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Her hands look like this so mine can look like this

Astonishing: Maxwell was willing to tell Blanche about some of Trump's rapes, and he ordered her not to. "Let's not talk about inviduals." WTF were they there to talk about? There's EVIDENCE on this.

I would also add the America 250 takeover by the Trump administration/the reflecting pool/the expensive gilding of DC while prices on everything skyrocketed.

Hey is it good when a company is ripping the figurative copper out of their walls to sustain impending debt calls?

bro no, someone CANNOT believe that's a good story to convince people that they need this junk

NEWS: the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders have unionized and the Cowboys have agreed to recognize the union

A cow’s liver weighs about 10-15 pounds. A cow weighs 1000-1800 pounds. 40% of the country cannot replace their beef consumption with 1% of the cow.

The generality principle of the Rule of Law is its most essential concept. A class of people outside criminal law is incompatible with a law-based society.

Much of What Democrats Must Do boils down to valuing the good faith opinions of millions of Americans who vote for them more than bad faith opinions in media. They’ll call truth and justice “weaponization.” They’ll say voters don’t want accountability. They’re wrong, and Dems don’t have to listen.

stole this from the other site because it made me fucking die of laughter

Total respect for NBC's Monica Alba, who asked Trump exactly the question he needs to answer. By refusing to answer, and attacking her, he has effectively told the world that no, sexual abuse allegations do no mean a thing to him. Imagine if she wasn't there. We'd be the poorer for it.

This is what someone does in the leadup to an honest-to-God election takeover.

A timeline of Russian election interference.

Trump just said this about his DOJ's Alaska lawsuit: "I'm the one that said do it."

People i know probably would have understood sooner if coverage described tariffs more plainly as fees paid BY AMERICANS when buying from certain countries, and not "a tariff ON another country." People have slowly gotten it regardless, but I saw national coverage that implied the opposite meaning.

Americans were upset about inflation, so they threw out the leaders who oversaw slowing inflation, opted for a candidate promising to raise prices faster, and got what they voted for.

The New York Times wrote articles that were like "the impossible-to-characterize elusive politics of Elon Musk / he's lost interest in politics" right before he became *literally the largest GOP donor in history* the next election cycle. Twice. Two times!

Dutch intelligence obtained a Russian hack of Kushner's phone and then hacked it themselves to find:

Peak spookiness.

even by normal oppo standards this story is bonkers — basically vivek and co (and acton’s shitty mother) are accusing acton of fabricating horrific stories of child sexual abuse that are clearly documented in court records

Nobody affiliated with this campaign should ever have a career in politics or communications again. This is beyond reprehensible.

"dont worry, we didn't use LLMs for real art, like writing, or graphics, or sound, we only used it for dumb gross useless basic shit like programming" always the funnest thing to read as a programmer, as someone whose whole career is based on code, whose handwritten library changed the industry etc

To be clear: Alan Wake 2: Lake House DLC is a timely must-play - A scientist uses rows of automated typewriters to try to artificially generate Alan Wake-style magical writing - Scientist worries that if artists are mostly left-leaning, and the art becomes real, they NEED some right-wing artists

NVIDIA seems to be channel stuffing, forcing Amazon and other customers to take early delivery. The argument that these things are "scarce" when you don't even have anywhere to plug them into is nonsense...unless NVIDIA is saying you NEED to take them now, or else. GPUs are stacked in warehouses.

Mitch McConnell is still too feeble to do things like drive a car, send an email, or feed himself. He must be eased back into daily life by serving as a United States senator.

DOJ: [i missed it] what plaintiffs are challenging is golf course redesign. J: not just that. historic golf coursre. first desegregated golf course in DC. way for people who couldn't otherwise play golf to play golf. not just putt putt thing by beach. tho there is a putt putt people like a lot /162

Yes. The conservative scheme for education is a three-way split: high-priced academies for the children of the wealthy, religious instruction to brainwash the middle class, and a rump of prison-like public schools to discipline the lower class into obedience.

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

Speaking only theoretically: If a country had a culturally integrated insurgency, would it be wise to assume those willing to violently overthrow elections would be somehow honor-bound to respond truthfully (if at all) to political polling?

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

lol holy shit

The "golden age of gaming" isn't one where the vast majority of people who love games can't afford the equipment to play them and where those who make the games get their ideas (and ability to pay rent) stolen from them.

Fellow humans, please touch grass

As someone who understands governments' current flaws all too well, I would NEVER tell anyone that "you must vote." But for New Yorkers ALREADY planning to vote, I ask that you vote for ✨Kathy Hochul on the Working Families Party line.✨ Here's how doing so will help build Left governing power. 🧵

Is it bad if major defense contractors have their own foreign policies?

That new GTA launch trailer looks like most of it was filmed using a scratched up plastic preview-window lens from a disposable camera, and I don't understand why that would be.

You guys are not gonna believe what happens to large amounts of compressed gas when its container ruptures in a car crash.

If a tool provided measurable value/productivity increases, this would be an odd move to make. Unless of course management realized that AI doesn't increase productivity in their work. Allocating less per employee on AI than they do each month on break-room coffee pods is a loud signal.

after two years of bargaining thanks to activision's stall tactics, unionized workers have authorized a strike. I spoke to them, as well as an ex-employee with disability issues who was basically forced out of the company due to the return-to-office policies the union has been trying to fight

Her "immigration status" is that she's been a US citizen longer than either Melania Trump or Elon Musk. The Democrats SHOULD use this opportunity for 100% solidarity with one of their own, and throw the fucking kitchen sink at Trump and his Republicans. I doubt they will but would LOVE to be wrong.

Master of Puppets is a song about a guy who really likes puppets

One metal magazine of the 90s actually coined the phrase "Hetfield Effect" to describe the tendency of rockers to switch from "anti-war / anti-establishment" to "patriotic / conservative" pretty much the second they passed draft age

A thing I think about a lot is how directly this stuff is descended from casino customer-tracking apps as they were emerging in the 90s. Addiction By Design covers this in a chapter - casinos harvest data on videoslot players and then measure exactly where their "Frustration point" is on losses.

*lays off a thousand programmers* Wow, programming is hard!