You are describing most of my family.

I have degrees in Econ and Poli Sci.

I explained everything to them, how it would hurt them, in detail, for years.

Didn’t work.

I now live many states away from them, seeing as the last time I talked to my dad he was full QAnon bonkers, and also building ghost guns (untraceable AR 15s and AR 18s) in his garage.

Logic doesn’t work when too much of their personal identity is wrapped into the cult identity.

They are quite literally in a cult.

The cognitive dissonance underlying their worldview is being exposed and demonstrated, and they are very obviously unable to fully reconcile basic logic and empirical reality with the idea that dear leader is a madman, and that they are cult thralls of a madman, and that he is doing exactly what he said he would do, and that they are fools for trusting in him.

Delusional cult members do not have coherent, consistent worldviews, they are full of contradictions, which are usually squelched by thought terminating cliches, highly emotional motivated reasoning (ie, ‘faith’), having your own identity and personality be heavily intertwined with and dependant on the cult.

They would have to be deprogrammed like former Heavens Gate cult members or something similar.

Their minds will likely never function reasonably again. While some may be able to pull themselves out of it, similar to someone raised in a fundamentalist setting who deconverts via thorough critical skepticism… most of them are not capable of that, and will instead seek to blame shift to protect their own egos.

… Thats all to say, this person seemingly logically putting it together… but also not accepting their own logic?

This is quite normal for a cult member.

Lots and lots of cults do lots and lots of social conditioning to make the cult member accept or ignore or deflect from any objective criticisms.

That is basically what all religious apologetics is, after all.

He described the relief of seeing both people on board the boat pop open the hatch. “Oh my gosh, it’s just a miracle,” Ticknor said.

Ticknor being the event organizer.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=sSl2846EPl4

The pilots suffered multiple fractures, including a broken knee.

I’d call a broken knee alone a serious injury…

Had their injuries been more serious, they may have been unable to escape the sinking boat.

Had the boat landed in a different orientation, or done a different, completely undpredictable, uncontrolled aerial manuever, such that it impacted the water with more speed, the boat could have broken apart on landing or become structurally comprised much more seriously, and thus the pilots would be sinking much more rapidly, likely with more serious injuries.

Though this boat and its safety cage performed admirably in terms of structural stability… similar crashes to this have maimed and killed a good number of folks in the history of hydroplane/powerboat events.

Reinstate Eberhard and Tarpenning.

You know, the actual founders, who got forced out after the fascist Afrikaner failson pulled the same corpo tissy tantrum bullshit he did at Paypal?

All Musk did was follow the general strategic plan for the company that Eberhard and Tarpenning had laid out.

Then, when that outline was run out, and Elon had to actually think of something else, it all became a total shitshow, quite rapidly.

… No?

She had different kinds of cleaning routines/phobias/rituals.

Can you provide a source proving you were born yesterday, or can we all agree that’s a generally reasonable assumption?

Here’s Walmart:

https://united4respect.org/reports/walmart-political-spending-2024/

Amazon:

https://united4respect.org/reports/amazon-political-spending-2024/

I very much hope I do not need to explain NewsCorp’s ‘political contributions’ of all kinds to you.

Or WaPo, which Bezos personally intervened in, to prevent them from endorsing Kamala.

… The person you are incredulously doubting made a broad and general statement that is broadly generally true, but I am guessing you would want a comprehensive analysis of every company and corp in the US to validate the truth of it…

… When, as demonstrated above, it takes an entire organization to figure this shit out for even a few major corps, because our laws regarding political donations have been fucked since Citizens United, and you have to do a massive effort of sleuthing to untangle the nested shell corporation like structure that is now commonplace in PACs.

Costco is probably the only major retailer that leans more Dem than Rep.

…In the event qualifications are relevant to you for assessing claim veracity, I all say this as a person who has degrees in Econ and Poli Sci, one of many specializations being Poltical Economy, who has worked for MSFT and a Fortune 500 import export middleman firm based out of Seattle that is 100% certainly shitting its proverbial pants right now.

And that is what I would describe as the only kind of miracle I believe can actually happen.

Roughly on par with ‘bailed out of an airplane, crashed through some trees, landed in a snowbank, only suffered a few fractures and actually lived.’

Something like that happened a few times in WW2.

Can Starbucks please die already?

I say this as a native Seattleite, who used to love going to actual coffee shops, comfy hangout all day and study or do work on a laptop… type coffee shops…

Untill Starbucks appropriated that aesthetic, and then turned into a corporate fast food franchise, and drove basically every actual independent coffee nook out of business.

Fuck Starbucks, fuck everyone who thinks their coffee flavored milkshakes are coffee.

… I will die on this hill.

… Set up firefox for windows via wine, if its a webapp?

derp, i made that joke, but before seeing your comment, should have replied to you!

My head canon is this guy had a kid with a woman of opposite patterned people from this episode, and somehow our boy here ended up with every single recessive gene possible.

I wonder if plaid is possible…

Yeah, I was gonna say, did the pilot live?

Good number of hydroplane/powerboat deaths/maimings over the years…

Sha na na na na na Shingles, eeeeek!

Hahahah!

Chaotic good here.

Yep, I’m an Autist.

… Also had a mom with pretty severe OCD, so I always remember that ‘good enough is good enough’, in scenarios like this.

EDIT:

… Also also, I find the lawful evil solution to be utterly diabolical and actually makes me angry just being exposed to it conceptually… which I guess does make sense, opposite sections of the chart.

I mean… the original song’s use of that phrase arguably references a woman basically being forced to give bjs to her dealer in order to get drugs she’s now addicted to…

All of this is terrible!

Not sure if you intended this, but you can absolutely get what you wrote to work with the timing (and same rhyme sounds/pattern, basically) of the first few lyrics of Guns N Roses ‘Welcome to the Jungle’, with minor modifications.

Welcome to the Jungle,

where we play dirty games.

Food safety sure costs a lot,

so fuck the FDA.

We are the people who hate fines,

Whatever they may be.

If you got no money, honey,

We got your disease.

etc.

(Wonderful that some of the lyrics don’t have to change at all, nor really the chorus, yay internal bleeding.)

King of the Hill aired from '97 to '09.

… There are too many episodes for me to be able to pick out exactly which one this is from, what year it aired in…

But uh, fairly commonplace, reasonably affordable smartwatches, with the kind of functionality described… didn’t really become a thing until roughly the mid '10s.

Yes, there were earlier ‘smartwatches’, or things that could be argued to fall into that definition… but they were extremely niche, quite pricey.

Apple’s first smartwatch didn’t come out till 2015.

Smartphones, with touchscreens, did not really even exist at a reasonable price point, with significant numbers of people using them untill the latter third or quarter of KotH’s seasons.

Like I still remember having some clamshell, phyiscal keyboard ‘smartphone’ in 08 - 09.

I honestly don’t understand how there isn’t some kind of Waterworld… either action/fps mmo, ala destiny or warframe… or just some kind of mount and blade type single player game, or even Conan Exiles.

The closest thing I can even think of is Raft - Stranded Deep.

… Its mad max… on the ocean, and is basically postapoc/dieselpunk.

Bang wow zoom, fairly novel game (by modern standards) for a AAA or even AA studio to try.

explodes into orange juice