@aleisha@balrogboogie Awww, thanks, y'all-- both for the recommendation and for saying you'll listen.
We have our own Mastodon account, too (when I say "we", I mean me because David has not yet caved in to me trying to get him to get back on a social media platform), over at @ScreenTestofTime
"During the meeting to discuss the U.S. hosting of the 2026 FIFA World Cup alongside Canada and Mexico, Trump appeared to show a red card to journalists, underestimated the popularity of soccer and reignited the football-naming debate."
This is... this is not good. This is essentially stoking flames for civil war.
'“They will end everything immediately,” Mr. Trump said. “When you look at antifa,” he added, a term that describes militant leftist groups, “and you look at some of these groups, these are violent people.”'
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If G.O.P. Loses Hold on Congress, Trump Warns, Democrats Will Enact Change ‘Quickly and Violently’
@dgold@balrogboogie Am I wrong that the first few episodes here are cut off at the end? Every one I've listened to so far is clipped right before they're over.
When people say that redistributing wealth means everyone will be poor, I remember that study that said that after $70K/year, people’s life satisfaction actually decreases. Here’s how many times the Forbes top 10’s net worth would pay that number:
Bezos: 2,042,857 Koch brothers (combined): 1,385,714 Bill Gates: 1,271,428 Buffet: 1,114,285 Zuckerberg: 908,571 Larry Ellison: 842,857 Bloomberg: 668,571 Larry Page: 637,142 Sergey Brin: 620,000 Total: 9,491,425
@jk I have a suspicion that something like 90% of those collective nouns are made up by collective-noun-knowers in order to have more collective nouns to know.
@shoutcacophony@frickhaditcoming Given the reply I had from someone else that 75% of that instance is ads, I'm a fan of suggesting to ACP that we mute the entire instance... unless that means that I can still get creepy DMs, in which case, BLOCK.