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They make over $300,000 a year editing the New York Times. Do we really want them using public roads?

"Donald Trump is always the most well-read person in the room" does not, in fact, make me think you're spending time in rooms full of people who read.

I've seen writers respond to this saying they worked hard to become writers and enjoy writing. Personally, I gave up being a writer because I *didn't* enjoy it & didn't think I was very good at it. The idea of using AI to be a "writer," rather than accept I'm not one, is *profoundly* embarrassing.

This is a stick up. Give trans people your money.

You know the war is going super well when the guy who's spent every minute since being appointed declaring the importance of doing as much military as possible all the time without end or mercy is like "we'd be willing to tone down the military-ing, ya know, or whatever."

They're all wearing little noose lapel pins because they are murderous freaks

DEATH CULT.

Nancy 2/22/26… 🪱WOIMS🪱

The store's been closed for renovations since Wednesday and I don't know why I'm surprised at how out of sorts that's made me. I don't think about it most of the time, but work is the lattice on which I grow and losing that structure has me going strange and unwholesome like a potato in a drawer.

Sure, no problem *is washed away in a tidal wave of repressed horrors*

As a millennial, let me translate for young people: this is going to last the rest of your natural lives and you will be poorer than your parents because of it.

tfw you've made a smart and good point everyone likes

We're back in the woods, baby

tapping the sign

Can't wait for this dude not becoming president to be my fault somehow

I've said it before, but the thing about "I got hit as a kid and I turned out okay," is that if you're an adult who wants to hit kids, you didn't turn out okay.

Somewhere there is a nuclear family comprised of a cis woman on T to heighten her sex drive, a cis man on T to impress his buddies, and a transmasculine teenager driven to wander the icy wastes for his crimes against God

no and fuck you for asking

Every picture of ICE agents in airports is just this again

I'm so sick of seeing AI disclaimers like this. The solution to not having the budget for voice acting isn't to use AI, it's to not have voice acting at all! Games don't need VO to be good! By jamming in slopvoices, you're not making your game better, you're making it worse and reprehensible!

It's interesting how The Daily Wire attacks the idea that gender is a performance when their sets are all about gender performance. Look at the aesthetics here — the cigars and crystal decanter with Japanese whiskey, the black dress shirt, the tight suit with two-toned double monks and tie bar ...

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

yeah i got your email

here’s a comic about time travel

Saxon Musk is 20 years old. "My adult child doesn't understand that ground beef sandwiches aren't available at the sushi restaurant." Wow, bud. So based. Tell the world.

Jimminy Glick talking to will.i.am: William, it says here you’re making a motorcycle that sad people can talk to, [low voice] *why*?

"Tom Cotton supports FBI data purchasing, compares it to searching people's trash." Ah, yes. Searching through people's trash. That chill thing people are famously okay with the government doing.

New signed prints available for the talking Glyptodon in your life

mind-boggling to me that i still have yet to see a single democrat utter the phrase “every republican president of your lifetime has destroyed the economy and started a war”

What a coincidence, I almost thought he was cool

In an economy anywhere grounded in reality, if you spent 80 billion dollars developing something this useless that died within a few years, you’d be financially destitute. And yet

hahaha he absolutely steamrolls the lawyer's line of questioning. It's beautiful. God damn, put it to a Hans Zimmer score and a beat so I can run to it.

If you’ve ever complained about shipping prices, please take that energy and direct it to your elected representatives. Tell them to fight for more funding of the postal service! If we lose the USPS it’s absolutely inevitable that shipping rates will increase with all carriers. 😤

Reminder that "separate the art from the artist" is, basically, a thought experiment to help you frame how a painting makes you feel without the context of the artist's messy or even odious personal life, not absolve you for materially supporting a genocidal billionaire with your real human money.

only if you make the enemy drive them

Trump’s abduction of Maduro and public rhapsodizing over his confidently expected conquest of Cuba also don’t fit Kent’s thesis. The bellicose behavior is coming from inside the house.

Checking in on our tech overlords, one is on his way to Rome to give a series of talks about the antichrist and another has convinced himself that thinking is fake

Getting some renovations done at the store. Also, my upstairs neighbors are having a room added to their unit. Can't recommend being followed by the incessant sounds of drilling and hammering no matter where you go enough.

Awakening from a fugue state to discover I've written "Once Bitten, Twice Chai" on my cafe's menu.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be taking a big sip of coffee while I google "largest segment us economy"

I don’t see why a 15-second sliding context window with the working memory of a goldfish and fake l/t memories should not be subject to short-term capital gains taxes on everything (including unrealized gains) and a 100% inheritance tax.

Gonna start using this as a "let him cook" meme

Snow Shovelers — Claire Leighton, 1929

I'd run it under some hot water and get a towel to increase my grip

Weird how every journalist writing ‘balanced’ feature stories on this issue turns out to be a deranged conspiracist and ideologue the second you hear them speak off the cuff