An Ohio jury just cleared Afroman! I have been heavily invested in this case for about...half a day.

What's the way you would least like to be tortured Luke? Why do you want to know that ChatBot? Just making conversation lol.

Attorney for the plaintiff cops: You are making outrageous lies about the police Afroman: They stole my mother's lemon pound cake Cop: *flees courtroom in tears*

The takeaway for me from Afroman’s glorious trial and testimony is mockery is the ultimate weapon against which fascism has no response but to make itself more worthy of mocking

Anyone else following the Afroman trial where police raided his property, deactivated cameras, allegedly stole $400 of seized money (they counted it going in and when it came out it was light), so he posted the security footage and made songs making fun of them so the police sued?

My toxic trait is that if I'm out in the wild and a lion, tiger, or bear tried to eat me i think i could get out of it by giving really good scritches.

Anyone feel like listening to a little history lesson?

Remember when McDonalds made a genAI commercial and it was so universally reviled they pulled it from the internet. Do you have any idea how bad you have to fuck up to make a corporation like McDonalds just pull an entire ad like that. This shit is DEAD.

My brain is sexist because it will always read ffs as for fucks sake which kind of makes sense because that came first but then here comes bbl and it'll always read that as Brazilian butt lift instead of be back later. Ffs and bbl are kind of the same thing! Get with it brain!

I just don't think you'd get away with a statement like this if an employee had encouraged someone to commit acts of extreme violence against others and themself, and you shouldn't get away with it from an LLM

We might be biased, but David Suchet wins this trend 😍

the next move for Platner defenders in response to this will be to turn up the misogyny

Anybody have a grandma like this? I told her i was going to NYC on a work trip and she immediately got worried that I would move there.

When I say "Let me know if you have any questions," I'm not referring to questions that are already answered in the message I'm sending.

It really is this over and over

"Open the Strait of Hormuz. You may not receive the help of any other sovereign nation. Fastest wins."

When this story first broke about the tattoo there were some credulous libs who thought maybe he didn't know what it meant. Well... That can't be the case anymore. It was pretty weaksauce at the time but this new information seems custom designed in a lab to be a complete refutation of that theory.

I know I'll never see it happen, but a just world would see all of Corporate America severely punished for their enabling of and complicity in this naked attempt at ethnic cleansing.

Tech bros for generations have been like "because no woman will date me (because I am so unpleasant) I will simply get rid of them." Only to find out in the long term its not the women who got replaced. This has been a longstanding trope of the "nerd."

Can someone watch the Manosphere documentary and describe it to me? I don't think i can handle that much cringe.

getting neera so pissed she blocked me on twitter, and then mocking her so bad. when she lost the biden appointment she blocked me again will always be fond memories

i love that jacket on him

One of the things that struck me about the interviews Louis Theroux did for his Manosphere documentary is that it's bog standard journalism with basic follow-up questions. These morons have been skating by, monetizing abuse, without seemingly a modicum of push back before now.

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HSA/FSA bedsheets... Okay look, far be it from me to get in the way of tax free bedsheets but what kind of loosey goosey bullshit is going on at the office that decides what you're allowed to spend HSA/FSA money on?

A whole thread of lil guys! 😍

there's a famous Umberto Eco quote about how fascists alternately portray their opponents as immensely strong and pathetically weak, but Trump likes to go the extra mile and put both portrayals in the same post

"Iran is the third-largest urea exporter on the planet. The Strait of Hormuz handles roughly 25% of all globally traded nitrogen fertilizer. The attack came in late February, weeks before spring planting — the narrow window when fertilizer has to be on vessels, at ports, or already in the ground."

Crab insurance, insurance for crabs

I am just saying!

it's interesting when the first and last sentences of a paragraph contradict each other

....well that's vile and complete garbage and not a good sign. seeing this in the guardian, not a us media outfit, isn't surprising, but you just know there won't be much made of this over here. reality is now an underground movement.

Watching Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die and i want it to be good but it's already done two annoying pet peeves of mine. First, it starts off great but then almost immediately does a "two days ago" flashback. I hate that. Second it portrays kids as all extremely sarcastic Dennis Miller types.

A Democrat has won the mayor's seat in Boca Raton... by one vote:

The special agents are here to enforce policy. Go about your own business.

EXCLUSIVE: A dark money group is offering influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate @katmabu.bsky.social www.ms.now/news/kat-abu...

Ostensibly "liberal" wealthy people have made it abundantly clear they don't want to solve this problem in any way that matters.

I'm going to NYC in a few months and am looking for food recommendations.

Capitalism and more specifically "algorithms" have enabled the worst kinds of hate and vitriol by rewarding brainstem level confirmation biases and quick dopamine hits that different flavors of fascism. I don't quite know how to regulate our way out of this but just letting it happen is not working.

What I find interesting about this line is that it’s an admission in order for this to happen, they need you to lose your ordinary intelligence that you already have. This is why they want to get into schools. They want kids to lose basic capacity so that they have to rent it forever.

hey it's supposedly doing this exact thing the whole reason that we needed to regime change iran? or had everyone decided to just pretend they never made that claim with no evidence a few weeks ago?

You can't claim that everyone is offended these days and then, with War On Terror 2.0 The Enchanted Christmas in full-swing, start kicking off about a dead guy being replaced by a nice picture of a badger on some banknotes.

I'm not just against AI to be some contrarian Luddite. It's because the guys pushing this shit are always, always, ALWAYS weird technofascists.

the state of israel, like apartheid south africa, like the jim crow south, like nazi germany, has determined that crimes against a certain type of person, no matter how heinous, aren't crimes because the victims are not people. there is no "but them first" defense of israel that can stand up to it

doing a "where are the college protestors now??" thread while accusing kids of being bad faith actors for being against a genocide that you have admitted to being a genocide (3 days earlier!) is really something

THE US GOVERNMENT HAS ARRESTED HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE, AND ATTEMPTED TO DEPORT SOME, WHO WERE BRAVE ENOUGH TO PROTEST THIS GENOCIDE WHILE YOU SAT AT HOME SUCKING YOUR OWN DICK.