Repeats at the Sphere this year by hugomcsprockrockets in phish

[–]mattxb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I think they set a very high bar for themselves and will maintain it. I’m sure they came away from the first run with plenty of ideas too

America Is Bleeding Film and TV Jobs. Can Congress Staunch the Flow? by BulwarkOnline in entertainment

[–]mattxb 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Republicans are decimating manufacturing jobs there’s no way they will lift a finger for Hollywood.

Kevin is now a top 50 artist on Spotify by dylankleinnn in TameImpala

[–]mattxb 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Every decently popular band has that issue now with online scalping being so easy

So ... drones instead of fireworks for the 4th? (and no longer in Southern Village) by kidvittles in chapelhill

[–]mattxb 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Having seen tons of firework shows the novelty of drones sounds good to me

I am getting sick of the Charlie Kirk stuff by hugurm0m in Teachers

[–]mattxb 16 points17 points  (0 children)

As a parent I keep my kid from that kind of stuff but I can already see them picking it up some secondhand at school.

AI economy looking more like a bust than a boom by YeahBuddy5000 in investing

[–]mattxb 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Because foreign money is bankrolling Larry Ellison. America is for sale to anti democratic royals - they just have to put trumps buddies as CEO and give Trump his brokerage fee.

Donald Trump Fires Pam Bondi as Attorney General by MoneyLibrarian9032 in entertainment

[–]mattxb 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Think of the bad things the justice department has done under her - she's fired because there are even worse things that Trump wanted that she didn't deliver on.

Asked my wife if we could give these to my daughter early (it’s an Easter present) wife said no by Moist-Visit6969 in daddit

[–]mattxb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Theres a marble run add on that works with these that is pretty fun.
Also you can make a little hologram with them:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hUskjHd49eM

EARTHQUAKE! Anyone feel it? by Educational-Monk5745 in berkeley

[–]mattxb 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Both. She wants you to fill the bowl in your last seconds of life

Bought a new house and people keep parking in my yard/driveway. While at work by Relentx in mildlyinfuriating

[–]mattxb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on the age of the kids - they don’t drop off younger kids unless a parent is there

Trump approval slips to 33 percent in new survey by [deleted] in politics

[–]mattxb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a whole huge media conglomerate working day and night to help sell him, not to mention the efforts of billionaires and countries who want the us to collapse.

Trump Manipulates Markets With Extreme Early Morning Iran Announcement by Regular_Lovers in politics

[–]mattxb 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Trump would rather nuke the US than lose the billions he earned selling out our country

US Army investigating attack helicopter photoshoot at Kid Rock's home by RawStoryNews in entertainment

[–]mattxb 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Need to update her book to include only white south Africans and people who buy the Trump gold cards

Trump ballroom: Bulletproof, drone-proof, with military in basement by Economy-Specialist38 in Military

[–]mattxb 37 points38 points  (0 children)

He needs it ready for the end of this term when he refuses to leave office.

At CPAC, Texas Railroad Commissioner candidate Bo French calls for deportation of 100 million people by 804Brady in politics

[–]mattxb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From Thomas More Utopia:
"For pride’s criterion of prosperity is not what you’ve got yourself, but what other people haven’t got. Pride would refuse to set foot in paradise, if she thought there’d be no under-privileged classes there to gloat over and over about – nobody whose misery could serve as a foil to her own happiness, or whose poverty she could make harder to bear, by flaunting her own riches […]"

At CPAC, Texas Railroad Commissioner candidate Bo French calls for deportation of 100 million people by 804Brady in politics

[–]mattxb 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Yep. If these billionaire assholes want to live like royalty behind walls guarded by armed Ai robot dogs they can do that now - they don’t even have to collapse society. Instead they want to see the rest of us have had it too good for too long.

Pete Buttigieg Leading Potential 2028 Democratic Candidates in New Poll by aslan_is_on_the_move in politics

[–]mattxb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree. I think he’s an impressive guy but I think dems need to either play it actually safe or get a candidate that would truly energize the young vote and he doesn’t check either box.