It does, and almost feels like there’s a resurgence of it to me. But maybe I’m just seeing it for the first time. Went to a show with Stand Atlantic, Magnolia Park, and The Home Team and they nail that alt rock vibe pretty well while still adding modern touches. And I found that just looking at local shows at moderately sized venues near me.

Ain’t it good?

Yeah, but they’re just different colors of a Where the Wild Things Are ripoff. Do not see the point. Beanie Babies had more of a point. Fucking Funko Pops have more of a point, at least those are related to a character from something you like. These are just weird creepy dolls, 90% of which are probably going to be collecting dust in a year or two.

As mentioned by another, a lot of it really is compensation. Most jobs won’t pay your missed days for jury service. They can’t fire you, no, but they also dont have to pay you. If you have kids, live paycheck to paycheck, then get a letter from the government saying you will be needed for an unspecified amount of days, possibly weeks, and won’t get paid for it, it doesn’t seem like much of an opportunity. Better have those sick days saved up, cause if not, you may not make rent.

Luclily they usually pull a large pool of people so that is sometimes not an issue. My last jury summons, I told the judge that I wasn’t paid for being there and the loss of income would cause me financial hardship. “Thank you sir, you’re excused.”

Employers respect jury service only as far as the law requires them to. They do not respect it enough to make service economically viable for their employees.

What… what do you think the blue part of blue cheese is?

Was there any damage to the supermarkets? It’s a pretty big cupcake, i guess, just doesn’t seem like that bag a deal?

FYI, a lot of times the gear in the first photo is for the plants’ sake, not the worker. Plant cultivation facilities can be like a house of cards, where one little bit of mold, fungus, etc can ruin an entire harvest. Depends on the plants in question, though

She doesn’t do the stompy stomps when she gets scratches, she does it in protest when we stop. Usually accompanied by vocal protest as well. She’s gotten very pushy about being the one who dictates the end of scritches. Her butt and back are her favorite spots. She immediately turns around after the petting starts, even when shes just been groomed.

The name is just because being named after a warrior queen seemed badass.

Oddly enough, I had another dog many years ago who also looked almost identical, Callie. One of her ears flopped down after adolescence but the other never did. I always lovingly made fun of her for being lopsided. The resemblance was a complete coincidence, no relation or anything.

Callie:

Looks almost exactly like my Boudicca, they could be siblings! Paco is amazing

1. Take out bank loan
2. Buy Jeep Rubicon
3. Ducks are automatically transferred to dashboard
4. E4, mate in 6

What is this, the Oldest House?

Wild picture, that reminds me, did you know that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through a Torpolev Tu-95?

Catapult vs trebuchet. The extra rotation point makes a world of difference.

Agree that the benefits dont quite outweigh the space issue though.

I think they mean that back then, elaborate marketing campaigns (yes, for money) were a bit more commonplace, while today, the fun veneer over the greed has worn thin and most companies scrape by with the widest but shallowest marketing strategies that are even more transparent in their greed. We all know companies want our money, so any time we forget that momentarily is kind of like suspension of disbelief when watching a movie. The bar for the suspension of disbelief in corporate greed is simply getting lower. They realized they don’t need to try that hard to still make money hand over fist. Doing this again would be pretty expensive. You know what’s cheaper? Slapping some canned images and animations over existing logos and stuff.

It seems stupid to be annoyed by the fact that the ever-hungry jaws of capitalism “aren’t as fun as they used to be” but i think it’s getting upset over the fact that companies think they don’t even need to disguise their avarice to get away with it. And to a growing extent, they’re right. The showmanship being romanticized was meant to dazzle and distract the masses from the uglier parts of business, but now we just accept them instead. There is no shame in greed, no reason to hide malice when it’s an accepted tool of your trade.

Absolutely. Saved a copy for when it inevitably gets censored. This summation stuck out to me:

We often talk about MAGA as if it were a political disagreement. As if it were about taxes, jobs, or policy platforms. But what the research shows, across neurology, psychology, and political science, is that MAGA is something deeper: an identity reaction to perceived loss. It is fear rebranded as freedom. It is status anxiety rebranded as tradition. It is authoritarian psychology wearing the skin of patriotism.

This isn’t just a movement of bad ideas. It’s a movement of deeply felt insecurity, fused to a political figure who offers vengeance, not vision. And in that fusion, the need for power replaces the desire for truth. The need to dominate replaces the value of liberty. The need to feel morally superior replaces the capacity for self-reflection.

“Artist is guy who has unrealistic expectations of women’s bodies” Nope, this time, the artist is a bombshell who used her own body as a reference for drawing

Yeah, looks surprisingly salvageable. Everything is generally in the right place. I’m sure a good artist could put this to rights

I guess a better analogy would be a guy with his beaten and bloody wife who is pleading for help from the officer, who just shrugs and says “Sorry, ma’am” before leaving. But the general idea remains the same.

That’s my reading as well. I have no idea what is actually in Article IX but it sounds like UAE snuck in “except us” when it came to defining the ICJ’s jurisdiction. It’s giving SovCit vibes, only instead of a sovereign citizen unbeholden to their government and declaring their house a nation state, it’s a country unbeholden to the world and declaring themselves outside of its purview. And the ICJ is just shrugging their shoulders saying the same thing.

Imagine someone shooting up heroin while driving, getting pulled over on a highway on-ramp, then telling the cop who is looking at the needle in their arm that technically this is a highway, so highway patrol are the only ones who could pull them over. In what world does the cop shrug and say “Aw shucks, you’re right” before getting back in their squad car and driving off? Because it seems like the international equivalent of that just happened but with genocide instead of addiction.

Finally, a meme here i can read. English may be Germanic but it does not feel like it when you look at a lot of German