Welp, it had to happen eventually. Somebody will want to talk politics so here it is. This is specifically for US Politics.
I will make rules as I see the need but fro now please just be kind to each other.
If you like long form interviews, you might enjoy this guy's podcast. I listen all day while I work. This guest discusses AI. Covid, Charlie Kirk, Trump, Iran, Surveillance, and more over 3+ Hours. If you like this episode, I recommend the show when he has Baron Coleman on to discuss Charlie Kirk. Coleman discovered and broke the story early on about Google searches on specific key players and locations months prior, from Washington DC and Israel.
Welp, thanks to domestic and geopolitics, stations in California are posting diesel prices of $9.99 which is the highest number possible without massive upgrades to pump and display systems. I'm old enough to remember when gas topped $1.00 circa 1980. Pumps back then had physical digits in mechanical displays, and many stations modded the internal gearing and added a painted or stickered on 1. next to the mechanical digits, and many stayed that way for years and years.
My first adult job was at one of the last LA area stations that hadn't converted the service bays to a mini mart with 1 cashier and digital remote pumps. I thought I was applying for a mechanic job but that old fart just used me as a pump jockey till a Pep boys hired me.
We'd run payment to the central cash box and run change back out, and process MasterCharge and Bank Americard payments using an old school chunk-chunk quadruplicate form imprinter. After each sale, we'd reset the pump with a special square key and the numbers would noisily reset to zero.
I remember one day, the gas price had fluctuated up like 4c since the week before. This old fart, plausibly a WWI vet, took his anger at this with me, an 18yo with zero control over the fact; shouting, WE SHOULD HAVE JUST TOLD THOSE IRANIANS HOW MUCH WE'D PAY THEM FOR THE GODDAMN OIL!!! The he tried to screech off like a power flex in his 20yo 8MPG lead sled that was obviously misfiring on at least 2 of its 8 cylinders.
Funny afterward, I was working at a tire store 2 years later when the old fart station owner came in to buy 2 tires for a customer's car. He spotted me across the shop and started yelling out, DON'T HIRE THAT GUY, HE'LL QUIT ON YOU!! HE'LL QUIT! HE'LL QUIT ON YOU!! As he kept on, I realized he wasn't joking, he was still seriously bitter over me quitting after ignoring several inquiries about promotion to mechanic work. The other pump jockey I had worked with was 30 years my senior, content to coast in a near minimum wage nowhere job.
Read MoreC: your posts from the last few weeks have had a lot more emojis than is normal for a man (zero or close to zero)
A: you're the one who made claims! I just said that your claims smell like bullshit from start to finish. The burden of proof is on you. This situation is analogous:
Person A: birds aren't real, and the earth is flat.
Person B: bullshit.
Person A: prove your claim!
@Typo-MAGAshiv 5 sentences with meat on the bone of each, that you dismissed on the basis of your sense of smell. Fine, here's a photo showing a big spread of the crowd, WHILE Trump is onstage speaking. Look for yourself at the large stretches of empty seats across the ground level section, and the entirety of the upper level, then tell us whether my claim about this specifically, still smells of bullshit or not.
@Typo-MAGAshiv A: prove your claim with specific information and counterpoints rather than a broad emotive dismissal. B: Agree 100% C: Literally 1 emoticon at the end of this post, upholds a pattern of increased usage??
A) smells like bullshit from start to finish.
B) I would hate going to a convention. I'm always surprised anyone even goes to those things.
C) you've been using an inordinate amount of emojis lately. Are you sure you aren't on Grinder?!
The GOP convention in Texas is suffering from very low attendance and enthusiasm. Donald Trump decided he needed to make the keynote address both nights to a hall with large sections of empty seats. At one point he said that thousands of people were waiting outside to get in. So someone immediately viewed a walk outside, and showed there was literally not one single person outside. People who monitor such things, report that one consistent pattern held up: When the GOP convention arrived in town, the local Grindr app crashed under a huge demand surge.
@MentORPHEUS The exchange rate is a fundamental indicator of conditions in a country; it's the opposite of cherry picking. Be wary of the moralistic fallacy when considering reports about the Iran situation. Iran is in really bad shape. Would be nice if all this would end soon.