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2y ago

Smoking PSA
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Got_Bent @lemmy.world 2y ago

And the synthesizers in the eighties were nothing like moogs
Irrelevant I guess. I was casually reliving a memory from when I was a child, but there's always got to be a pedant to further solidify my general withdrawal from society because I'm clearly not satisfactorily intelligent enough for it.

2y ago

Trump’s team scrambles after JD Vance’s response to Georgia school shooting

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Got_Bent @lemmy.world 2y ago

George Bush the first called Dan "potatoe" Quayle the Jose Canseco of politics.

JD is making him look like it in comparison.

2y ago

Smoking PSA

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Got_Bent @lemmy.world 2y ago

They existed and were more of a new wave instrument at the time, but not heavily used in rock like that.

I was unaware of Brownsville Station when I was eleven.

Sorry to have failed your class professor.

We couldn't all be Jack Black in high fidelity at that age.

2y ago

Smoking PSA

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Got_Bent @lemmy.world 2y ago

I believe I was in sixth grade when that album came out.

First of all, it used a whole lot of synthesizers, which were pretty new technology at the time, and I felt like I was living in the future when I heard it.

As to the album cover, it somehow didn't register with my that it was a baby smoking.

Rather, it made me think of teenagers smoking in the high school bathroom.

Motley Crue's Smokin in the Boys Room came out a year later, so I don't think that influenced my mental image.

2y ago

They call themselves a news channel

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Got_Bent @lemmy.world 2y ago

Weren't they just throwing a collective temper tantrum about paper straws and how you could pry their plastic straws out of their cold dead lips?

2y ago

Who REALLY caused the fall of Rome?

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Got_Bent @lemmy.world 2y ago

I think it was Brian Cohen. He was, after all, a very naughty boy.

2y ago

Dear America

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Got_Bent @lemmy.world 2y ago

This sounds like a brand new record! For 1990!

2y ago

A Kamala Harris win and a Democratic sweep would give the biggest boost to the economy, Goldman Sachs says

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Got_Bent @lemmy.world 2y ago

Ted's wife is a bigwig with Sachs. I wonder if she had input with this.

2y ago

after 40 all meals are horror

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Got_Bent @lemmy.world 2y ago

Combination of being salaried plus industry culture.

2y ago

Harris unveils plan for 28% capital gains tax, softening Biden's proposal for 40% rate

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Got_Bent @lemmy.world 2y ago

Mostly yes.

You get people selling off companies or several depreciated rental properties, and they get hit with the tax and can't get out of it.

There are some circumstances that they can manipulate though. When the stock market crashed in 2008, people sold off at enormous realized losses, sat on the cash for thirty days to avoid the wash rule, and bought right back in at the same low prices.

That created years worth of carried over losses that enabled them to recognize capital gains at zero tax.

It's a reasonably common strategy called loss harvesting.

Certain flavors of stock options appear to be tax free at time of sale, but this is because the initial grant was deemed W-2 wages and was taxed when it was issued at ordinary income rates.

2y ago

after 40 all meals are horror

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Got_Bent @lemmy.world 2y ago

It's been years since I've eaten food away from my desk. And God forbid I should forget to bring food and need to run downstairs for sixteen seconds to purchase something. That's truly one of the seven deadly sins.

2y ago

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Got_Bent @lemmy.world 2y ago

What are the chances that I, a not particularly tech savvy person, go to download mint and end up bricking my computer?

Honestly, my computer is an absolute bottom of the barrel $200 Dell laptop right now, so it wouldn't be that big of a deal, but I'd hate to fuck it up, get a better computer, and fuck that up too.

2y ago

Loving USA Culture

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Got_Bent @lemmy.world 2y ago

The pervasive, loud, aggressive "America is full of stupid yokels and has no culture herp derp" sentiment seems to have really ramped up in recent years. I really wonder if it's a side effect of recent politicians pushing increasingly bizarre and oppressive agendas, and actually getting elected.

Maybe we deserve the disdain.

2y ago

Marijuana Is Too Strong Now - The Atlantic

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Got_Bent @lemmy.world 2y ago

I actually miss the old Mexican brick weed from thirty years ago. It could give you a headache, but otherwise, the high it produced of everything being hilarious doesn't seem to exist anymore. Modern weed pretty much makes me instantly catatonic.

Further, I don't know if it's age, but a single bong rip will send me into violent fits of coughing that frequently render me running outside to puke.

I've stopped smoking entirely in favor of edibles due to the coughing thing. The edibles still knock me the hell out. I don't know how the younger set wakes and bakes and carries on with their day with the modern stuff.

2y ago

Company creates "solution" to address school "vaping incidents".

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Got_Bent @lemmy.world 2y ago

A very long time ago, and much less technologically advanced:

I went to boarding school. We had a little bit of a propensity for sneaking out of the dorm at night.

New dean comes in our senior year and installs alarms on all the exits.

Our senior year time capsule contains the controlling keypad to that alarm system that wasn't even functional for twenty four hours.

I've no doubt that today's teens possess the ingenuity to bypass if not completely disable this thing.

2y ago

You don't get to be a Confederate and a 'proud American'

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Got_Bent @lemmy.world 2y ago

I kinda feel like the American flag itself has taken on connotations that align with the confederate flag.

When I see the American flag in current times, I think of roll coal 'murka fuck yeah sentiments.

2y ago

What a waste of asphalt

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Got_Bent @lemmy.world 2y ago

Going by the memory of my 1980 edition of the Guinness book of world records, it was the number of hairpin turns that made it the crookedest street. There could also be a difference between a street and a road.