RoabeArt

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[–] RoabeArt@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Quiet local dive pubs became either overly loud clubs or sports bars

I partly blame those TouchTune jukeboxes (which themselves are a consequence of the Internet) for the decline of the bar atmosphere.

Before them, each bar had their own eclectic collection of songs, which either slapped, sucked or were somewhere in between, but they were all unique and reflected the atmosphere of the place they were in. Now every place has the same flashy RGB Internet connected screen kiosk that theoretically has hundreds of thousands of songs to pick from, but almost everybody in every bar picks the same pop, country or dad-rock slop.

Even the quiet bars that adopted those jukeboxes became loud clubs not long after.

[–] RoabeArt@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

You mean plutonium doesn't look like a vial of cherry flavored cough syrup suspended in a larger vial of water?

[–] RoabeArt@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Until a few years ago my cat used to make a mad dash for the outside any time i had the door open. There were a few times where she'd ninja her way out while I'd bring in groceries or something, and she'd be gone for days.

Now I could leave the door wide open for any given time and she'll just sit there staring at it from her spot on our couch. She's getting pretty old though (about 13 years) so I'm wondering if she's become aware of her own vulnerability. She's still spry regardless but she couldn't care less anymore about escaping.

[–] RoabeArt@hexbear.net 47 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)
[–] RoabeArt@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

In my town, before the Interstates were put in, the county/state transportation departments bought out and set aside strips of land in the 1950s and kept them empty for 20-30 years until construction started in the 1970s. Trees grew in during that time while the land around it got built up. It's weird looking at maps and aerial photos from that time period and seeing empty space. They would have become cool little wooded areas if the highways were never built.

I'm assuming the same happened in New Orleans in the "before" picture: the highway was planned and the land was bought out well in advance, and trees grew in during that time.

[–] RoabeArt@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] RoabeArt@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

More like olds.

[–] RoabeArt@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bayer owns Monsanto, or at least its old assets. Monsanto as a company doesn't exist anymore.

[–] RoabeArt@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

Nuclear armageddon almost never seems to happen at night in movies and TV shows. It's always during the daylight.

The only exception I can think of is Threads, where the missiles start flying when it's like 3 in the morning in Washington DC, and even that happens off screen.

[–] RoabeArt@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

These aliens appeared before in S1E7 and they all look like old people. Maybe it's just natural to the species, like they're just born to look and dress like stereotypes of old humans?

[–] RoabeArt@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"I don't agree with everything the Republicans stand for."

glasses-off glasses-on

"NOT ENOUGH MAINSTREAM REPUBLICANS ARE CALLING FOR THE OUTRIGHT SLAUGHTER OF MINOROTIES FOR MY LIKING"

 

Trump really is the world peace president.

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The Central Intelligence Agency offered buyouts to its entire workforce on Tuesday, citing an aim to bring the agency in line with Donald Trump’s priorities, the Wall Street Journal and CNN have reported.

The US spy agency is also freezing the hiring of job applicants already given a conditional offer, the WSJ reported, quoting an aide to CIA director John Ratcliffe.

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When Trump brought the cat and dog thing up at the debate, I thought he was cooked and that nobody in the right frame of mind, not even the average chud, would believe it, but the next day people at my work were talking about how true it is and that it needs to be stopped. It's amazing and scary how easily people are quick to believe something without a shred of evidence.

Even my mom texted me a mugshot of a woman who was arrested for killing and trying to eat a cat. But when I replied that it happened in a completely different city and the suspect was a US born citizen with mental issues, she said that the suspect was actually Haitian, it happened in Springfield and the police are pretending it happened somewhere else to make their town look good.

I don't even know how to respond to a take like that. Just a year or so ago she was happy to see Alex Jones getting canceled for threatening families of the kids who died at Sandy Hook. Now she's believing and forwarding Jones-grade conspiracy shit, and she couldn't care less about school shootings anymore. It's depressing as fuck.

 
 

Rats have gotten into the confiscated marijuana at the vermin-infested and decaying New Orleans Police Department headquarters, the city's top cop warned.

"I want you to see the tray of all of the roaches, major rodents on the floor, the cockroaches, the rats eating our marijuana. They're all high," Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick told the Criminal Justice Committee on Monday about the evidence room.

The current department headquarters houses substandard facilities with broken air conditioners and elevators. Officers "have nowhere to use a restroom," according to Kirkpatrick.

 

I guess Carano's post-Disney movie career with Ben Shapiro wasn't paying the bills. With Musk having skin in the game this shitshow is gonna be so fun to watch, but the better part of me knows Disney is just gonna settle out of court for some undisclosed amount and the chuds will say they "won."

 

Going by social media reactions, I'm seeing these street-blocking protests getting praises from both people on the left and the right. I'm trying to decipher what I can by translating French articles on the matter but I'm still not entirely sure what the ideology behind this protest is.

I mean, going against a colonialist government is always based, but I'd feel a little icky supporting the movement if it's chuds throwing a tantrum that they're forced to pay their workers living wages, or can't dump pigshit into waterways or something.

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