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This is also true of antibiotics. We were told to stop asking for them at the doc. And that's not wrong! Don't ask for antibiotics when you don't need them. But the VAST majority of antibiotic overuse is by agriculture. It's past time to have a conversation about Big Farm.

I love Merriam-Webster but their website going full AI makes me real sad.

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In all the adaptations I’ve seen, they call him Ebenezer as well as Scrooge. His first name is known and part of his identity. Whatever, this timeline is really annoying. Instead of this dumbassery, I will be watching “The Muppet Christmas Carol” for the 50th time.

As usual, Maris is correct.

The young (and hip) director of Backrooms is anti-AI. This is not rocket science. Many, many, many people appreciate creativity and art and effort. It makes a difference. Audiences will show up.

The number of people who don’t realize that universal healthcare is opposed by big business for this very reason.

I pay $1,000 a month for my health insurance and just had to shell out $4,000 to meet a deductible before getting a necessary to my quality of life procedure. I'd say I'm more in the Tin Age. Maybe Aluminum.

Benefit of never cleaning out the junk drawer: stale Werther's Originals. They are delicious.

Y'all. Every single fucking lie, cheat, felony that this president engages in would be impeachable for another president. It's normalization through bombardment.

I get seasonal depression and anxiety in summer. Least favorite season by a country mile.

This is reminder #456: Choice feminism is bullshit.

Imagine being this fucking stupid. “Do you want more power over your work and life?? Less power in the hands of sociopathic billionaires?!” Yes, Steve. Yes, I do.

Hey, so can we still call em the salad days or no?

Y’all I read the words perfect drop dead and still wasn‘t prepared. Like, actually gasped wasn’t prepared. And then I laughed and laughed and laughed.

One doesn't have to ask this! Scientists know the answer. These kind of outbreaks have been increasing because of deregulation and defunding agencies and poor working conditions.

Anyone who does this should be fired directly into the sun. Signed, a former Borders employee whose greatest joy was giving book recs

Oh look! We found the origin of the cyclospora outbreak. A vapid turd spouting bullshit.

Me: ENOUGH with these reboots. Also Me: A Different World is coming back and has the original cast? Inject it into my veins, thanks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW7N...

We are living in the most unserious timeline. Of course people are going to urinate on the sculpture! He was a virulent racist and misogynist! And the statue is UGLY. Genuinely ugly. Fittingly so but still.

I was single in NYC for 10 years before meeting my dude. I would rather gargle with bleach than read transcripts of old dates. Imagine being this self-centered AND masochistic.

Oh, I didn’t know it was my birthday!

Julie Hagerty and Kathy Bates as sisters on Matlock is some seriously fantastic casting.

Always smart critique from Sam Adams. And also, guaranteed that at least half the conservative folks who were whining about The Odyssey online saw it in theaters opening weekend.

New York landlords know how terrible the market is and it gives them a venal power.

Look I hate AI a fuckton very much and I wouldn't wish consciousness on it even if I thought it was possible. I spend my days wondering what the hell I'm doing with my life. My rice cooker should not have to suffer the same fate, thanks.

Bill Maher was never a progressive. He's just an asshole who likes pot and occasionally cared about the environment.

Even better: think for yourself and don’t use it.

Okay listen, I know it’s easy to belittle the Tate brothers right now and call them sub-human garbage. You guys are doing great.

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

Oh can we also talk about re: Ride or Die that both these leads are in their 50s? They both have wants and needs and anger and desire and joy. What a show.

Ride or Die. It is an absolutely BLAST, y’all. The rare film to acknowlledge that women’s best love stories are with each other and themselves. And Octavia is written as MODERN, finally

I swear to GOODNESS if Ride or Die doesn't get a second season.

Will be rewatching. I loved it all. And I especially love that as good as the entire ensemble is, it's Octavia Spencer's show.

A lot of political pundits will go on CNN or MSNBC and yell at each other and call each other liars. Then in behind the scenes footage, you see them joking about their plans for the weekend. Mainstream punditry is so much fucking theater.

Hal Williams was on two episodes of the new Matlock. He was so sparky and funny and charming still. All the actors I loved as a kid are moving on but I'm glad he got to play for as long as he did.

"Animal Farm" was THE worst movie I've seen in at least a decade and it's not even close. How about worrying less about whether your movie is politically correct and worry about whether or not it's good, dude.

Well, at least I've finally learned how to spell diarrhea.

Do not trust anyone who treats politics like a sport or a game.

Hate to say it, but he was on the cutting edge of a lot of changes in the entertainment industry that in my opinion made movies worse

Yup. My fave lunch is just a bunch of greens (including lettuces) stir fried with chicken and some crunchy somethings and rice or quinoa. Fantastic and not murderously explosive.

I loved The Invite and Penelope Cruz's slinky, smart, gorgeous performance. But it was Olivia Wilde who blew me away. Woof, that anxiety life is real.

I'm not sure Democrats understand the shit people will endure to make sure a bunch of milquetoast dildos don't get elected only to insist that we "move on." They're acting like midterms are a lock. Dems need extraordinary turnout to account for massive disenfranchisement and I'm not sure they get it

My 77-year-old mom is a white lady on a farm in PA who used to vote R most of the time. Now she's ready to throw hands about ICE, trans rights, police brutality, repro rights, all of it. People are not gonna be happy with some bullshit establishment Dem return to center.

I once had a hysteroscopy last 30 minutes. No painkiller except the minimal numbing of the cervix. I shook for an hour after. And my doctor is GOOD. She’s working with the tools available to her. Enough.

I’ve been watching World Cup games off and on and I’ve noticed that the sidelines are riddled with ads for AI. While the most skilled, talented athletes from around the world participate in this very human activity, ghouls tell us we should use AI. I’ll pass, Lenova.

It is an actual sickness to place professional courtesy over the tangible harm Lindsey Graham did to his country and the people in it

The World Cup inspires some banger history quips and this is my favorite.