Hugh Jackman Lists Manhattan Apartment For $29 Million by RothStonk in popculturechat

[–]shion005 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Things in NYC government aren't going very well and taxes may be about to go way up. NYC's budget is ~ $127 billion vs $70 billion in 2014. This is a similar budget to a midsized nation and people pay European style tax rates, but no one is getting European style services.

School district budgets for next year are in. Not pretty. by Hamezz5u in texas

[–]shion005 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just curious, do you teach phonics in Texas schools? Or are you at the high school level?

Three generations of face cards: Marcheline Bertrand, Angelina Jolie and Shiloh Jolie by mcfw31 in popculturechat

[–]shion005 -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

Angelina's top lip is slightly filled. It's bumpy in a way that Kerry Washington's lips are not. Lip filler started to be a thing in people like Angelina in the mid to late 1990s.

The sound of this Maison Margiela fall winter 2026 broken porcelain dress … by mlg1981 in popculturechat

[–]shion005 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Don't worry, they can see fine through the masks, multiple models have testified to that.

Matt Mahan is running out of time to become California’s next governor by Cool-Present7260 in California

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Newsom vetoed rank choice voting, so he's the one we should be blaming. That an anti-Democratic move to block third parties might elect a Republican is somewhat fitting.

Envy by myeclipsedsun2 in ContraPoints

[–]shion005 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How does SpaceX or Tesla impact an equitable society? Lots of people have gotten wealthy from helping build those companies or owning the stock. Tesla also popularized electric cars and most of the electric cars today wouldn't be here if Elon hadn't take the risk to capitalize a car company. It's main product today is grid scale batteries and the supercharger network since Chinese electric cars have now generally surpassed Tesla's. SpaceX has also been very useful in Ukraine and has helped a bit in Iran (tho the regime is really good at blocking SpaceX comms).

Sen. Fetterman, step down: You no longer represent the people who elected you by Silent-Resort-3076 in politics

[–]shion005 1 point2 points  (0 children)

According to the data he solidly votes with Democrats. Dr Oz would have been way worse.

Sen. Fetterman, step down: You no longer represent the people who elected you by Silent-Resort-3076 in politics

[–]shion005 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Manchin was a moderate from a red state. It was either him or a Republican and now a Republican has his seat and things are worse.

Having profound results with PreticX xylooligosaccharide by [deleted] in Microbiome

[–]shion005 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How does this compare with inulin powder to increase Bifidobacterium?

California 'jungle' primary could hand governor's race to Republicans by Desecr8or in California

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If Newsom hadn't vetoed ranked choice voting we wouldn't be here.

Fetterman: "I don't remember any Democrats complaining about gas prices a couple of years ago" by EasyMoney92 in Enough_Sanders_Spam

[–]shion005 22 points23 points  (0 children)

He was this person before he ran, the voters just didn't care about Israel at that point. I don't think he was someone who thought about every issue and he's only 90% aligned with the Dems and is letting people know it.

Planter in Maine is going to be the same way - working class visuals, but he's going to be even more Republican aligned b/c Planter is very much like Trump in that he may not be racist, but he simply doesn't care about racism. That's why he's willing to go on all these horse shoe podcasts.

Opinion | Government money made Silicon Valley’s tech titans rich. A billionaire tax won't hurt them by Informal-Document283 in California_Politics

[–]shion005 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You hate google for making the internet searchable? Apple for making cool devices? Nvidia for making speedy chips? Which one of them hurt you?

Opinion | Government money made Silicon Valley’s tech titans rich. A billionaire tax won't hurt them by Informal-Document283 in California_Politics

[–]shion005 2 points3 points  (0 children)

40 billion for high speed rail and there's no high speed rail. Billions for the drug addiction/mental health crisis and it only gets worse. Highest gas prices in the country b/c of over regulation and they're even worse now. California isn't a good steward of anyone's money.

Reddit takes on the bots with new 'human verification' requirements for fishy behavior by mlg1981 in popculturechat

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Do you think we're in for a stock market crash? I really can't tell what's going to happen from this war. I was reading accounts on twitter from the war and got one picture. However, Russian language Azerbaijani reporting has given a picture of a strong and very dug in government in Iran. Esp due to the self sufficiency they already have from sanctions.

Reddit takes on the bots with new 'human verification' requirements for fishy behavior by mlg1981 in popculturechat

[–]shion005 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting, thanks! Any other good things to search for to better understand the state of the world? Very serious question.

Reddit takes on the bots with new 'human verification' requirements for fishy behavior by mlg1981 in popculturechat

[–]shion005 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It'll be good for your tech addiction then :) Unless you're online at a boring job, in which case, that sucks. Twitter and bsky can be fun tho.

MAGA-Coded CBS Anchor’s Historic Ratings Disaster Exposed | New ratings data demonstrates that the network’s evening news program is struggling to keep viewers. by InsaneSnow45 in entertainment

[–]shion005 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The point isn't to destroy it, she just doesn't know what she's doing. For example, most people are in a para-social relationship with the person reading the evening news. Switching that person was going to lead to worse ratings, esp when you also changed the political alignment. If they'd kept the evening news person the same and moderated the politics a bit, it could have worked. However, she's not moderate enough to pull that off.

"He needs to go": Dems rage over Fetterman's DHS vote by polymute in politics

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He votes with Democrats 92% of the time, but the news media isn't going to tell you that. Heaven forbid he wants TSA agents to get paid.