.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Chaotic good here.

Yep, I'm an Autist.

... Also had a mom with pretty severe OCD, so I always remember that 'good enough is good enough', in scenarios like this.

EDIT:

... Also also, I find the lawful evil solution to be utterly diabolical and actually makes me angry just being exposed to it conceptually... which I guess does make sense, opposite sections of the chart.

 

Y2K, as in it came out in the year 2000.

Link to the song again:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xqvYBB6-yOg

Here are the lyrics, but as it is a song, I highly suggest you just listen to it!

If you receive an e-mail with a subject of "Badtimes", delete it immediately without reading it.

This is the most dangerous e-mail virus yet

...

It will re-write your hard drive.

Not only that, but it will scramble any disks that are even close to your computer.

It will recalibrate your refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice cream melts.

It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards, screw up the tracking on your VCR and use subspace field harmonics to render any CDs you try to play unreadable.

It will give your ex-boy/girlfriend your new phone number.

It will mix antifreeze into your fishtank.

It will drink all your beer and leave its socks out on the coffee table when there's company coming over.

It will put a dead kitten in the back pocket of your good suit and hide your car keys when you are late for work

...

Badtimes will make you fall in love with a penguin.

It will give you nightmares about circus midgets.

It will pour sugar in your gas tank and shave off both your eyebrows while dating your current boy/girlfriend behind your back and billing the dinner and hotel room to your Visa card.

It will seduce your grandmother.

It does not matter if she is dead, such is the power of Badtimes, it reaches out beyond the grave to sully those things we hold most dear.

...

It moves your car randomly around parking lots so you can't find it.

It will kick your dog.

It will leave libidinous messages on your boss's voice mail in your voice.

It is insidious and subtle.

It is dangerous and terrifying to behold.

It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve.

...

Badtimes will give you Dutch Elm disease.

It will leave the toilet seat up.

It will make a batch of methamphetamine in your bathtub and then leave bacon cooking on the stove while it goes out to chase high school kids with your new snowblower.

These are just a few of the signs.

Be very, very careful.

 

Zillow projects that U.S. home prices will fall 1.7% between March 2025 and March 2026. Last month, Zillow economists still thought prices would rise this year.

Thats the aggregate for the whole US, -1.7%.

The US Housing bubble has popped.

Please be wary of particularly emotional and or delusional landlords as they go through the 5 stages of grief while processing this information.

 

Zillow projects that U.S. home prices will fall 1.7% between March 2025 and March 2026. Last month, Zillow economists still thought prices would rise this year.

Thats -1.7% across the whole country.

The US housing bubble has popped.

Fs in chat for your local obscenely overleveraged corporate landlord or serial home flipper or AirBnB leaser, though be warned, they may be extremely emotional and/or delusional at the moment.

 

Zillow projects that U.S. home prices will fall 1.7% between March 2025 and March 2026. Last month, Zillow economists still thought prices would rise this year.

The US Housing bubble has popped.

Everyone remembers how well that went last time, right?

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