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You better start studying this shit, President Carlson will draft your countrymen into the first demon war in 2028. Start thinking about how you will convince your neighbours that you are not a demon.
Graham Platner got a tattoo that shows, at the very least, very poor judgment.
Kansas law only criminalizes public nudity if it's done for the express purpose of sexual gratification, so I never should have been arrested in the first place and it's a grave injustice that I even have to appeal this conviction in the first place.
For the first two days at this week’s Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas, two Mason jars of pinto beans had been casually set on a table to measure support for the war in Iran, and for much of the event, the bean count was close, with a few more “yes” pintos than “no” pintos.
Then at some point late Thursday, or perhaps in the wee hours of Friday morning, a huge infusion of beans materialized to tip the scales toward giving war a chance.
if God isn't on his side how do you explain the Infusion of Beans Miracle 🤨
While I do think that Philippe's analysis here is mostly right, what I do think he's missing in his analysis is the fact that Americans seem to have a much lower tolerance for economic pain than most countries, even other developed countries. An electorate for whom foreign policy has little salience and would throw out a government for gas prices that are above $4 a gallon isn't going to appreciate any amount of economic pain over the Iran War
In general the American electorate doesn't care what the US government does overseas as long as the US government doesn't visit the consequences on Americans. Trump violated that understanding with the Iran War
Yes, the US will experience less damage, relatively speaking, than the vast majority of nations in the world from this war. But the reason why other admins prior to Trump have never done something as dumb as this is because governments tend to like staying in power and the electorate will throw them out on their asses for the economic pain they will endure as a result of this war
In contrast Canada stuck with the Liberals for a long time, until the housing crisis became way too painful to ignore. And we still ended up putting the Liberals back in power again when Trump started expressing his desire to annex us lol. I don't think a more 'American' electorate would have re-elected Justin Trudeau (or supported Mark Carney)
Zohran is successful because he's everything leftists want except he doesn't devote his life to hating Democrats, and instead just runs as a Democrat because he wants to be the change
I was at the Boston No Kings rally and right by the entrance there was a table for some socialist party with a big sign that straight-up said that the Democrats won't help anything. I was tempted to approach them and say that the Socialist party won't help anything because they'll never win any elections but I decided against it lol
The washed up pilot isn’t even retired, he should’ve retired a long time ago but he’s able to stay in due to his connections with fellow boomers in charge, even when he deliberately made a reckless mistake and crashed a multibillion dollar experimental plane.
ngl, the situation in the philippines is getting really bad. i'm sorry to say guys but as a superpower the united states has been absolutely irresponsible.
Kind of wild how Paul McCartney has kept the albums coming over the years. Dude has been able to do whatever the fuck he wanted for 65 years and he's just like 🙂 "just had an idea for some music!!" 🧐😚🥳
the bicameral mind theory is almost certainly not true but I will give it credit for being the most utterly schizo original theory anyone's ever dreamed up
Like it's a shockingly elegant and beautiful theory and I have no idea how anyone could even come up with something like that
Never been more obvious who the oft quoted ‘unnamed Democratic source’ is. This little fucker feeds Politico and the like the bullshit quotes they want in exchange for an unhinged amount of coverage for a guy currently polling at 0.5% in a race that’s 2 years away.
haven't seen this pinged or posted yet. Peltola leads in the senate race in all rounds and by 5, a fairly comfortable margin, in the final RCV round. this is a gain for her from ASR's previous poll of this race back in January which had Peltola up by 2 in the final round.
note that this is an independent poll, not an internal poll or a poll paid for by an interest group.
Obama had the biggest democratic mandate in a generation and was undone by what came down to incredibly mild healthcare reform that didn’t even include a public option.
Are people outside the DT stupid? Was nobody here alive before the ACA? holy shit man. You used to be kicked off your insurance if you got asthma. You had lifetime caps on the amount of care you received. Yes health insurance in our country is not perfect, but it is so, so, so much better than it was pre-2008
the IDF accused a journalist they killed of being a Hezbollah fighter based on a photo of him in military gear and when Fox asked them for a source they said this
Wearing full plate armour on a jetski doing an activity that regularly involves being dismounted into a body of water, that could end up being significantly more dangerous than jousting on an actual medieval battlefield
One random core memory I have as a child is Sex and the City being on HBO back when all premium channels were scrambled. Since Spice, Playboy, etc., were also scrambled, it was standard for 12 year old boys to try and to maybe catch random boob (!), and for some reason I figured "Sex and the City" was porno as well, lol. I remember watching a few episodes and wondering how much sex was taking place through all the talking.
my brother got into a romance with a LLM. Slap around his wife of 5 kids; divorced and said. You know what. My chat bot doesn't tell me what to do anymore.
Google Maps has decided that the “open now” filter should include places that are, in fact, closed. But since they pay for a sponsored slot, they get thrown onto the map anyway. Lovely.
Crack is literally just cocaine mixed with baking soda. Its basically a plant. Its totally natural. The government cant ban natural things. I dont get it
This is actually insane, can you imagine complaining about living in the richest country in Europe in an okay flat with access to high paying jobs and low taxes?
The average junior software developer salary is CHF 80k, not even London gets to that level
So I'm reading that thread on Kentucky having a new antitrans bill and I noticed this
>requires physicians statewide to use the outdated DSM-III diagnostic criteria (published 1980) rather than the modern DSM-5 (2013) definitions around gender dysphoria
and I'm reminded that homosexuality was considered a mental illness for years in the DSM-I
Surely, antitrans gays have nothing to fear from their conservative masters. They totally wouldn't go back to the "unwoke" DSM-I or anything
After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics in 2023, she received hundreds of invitations and requests. She accepted just three. One of them was advising the WNBA players union as the women prepared to negotiate a new labor deal with the league.
Goldin had one requirement: She refused to be paid.
It isn’t just the biggest pay increase in U.S. league history. It is, as far as Goldin is aware,the biggest increase any union anywhere has ever negotiated.
“Each time we were just fighting and resisting and so upset with the league’s response or lack of response, and she’d say, ‘It’s just math,’” Jackson said.
What's frustrating to me is that I don't see trans people hate the Republican party enough. A lot of the discourse is "well Democrats don't fight hard enough for us," meanwhile REPUBLICANS ARE ACTIVELY TRYING TO KILL YOU.
+170
Sometimes this subreddit really is deranged about trans people. There’s no way you can seriously believe trans people aren’t voting for democrats with Assad margins.
Gosh if there’s one thing that unites 99% of trans people it’s hating republicans.
You can just do hallucinogens and walk through Times Square on a Saturday in Mamdani’s New York. Now let me recommend a thing I would not do a second time
I started my pork roast before I a) two members of the household informed me that they just decided to eat out, and b) I realised the other member has a late shift. So Sunday roast for one.
Learning about the Underground Railroad (famously neither underground nor a railroad) was a confusing experience as a young student in an era where underground railroads were a real thing.
There I was thinking that people escaping slavery were taking the subway to the North and getting confused why they had to keep getting off to sleep under peoples’ floorboards
“Generally speaking, the more supply there is, the less the prices will continue to increase,” Zack Defazio-Farell from the housing advocacy group YIMBY Democrats of San Diego said. “And they may go down as we're starting to see here. So yeah. Shouldn't be too surprised by this.”
I have now had my 33rd first date where the guy mentions wanting to quit his job to create his own start up.
He has worked for the Navy as a materials engineer since graduating a decade ago. He wants to create an urban farming start up, says getting “seed money for the seeds” is the “easy part.”
He doesn’t want to go work for an extant urban farming outfit because why do that when he can “be his own boss” and “do his own thing”
I have never lived on the West Coast. The cities these dates have happened to me in are Dallas, Miami, Boston, Chicago, and DC, none of which (to my knowledge) are particularly start-up heavy. No one else around me seems to have this problem. None of my friend groups have ever been startup/tech bro heavy. I have met these guys through work, friends’ parties, at bars, on hinge, at Church, at rec league dodgeball, at the dog park, so I don’t think it’s location dependent.
Twice is a coincidence, three times a pattern. 33 times is concerning.
How do I make myself less attractive to start up bros?
In my UNJUST GIGAJANNY EXILE, I did stumble into an Instagram account of a senior long haired daschund that is fucking amazing (oreo.boyboy) and I'm obsessed
Kinda resembles my old girl a little bit (scale down model)
/u/2Lore2Law between this and your gorgeous ass dogs I might get one in the future
See I don’t mind that the No Kings protests are scheduled so far in advance because there will always be some relevant Trump fuck up for it to rally against.
So I had this girl over. Everything was going good until she asked if we could watch something. I said yeah, I got movies. She said "Netflix?" and I laughed because obviously I don't use that DRM trash. I pirate everything.
She got real quiet when I said that and kind of made a sour face when I pulled out the HDMI cable(?) I tried to hook my laptop up to the TV but the HDMI wouldn't work. I told her it's because X11 is fighting with my Nvidia drivers, which is Nvidia's fault, not mine. She was already on her phone scrolling TikTok while I was typing commands.
After like 10 minutes I got the screen working but then there was no sound. I had to open PulseAudio Volume Control and mess with the outputs. She asked if we could just use her phone and I said no, I don't want to watch garbage on an Iphone.
Finally I gave up and said fine, we can use Netflix. I subscribed, logged in and it just gave me a black screen with an error about Widevine. She started laughing at her phone and typing fast. Then she got a call. Some dude's voice. She talked to him for like five minutes right in front of me, all giggly. Hung up and said "Oh my god, my brother's car broke down, I gotta go help him."
I said "I can fix it, I know cars" but she was already putting her shoes on. She left super fast.
I don't get it. She was really into me before the movie thing. I texted her today asking when she wants to hang out again but she left me on read. What did I even subscribe Netflix for???
Cynthia Nixon of Sex and the City was at the restaurant where we were celebrating my wife’s birthday with friends last night and wished my wife a happy birthday when the cake came out.
Obviously i planned this /s
Real talk tho: This place has nearly ruined me because instead of just enjoying the moment, there was 5% of me that wanted to tell her “Be gone succ! REEE!!!”
1) Injects JavaScript into every website you open through its in-app browser to hide cookie consent dialogs, GDPR banners, login walls, signup walls, upsell prompts, and paywalls.
2) Has a full GPS tracking pipeline compiled in that polls every 4.5 minutes in the foreground and 9.5 minutes in the background, syncing lat/lng/accuracy/timestamp to OneSignal's servers.
3) Loads JavaScript from a random person's GitHub Pages site (lonelycpp.github.io) for YouTube embeds. If that account is compromised, arbitrary code runs in the app's WebView.
4) Loads third-party JavaScript from Elfsight (elfsightcdn.com/platform.js) for social media widgets, with no sandboxing.
5) Sends email addresses to Mailchimp, images are served from Uploadcare, and a Truth Social embed is hardcoded with static CDN URLs. None of this is government infrastructure.
6) Has no certificate pinning. Standard Android trust management.
7) Ships with dev artifacts in production. A localhost URL, a developer IP (10.4.4.109), the Expo dev client, and an exported Compose PreviewActivity.
8) Profiles users extensively through OneSignal - tags, SMS numbers, cross-device aliases, outcome tracking, notification interaction logging, in-app message click tracking, and full user state observation.
Is any of this illegal? Probably not. Is it what you'd expect from an official government app? Probably not either.
How does Susan Collins still have so much voodoo over the people of Maine that the polls are even close? Like she doesn’t even moderate nearly as much as Murkowski or Tillis have been doing - Murkowski especially in a much redder state. Yet Collins just has to furrow her brows and Mainers are ready to split their tickets for her again.
Depression fucking sucks. I got off my meds for a few days accidentally and wanted to break up with my fiancee, couldn’t get motivation to do my job until like 10 pm, and haven’t put a word on my novel since Tuesday. Now I have to readjust to meds so Im tired and my head hurts 😣
The Jesus vs Genghis Khan debate is so stupid. Jesus was executed by the Romans and yet built a movement so powerful that a few hundred years later the Romans had to adopt it. If anything, Jesus is an example of the power of idea-based movements to jiu-jitsu their opponents without violence.
“We will be the chief opponent of the left in the 2028 Democratic presidential primary,” the organization’s president, Jon Cowan, recently pledged. Asked to define the kind of lefty candidates Third Way doesn’t like, he pinpointed pols who “are for Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, abolishing ICE, open borders.”
lmao Third Way is pro-ICE
i mean i already know that they are but i wasn't sure that they openly admit it
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