31May#01
Someone has never heard "no" in the snack aisle. "Food stamps aren't your business, but kindness should be", how many birthday cakes has this kind person bought to poor children?
It's already been said, but I want to repeat: you can bake a cake yourself for much less than you would pay buying one already made, from staples that food stamps already cover. Hell, a box of cake mix and a can of frosting is still going to be a lot less than this small $20 cake in the picture.
And even if that's not an option, a parent who loves their child will go to whatever lengths necessary to get them the birthday cake they deserve, including (God forbid!) spending some of their actual money on it. If they can't figure out how to handle such a simple act without the use of food stamps (or worse, they don't even want to try), then clearly they only care about how much welfare the state will pay them for their kids.
This sort of emotional blackmail is utterly pathetic, and it makes me want the government to shut down all welfare in response to spite these awful people.
31May#06
Maybe the Dems want to uplift untalented women to promote equity? Stop being meritocratic!
I'm not going to go into the details, but it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of these so-called "battleground" districts have actually been trending blue for years now, and nobody actually bothered to update the list. Or, alternatively, a single election cannot be used to extrapolate entire voting trends.
Man who claims that all internet debate is meaningless retweets man in denial bragging about how his ideological enemies are losing in debates and holds it up as a win. Funny how the internet is fake until it isn't. Double standards much?
31May#11
AI
In RLM's recent video on AI, Jay made the comment that a lot of the anti-AI backlash feels very much performative, and I'm reminded of that here. People just launch into profanity-laced tirades about how this technology is the devil and ruining everything when it's likely not even affecting them much at all, all because they've been whipped up into a frenzy of groupthink that requires them to call it evil. Anyone who uses it even a little bit gets dogpiled by a bunch of crazies, and there's simply no level of nuance allowed.
I don't know why they think they're actually making a difference, considering how models continue to be developed and are improving all the time, and it's enjoying wider and wider use by everyone from amateur hobbyists to professional industries. They're the modern day Luddites impotently raging against a future they despise, only even more performative.
31May#12
Bobby has grown.
That second-to-last comment about rejecting "status quo is God" is ironic, considering that King of the Hill tried to do that originally. There was supposed to be a general progression of time, which you saw in things like the kids hitting puberty (Joseph most dramatically), GH being born, Luann going to college, and so on. It's possible that it would have continued with the kids entering high school and other such things. But eventually, the Fox executives put an end to that because it would be easier to show in reruns if there weren't any major differences along the way. Thus, while nowhere near as bad as The Simpsons has gotten (where Homer was originally a Boomer but is now a Millennial), you did have situations where the characters were the same age but dealing with wildly different worlds.
So if you think about it, this reboot series is basically where it was supposed to have ended up from the start...kind of. I'm assuming they're timing this based off of the end of the series in 2009, so everyone is sixteen years older than they were when their ages froze, putting Bobby roughly in his early thirties and Hank and Peggy in their sixties. If they'd aged up properly from the start, then the adults would be in their seventies and the kids in their forties.
In other news, Bob gets upset about the passage of time again. Enjoy the reminders of your mortality!
31May#14
It'd be more interesting to dramatize the behind-the-scene bickering that led to
Crash wining Best Picture, or how the power-that-be decided to snub
La La Land in favor of
Moonlight last minute.
Nobody watches the Oscars as it is, Bob. Do you seriously think anyone would want to watch a redo? Debating what movies should have won is something that film nerds do in their spare time, not something that a general audience cares about.
31May#16
Which book? The One Ring in Tolkien is unmarked.
For a man who mocks Christians for being filthy believers, Bob sure does seem to hold a lot of faith in artifacts being possessed by evil spirits. Almost like he's some kind of hypocrite...
Bob has shown himself to be a superstitious retard on more than one occasion. Once when he posted authoritatively demanding that someone not removing some artifical eye from the skeleton of a monstrous holy woman, and this right here. Sounds like Feeler 
