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<checking in> hi everyone what is ... Oh. Looks like it was a good weekend to be off line in the woods.

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For some reason my brain just started doing the ancient David Letterman "Uma/Oprah" bit, but with "TACO? RICO. RICO? TACO." Send help

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Wow. Everything's computer.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Dear Amazon, thank you for the alert of something you "think I would be interested in based on a recent purchase." While your offer of a set of *metal cribbage pegs* is v interesting, I am not sure of the logic behind recommending it based on my recent purchase of grill parts and a phone case

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

Dear insurance agent, sending me a letter with a street view picture of my own house is not enticing, it is creepy and weird Also I know what my own house looks like, ty

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Reading a book in which the main character is described as drinking "black coffee, one cream one sugar" and ... that is not black coffee

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

"I don't think that a beautiful blue ocean needs – that's a billion years old – needs to have 30 jets," Trump told Welker. "I think they can have three F-18s or four F-18s because what we were doing with the Red Sea was just unbelievable."

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

You might think the first job of an aircraft carrier is to *carry* the aircraft

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

It was the first time in Arizona history that a book of MadLibs and a classroom of second graders had been used to create a deceased victim's own impact statement.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

this is a simplistic view of movie production. Individual frames, bits of dialogue, and even whole scenes of movies are made abroad, then shipped to the US for assembly to get the Made In America label

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

Oh is that what it means google ai overview thing

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

One of the Pope's final wishes was 'I don't want to deal with JD Vance right now,' and I think that's beautiful

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

You have discovered a planet. A mountain sits, inspiring and impressive, amidst the dust. Once in a while, a tiny sigh is heard.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Let's all go back: homestarrunner.com/toons/backto...

submitted 68 days ago • 91 comments

They have discovered a planet. It is a place free from war -- but with quiet nights. Occasionally, a friendly bark is heard. Perhaps one day we will thrive there.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Lots of people saying 'oh this molecule is produced by algae! omgomgomg!!' but they are ignoring the other likely explanation, alien farts

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

And so I started to ask myself... Was I cutting tariffs, or were tariffs cutting me?

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

What if the real tariffs were all the friends we made along the way

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

(taps earpiece) We are just getting word that people in the US buy a lot of phones computers and electronics, our crack team is trying to confirm this

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Action plan for dealing with tariff situation: 1. Wake up in the morning 2. Step outside 3. Take a deep breath 3. Get real high 3. Scream from the top of your lungs 'what's going on??!?!?!'

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

'I never thought leopards would crater MY economy,' sob people who voted for the leopards cratering national economies ticket

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Lots of talk about bringing manufacturing back to the US. Not nearly enough talk about bringing back widespread use of pneumatic tubes for delivering things. Which would truly make us great

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Sure glad none of us have a habit of exchanging money for goods and services

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

dear Brands, once again I have checked all the rules and there is in fact no requirement to do Very Hilarious Joke Posts on April 1 Thank you for your attention to this matter

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

dear Brands, once again I have checked all the rules and there is in fact no requirement to do Very Hilarious Joke Posts on April 1 Thank you for your attention to this matter

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Getting set for @scifri.bsky.social live with @kuer.org in Salt Lake City!!

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