For the other movies, while they dont meet Hollywood standards of success, they still succeeded. If you spend $60 mil employing people for 2 or 3 years, and are doing what you love, and it pays you back $60 mil to do it again, that’s success. Even with the flip in there, the others covered it. As long as they break even, it bankrolls the next movie.

While vanilla ice and kid rock have attached themselves to MAGA, several other artists were mislead on the ‘America 250’ banner for the actual ‘Freedom 250’ group. There is another fun rabbit hole of corruption and money laundering to look into if you have not yet been informed…

LegalEagle on youtube has already talked about this. There is already a law I place that covers this exact scenario, and with punishments and fines already in place. It’s 1,000$ per incident to the victim and up to 180 days jail for the offender. Keep in mind, the law was written to protect the IRS and fuck over the peons who would be glad to receive 1k$ and don’t really have anything to hide.

3 of the 4 panels are on topic, the smoking one I would say doesn’t belong. The topic is about labor exploitation. Slave labor was cheap brute force labor. Then it was banned. So people pushed for more child labor (not that it didn’t exist in parallel to slave labor, just not as utilized). Once child labor was banned from being the dominant labor exploitation there was also the rise of things like company script and company towns. Also banned. For the past few decades we have lived through globalism as the main method of exploitation, pushing for remote jobs filled from cheap labor countries and shipping factories overseas. Now we have AI. And we are seeing that for specific tasks it can be exploited for cheaper labor. Humanity will always find ways of exploiting cheap labor.

In 100 years this will be about cloning slaves and arguing that they aren’t real people. Capitalists will control the cloning farms and use the clones as exploitable labor. And in a short time after the exploitation of clones, they will argue that it is already here and there is no point in stopping it.

I would counter to say that your aunt is in the minority. If you are talking about hauling individual bags of chicken feed, you are already talking about a much smaller scale than what the meme is poking at. This is more about the industrial scale farms, typically growing corn or soy beans, using combines, harvesters, and other specialized equipment worth millions. This high end equipment has removed all the backbreaking labor you are referencing because that would be time inefficient and cut into profits. When you are plowing, seeding, or harvesting 1000 acres a day there isn’t time to haul anything by hand. If you take time to baby a single plant or animal then you are taking time away from caring for the larger field or heard.

Small family farms, like the one you are implying, have old equipment (due to high costs) that embody the hard farmer life, like the open seat tractor. Big farms who spent 400k on their tractor have enclosed cabs with air conditioning and computer controlled auto steering, like the one pictured in the meme.

This is a simpsons reference.

They thought there was an alien in the forest. Turns out it was Mr. Burns who did his medical treatments (quoted above) and he would be high as a kite wondering through the forest at night and the glow is from working at the nuclear plant for so long.

Totally random and fun fact- Chinatown (the hard boiled detective movie) had a sequel written with the troubled detective investigating a dirty judge who was paid off by the car companies to allow them to buy up and tear out the trolly system in LA in favor of their highway designs. The judge had his own possy who acted as enforcers for the car company as they pushed their scheme to force the colored section of town to sell their land and make way for the highways.

The sequel didn’t happen, but the script was rewritten into what we now know as Who Framed Rodger Rabbit?. If you go back and rewatch it knowing that, it all makes so much more sense. The cartoon facade is just the face for the dirty truth of what happened in America in the 1950’s, but add in the happy ending of stopping the dirty judge and saving the ‘colored’ toon town.

I like how you throw in ‘even the Americans’ with the spying groups. We definitely spy in all our allies. And in return we encourage our allies to spy on us. It is a very calculated political game where we (all the allied countries) pass legislation and safeguards in our respective home countries and declare our citizens free of authoritarian government surveillance, but then work with the other countries spy agencies to do it for us. We intentionally put in the backdoors in our peoples networks and hand the keys to our partners just so we can say ‘well I wasn’t spying on you. That would be illegal!’ But in the end it is effectively the same. If the allied government finds anything of interest they just send a notification over. We each have boundaries that we respect in spying on each other’s people too. It is almost a formallity by this point.

I missed you by 1 min. Read my addition to the other comment.

Good easy explanation. No disagreements here. Just going to tack on:

We also don’t know what consciousness is or how it happens. The drugs used to put you under (the general anesthesia) work under one of two paths. Block sensory information from being written to memory, or block the process of writing the memory. Some drugs do it one way, some drugs the other, some do a little of both. We know both methods are true, and both put people under.

This leads to one major theory, that your brain needs memory to have consciousness. We also have the theory (from observing this exact question) that it is easier for your brain to write to short term memory than long term. Now there is the issue, if the general anesthesia wears off or goes below threshold needed to write to short term, then the person is awake and starts to act funny due to impaired sensory information (think of all the funny anesthesia YouTube out there) but the person isn’t writing the memory to long term memory because there is still just enough in the system to block it. Which is why they can’t ever remember the funny things they said or did.

Now combined this with the paralytic from the above comment. If you start to cross the threshold of short term memory coming back online, and this is a major signal to the anesthesiologist to increase the dosage. But you have a paralytic, so they don’t know you are coming out of it. Then you drop below the threshold for long term memory and now the person truly has “woken up” back to consciousness and rightfully complain of the terrifying experience.

Ah yes, the 4X buisness strategy. Building an empire through four core pillars:

eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate

Lots of research has been done on this. But I would highly recommend watching the YouTube video that was posted by the top commenter instead of trying to dig through what’s out there.

There are 44640 minutes in May. If it was out for 0.5% of them, it was down for 223.2 minutes. The data point is a little bit less, but not much. It is closer to having been down for 3.5 hours.

If the average month has 43800 minutes per month, then 1% is 438 minutes. But the Y axis is 1/10 smaller, and goes by 00.1% increments. So 43.8 minutes. So really we are talking about less than an hour for most months. Most months are around 1-2 hours, and never more than 4 hours in any given month.

There also isn’t a counter for number of events. If you just did a major overhaul of some system with both hardware and software changes and when you went live you stalled out, then fixed it in 2 hours and never crashed again for the month- that is actually a decent and half competent IT team. Versus if you are just applying untested updates or shitty product breaking commits that are crashing servers and needing to roll back every other day but your down times are less than 2 hours- that team needs to be re-evaluated.

Cant get bonuses for fixing outages if there are no outages.

This isn’t brutalism at all. It’s more utilitarian than anything. A metro like DC is a great example of brutalism.

Kind-of. If you open the first document attached to the page it is the “order” , essentially the “ruling”.

Page 4 really outlines the crux of it all:

“Granting or denying a temporary injunction is a discretionary act arising from a court’s equitable powers.” May v. R.A. Yancey Lumber Corp., 297 Va. 1, 18 (2019). It is an “extraordinary remedy” dependent on the “nature and circumstances” of an individual case. Levisa Coal Co. v. Consolidation Coal Co., 276 Va. 44, 60 (2008). As a threshold requirement, a court may issue a preliminary injunction only if it first determines that the movant will more likely than not suffer irreparable harm without the preliminary injunction. Cartograf USA, Inc. v. Comerica Bank, 85 Va. App. 1, 19 (2025). If that irreparable-harm threshold is met, the court must then determine whether three additional factors support issuance of the injunction: (1) the movant has asserted a legally viable claim based on credible facts that will more likely than not succeed on the merits; (2) the balance of hardships favors granting the preliminary injunction; and (3) the public interest, if any, supports issuance of a preliminary injunction. Id. Separately, Virginia law provides that no temporary injunction shall be awarded unless the court is satisfied of the plaintiff’s equity. Va. Code Ann. § 8.01-628.

So basically step one is they have to show “irreparable-harm”, and judge agreed that they do, therefore, go to step two, check these three specific things per each argument.

The Republicans had four key arguments:

First, plaintiffs claim the creation of the 2026 maps was unlawful because the legislature lacked the authority to engage in redistricting prior to the enactment of the amendment. (Plaintiffs’ Memorandum in Opposition at 6-8). Second, Plaintiffs allege the creation of the 2026 maps exceeds the legislature’s limited authority under the amendment to “modify” districts. (Id. at 8). Third, they argue that the amendment, as passed, continues to require compactness. (Id. at 8-18). Finally, Plaintiffs claim that the resulting districts fail to comply with that compactness requirement. (Id.).

I will save pasting the other giant paragraphs that went into it, but basically they get told “no.” On all 4 claims. The maps were made legally, they followed the state constitution, and they were drawn with the correct restrictions.

The Republicans also tried to argue that the compactness was part of the state constitution 2020 amendment, even though there was specifically a section on mid-decade redistricting that threw out most all rules in this exact scenario. The amendment was written the the word “except” in it, and they were arguing the except applied to the words before it, not after. The court said that is absolutely absurd and not how words work.

In the end, the judge said:

Many a tradition and law has been laid down in the advancement of a national quest for political power, and the winds that will blow cannot yet be known. Nonetheless, this Court knows its role is clear. It is not to assess the wisdom of public policy nor to engage in policy making from the bench. Instead, it is to decide if those with whom we have entrusted power have exercised that power in conformance with their constitutional mandate. On this question, the Court’s answer is in the affirmative. For these reasons, the Plaintiffs’ Motion for Preliminary Injunction is DENIED. It is so ORDERED.

Saying, it is his job to rule on following law, not make policy through rulings, and the democrats followed the law.

So now, the Republicans can appeal it higher (not enough time to matter), or they need to refile with different reasons (but they already threw all the spaghetti at the wall and nothing stuck).

I always just remember ‘an affect is not a thing’ as in, effect is a thing (noun) and affect is a noun. Then I just avoid the second one, the effect verb form.

Why would he expect the administration that is doing the insider trading to investigate their own insider trading? And then to prosecute themselves for their own insider trading that they are profiting from?

Lol. Let’s hold our breath on this one.

And that the DOJ of all people would prosecute is the biggest joke. In the article he even says the federal government should make a consumer-finance-protection-like organization. Dude, who do you think gutted and then shut down the consumer finance protection agency? Just ask Trump’s son who is on your board what they think about oversight, regulations, or even those pesky things called laws.

I have a clinical doctorate and can make about 110k. I have also chosen to work on a PhD for research in my field. When i finish at the end of the year, my additional doctorate and an entry research job should bring my earning potential to… 110k. Or I can do a post-doc and earn 65k. I can also go into industry and make about 170k. I did my clinical fellowship at NIH and saw the research first hand and know how needed amd impactful it is. Science in this country was already getting strained, under trump it has become a joke.