The amount of people I've seen around here with Trump flags (yes, they're still up for some reason?) and "No Data Centers in insert town name" makes me understand just how little people connect the dots.

Incidentally it's the same reason between a sunset and smoke - more scattering.

Yeah, I mean the character had glasses the whole way through for continuity.

As for OP, I think it is just a beautiful rendition of completely following through on the childhood dream, and parents supporting it.

The platform launches with ‘Very Adult Son,’ a :30 centered around a mother whose adult son moves back home and adds more responsibilities to her plate, just as Matthew Broderick reminds her that life doesn’t get to decide she’s done chasing a little thrill.

“Our previous relationship with the brand and the team gave us the confidence to look beyond the category’s obsession with jackpots and uncover something more ownable,” said Peter Hughes, Group Creative Director at 72andSunny New York. “We became obsessed with the inciting incident. The moment life starts to assume you’ve lost your edge. Because the real thrill isn’t always the win. It’s the decision to push back. That’s what inspired our platform. Play with Hard Rock Bet is an act of rebellion.”

In our day and age, when you feel like rebelling, this is your outlet! It's healthier and more thrilling to avoid your problems!

Link

I got that much but I didn't understand what the last line adds to it?

Huh?

So the censorship of "free" press begins.

A comment on the article: "I will go back to a command line before I pay a fucking subscription for a mouse."

“Europeans recognize his vision about free public transit and universal childcare. We expect our governments to make these kinds of services accessible to all of us,” said Verbeek. “We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return. The debate here isn’t whether to have these programs, but how to improve them.”

Yes.

To be honest, I have never understood why the "average joe" ever identified with Trump, whose whole point is that he is a "successful" billionaire businessman. Why they believe he's looking out for the little guy is beyond me.

Better than any words I can come up with

Somebody just posted this image in another Ask and I thought it was relevant:

I can't believe someone put in pictures what I've been playing out in my mind all along.

If something's rate of hype is too fast for my internal meter, I will become immediately skeptical of the trend/show/etc. and not care about it, solely because everyone is caring about it too much and too fast.

"We're on a very long, slow path to self-destruction," he says. "Every day that this training is unavailable to the locals is one day closer to a disaster they can't handle or won't know how to handle."

He got to this kernel of truth. He's almost there! If only he could just make the connection and apply it to the big picture.

Lol, imagine if "sports" was part of the origin story of news as a concept.

Can I get a lol with a side of smh?

On June 2, New York City Council Member Vickie Paladino, a Republican, wrote: "Let's just talk about how insane it is to elect someone to any major office who hasn't even been a US citizen for ten years—much less a radical leftist who actually hates everything about the country and is here specifically to undermine everything we've ever been about. Deport."

Mamdani hit back at Paladino on X, saying: "Like nearly 40% of all New Yorkers, I wasn't born in this country. I moved here at age 7. It's my home. And I'm proud to be a citizen, which means standing up for our Constitution. Councilmember Paladino might consider reading it."

Great clapback.

“He's proven again and again that joking is his way of introducing particularly harmful ideas into public discourse, and they have a way to sort of become normalized because we might dismiss them as jokes,” Marx said. “So even if it's framed as kind of a glib or ironic, we have to still take those things seriously and call them out for what they are.”