RememberTheApollo_

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[–] RememberTheApollo_ 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I’ve been seeing a bunch of ‘80s bands in concert lately singing their bestof’s and some newer stuff. Of course they’re old and singing songs about young person’s lives. I don’t find the disparity between their age and the subject matter offputting. The downside to older musicians singing songs they made when young is that age keeps them from hitting the high notes or anything that’s too hard on the voice. They just can’t do it. The music and being there is still fun, though.

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 14 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Hope you effectively learn that lesson. I don’t blame any country for turning away from the US. Stupid people electing destructive narcissists and doing absolutely nothing to prevent it.

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 15 points 7 hours ago

Agreed on all counts.

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 2 points 8 hours ago

This, and they absolutely have no clue how government runs. So they see some programs they don’t understand the purpose of being cut or people being fired from multiple agencies and they say “Good! Lookit the money we’re saving!” They have no view other than their willfully myopic and selfish short term perspective that prevents them from understand the consequences of this administration’s actions.

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 4 points 8 hours ago

Femboys are:

overrated

(are)n’t gay

the future

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 1 points 8 hours ago

Yeah, a NT might get something “extra” out of some ADHD meds. But effective meds just help ADHD people calmer (for lack of a better word), and able to focus. Pretty much exactly the opposite of what one would think “meth” would do to a person. Taking a med holiday, a day or weekend where you skip meds, is pretty easy for a lot of people, too. There’s no addiction driving the taking of the medication, and as the meme suggests, it’s pretty easy to forget to take it at all.

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 2 points 8 hours ago

Like something you would have seen in Sharper Image or SkyMall catalogs back in the day.

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 55 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (8 children)

In the short term, yes.

If trump remains in office after this term, absolutely yes.

If we get a different admin - not just another republicrat trump clone - they’re going to have to spend an inordinate amount of time fixing all of trump’s fuckups. One of which should be restricting any wannabe monarch’s ability to rule by decree in the US. So yeah, we’re fucked, and we’re gonna have to spend a lot of effort getting unfucked, digging ourselves out of an oligarchy hole, instead of moving forward from a continually advancing starting point.

E: allies are already turning away from us, politically and economically. They’ll form new alliances and relationships that the US doesn’t get to be a part of, or at least won’t get a leading position in. Same with things like soft power from international aid. China will step in, maybe the EU or even Russia. We lose the goodwill, stability, and any economic “ins” we could have achieved with that soft power. We’re fucked in lots of ways.

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 4 points 8 hours ago

I would suggest that NT’s suffer from the curse of assumption and they’re unaware of it. It they read a question like we’re discussing they assume only one aspect of it. Whereas a non-NT like adhd would see multiple angles and answers to the question all at once and suffer the frustration of having to decipher what the asker really means - hence the au/adhd person’s need to over-explain an answer to be sure to corral the information specifically to the question they think is being asked.

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 11 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I have discovered the objective of musicians is to create a popular enough discography that you never have to write new music again. It certainly isn’t their objective when they’re starting out, but any longstanding act pretty much plays a repertoire of greatest hits. They might throw in some “new” album stuff that nobody is interested in, people are just there to hear what they love.

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

F’d up thing is despite this guy being a tool he actually thought he could improve the USPS. Now he’s out and we’re gonna get someone worse.

 

Top US and Russian officials have agreed to continue planning an end to the Ukraine war and to pursue closer cooperation amid concerns in Kyiv and across Europe that Donald Trump could push for a settlement favouring Vladimir Putin.

 

Elon Musk, President Donald Trump’s billionaire ally, on Sunday repeatedly attacked CBS’s “60 Minutes,” suggesting the team behind the news program deserves a “long prison sentence” for what he described as their efforts to interfere in the 2024 presidential election.

The president himself has previously calledfor the news program to be “immediately terminated.”

Still, Paramount, the parent company of CBS, has reportedly been mulling reaching a settlement agreement with Trump in the $10 billion lawsuit he brought against the network last year, accusing “60 Minutes” of deceptively editing its interview with Harris. But the Wall Street Journal on Friday reported some executives have raised concerns that settling the lawsuit could expose them to legal threats.

 
 

The digital equivalent of bookburning:

Since President Trump was sworn into office, almost three thousand datasets have disappeared from Data.gov, the U.S. government's repository of open data. 

According to 404 Media, online archivist communities discovered since Trump took office on Jan. 21, the number of datasets on Data.gov has decreased to 305,564 from 307,854 datasets. Screenshots of Data.gov's homepage archived in the Wayback Machine show the number of datasets one day before (Jan. 20) and nine days after (Jan. 30) the Trump administration began.

 

But a dozen brown, large, grade A eggs can be had for less than $5.

 

Trump blames everyone he can.

“The FAA is actively recruiting workers who suffer severe intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems, and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the agency’s website,” said Trump, noting that the program allowed for the hiring of people with hearing and vision issues as well as paralysis, epilepsy and “dwarfism.”

 

A bill to add a carving of President Donald Trumpto Mount Rushmore has been introduced by a MAGA politician.

Florida Representative Anna Paulina Luna announced the bill Tuesday calling for Trump to be added to the South Dakota monument with the message: "Let's get carving."

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The Biden administration has already awarded tens of billions of dollars under the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act passed in 2022 for the purpose of boosting domestic semiconductor production, but President Donald Trump's return to the White House has sparked speculation over the future of the projects.

Trump slammed the legislation ahead of the election, saying during his interview on "The Joe Rogan Experience" in October, "That chip deal is so bad." The president criticized sending billions of taxpayer dollars to "rich companies" and suggested imposing tariffs on foreign-made chips would be a better way to move production to the U

 

Days before President Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office and took actions to stall the transition to clean energy, a disaster unfolded on the other side of the country that may have an outsize effect on the pace of the transition.

A fire broke out last Thursday at the Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility in California, one of the largest battery energy storage systems in the world. The fire raged through the weekend, forcing local officials to evacuate nearby homes and close roads.

Battery storage is an essential part of the transition away from fossil fuels. It works in tandem with solar and wind power to provide electricity during periods when the renewable resources aren’t available. But lithium-ion batteries, the most common technology used in storage systems, are flammable. And if they catch fire, it can be difficult to extinguish.

Last week’s fire is the latest and largest of several at the Moss Landing site in recent years, and I expect that it will become the main example opponents of carbon-free electricity use to try to stop battery development in other places.

 

The Trump administration has officially implemented name changes for Alaska's Mount Denali and the Gulf of Mexico, as requested by the new president.

The Interior Department announced Friday that the Gulf of Mexico will now officially be known as the Gulf of America and North America's highest peak will once again bear the name Mount McKinley to "honor the legacy of American greatness."

 

ASHEVILLE, North Carolina, Jan 24 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he would sign an executive order to begin the process of fundamentally overhauling or eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency. "FEMA has turned out to be a disaster ... I think we recommend that FEMA go away," he said during a tour of North Carolina to see damage done by Hurricane Helene last year.

 

ASHEVILLE, North Carolina, Jan 24 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he would sign an executive order to begin the process of fundamentally overhauling or eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency. "FEMA has turned out to be a disaster ... I think we recommend that FEMA go away," he said during a tour of North Carolina to see damage done by Hurricane Helene last year.

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