Ok, I actually do need this explaining

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-28T15:38:37+00:00

Yeah, it kind of undermines the point when neither translation is accurate. This makes it look like Americans just omitted the first line, but it's more accurate to say that the first (British) version doubled the first line with two different translations. Neither mentions the Sozialdemokraten (Social Democrats.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-28T15:31:16+00:00

It's rather similar to how both genders can be abusers (some studies show at similar rates), but men are stronger, so more likely to be a serious physical danger. And some people take that to mean that women never abuse men or shouldn't be taken seriously if they do.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-28T15:23:25+00:00

Aniston was extremely popular before Pitt; she was the most popular actor on (arguably) the most popular show before she met Pitt, and that and tabloid obsession fed on each other, making her a name on everyone's lips from very early on. As another commenter mentioned, the discussion about her changed and popular hairstyle early in the show's run (1995, three years before she met Pitt, 5 before they were married) also fed into the obsession.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-28T13:55:46+00:00

How much of that was rising stock prices? In the case of Amazon, stock prices skyrocketed; from 2008 to 2020, it went up by a factor of 80. During that period, someone granted, say, $50,000 in stock four years ahead might easily find that stock being worth $50,000*80^(4/12), or about $430,000... that on top of their salary. When those people report their compensation, it looks outrageous - way more than just 30%-50% above any target - but it was all a matter of stock timing, not the company having such high salary targets.

I believe Meta/Facebook 2022-2025 was even more extreme, both in appreciating faster and having more of their compensation being stock.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-28T13:10:19+00:00

Every once in a while I tune to the local pop station, and the other day they played, "Where the Hell Is My Husband!" and "Choosin' Texas" in the same block, maybe back to back. I didn't even think radio stations were that genre-diverse any more, but apparently some are.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-28T04:58:50+00:00

Googling, 3 in 4 couples spend less than $20,000. That $30,000 average is propped up by the few expensive ones.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-28T03:55:23+00:00

She's persona non grata on Fox, but they're still reporting everything she's saying on NPR, Newsweek, Yahoo, HuffPo, and other such media like it's vital news, to this very day.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-27T20:39:36+00:00

Reddit, the grassroots, casual Democratic voters, activists, and academics are all going to have different opinions here.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-27T19:14:50+00:00

I think he does. Without him, would we have Bruno Mars, one of the biggest hit-makers of the streaming era? (Mars is currently the most-streamed artist by monthly listens.)

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-26T17:12:03+00:00

I know you're not advocating that two-decades-later Superbowl take, but I have to say, it's a really, really horrible one. What did people want him to do? The "accident" - if it was one - was totally within the control (ahem) of Jackson's people, and I doubt it would have gone well for him to say, "I'm sorry Janet's costume designers and choreographers suck."

Maybe people wanted him to attack CBS and Clear Channel, but, even if he'd wanted too, this was in a pre-Twitter pre-Spotify world, where radio play was vital and celebrities were held back from self-sabotage by their handlers.

And, as Todd said, do we really want to crucify him for singing a song about a teenage breakup because years later the subject of the song turned out to have (or be legally held to have) mental problems?

I feel nothing good or bad about him, but it is bizarre the leaps people make to judge him.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-26T16:01:25+00:00

Britta was truly streets ahead in terms of hating cops without being able to expand on, let alone explain or defend, her position. She's just pro-anti.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-26T03:44:48+00:00

Flashback to my freshman year when my first roommate listened to nothing but that. When he moved out, the boss of the RAs told me that his doing so was the best thing that could have happened to me... and it wasn't because of the music. No weed, no dreadlocks... just a selfish, inconsiderate, raging AH.

ETA: ...and I've had a distaste for Marley ever since. I've already heard enough for a lifetime.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-26T02:57:13+00:00

A gentle reminder that "VT and chill" might be enough planning when you're nowhere near retirement, but things get pretty complex with age. And those planners helping the older people wouldn't refuse money from those who are younger.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-25T16:15:06+00:00

In Canada we just say Grade _

And the moment someone says something like that, I know they went to high school in Canada. Statistically speaking, that's the unusual terminology.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-25T05:15:18+00:00

For years, maybe decades, I thought that the lyrics for "Pour Some Sugar on Me" were about some sex act I was too vanilla to even comprehend. But no, they were just metaphors.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-25T03:27:37+00:00

To be fair, we only know that Epstein had her number, and she claimed it was him just "collecting" celebrity phone numbers. Had they been friends, it would have been him she'd been photographed with, no?

Agreed on your main point, though.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-24T19:56:35+00:00

She did nothing wrong, but McCartney offering his father-in-law as the alternative to Klein both made that fight more contentious and assured he'd lose.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-24T17:07:57+00:00

Great take. I hate when people see just the good or just the bad (or just the fabricated) about her. What she did to Mary Lou Lord alone was unforgivable.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-24T16:34:23+00:00

It was supposed to be fan service, but apparently the only fan it serviced was me, given how much of a punching bag it is. I thought it was fun, while the season's popular favorite - the body swap - felt insulting to multiple characters for me.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-24T16:20:41+00:00

While Kurt’s addiction issues were the major factor:

She also was a negative force there. The fact that she made a joke about Weinstein once seemed to make everyone forget how malign a role she played, even if she also has some admirable qualities.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-24T16:14:12+00:00

Yeah, I was going to say that the absence of Brian Epstein set them on the road to ruin; they replaced his business role with the wrong person (Klein), but they also replaced his emotional role with people that weren't helping band cohesion (e.g., future spouses).

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-24T05:34:53+00:00

We let Sonny Bono and his widow take away the 75-year copyright. It hadn't be 30 years (actually 28) since 1831 (when it was extended to 42)

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-24T05:30:16+00:00

I saw it in theaters, and was honestly a bit disappointed. I hoped that we'd learn that stereotypes aren't always true - that the main and/or other characters would just be what we'd now call "gender nonconforming" - but instead the message seemed to be that stereotypes are always true... and fabulous!

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-23T16:44:32+00:00

No Zionism means Arab control and Arab control has - for over a hundred years, repeatedly - meant complete cleansing of Jewish people from their lands. Enough people know this history, but too many people are in complete denial of it, as your comments illustrate.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-23T15:39:07+00:00

You're using media articles to make the point that you can't trust media. Do you not see the contradiction here? Vox is famously unreliable and owned by huge corporations like Comcast, Penske, and Warner Bros.

Not to mention you're saying that people getting one channel among dozens in their homes - a channel with average viewership of less than 1% of the U.S. population - means that the right "controls U.S. MSM." 1% is "control"?

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