"Instead of physically jailing prisoners, Optimus could “follow you around and stop you from doing crime,” he said

This is going to last all of 30 seconds as that is the amount of time it’ll take for a criminal to hop a cyclone fence and take off never to be seen again. Or we can have the 10 minute scenario where criminal and friends take sledgehammers to the thing and sell it for scrap.

They’re the type of nonwhite who believe they’re “the good ones” and will be accepted if they try hard enough. They desperately wish they were born white. They may not realize it but they will never be fully accepted.

The hell, centrists are radical communists and socialists in their book. Pretty sure ‘radicals’ was used to describe hippies.

I think coding a contingency for loss of internet connectivity has got to be as basic as preventing Little Bobby Tables from deleting your data.

If he’s aware of his decline, that’s pain, especially for someone who has been as unaccountable as he has been.

So the giant bailout that farmers are allegedly going to get counts as capitalism?

Mango wants flags flown at half staff for this hateful man, who was not an elected official. No such honor was given to Melissa Hortman, and flags were raised for Asinine’s inauguration because they were down for Jimmy Carter.

The whole “it’s a new era of political violence” rhetoric only means that Republicans do not expect to get assaulted but it’s perfectly okay for that to happen to Democrats.

It’ll be a series of .jpgs with poorly blanked-out spaces and names of Democrats added, in a different font and not at all fitting into the blank spaces.

What the hell kind of apples and oranges headline is that. Israel is a country. Hamas is a political party, not the same as Palestine or Palestinians.

Yeah, I’m pretty sure by Make America Healthy Again they mean let all the sick, disabled, and weakened die off from lack of support.

If only Texans could read (labels) they would know instantly. The end of the quote is the real focus: they want to protect the ranching industry by killing competition from plant based products.

At this point, yes. At the beginning of the 1st Trump term I swore he must have had a secret phalanx of lawyers dedicated to finding every little edge case and loophole in the law. Before trump you at least had more people pretending to respect the spirit of the law and avoid partisanship. And before maybe the 90s I think the majority were sincere. Opposite parties could put politics aside and socialize with each other and be friends. But this seems impossible now.

Not being married doesn’t make her less pregnant. What the hell do these people think they’re doing for a living – are they gonna take care of potential babies, or are they there to preach?

My MIL’s health hasn’t been so great in the past year so we’ve been visiting her frequently. She also lives in a rural town whose nearest airport is served only by Delta. Can’t wait for those fuckers to notice we fly here often and stick it to our wallets.

Pam Bondi acknowledged she had a list of contacts among 200 pages of documents and was demanding more from Patel. It’s available on the DOJ website.

I don’t refrigerate them and they’ve been fine. IIRC there is not a refrigerate after opening notice on either LaoGanMa or Fly By Jing.

Exactly!

Americans have come to think of Chinese products as bad quality because of the American companies who engage them for cheaper labor. Walmart was known to order products made to a certain spec one year, then the next year demand the company increase production, but for the same amount paid as the previous year. The Chinese company, not wanting to lose the contract, obliges, but corners have to be cut. It should be called Americanesium, not Chineseum.

Derek Guy (Die, Workwear!) posted a thread a while back (I think about 6 months ago) about how the Chinese can and do make great quality products, pointing out high quality fabrics. Give them money to buy good raw materials, give them a decent wage, and they’ll put out a good product. Honestly, they probably have a more fair work ethic than some American companies that just feed their CEOs massive salaries or are owned by private equity.

Felony to operate your air conditioner. Awesome

Honestly I don’t know why this term exists when we already have “rizz” (etymology charisma) which could be stretched to mean “characteristics” and not make non-birders snicker or go wide-eyed.