The "traditional values" of heavy drinking and autocracy?

The evil truth of sourdough is that it takes about the same amount of time and effort to make four loaves as it does to make one.

I worked at/with Northrup Grumman for a few years, not directly but for a company that did contract consulting for them at their shipyards on the gulf coast. That place was basically staggering levels of corruption combined with staggering levels of incompetence. The actual NG employees did not see much of that money, though, although what they did make was pretty good for that part of the country.

That place was universally conservative, no doubt about it.

It's hilarious that people blame boomers and nepotism for the problems of the world without seeing the contradiction.

The programming is pretty fucking bleak, too. My elderly parents have cable TV and I try to watch it sometimes to entertain myself while I'm taking care of them, and I can't find a fucking thing worth watching despite them having 500 channels or so. I always end up watching Beat Bobby Flay on the Food Channel and I can't stand that fucking show.

That's a great way to make your deck cost as much as a boat.

We had a meeting with my mom's broker and my brother and I brought up the AI bubble. The broker responded with the most ridiculous nonsense. He basically said that corporate CEOs are smart people with a legal responsibility to keep their companies financially healthy and so they wouldn't be using AI if it weren't viable. It sounded like something handed down to him from Raymond James HQ which I'm sure it was, and it was surely written by AI in the first place.

I've lost count of the number of times he's ended the Iran war that he started.

I don’t care

In many cases, "I don't care" really means "I don't believe what you're telling me but I don't have the ability to refute it."

willing to sacrifice his own career to uplift a cause for the greater good

I recommend reading Caro's biography series on LBJ. I think you would find this statement to be not accurate. He was willing to alienate (white) Southern voters because his one overarching goal in life was to be (and to stay) President and (white) Southern voters were never numerous enough to ensure that. To his credit, LBJ seemed to be very much not racist personally, but fixing racism was never a goal of his.

I never notice when a user or a thread comes from ml until I say something that is real-world uncontroversial like "Stalin had some people murdered" and get flamed for it. I've never really felt the need to block servers on Lemmy but ml sure makes me think about looking up how to do it.

The navigator scene was absolutely the best part of the 1984 version of Dune.