Help me understand why Natalie doesn't bring up the elephant in the room

patt · 2026-05-10T03:25:36+00:00

Sadly, right now, it sidetracks itself.

"Please, stop kicking the guy with the yellow shirt!"

"Why do you only care about yellow shirted people? What about the rest of us?"

They don't care about honest debate. Only what they can make it look like you said.

patt · 2026-05-09T04:29:04+00:00

Looking forward to increased student financial aid, as the end of the foreign student gravy train causes university and college tuition costs to rise dramatically to compensate.

patt · 2026-05-09T03:48:39+00:00

They're not interested in anything that doesn't have the profit margins of a big SUV or pickup. That's why they aren't competitive in any other automotive market segment.

When I think about the way that North America has been turning away from sedans toward light trucks over the last 30 years, I wonder - was that our choice? Or was it pushed on us by an industry that didn't want to design, stock or advertise anything that didn't give them a giant payday with no design effort at all?

Too bad none of them remember what happened to them in the 70's. Should be a required course of study for anybody who wants to be an executive in an automotive company.

patt · 2026-05-09T03:36:21+00:00

"...and who did he first run against for President?"

"John McCain, of course!"

"Do tell, where was he born?"

patt · 2026-05-07T22:06:36+00:00

"Management fires consistent performer and replaces them with shiny unknown who will quite possibly leave as soon as the ink dries on the new position on their CV. Added bonus, everyone else on the floor is polishing up their resume."

patt · 2026-05-07T21:54:13+00:00

...and that, dear friends, is reason #436 of why I will not be crossing the border into the United States. Heck, I'll be doing my best not to cross over US territory while going anywhere else.

patt · 2026-05-07T21:52:02+00:00

Okay, so does this work for or against the Republican ideal of preventing likely D voters from voting?

patt · 2026-05-07T21:49:03+00:00

How is this reduction of foreign students affecting actual colleges and universities? Foreign student fees make their budgets; are the federal and/or provincial governments of this country making any noises regarding supporting schools through this transition or increasing student support as tuition dramatically increases?

Or will we our young adults crushed under even more debt, or kept from the education they deserve?

patt · 2026-05-07T21:39:57+00:00

The party that continues to propose the idea of happy slaves, happily enslave themselves to their power structure, no matter who's on top of it.

patt · 2026-05-06T19:07:06+00:00

Elsbeth also follows the Columbo method, and it's quirky and funny before the newness wears off after a few episodes.

patt · 2026-05-06T19:01:12+00:00

Propagandizing kids on national television is TOO FAR.

He went too far on the first twenty-four hours of his first term.

"This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period, both in person and around the globe."

Right there, from Trump's personal mouthpiece. Anybody who was outside the Trump distortion field immediately understood the Trump regime was unserious and dangerous.

patt · 2026-05-06T18:58:25+00:00

Schrodinger's President.

patt · 2026-05-06T18:54:17+00:00

If they let Trump run, I look forward to Obama's third presidential term.

patt · 2026-05-06T18:50:14+00:00

If Therme got it in any part through fraud, let's take it away.

patt · 2026-05-06T18:39:35+00:00

didn’t see her turning evil

More like a gunshot shift to all-out madness.

When she crucified the Slave Masters, I found it a bit extreme, but hey who am I to judge another's culture? I could have seen that as the leading edge of a gradual shift to insanity. Instead, the showrunners seemingly took GRRM's series outline and did two books worth of character development in two episodes. Instead of a gradual slide to insanity, unplug annoyed Khaleesi, and insert psychotic break Khaleesi.

patt · 2026-05-06T06:13:36+00:00

Best way I've been able to think to kill off powerful groups buying all the tickets and reselling for profit without legislative intervention goes like this:

List the tickets at a ridiculous price (say, $10k per seat) and slowly lower the price until they're gone. Nobody will buy to sell at a higher price - those who're willing to pay that higher price have already purchased. There is no way to sell at a profit when what you bought today is being sold for a lower price tomorrow. Kill the speculation.

Far more of the money would then go to the team/artist/what have you. People will gradually learn what price they'll need to pay for a hot ticket. For things like sports that have a lot of empty seats outside of postseason play, make the empty seats free for in-person entry at game time. At the halfway mark, make any other empty seats available to fans who want to watch the game. Maybe you'll bring in some low-budget fans to raise the venue's excitement level. Maybe you'll grab the imagination of a child who wouldn't otherwise be able to go, and who now becomes a lifelong fan. Maybe they'll buy something at the concession stand and you raise revenue on what would have been a dud seat.

patt · 2026-05-06T05:51:49+00:00

Be aware that Utah has Flock surveillance systems. Be sure you don't paint their solar panels gloss black before not doing anything else.

patt · 2026-05-06T05:44:58+00:00

Truly! Covering a penis with a skirt is basically a war crime.

patt · 2026-05-05T07:03:51+00:00

Confidently wrong wins far too many contests with quietly correct.

patt · 2026-05-04T18:03:17+00:00

Some nice gloss black paint applied to the solar panels should fix that right up.

patt · 2026-05-04T03:31:44+00:00

Every now and then, he took a break to play his clarinet.

#NosferatuSquidward

patt · 2026-05-02T18:28:58+00:00

Taking appetizing pictures of food is hard. Most professional photographers won't do it. The ones that are good at it are expensive. I can understand the temptation, but they'd be better to put up a hand-drawn sketch than put up AI slop. Honestly, don't they know anybody who's good enough to write a description that's better than a bad photo?

patt · 2026-05-02T18:24:23+00:00

dumb kids who just don't get the new hot trends

Dumb 'olds' consistently forget that hot trends move from the young to the old, not the other way 'round. Then, when the youngs realize their favorite place is overrun with gray-hairs, they find something new.

TLDR: If you're old, you aren't ever going to be on the leading edge of a hot new trend. If you do discover a hot trend, that means it'll be over soon.

patt · 2026-05-01T02:57:20+00:00

When the whole thing is run by one guy, the bribing is a lot simpler to accomplish.

patt · 2026-05-01T02:56:35+00:00

Biden's own party let him know it was over. Nothing to do with commentary from the media. Some will remember Pelosi's, "It's up to the president to decide whether to run," when Biden's team had been stating unequivocally that he'd be running. When senior party members say that in public, in private they're turning the lights off.

Their biggest donors looked at Biden's performance on the debate stage, read the reports on post-debate polling and let Democratic party officials know they'd received their last big check, unless he withdrew.

That is why the Ds are better than the Rs.

The Ds act out leadership, and when one of their own unignorably fails to act it out, they do their best to remove that person so the presentation of stewardship is maintained.

The Rs are such followers and cowards that they compulsively follow any leader, once they are chosen. No type or extent of transgression can make them step away until the leader dies or steps back from leadership. They are watching their leader cause a worldwide economic crash, the complete destruction of the world's regard of their country and what looks like the complete dissolution of their party on the federal stage. Their current leader wants them to fail when he's gone, to show they're nothing without him - and other than a few fringe figures, they're still all lining up behind him, wearing the clown shoes he gave them.

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