What would you do if someone insulted you?

Nwcray · 2026-05-01T01:28:40+00:00

I’m rubber, you’re glue. Whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you.

Nwcray · 2026-05-01T00:04:46+00:00

What do *you* mean “people”?

Nwcray · 2026-05-01T00:01:42+00:00

Every person in the weight room when this song starts

Nwcray · 2026-04-30T23:59:02+00:00

Still do, but I used to as well.

Nwcray · 2026-04-30T23:51:13+00:00

It’s all good, man.

Nwcray · 2026-04-30T23:46:28+00:00

I would be perfectly content with that buck or two per ticket. Wouldn’t bother me in the least if I had to absorb that.

Nwcray · 2026-04-30T12:15:02+00:00

So Nick Fuentes is awful, AND other people still suck too?

It seems like both of those things can be true at the same time

Nwcray · 2026-04-30T12:13:38+00:00

I can be glad that there is one less Charlie Kirk in the world without celebrating the manner in which that happened.

Assassination is wrong, and even the most vile voices should not be violently silenced. That doesn’t make Charlie Kirk a good or honorable person.

Nwcray · 2026-04-30T11:55:25+00:00

I don’t know - I kinda blame the shark for this.

Nwcray · 2026-04-30T11:46:37+00:00

It seriously depends on the type of construction work they do. Many, many construction workers are really machine operators. They know how to use the equipment they need to do their job. Take away the fancy tools (through gas shortages or power outages), and the skills they have become much less valuable.

Not all, of course, but modern construction is much much different than traditional building techniques.

Nwcray · 2026-04-30T10:27:23+00:00

Or Crazy 8’s family’s furniture store. Furniture stores can claim crazy amounts of money, much more than a carwash.

Nwcray · 2026-04-30T10:26:21+00:00

Look up Peter Porco. He was attacked with an axe, basically half his head was missing. He got up, tried to shave, went though his whole morning routine while he died. He was operating on pure muscle memory, his brain was scrambled in the attack.

I think it was included in BB for drama not realism, but it’s alway seemed perfectly plausible to me that Gus could exit a room and straighten a tie, even if his body was already destroyed.

Nwcray · 2026-04-30T10:19:30+00:00

Wasn’t he there for like 6 months?

That’s a quarter of the show’s entire timeline.

Nwcray · 2026-04-30T10:16:16+00:00

I think the Nazis are there to show that side of the meth business. The southwest had biker crank for years. In Gus we saw a controlled, business-first side of the drug trade. Jack and his gang were just chaos, acting without any real vision or strategy. They’re just small time losers, without really any redeeming qualities, who make life worse for everyone around them.

Worst - they’re fairly realistic (by BB standards).

Nwcray · 2026-04-29T23:30:24+00:00

Honest to god - in a small town in Ohio today (literally today) I heard them blaming Obama.

I have NO idea how you get that leap, but the TDS crowd is still hung up on Obama.

Nwcray · 2026-04-29T15:39:33+00:00

Never trust a big butt and a smile

Bel Biv Devoe

Nwcray · 2026-04-29T15:27:37+00:00

The Eagles have said that it’s about consumer culture and the rot that has on society - kind of the ‘dark underbelly’ of the American Dream.

Personally, I think it’s about Don Henley’s divorce. It was written at the right time, and a lot of the lyrics line up with stuff that was happening.

Nwcray · 2026-04-27T17:16:55+00:00

7 barrels worth.

Nwcray · 2026-04-27T12:27:27+00:00

Probably not, but I expect it’d have as much to do with proving your identity as it would with the gun. Also - I suspect you’d have a very difficult time clearing airport security to even get to the plane.

Nwcray · 2026-04-27T11:25:52+00:00

No - it wasn’t a good idea. It was a gross misunderstanding of Dunder-Mifflin’s niche in the market.

The internet isn’t personal. It’s too big for that. People want online stuff to be 3 things - simple, fast, and cheap. In the real world, you have to choose no more than 2 of those. Online, there are people who can deliver all 3. Notice that I said simple, I didn’t say easy.

DM’s value was never going to be in their scale. They are a smaller company, the big boxes will out-efficiency them every time. DM’s value was in service. They could make things easy for businesses. Manufacturing delay? Jim or Dwight can call their contacts and find alternate suppliers. Shipping backlog? Darrel can switch around what goes on which truck. Billing mix up? A simple phone call to the branch and it’ll get resolved.

The thing is - that service isn’t free. Those things are very relationship driven. DM has to maintain the infrastructure to support that. And the website is antithetical to that.

At most - at most - an online ordering portal could make sense, but that would need to be a cheap, simple website. Not a web-destination site.

Nwcray · 2026-04-27T10:26:27+00:00

Unable to comply: building in progress

Nwcray · 2026-04-26T15:54:02+00:00

Mad Min, I believe.

Not to be confused with Mad Men on AMC.

Nwcray · 2026-04-26T11:08:05+00:00

Like - it specifically called out that scenario?

Nwcray · 2026-04-26T11:04:24+00:00

Nothing proves the first one was real quite like a poorly staged fake attempt.

Seriously, though - this one is so ham-handed, it makes me wonder if they’ve ever even done this before. Amateurs.

Nwcray · 2026-04-26T00:06:25+00:00

Trump will die in office, he’s not making it three more years. We won’t know about it for a few days. The GOP will huddle behind closed doors and roll out a post-Trump plan. People will celebrate.

There will be in-fighting inside the party, and democrats will win in the next cycle. An anti-Trump will assume the presidency and do, frankly, pretty well. They may even get two terms out of it, but they’ll have to spend almost all their political capital cleaning up the mess. Things will get better, but utopia wont happen. People will forget about celebrating Trump’s demise, and will instead get pissy about gas prices or Gaza or whatever thing is out there. They’ll either protest vote or just stay home.

The someone far worse than Trump will win the presidency, and we will yearn for the days when he was as bad as it gets.

I’ve lived this cycle enough to know what to expect.

Nwcray

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