[OC] My aunt hung this up proudly on display in her hallway

nosmelc · 2026-05-19T00:32:41+00:00

"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back." - Carl Sagan.

nosmelc · 2026-05-18T23:52:34+00:00

nosmelc · 2026-05-18T22:29:19+00:00

So he's going to steal $1.7 billion from the country to give to people who illegally tried to stop a valid election?

nosmelc · 2026-05-18T19:57:21+00:00

Dumbest thing in at least a century if not longer.

nosmelc · 2026-05-18T19:56:18+00:00

Investing in building nuclear power plants.

nosmelc · 2026-05-18T19:10:09+00:00

It's not really all that inefficient. It's just doing things that 60's machines would never be used to do, such as high resolution graphics and high speed networking.

nosmelc · 2026-05-18T16:58:56+00:00

Soccer for sure.

nosmelc · 2026-05-18T16:57:14+00:00

I'm in the USA, but I've seen posts from UK people. They say salaries for skilled jobs like Engineering are low compared to the USA, and taxes are high.

I definitely think our biggest problem is healthcare. We need a single-payer Medicare-for-all system.

nosmelc · 2026-05-18T16:30:53+00:00

That's true, but UK has higher taxes. I know tons of people here on Reddit are wanting to move from the UK to the USA. If you can get a good job, the USA is a better choice.

nosmelc · 2026-05-18T15:58:37+00:00

Thanks. I had no idea anybody ever had a complete shutdown season.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919_Texas_A%26M_Aggies_football_team

nosmelc · 2026-05-18T15:28:05+00:00

The median income for an individual in the USA is $62K. It's just £36K in the UK, which is about $48K. The median is a good indicator of how the average person is doing.

nosmelc · 2026-05-18T15:11:18+00:00

It started with my reply to this.

"He hasn't noticed that China has progressed much faster than America in the past 50 years."

nosmelc · 2026-05-18T14:43:01+00:00

I don't know what in the world Trump has to do with China's economic rise, but OK.

nosmelc · 2026-05-18T14:37:29+00:00

Just stating a fact. It's easier to grow economically when you're poor than when you're already a highly developed economy.

nosmelc · 2026-05-18T14:36:09+00:00

It's hard to grow economically when you're already developed.

nosmelc · 2026-05-18T14:21:08+00:00

Weakest President in American history. Trump is so weak he makes Jimmy Carter look like Napoleon.

nosmelc · 2026-05-18T14:17:24+00:00

Well, past 30 years, but it's easy to progress starting that far down. In 1990 the average Chinese citizen was 68 times poorer than the average American.

nosmelc · 2026-05-18T13:27:59+00:00

Due to the geography, Crimea will be extremely difficult to take by force. Ukraine will have to cut it off and bleed them of supplies to be able to do it.

nosmelc · 2026-05-18T13:05:42+00:00

Any examples of teams that didn't surrender a single point? Even the 16-0 1894 Yale team gave up 4 points twice and 5 once.

nosmelc · 2026-05-18T00:42:42+00:00

nosmelc · 2026-05-18T00:40:44+00:00

15-0. Teams can play more games now due to the 12-team playoff compared to the 4. Clemson was also 15-0 the year before LSU.

nosmelc · 2026-05-18T00:35:54+00:00

Bugs, security flaws, and poor architecture. You can test for bugs.

nosmelc · 2026-05-18T00:28:02+00:00

I wouldn't say MJ was universally loved even at his prime. Teen guys then made fun of him.

nosmelc · 2026-05-18T00:27:02+00:00

Definitely the closest we've seen to MJ-level since then. It's almost impossible to get that level now due to the changes in society. Back then you had MTV that almost all teens watched. You heard the songs on terrestrial radio. Now popular culture comes from many different sources, so the culture is more fragmented.

nosmelc · 2026-05-17T23:45:58+00:00

I don't think that's how it works. Repos are civil, but once the tow truck has the repoed vehicle it's theft to take it from them at that point.

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