But I haven't heard anyone I know - in years - saying they were going to go to a theater and watch a movie.
And I have quite a few friends who have gone to the theater a few times this year to see something, including myself. Your circle of friends might not be representative of society in general, and instead be a group of people of similar interests, possibly mainstream, possibly not. Box office receipts aren't exactly jumping, but it's not like the number of tickets sold has completely nosedived.
Your hostility is extremely off-putting. You have some issues to work through, but in the meantime, you should probably refrain from posting to Slashdot.
Boy, I made one comment correcting someone's assumption on how hot forest fires burn in a video about the Napa/Sonoma County wildfires (and how this was clearly a test of a government directed energy weapon). Now my Youtube recommendations are full of directed energy / end times / government conspiracy videos. Fuck me.
Trump suckered you. The best joke of the last election was Donald Trump managed to somehow convince a large number of people that a super-elite upper end fat cat is one of the common people with the common person's interests at heart, and not the interests of the super-rich. The person who, his entire life, has been projecting a sense of wealth, acquisition, and opulence. What a sad joke. And you're still carrying his water, you're STILL defending the trickle-down bullshit that if we allow the rich to siphon more and more and more money from everyone, they will somehow make life better for the rest of us in return.
Electric cars are becoming more common as well, no need to worry about emissions tests at all! And an electric motor is far less complicated than ICE motors. But of course, it doesn't solve the problem of everything being served by software, software that 3rd parties have no access to.
The left-wing dogpile on Weinstein is funny yet sad. So many people desperately trying to shit on him the hardest. And yeah, Weinstein is a total douche, make no mistake, but everyone excoriating him knew what he was doing. He got away with it for decades, and it was an open secret. They refused to believe the actresses he assaulted because he was very successful, had a lot of influence, and he knew the right people. It's like the bar owner from Casablanca who protested "I'm shocked, SHOCKED to find gambling is going on here!" All the people who looked the other way and didn't call him out are now trying to feign the most outrage out of their sense of guilt, hoping no one asked why THEY didn't speak up when women accused him of sexual harassment and rape years ago.
One person's 'fun' is another person's 'rape.' There are quite a few men who abuse power because they can get away with it, and it's a hell of a lot more than just having "fun."
I can find at least 13 quotes of Trump condemning white supremacists and white nationalism EXPLICITLY.
Sure, of course you can. Of course, it doesn't match most of his other rhetoric, so you can find some quotes where he tries to look good.
After Charlottesville, for instance, he equivocated and gave the standard right-wing nationalist response that both sides were equally at fault and refused to call out the KKK and the Nazis. When he got criticism for that, he gave a short speech where he said the KKK and Nazis sucked, white supremacy sucks, etc. When people asked why the fuck it took him so long, why he could only do that after being browbeaten into it, unlike a normal person who happily and readily admits that white supremacists belong at the bottom of the totem poll, he said fuck it and just went back to his original nationalist talking points.
So sure you can find quotes. On many issues he says two things, but of course he will never admit he ever misspoke, because he's not self-aware enough to admit he's wrong about anything.
This is an idiotic take. Hitler was essentially the text-book definition of far right toxic nationalism.
There's been a big push to move Hitler into the "left-wing socialism" camp in the annals of history. The Nazis were socialist in name only, never following up on their promises to the people. They really only got around to the nationalism and the warmongering.
This is how we consume 'news'. These shows have embraced the quick bites of youtube and twitter.
This is really only a problem if that type of show is our primary (or worse, only) source to your news. It's why I got pretty worried when people told me they really only watch the Daily Show or thought it was a great news show with jokes. It wasn't supposed to be, it publicly claimed that's not what it was, but people used it that way anyway. Any infotainment / opinion show has similar problems.
You call earning over $50K per year "the working class"?
He said the opposite, he was calling them out as not the working class. But of course it depends on where you live. In a rural area where cost of living is low, $50k/yr lets you live really comfortably. In a city where the cost of living is high, especially housing, that $50k doesn't go very far.
But if you look at the numbers, the real ones only thing that's happening is that over the past 30 years equality has become better.
The actresses making allegations against Harvey Weinstein actually concur. The interviews I've heard have them saying basically, "look, this is kindof how it's always been. Harvey was more bold than most, but sexism is the dirty secret no one liked bringing up in public."
Right, because it was Trump supporters who called Trump "literally Hitler" and have been in an Olympics with themselves to fabricate more and more outrageous statements ever since.
Literally Hitler is obviously hyperbole, and of course, factually incorrect. You can make a half-hearted comparison though, given his support for the White Nationalism and the national populism that Hitler used to his benefit so effectively.
This is just lovely. I suppose your theory is that people that don't support your side are the problem, which would make you correct in that you are part of the problem, but also misses the main point.
The "Trump will go nuclear!" thing is hyperbole; it means you've fallen for the demonization. 'Our side' always tells us the people on the 'other side' are absolutely the worst, that there's nothing that they wouldn't do if we let them. We convince ourselves about it -- I heard it about Clinton, Bush, Obama, and now Trump. It's always, always the most important election in our lifetime, always the time to vote for the leader of the primary opposition party, never for anyone else because, dammit, this is too important to waste a vote.
It gives a slight leg up to current residents over new ones, which I personally think is OK. It makes it harder to displace people through increased value.
More than just ok, it was the entire impetus behind those property tax increase limitations.:-D
When you make your mortgage payment, you're also paying your property tax
Weird. I've never lived in a city in the US that did it that way. I've always cut a check to the county property tax manager. I didn't know anyone else ever bundled it into the mortgage. Great if you like a steady payment that never varies, not so great if you don't appreciate having to pay money before it's due.
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But I haven't heard anyone I know - in years - saying they were going to go to a theater and watch a movie.
And I have quite a few friends who have gone to the theater a few times this year to see something, including myself. Your circle of friends might not be representative of society in general, and instead be a group of people of similar interests, possibly mainstream, possibly not. Box office receipts aren't exactly jumping, but it's not like the number of tickets sold has completely nosedived.
Our porn history suffered a great loss this month, but I'm sure if you google it, you'll find something like that anyway.
Wouldn't want anybody to figure out space is fake. Earth is flat.
Actually, the Earth is near-spherical, it's space that only has two dimensions.
Your hostility is extremely off-putting. You have some issues to work through, but in the meantime, you should probably refrain from posting to Slashdot.
Boy, I made one comment correcting someone's assumption on how hot forest fires burn in a video about the Napa/Sonoma County wildfires (and how this was clearly a test of a government directed energy weapon). Now my Youtube recommendations are full of directed energy / end times / government conspiracy videos. Fuck me.
LMFAO is fights the good fight to make sure everyone can party.
Trump suckered you. The best joke of the last election was Donald Trump managed to somehow convince a large number of people that a super-elite upper end fat cat is one of the common people with the common person's interests at heart, and not the interests of the super-rich. The person who, his entire life, has been projecting a sense of wealth, acquisition, and opulence. What a sad joke. And you're still carrying his water, you're STILL defending the trickle-down bullshit that if we allow the rich to siphon more and more and more money from everyone, they will somehow make life better for the rest of us in return.
The "invisible hand" is partially a falsehood, based on a flawed understanding of economics that fails to take human motivations into account.
Electric cars are becoming more common as well, no need to worry about emissions tests at all! And an electric motor is far less complicated than ICE motors. But of course, it doesn't solve the problem of everything being served by software, software that 3rd parties have no access to.
There are ground feeders for birds that like to scratch and forage. They're usually platforms a few inches off the ground.
The left-wing dogpile on Weinstein is funny yet sad. So many people desperately trying to shit on him the hardest. And yeah, Weinstein is a total douche, make no mistake, but everyone excoriating him knew what he was doing. He got away with it for decades, and it was an open secret. They refused to believe the actresses he assaulted because he was very successful, had a lot of influence, and he knew the right people. It's like the bar owner from Casablanca who protested "I'm shocked, SHOCKED to find gambling is going on here!" All the people who looked the other way and didn't call him out are now trying to feign the most outrage out of their sense of guilt, hoping no one asked why THEY didn't speak up when women accused him of sexual harassment and rape years ago.
No no, I've found the squirrels love 'em even more than the birds or cats.
Men just want to have fun.
One person's 'fun' is another person's 'rape.' There are quite a few men who abuse power because they can get away with it, and it's a hell of a lot more than just having "fun."
I can find at least 13 quotes of Trump condemning white supremacists and white nationalism EXPLICITLY.
Sure, of course you can. Of course, it doesn't match most of his other rhetoric, so you can find some quotes where he tries to look good.
After Charlottesville, for instance, he equivocated and gave the standard right-wing nationalist response that both sides were equally at fault and refused to call out the KKK and the Nazis. When he got criticism for that, he gave a short speech where he said the KKK and Nazis sucked, white supremacy sucks, etc. When people asked why the fuck it took him so long, why he could only do that after being browbeaten into it, unlike a normal person who happily and readily admits that white supremacists belong at the bottom of the totem poll, he said fuck it and just went back to his original nationalist talking points.
So sure you can find quotes. On many issues he says two things, but of course he will never admit he ever misspoke, because he's not self-aware enough to admit he's wrong about anything.
This is an idiotic take. Hitler was essentially the text-book definition of far right toxic nationalism.
There's been a big push to move Hitler into the "left-wing socialism" camp in the annals of history. The Nazis were socialist in name only, never following up on their promises to the people. They really only got around to the nationalism and the warmongering.
10 years ago you were calling Bush a racist white supremacist, Hitler, warmonger, Islamophobe, and the end of the world.
No I was not. I didn't like a lot of his policies. But I didn't say those things. Try again.
This is how we consume 'news'. These shows have embraced the quick bites of youtube and twitter.
This is really only a problem if that type of show is our primary (or worse, only) source to your news. It's why I got pretty worried when people told me they really only watch the Daily Show or thought it was a great news show with jokes. It wasn't supposed to be, it publicly claimed that's not what it was, but people used it that way anyway. Any infotainment / opinion show has similar problems.
You call earning over $50K per year "the working class"?
He said the opposite, he was calling them out as not the working class.
But of course it depends on where you live. In a rural area where cost of living is low, $50k/yr lets you live really comfortably.
In a city where the cost of living is high, especially housing, that $50k doesn't go very far.
But if you look at the numbers, the real ones only thing that's happening is that over the past 30 years equality has become better.
The actresses making allegations against Harvey Weinstein actually concur. The interviews I've heard have them saying basically, "look, this is kindof how it's always been. Harvey was more bold than most, but sexism is the dirty secret no one liked bringing up in public."
Right, because it was Trump supporters who called Trump "literally Hitler" and have been in an Olympics with themselves to fabricate more and more outrageous statements ever since.
Literally Hitler is obviously hyperbole, and of course, factually incorrect.
You can make a half-hearted comparison though, given his support for the White Nationalism and the national populism that Hitler used to his benefit so effectively.
Sexual harassment is horrible and inexcusable. But it's not rape.
This is just lovely. I suppose your theory is that people that don't support your side are the problem, which would make you correct in that you are part of the problem, but also misses the main point.
The "Trump will go nuclear!" thing is hyperbole; it means you've fallen for the demonization. 'Our side' always tells us the people on the 'other side' are absolutely the worst, that there's nothing that they wouldn't do if we let them. We convince ourselves about it -- I heard it about Clinton, Bush, Obama, and now Trump. It's always, always the most important election in our lifetime, always the time to vote for the leader of the primary opposition party, never for anyone else because, dammit, this is too important to waste a vote.
It gives a slight leg up to current residents over new ones, which I personally think is OK. It makes it harder to displace people through increased value.
More than just ok, it was the entire impetus behind those property tax increase limitations. :-D
When you make your mortgage payment, you're also paying your property tax
Weird. I've never lived in a city in the US that did it that way. I've always cut a check to the county property tax manager. I didn't know anyone else ever bundled it into the mortgage. Great if you like a steady payment that never varies, not so great if you don't appreciate having to pay money before it's due.
$ helicopter > $ alfa romeo now who is poor?
Those step-parents don't own a helicopter, they ARE helicopters.