I live in a red, suburban county. Almost every house in my neighborhood has a big ass pickup sitting in the driveway (because it won’t fit in the garage). Most of these dudes drive their giant pickups to work in an office building.

I asked one of them - an engineer - about it once. He said he works in an office but has to drive to job sites every once in a while, so he drives a truck. Keep in mind the dude does not do any manual labor on those job sites. But the people working there do - and he doesn’t want to feel left out.

I’d estimate that well over half the big ass trucks in America are driven by guys who want to fit it, but don’t actually need them. They’d be much better off driving something like a Nissan Leaf, but don’t want to get made fun of.

Well that explains his demotion to “Leon”.

I saw he said he was writing a $45 million check a month for 4 months. Dunno if he followed through.

Imagine giving Trump $180,000,000 and he calls you “Leon”. LMAO at these clowns.

Yeah I don’t know why the article mentions Gen Z’s “tech-savvy reputation”. Being able to operate a cell phone doesn’t make you tech savvy.

Gen X and Millennials grew up using command line and troubleshooting computer problems before the Internet. Their tech skills are way higher than Gen Z.

I probably don’t agree with her on a LOT. But I still respect her for having the balls to stand up to Trump and his MAGA cult and call them out for being a danger to democracy. All the other Republicans are a bunch of lil bitches willing to go along with fascism in exchange for tax cuts.

Why these people giving weapons to their kids after the sheriff first contacted you to investigate school shooting threats your kid made online,

Looks like this thing if someone is looking for a shopping link.

https://a.co/d/b4Ooqkl

Edit: One of the reviews mentions this is too short for the Steam Deck, so might not be the exact one OP posted a picture of.

The big question: will Trump himself pull the rug as soon as he’s legally allowed to?

There’s a rule that any question in a headline can be answered “No.” This is the rare exception when the answer is “No shit, of course he will.”

What did he say on January 6th?

Edit: So I had seen clips and read lots of articles about what Trump said on January 6th, but I had never read the transcript. So I thought, why not? Let’s see it without anyone else telling me what it says. Holy shit, it was so much worse than I thought.

Glad to see people supporting this guy on his GoFundMe page. He was fired, but has probably made more in the last few days than he would have in 2 years. Doing the right thing not only stopped the project, but also worked out well for him personally.

My neighbor is a Marine and likes to joke that there’s nothing gayer than a group of straight Marines.

100%

I think that makes it better. Before Mel Gibson went off the deep end, I’m sure the vast majority of women eagerly would have held a seance if it gave them a shot at fucking Braveheart’s ghost.

Surely now that conservatives have seen putting pressure on these businesses is effective in getting them to drop Diversity and Inclusion programs, they’ll have no further demands… Right?

I don’t watch Star Trek, so my knowledge comes 99% from memes on Lemmy. Based on what I’ve gathered, this lady fucked a ghost at one point?

From what I’ve read, it sounds like it was cemetery staff saying “hey you can’t film here”.

Not only did he defend Trump, but he also told Harris to “go to hell” as part of that defense.

Trump’s running mate JD Vance was asked about the incident Wednesday at a campaign event in Erie, Pennsylvania, and said that “apparently somebody at Arlington Cemetery, some staff member, had a little disagreement with somebody” and “the media has turned this into a national news story.”

He instead tried to focus on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, calling Harris “disgraceful” for not firing anyone for the deaths of service members in the terror attack. “She can go to hell,” Vance said.

The article does a better job of explaining it. But the people mentioned who are complaining were the family of another soldier whose gravestone was in the picture. The people giving the thumbs up posing with Trump are another family of a different soldier.

The Trump campaign is saying that they were invited there and given permission to take a picture. The invite and permission came from the family in the picture, but there is a federal law against taking campaign photos there for situations just like this. It’s incredibly tacky and disrespectful to take thumbs up photos for a political campaign on other people’s graves, even if a few living people said it was ok.

No.