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Mik

I’ve gotten a LOT of refunds from DoorDash. The f***itup rate is high.

Mik

Jesus. At what we pay them? One could see looking the other way.

Mik

There is really nothing to be added to the Roadrunner canon.

Horace

There's nothing funny about a violent stalker. Road runner has PTSD and will be in therapy for the rest of her life.

Mik

They will occasionally have a driver take an item out. If it was sealed they can blame the restaurant.

Axtremus

I stumbled upon this video that got me thinking:

Link to video

The title notwithstanding, it goes pretty deep into how intonation affects lyrics and songwriting, and why certain languages have more trouble adapting to certain pop genres.

To the extent that I compose and improvise, I do so for instrumental music, I rarely think about lyrics. Not sure if I agree with various theses and arguments put forth in the video, but it got thinking.

Horace

She's also a correspondent on Chris Hanson's true crime show.

Horace

@89th said:

Yeah, it's probably erosion of clumps of sand on a hard MAGA granite rock. It's actually remarkable how many true believers have ditched him lately (e.g., Carlson), or perhaps he knows the Trump era is over in 2.5 years and it's time to start moving on. Unfortunately during the next election the Trump influence will likely still be there like an awkward coworker who doesn't leave your office after the conversation is clearly over.

Occam's razor is that you're witnessing people with actual beliefs and principles change allegiances due to a conflict with those beliefs and principles.

Horace

@Doctor-Phibes said:

@Horace said:

From your perspective, you should at least acknowledge a gradual erosion of his "base" as the poll numbers drop and as his previous supporters abandon him over the Iran war. It's easy to point and laugh at how dumb the base is when you're redefining it daily as it gets whittled down to some combination of people who really do align with his decisions and those who simply agree with whatever he says. (The latter are not represented in any mainstream media I'm familiar with.)

Trump has always been a nightmare. It's reassuring that more people have finally figured this out, but let's not pretend these people weren't duped. I was told I was delusional for saying this, but he's the same guy now that he was then.

So who exactly was delusional?

You not liking him is not a prediction that he'd go to war with Iran. (I don't actually care much about the war personally, but I recognize it as a betrayal of his campaign platform.)

Axtremus

(Tough call on whether to post this here or in the Crypto thread.)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/justin-sun-sues-trump-world-liberty-crypto-tokens/

Cryptocurrency billionaire Justin Sun is suing World Liberty Financial, a crypto venture co-founded by President Donald Trump and his sons, alleging the company illegally blocked him from selling digital tokens worth up to $1 billion.

The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday in California federal court, also accuses World Liberty Financial of trying to pressure Sun into investing "hundreds of millions of dollars to mint USD1, World Liberty's stablecoin." The complaint alleges that the company froze his World Liberty Financial tokens after Sun refused to commit more money to the business.

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