But I’d suspect the number of Taylor Swift fans who weren’t going to vote at all was a fair bit larger.

Granted, there’s really no consensus on the impact of celebrity endorsements, but if anyone can affect how people vote, I’d wager that the biggest pop star in the country could be the one to do it

Instinctively downvoted Meloncuck’s face. His fans are without a doubt the worst force in the music community. I’ll take a hundred Swifties before I have to deal with another Fantano stan trying to talk about fucking Carly Rae Jepsen with me in the pit before a show starts. Awful. Awful. Awful.

The book House of Leaves is presented as a documentary within a book within a book. Really fun read, too

Never said that the cop acted properly or that the same thing would’ve happened even if Hill did everything right, but JFC he did nothing for himself in that traffic stop.

Cops are bastards. Getting pulled over sucks. But everyone with a brain knows that when it happens you keep your hands on the steering wheel, say “yes/no, officer,” and follow any reasonable request they make for you to get things done as smoothly and stress-free as possible, and then you take the ticket straight to an attorney and fight it in court.

Everyone agrees to follow traffic law when they ask the state to grant them permission to drive. In every state, “stay calm and obey police orders during a traffic stop” is one of those laws. Yes, he was allowed to roll his window up after giving his ID, but the second he was asked to roll it back down and refused, he entered a whole different level of traffic violation, hence the escalation.

You don’t get to pick and choose which rules you to follow because you think you’re a hotshot celebrity who’s embarrassed of being seen getting a ticket.

What if he wasn’t driving reckless down a busy street, been calm and respectful when (rightfully) being pulled over, and rolled his window down when asked to?

Call me a victim of a good PR team but my general impression of Mark Cuban is that he’s definitely in the better half of billionaires

That doesn’t qualify him for public office of course

Mazda’s really pulled themselves our of their rut in recent years. I’ve continuisly heard the CX-5 be recommended as one of the best valued cars on the market right now. Toyota is a given, even if they’re now priced in a higher bracket than they were 15 or 20 years ago.

I’d avoid anything domestic or Euro if you’re looking for a good, economic, new car

Good on her. Even if I am automatically against artists who tour through LiveNation, I think she seems principled and deserving of the hype she’s gotten

“Chappell Roan found dead by suicide after shooting herself twice in the back of the head.”

I kid, but I wonder what path her career will be now

This needs to be higher up. Really well put

Every state is a swing state. If more people realized that even most “stronghold states” are held by less than 20% of the vote, I think we’d see some real change in how we talk about elections

I can confirm with absolute certainty that Charlie Kirk has never eaten a pussy in his entire life.

I wouldn’t outwardly say that I hate anime but I definitely assume the worst when I hear a show is one. I automatically start thinking it’s going to be style over substance with unnecessarily long fight scenes, unrelatable characters, gross sexualization of female characters (if not child characters), and awkward dubs.

There are obviously exceptions to this. Serial Experiments Lain was my PFP here on Lemmy for a while and it’s one of my favorite shows ever. Within the past month I binged all of Chainsaw Man in two nights and thought it was great. But it was great in spite of the fact that it’s also an anime

Funny because I noticed the haptic feedback for the first time recently after owning my PS5 for over a year and was instantly looking for ways to disable it. I don’t trust an unnecessary vibrating motor not to fuck up the parts of the controller I actually care about keeping functional and the Dualsense battery life is abysmal enough as it is

I won’t lol

Cope and seethe lmao

“Dr*nk driver” is a slur, we prefer “driver who drinks.” And it’s only a couple beers to get the shakes down before I get on the road and a couple of road beers as needed if they come back

Definitely, but if I was trying to make a sales pitch to an average person, that’s what I’d lead with. Add-ons on FF Mobile make something like YouTube Premium completely redundant

When I was younger I’d always make sure to toss a beer can straight at the windshields of those jerkasses. Always had plenty rolling around in the foot wells. Might just have to start doing that again as long as automakers keep shipping out cars with the head of Helios shoved into where the headlamps are supposed to be