Everyone tried to blame Biden for the spike. Wasn’t his fault that we had the worldwide whiplash in demand for fuel once Covid started to clear.

We all said rightly that the president doesn’t control gas prices, at least those of us who had half a clue how economics worked did.

I guess we were only partly right.

Because when you bomb a country that controls a passageway for 20%+ of the world’s oil and LNG placing oil shipments in a chokehold, you sure as hell affect gas prices.

Be lucky if we make it that far.

Pfff. He would have posted pics of it himself eventually.

It’s looking that way.

I can’t tell what part of this story achieves the highest level of bullshit.

Terrorists. Just using half-million dollar bombs instead of suicide vests.

Idiots. Trump couldn’t even learn from Russia’s quagmire. Iran manufacturing drones and missile capacity, Ukraine using drones to attack targets inside Russia, and he didn’t think for a second about US and other infrastructure or bases outside of Iran being targeted. As far as US personnel being killed…that’s a sacrifice he’s willing to make.

That’s not what the toddler in chief’s actions say when he’s moved a bunch of B-52s to UK airbases.

(It’d be great if we all got ‘taters, better than the screwing we’re actually going to deal with)

I can’t think of anyone who thinks any side is good except the brainless sycophants who believe the lies from trump and his Ministry of Truth. Maybe it’s because of my time on Lemmy, but people seem to understand that Iran is shitty, but not shitty enough to manufacture the excuses to do what trump is doing.

The “8 Track” in Voyager is not your standard 8 track, it’s a DTR and is arranged differently than the consumer tape cartridge for music. It was shut down about a decade ago, not because it was failing, but because of the power requirements.

FWIW, 8 tracks were pretty good sound for the time. Previously there was no portable music unless you brought a record player with you. They got passed up quickly by the cassette, though.

I would think not. They wouldn’t want anyone analyzing it and attempting to send code to the Voyager. Some asshole would break it for lols or politics.

Ouch

/L

Just around $3.90/ gallon.

It’s over $4/gal here now. We were paying $2.65 the day before Orange Twitler started his crusade.

Games without frontiers, war without tears.

That’s all we are to these billionaires disconnected from reality. They have no limits and no consequences.

I don’t know about this. At face value it seems like someone saying whaaa I want a day off too if my coworker has to take time off to take care of a sick kid or something. These are not the same thing.

If some other event like a school cancellation outside a parent’s control puts them in a bind it isn’t their fault.

Society has decided that parents should care for their kids, so people tend to bend in that direction. It will likely never be the same for a childless person. If someone needs time off, ask for it off, but they’ll always be up against that.

That all said, I agree with how shitty work culture is that people don’t have access to guaranteed, penalty-free PTO and instead argue over whether or not a parent should have time for a kid because of the inequality regarding the childless not having the “excuse” of kids.

Yes. Though I obviously didn’t tour the airport looking for problems. Delta’s was long but not awful. AA’s was relatively short. Didn’t see the international terminal. No idea what constitutes “peak”, but NY is heading into NY school’s spring break season, so things will get busy for the airports.

The people “bringing it about” are absolute fucking idiots if they think that.

The person who brings about armageddon is the antichrist, those who follow him are supposedly condemned to hell until whatever end of time scenario the bible has. They’re going to hell.

These Talibangelicals couldn’t be dumber. But they keep proving me wrong.

What power is it over someone who is under no threat from it? I mean, if they actually did it and trump was immediately removed from power for it I’ll eat my hat, but from the look of things my hat is completely safe.

Guess I’m surprised that any of them would waste time on Lemmy/the fediverse. It doesn’t have enough clout to seem to be worth the effort.

We absolutely have trolls and there was pretty much no possibility at all that there wasn’t some kind of State monitoring going on, but active organized State Trolls seemed a stretch. There are far more popular platforms to manipulate the denizens of.