juergen

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[–] juergen@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

In the same vein (and at least as dangerous): "Pain is just weakness leaving the body." No, you testosterone poisoned numb-nuts - it is your body's way of telling you that something is not right. Stop and listen!

[–] juergen@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Odd that The Mouse did not intervene.

[–] juergen@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don’t think I have ever heard it called that. Very apt, though.

[–] juergen@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 month ago

Satire is dead.

[–] juergen@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 month ago

...and yet so apt - though it probably applies to Trump even more than to Vance: Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and yet able to tell (sort of) regular people what they want to hear. They could probably have used this skill for Good, but that's not where they went. Sometimes I wonder whether they think they did.

[–] juergen@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 month ago

The name recognition is just in case other voters are pickier / more discerning. If it's someone super cool, they may even pull in people who were not going to vote. Yes, I would literally vote for a rusty bottle cap over Trump, but others may have different requirements.

[–] juergen@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 month ago

Turns out she will actually be old enough to become president even before election day. And she certainly has the name recognition. Again, Biden is not likely to step down - and at this point, I would vote for an empty tube of toothpaste over Trump.

[–] juergen@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 month ago (9 children)

It may also be a little late to introduce a new candidate, unless they have great name recognition. Betcha Bernie 2.0 would mobilize a goodly number of people, while centrists would hold their noses, and just vote for Not Trump.

Bernie isn't running, and Biden isn't quitting, so we take what we can get. At this point, I would literally vote for a loofah if it ran against Trump.

[–] juergen@lemmy.sdf.org 89 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I love how the quote cuts off right before "only goal".

[–] juergen@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 2 months ago

I've been on the web since my college installed Mosaic on their HP-UX machines. I wanna say summer of '94. Thus, I can honestly say that I've seen it before the first commercial banner ad was sold later that year. I actually thought ad were worse in the early 2000's than they are now. Flash should never have been used for that, for example. My main problem with ads these days is that there are sites where the signal/noise ratio is just ridiculously bad. In those cases, I vote with my feet and stay away.

[–] juergen@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 2 months ago

You keep using that ~~word~~ phrase, I do not think it means what you think it means.

[–] juergen@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 2 months ago

Well, now you have. I also tailgate or pass annoyingly slowly to be able to read bumper stickers.

 

Most free web sites pay for their upkeep with ads. It has been an unwritten agreement since forever (or at least as long as there have been ads on the web) that if you consume the content, you pay the creator by looking at the ads on their site.

Consuming the content without looking at the ads is like shoplifting because you don't like the way a store's checkout counter works and/or the fact that they want money from you at all.

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