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Friendly reminder that Joann Fabrics isn’t closing because it’s a bad business. It’s closing bc it was bought by a private equity firm. This is also what is happening to Hooters and what happened to US Toys R Us and Red Lobster. These companies are being dismantled intentionally.

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Remembering my first date with Gini ever: "Let's see a movie!" "What movie?" "Oh, there's this new movie from the guy who directed Pi, I loved that, let's see it." "What do you know about it?" "Nothing! Let's go in blind." And that, dear reader, is how we saw REQUIEM FOR A DREAM

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#alttext: Tweet from Sarah Tonin reading: If you don't want your child to be gay, trans, etc. then just don't have kids. This isn't fucking build a bear. You don't get to pick and choose these things about your child. You aren't ready to be a parent if you aren't ready to love them unconditionally.

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He's about to discover what the personal liberties of a free market does to a paper whose customers were largely left-leaning

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I am imagining a future archaeologist finding this sticker and wondering what the fuck we were on about

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One-day "blackout boycotts" will do nothing to stem the tide of corporate greed. Y'all are gonna have to buckle down and pay the "anti-Amazon tax" (both in terms of money and effort) to start weaning yourself off the Amazon convenience train - at least if you want any hope of REAL change.

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My wife and I are in the honeymoon period of setting up a budget tracker: "We can make categories for your quilting! For my videogames! We can track EVERYTHING!" The rough part will be actually entering those expenses after we discover the scandalous amount we've been spending...

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Hakeem Jeffries is very smart because he always says “extreme MAGA Republicans” to make sure voters differentiate between the Crazy ones and the good reasonable ones who vote exactly the same way as the Crazy ones.

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i keep reading posts from people getting laid off in genuinely every possible tech industry you can imagine and it's so fucking insane that the thing people have to worry about isn't "can an AI do my job" but "can a very stupid person convince my boss that an AI can do my job"

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Know how we can support trans people? Stop footnoting them. Stop saying, “Their son—who used to be their daughter,” “Our friend—who is a trans woman.” They have a son. We have a friend. Their gender history is rarely relevant, and we “other” people with these asides.

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It's toxic to think that because: a) a game aligns with your politics and b) you like it means that c) everyone who didn't like that game hates your politics Some do, of course! But radicalizing every critique means you're prioritizing politics over art, which is usually a losing move

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Watching people defend Dragon Age: Veilguard by saying that those who took umbrage at its lower-stakes, simpler-conflicts dialog are "anti-woke." Dude, the DA franchise took a radical tonal shift that wasn't what they expected or wanted, it doesn't have to be neocon hate, it can just be seen as bad

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To state the absolutely bleedin’ obvious I do not think it hurts the far right at all that votes for them are considered the only interesting ones by both media and most mainstream parties

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Wanna know why small businesses everywhere will implode without the USPS? This is a commonly ordered product from a place I do business with. Cheapest USPS option: $5.14. Cheapest USPS option: $8.84. Ask your customers to pay a mandatory extra $3.70 in shipping fees, and watch your sales drop.

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"Trump doesn't understand how the American government works!" Trump got away with insurrecting a riot and hoarding classified materials, got elected twice, and is dismantling the system from within. My brother in Christ, I'm telling you that YOU no longer understand how the government works.

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Henry Cavill appears to be an affable nerd, but James Bond requires a certain magnetism that he just has never been able to pull off. Yet they keep trying to cast the dude in things that require him to be charming, and he has the screen presence of A Man What Is Really Pretty.

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Does anyone have a recommendation for a good, simple app for tracking/sharing expenses between two or more people in a household? Accent on: * Simple. We're dumb. I don't want fifty menus or thirty minutes of set up in the way. * Sharing. I wanna be able to look up what everyone's doing.

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Elon’s busy schedule today is claiming astronauts were left in the ISS for political reasons, getting corrected by an ISS astronaut, throwing a fit where he calls the astronaut a slur, then complaining that we should deorbit the ISS

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John Wick and Hannibal Lecter are two sides of the same coin: Perfectly polite so long as you're courteous to them, a goddamned monster if you're not

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I want a John Wick spinoff where a dog watches his new owner get brutally killed and sets off to maul every mobster responsible for it Tagline: He's a good boy. Maybe too good.

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When I was twenty, I thought the Dead Kennedys and Rage Against the Machine were beautiful sources of ugly truths. When I was thirty, I thought they had good intentions but were too exaggerated, too crude Now that I'm fifty, they were PERFECTLY correct www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzHL...

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Amazing to watch the general public experience exactly what comics nerds went through in the late 80s: * The multiverse? How EXCITING! * The multiverse? Uh, isn't this just removing all dramatic stakes since you can undo anything that happened? * WILL YOU QUIT WITH THE MULTIVERSE SHIT ALREADY

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Susan Collins is that woman at the party going, "I don't know - I shouldn't - " before stuffing the last of the cookie tray into her mouth

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democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard

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Yoko Ono is 92 today. She is also a great artist whose dignity and compassion in the face of more than half a century of unearned disdain, much of it unequivocally racist and/or misogynistic in character, is genuinely astonishing.

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It is weird. I am still levelling up on polyamory; despite being polyamorous for almost two decades now, I have so much to learn - and so much to put into action. But that's not the weird part. The weird part is that I'm not sharing my lessons any more. It feels selfish. But it was destroying me.

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Kinda wonder how long it's gonna be before a Senator (or multiple Senators!) dies in a plane crash and suddenly the FAA will be a Deep Concern, How Did This Go Wrong?

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I am waiting to tally the number of people who will be outraged to discover this summer that the government actually did a lot of things they took for granted. Sadly, the parks are one of the best things the government maintained for our collective mental health.

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I have the creeping suspicion that "We don't allow AI here" is the moral equivalent of "Shop local" in that people will agree that yes, it would be far better if we didn't use AI/shopped local, and then go ahead and do the bad-but-convenient thing anyway

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Glad I backed out of my WaPo subscription.

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Women couldn’t have their own credit until 1974. Marital rape became illegal nationwide in 1994. We are ONE generation into women having a CHANCE at life & it’s proved so intolerable America would rather end itself than allow such a thing to continue.

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Pretty telling that the comparison here is “someone scolding you via a video you saw on Facebook that you found annoying” and “complete disregard for legal protections and long standing peaceful cooperation between nations”. It’s actually pretty accurate to how conservatives view the world

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this is a good example of the attitude that has led democrats down the road to disaster. it rests on the belief that public opinion cannot be shaped or mobilized or moved, only reacted to

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No they're not. They know exactly what they're voting for: The continued dismantling of our public health system. That's what they want. You know this. Why do we have to do this playacting goldfish brain shit every time.

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If they start touching the FDIC, take all of your money out of the bank and put it somewhere else I'm not kidding. The FDIC is like the Marines of finance. Chances are good that they've quietly shuttered a bank of yours and replaced it with a working one over the weekend. That goes, we're fucked.

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Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off

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