Real in the sense that it was made at the height of the napster crisis. It wasn’t put out by the RIAA though.

If you’re looking to get into the scrap metal business, I could sell you the Eiffel Tower.

I guess it’s more of an American context. Someone “buying the farm” is a euphemism for them dying.

The explanation I’ve heard before is that it comes from the life experience of actual farmers. Someone getting started as a farm owner has to take out a very large loan to purchase a plot of land. If they have a family, they probably have a life insurance policy big enough to pay off that mortgage and provide for their family if they die young. So, if someone in that situation dies, their family gets enough money to pay off the mortgage. Through their death they “buy the farm.”

I think it may be a term originating from the WW1 or WW2 eras. There were a lot more young men purchasing farms back then, and with the casualties from the wars, there were a lot more of them “buying the farm.”

People love to say Kamala wouldn’t have done most of what Trump’s done on immigration. While obviously she would have been less crass about it, I could absolutely see her tripling ICE’s budget, simply for not wanting to seem soft on illegal immigration. It’s not like Kamala or Biden are out there now calling for ICE to have its funding slashed.

But then you have this small container of boiling water constantly in contact with a metal or plastic containment vessel, absorbing who knows what contaminates due the higher temperatures.

Why would anyone need an fancy indoor flush toilet when they can just go to the outhouse?

Because then you have to make tea with water that’s been sitting, boiling, in a tank, absorbing who knows what contaminates, for potentially days or weeks. You’re not even supposed to drink hot water that comes out of the regular water heater. For a boiling water tap, you need a second even tinier tank that will be used even less frequently.

I’m curious, is “bought the farm” also as saying in Germany?

You do know that capacitors can hold charge, even while unplugged, don’t you?

Let’s make it even MORE complicated. Let’s make the kettle a heat pump powered by a bank of supercapacitors!

Is it? That’s not why we built the land-grant university system, for instance.

Seriously. This CEO just wants cheaper contractors and hotel stays.

If history is any guide, now would be the perfect time to pursue a career that requires office work. Whenever corporate forces start encouraging people to go into a path, it’s because they want to increase the supply of labor in that field and to drive down wages. And the herd does follow along. We’re going to have tons of people skipping college to go to trade school. The result? Carpenters and plumbers earning pennies.

The CEOs job is to serve as a shiny object and to fart out mountains of inspirational drivel. They’re human LLMs.

If he had he would be a lame duck from the outset.

This is a bone headed take. A lame duck is not a lame duck simply because they’re not running again. They’re a lame duck because they’re unpopular and politically irrelevant. If he had declared to be a one-term president, he could have spent his term building up a bench of potential candidates for 2024. He still would have had great power, influence, and the bully pulpit, even if he wasn’t running again. He wouldn’t be an individual, he would be part of a team. And that team is what would allow continuity and the prevention of a lame duck term.

How many children in the 1980s were acutely aware of Trump? I imagine very few. You’re talking about people who were in their twenties and older in the 1980s. And if you were 25 in 1984, you were 65 in 2024. A lot of the electorate is simply too young to remember Trump in his 1980s incarnation. And while older voters do vote at higher rates, the difference is massively overblown.

Abduct him and put him on trial in a European country. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

I consider this trope to be cover for Trump. Evil people are perfectly capable of multiple evils.

If they had any balls at all, potential Democratic hopefuls for 2028 should be announcing now,

“If Trump takes Greenland or any other country’s land, I’ll give it back immediately if elected.”