Gordon Calhoun
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Gordon Calhoun@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Trump defends the high price tag for his military parade: 'Peanuts compared to the value'23·1 day agoI’ve found Air Shows and AFB Open Houses to be WAY better at showcasing military assets and personnel to the public and driving recruitment. Military parades are pretty cringe.
Gordon Calhoun@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Rebecca Shaw: I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down. But I didn't expect them to be such losers. English202·2 days agoLiving your life to impress other men by hating women is one of the most embarrassing things I can imagine. Looking up to any of these men for how to live your life is even sadder.
I’ve worked hard to keep these kinds of men out of my personal life, to keep them away from me, out of my goddamn sight. Now they are in my face daily, not only influencing the world for the worse but making me nauseous at how uncool and pathetic they are, on top of their other sins. It’s too much, I can’t take it, there needs to be a change.
It’s time for us to start getting revenge on the nerds.
Sounds to me like they crave attention more than anything, poor insecure past-neglected angsty man-agers they are. Depopulating their various platforms and reducing their viewership would be nice. Sucks that anyone at all would feel inclined to lend them their ears and eyes when there are far better alternatives out there.
Gordon Calhoun@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•The Signal clone the Trump admin uses was hacked4·2 days agoI love how your sentence can also be said “When incompetents vote for incompetents, you tend to get incompetents as the result.”
Gordon Calhoun@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Why is nobody mad about TGI Fridays taking the lords name in vain?3·2 days agoOooo, good find! Busted.
Gordon Calhoun@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Why is nobody mad about TGI Fridays taking the lords name in vain?8·2 days agoDo they actually say what “TGI” stands for? Is there some legal document that says its full name is “Thank God It’s Friday’s”? Maybe it actually stands for “The Grumpy Intestine Friday’s”.
Gordon Calhoun@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Rwanda in Talks With Trump Administration to Take in Migrants Deported From U.S.351·2 days agoHow is this not being plastered as wholesale human trafficking between countries, being done with full public awareness?
Gordon Calhoun@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Does a president need to uphold the Constitution? Trump says 'I don't know'9·2 days agoServicemembers must feel so proud to be serving with him as their boss…
Gordon Calhoun@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Nearly 7,000 troops, tanks and parachute jumps: Army confirms military parade coinciding with Trump's birthday2·3 days agoI think someone can ask to resign, and officers may have a little bit easier of a time resigning a commission, but typically most service members are on a contract for a certain term of service. Quitting before the contract is up…I’m not certain it’s as easy as just quitting, based on posts I’ve seen in r/army.
Gordon Calhoun@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Nearly 7,000 troops, tanks and parachute jumps: Army confirms military parade coinciding with Trump's birthday21·3 days agoAWOL - Absence Without Leave. A violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. May result in an Article 15 Hearing, AKA Non-judicial Punishment, or Court Martial. Confinement may be one of the resulting punishments. Deserting assigned duty is absolutely not taken lightly. Anyone wishing to separate should find a different, more legal, way to do it. I’ve heard failing to pass the body composition or fitness standard is one of the easier ways to get a discharge prior to contract fulfillment. https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid%3AUSC-prelim-title10-section886&num=0&edition=prelim
Gordon Calhoun@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Nearly 7,000 troops, tanks and parachute jumps: Army confirms military parade coinciding with Trump's birthday4·4 days agoIt’s comforting to know most of the uniformed participants will probably dislike the experience and think it’s a cringe waste of their time.
Gordon Calhoun@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Senate votes to overturn EPA rule that limits 7 hazardous air pollutants111·5 days agoI feel like secret service would get itself all in a tizzy, citing things like “terrorism” and “chemical warfare” if members of the senate and/or their staffers received care packages containing:
Alkylated lead compounds, Polycyclic organic matter (POM), Mercury, Hexachlorobenzene, Polychlorinated biphenyls(PCB), 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzofurans (TCDF), 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin.
Seems kinda hypocritical imho.
Several Republican lawmakers have been attempting to revoke the rule. Republican Sen. John Curtis of Utah introduced the resolution which passed Thursday. Curtis had argued that the rule disincentivized companies to deploy new technology to reduce pollution.
“The rule put forward under the former administration shut the door on progress,” Curtis said in a statement after the resolution’s passage. “It told companies that no matter how much they invest to reduce harmful emissions, they would still be punished with permanent red tape. That’s not good science, it’s not good governance, and it certainly isn’t good for the environment. My resolution restores a common-sense incentive: if you clean up, you get credit for it.”
Buuuuuuuuut, if you don’t clean up, don’t worry about it.
Gordon Calhoun@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•People who live in touristic areas, what are the rudest behaviours you've seen among tourists?71·5 days agoSo, describe the ‘american behavior’ you’ve observed so we can all bask in the glory of the depravity you’ve seen and endured. This post seems intended as a place to vent for everyone’s entertainment. I found little to no entertainment value in reading ‘Americans’ as a comment and I have a hard time empathizing with your grievance beyond an assumption you resent how generically fat, ignorant, pushy, entitled, and rude some of them stereotypically may be. Provide some juicy details, Johannes!
Gordon Calhoun@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Tesla sales plummet 80.7% in Sweden amid Elon Musk backlashEnglish18·5 days agoI went so far as to trade my S&P500-flavored index funds for large cap value-flavored ones so I could avoid holding TSLA even by association. It’s so stupid how that moist waste of carbon-based material turned something as silly as an electric car brand into a political totem of autocracy.
Gordon Calhoun@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.ml•Meet The Think Tanks Behind MAGA's New Free Speech Crackdown5·6 days agoUgh, what a disgustingly vile piece of shit! I hope he dies!
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Nice! I hope it was painful.
Gordon Calhoun@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Elon Musk Suffers Late-Night Meltdown Over Murdoch Newspaper35·6 days agoRobyn Denholm: Earlier today, there was a media report erroneously claiming that the Tesla Board had contacted recruitment firms to initiate a CEO search at the company. This is absolutely false (and this was communicated to the media before the report was published). The CEO of Tesla is Elon Musk and the Board is highly confident in his ability to continue executing on the exciting growth plan ahead.
“Exciting growth” as in aggressive malignant cancer of democracy and civic decency?
He may be stupidly rich and powerful, but I’m still infinitely grateful I’m not him.