What the actual fuck. I would’ve expected most of that to be scrapped as e-waste by now.

They’re desperately trying to avoid talking about how Trump is raiding the treasury to pay off the criminals who helped him commit treason.

Okay, being specifically a labor leader is the exception that proves the rule, because that’s a role in opposition to the establishment, not part of it.

“Redneck” implies working class (because it’s traditionally caused by getting sunburned from working out in a field) in a way that “good ol’ boy” does not.

The idea of a redneck community leader is an oxymoron.

No, apparently 1 in 5 boys know someone their age who delusionally thinks they’re in a relationship with an AI Chatbot.

0 in 5 know someone who actually is in such a relationship, because that’s impossible.

That wouldn’t be a suicide vest, though; it’d be a suicide fat suit.

Somehow, we manage to have the problem of assholes like this racking up dozens upon dozens of priors with (obviously) ineffective punishment and would-be productive citizens languishing with long prison sentences for trivial offenses at the same time.

Welp, so much for OpenWRT on cheap devices designed for routing (even though flashing the firmware to install it probably got rid of any backdoors anyway); now we’ll have to resort to OPNSense on overkill PC hardware.

The destination Waffle House was apparently in Rome, GA. I wonder where the origin “50 miles away” was?

Not because I believe he actually teleported, mind you, but because he was obviously driving while blackout drunk and I want him to stay the Hell away from me.

Yes, you have to be 35.

I just figured it was extra-desperate CPR and never saw a reason to question its legitimacy.

What I had in my head was something like this, a street-tuner Impreza that’s been lowered:

The point was that just because something’s AWD doesn’t inherently mean by itself that it’s a good idea to take it off-road.

Nah. The Impreza doesn’t even have a weird roller top for its cargo bed, let alone a fragile and poorly-designed one. No way it could break as stupidly as the Cybertruck managed.

things that any AWD vehicle can do.

Not any AWD; you probably want high ground clearance too.

I wouldn’t go fording streams in a Subaru Impreza, for instance.

I admit I used to think that, mainly because I picked up on the conservative persona before realizing it was satire and immediately stopped watching, thus never giving myself a chance to figure it out.

“[English doesn’t] just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.” – James Nicoll

Ironically, that movie is French.

And this grifting fuck knows that, because that 75% is exactly who he is trying to tap into by appealing to their ignorance.

Except it is, because the Republicans make it political.

There’s not a left or right wing way to trim a tree. There’s a correct way and a wrong way. It’s about how many miles they need to do in how much time.

Yeah, and the Republicans want to force it to be done wrong while claiming the opposite. It’s nonsense, but you can’t deny the nonsense exists.

It only takes one side to politicize.

Probably not!

It’s not as if the Republican dipshit actually knows anything about the subject. He’s just mouthing off with a self-serving post hoc fallacy. In reality, he has no fucking clue whether the pruning was done correctly or not – and it probably was done correctly, given that the workers hired by the utiilty were actual arborists – because the mere fact that the power lines fell is not by itself proof of error. It’s entirely possible, for example, that the storm was so extreme that no reasonable amount of pruning (i.e. anything short of clear-cutting) would’ve saved those wires!

And if the utility had gone “anti-woke” and clear-cut them, he would’ve just been bitching in bad faith about that instead.