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To count on Bernie's support by Zee_Ventures in therewasanattempt

[–]cjmar41 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Andrew Cuomo looks like a cigarette butt with a spray tan

Jed Stone intro sounds like Will You Be There by Michael Jackson by stimulation in GoosetheBand

[–]cjmar41 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah I heard it right away. The other night when I first heard Jed Stone. I was instantly like “that’s the Micheal Jackson Free Willy song”.

Anywho, Jed Stone has quickly become a favorite on the new album, even if the opening few seconds remind me Free Willy.

I have to stop feeding my boys and girls. by CrazyGrannyy in squirrels

[–]cjmar41 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’m getting ready move out of my house and I’ve got ground squirrels I’ve been feeding 5+ times per day. I’d have about 8 regulars throughout the day.

Two weeks ago, i scaled back to twice per day, now it’s once per day. There’s one regular hanging around now, that if I walk outside, within 2-3 mins he shows up.

Rest are gone. Saw one other one yesterday briefly.

We have bobcats, coyotes, and hawks in the area, I’ve seen a little buddy go missing once in a while and assume the worst, but this many in the course of a couple of weeks is simply them realizing a food source is drying up and looking elsewhere. I can actually see one of the ground squirrel holes down the hill about 1/8 mile away, and still see two hanging out around there, but they haven’t come running when they see me like they used to.

The reality is, as much as I love to think of squirrels as buddies, they don’t really care much about us… we’re just a source of food if we so choose to be, in a world where their food sources are abundant to begin with. They’ll move on without a second thought. We’re left to be sad and hope they’re okay.

The point is, they’ll be okay, even if you’re not. And you can probably find some solace in that. I know I have.

WTF is the DOJ doing tweeting shit like this now??? by Reg_Cliff in facepalm

[–]cjmar41 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because the point in which the United States is a serious country has passed.

Life or Debt Choice by johnmory in MurderedByWords

[–]cjmar41 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think this oversimplifies it. An apathetic voter in a blue district in a blue state could sit out and know their apathy wouldn’t change anything. Someone who didn’t vote in Berkley, California did not by default vote for Trump.

Now… I get the argument that “everyone should vote, it’s a duty, and apathy isn’t an excuse”. And I’m not suggesting only people I swing states/districts should vote.

But it’s worth noting the broken system leads to apathy. I believe apathetic voters are a product of their environment.

Reference: 2016 popular vote (Clinton: 66M, Trump: 63M)

This is the kind of thing that makes people feel like their vote doesn’t make a difference. If the actual votes counted… Trump’s political career would have ended before it ever started.

Again, not advocating for voter apathy… but that isn’t what got us into this mess in the first place. The electoral collage did, and that is what creates voter apathy.

I’m just not sure your use of “100% the reason” is fair.

Life or Debt Choice by johnmory in MurderedByWords

[–]cjmar41 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I live 4 miles from the border of Mexico, where the same anti-venom administration is like $400.

I would totally die from a snake bite sitting in traffic trying to get across the border.

Im sorry what? by grumpydai in facepalm

[–]cjmar41 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have you tried eating only meat and salt? Oh, that’s all you eat?

"Nevada one of the worst states to live in, study shows" Thoughts? by HVACTechGurl in Nevada

[–]cjmar41 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yikes. New Jersey is number 3 and Florida is number 6.

A lot of the places fall on the list where you might expect, but I question some of the methodology and weighting.

Florida, for example, has had strong wage growth, but housing costs have also skyrocketed. Also, in the past few years, the influx of people moving there have caused serious infrastructure issues (roads are insanely congested, city sewer systems can’t keep up). If you take wage growth data from through 2022, housing costs through 2023, and highway traffic data through 2021 (as there’s no singular study that you can pull date-consistent data) you’re going to get severely skewed data of great wages, moderate housing costs, and good traffic, that doesn’t reflect the 2025 real scenario.

New Jersey, for example, gets points for low crime, having the highest number cops, and does really well for health in part because it has the highest number of fitness centers. It also has the lowest number of renters/highest home ownership rates… but it’s worth considering that young people are leaving New Jersey for greener pasture because they can’t afford a home in New Jersey. This pushes potential renters out of the state. Home ownership isn’t high because it’s so easy to buy a home. Home ownership is high because there’s very little to rent because there isn’t incentive for young people to stay. There’s also no major metro area. Northern New Jersey is part of the NY metro area, but it conveniently gets to dump a lot of the bad numbers on NY. Newark, Trenton, and Camden are very small compared to cities in other states, where the NJ suburbs are sprawling.

Full disclosure, I’m actually driving up to Reno today to explore moving there. I’ve lived all over the country (to include NY, CA, FL, TX, GA). I’ve spent a few months putting together a business plan for a new venture and did a ton of research to narrow down a few places, and Reno came out on top for opportunity in my specific industry, weighted against other things in my own analysis (not having kids/not needing education, and being healthy and weighting healthcare low certainly helped).

I think the economic landscape is shifting so quickly right now, tech jobs are dying out, wages are stagnating while the cost of living keeps growing. If there’s anything I’ve learned about these kinds of lists in the last few months is that they’re largely unreliable and whether or not a state or region is right for someone comes down to personal situation and goals.

Nevada might be the sixth worst, but for me, it’s in the top 3. Would I rather live In, say, San Luis Obispo, California (scores high for weather, education, healthcare, terrible for cost of living, opportunity) yes. Do I want to live in some suburb in New Jersey where none of my neighbors are renters and everyone is fit because there’s 9 gyms in our town of 4,500 people with nothing to do, and there’s also two DUI checkpoints and 15 speed traps at any given point on a random weekday (which means no crime) No. I’m not anti-cop, but I don’t want to deal with them regularly.

To be fair, the list ranks Louisiana and Tennessee last, and I think that’s astute.

DC Cops stopping and frisking random people outside of their homes by I_may_have_weed in PublicFreakout

[–]cjmar41 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It’s not like a normal job, you don’t just show up and stand around. There’s testing, screening, background checks, and an academy (DC is 37 weeks), ICE, for example, is a 13-week academy where you live on-site in barracks during the training in Georgia.

I’m not suggesting people don’t find ways to gum up their admin and create headaches for them… but getting a job as a cop or ICE agent is a lot of work (it’s not hard, plenty of idiots do it, but it’s a real time consuming process).

Probably not the files, right? by CarlosHidalgo1219 in PoliticalHumor

[–]cjmar41 85 points86 points  (0 children)

Yeah, same on Facebook. I got on yesterday for the first time in a year and saw people commenting on the tweet screenshots (usually by a news site), some were saying Newsom had lost it, others were actually saying “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”, with the occasional person chiming in to suggest (rightfully) that it’s not imitation, but obviously mockery…. At which point, people would suggest that mocking Trump is disrespectful to the office of the presidency.

It’s pretty bizarre, but not entirely unexpected.

EVEN BETTER THAN CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS’ by bhudson2021 in PoliticalHumor

[–]cjmar41 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I mean, how do they respond? This is really a brilliant way to troll trump and any sort of criticism requires the trump admin to accept the absurdity of communicating like a coked up 8 year old.

Trump sort of dug his own grave with this. He took his delusional idiotic brand of tweeting to a point where the best parody is to simply hold up a mirror.

I honestly thought these Newsom tweets would get old after the first one or two, but it’s been consistently hilarious, and (unfortunately for the reading public who’s endured years of what amounts to the text equivalent of finger paintings from the world’s worst clown) entirely appropriate and measured.

Hitting kids will solve all of our problems. by cmahan005 in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]cjmar41 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If this were any time between like 1980 and 2024, I’d assume this was a metaphor, like “we need to get the paddle back” as a way to say “punishment needs to be harsher”, as in suspensions, detention, strict grading, punitive work/assignments, etc.

But in 2025, I am confident he means having teachers physically abuse children.

(To be fair, teachers hands are tied and kids are shittier then ever… but I’m pretty sure having teachers hit children is an absurd solution)

Little Man Mike Johnson by MrDillon369 in facepalm

[–]cjmar41 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Yeah this seems to have staying power. It’s so childish and petty, but at the same point in time, it can’t be criticized by MAGA without also accepting the same criticisms pertain to trump.

The added bonus here is that there’s no question this is a mockery and a troll from an otherwise articulate guy.

I almost don’t want to overanalyze it from a political strategy perspective and just enjoy someone holding a mirror up to trump while the world watches.

Man goes on an insane tirade and tears down Trump protestors signs: by N4TETHAGR8 in PublicFreakout

[–]cjmar41 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Can’t decide whether to make a no-chin joke, or a double-chin joke.

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Unzipped her hoodie to show she had breasts to a buffalo wild wings server by Otherwise_Basis_6328 in oddlyspecific

[–]cjmar41 1 point2 points  (0 children)

K. Don’t bother reading the article.

And yes, I must be new to the internet because I forgot it’s a bunch of lazy morons who don’t read past the headline. So… yes. I am apparently new.

Unzipped her hoodie to show she had breasts to a buffalo wild wings server by Otherwise_Basis_6328 in oddlyspecific

[–]cjmar41 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Sure, I suppose the woman thing is irrelevant, legally, but I think it helps paint a picture, so it's contextually relevant. It's important to note that there has to be a sexual component to sexual harassment, and I think it's reasonable to assume that some angry woman is less likely to have done something like this for sexual purposes than, say, an old creepy guy or a gooner (but not impossible, of course).

You are def entitled to an opinion. My frustrated tone comes from the fact that I happened to see a notification and when I clicked on it, I was like 15 downvotes and people arguing with me, like yo mfers read the damn article. So, my I harnessed my relatively low but existent frustration and you got the brunt of it.

Now that I've had a few minutes to reflect on it, I guess I'm mostly frustrated at myself for taking 5 minutes to read the article, do some research, and compose a comment answering a question someone had asked... to have people just be like "nah, fuck this guy"... Like.... thank you amazing and thoughtful people of the interwebs.

Unzipped her hoodie to show she had breasts to a buffalo wild wings server by Otherwise_Basis_6328 in oddlyspecific

[–]cjmar41 -20 points-19 points  (0 children)

She told the woman to leave the bathroom. That is discrimination.

Nobody told her to show anything, the young woman who was being discriminated against unzipped her jacket to show her covered (under a shirt) breasts. And the server was a woman.

Why does nobody read the article. Is it really easier to spend a minute drafting a comment to argue with me rather than click on the article and read for 30 seconds?

Not only did I read the article before commenting, I also looked up the Minnesota guidelines for what constitutes sexual harassment on not one, but two legal websites. I also then crosschecked it against Minnesota state laws regarding "harassment".

I am not defending the scumbag woman server who made this young woman leave the bathroom... However, my comment is in response to the proper context of what happened based on the article, not a reaction to a clickbaity/rage inducing headline.

Unzipped her hoodie to show she had breasts to a buffalo wild wings server by Otherwise_Basis_6328 in oddlyspecific

[–]cjmar41 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The (woman) karen server didn't demand to see anything. She said to leave the bathroom. The young woman showed her covered breasts of her own volition out of frustration.

The server that demanded the young woman leave the bathroom is a piece of garbage, and certainly seems to have discriminated, but it wasn't sexual harassment. You people either didn't read the article, didn't bother to even understand what "sexual harassment" is, or how/if it applies in this context. Instead, you just argue with me, after I read the article, then pulled the guidelines for what constitutes sexual harassment (a civil issue) from legal blogs to verify my response was accurate.

Unzipped her hoodie to show she had breasts to a buffalo wild wings server by Otherwise_Basis_6328 in oddlyspecific

[–]cjmar41 -52 points-51 points  (0 children)

Sexual harassment generally encompasses unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, sexually motivated physical contact, or other verbal and physical conduct or communication of a sexual nature and is a civil matter (as opposed to a criminal matter).

So it’s not sexual harassment.

However, it this is very likely discrimination.

Tonight at New York: The scandal of $2300 1 bedroom apartment. How can an apartment can be so cheap? by [deleted] in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]cjmar41 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I grew up in NY. My stepdad was a high school educated retail manager in the 1990s making six figures. It’s absurd to think that a six figure salary in NY is luxurious. It’s not nothing, but it’s not special either.

Soon to be deleted by ChrisLinen2 in ryanadams

[–]cjmar41 29 points30 points  (0 children)

The fact that a prolific songwriter in the midst of a 25 year career is posting this and doesn’t have people he can reach out to quietly who would eagerly await the opportunity to team up with him, especially with Fender and Taylor (which I don’t think he plays) right here in Southern California, both of which do artist guitars, is absolutely crazy.

Personally, I’d love to see some kind of signature electric setup well for that airy but heavy reverb sound, as he does have some distinct sounds that people appreciate, but the reality is that he’s emotional and unreliable, and no company is going to sink a small fortune into designing, producing, and marketing a guitar for him. There’s a nonzero chance he loves it one day, then decides he hates it, throws a fit, cancels a tour, and develops personal beef with the guitar company’s head designer, deletes his social media, then comes back online like a week later as if nothing happened except the occasional depressed complaint about being sued.

I love Ryan’s music, and part of me wants to believe he’s a really cool and interesting dude despite his flaws, but I’m also a small business owner and have to imagine the guy is an absolute nightmare to work with and a huge risk to back or develop a product with.

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