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New comment by MisterBastahrd in "Joseph Szabo’s pictures of American adolescents"

MisterBastahrd — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:06:52 +0000

All of them spent significant time outdoors every year and none of them are obese.

New comment by MisterBastahrd in "Gen Z has rediscovered the joy of going to the movies"

MisterBastahrd — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 02:24:30 +0000

Gen Z is about as good at discovering new things as Columbus was.

New comment by MisterBastahrd in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

MisterBastahrd — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:13:48 +0000

Welcome to American conservatism.

New comment by MisterBastahrd in "Who Is America's Homer?"

MisterBastahrd — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:45:32 +0000

Brandon Sanderson writes forgettable stories for pubescent children. His characters fill very specific plot roles and those plots don't really deviate in any interesting way. Saying he's Temu Terry Pratchett is doing a giant disservice to Pratchett.

New comment by MisterBastahrd in "Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future"

MisterBastahrd — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:54:57 +0000

I have a friend who is a teacher and spends that much yearly for ChatGPT and Claude. It saves him many hours a year in time assembling documents and creating posters, flyers, and personalized learning materials for his students.

New comment by MisterBastahrd in "Study suggests most Americans would be healthier without daylight saving time (2025)"

MisterBastahrd — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 06:06:50 +0000

It's an extra hour of potential outdoors activity before nightfall. Yes.

New comment by MisterBastahrd in "US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites"

MisterBastahrd — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 23:33:08 +0000

There's something particularly pathetic about lauding a guy for not taking a $400K yearly salary when he spends $4M a weekend on taxpayer money playing golf, but that's what you get when we've spent the better part of the past 50 years demonizing social programs and the people who have been forced to rely on them.

New comment by MisterBastahrd in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

MisterBastahrd — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 06:35:04 +0000

Did you know that mainstream articles aren't actual research and are made for mass-consumption rather than reporting factual information?

Might want to actually learn something.

New comment by MisterBastahrd in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

MisterBastahrd — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 12:38:31 +0000

It isn't okay for anyone to die from gun violence, but if we're gonna have to expect people to be sacrificed on the altar of the gun nut lobby, then it makes the most sense that the gun nuts should be the ones to suffer the consequences of the policies they support. The tree of liberty and blood blah blah blah.

New comment by MisterBastahrd in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

MisterBastahrd — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 12:31:05 +0000

His position was idiotic in his broader philosophical framework because his economic stance is that the poor should struggle and the rich should reap the benefits of their investments. It literally isn't possible to have a 1950s style familial relationship given his economic stances.

New comment by MisterBastahrd in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

MisterBastahrd — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 12:23:45 +0000

It isn't subjective. Those corporations aren't far-left even by US standards, where Bernie Sanders would be considered center-right in a global context.

Get an education for your own sake.

New comment by MisterBastahrd in "Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi over Age Verification Law"

MisterBastahrd — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 07:08:38 +0000

When you consistently shoot yourself in the face despite all evidence because you believe it'll make you wiser, at some point rational people just need to point out that maybe you've blown your own head off too many times to make intelligent decisions and accept your agency for your actions. Mississippi is governed by fear, full stop. Specifically, a fear that their individual mediocrity will trickle down to their children and so they will vote to make life as difficult as possible just to make it harder for people in even lower social strata to compete with them. I've lived through decades of this stuff and watched it up close and personal.

They're SO racist that when you give them statistics about their state and their communities, the first thing they'll do is handwave them away because to them, statistics are irrelevant if they contain data regarding minorities UNLESS said statistics are there to condemn minorities. Same thing with people in different economic classes. Generalizations are there for them to make about other people, not the other way around.

Mississippi has one of the higher murder rates? Irrelevant to them because they have a higher number of black folks. Murder rates among whites in the state are high? Irrelevant because it's the poor whites who are murdering each other. At some point, you just have to accept that the conditions they're living in are the conditions they're choosing to live in and treat them accordingly.

New comment by MisterBastahrd in "Job Listing Site Highlighting H-1B Positions So Americans Can Apply"

MisterBastahrd — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 20:58:20 +0000

As someone who used to work in contract recruiting, hiring requirements that made absolutely no sense and were fishing for H1-B eligibility were common. I'm still adamant about the idea that an H1 should be paid at least 120% of the average salary for the position at the hiring company. If it's THAT hard to hire an American, then clearly you should need to pay more for such rare expertise.

New comment by MisterBastahrd in "Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations"

MisterBastahrd — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 19:02:00 +0000

This has been an attack on democracy over 40 years in the making. Conservatives have been openly saying what they've wanted to do all the time, but most people thought there'd never be a moment where they'd actually have enough power to pull it off. Meanwhile, liberal politicians have and still are operating under the delusion that they don't have to pass laws when they gain power, they can merely cast feelings and hope that the courts will back that up.

New comment by MisterBastahrd in "The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong"

MisterBastahrd — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:38:23 +0000

There are still hundreds of thousands of journalists around the country who don't have ivy league educations and are getting paid a pittance to work in their fields. I once worked for a publisher which hired reporters making $12 an hour who easily worked over 60 hours a week. Big city reporters might push out a few stories a week. The small town people are cranking them out by the dozen, with about 3/4ths of their bylines being "" Staff so that people remain unaware of how understaffed these papers are.

New comment by MisterBastahrd in "The new literalism plaguing today’s movies"

MisterBastahrd — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 18:12:35 +0000

Netflix wasn't launched in 2007. The streaming service was launched in 2007. Netflix as a company was founded in 97 and was ubiquitous by 2002. Why go to the movies and pay $100+ for a family when you could wait 4-6 months for the home release and get the movie mailed to your home? You could go out and buy a box of microwavable popcorn and a few bags of candy and still save 80 bucks.

New comment by MisterBastahrd in "The Academic Pipeline Stall: Why Industry Must Stand for Academia"

MisterBastahrd — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 16:49:30 +0000

And I'm fine with it. We've got trillions of dollars worth of companies that do very little but leech off of the rest of us and utilize the vast wealth they've accumulated to degrade our society in order to perpetuate their own existence.

New comment by MisterBastahrd in "After millions of years, why are carnivorous plants still so small?"

MisterBastahrd — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 21:45:15 +0000

Because a fly can spit on your food, but a mouse can eat a hole in your baseboards.

New comment by MisterBastahrd in "It’s nearly impossible to buy an original Bob Ross painting (2021)"

MisterBastahrd — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 21:11:18 +0000

If he didn't want them sold, he should have destroyed them. Because even if his current heirs decide to keep them locked up, eventually someone is going to come to the realization that they don't need to work anymore if they sell a few of them, and why would you spend your life working for someone else when you could just get rid of something that only takes up space to begin with?

New comment by MisterBastahrd in "Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway"

MisterBastahrd — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 09:22:27 +0000

Given that they track you every inch of your route, it'd be a pain in the butt to attempt to fake it.

I've gotten a refund on food before because my driver picked up my food and then went spend a half hour in a gas station before returning to their route even though my home was 2 minutes away.