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[-] jenings@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago

This comment right here is what his cult will suck the shit from his asshole for. He loves to troll libs so goddamn much and his unwavering fan base will let him literally rape children for it

[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 15 points 2 hours ago

Literally Idiocracy.

[-] amniote@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

The 2014 invasion? Nah bro, nobody missed that over there.

[-] TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 27 points 5 hours ago

It's probably been mentioned many times already, but here it goes anyway:
"If you put a clown onto the throne, the clown will not turn into a king. The palace will turn into a circus."

[-] amniote@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

Wrong. Look at Ukrain's Zelenski : TV show comedian. Now the stature of Churchill.

[-] PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 11 points 5 hours ago

Relevant quote from Carl Sagan's "The Demon-Haunted World":

[The 1939 New York World's Fair's president] Grover Whalen - a former corporate executive, New York City police chief in a time of unprecedented police brutality, and public relations innovator [...] had convinced Stalin and Mussolini to build lavish national pavilions. (He later complained about how often he had been obliged to give the fascist salute.) The level of the exhibits, as one designer described it, was pitched to the mentality of a twelve-year-old.

[-] Ibuthyr@feddit.org 7 points 5 hours ago

Lol, president Komancho

[-] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

It'll come down next week then.

TACO

[-] Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 47 points 9 hours ago
[-] prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 56 points 11 hours ago

Please note that this is the guy that hates the sight of wind turbines out in the distance. They ugly.

[-] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago

And unlike him, wind turbines serve a useful purpose

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 hours ago

Even Don Quixote had a better reason for hating windmills.

[-] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 21 points 10 hours ago

Wind turbines look freaking bad ass!

[-] x00z@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago

There's a lot of wind turbines where I live and driving past them feels extremely blissful. Just looking at them gives me hope.

[-] prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 10 points 9 hours ago

I absolutely agree

[-] bampop@lemmy.world 15 points 9 hours ago

I can see the logic. Build a colosseum and stage gladiatorial contests, distract the masses and get made emperor for life. But what a pathetic attempt at a colosseum this is.

[-] Stern@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago

NO BREAD. ONLY CIRCUS.

[-] ThanksObama@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 hours ago

No room for chariot races, fierce wild animals, or simulated naval battles. Pathetic indeed.

[-] YerLam@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

AI will fix it! It will be all computer!

[-] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago

Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen.

[-] Decq@lemmy.world 20 points 10 hours ago

Name me one person in the world less tasteful than trump. Go on, I'll wait.

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[-] moondoggie@lemmy.world 36 points 15 hours ago

WHO THE FUCK TOLD HIM ABOUT THE EIFFEL TOWER?

[-] smeenz@lemmy.nz 30 points 13 hours ago

Just what I was thinking. There's no way orange hitler knew that it was originally a temporary structure that became permanent.

[-] MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 12 points 13 hours ago

I swear there was a popular meme template years ago of him typing on his phone, and another panel of a search browser saying "what does a president do?". Can't find it now. But I imagine that template with a wiki page or the tower

[-] Sequentialsilence@lemmy.world 194 points 21 hours ago

I work in events. That is a very temporary structure. The frame is aluminum trussing, and although it would hold up fairly well, all of the fabric will start bleaching within 3-4 weeks, the metal chains holding everything up will start rusting pretty quickly being exposed to the elements. The lights themselves aren’t IP rated and are relying on the fabric for protection so those will fail pretty quickly. Finally the stage itself has a wood underlayment that will rot within a single season if left outside.

Lastly it’s all rented and the rental company will continue to charge the client until it’s returned.

[-] Furbag@pawb.social 7 points 4 hours ago

Lastly it’s all rented and the rental company will continue to charge the client until it’s returned.

That's just another line item for the American taxpayer. Hardly Trump's problem.

[-] Tja@programming.dev 2 points 1 hour ago

Or he just won't pay. That's not a problem for him.

[-] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 hours ago

Funny story about temporary rental equipment.

My old company, big (as in billions $$) defence control actor. They refused to buy permanent sites, instead they would lease or rent buildings or structures. Sea cans counted as structures. They rented 3 sea cans for 15 years. Spent almost 100k each over that period. Never once did they accept the financial argument that one years lease would almost buy a sea can outright.

[-] Starik@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago

Probably the only consideration is what is cheapest for the current quarter.

[-] dave@feddit.uk 6 points 11 hours ago

I’m curious—can you tell the lighting isn’t rated from these images, or just because of the number / cost?

Also curious about the chains—does that means they can’t be reused for long if they’ve been outdoors? I assume there’s plenty of regulation around that kind of thing.

[-] Sequentialsilence@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago

I saw some other pictures of it being assembled and the lights were wrapped until the fabric was on. It’s also relatively rare for moving heads to be IP rated because they move, and in order to maintain IP rating on something that moves it requires significantly more maintenance and with that, higher cost. The lights that are on the outside are IP rated for instance, as they didn’t have the fabric to protect them. But from prior experience that means those lights cost about 3 times as much to rent.

The chains are protected by a coating of oil, the oil is in a reservoir inside the motor so if the chains aren’t getting ran on a regular basis they aren’t getting a fresh coat of oil. As soon as any sort of weathering happens, the chains become exposed and will start rusting. You can get stainless steel chains that won’t rust, but the price on those is so astronomical, that it’s special order only, and only used for permanent installs. The only way this has stainless steel chains is if it was designed as a permanent install from the beginning.

[-] mech@feddit.org 4 points 10 hours ago

Let's hope it outlasts Trump

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 hours ago

Is it the US version of the Liz Truss head of lettuce?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Truss_lettuce

[-] PacMan@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 hours ago

It’s like the parked car on cinder blocks in someone’s yard.Eventually the grass will grow tall enough that you won’t see it

[-] Lydia_K@lemmy.world 166 points 20 hours ago
[-] fake_meows@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 hour ago

Never forget.

[-] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 46 points 19 hours ago

Can't wait to find out that this somehow cost us taxpayers like a hundred million dollars.

[-] Asafum@lemmy.world 23 points 15 hours ago

And the rental company is DefinitelyNotTrumpJr LLC.

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[-] stretch2m@infosec.pub 26 points 17 hours ago

Oh please let him live long enough to watch us tear all his tacky shit to the ground!

[-] smeenz@lemmy.nz 13 points 13 hours ago

I want to see them light the det cord that demolishes mar a lago

[-] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

With Trump in it... Right?

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

No, too fast and painless. Not that it'd be painless, just not painful enough for him.

[-] smeenz@lemmy.nz 2 points 6 hours ago

Ideally, yes.

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[-] Dantpool@kbin.melroy.org 23 points 17 hours ago

Slaps top of arena This thing can hold so many guillotines

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