Is Taco Bell growing their own lettuce? No. They get their lettuce from companies like Taylor Farms (that has 1/3 of the market *including hospitals*). This is deflection on the part of the federal government, which specifically cut funding for food safety screening/testing.

J1161.9 Drunk philosopher wagers that he can drink the ocean dry.

JKR and her new org apparently helped get the new Amnesty International report on how TERF organizations destroy lives taken down from their site. Well, guess what? The Streisand Effect is real. Here's the entire report in a thread. Read it. Share it.

A guy named Poindexter trying to prove he's a manly man by building a shed in his backyard is a real life Simpsons bit

people love to equate objectivity with acting like all sides of an argument are equally valid. but sometimes being objective means acknowledging that certain arguments are wrong!! this fallacy is how you get journalists acting like climate change denial is equally valid as acknowledging it exists

Gonna be a real Romeo and Juliet story when McConnell wakes up and sees Graham and decides to drink the poison as opposed to living without him.

This might be one of the craziest headlines I’ve ever seen. This feels like the kinda headline you’d see on an edgy 90s or early 00s cartoon on a goofball swirling newspaper w/ Homer Simpson or Peter Griffin as its cause & having an “oops” look on their face. Real life has lost its ever loving mind.

I think if you needed any more evidence that the cuts are shortsighted and focused on cutting as deep and as fast as possible with little regard for the future, this is pretty definitive. That engine felt like magic in some spots. A colossal waste of talent and resources.

I've said it a million times but I'm convinced companies are trying to kill personal computing entirely Everything being subscription based for monetary gain is bad enough but it's a slippery slope to things way more nefarious with societal ramifications

Reposting because of the sony news

Immortal life advice

how they make us talk now

Hey there Delilah If you're reading this I am dead And you have now inherited My cursed ancestral homestead By the sea Where legend says that there might be A banshee

A key point in Fahrenheit 451 is that books were banned because they made people depressed and uncomfortable. The novel's protagonist, Montag, is taken into custody after he reads a poem that makes a woman cry because she realizes the emptiness of her life.

fyi, that AltNOAA story about a whale escape that's making the rounds is completely made up/AI generated and the OP is aware and thinks spreading fake stories is fine generally speaking the "altgov" accounts are firehoses of misinfo that are not worth your precious attention

saw a t-shirt this evening that really moved me

looking to betray my master

‼️ Bad Internet Bills, disguised as “kids safety” bills, are moving through Congress again ‼️ It's time to get those phones in Congress ringing off the hooks again w/ one simple message: we refuse any bill that age restricts, censors & surveils the Internet. : www.politico.com/live-updates...

Hey so this new KOSA/KIDS Act proposal has a little note in it that creates a whole new special Trump-appointed team to regulate the internet. So no more Congress votes. No more checks & balances. Just whoever the president picks to decide the future of YOUR internet. You aren’t mad enough.

You know how in Pluribus Rhea Seehorn's character does not entertain the situation for even a second, and instead feels nothing but an anger that is piped deep from her humanity, and then when she encounters other humans she is unable to understand why they aren't angry? That's me and LLMs

Caine stopping Kinger from isolating himself during the amazing digital orgy between the girls and Zooble by handing him the Queenie shaped dildo

The arrests for "vandalism" around the reflecting pool are in principle the same thing as Russian soldiers being forced to record false captures/flag-raisings on the frontlines– the deforming of the state into a tyrant-soothing bouncy infant chair

haters will tell you that the "Roland is a hack" reading of Death of the Author is disingenuous, that it betrays the greater context of the movement Barthes refers to. but by applying Death of the Author to Death of the Author, we find that shit transparently doesn't matter and that Roland is a hack

My TADC finale review is that I think I found a missing puzzle piece in my understanding of Vriskourse circa 2010s

"we can't know anything about the health of the baby based on the sale of shoes, even if they're unused. for it to be true it would have to be stated in the text but it's just not confirmed. the narrative about this being about death and loss is just fan interpretation. there's no way of knowing!"

That's enough Death of the Author. It's time for Death of the Audience. Start running fools

Jax if she wasn't a huge piece of shit.

I fuckin love being right

This piece is another example of how evidentiary standards for covering young people basically don't exist. It's a take on the supposedly widespread and normal use of this language anchored around guesstimates from two (2) people about behavior at a single high school.

Xanatos’s constant insistence that “Ah, but by getting owned, I have actually won” lands differently now

rest in power, eggbug

I’m a trans woman in my forties. Growing up without social media—and during Section 28—I knew nothing about transness and I knew no-one like me. I almost didn’t make it; I dread to think how many didn’t. You can’t tell me that returning to this state is not an intended effect of this proposed ban.

each nation has sent its strongest champion. in one side theres anubis the guardian of the afterlife. on the other theres obelisk. only time can tell which one of them will come out victorious

one of my favorite recurring subplots in housing discourse is NIMBYs talking about any major dev project like it’s a form of settler colonialism and meanwhile actual indigenous people are like “we are going to build the biggest apartment buildings you have literally ever seen”

Thinking about how I was told, once, that the original myth of the zombie was rooted in fear of personhood being so stripped from enslaved people that even death wasn't an escape from servitude. Just a useful body without a soul, working for the benefit of an infinite greed.

NEW YORK CITY, YOU LISTEN TO ME. IF YOU'RE NEAR A CONVENIENCE STORE RIGHT NOW, ANY TYPE OF 24-HOUR STORE, GO INTO THE STORE RIGHT NOW AND PUT YOUR HAND IN THE CASH REGISTER FOR NO REASON!!!!!!!!!!!!

People will say “Oh so Google gets mad about copyright when people do it but not when they do” but these two images are consistent: your creative labor is a profitable plaything for people more powerful that you

This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines

MOTHERFUCKER

First look at White Ganon in The Legend of Zelda movie

nintendo announced they are remaking the last christmas you had before the divorce

Anyways I just went down a very distressing rabbit hole where I found out Tupac's estate is managed by a label executive who signed him to his label and he was sued by Tupac's half-sister who is alleging that he embezzled millions of dollars from their mother's estate

The Amazing Digital Circus and The Backrooms are beating big brands at the box office what it means: despite the power of nostalgia and familiarity, audiences actually do want to see more original stories what executives will see: "YOUTUBE IS HOT! QUICK MAKE A MR BEAST MOVIE"