Can’t help but think that’s an in joke for those guys. Or they found the dumb sign and had to strike a pose, like something I would do.

https://www.choosingtherapy.com/narcissistic-collapse/

Been saying for years, here and on reddit, we know how to punch these people in the balls. Why is no one doing it?!

Vance and family getting rejected from visiting Greenland? He can handle it, because he’s not a narcissist. Trump could not handle it, because he is.

World leaders and media need to boo and make fun of these assholes non-stop. Fucking grow a pair!

Imagine the Prime Minister of Canada or the UK saying out loud:

“President Poops-In-His-Pants is using his new word, ‘tariffs’. If President “I Like the Poorly Educated” hadn’t been asleep in class, maybe he could spell Smoot-Hawley Act. OK, maybe he’s not wearing diapers, but have you seen that dump truck? And yes, he smells a bit off in person.”

or

“President Bones Spurs sends men into combat, which he was too pussy to engage in during Vietnam.”

or

“President Trump, freshly painted in gender affirming makeup and wearing a gender affirming toupee, strikes out against transsexuals for wanting gender affirming care.”

FFS, he would melt the fuck down if hit with shit like this from major media and world leaders.

Oh, but we don’t want to piss of the Most Powerful Man in the World! Well hell, what have we to lose?!

Lived in cities most of my life, Chicago being one. Often worked the south side up there. That urban enough for ya? Now I live on the bleeding edge of town, nothing but cotton fields past our neighborhood.

Not sure how that matters, in any case I don’t want random homeless people roaming my hood. Most I’ve talked to are perfectly decent humans, but the homeless have a far higher percentage of fruitcakes and, more importantly, violent fruitcakes.

When I worked downtown I almost got in three fights with the homeless. My neighbors don’t bow up on me and follow me around when I say, “Sorry. Don’t usually carry cash.” And then there were the fights in front of our shop.

And those are only anecdotes from this city. You should walk the French Quarter. About got in three fights in a single night. And I have no idea why. One guy cornered us on a tiny side street, gave up when we confidently walked off. (Had a pistol and was scared shitless it would come to that.) Another guy chased us down the street when I gave a thumbs up to his street drumming and said, “Keep on!” I forget the last circumstance. OTOH, a homeless guy playing money for chess absolutely schooled my wife. That was fun.

None of those three bullet points address random homeless people. I’d be happy with those sorts of folks, they’ve shown they’re capable of living in society.
Many homeless simply can’t deal.

I’ve known two guys to up and leave perfectly nice homes because the pressure was too much on their mind. Hell, they weren’t even employed, just couldn’t stand being around other humans. A home with others in it felt too confining one told me.

You talking about young people or old people?

It isn’t the owner going to be doing the shooting. It’s the guy stuck waiting behind an empty truck. That’s the joke.

It’s a joke about truckers that fuel and then fuck around while the guy behind them is fuming with impatience. LOL, I’ve been that guy.

“OH FFS MOVE!”

Besides, truckers are on more of a schedule than the rest of us tooling around.

Whispering French to a woman is straight panty remover.

Huh. AI pics don’t bother me but I get that exact feeling looking at most optical illusions.

Yep, OP should start with tilapia, the white bread of fish.

OP: When you fry it in oil, get it really hot first. You want to cook it fast under high heat so it caramelizes and sweetens.

Laughing at y’all who didn’t exist before microwave ovens. Mom used to heat shit up on the stove, for all meals, and grandma was terrified of microwaves, evil radiation machines! Still have dad’s microwave detector from Radio Shack, LOL, like microwaves are ionizing. And BTW, you could use the light bulbs to cook on they were so hot. Tried grabbing a wimpy 60W incandescent lately?

When I was last in Chicago my AC died. I could reach out and feel the incandescent bulb from across my tiny apartment. Imagine using a vacuum and a white-hot filament to achieve light. Step up from a candle I guess.

I imagine explaining to my dad, “Nah, we just leave that light on all the time.”

“Doesn’t that run up the bill?”

“No. Not really.”

Nah. Use the edge so the food rotates through the hot and cold spots.

tl;dr: Radiation isn’t uniform in there, bounces around.

Admiral Hegseth came out of light-speed too close to the journalist. He is as clumsy as he is stupid.

Love how reasonable your arguments are and yet lemmy downvotes anything that even smells like Musk approval.

Yeah, once Musk isn’t the richest man in the world, Trump drops him like a hot potato. Notice how Zuckerberg and Bezos paid their dues and then shut the fuck up? Our boy Elon ain’t that smart, he’s going for the brass ring.

It’s like he never took a European history class, saw what happened to the losers in the Soviet Union. LOL, when he falls far enough Trump will literally use AI to wipe him from photographs.

Sure, $100,000,000 liquid money is pocket change for Musk, and he can life free as a bird with that kinda bank. But what he can’t do is wield the influence he has now.

Y’all keep thinking about wealth in terms of your own money. At that level money is meaningless, it’s about influence and options. I foresee Musk crashing and burning, at his level, not ours.

No one makes enemies pointlessly better than the LGBT crowd. FFS, I want to be friends, but I feel pushed around and told I’m not…enough…whatever. I guess I don’t feel accepted and being called cis is alienating to me. But god for-fucking-bid they get called anything that makes them uncomfy.

See the downvotes OP’s collecting for a perfect example.

Housing would clear a great deal of homeless off the street, but the recalcitrant people, no idea how to deal with them.

And no one ever proposes where to build this housing. Sorry, but NIMBY, not around my children and home. And anyone who says they would be fine housing the homeless in their hood is a liar or has no experience with homeless people. A great many of them are bugfuck at best, violent at worst.

Met a trans (?) dude in the woods the other day. He was madly packing his tent and throwing on a jacket and boots to hide his girl clothes (literally little girl clothes). I tried to calm him, chat a bit, let him know I’m peaceful. The shotgun and pistol probably didn’t help my case. :(

I regret not trying to help him more, wasn’t sure what to do. Gave him some trash bags and advised him to pick up the area so none of us get hassled for being back there. Wish I had sat him down and explained the area, directed him to more private places to camp.

Thought much about him. He seemed sane enough, but could he actually hold a job? Just show up on time, work, leave? He was so scared it was hard to get through to him, see how he was really doing. Anyway, that’s been eating on me, so I’m dropping this on y’all.

That’s about when it starts.

THAT’S the one I was thinking of!

Turns me off as well, can’t say why, but I can accept it.