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Got_Bent , to news in Trump floats eliminating U.S. income tax and replacing it with tariffs on imports

I’ll credit Trump for one thing - he successfully broke me of my Scotch habit with his stupid tariffs

Now let’s scale that up to, well, everything?

Got_Bent , to news in Bannon vows Trump’s opponents will be prosecuted in a second term | CNN Politics

If Trump gets in, it may very well turn into a totalitarian single party system.

Got_Bent , to technology in Voyager 1 Once Again Returning Science Data From All Four Instruments

It’s just a thought exercise. There are several reputable YouTube videos on this topic. None of them claim that the speed of light isn’t the speed of light. They’re just demonstrating that we can’t prove it with current technology. Similar to the difficulty it took to finally prove that one plus one equals two. We know that’s correct, but it took years to prove it.

Got_Bent , to lemmyshitpost in Missing cold pizza

Maybe they’d be less antagonistic if the prices were metric

Got_Bent , to programmer_humor in Start ups when that VC funding kicks in

I know it’s wrong and that I’m going to Internet hell for admitting to it, but there’s a smell when Grandma would light her cigarette in the hot box car with the windows up that I find nostalgic to this day even though I find the concept of smoking in a car repugnant

Got_Bent , to programmer_humor in Start ups when that VC funding kicks in

The crazy thing is that it was so prevalent, I don’t really remember the world smelling smoky unless I went into a small room like my grandparents living room.

I didn’t notice it in places like restaurants and bars until after the bans came.

I would guess that my generation has a diminished sense of smell because of it.

Got_Bent , to lemmyshitpost in Ah, memories...

No duck and cover for this Xer, but we did a shiton of stop, drop, and roll. Spontaneous combustion was apparently a big deal in my childhood.

Got_Bent , to programmer_humor in Start ups when that VC funding kicks in

It’s not me and I have an office. It doesn’t get to me.

But I can definitely see that it would bother a whole lot of people.

On that, I’m old enough to have begun my working life when people smoked cigarettes at their desks. This is a much, much better alternative.

Got_Bent , to programmer_humor in Start ups when that VC funding kicks in

People bring their dogs to work all the time in my office. Fortunately, all of us are dog lovers, so we all enjoy it.

The other trend that doesn’t bother me, but surprises me is that I’d estimate about two thirds of the people in my office vape at their desks.

We also have bean to cup espresso, which is nice. People will go find high end beans and contribute them. It works out nicely.

We’re highly educated professionals, damnit!

Got_Bent , to lemmyshitpost in This will be YouTube in 2025

I’ve found myself repatronizing half priced books lately. I’ve gone through five books since mid May.

I was a voracious reader before mobile devices existed.

I’d forgotten just how much more satisfying it is to let yourself go in a good story rather than bicker about minutiae with countless strangers all day every day.

(Sidenote: I’ve been looking up reviews for the books I’ve read and am surprised to find indignation at sexual scenes in novels. Like, if you’ve ever read a John Irving novel in your life, and you’re surprised and offended that the next one has sex in it, you should maybe reconsider your chosen career path)

Got_Bent , to news in Southern Baptists Vote to Oppose Use of I.V.F. as ‘Fetal Personhood’ Gains Momentum

Just remember that if you take a Southern Baptist fishing, you need to take two Southern Baptists fishing. If you only bring one, he’ll drink all your beer.

Got_Bent , to news in Turning Point USA is promoting drinking raw milk amid bird flu outbreak

I’ve had raw milk I think twice in my life - once straight from the tank at a dairy. It is exponentially more delicious than pasteurized. I wish there were a safe way to produce and consume it.

Got_Bent , to memes in Airport security be like

I just took a charter flight that didn’t involve going through TSA or the airport terminal.

Whatever happened on the flight itself was irrelevant as the sheer pleasure of getting on a plane without the standard anal probe far outweighed all other aspects of the journey.

Got_Bent , to insanepeoplefacebook in LinkedIn is the human centipede of social media, and it has some strange people.

I call LinkedIn occupational hubris

I come from a big accounting firm, so most of what I see are former colleagues who’ve made partner posting about occupational efficiencies and how much financial gain they accomplish.

Some of them are complete blithering idiots who’ve failed upwards and now think they’re geniuses

Others are just complete psychopaths who would gladly shiv their own mothers in the neck for a fraction of a step up the ladder. Hell, they would boast about doing so.

The latter facilitates and nurtures a toxic culture of stabbing your coworkers in the back at every possible opportunity for your own gain wherein saying anything good about a coworker, especially a subordinate, is a sign of weakness and considered sinful.

But on LinkedIn, they’re all the heroes of their own narratives.

Got_Bent , to asklemmy in What's something you want to stop doing but can't actually stop?

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