Fixed url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI_Jl5WFQkA
What some folks may not know is that at around the same time, Ford had problems with tires imploding on SUVs. While not called out in the Canyonero spoof, I always thought it captured the public vibe about big trucks at the time in light of this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firestone_and_Ford_tire_controversy
Some people have an exaggerated and/or completely broken sense of personal space, and how that keeps them “safe”.
Do you regret your choice? Do you constantly think “Fuck everyone else around me, I do what I want.”, or do you legitimately not notice how everyone else hates you?
It could easily be all of those things. Regret turns to coping poorly through projection1, followed by just ignoring the problem.
Re: idiots and assholes. The Venn diagram for those groups have a rather large intersection.
1. Clinically known as “acting like an asshole”. In this case, it’s the decision that it’s everyone else who is encroaching on their space, while driving a vehicle that is slightly smaller than a shuttle bus.
and I give them an answer like "that’s unfortunate "
You might want to also let them know that “we’re insured for this” and that “nobody is going to lose their job over this, so let’s not lose our heads, either.”
Also, it’ll go a long way to acknowledge how unfair it is that an employee doing the same thing is completely different.
While not wrong, this is focusing on what can be done inside the system. It’s ignoring an additional threat.
Fascist regimes typically require a kind of “secret police” to enforce the broader agenda. Such a force acts in a completely extra-judicial way while being completely loyal to the regime and its need to gain and express power. All that’s required for this to work is for people to look the other way, including police.
The whole game is about optics. They won’t look like Nazi SS or whatnot. Think proud boys (white t-shirts, brown pants), KKK, white nationalists, and worst of all, just groups of guys dressed like they’re ready to carpool to the office. Given any amount of power, groups like this will waste zero time exercising violence, but with all the optics of legitimate police, government, and even judicial process. So picture kidnappings dressed up like arrests, murders that look like resisting arrest, trials that are just kangaroo courts, public assassinations that resemble lawful executions.
Resistance is the opposite: communities banding together, aligning themselves with legitimate local government, and operating within the strict limits of the law. This forces the bad guys to operate outside the law in full view of the public, which blunts their power and reach. It’s not impossible to mount a defense in this way if one considers the huge amount of overreach this generates - power tends to dislike other people rendering that power moot. So throwing in with local and state government is a worthwhile tactic here.
It makes sense, really.
I believe that people really don’t want to live inside a perpetual political cycle; they have lives. They (sometimes) want to show up on election day, vote, and delegate all the work to someone that makes them the least uncomfortable. The hope is that the politicians then go fuck off and leave everyone alone for at least 20 months, and maybe things don’t get worse. Shoehorning your whole platform into everyone’s life on a 24hr news diet is not the way to go - success here is surgical, discrete, and yet, memorable.
That’s not the point. For TIME to do that, they’re more or less stating that we’re already living in that world, and have for the past year. Just wait.
featuring a person, group, idea, or object that “for better or for worse … has done the most to influence the events of the year”.
I think boils down to “similar optics, different gender identity”, but I’m neither of these flavors so I really don’t know. But for this joke, I think either works.
Calling for assistance: we need a ruling here. Halp.
Okay, the penciled-in numbers (but only for non-military time because who uses that?) just sent me. Easily one of the best “job’s done boss” images I have ever seen.
Sorry to hear about your dog.
I think I’m rehabilitated Doc. I can go home now.
Maybe. Please go into the next room and stare at the floor for five minutes. I’ll be here.
This schism exists in my household. Mrs. Warp Core had access to a Mac and went on to do non-computer things. I had a PC and went full-ASD/ADHD HAM on (what feels like) every iteration of commercial computer tech ever since.
Iceland games bring an extra amount of “the players will come back for more in-game abuse” though. Eve Online and the (failed) Dust:514 are stand-out examples of totally unforgiving yet (somehow) rewarding gameplay.
If From Software contracted out to Icelandic game devs, the result would be a game that’s harder than diamonds and a lifetime achievement to complete.
Because that’s what people outside of a simulation would do.
Always has been.
Just wait for the annual “PEDMAS vs PEMDAS” discussion flame-war on any major social media platform.
Timeshare (and MLM) salespeople are well-known for their ability to attract and then box-in a potential client. Delivering a pitch while in a fast moving car? That’s next-level diabolical, even for those people.
Basically all of the things I see other drivers doing when I’m not in their car.
The last one is particularly nauseating and terrifying if you’re in the car.
Not going to disagree with your cross-comparison here, but have you tried Korean-style fried chicken yet?
Real talk: do people just go nude/semi-nude at home on the regular? I had no idea.
A hot take, but a valid question. I am not a lawyer.
This depends on where you live. Some places have a Castle Doctrine, some have an “legal duty to retreat”. There’s also the legality of your own firearm, and if anything happens outside your home, if you’re licensed to carry in public. There could be other ramifications, but your local 2A folks (even the folks that voted for Trump) may know quite a bit about what the rules are.
If you’re this concerned, I strongly recommend getting a neighborhood watch going. A line of defense outside the home may buy precious minutes.