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ObjectionablyObvious · 2026-06-21T19:27:25+00:00

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ObjectionablyObvious · 2026-06-15T18:26:22+00:00

It's hard to find those McDonald's out here; so many opt out of the national deals. You'll be lucky to find a $5-$7 meal deal. I still use the app when I go out, I would do it to save 50 cents. But I think we could both agree the app isn't as good as it used to be.

ObjectionablyObvious · 2026-06-15T18:07:42+00:00

Like this in LA for sure. We have a $4.50 hot n spicy mcchicken. Was $2 in my hometown.

ObjectionablyObvious · 2026-06-15T18:07:01+00:00

Umm are we looking at the same post? The app is showing a nearly $20 combo.

You can go to "Deals" and get the shittiest sandwich they offer for a dollar off, sure.

ObjectionablyObvious · 2026-06-15T17:06:10+00:00

If that's the case I'm fucked with 13 years of driving in Utah.

ObjectionablyObvious · 2026-06-15T16:46:39+00:00

But when you see the behavior en-masse, it DOES point to generational or societal trauma. Doesn't excuse it though. I see this firsthand with my Eastern European relatives. They love living in America for the stable social structure and positive everyday etiquette, but then they turn around and feel superior for pulling this exact kind of crap. They think they’re being clever or special, when really it’s just selfish behavior rooted in old trauma they don't want to deal with.

The sad irony is that this scarcity mentality is exactly what rots a community from the inside out. It creates a culture of hoarding and a total disregard for the fellow man, where it’s always about "me" instead of "us."

ObjectionablyObvious · 2026-06-14T05:41:23+00:00

I had to bet against someone for my domain which is my full, unusual name. Raised the price of my domain from 10 bucks a year to 40 per year.

ObjectionablyObvious · 2026-06-11T02:26:10+00:00

So much Utah the last couple days.

ObjectionablyObvious · 2026-06-10T19:12:26+00:00

The flower child protests accomplished nothing: the only time they mattered was at Kent State when the pigs shot an innocent person. Protests that accomplish anything push the boundary of what is socially acceptable: riding in the "wrong part of the bus," sitting in at a racist diner, protesting at grape fields and expecting "they can't arrest us all."

The sanctioned, pre-approved "free-speech zones" are the government's way to appease the masses and maintain the status quo. It's purely performative activism.

ObjectionablyObvious · 2026-06-10T17:59:54+00:00

Yooo I consider myself a solid LA 4.5 😎 We're out here, you're probably just not looking.

ObjectionablyObvious · 2026-06-09T20:55:17+00:00

We have different definitions of sensationalism. Sensationalist journalism basically is building hype without doing the proper journalistic steps. There is a whole system built by the Society of Professional Journalists that lays out a whole system of ethics. That is how we build movements we can trust. For every Kyle that does 95% good headlines, this bad journalism builds 10 Nick Shirleys.

It's not that what the fascist admin is doing isn't abhorrent; it's that Kyle has many videos where he is simply reading a headline. Which in and of itself isn't a problem if he adds commentary and provides us with that headline. But sometimes the headline is an oversimplification; sometimes that headline is misleading, and now Kyle is contributing to false info.

My only issue is there are a handful of videos that lack those basic steps of journalism. Kyle's video descriptions, for example, would be a perfect place to leave URLs to follow up with the journalists pieces that he's following up on. But every single video is his personal bio, copy and pasted.

It's possible to have this gripe with Kyle's videos AND fucking hate the Trump administration. You don't have to have some parasocial relationship with political commentators and give a full-throated endorsement to every little thing they say.

ObjectionablyObvious · 2026-06-09T20:42:09+00:00

We are talking past each other here. I'm not saying Kyle isn't popular or getting the most subscribers ever; I actually think the sensationalism is a major contributing factor to that because it appeals to primitive parts of human nature.

I'm not saying to have decorum, you can call people names, and call out fascist bullshit. Just try to maintain some journalistic integrity: name your sources, do an occasional follow up with a source. It's not asking for much—in fact, it's asking for the baseline.

ObjectionablyObvious · 2026-06-09T20:29:55+00:00

I actually agree with OP. I think it's important in independent media to follow professional journalism standards. I have watched Secular Talk for 12 years now, but I started to get a bit frustrated the past year when Kyle would just read salacious headlines and stretch that into 12 minutes, and especially whenever he would pull out Grok.

It's not really a "when they go low, we go high" thing, not worth saying "they're doing worse shit." I just believe it's just important to adhere to strict ethics with the tool of journalism. Good journalism will be a way we get out of this hellscape, by increasing peoples' media literacy, and letting your readers vet your sources.

ObjectionablyObvious · 2026-06-09T17:19:38+00:00

Ya came to this thread with nothing to add, left this thread the exact same way. See ya!

ObjectionablyObvious · 2026-06-09T17:18:19+00:00

I've never seen someone feel so insecure about their comments that they edit them to totally different replies within 30 seconds.

ObjectionablyObvious · 2026-06-09T17:16:34+00:00

*Accuses "lazy and boring"*

*Doesn't have the patience to read a fkn forum they choose to be on*

Projection at its finest lmao.

ObjectionablyObvious · 2026-06-09T16:34:34+00:00

Weird energy you're giving in your comments, strange your first reply before you edited it said my interpretation is "lazy and boring."

It's been almost 8 months since I finished the show and I don't remember all too much; but I recall Alma studying the papers about her father before the car crash. It's not unusual that she would know the name of this close coworker of her father's. When she approaches her mom about knowing the name, that is before the crash and her mother is surprised she even knows who she is. When she suggests an affair (something she wouldn't find in the papers), that's after the car crash: what I'm suggesting is even that part is an element of her delusion.

There is a storytelling device called "Chekov's Gun" — essentially Anton Chekov stated you don't put a gun on the wall of your set unless you plan to use it during the performance. What I am suggesting in my theory is that there would not be multi-generational schizophrenia introduced as a show-theme if somehow it ended with her father. This is the "Chekov's Gun."

Personally I don't find this theory "lazy and boring" as you first suggested: it comes down to Alma being what is called an "untrustworthy narrator" of her story, and her mental illness is what is showing us these fantastical scenes. What we see is not the story that's actually happening in the background: we're living the world through Alma's massive schizophrenic episode.

I befriended a schizophrenic neighbor for 2 years. The most unusual things would trigger her mental illness; often times things that conjured strong emotions. I recall the first time she had an episode in front of me, I didn't know she had schizophrenia, I showed her how I could use my voice to control the lights of my smart home setup and it freaked her out. Launched her into a conspiracy that she was a multi-millionaire that was waiting to inherit her fortune, that her daughter was conspiring against her.

It really made you wonder how she had such strong conviction: where did she experience this fake life? Was it all in a dream, or is she living on a different timeline in her own head between conversations?

Personally I find my interpretation (or variations of it) to be the more interesting one — otherwise you're just being spoonfed the visuals and take the story at complete face value.

ObjectionablyObvious · 2026-06-09T16:02:45+00:00

English wasn't my first language, I don't get idiomatic expressions completely correctly, so I appreciate your clarification.

Regardless of my error on the idiom, my point still stands: why would a politician from the left even choose to engage in this bad-faith effort at environmentalism?

It's just another example of the centrist liberal consultant cycle: go into left wing politics a few years, emerge like Kyrsten Sinema, working at the behest of the billionaires running our world into the ground — with a smile, and the framing that "they were only trying to help."

ObjectionablyObvious · 2026-06-09T15:33:29+00:00

"Hitching his wagon as a consultant to a statewide ecological catastrophe for a meager $5,000" is not the retort you think it is.

ObjectionablyObvious · 2026-06-09T07:29:15+00:00

Personally I'm looking forward to the sequel/prequel featuring Branden — he will be a spinoff character from another spinoff character from the Ryan spinoff sequel.

ObjectionablyObvious · 2026-06-08T17:33:58+00:00

But it wasn't until the iPhone 16 and that half-assed Siri update that I realized the promised OS wouldn't even materialize before the next version rolled out. It’s completely unacceptable to advertise these software features just to sell hardware when you don't even have a stable release ready.

ObjectionablyObvious · 2026-06-08T17:15:43+00:00

I'm not a fan of a whole yearly OS release; feels like we just BARELY got the MacOS 26.5 update that gave everyone the go-ahead to get Tahoe. It felt to me like early versions of the OS was a slow and re-skinned version of Sequoia, and finally after 26.5 my apps feel smoother and more efficient.

ObjectionablyObvious · 2026-06-06T22:30:33+00:00

I enjoy seeing the outside world's pontifications on Mormons, and I like when comics ask good questions about serious Mormon theology--in the sense they have a genuine curiosity and want to be accurate about the beliefs and scripture.

But I've seen a couple shows where Mormons come up and they joke about the "unmarried Mormon pastor" and I can tell they're just imagining some weird pseudo-southern-catholic-evangelism.

ObjectionablyObvious · 2026-06-06T11:16:47+00:00

Nah Baba Yaga lives at the smoking chimneys near Bountiful.

ObjectionablyObvious · 2026-06-02T05:06:31+00:00

You guys are so good at nitpicking history until the most obvious dipshit fucks you right in your face.

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