"Being blatantly wrong is fine, as long as you have good intentions."
The average person in the USA only makes $140 per year. Well, it's not really that bad, but it draws attention to wage inequity in the USA.
Err, that's a nice little quip but that bit about shooting isn't even remotely close to reality.
Example: There's about 80,000 - 100,000 gun related injuries in the USA per year. That's about 250 people getting shot each day. However, we are working against a population of ~330,000,000 in the USA. If you take the 100,000 / 333,000,000 = 0.0003. That's 0.0003 per year per person. So the chance of a person getting shot in a year in the USA is about 1 in 3,330.
To look at this in another way, the fellow said there's a group of 400 people and 1 is shot each day. That means in 1 year, nearly everyone in the room would have been shot, and in 2 years some people would be shot twice.
Look, the USA is pretty disgusting with some issues, but if you want to throw numbers around, at least make them accurate, otherwise it undermines the whole argument.
What is your source for this? Even the quote from above says "how" he was sitting, not "where". Did someone else have better coverage?
This is a huge downside to USA protectionism of EVs. Because the USA slaps anyone who wants to import an EV, the really cheap EVs and many of the other models from overseas don't land here. It makes Tesla seem more popular than it ought to be because they make up a huge part of the EV market in the USA. However, when you go elsewhere and the consumer can pick from the full range of EVs, they tend not to pick Tesla.
If we allowed all the foreign EVs in the USA to be sold to citizens, then Tesla would "learn" how to compete. Since they don't have that pressure, we have an noncompetitive product. This will end just like compact cars did in the 70s. American manufacturers said "Americans don't want small cars". Then, everyone started importing Japanese compacts. All of a sudden GM & co. figured out how to make a compact car.
If you want your product to be a success globally, you can't do that through tariffs and protectionism. This is not a new phenomenon.
How does one sit "offensively" on a train? All the coverage of this seems to just skip over that. Was he sitting with no pants? Laying across 3 seats? This is a novel one for me.
I have an idea! What if those filthy Canadians were just stopped at the border and customs can just search them and confiscate any cash, then send them back to Canada and send the cash to Vegas. Then we don't have to deal with those annoying foreigners and we still get their money.
Trump should be forced to do what he wanted Biden to do. Where's all those cognitive tests now? What happened to all the concern about elderly presidents in the last 3 years? It was a #1 crisis when Biden was president and every yawn in public was dissected, but now that Trump is dozily walking around, suddenly age doesn't matter.
There's never a bad time to grift. Husband assassinated? Grifting time! Husband not assassinated? Grifting time!
Don't forget to keep buying Trump coins. They are going to the moon! (for some reason)
That's next level where just quoting Charie verbatim is enough to lose your job!
The stupider you are, the more attractive his platform becomes. Smart people tend not to vote against their interests, but stupid people do it, do it proudly, and keep doing it even after it bites them in the ass.
How many times have we seen where someone's spouse has been deported or their benefits have been cut and they STILL support Trump.
Trump's #1 skill is telling people in the room what they want to hear. He's just pretty bad about following up. His followers tend not to hold him to the fire. For example, if he promises thing X and doesn't do it, later he was "trolling" or "that was a joke to rile up the Democrats". Of course, when he does get a win they trumpet that from the rooftops.
He's probably the first one with the combination of charisma and lack of ethics that makes him exploit his base.
It continually amazes me that he's been so successful at capturing low-income voters. When you look at Trump he was born with a silver spoon. The man lives in a literal gilded house! Yet, he manages to stay "relatable" to his base. If you're really wildly rich, I can see why you'd want to vote for Trump because he's done a lot of great things for the extremely wealthy. However, for the 99% of us that are not wealthy, I think he's made times pretty hard.
I wish I could say people are learning as we go along, but it seems like the voters are getting spanked and coming back asking for more.
So, I agree. Smart people mostly don't like him.
In the USA, they care more about the health of your wallet than your health.
To any Euros reading this: yes, it's that bad. Even worse, most people call it "the best" system in the world.
For those of you that haven't seen, 4chan was hacked:
https://boingboing.net/2025/04/17/4chan-hacked-obliterated-and-unlikely-to-be-back-soon.html
A deadly blow? Will a copycat spring up? Where are the users going in the meantime? Does any of this really matter?
YOU CAN PROVE TO YOURSELF ITS NOT A GLOBE
I've been revisiting some classic games lately, and while I love the Sega Genesis library, I can't help but find its sound chip a bit grating. There's something about the harsh, metallic tones and often scratchy quality that makes it hard to enjoy games at full volume. I know it has its fans, but compared to systems like the SNES or even some older consoles, it just seems unnecessarily rough.
Am I alone in this? Does anyone else struggle with the Genesis' audio, or is this part of its charm for you?
don't give in!
Today, let's take a nostalgic trip down memory lane with a little "What if...?" scenario. Remember the Sega 32X? It was this ambitious add-on for the Sega Genesis that aimed to catapult the beloved console into next-gen territory. While it didn't quite hit its mark, it left us wondering: what other classic consoles could have benefited from a similar leap forward?
Let's imagine—what if the N64 had gotten an "N128" upgrade? Could it have kept up with the PS1 and Saturn in that fierce console war era? Or maybe there’s another platform itching for a second wind, like the SNES or even the beloved Game Boy!
What other consoles do you think should've received their own "next-gen" add-ons?
In nearly every Mega Man game, Dr. Wily is captured at the end—usually after unleashing an army of killer robots and nearly destroying the world. And yet, by the next game, he’s back at it like nothing happened.
So what's the in-universe deal? Is the 20XX justice system just that incompetent or corrupt? Is there some official lore reason he's constantly released or escapes? Or are we just supposed to suspend disbelief for the sake of Saturday-morning logic?
Curious what theories or canon explanations people have!
The South has professors?