sp3ctr4l

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

They are quite literally in a cult.

The cognitive dissonance underlying their worldview is being exposed and demonstrated, and they are very obviously unable to fully reconcile basic logic and empirical reality with the idea that dear leader is a madman, and that they are cult thralls of a madman, and that he is doing exactly what he said he would do, and that they are fools for trusting in him.

Delusional cult members do not have coherent, consistent worldviews, they are full of contradictions, which are usually squelched by thought terminating cliches, highly emotional motivated reasoning (ie, 'faith'), having your own identity and personality be heavily intertwined with and dependant on the cult.

They would have to be deprogrammed like former Heavens Gate cult members or something similar.

Their minds will likely never function reasonably again. While some may be able to pull themselves out of it, similar to someone raised in a fundamentalist setting who deconverts via thorough critical skepticism... most of them are not capable of that, and will instead seek to blame shift to protect their own egos.

... Thats all to say, this person seemingly logically putting it together... but also not accepting their own logic?

This is quite normal for a cult member.

Lots and lots of cults do lots and lots of social conditioning to make the cult member accept or ignore or deflect from any objective criticisms.

That is basically what all religious apologetics is, after all.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

He described the relief of seeing both people on board the boat pop open the hatch. “Oh my gosh, it’s just a miracle,” Ticknor said.

Ticknor being the event organizer.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=sSl2846EPl4

The pilots suffered multiple fractures, including a broken knee.

I'd call a broken knee alone a serious injury...

Had their injuries been more serious, they may have been unable to escape the sinking boat.

Had the boat landed in a different orientation, or done a different, completely undpredictable, uncontrolled aerial manuever, such that it impacted the water with more speed, the boat could have broken apart on landing or become structurally comprised much more seriously, and thus the pilots would be sinking much more rapidly, likely with more serious injuries.

Though this boat and its safety cage performed admirably in terms of structural stability... similar crashes to this have maimed and killed a good number of folks in the history of hydroplane/powerboat events.

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

Reinstate Eberhard and Tarpenning.

You know, the actual founders, who got forced out after the fascist Afrikaner failson pulled the same corpo tissy tantrum bullshit he did at Paypal?

All Musk did was follow the general strategic plan for the company that Eberhard and Tarpenning had laid out.

Then, when that outline was run out, and Elon had to actually think of something else, it all became a total shitshow, quite rapidly.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 hours ago

... No?

She had different kinds of cleaning routines/phobias/rituals.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 11 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 5 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

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 17 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

* curb your enthusiasm theme plays *

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (4 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 14 hours ago

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

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

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

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 14 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 10 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

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

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

 

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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