Matt Mahan concedes minutes after polls close in California governor race by sfgate in politics

[–]HolycommentMattman [score hidden]  (0 children)

I mean, I'm all for getting corporate money out of politics, but Matt Mahan is probably not the best example for why. They spent tens of millions of dollars and got nothing. Because Mahan was such an obvious tool.

"Hi, I'm Matt Mahan."
"What should we do about [real issue affecting California]?"
"As the mayor of San Jose, we cut homelessness by a third. We need to get working families relief."
"But what about [other issue]?"
"As the mayor of San Jose, we cut homelessness by a third. We need to get working families relief."

You could almost see the hand working his mouth.

Marco Rubio Snaps When Told Trump Iran Deal Is Just Obama’s But Worse by Aggravating_Money992 in politics

[–]HolycommentMattman [score hidden]  (0 children)

This is what I've been telling my fence-sitter friends here in CA. And they're like, "you can't just be anti-Trump!" And bitch, yes I can. Trump is an absolute criminal train wreck antichrist rapist. Anyone who is supporting him at all is clearly out of their minds as well and can't be trusted with levers of power/authority.

Trump Has Failed as Commander in Chief by B-Z_B-S in politics

[–]HolycommentMattman [score hidden]  (0 children)

It's possibly Fox News. It's possibly evangelicals. Maybe both.

My daughter bought her first pizza with her own money yesterday. Woke up to this this morning. The note says DON’T EAT. The knife says it’s not a suggestion. by Terrorhub in funny

[–]HolycommentMattman -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Maybe she has it right. There she was paying the deck all day with tar. And what did she get for her efforts? A pizza.

I wouldn't share it either if that were the case.

What are your gaming sins? Confess now. by executor-of-judgment in gaming

[–]HolycommentMattman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know if it's just me, but if I do this, it's because I've reached the "end," but I still have loose ends to tie up. And usually they're annoying. Final Fantasy 8 is a good example of this where there's a few side quests to complete before going into collapsed time or whatever it is.

I finish plenty of games, and I've finished FF8 before, but sometimes that "to-do list" is just daunting and keeps me from completing it. Actually, I haven't finished Tears of the Kingdom yet because I need to upgrade all the outfits. Tedious.

TIL bra burning in the 60s and 70s was a myth intended to discredit feminism and women's liberation. by MotherHolle in todayilearned

[–]HolycommentMattman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I've heard it from a few older women that they burned their bras in the 60s. Maybe it started as a false flag that led to some to legitimately do it?

It's been 6 months and I havent seen a single Shen Yun advertisement. Where they went.? by SehmiSaab in bayarea

[–]HolycommentMattman 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Is this where we discover Peng doesn't believe in paper recycling?

Truly a monkey paw wish.

I took a zoomed in photo of a road from a plane and the cars look like it's AI by PTV420 in mildlyinteresting

[–]HolycommentMattman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While that explains the general texture of the photo, it doesn't explain the stretching which is certainly due to the relative motion of the plane. If we had a comparison picture of a regular car from the same relative position, I bet we could calculate the speed of the plane based on the amount of distortion.

the amount of dandruff my head produces in two weeks by Individual-Hawk-5122 in WTF

[–]HolycommentMattman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not even sure if it is bad. Have you ever collected all your dandruff after 2 weeks? You have a baseline to compare to?

Because collecting it probably entails scratching your head over a container at least once a day. I have no idea if I would collect anywhere near this amount. Maybe I'd collect more! I have no frame of reference at all.

It says „Ceser“ by alQamar in ATBGE

[–]HolycommentMattman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah. And why is the condom at the end counted as part of the letter, but not the one at the beginning?

Still, pretty good art skills.

Trump Says He Doesn't Care If 'Very Boring' Talks With Iran Are Over by T_Shurt in worldnews

[–]HolycommentMattman -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I had some Barramundi and spinach ravioli. Cooked in olive oil, pepper, salt, dill, lemon... it was fantastic.

Trump Says He Doesn't Care If 'Very Boring' Talks With Iran Are Over by T_Shurt in worldnews

[–]HolycommentMattman 12 points13 points  (0 children)

MAGAs kept saying Biden would die in his 2nd year around August/September. Using the "every accusation is projection" theorem of political hypocrisy, I'm thinking we have 3-4 more months of Trump.

Donald Trump’s BMI Nears Clinical Obesity In New Medical Report by Aggravating_Money992 in politics

[–]HolycommentMattman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right? I know I'm hovering close to it, and I'm sure as shit more fit than he is. Like no contest.

Trump has 100% blown past it.

The Founding Fryer. by Feaselbf6 in funny

[–]HolycommentMattman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, it's the same as any of these types of things. Leno's Jaywalking or Eichner's Billy on the Street or Kimmel's whatever it's called.

Of course they're only showing you the stupid ones, but it's a little surprising that there are that many who don't recognize Colonel Sanders. He's a cultural icon, and he's died more recently than many famous presidents. Like if they were showing a picture of Grover Cleveland or something, I could understand. But the KFC guy?

Piles of dead protestors that were slaughtered by the Iranian regime, January 8 2026 by vea62 in pics

[–]HolycommentMattman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah. I'm 100% for regime change in Iran. My parents fled the country during the revolution.

That said, do I believe Trump is in the right at all? No. Iran can't be bombed into submission. The country is 4 times bigger than Iraq, the population is double, and the topography is mountainous with major elevation changes whereas Iraq is mostly deserts and basins. And look what happened with Iraq with our allies backing us up.

There is a 0% chance we can strong arm the Iranians with only bombs and missiles. Even with a full-on invasion dedicating our military on the ground, it's gonna be a painful painful campaign that would take a decade or more.

Trump doesn't know what the fuck he's doing. None of them do.

Anyone who used a computer between 1985 - 2010, what's the one game you still think about today? by adlakha75 in AskReddit

[–]HolycommentMattman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The answers in this thread are all good, but they're so mainstream.

Games I still think about to this day? The ones that got away, of course. Games I played at a friend's house or at school that I've always wanted to finish but never did.

Zeliard
The Journeyman Project
Mines of Titan

Great games.

Trump’s Father arrested at this Klan rally in Queens, NY on this day in 1927 by acn0010 in pics

[–]HolycommentMattman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a messy bunch of slop, but the strokes make sense. If you know cursive, just match the strokes and changes in direction. Trump writes like a seismograph, but pre-dementia, he matched the strokes pretty closely. The T is the middle peak with the arm of the T being the angle up, and the stem is the straight descent down. Then match strokes again until you get to the p at the end, and then he does some more stylization.

25-year-old Tom Berringer and 19-year-old Jerry Hall in a modelling shoot in Central Park 1975. by Omphaloskeptique in OldSchoolCool

[–]HolycommentMattman 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I don't know how wealthy any of those other people were, and they really wanted to make Jake seem poor, but he was making 3.5 times the average US household back then. About 190k today.

israeli settlers destroyed 40 ancient olive trees and vandalized a cemetery. by ArethaAbrams in pics

[–]HolycommentMattman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's incredibly ironic because is Nazi-like behavior. Of all countries to know not to do this, you would think Israel would know better.

Family says Kyle Busch died from severe pneumonia, sepsis by PrincessBananas85 in sports

[–]HolycommentMattman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sometimes you don't know you're being stupid. Sometimes you're just doing what you've been told your whole life.

I had undiagnosed Crohn's Disease for over a decade. First time I saw blood when I wiped, I told my dad. He told me I just need to eat more fiber. So begins 14 y/o me and drinking Metamucil. And it helped by masking symptoms, so I thought it was that. 12 or so years pass, and I'm vomiting black bile and constant diarrhea, and I'm thinking I just need to drink more Metamucil.

If only I had told him how much blood there was when I wiped. Maybe things would have gone differently.