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people are famously normal in this country about tax policy related to caffeinated drinks

submitted 9 hours ago • 15 comments

i see China has unleashed TikTok re tariffs which I will have more complicated feelings about if I ever see one that isn’t a 100% clean hit

submitted 9 hours ago • 17 comments

My walk for the day with The Brit. 9,000 steps with views at Discovery Park.

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

"the state can just summarily imprison someone without filing charges or holding a trial" doesn't just overturn democracy it overturns 1000 years of common law, like throwing out the entire legal system entirely and saying all people in America are the state's property.

submitted 3 hours ago • 45 comments

I tire of receiving temporary verification codes

submitted 4 hours ago • 5 comments

Same, medieval dudes. Same.

submitted 8 hours ago • 191 comments

The stupid thing about vaccines is they aren't even some active adjudicant. They literally just train your God-given biological immune system on what to do. They're like literally the most minimal imaginable idea of medical intervention. Nothing about them sticks around or has to be kept circulating

submitted 4 hours ago • 8 comments

If you've ever got four hours to kill and nothing better to do, my advice is this: ask your mom what her wifi password is.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Pastor: Let’s open the floor for new requests I raise my hand Pastor: NEW requests only, we aren’t changing our communion wafers Me: We’re eating paper Pastor: Jesus never said take this cookie & eat Me: Red Velvet Oreo Thins were too advanced for that civilization

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Son's Friend: Hi Mr. Tanaka Me: Oh no no no, Mr. Tanaka was my father's name Friend: Lol ok, hi Gra- Me: Grant was my father's name too Friend: Me: Friend: So what do I call y- Me: Karate Ghost

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments

I'm a lawyer and this is correct. Straight line of "blatantly illegal constitutional end-runs to violate human rights" from Iran–Contra to Gitmo to CECOT paved by the only consequences the perpetrators suffering being more money, more power, and more prestige.

submitted 5 hours ago • 66 comments

Being nervous all the time is my primary form of cardio

submitted 17 hours ago • 10 comments

So this is pretty straightforward corruption play Tim Apple and a couple other tech bros had some shipments coming in and said “please, Donnie, baby” so the Don sent notice to the docks “Hey let a couple of my guys get some stuff out of storage w/o charging all quick-like and on the down low But..

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

radicalizing all of america’s other grill guys by pointing out trump made it harder to tell if it’s going to rain

submitted 7 hours ago • 6 comments

Après moi, le déluge, I murmur as another acquaintance who is fond of the word pretentious tells me to leave social media.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

"For her part, Ms. Petrova is seeing the United States from a new and unsettling vantage point. 'I feel like something is happening generally in America,' she said, in an interview over a video link. 'Something bad is happening. I don’t think everybody understands.'" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/s...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Here's another photo from yesterday. First-of-year Double-crested Cormorants gathered on a small island in the middle of the spring-swollen St. John (Wolastoq) River in southern New Brunswick, Canada. #birds

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

lord willing we will one day prosecute miller for crimes against humanity

submitted 1 day ago • 415 comments

Gotta love a vanifesto

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

Famine, war, pestilence....

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

Like so many of my generation, I was radicalized by video stores putting The Truman Show in the Comedy section

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

roughly every five years, harsh bangs come back. roughly every 8 years, moustaches come back. rarely, but sometimes, they coincide. we are in this moment. we have entered the singularity.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

I wish my doctor would put down a little treat to distract me like the vet does for my dog.

submitted 7 days ago • 21 comments

People want to work! If I won the Powerball I'd still work! People enjoy being productive, and study after study shows money is actually a lousy motivator. But the right sees humans as essentially lazy and useless (another confession as accusation) and neither will nor can ever accept that.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Thinking about this one today

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

This part

submitted 1 day ago • 648 comments

I was thinking about this Joe and Tracy anecdote from the supply chain crisis on gummy bears. Things are probably going to get really weird in a few weeks in unexpected ways:

submitted 1 day ago • 119 comments