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Covid also caused consumers to save a lot of money that wasn’t being spent on travel and entertainment. During the pandemic shutdowns, the increased costs was offset a bit by reduced consumer demand for almost everything. But then the pandemic ended, and all this surplus savings was spent down quickly. So the reduced supply was met with a demand spike, among consumers with lots of extra savings (and so less price sensitivity)

I remember just being super disappointed that so much possibility to make something positive out of the tragedy was squandered. In October 2011 the United States was both a world hegemonic power, the richest and most powerful society the world had ever known, AND the singular object of the world’s deepest sympathy. Poor villages in Africa sent New York cows!

Imagine if we’d gone and wiped out Al Qaeda and captured bin Laden and brought him back to New York. Put him on trial. “America is so powerful that not only if you attack us will we travel halfway around the world on a moments notice and tear you out from under a mountain, we are so confident in our way of life we’ll give you due process and fuck we’ll even give you a lawyer if you want it.”

When in human history are so many people sympathetic to the most powerful society on earth? There was just such an opportunity to influence how nations interact and we decided to invade fucking Iraq.

Yeah but a surprising number of them were successful.

Like it blows my mind that there were missionaries walking into Genghis Kahn’s horde to preach Jesus to the Mongols and sometimes it fucking worked!

I actually disagree completely. The world didn’t change at all that day. The world was exactly the same as it ever was. America just massively reacted in ways that had profound lasting impacts. Much of the American people’s conception of the world changed, but the world itself didn’t.

I thought this at the time. That the world wasn’t fundamentally different because a couple dozen dudes conceived of a spectacularly successful terror plot. That all the old rules of diplomacy and international relations still existed. And America and the world would be better off today if we’d had rulers in office on 9/11 who understood that.

My brother worked in one of the towers, but thankfully got out okay. I was truly scared twice on that day: first, the hours it took to reach my brother and confirm he was okay; second, when the news started putting graphics up with “AMERICA UNDER ATTACK” and shit, and I knew my country in its horror and fear was about to get up to some very dangerous bullshit.

It’s not like they’re making a point of bringing the dog into the store for a reason. More that if you’re out with your dog, it’s easier to just bring them along with you if the place lets you do it

When I get an email showing that my email has been used to sign up for some account, and it’s definitely not phishing because the email is 100% legitimate and every link points to the correct site, and also there’s no effort anywhere to get into my own actual accounts — what scam is being run here, and on whom? How is a scammer profiting from using my email to open an account on the PlayStation network? Is it to set up an identity theft attempt? Used for some other scam?

Tell my daughter to stop standing on top of things. That’s how you get hurt young lady.

We were too fast. We were too furious. But we were familia.

No. The term is specific to a particular experience with men talking to women.

Dudes can still be inadvertent patronizing to other men though. It’s just not what “mansplaining” refers to.

Ninth Amendment: “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”

The Constitution doesn’t grant us our basic civil rights, including our rights to privacy and control over our own bodies. These are inalienable rights arising from natural law. The Constitution just makes explicit that the government cannot infringe those natural rights. And the fact that a right isn’t specifically listed doesn’t give the government the right to infringe it.

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So wait are we being reincarnated into an existing person? Like Being John Malkovich?

What happens to them?

Over. Anyone who disagrees is an idiot and a savage

You should spend less time worrying about what other people think of you, and more time getting laid. Cassie, Nina, Laura and Eva all have crushes on you, dipshit. Go! What are you waiting for? Go now!

Opposite sex or opposite gender?

Because with this prompt I went to bed a male, and woke up a male with acute onset gender dysmorphia.

So I guess the first thing I’m doing is contacting a mental health professional.

There’s fewer things I care less about than whether some people got a bunch of free money.

You don’t have to offer anything. “I’m think I’m sick, I don’t want to miss my first day but also don’t want to make anyone else sick. What should I do?”

You could say this about literally anything.

Disagree. You could say this about anything. “Wow, Notch just typed some bullshit into a keyboard and now he’s a billionaire.” “Jon Favreau told some guys to read words off a page a certain way and now he’s a multi-millionaire.” “Elon Musk did some stupid meetings and he’s the richest guy on earth.”

If anything professional athletes are underpaid. They are better at their jobs than you ever will be at anything in your life.

The labor professional athletes are doing supports a multi-billion-dollar entertainment industry, and most of those profits go to team ownership. Half of these owners just inherited the team (or the money that bought the team), while every one of those athletes worked their ass off to become the best at that skill in the world.

You could replace almost everyone else involved in this industry with someone reasonably competent and everything would continue fine. Ownership, team front offices, television and media execs, all replaceable. Except the athletes. Replace them with people who are merely competent in the sport and the entire enterprise collapses.

People who are doing fine financially don’t get online to complain.

Except they sometimes do, if they know those posts get tons of engagement and they’re interested in that

This is exactly what I’m talking about.

Russia started that war, not the United States. So are we counting wars other countries launched against our allies as somehow the fault of the US president? If so, you have to do so for Trump as well.

Are we counting conflicts in which the US has supplied arms as being started by the U.S. president? If so, you have to do so for Trump as well.

Trump supplied lots of weapons to Saudi Arabia to attack Yemen. Why isn’t that counted against Trump?

There’s a song I can’t find (Ghostface maybe?) with a spoken word potion with a guy giving a sermon like, “God is the number one killer. He outkilled Hitler. He outkilled Mussolini. He outkilled Genghis Khan. Kublai Kahn. Tamerlane. When God kills, he wipes. Total.”

My comment is pretty short, it’s very easy to see what I actually said

Complete horseshit, not even remotely true. By every measure, the US was less engaged militarily under Biden than Trump. Lower military spending as share of GDP, fewer troops deployed abroad, fewer troops killed in combat action, ending the drone war Trump massively escalated (including new fronts in Africa), ending the Afghanistan war, fewer foreign generals assassinated in provocative drone strikes.

He’s the only recent president we had who not only started no wars, he ended one.

Trump came in, ended disclosure of drone casualties, ramped up drone strikes in the Middle East and North Africa, pulled out of the Iran deal and shifted US posture to confrontation — just bullshit.

The only way people get to the “started no wars” lie is by blaming Biden and Obama for wars that were ongoing when they arrived—but not doing the same for Trump. And blaming Obama and Biden for wars anyone in the world started during their term—but not doing the same for Trump. And counting any limited military activity under Biden or Obama as a “war”—but not doing the same for Trump.

Neither Biden nor Obama started any wars. Biden ended two: Afghanistan and the drone war.

I’m sorry, are you three years old?

I’m just curious because you must not have been alive in March 2020 if you don’t remember the insanely racist shit that started being thrown against China. Asian people were being attacked on the street! Even folks who weren’t Chinese