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Elon Musk accepted a payment from a sanctioned individual, confirmed

i feel like if i was tasked with not starting a war and bringing back US manufacturing jobs, i could have done a better job than this

*werner herzog voice* you have your light evenings now but the mornings are darker than ever

Every morning I wake up and read about fucked up shit happening in the US, but I can’t remember the last time the shit was this shockingly fucked up.

if gender is so innate why does it need deputized citizens to meticulously enforce it?

I find it odd how many people have internalized the idea that a more democratic Iran would be a weaker power?

The consequences of this war for Americans will be bleak and take decades to unfold, but it will impoverish and provincialize them in ways that would have been unimaginable ten years ago

The election of Trump—both of them—will reduce the scope of every American’s future, as well as reducing the scope of who can be and will want to be an American

Part of the reason "Breaking Bad" is one of the greatest TV shows of all time is that its central thesis, which feels true, is that there is a monster inside all human beings, and given the chance to come out, it will, indeed, come out.

Anyway, here's an article about a Let the Monster Out Factory.

Challenge for those who claim the stripper is only hanging out with me for the money: Explain how friendship works.

Iran is well along in its project of systematically dismantling American & allied air defenses in the Mideast. 1st came the US' $1.1 billion long range (5,000 km) radar, and now Iran is neutralizing the US' premier ballistic missile interceptor systems (THAAD batteries.) Soon Iran will be able...

Antizionism isn't antisemitism. The very old notion that Israel secretly controls the U.S. *is.* White supremacists call it "ZOG," "Zionist Occupation Gov't." It's *not* antizionism. Such tired bigotry is most useful to the fascist Israeli regime, which uses it to deflect from its real crimes.

Vibe coding broke people's brains because they had a bad understanding of the software design process.

The pop culture model goes something like this: start out with a sketch and then render that same idea in progressively finer detail.

So when tools could "skip" to high detail, people went WOW.

It was funny to see, I don't even remember which US newspaper it was anymore, but an obit of Ali Khamenei said something to the effect of "he lived a paranoid life in which he believed the US and Israel were out to kill him, which eventually happened"

Terror Alert Level:

Cartoon titled "know the work rules". The first panel, labeled "appropriate" depicts Garfield the cat in a business suit leaning around the edge of a cubicle and pointing to a woman at her desk while saying, "coffee lasagna Mondays am I right?" to which the woman responds, hands clasped together, "awww you're so funny" The second panel, labeled "inappropriate", depicts a far side cow leaning around the edge of the same cubicle and speaking with a word bubble which contains only the shapes of the 4 cow tools. The woman fearfully picks up the Phone and says, "hello , complaint department??!"

know the funny papers rules

All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.

As Kagan notes in her dissent, the Court opted not to hear the due process parental rights argument against bans on gender-affirming medical care in Skrmetti, basically setting up a regime where parents can force their trans children back into the closet but cannot help them out of it

Christofascism is a far-right ideology merging fascist, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political doctrines with Christian theology, aimed at imposing a specific religious, cultural, and political order.

Scientists: "Food gives you energy"

Me after eating:

According to the guy taking these reports, nutty officers do this all the time: “Weinstein added that the MRFF receives similar complaints about Christian eschatology — end-of-the-world theology — “whenever this shit blows up with Israel in the Middle East.”

So maybe business-as-usual, hopefully?

yeah it looks bad but apparently this just happens all the time and we haven’t really paid much attention before now..?

> Weinstein added that the MRFF receives similar complaints about Christian eschatology — end-of-the-world theology — “whenever this shit blows up with Israel in the Middle East.”

Never forget that the senate confirmed this dumbass *unanimously*.

lol at the tourists in dubai being like ‘what do you mean i took my vacation at The Neiman-Marcus That Kills You’

A child inside of a claw machine smiling

The GWB “sir, a second plane” meme

Guy who after seeing the price of RAM decides to become a mentat, which mostly consists of him just taking lots of caffeine pills and drinking lots of Kool aid and trying to rotate shapes in his head.

People are like dude your lips are hella stained and he's like I am rotating a cube in my head

Iran? You haven’t even finished Venezuela.

How can you have any Iran if you don’t finish your Venezuela!

They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for).

you are literally the one guy who isn't allowed to complain about this