This. People have been using the phrase "post-satire world" for nearly a decade now, and it's completely true.
On the one hand, this is an utterly ridiculous thing for the President of the United States to announce.
On the other hand, I'm 90% convinced that it is true.
This totally feels like the kind of illustration you'd find in the old Rogue Trader book. Maybe in a page on trench warfare rules or more primitive planets.
I love how the beaky has the studs in their helmet too, nice detail.
That's right.
Press the Print Screen button and then paste into a new Word Document.
The official line is that North Korea is thriving - it'd be political suicide for Kim Jong Un to accept help.
The comparison with the US isn't unwarranted. The respective propaganda machines are the reason both countries are the way they are.
When people are told daily how their country is the best in the world, the ruling class can get away with an awful lot.
It's 2025, and many places in the US don't even have clean tap water. People are being "disappeared" off the streets by government agencies. People are dying from easily-treatable diseases. The wealthy ruling class live lives of luxury, while poor people work multiple jobs and still exist below the poverty line.
So, with all that said, do you think Trump would accept a deal that would allow better living conditions for his people? I think we both know the answer.
Absolutely love liquorice - well at least the British version of it which is like 50% aniseed. Not so much a fan of the Nordic version which tastes saltier than salt.
Other often-contentious dislikes of mine:
I know taste is subjective, but as far as I'm concerned, those are three gigantic nopes. 😝
I wonder how many people dislike the same groups of things?
Boost shows that it was edited :|
In any case, it's not outside the realm of possibility that I made a mistake in my original reply! :)
Burning effigies of migrants might be, though.
You're not wrong.
I wish I could see the edit timestamps on Lemmy, because I'm sure that comment was different.
The stupid thing is, I'd originally written the comment with quotes to point it out, then chopped it back because I realised that I was massively overexplaining it. Those quotes would have been handy now!
I'll strike my comment out so it's not misleading, but I'll leave it up so this still makes sense.
Thanks for that - even though it was utterly depressing!
I live in the North of England, near Manchester, so I know our house prices are more reasonable than some other places, but I wasn't expecting that I'd need to earn the value of our house annually to get a mortgage in San Jose. That's crazy!
I got some of the Sunlu High Speed PLA that I've been hearing good things about. On the first print I discovered that, while it prints beautifully, it creates a ludicrous amount of dust going through the extruder.
So I open it up to clean it out, when suddenly the tensioning spring shoots out. Searched for about an hour in total, it's nowhere to be seen.
I'd been thinking of replacing the extruder for a dual gear one anyway, so I took the opportunity to order a nice one from Micro-Swiss.
The problem is, that I have an FLSun Q5, and I'd seen from videos online that it doesn't quite sit flush - you need to print a spacer.
So I needed to get the printer patched up for one last hurrah. The spring was salvaged from a broken clothes peg. And it worked perfectly - not just "well enough", but easily as good as the original.
So in summary, if it helps anyone, losing the spring doesn't mean you need a new part - a clothes peg spring works just as well.
Screenshot actually from the film Chand Par Chadayee (1967)
Same - growing a beard helped massively too.
Once I started working, I used to grow a beard every winter - mainly because I got bored with shaving every day. I noticed that once I had my beard, I never got age-checked, when I shaved it off, I'd still be asked.
Mind you, I've had a beard for eleven years now - who knows how haggard I look underneath nowadays!