Seth Meyers still apologizes for that, sarcastically of course, but it’s hilarious that enough people blame his joke for jumpstarting Trump’s campaign. Trump seething from his table while everyone around him cracks up is burned into my memory.

So……perjury really isn’t a thing is it? RFK flat out lied about why he fired her. He told a blatant and unequivocal lie to Congress while under oath.

I know “the truth” can always be a bit wishy washy for people testifying, and skirting around it really just takes rhetorical skill, so charges are rarely brought. But hell, it’s also rarely such a clear facial lie.

I love that she felt the need to explicitly say she’s not leaving to spend more time with her family.

I get what you’re saying, but paying a bill before its due date is still paying that bill on time. I also keep track of my spending habits, and am completely on top of and in control of my finances. I just also choose to pay my credit card balance as I go.

I pay my bills on time every month. That’s only one factor for your credit score. Another big part of your score is credit utilization, or the amount of credit you use vs. how much credit you have available to you. So paying off my cards the way I described is how I keep my usage percentage at a minimum. I’ve seen big increases to my score since I started paying closer attention to that factor.

My checking account pays excellent interest, but my monthly cashback from my credit cards is always more.

I’m curious why you seem so opposed to some people choosing to use their credit cards this way? Your implication by bringing up debit cards and due dates is that we’re somehow not being responsible with our money, but that’s just not the case. I’m not attacking you, just curious why it seems to bug you?

Debit cards usually don’t offer cashback, perks, or robust fraud protections, and do nothing for your credit score. That last one is the important bit. I used to use my debit card exclusively, and could never get approved for any kind of loan. Once I started using credit cards the way I described in my other comment, my credit score jumped waaaaaay up and I started getting approved for everything.

That was an awesome piece. We need more people willing to speak out about all the obvious bullshit like this, but more importantly we need this kind of critical thinking to reach the people who are uncritically driving the continued use of these crappy-ass tools that are burning the planet. I’m thinking about CEOs (who will only do anything if it helps their bottom line), but also about your boomer co-workers who think ChatGPT is the fucking messiah and remind you about it every chance they get.

Bugs the shit out of me when companies make it difficult to use their product. I do the same thing as you. I enjoy having $0 balances on my credit cards, and I use them within my means, so I pay them off straight away throughout the billing period. One of my cards (I only have two) makes it really difficult to pay off my balance more than once a month, and they delay those “extra” payments by days, sometimes weeks. I called them out on it and they said “just pay your balance once before the due date.” Fuck that. My other card lets me pay off my balance instantly, whenever I want.

No doubt. It being illegal doesn’t mean it wasn’t morally justified and right in most cases. Just means it took more courage and personal risk to do the right thing.

High level leaks of classified material is the first example that comes to mind. The raw Wikileaks data, for example, was widely accessible and easily found by anyone with a quick search, and yet possessing that material was technically illegal, because it was never declassified.

So many mixed feelings. I hate that they have to point out that she’s James Comey’s daughter, because she’s a very accomplished prosecutor in her own right. But being his daughter was clearly part of why this happened (also because she prosecuted Trump’s best friend?). On the other hand, I don’t have a ton of respect for prosecutors in general and the way they exercise their discretion, so the partisan implications seem to be the important part of this. On the other hand, James Comey fucked us real bad, so my petty juvenile side gets a little joy out of this until I remember who did this, then I go back to being furious on her behalf. What a whirlwind.

“Estimate age from selfie”?! Wtf have we become…

When I was 14, I looked like I was 20. When I was 20, I looked like I was 35. When I was 35, I looked like I was 50. You can’t determine someone’s actual age from a fucking photo. Jesus.

I don’t tolerate intolerance, and I would never suggest that it should be tolerated. I also don’t tolerate violence against anyone, let alone glorify it, and I don’t find those postures to be in tension at all.

I’m not sure how else this should be handled. I don’t like Newsom, and Kirk was a piece of shit who I disagree with as hard as I can disagree with anyone, but I’m frankly pretty surprised and disappointed by the responses I’m seeing here on Lemmy. This is the only social media I interact with, and I had hoped for better. I’m not trying to preach or condescend, but that’s genuinely how I feel.

I realize this is a super controversial thing to say right now but: violence is bad, even if you hate the victim. I hate this victim, and I’m still disgusted that he was killed.

I’m a little embarrassed to say I know someone who has worked there for a really long time, and they’re a genuinely awesome person. I don’t understand how they can still work there, and whenever we reconnect the first thing I ask is if they’re still working there. I’m not going to end our longstanding friendship over it, but it really makes me wonder.

In all likelihood it’s just a paycheck, I can’t imagine they’re a true believer, but I feel bad any time I start pressing too hard, because like I said they’re an otherwise excellent person.

I’m exclusively a very hot side-sleeper, so dialing in my pillow setup has taken decades.

I use three different types of pillows: a real down pillow for my head (this one was expensive, but seriously worth it), a faux down pillow for hugging (keeps its fluffy shape all night), and cotton-filled pillow for between my knees.

The fillings are what matter most to me, and the real down pillow for my head is the most recent and best addition imo. It has made a massive difference to my comfort over the memory foam one I had been using previously. I splurged for a Parachute down pillow because the high quality is immediately obvious, and it’s hands down the best pillow I’ve ever bought.

What the fuck? This is horrific.

So let me get this straight: the US military was accidentally caught in foreign territory by random civilians who were diving for food, and the American soldiers just immediately killed them all? And this is normal?!

A classified Pentagon review later concluded the killings were justified under the rules of engagement, the report said.

What?? What rules of engagement say “if we’re caught with our pants down, just kill everyone who saw us and we’re good?”

We really are the bad guys. This isn’t just bad, it’s evil villain level bad. I’m genuinely disgusted.

If I’m remembering this scene correctly, it was truly wild: she rides on top of a different ship in warp, with Discovery following closely behind, does a bunch of stuff on the hull, then lets go so the ship continues on and she floats there, and right when Discovery catches up and would have hit her, she transports directly into her captains chair and calmly resumes doing captain stuff. So seamless and so fucking badass.

Oh shit, that’s good. Took me a sec to realize who they were, but that depiction of Trump is surprisingly unique and hauntingly excellent.

He got super close to asking that, and Lew’s answer was completely infuriating, as was every response he gave. But you’re right, I wish they would ask it outright.

Q: In the essay, you write a lot about the shared values of America and Israel. But today you have talked about pushing them to deliver aid, and you’ve talked about the fact that once Trump came into office and that push wasn’t there, the humanitarian situation got worse. Why was there a need to push so hard? Why do they need to be pushed to not ethnically cleanse Gaza? Why do they need to be pushed to have their military act in an honorable way? If they are our shared ally and our great friend, why aren’t they doing these things on their own?

A: The environment in October and November of 2023 was how do you sustain an enemy that just slaughtered twelve hundred of your citizens? You had to create a way for the aid to get in without it having the effect of making your enemy succeed. It is pretty unusual.