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Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?

submitted 5 days ago • 1731 comments

Kendrick Lamar Awarded Nobel Beef Prize theonion.com/kendric...

submitted 45 days ago • 78 comments

It's been fun watching the LinkedIn cybersecurity gatekeeper crowd rapidly pivot from "you're not qualified to work in cybersecurity if you don't have a degree and certifications" to "actually, I think a 25 year old coder is perfectly qualified to perform a financial audit of the federal gov".

submitted 45 days ago • 45 comments

The amateur poster panics and rushes to clarify his original post when the replies begin misconstruing it. Whereas the veteran does nothing because he is already working on his next post. His enemies are forever arguing with the wind

submitted 91 days ago • 70 comments

They never tell you how much of fatherhood is just breaking down cardboard boxes

submitted 95 days ago • 72 comments

as much as I despise sentiment/contrarian signals, him ringing a literal bell at the top would be pretty funny

submitted 109 days ago • 2 comments

Saxophone inventor: each button plays a different note Trombone inventor: trombone goes WOOooooOOmp

submitted 109 days ago • 234 comments

anyway hands up if you've got This F***ing Cough and/or That F***ing Sore Throat, a precursor to The Cough. Everyone is ill.

submitted 120 days ago • 8 comments

This is probabaly done a lot more than we'd like to think. The system practically encourages it, IMO.

submitted 119 days ago • 1 comment

For five years, I have been covering what is unquestionably the biggest criminal justice scandal in American history. Today it ended when the most corrupt cop in history took his life. But it's not over. A thread.

submitted 119 days ago • 88 comments

watching that Netflix documentary about Jon-Benet Ramsey and i feel like everyone involved in making child beauty pageants exist should be in prison

submitted 122 days ago • 215 comments

"If public services improve, so will Labour’s standing Perception of public services largely matches their reality, according to Public First, a research firm Reality Trumps Vibes" That last quote should be on a T-shirt I rarely agree so violently #Econsky #news www.economist.com/britain/2024...

submitted 123 days ago • 1 comment

Just found out the next book in Mick Herron’s Slough House series is titled “Clown Town” lololol and I couldn’t be more excited about a future book release if I tried.

submitted 129 days ago • 1 comment

Anyone getting questionable 'hello, thanks for the follow. How are you?' DMs?

submitted 130 days ago • 1 comment

The Carina Nebula - Hubble vs Webb telescopes

submitted 131 days ago • 93 comments

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... As someone raised in the US, the whole leasehold thing here seems like it should be scrapped.

submitted 130 days ago • 0 comments

It has snowed in Chicago and YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS! Time to remind everyone that we light our train tracks on fire to prevent the switches from freezing.

submitted 131 days ago • 579 comments

it’s starting to sound like maybe they are sitting on a stack of pervert reports like they’re smaug the pedophile dragon.

submitted 130 days ago • 108 comments

so the claim here is that it is illegal for private companies to collectively decide how to use their advertising dollars?

submitted 130 days ago • 234 comments

so I think their mistake was that they identified (correctly!) that algorithmic timelines are good for Not Very Online People, who are the majority of people online, but Very Online People prefer non-algo TLs and, crucially, they're the ones doing most of the posting, and they bring people with them

submitted 130 days ago • 42 comments

59 😬

submitted 130 days ago • 82 comments

imagine what the prospect of people having to face their extended families in one week will do to that line

submitted 131 days ago • 26 comments

Bill Ackman is really something else and not in a good way.

submitted 131 days ago • 0 comments