I used to have this group of friends that were pretty savvy on finances and negotiations. For fun and sport, they would go to auto dealers and pretend to be interested in a car they had zero intentions of buying. All to hook and reel in the salesman and then decide “no” at the last second and walk off the lot.
I mean, the idea is humorous and I dislike most auto salesmen too, but I have better things to do.
Interesting to see this news. About a week ago I had picked up the mail and we still receive mailings for a deceased relative. This means we often get correspondence for the older demographic. On that day, it was the Epoch Times. Looking ever so like a normal newspaper. Trying to look like a trusted medium to the older audience to whom it was addressed.
I’ve known of them, but being dismissive had never scrutinized it. Having a rare opportunity before me I did so and was not terribly surprised. In summary: References to “woke” news everywhere else, all glory to supreme leader trump and covid was a hoax.
Anyhow, I did have to take pause and admit the propaganda machine of the right is quite good at what it does. Millions of Americans getting this rag, reading it and nodding along. Is there an equivalent on the left? One that lies and deceives and reaches so many? I don’t really think so.
What is the quote? ‘a lie is halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on’.
I am glad there are legal issues for them now, but the machine itself will keep grinding. Stay vigilant!
I was being sarcastic, Mr Surfer. I wrestled with whether I should include the “/s” tag since I was making a joke about the spoiler tag being the indication of sarcasm. I chose neither and here we are. Hi! ;)
I don’t see a spoiler tag, do you?
He purged the State Department at the beginning of his presidency, so we already understand the damage it will do:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/29/state-department-purge-trump-foreign-policy
competition eating is not what is causing the inequality
Please point to where I said it was the cause. So because it didn’t cause it, it’s perfectly fine to flaunt the inequality?
watersports shouldn’t exist, anything televised is evil
I’m just spitballing here using your example, but what if watersports were shown to drought-stricken audiences? And we know they are just down the street from the event. Is that alright?
Yes, anything superfluous to basic life itself is the purest of evils. You can see I’ve obviously stated the very same. Plainly. /s
This might not be popular, but in my opinion the world absolutely does not need a “Major League Eating” organization or competitive eating contests.
Competitive eating has no reasonable place when there is so much food insecurity around us. Even moreso when there are people going hungry within the same country as the competition. I’ll even wager there are people within a mile of it that would greatly appreciate one of the fifty hot dogs a competitor eats.
In my limited view, it appears to me as an overt display in food gorging and over-consumption. Is this a skill to aspire to? Perhaps it had a place when showing the world how successful we were as a nation, but now it just seems gross as the optics (in my view) have changed.
The rest of the world is competing by simply vying for food. Any food.
/rant
I am unsure as to why a progressive would ever vote Republican. Progressives cannot politically exist on their own in this two-party system. They have to adopt one party or the other. Since the Republican party is completely and absolutely opposed to anything a progressive would believe in, they adopted the one party that has a minor shot at enacting policies they adhere to. There is no doubt they would likely vote D all the way down the ballot in every election. It’s the only opportunity at policy progression they have. It has been this way for a while so this claim isn’t some new prediction or revelation.
I’m not sure which part of this is intended to be sarcasm
100% of it. Sorry I wasn’t funnier to help you there. Story of my wife…life! I meant life!
Of note is that I did not create the “chain of bicycles” term, but did find it alluring to use here.
That’s the automobile term and is quite offensive in this context. A “chain of bicycles” would be more appropriate. Stragglers would be called “spokes”. You should probably edit your post and then go apologize to the bicycle sub post haste before this gets out of hand. --> /s
Except that for some products they show the unit prices differently for some maddening reason. Like $.04/ounce right next to a competing product that has the label $.40/biscuit or something similar. Like they are trying to make it more difficult for the shopper to compare so they throw up their hands and buy whatever they are used to. I see this frequently.
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Yes, and one of the reasons I want to keep it going. It’s an old Fujitsu and has a cool form factor (another reason). I recycled about a dozen laptops a few months back, but could not bear to see this one go. It came with XP, but I don’t care to reload that at all. Am also downloading older versions of Slack to see if they’ll work.
I have an old laptop with a Transmeta Crusoe CPU. Can anyone recommend a distro that will work on it? I’ll download this one and give it a shot too.
I have not checked, is there a viable candidate running against her? Any candidate running against her? Isn’t her district insanely red?
More “kid glove” responses to a company killing people. Penalties really need to be harsher than a simple fine without admitting wrongdoing. My confidence in CPAP machines in general has been shook, but I will never knowingly buy a Philips product of any kind again.
I wish we’d stop taking the easy route and settling these suits too. Litigate them to a guilty verdict and punish them harshly. Otherwise it’s just the cost of doing business ad nauseum.
Hung jury for a guy who fired his rifle at a passing crowd and killed someone. … That means at least one jury member just thought that it wasn’t a crime to kill people…
Is there one juror who was purported to be a Fox News viewer on Trump’s hush money trial? My cynical self sees a similar result coming there.
I think that is what stembolts is saying. Awareness is borne from knowledge and critical thinking.