I had a history teacher who claimed that French bakers at the time called the layers of dough that were left on the bottom of the ovens and had to be scraped off periodically “cake” and that is what Marie Antoinette was referring to when she said “let them eat cake.” So it was just as heartless, but maybe less comically out of touch.
I know this is more of a meme community but in all seriousness that is the absolute ideal attitude for a president to have. “I’m here to do something and once I’m done I’m out.”
Whether he or anyone else holds to that is a different matter, of course.
“Don’t need to use that kind of language? Be glad I’m using my words at all you miserable sack of shit!”
“Oops, now I read and write Hungarian. Can’t pronounce it for shit, though.”
Yep, Whole Foods and the Pay ‘n’ Save, basically identical.
The question was “what word or phrase annoys you,” not “do you understand this phrase.”
I know what the phrasing means, it still bugs the shit out of me.
“Not me” doing something.
Just say you’re doing something, and accept that it may be a bit hypocritical or shameful that you’re doing it.
Short answer: yes
Longer answer: I would argue we’ve already had a few civil wars since the “War Between the States” in the 1860s. Reconstruction was arguably another civil war. The labor rights war of the early twentieth century included federal troops attacking organizing coal miners and federal agents along with private security forces attacking striking workers elsewhere. The violence of the civil rights movement (remember: the president had to call in the national guard to enforce integration) would also qualify as a civil war by some standards.
Listen to the first limited series of the podcast It Could Happen Here for an idea of how a more involved civil war could start. The idea is that there would not be clear battle lines drawn up because our divide now is more urban vs rural, and people in rural areas have opportunities to attack infrastructure that would have significant impacts on urban areas.
I think cars and car culture are inextricably linked to this kind of behavior, and it gets worse with bigger cars. People definitely can ride bikes like assholes but it’s less common-something about having zero barriers between a person and the world makes them less susceptible to acting like the world isn’t there.
Every day is some variation on shitty.
As tired as I am of this meme format, I have to agree. Traffic engineering is bunk.
Ironically, Citizen Kane has a relevant line: “It’s no trick to make a lot of money, if all you want is to make a lot of money.”
This dude talks about passing his values on to his kids who are in the business, I shudder to think what his actual values are.
Gary Larson has several species of animals named after him. He also named the spiked part of a stegosaurus tail in a comic (the thagomizer, “after the late Thag Simmons”) and had that name adopted as the official name by paleontologists.
I’m pretty sure the options would be to arrest him or be fired for insubordination.
Charles Bukowski wrote maybe the most beautiful paean to the fact of the telephone book:
More to the point, if there is a warrant issued for his arrest, his secret service detail would need to arrest him.
And a business built largely around car dependence.
Because as numerous studies have proven, there is no road design for individual cars that alleviates traffic. Period. The design doesn’t exist. Actually addressing traffic would involve severely reducing car lanes and vastly expanding public transit.
Now, if you want to propose going after the car and oil companies that pushed car-centric development starting in the early 20th century and continued despite knowing climate change was real and that car centric development was a major contributor, I’m sure everyone in this group will agree with you.
ALSO it should be legal for me to plow other cars out of my way because they are blocking my path.
Does the DMCA protect claimants against liability if they make incorrect or spurious claims?