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They’re not, and nobody is saying they are - the problem is the baseline assumption that someone who has achieved wealth and power has done something to deserve it, and that their exercise of power is therefore justified or acceptable on that basis

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This is the logical endpoint of Zionism: defector.com/this-is-the-...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Roses are red, Elon's a knob,

submitted 8 days ago • 17 comments

See that small dot to the lower left of the Sun's centre? That's the planet Mercury.

submitted 10 days ago • 15 comments

I love how every few years we get a delightful freak (complimentary) of a show. Like it is a fundamental pilar of tv, that one must always occupy space. - Severence - The White Lotus - Lodge 49 - Legion - Twin Peaks: The Return Going back a bit further - John from Cincinnati

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

The Palestinians and their supporters didn't create our current predicament. It's a convenient, counterproductive deflection to lay the blame at their feet, and given the degree of destruction and suffering they've endured, it's also sadistic.

submitted 18 days ago • 247 comments

Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work

submitted 19 days ago • 212 comments

Also I need friends who will zipline into Godzilla's mouth with me. Get in, losers. We're going to tickle Godzilla's uvula.

submitted 19 days ago • 63 comments

Americans will go on vacation to a place that isn’t a car sewer, walk and take public transit for 8-12 hrs. a day, notice a change in their health, and attribute it to “they must not have the Illuminati chemicals here”

submitted 25 days ago • 144 comments

if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools

submitted 26 days ago • 938 comments

I feel like a whole bunch of the next four years is going to be something bad happening and then reminding a whole bunch of people who should know better that we already knew the bad thing was bad. Concentration camps? Bad. Ethnic cleansing? Bad. Violent anti-labor actions? Bad. Nazis? Bad.

submitted 31 days ago • 5 comments

Kidney stones suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

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Everyone in the US is a female, got it.

submitted 33 days ago • 29 comments

Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.

submitted 34 days ago • 549 comments

I went long on why we need a New Deal-style program to save local journalism. Because the next disaster could be just around the corner:

submitted 37 days ago • 8 comments

We should never forget David Lynch’s own words about this

submitted 38 days ago • 15 comments

Whew man I’ve been saying this privately for a while now but so much of this stuff is a gut reaction by mediocre suburbanites who grasp intuitively that their children aren’t special and can’t win in an actual meritocracy

submitted 38 days ago • 13 comments

THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2024 A video countdown vimeo.com/1046284152

submitted 41 days ago • 117 comments

An update for our listeners from Clay & Ryan. (Short version: the show will go on ❤️)

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Icy moon Enceladus out in front of Saturn in June 2007. Shadows cast by the rings darken the cloudtops.

submitted 66 days ago • 4 comments

Saw my first ever chud truck today complete with an alberta license plate. All the media and write ups about them never did they enough justice, what a truly amazingly horrific vehicle. Like driving around in sheet metal. How are these even street legal.

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with every bite of bánh mì they grow stronger

submitted 68 days ago • 107 comments

so i've heard

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1/5 A groundbreaking Amnesty report published today concludes Israeli authorities are committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. www.amnesty.org.uk/genocide-rep...

submitted 80 days ago • 39 comments

It's here! The THRILLING conclusion to the most requested topic in SD history! ALFRED HITCHCOCK MEGA DRAFT PART THREE #10 to #1 Drafted by Ben Mankiewicz, @oriananudo.bsky.social, & Maureen Lee Lenker, w/ guest commish @dreaclark.bsky.social Listen everywhere! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

submitted 89 days ago • 9 comments

All my blocks are hand-picked, shade-grown, bespoke. I prefer not to outsource my beefs. They're mine, even when I've long since forgotten why I didn't like that particular person in the first place.

submitted 91 days ago • 7 comments

My strongest opinion on exercise is that you should find an active thing that you enjoy doing rather than searching for an optimal workout, because you're infinitely more likely to keep doing an activity you enjoy than one you don't

submitted 91 days ago • 43 comments

First exploration into Criterion went to “High and Low” -Kurosawa (1963)

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Decided to treat myself and am now a proud subscriber to The Criterion Channel

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'FilaMonster' Approximately 3 days of 3 angstroms of Solar Dynamics Observatory data from February 2015 showing a huge filament wrapped around the Sun. All images repaired, processed, graded & ramped with music by Chris Zabriskie. Credit: SDO / NASA / AIA / Seán Doran

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'Gold Star' A gentle reminder that the Sun is doing this ALL THE TIME. 3 wavelengths courtesy Solar Dynamics Observatory are processed, color blended then color ramped with music from Chris Zabriskie. Edited from 40 minute 4k original. Credit: SDO / NASA / AIA / Seán Doran

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Guys if you need some reassurance in these difficult moments, just remember that tough times don’t last; tough peo—(YOU HIT ME IN FACE WITH A SHOVEL)

submitted 101 days ago • 8 comments

The media can't figure out why some racist Israeli soccer hooligans were beaten up: defector.com/the-media-ca...

submitted 106 days ago • 5 comments