Wise Duck

Truly dark shit I'm afraid

Caring. Giving a shit about yourself, others, and life in general

10 years ago, Bernie Sanders warned America of the unintended consequences that could emerge from a regime change war with Iran. Watch.

what do you mean the leader of your country will sometimes "resign" just because there's "a scandal"

Macbeth: SHIT

Too excellent

Jessie Diggins, Olympic cross-country skiing gold medalist, from the Twin Cities: “I want to make sure you know who I’m racing for…”

JEEEEZE WHAT IS HE SAYINGGGG
(Trump's at the podium in Davos)

"standing stoically"
Yep, that'd be him

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

While he is a world class jackass, accusing Trump of being a "King" is gonna give him another wrong idea

Straight from a Chaplin film from 1918.

For those of us in America......that actually READ some of the books they want destroyed......

Is it at all surprising that a convicted felon would ignore a judge's order?

The High Council of Analogy has met and agreed to allow this one

Dear media, please stop saying AI is “training” on copyrighted works. AI is “stealing” copyrighted works. It is “plagiarizing” copyrighted works. It is “breaking multiple laws.”

CDC plans to study autism, vaccines Move comes despite strong evidence finding no link between them. By LENA H. SUN and LAUREN WEBER • The Washington Post

I got your waste, fraud, and abuse right here

‘Move fast and break things’ only works for people who have never had to clean up after themselves.

He nails it.

Guy who doesn’t even respond to the mothers of his children: reply to my email or you’re fired

I miss him.

This is really lovely. I grew up in a house like this and it was very humid, but your art makes the memory better.

One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.

"Disrupt" is code for "Destroy reliable established services so that money previously widely distributed now funnels into a single source." Just like "AI" is code for "Mine the work humans did in the past so we don't have to pay them for their work in the future." That's why VCs like both words.

he calls her a marxist but she's not the one getting publicly owned

Every two weeks a judge in a different state bangs a gavel, announces "it is the finding of this court that the accused, Donald Trump, is an absolute turbo shithead" and then fines him an amount roughly equal to a MLB team's entire payroll. This is expected to continue for months.

one of tech’s biggest problems is that it used to invent stuff that made people’s lives better and easier and in recent years has pivoted to “fake money for scams” and “plagiarism machine that puts you out of a job”

Absolutely not bad

!foryou

Futurism: Elon Musk Stormed Into the Tesla Office Furious That Autopilot Tried to Kill Him Frank Landymore Sat, September 16, 2023

God this is so fucking funny