Either they’re all ironic [] or none of them are ironic
Textbook false dichotomy, and not how I read it at all. Setup->Punchline is the most basic joke format in existence. The whole point of a setup is you have to be on board with it before getting sideswiped by the punchline.
If Jeff Bezos decided he was going to try persuading the Republican Party to have those little libraries declared illegal and for the police to be mobilised to confiscate them, would you put his chances at above 10%, or below?
If libraries didn’t already exist, there’s not a chance in hell anyone would be allowed to create one. It would be regarded as an insane communist act of mass theft, and anyone attempting it would be sued to oblivion.
By extension, if we allow public libraries to get shut down, we are never getting them back.
Yeah removing it is the first good decision they’ve made in years. It was a flaming garbage heap on multiple levels that bubbled the most awful stuff to the front page that was blatantly gamed by bad actors.
Edit: are these downvotes because I’m wrong, or because people skim-read it and kneejerk reacted to “reddit did a good thing”?
…and, without any sense of introspection whatsoever, doubling down instead.
“Is it possible I’ve completely missed the point? No, it must be everybody else here who’s wrong!”
Yup. Price comparison extensions have been around for decades already.
Magritte would like a word
yes but actually no. There’s a hidden pull cord under the bottom mat of the “map pocket” that you have to remove, along with whatever else you were storing in there at the time. That’s assuming the cord hasn’t fallen out of reach inside the door or otherwise become inaccessible during an accident, of course.
The owner’s manual section on “how to open the door if there’s no power” spans 4 pages (viewed on mobile) and has 3 diagrams to illustrate the steps.
(incidentally, opening the frunk with no power is a separate page with ten steps and begins, “To open the powered frunk when Cybertruck has no power, you need a power source that provides between 9V and 16.5V”… it’s like they’re trying to be shit.)
Zionists these days have become a parody of themselves.
A significant part of Jesus’ teachings is “don’t claim to speak on behalf of God”. Whoever made this meme is a blasphemer.
Presumably at their request, or at least their approval, since it doesn’t seem to be a thing in any other country. Most products in the US are imported, don’t pass the buck. “Iran forced it on us” goes against absolutely everything else we know about US consumers.
It’s extremely unhealthy for a free society, to have too much power imbalance between the ruling classes and the people.
I also thought this was a joke until I read the comments. Pistachios have always been pistachio coloured in the rest of the world.
There’s something very American about drowning a perfectly healthy natural product in brightly coloured dye.
That’s like, your opinion, man. It’s not a universally agreed-on rule.
New York Times Manual of Style and Usage (1999):
decades should usually be given in numerals: the 1990’s; the mid-1970’s; the 90’s. But when a decade begins a sentence it must be spelled out.
The Chicago Manual of Style (2003):
9.37 Decades. Decades are either spelled out (as long as the century is clear) and lowercased or expressed in numerals. No apostrophe appears between the year and the s.
Same goes for initialisms, e.g. CDs vs CD’s.
EDIT: to be clear, I prefer no apostrophe too, I just didn’t like the unnecessary condescension. One thing worse than a grammar nazi is a wrong grammar nazi.
Certainly if you’re not a bot, you should use it as a cue for a bit of introspection that your posting habits seem to follow the exact patterns of an astroturfing bot. Not really something to be proud of.
Its very simple supply and demand.
That’s what makes it sound so plausible and how the Big Lie has managed to get such traction, but it’s not simple at all and just doesn’t play out that way.
This is a good example of me probably simping according to you: [removed]
You don’t have to like the companies because of who runs it, that’s fine.
Ok those last two remarks make me think you’re not the useful idiot I thought you were, but actually a full-on SEO stock pumping bot.
He has stock, that if he tried to sell it all would collapse its value.
No. I see this claim made very often to downplay how obscenely wealth is concentrated, and it’s one of the Big Lies that sound superficially plausible but just plain isn’t true. There has never been a case of a stock “collapsing” solely from a stock holder trying to liquidate it with no other factors at play; at worst it’s a few percent that regain themselves after a few days. Billionaires sell stocks all the time without a blip; Bezos for example has unloaded over $50,000,000,000 in AMZN, of which $13,000,000,000 was just in the last year, all without incident.
A lot of things contributed to the TSLA drop, and it was nothing like a “collapse” - it was in the middle of a record spike (meaning he was able to sell unusually high, hmm, nothing suspicious there) with the supposed “collapsed” value never dropping below what it had been less than 9 months previously. If anything the example you give proves that not only is he entirely capable of raising extremely large sums of money selling stock, he’s also adept at pumping the stock just before he does to snatch even more than we thought he was worth.
But, even if we did accept that he “can’t” sell his shares because it would collapse the company, that suggests something even worse about his wealth - that it’s so obscenely high that even the combined wealth of the global stock market doesn’t have enough money in it to offer him a fair valuation.
(edit: oh wait I just noticed how much Musk simping you do all over lemmy. GTFO)
People who voted for Trump voted for Trump. Go talk to them.
Blaming anyone else is not only an unhinged attempt to claim some sort of moral ownership of an entire bloc, it isn’t even supported by any reasonable reading of the statistics.
This kind of obsession with whipping other people into maintaining an entrenched two-party system is exactly how America let itself spend the last 40 years getting slowly dragged to the Right in the first place.