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Fallout was fucking awesome. If you’re into Fallout that is, which I am.

You can tell what someone’s politics are by what they consider to be a political topic.

The name isn’t a coincidence. Akio Toyoda is a classic generational wealth nepo baby, the grandson of the founder of Toyota. Of course he’d be a Trumper.

The name of the company is read with a “ta” instead of “da” because of some Japanese numerology superstition reasons that I don’t fully understand.

Sure but if there's still someone living in it then why wouldn't they keep it clean and have new furniture every now and then? My house is over a hundred years old but I still have clean curtains.

The depth of field thing to me is a manifestation of a wider modern trend of thinking the audience has to be told exactly what's happening and what to think at all times. It's the dramatic equivalent of a network sitcom where the jokes all have to be explicitly flagged, and the studio audience politely wait until the end of the explanation before laughing.

the medieval-era castle interior is perfectly swept and all the intricate stonework is perfectly dusted and all the wooden furniture is perfectly smoothed over

Were you expecting them to look hundreds of years old, because that's what all the castles you've seen look like?

"Outperforms 70% of Gaming PCs" is the sort of statistic you'd only quote if you thought it sounded more impressive than it actually was, and it already doesn't sound impressive.

(edit: genuinely surprised how controversial a statement that turned out to be?)

Also this story is very old but gets reposted all the time always explicitly stirring anti-vegan snark with captions like "Least annoying vegan".

The meat industry is one of the worst polluters on the planet and they spend a lot of money pushing anti-vegan sentiment.

The article spends more time on Zelensky, who doesn’t actually seem to be implicated in any of this corruption beyond the fact that he had unrelated dealings with Mindich, than it does on Mindich himself, who didn’t even get his name mentioned in the headline.

This is clearly not a trustworthy news source.

Overall it would be reasonable article, were it not completely fucked up by a ragebait headline. They're obviously not in 'survival mode', unless you count 'survival mode' as not being able to refresh your cars to the newest model every three years.

But, there is another way of reading the article, which is that someone on $100k is much closer to someone on $30k than they are to a billionaire. They're still in the class of people who feed their families by working salaried jobs to generate wealth for others; hating on them is the difference between righteous class warfare versus simple-minded jealousy.

Literally every time I hear the "actually if you read between the lines what Jesus meant is..." trope it turns out that the person saying it is exactly the sort of person that would wear a MAGA hat.

Anyone remember when Wikipedia was the default byword for Unreliable Internet Source? The internet used to be good.