Growing up, I had these two old-maid great-aunts, and they were anxious about everything. Whenever we approached an escalator, they would stop and make a big dramatic scene about getting on the escalator, saying “If you fall, the steps will cut your legs to ribbons!”

Naturally, my response was to suggest the stairs, or the elevator, instead of the obvious death trap escalator.

To this day, I am very cautious about elevators.

The Feline Propaganda Macine

When the guy who composed the song “Itsy Bitsy, Teeny Weenie, Yellow Polka Dot Bikini” died, I read that he called the song a “non-stop money making machine.”

I’ve been an Eno fan my entire life, but I had no idea that he invented that sound. I wonder if he gets a royalty for every sale?

It reminds me of the “DUN DUN” sound from Law & Order, composed by Mike Post. I read that he’s collected over $20 million in royalties from that sound alone.

Then the winner will be Popey McPopeface.

The next American Olympics is scheduled for Summer 2028. America, and the world, will be a much different place by then. I expect that we will have an Olympics of mostly authoritarian nations, and no Democratic nations.

And there will be lots of ludicrous world records set, because they will fuck with the timings. These guys can’t do anything without cheating.

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Yeah, I wrote them off long ago, but I was recently pressed for time and they were right there. I was shocked at the price. Other than the fries, everything else is average, with the worst, cheapest buns in the biz.

The fries are legit, though. Classic Boardwalk-style fries, especially with malt vinegar.

Lately, instead of picking up a fast food buyer and fries for $13, I’ve been going to Chili’s. They have a $10.99 special that is a REAL bacon cheeseburger, excellent fries, and a drink, and it even includes a salad or a cup of soup. With tax and tip, it’s $15.

The last time I went to 5 Guys, it was $24.50, and it wasn’t nearly as good.

Of course. All the prize money you see on Jeopardy, Wheel, Family Feud, etc. is all taxed.

If someone wins a car or vacation worth $20K, they will be expected to pay income tax on that value.

When Oprah gave away all those expensive cars years ago, she saddled many in that audience with a significant tax bill. A lot of them probably had to sell the car, just to pay the taxes, and then just have the remaining cash in hand after that.

Back in the late 80s, a friend of mine went on Wheel Of Fortune, and won pretty big. Back then, you won “money,” which you then spent at the end of the show in the big showcase of products.

My friend went with a strategy, and bought stuff like wall-to-wall carpeting and a fridge, but also a couple things like a gaudy gold watch.

When he got home, he was getting his haircut, and his barber said “I saw you on Wheel. That was a nice watch you got.” My friend sold it to him. That was his strategy - buy stuff for the house, but also buy some stuff that would be easy to sell, so he could pay the taxes out of his winnings.

Set List:

Incel Mania

Submit to My Power

Behold My Magnum Dong

All Praise to the Great Leader

Lefty Cunt

Suck Up, Punch Down

I’m Not a Creep, You’re a Creep

You’re too Ugly to Fuck, Anyway

My Canadian Girlfriend (You Wouldn’t Know Her)

Only Fans Love

Deportation Vacation

My Misspelled Face Tattoo

Education is Overrrated (We Don’t Need No Critical Thinking)

Agreed. I have more than enough responses in political subs to be satisfied on Lemmy, without all the bullshit that makes up 3/4 of any political post on Reddit - bots, trolls, puns, Russian propaganda farmers, idiots, etc.

But i really miss the active guitar subs. Lemmy’s go days or even months and years between posts. I’m so desperate, I’m starting to browse guitar forums on Facebook (gag!).

So how do Oligarch boots taste? I’m asking because I have too much self-respect to ever find out for myself.

Tax wealth, not work.

My mom wears her Apple watch as her “I’ve fallen and can’t get up” device. She’s mildy amused/ irritated at all the orders it gives her. She’s especially irritated at the daily reminder to write in her journal - “I don’t have a journal, and I’m not starting now.”

Because the people who own the company are buttholes.

I wasn’t just a lurker, I was extremely active, with over 900K in karma. I was going to try to break 1 million this year. Not only that, I was a fairly radical activist, and was rabidly anti-MAGA. Reddit has capitulated to MAGA, so now Im a political enemy.

I repeated an opinion that I’d made made times in the past without even a warning. The first time after the Inauguration, and I was permabanned, despite being a 12 year member with over 900K in karma.

I came to Lemmy, and discovered a lot of recently exiled Reddit vets with high volume posting accounts that were 10+ years old. We were the people that built Reddit over the last decade, with thousands of posts without getting banned, and suddenly ALL of us managed to say something bad enough in the same month to get permabanned.

It turned out February was a bloodbath, and an unknowm number of people were ejected, probably in the thousands. Recently we found out that Musk had been pressuring Spez, and obviously Spez capitulated, like so many other cowardly CEOs, abandoning their core Free Speech mission (which was becoming increasingly compromised anyway).

I’m still lurking over there, but the problems they were habing with puns, bots, TROLLS, Russian propaganda farmers, etc. have only gotten worse.

So now I’m at Lemmy, with a lot of other active ex-Redditors. It looks a lot like Reddit looked 12 years ago, when I started over there. I’ve seen many of the original posts that have become Reddit lore, and I’ll miss what we built, but it’s best days are definitely behind it. Now, we’ll help energize Lemmy, and grow it into its own cultural powerhouse.

For me, that includes building an active, enthusiastic, supportive, POSITIVE guitar community here.

I can’t, I’m permabanned. I tried getting around it several times, with new account names, but each one lasted a shorter and shorter time, as the algorithm honed in on me. My first alt lasted a few weeks, my last one was caught within an hour.

I do like the idea of building the Guitar community here at Lemmy, I’m just not familiar enough with the system to know how to do that. Do we start a new forum, or take over an existing one? Do we have just one and put EVERYTHING in there, or do we split it up between various subjects - general, lessons, performances, gear, amps, etc.?