WHAAAAAT?

Microsoft can by Blizzard for $46 billion but one website can’t buy another website for $7 million. (Probably because Freedom!)

“Right to Work” simply means “Anti-Union”.

lol “Right to Work” - Conservatives love to use “freedom” words when they ban or restrict something. If they instituted the death penalty for criticizing the government it would be the “Freedom From Putting Up With Whining” Bill.

Depends on who you talk to. I personally am against making money off merely owning land or buildings, but that’s just me. Most people seem to loosely define an evil wealth level as “significantly more than what I have”.

My advice is to enroll in a community college acting class and really throw yourself into it. Worked wonders for me, in fact it turned my whole life around. I didn’t become a professional actor but it changed how I look at everything. Take job interviews - I reframed them as not being job interviews, I already work there, I’ve been away on a sabbatical or something and it’s my first day back. Think how great it will be to see everybody again! It’s a fantastic group, we all like each other, the manager is awesome… so I get into that character and when I walk in I’m genuinely glad to be there and everybody feels it - not the formal politeness of a typical super-nervous applicant, instant comfort level and 100% culture fit. There are lots more ways acting experience benefited me - one was the almost instant social life. Rehearsals, going out for pizza, cast parties, other parties, dating - theatre women are a blast, and tbh a straight guy doing theatre is golden. I went from overanxious introverted computer nerd to sociable, confident, dare-I-say Man About Town, puttin’ on the Ritz.

edit: regarding age - I started in my late 20s but late 30s is totally fine. Most of the students were early 20s, people who had gone to work right after high school for a few years and had gone back to school. But there were people older than myself. There may or may not be people there your age in a particular class, but it doesn’t matter. When you’re doing a character you aren’t who you are anyway. So don’t let that hold you back.

Drug research hasn’t been about cures for decades, it’s all about “maintenance”.

Have to admit I’m surprised. I really expected this to be a romantic triangle or business rivalry thing.

The major weakness of progressives is our tendency to be perfectionists. We’ll doubt ourselves and our proposals because they aren’t airtight, they always leave someone or something out, which always outrages a subgroup to the point of refusing to support the whole idea. This is what sank Kamala Harris - either she was complicit in Gaza genocide, or she was presumed guilty of sending innocent people to prison as a prosecutor, or she didn’t show enough support for trans people, or whatever. Too many people found a reason to turn their backs on her and shirk responsibility for the outcome - it was The Party’s fault for not providing them with a good enough option to click on.

Conservatives are MUCH more willing to allow even major imperfections in their ideas and candidates because they value the overall group goal more.

Michael Moore’s description was spot on…

Liberals:

What should we do for dinner?
Well, we could go out.
Do you want to go out?
I guess, if you do.
Okay, where should we go?
I don’t know, where do you want to go?

Conservatives: Get in the car, we’re goin’ to the Sizzler!

In other news you can’t shit in the street anymore either.

Longtime theatre guy here - trust me, lighting does amazing things.

It’s plenty big enough for me. But I’m just a simple country doctor, Jim.

Switch to Lemmy - it’s working for me. I like the UI much better.

Maybe he didn’t get a headline because CEOs are privileged and important. Maybe he got one because the public reaction was sure to generate a shit ton of ad clicks.

Perfectly natural and healthy reaction. I have a daughter who survived a brain tumor, and if we hadn’t had good insurance I’m sure I would be reacting the same way. The hypocrites are the people acting like they’re above the satisfaction of vicarious violence and are just appreciating in a detached intellectual way that a rich insurance CEO received justice for his crimes against humanity.

with a strong German accent

Top right looks kinda like young Julia Roberts.

To me it looks like the same person in different lighting conditions.

If I’m wrong I apologize. It’s awfully long for a showerthought and looks like the standard spam that gets injected in subs like this in the late evening.

Not buying it, sounds like a commercial.

It makes so much sense - Original Sin, aka the “sin of Adam” (cuz Eve didn’t count, being a mere woman, even though she ate the apple first and then convinced Adam to) was somehow a stain on all our souls, even though we weren’t alive at the time and had nothing to do with it, for which God barred all of humanity from Heaven. But then God sent his son (who was also him cuz Holy Trinity) to be crucified as a sacrifice - to Himself - which redeemed us so he changed his mind and let us into heaven after all. And this super-logical plan was hatched by the same mind that created all the intricate orderliness of nature and the universe. Well alrighty then, sounds good, sign me up.