if you want to look at the other side of this, check out that dumb BEEKEEPER Statham thriller. It spends the first half of the movie doing *nothing* except make you think that call-center scammers should be hit by drone strikes

To all who celebrate

Happy Surrender and Freedom Day! On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac. home.nps.gov/apco/planyou...

If negative, divisive content were the most engaging, then 4Chan would have more engagement than TikTok. Twitter would have more engagement than Instagram. But we see the opposite. We see Elon buy Twitter, change the algorithm, and we see engagement go *down*. And yes, algo change was intentional.

*talking to teenage militant atheist self* current me: okay so there’s a big fight between the government and the catholic church teenage me: got it, so we’re obviously on the side of the government current me: I, uh, you might want to sit down for this one

Always exciting to see the Avignon Papacy in the news

Perhaps the most hilarious leopard face eating I’ve seen… ever?

The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.

We gotta bring back the productive kind of national shame. Not the throwing up your hands and going “what can you do, we suck” kind but the “I’ll be GODDAMNED if I let the fucking FRENCH have better TRAINS” kind

What a week, huh?

I *hate* the TACO (“Trump Always Chickens Out”) meme. Trump has not “chickened out” on destroying the federal government, putting immigrants in concentration camps, or committing international war crimes. Backing away from the worst precipice isn’t TACO; it’s a strategy to normalize atrocities.

I don’t mean to be dramatic but this motherfucker needs to be gone gone and anyone who worked for him, enabled him, supported him, or voted for him needs to be in prison at best

in 80 years historians will simplify the cause of WW3 to the US President being a pedophile, sorta like WW1 was archduke ferdinand getting shot

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

they really said "they should have sent a poet"

JFK voice: "We do not go to the moon because it is easy, we go to the moon to get as far as possible from Donald Trump!"

Realizing that some of my inexplicable sadness about the Artemis II stuff is that it feels like a trans-dimensional communication from an America that took a different path and chose joy instead of fear and hate.

we'll see how it shakes out over the course of years, but as of right now, mamdani is definitely showing how the future of good progressive governance means "use government to do good things and then post about it" both parts are important!

For decades, practically every school built in the US was also a fallout shelter. Which can have a military purpose.

Me, joking: I can’t believe we chose “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally” Conservatives, dead serious: it was a tough choice, but I’m glad we picked “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally”

Update: Astronauts have fought their way to the lunar temple’s Prism Chapel. They are now battling copies of themselves. Keep in mind these “prism duplicates” are their future selves, not clones, sealing their doom to eventually die here at their own hand

This man is not elected and not Senate confirmed yet he directs almost all of our domestic policy He is a pariah and must be brought in for depositions when Dems retake Congress

I read 80% of consumer use of chatbots as "I am ready to chew my own leg off to stop trying to deal with the administrative complexity modern life has inflicted on me," we really are at the "deus ex machina required" stage of Too Much for people managing jobs, families, health, school, lives.

The American bombing of Iranian girls’ middle schools has been messy. But it‘s also created an opportunity for genuine educational reform. —Today in @washingtonpost.com

It's time to repost this Easter masterpiece

There's something a bit poignant about a Bluetooth device failing to connect to another device right next to it when they're the only Bluetooth devices for hundreds of thousands of kilometres around.

ME: god, he’s looking so old. he looks fucking sick. his brain is mush. his skin looks like wet tissue. it’s gotta happen soon (100 years later) GIGANEWSCASTER: Hyperpresident Trump wins Tour de New France, shares embrace with wife Melania IV and infant son

John Cena is a master of defusing questions designed to get celebrities to say controversial things. Truly, a master of the craft.

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Salmon P. Chase was very self-conscious about having a weird first name. It wasn't some old timey anachronism that would have seemed normal at the time, it was also considered weird in 1808 to name your kid Salmon

What I don't get about American consumer psychology is that people seem extraordinarily price-insensitive about vehicle purchases and the implicit costs of commuting but hyper-sensitive about gas prices and groceries.

This is proof that sometimes you never know how good things can get, and even then, they can sometimes get even better. 13/10 for all (TT: matiastapia2409)

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It’s tough being the only real science among the social sciences, but it’s our burden to bear

Could it please just happen already

Just to expand on this: The dynamic was basically: Voters: Fast food hamburgers went from $3 to $9. I don't like this. Biden/Harris: Look, I'm sorry about your burger or whatever, but there are real people out there with real problems. Trump: I will fix this on day 1. It will be so easy.

It should happen today.

I really wish he'd gotten a shout-out in SFA. What a fucking legend. What a true hero of the Federation.

it's a weird pattern. very similar to how jews are one of the most democratic-leaning demographics in the country yet jewish republicans are widely platformed as being representative of jewish opinion.

People come up with complicated reasons why art/music scenes are less vibrant now but it is like 90% just this

there's actually one guy named "claude" a hyper competent frenchman given a special cocktail of amphetamines that they keep chained up in a basement in San Francisco. the usage limits are because sometimes he dies and it's necessary to decant a new clone and give him more amphetamines.

The key to understanding Trump II is that it’s an administration predicated on doing a national murder-suicide for the crime of embarrassing Trump in 2020

Philadelphia is the greatest city in the world (sound on).

Every so often these assholes still manage to sink to a new, stupider low.

Utterly mind boggling that a few months ago Iranian leadership was being threatened by an internal crisis that could have toppled them and America just completely scuttled that for no reason whatsoever and drop kicked the world into a global energy crisis

“And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward." (Matthew 6:5)

I know the media is incapable of saying "obviously this is bullshit" when it's obviously bullshit but the extreme naivete of the market here is just hilarious/depressing. Yes, all these very very smart investors being very smart and gobbling obvious bullshit

This is a really mind-blowing level of misinformation. Like I would be happy to bet meaningful amounts of money that they’re hilariously wrong and this is where the collapse of the US-Israel alliance begins.