moobythegoldensock

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[–] moobythegoldensock 403 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (20 children)

The Democrats are trying to make a mountain out of a molehill. There’s nothing there, nothing of importance, and the Trump administration has already asked the courts to start working on the release, so there’s no point in the House getting involved anyway.

This is such a non-issue that the Republicans have shut down the entire legislative session and won’t vote on any of their own bills until September. Again, Democrats are just trying to make a show out of nothing, which is why blocking it is the Republicans’ top priority. Their work would be redundant anyway, which is why the Republicans are so unafraid to vote on it that everyone just up and left.

On an unrelated note, my favorite local restaurant is so clean and compliant with all regulations that when visited by the food inspector they turned out the lights, locked all the doors, and refused to serve any food again until the health department leaves. As one does when they’re unafraid and have nothing to hide.

[–] moobythegoldensock 22 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

“Life sucks and then you die.”

Thanks dad.

[–] moobythegoldensock 6 points 3 weeks ago

You can’t distance yourself without space.

[–] moobythegoldensock 122 points 3 weeks ago

From 2006:

ROBIN QUIVERS: Yeah, do you have an age limit or would you–

FUTURE PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: If I- No, no, I have no age–. I mean, I have an age li–.

ROBIN QUIVERS: The upper bracket–.

FUTURE PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I don’t want to be like Congressman Foley, with, you know, 12-year-olds.

He started to say he had no age limit, then seemingly corrected himself by deflecting onto Former Congressman Mark Foley, who sent sexually explicit instant messages to 16 and 17 year old boys. Whether he was more deterred by the ages themselves or the fact that it was a scandal is an exercise left to the reader.

[–] moobythegoldensock 2 points 3 weeks ago

It’s certainly making me want to become more religious. /s

[–] moobythegoldensock 16 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

iOS is adding the menu transparency that desktops have had for over 15 years. Android is adding AI. They are both just adding things that people already use and are calling them new.

[–] moobythegoldensock 16 points 3 weeks ago

Apple’s going to add some transparency to buttons and call it a groundbreaking redesign while Android is going to go all in on AI.

So iPhones will become more Apple and Android will become more Google.

[–] moobythegoldensock 10 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

teachers from so-called “woke” states would also have to pass a new test of their knowledge of the U.S. Constitution, American exceptionalism, and “their grasp of fundamental biological differences between boys and girls.”

Question 5:

America is: a. Pretty good b. Great c. The greatest d. THE GREATEREST!!!!! AMERICA! FUCK YEAH!

[–] moobythegoldensock 59 points 4 weeks ago (9 children)

Misleading title. The technique does not prevent all hereditary disease.

DNA from both parents can be injected into a donor egg, which uses the donor’s mitochondria. This is used to keep a child from inheriting a mitochondrial disease from the mother. These are the specific set of hereditary diseases this technique prevents.

All other hereditary diseases are not prevented by this.

[–] moobythegoldensock 2 points 4 weeks ago

Nah, you don’t get credit for suicide.

But to your broader point, it takes a lot of work to right something that’s bad. Someone who has a troubled youth but does their time and spends years rehabilitating their image may be remembered for their later years, while someone who is a terrible person and then says something nice on their deathbed is likely to only be remembered for the bad.

Tying back to the shower thought, a show can start out bad and get good (Star Trek TNG, Parks and Recreation,) but a show whose only good episode is the finale is unlikely to be remembered fondly.

[–] moobythegoldensock 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

We absolutely do apply these to people. Kevin Spacey? Bill Cosby? Jeffrey Epstein? Jared Fogle? Joe Paterno? Louis CK? Chris Brown? P. Diddy? Harvey Weinstein? OJ Simpson?

[–] moobythegoldensock 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

India’s censor board had deemed the kissing scenes, including a 33-second smooch, to be “overly sensual” for Indian audiences and demanded they be cut from the film before its cinematic release.

Obviously silly. But why is a single kiss that long?

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