[-] MacGuffin94@lemmy.world 68 points 3 months ago
[-] MacGuffin94@lemmy.world 77 points 4 months ago

My idea to address unfit elderly drivers is once you start claiming SS you have to take the physical driving test every 2 years then every year once you turn 80. 69 might not be old for some people but could be debilitating for others.

[-] MacGuffin94@lemmy.world 46 points 4 months ago

To be fair it is true that Schumer and Pelosi are running the country. It's kind of their job being elected officials and all.

[-] MacGuffin94@lemmy.world 203 points 6 months ago

I don't want a dumb phone. I want a circa 2014 smart phone that is not expected to replace my laptop and serve as a constant data stream for corporations. I want to be able to visit a website on my phone and not have it try to get me to download an app, be ads on 70% of the screen, or just be unreadable formatting. Let me call, text, do a basic online search, play a stupid flash game, and take my money. Stop being greedy and trying to make everything I do monetizable

[-] MacGuffin94@lemmy.world 84 points 9 months ago

I'm really tired of so many people saying that doing something as a consequence for Trump's actions would set a new precedent. So many things that he has done are unprecedented. There is no FAQ for when the president refuses to transfer power or when a "billionaire" politician is caught perpetrating decades of multitudes of types of fraud.

[-] MacGuffin94@lemmy.world 77 points 11 months ago

I feel that this really sums up the sentiment that I notice in my area.

"Most crucially, major corporations crave younger consumers and lifelong brand loyalists. Outside of cable news, older consumers are less attractive to most advertisers. And younger people (meaning anyone under 45!) lean decidedly to the left. The most coveted 18-29-year-old demographic leans farther left than any other. Long gone are the days of the Reagan youth, when 18-24-year-olds backed the Republican over Walter Mondale by over 30 points in the 1984 presidential election, and corporate America catered to them accordingly."

The 55+ demographic has had the cultural and political focus on them their whole lives. Now that it's not catering to their opinions they are throwing a tantrum.

[-] MacGuffin94@lemmy.world 83 points 1 year ago

But surprises me the least

[-] MacGuffin94@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago

I still don't think that the full impact of COVID is being accounted for in polling and voter outcomes. Yes the first wave hit blue areas hard and fast due to population density but with the vaccine and the ever growing amount of time it has been available I have to imagine it is almost exclusively hitting red areas now. COVID has not gone away but vaccinated people aren't dying at nearly the rate of the unvaccinated of which that group is pretty exclusively GOP or at least Maga. When some of these elections were coming down to the thousands of voters 3 years ago what happens when thousands of dedicated GOP voters are now dead?

[-] MacGuffin94@lemmy.world 125 points 1 year ago

The title excludes the fact that the location is a police training area and the groundskeeper thought it was a prop for training not some Halloween decoration in the suburbs.

[-] MacGuffin94@lemmy.world 167 points 1 year ago

To late us millennials already claimed that. Pretty sure we killed restaurants around the same time we killed movie theaters, trade schools, and domestic beer.

[-] MacGuffin94@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year ago

One thing I've learned is that if you have to announce something about yourself, and announce it loudly and repeatedly, it's very much not true.

[-] MacGuffin94@lemmy.world 103 points 1 year ago

Yeah. It's everything DeSantis has said in speaches and print regarding why and what he was doing to get back at Disney.

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