1 is “Gladiator”

4 is “Black Swan”

9 is “Office Space”

10 is “Harry Potter” (which I’ve actually never seen, but I do recognize Delores Umbridge from other memes)

“Wear a human suit to hide your weird real self”

I just use cleaning vinegar and a sponge (the cleaning style is a little stronger than the food grade), but I think the “vinegar trick” is filling a bowl or cup up with vinegar, microwaving it for about 5 minutes, and letting it stand. Supposedly the vapors coat the inside and make anything stuck-on easy to wipe off.

I’m not active here as I should be, but no. For all the reasons you said, plus politics creeps into everything and I’m sick of hearing about it. It’s nice to have “no politics” as a firm rule to immediately shut those down. All people want to post about is political crap, and I’ve blocked so much as it is.

And Congress authorized a war…when, exactly?

Tall, skinny phones and portrait-optimized apps. It’s like your viewport is restricted to looking out of an arrow slit in an old-timey castle while also requiring a step ladder to reach anything at the top of the screen.

Lol, of course. I need to do a re-watch.

I’ve heard that before but cannot place it. What is that from?

Aside from mentioning the reconciliation process (which I agree could have been included), that’s not even close to actual journalism. It might fly on from one of the talking heads spewing endless opinions shows on cable, but reputable outlets do not “report” that way.

Quality outlets also do not (or should not, anyway) point blame in such a brazen manner. They should report the facts and list some potential effects of those, but they shouldn’t tell you how to feel or sink into the petty bickering of the subject matter.

I’m old-school and grew up before the plague of 24-hour cable news and worked for two different newspapers, so I’m, I guess, a little more sensitive to the sensationalist crap that gets called “news” these days. I guess what I’m saying is that this article passes my “sniff test”.

For best results, it depends on the context.

For example, when I’m dealing with people who cannot (or refuse) to do the simplest of tasks, I’ve found myself muttering “ugh, just read the instructions I wrote you troglodyte”.

Naturally, this is all the Democrats fault for not letting the republicans steamroll them with their anti-American (and frankly, anti-human) policies. Great job, media.

(Emphases about blaming the media mine) Seriously, WTF? What other way could they have reported that? They’re refusing to back the bill without ACA extensions and repealing the cuts to health care programs. As far as reasons go and playing hardball, that’s a pretty good one (or two).

And if NPR didn’t include that info about Democrats refusing to back the R spending bill, then you all would be complaining that “Oh, the Democrats do nothing blah blah whine whine blah both sides”.

As far as “the media” goes, NPR is pretty top-tier. I swear, I am starting to think half the people here just do not understand how journalism works.

“I40”

Happy Birthday?

I came across a ~2014 era memes folder on my NAS and found a few of them in there. Otherwise, I’d have never remembered they existed.

The look on her face says…

Because if neither “side” is going to stand by democracy, why are we even bothering with the charade?

It’s shitty, but, like you said, I get it. He’s also not wrong.

I would take any and everything you see in YPTB with the largest grains of salt. Most of the posts there are from frequent flyers apparently unaware and unable to see that they are the problem. The comments to those are from similar frequent flyers. Basically every post there is framed to make OP entirely the victim and often are turned into some kind of conspiracy-laden narrative about the mod(s) involved. Frankly, YPTB and similar communities are beyond redemption, IMO.

I will admit I do not know (nor particularly care to know) the specifics of this case, but some of the communities Jordan mods are targets for some of the worst people in this place, and he’s only human. So don’t crucify me if there’s some egregious offense I’m ignorant of and don’t take this statement as a direct defense of that. I’m merely pointing out that the guy takes a LOT of abuse from some real, uh, how do I put this charitably…“characters”.

Lemmy, of late, has lost many of its more rational voices, so please keep that in mind and exercise caution when asking the inmates what they think about the rules of the asylum.

There was a show in, probably, 1997 called “Ask Harriet”. It was basically “Tootsie” the TV series. I think only 8 episodes were produced and only 4 actually aired.

The show was pretty terrible, but Ed Asner was at the top of his game in it, so that was basically the hook for me.

1. It’s fine where it’s at?
2. YPTB is a cesspool of drama blown out of proportion / “look at me, I’m such a victim!!”. Last time I looked (I blocked that community), it was mostly just a bunch of frequent flyers not realizing they’re the problem being circle-jerked in the comments by other people who are frequently and properly modded. To make a decision to move based on that, especially given the provided post is from someone who always seems to be involved in some kind of drama + a mod who gets a regular 15 minutes of hate over nothing (and people flat-out making up narratives to make them the victim) seems like a flimsy excuse.
3. Looking at your alts, the most likely candidate instances for the new community would be dbzer0 or anarchist nexus, both of which I’ve blocked and neither of which I particularly like (blocked them for a reason).
4. It’ll add yet another dead community to the community list that looks like "[Closed - moved to…]

If you want to make a new community elsewhere, go for it. But instead of closing this one, find someone else to take it over.