It’s also amazing just how incredibly tacky the MAGA movement is.

The Nazis were evil, but at least they wore clothing designed by Hugo Boss. At least they borrowed from impressive looking Roman-style banners and eagles. They understood how to use colour, light and so-on to project strength. Even if you acknowledge that the Nazis were evil, at least you can sort of understand why the German people were drawn in.

But the MAGA movement is so weak, so tacky. Even if I were somehow 100% aligned with their beliefs, I wouldn’t want to associate with them in public because their whole aesthetic is so embarrassing. I can’t understand how anybody can look at Trump and see competence, intelligence and strength. I also can’t understand how anybody can look at a typical MAGA rally and see anything other than a design scheme that would make even Wal*Mart cringe.

You think suits from the 18th century look almost exactly the same as ours?

The suit is a 20th century invention.

Someone might “know what it was”, i.e. it’s a jacket that doesn’t close properly and matching pants. But, they didn’t exist until the 20th century.

It’s a matter of time before they finally go out of fashion, and people look at them like we look at men wearing tights and shirts with puffy sleeves.

Yeah, I want as little contact between the police and homeless people as possible.

Wow, you should really call up her family and tell them they’re wrong. Those poor fools who knew her and were with her day after day think she committed suicide, but you, some guy on the internet, you know better. They have a right to know! Go call them up and inform them how wrong they are!

And suicidal people are always honest about not being suicidal, right?

Here come the conspiracy theorists.

Could it be that being in the spotlight is exhausting and depressing? Could being a victim of sex trafficking have a huge mental toll? Could it be that her relatives actually know her mental state better than some dude sitting on a couch halfway across the world.

No, of course not, it has to be murder because that makes everything more exciting.

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Of course it will be seen as silly. Most people are just too used to them to see them that way today.

It’s like seeing judges wearing wigs and robes. At one point that was just normal formalwear, but it looks really goofy now.

IMO finding the homeless a safe place to sleep shouldn’t be the job of the police. You don’t call the police when there’s a fire, you call firefighters. You don’t call the police when someone’s injured, you call an ambulance. Why would law enforcers be involved in helping a homeless person find shelter?

Maybe in this case you could expand the scope a bit. Police are responsible for public safety, and it’s unsafe to sleep on the streets. OTOH, policing is law enforcement, deterring and investigating crime, etc. Homeless people are often committing crimes, either trespassing, loitering, using drugs, etc. It would almost certainly be better for them to be helped by someone who doesn’t care about that part, and just wants them to get a safe place to sleep and a warm, healthy meal.

Instead of giving more jobs to police, shrink the police budget and hire new people to do those non-policing jobs.

I fucking hate formalwear rules.

Dark blue should count as a “dark suit”, shouldn’t it? If the expectation was “wear a black suit”, then the rule should have been “wear a black suit”.

Even just having to wear a suit at all is stupid: “You must wear a special kind of jacket that doesn’t properly close in front, creating a little window through which people can see the shirt you’re wearing underneath, and a ribbon of pretty fabric you wear draped around your neck.”

Meanwhile, women are allowed to just use reasonable discretion as long as they’re wearing a dress. The style of dress isn’t specified (but of course most women will interpret it as “show a little bit of bare chest, but not too much, because it’s a funeral”)

I don’t remember what did it for me, I switched a while ago. But, I do clearly remember one time when I had the kind of moulded earphones that go really deep in your ear, and I caught the cable on something, and they got yanked out of my ears. That was pretty painful.

Why are you so deep in your own bubble that you don’t believe that someone could simply prefer wireless? If that’s the case, you should get out more, meet more people, expand your horizons.

Ooh, BUUURN! BUUUUUUUUUURN!!!

I’ve never lost one in at least a decade of using them. But, I don’t use the kind that just balance on the edge of your ear.

Wireless means you plug it in occasionally, maybe once a week.

If you don’t value the convenience of wireless headphones, that’s great for you. For a lot of people, the cable is a real pain in the ass. It gets tangled up when it’s off. It gets caught up on things when it’s on, etc.

If you’re listening to podcasts or music, latency doesn’t really matter.

Yeah, it’s a risk. But, there’s also a risk of getting your wired earbuds cord caught on something. I’ve had that happen and it yanked the phone off the table and sent it crashing to the floor. I’ve also had the buds get yanked out of my ears multiple times.

If I lived somewhere where winters were mild, I might still use wired headphones. When you only have to worry about a t-shirt or something managing the cord isn’t too bad. But, when you have to manage a hat, scarf, coat, etc. there are just too many things to get in the way of the cord.

You know what’s easier than a cable? No cable.

I’ll give you sound quality, but the whole reason that wireless earbuds took off is the hassle of wires.

I assume that bunkers protect you from a chain reaction, but that at some point the explosion is big enough that a chain reaction is exactly what you get.

This definitely seems like it would have been big enough to cause a chain reaction (and/or big enough to show that a chain reaction happened). If so, I wonder what fraction of bunkers exploded. I’m glad we live in an age of civilian satellites, so it’s probably just a matter of time before we get to see the damage for ourselves.