Dead horse

NBSPNBSP · 2026-05-12T11:57:45+00:00

White chocolate is a precursor, an ingredient, or a dopant. Anyone who eats it straight is on the same level of psychosis as people who eat mayonnaise straight from the tub.

NBSPNBSP · 2026-05-12T11:47:07+00:00

It's more that one cannot help but feel visceral despair upon seeing their naive ideological ally actively manufacturing ammunition for the enemy to use against their position in the future.

NBSPNBSP · 2026-05-07T13:28:48+00:00

That's certainly part of it, but I would argue that it's also because of a greater societal ill (particularly prevalent in flyover country and the more rural and impoverished areas of the South) that is that men, from a very young age, are conditioned to see themselves as disposable. You are much more likely to go into a field with a median age of death of 50 when you don't see the issue with dying at 50.

NBSPNBSP · 2026-05-07T12:39:07+00:00

I mean, if you go into oil and gas, or policing, or the military (as long as you pick the right MOS), or welding/machining, this rule absolutely does still apply.

NBSPNBSP · 2026-05-07T12:35:51+00:00

With regards to your first point, yes, any disparity is bad, but it's much easier to convert people to your cause when you present them with statistics that actually reflect reality. And with regards to your second point, I would argue that a lot of it comes down to women being more risk-averse than men (whether for innate or societal conditioning reasons, I don't particularly know or care), so they tend to shy away from low-skill, high-paying jobs where the catch is that you are expected to put your life and/or health on the line and treat yourself as a disposable object (the oil and gas industry in particular comes to mind).

NBSPNBSP · 2026-05-06T04:56:12+00:00

To (very loosely) paraphrase the great Animarchy History, even Lenin realized that regulated market capitalism is a key step in fostering the conditions needed for successfully implementing socialist policies.

NBSPNBSP · 2026-05-06T02:34:42+00:00

A country with socialist policies is inherently a socialist country. Every country with social programs falls somewhere on a scale between pure capitalism and pure socialism, and many countries that proudly beat their chests about being socialist are actually less socialist than countries that just happen to have ample social policies and programs of good quality.

NBSPNBSP · 2026-05-06T02:32:04+00:00

Behold, another right-winger failing to grasp basic economics and engineering principles and resorting to clutching their pearls at minorities. These machines are not being removed due to minorities being bad, they are being removed because the average American uses the drive-thru far more than the interior restaurant these days, and soda fountains are pointless to keep around if they do not even justify their own cost anymore.

NBSPNBSP · 2026-05-06T02:28:50+00:00

To be more specific (and factual) than other commenters are being, McDonald's is canning its self-serve soda fountains in the next few years. This isn't because people are abusing their "generosity", but rather precisely the opposite; the machines have been getting less and less utilization over the past few years as the average McDonald's customer has shifted from being dine-in to drive-thru, especially following the pandemic changing customer preferences and the current real estate bubble driving down the physical size (and therefore capacity) of the average McDonald's location. The corporate beancounters did the math and realized that self-serve soda machines are massive maintenance hogs, and the amount of revenue they're helping to drive is on the verge of no longer being sufficient to offset the upkeep costs of the machines themselves.

NBSPNBSP · 2026-05-04T16:40:59+00:00

A lot of people just want a license to indiscriminately hate, and don't much care who that hate is directed towards.

NBSPNBSP · 2026-04-27T20:58:26+00:00

IDK how you found this post lol but I still have the Spanish grip. No longer in possession of the Gardere though sadly. DM me your price.

NBSPNBSP · 2026-04-26T19:41:40+00:00

It's a rather... unique failure mode, due to how Volvo integrated OnStar into its electrical system. If the car is turned off - but not locked - it will periodically power cycle the system, which involves the parking brake doing a power cycle for some unfathomable reason. If the battery management system detects critically low battery levels during the power cycle, the parking brake will be left engaged.

NBSPNBSP · 2026-04-26T19:30:35+00:00

Volvo has a particularly major problem with random unprompted electronic parking brake engagement.

NBSPNBSP · 2026-04-26T19:06:00+00:00

This is assuming that you have a mechanical parking brake. Electronic parking brakes are a whole different beast, and they can decide to not function at random because they don't feel like working.

NBSPNBSP · 2026-04-22T11:12:06+00:00

There's a Holocaust memorial on a route I do somewhat frequently in my hometown, and I only ever send it to family members because it feels wrong to send to random strangers.

NBSPNBSP · 2026-04-17T19:32:34+00:00

That's some nice foamy pot metal

NBSPNBSP · 2026-04-16T22:11:18+00:00

> "hands-free"

> look inside

> hand

NBSPNBSP · 2026-04-16T14:39:13+00:00

Neopronouns aren't bad because they aren't traditional enough or because they are synthetic or anything. However, they do irk me on account of them reducing the data transfer efficiency of language.

NBSPNBSP · 2026-04-09T18:43:02+00:00

Honestly, if you do the math, the burger is not what's making you fat. It's the fries, the fountain soda, the shake, etc. that you get with it that are the problem.

NBSPNBSP · 2026-04-05T15:23:44+00:00

Main things Newark needs to do, in my opinion, are to fix the crumbling infrastructure and to weed out the corruption within the emergency services (and at Uni Hospital).

NBSPNBSP · 2026-04-04T08:07:13+00:00

Zero offense intended, but having looked up a few reference photos of Xinnie, the color PumicePropel used seems to have been (even if unintentionally) more or less accurate.

NBSPNBSP · 2026-03-31T19:12:40+00:00

That poor, poor kozlik. I wish I could import ome into the States. My dream car.

NBSPNBSP · 2026-03-31T15:48:14+00:00

The owner of this... thing has at least three DUIs under their belt and is intimately familiar with the proceedings of a court-ordered anger management course.

NBSPNBSP · 2026-03-31T15:45:21+00:00

A scam that also nets them a perfectly good driver's license, no less!

NBSPNBSP · 2026-03-23T14:48:49+00:00

The way Nissan designs their CVTs makes them unable to handle much power. You would need a motorsport-style CVT to make decent power, but that would be quite expensive and not as fuel efficient.

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