I still don’t understand how we got here. My mom is a Botanist by education, with a graduate degree from a respected university. She lives in a small community right in the center or some of the most extreme wildfire risk in the country.

She brought up one day that if only her Governor would make sure the forests were raked up, the wildfires wouldn’t be a problem.

It’s so baffling.

Nah, don’t give him, or his voters that credit. Motherfucker has been this dumb his whole life.

“Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had.” - William T. Kelly, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton

He’s got to be the most extreme example of Dunning-Kruger effect out there.

Thinks he’s a certified genius, meanwhile all his handlers have to break down concepts for him in such simplistic terms, he ends up literally thinking injecting bleach or putting powerful UV light inside the body are the solutions to COVID, or raking a forest is an actual solution to preventing widespread wildfires.

“There’s illegal immigrants in prison taking post-birth contraception!”

Camping, traveling, hiking and going places that are enjoyable and accessible with my wife and dogs.

Gardening / homesteading in such a way to live as self-sufficiently as possible.

My way I want to give back in retirement is working as a volunteer urban/wildland canine search and rescue team.

I train my dogs in scent/detection sports and tracking now so I’m prepared to understand how to do the real deal once I have time to volunteer in retirement. My current job is in a related field, so I already have many of the other skills and certifications that would be needed, but I don’t work with dogs for my job.

If I need extra income in retirement, I’ll probably get into offering dog training for detection/tracking.

This article is from January and a quick search didn’t yield anything newer.

https://electrek.co/2024/01/03/tesla-cybertruck-american-made-pickup-truck/

The Cybertruck isn’t instead on the “2024 American Made index,” so we probably can only go on whatever Tesla is claiming at the moment, though it does seem likely that it will be at or near the top of the ranking for most American trucks of next year’s list.

I was a stupid young man. IMO, most of the reason younger people are less likely to vote is that they are far more likely to be in jobs that, one way or another, provide less opportunity to go vote. Plus they are less likely to be able to afford to take time off or pay for transportation.

Of course there’s vote by mail in many places now, but one of the dumbest moves (for their own interests) conservatives have done is to call into question the legitimacy of mail-in ballots - now conservatives I’ve heard speaking on the matter refuse to use mail-in ballots, which I suspect will end up meaning that some conservative voters that don’t have the time or means to get to a voting booth will miss out on voting entirely rather than send in a mail ballot.

Leader of a gang responsible for a sizeable portion of the evil shit that has happened in world history says people should think about supporting someone who is less evil.

Okay, guess your followers should switch to Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Atheism, or any other of a big handful of less-evil -isms to choose from than Catholicism.

Well the polls, surveys, questionnaires and polls; that’s not got much polls in it.

Yeah sure, there definitely has been a history of bias in favor of British drivers and teams by Sky - no question. But they’ve also damn near revered Max as god since his first race in F1, so I don’t totally buy his logic there.

Moreover, I think Newey is discounting the fact that people just have a strong tendency to root for the underdog or root for the fall of the king. Vettel was despised during his reign, as was Hamilton, and now largely the same with Max.

Not completely by my own choice, but I feel like I’ve seen National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation - at least in part - once or more per holiday season since it was released.

The same is true of Elf, but obviously that movie is quite a bit more recent.

For movies I’ve watched the most by my own choice, it’s probably the Kill Bills or Inglorious Basterds, but those have got to be way behind in raw count. Goonies and the Back to the Future series probably have honorable mentions because of how long they’ve been around and continue to be a fun watch.

Except capitalism could otherwise be called “Greed: The Game”

Capitalism takes greed and puts it to work as the center of an economic system. While greed has either destroyed or deformed communism any time it’s been tried at scale, there’s 100% no separating greed from capitalism - they’re inexorably linked.

I mean, he paid with his life. And he suffered longer too.

Maybe it’s my information bubble speaking, but I feel most people are now recognizing these funding shutdowns to be almost entirely due to Republican actions. With election day less than a week after the “due date” on this one, I think it would be political suicide for Republicans not to fund the government this time around. Though maybe that’s their plan? What happens if the election is held during a shutdown? Would that help their mounting plans to refuse certification of election results they won’t like? Not sure how it would have an impact, since those elections are locally-run. Less oversight maybe?

“Take the Princess and the Wookie to my ship.”

I guess James Earl Jones, Carrie Fisher, and Peter Mayhew can now all ride together.

As the saying goes, “the opposite of love is not hate, but indifference.”

Elon/Tesla designed this truck to be controversial, to generate discussion, and engagement. The best way to disengage from exactly what this thing was designed to do is not to meme about it, it’s to ignore it completely.

I see plenty of them around here on the road, but I also see endless regurgitating of this shit online. I kinda get it what it’s boomers on Facebook, but I expect the Lemmy crowd to get tired of the same joke after seeing it the nth time. Guess I place too much confidence in you all.

The worst fate a car that begs for attention can suffer is fading to obscurity. Why keep giving Elon all the attention and engagement he wants? Ignore the stupid thing.

Lol, coming from a whole gaggle who can’t stop but breathlessly “educating” others why the Cybertruck is terrible.

I’m on your side, it’s fucking horrendous. But Jesus, it was clearly designed to grab attention. Why keep giving Elon what he wants?

Point to me on this doll where the Cybertruck touched you.