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How?

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That’s a much better analogy than I was expecting. Well said.

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I’m a Linux user, but let’s not feel too smug. We got lucky with the XZ Utils thing.

Largest housing provider for migrant children engaged in pervasive sexual abuse, US says (apnews.com)

Employees of the largest housing provider for unaccompanied migrant children in the U.S. repeatedly sexually abused and harassed children in their care for at least eight years, the Justice Department said Thursday, alleging a shocking litany of offenses that took place as the company amassed billions of dollars in government...

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Because Republicans.

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So you mean it’s not “just the flu” like the antivaxxers have told me so often? (Ignoring the fact that the 1918 flu killed between 20 and 50 million people.)

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The people here praising the Houthis seem to think they knew who they were attacking rather than just seeing a ship pass by and attacking it, which is what they actually do.

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Tucker changed his mind about Trump when he told Trump that Russia had shopping carts and fresh bread in their supermarkets and Trump was amazed.

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I don’t know if Brooke was fucking the black guy’s son. I mean, I don’t have double standards. I mean, I am a racist, to a point, fucking n****s. But then when it comes to nice people and shit, and whatever. I guess we’re all a little racist. Fucking n*****.

– Hulk Hogan, who was taken out of the Wrestling Hall of Fame for three whole years after he was recorded saying that.

And then Peter Thiel, pissed that Gawker outed him, bankrolled Hogan’s lawsuit which took them down. I remember lots of people on Reddit regarded it as a victory because Gawker sucked, which it did. They didn’t care that a billionaire found a way to destroy a media outlet that told people something about him that he didn’t want them to know.

Peter Thiel is, of course, also a big Republican supporter.

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He didn’t lie when he said he was a racist though. Of course, he didn’t know there was a camera on him at the time.

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Good. Now I have no reason to feel bad about laughing at the Undertaker when the Sci-Fi channel, for some reason, had him host a movie night, called “The Undertaker’s Theater of Doom” and he pronounced it “thee-ayter.”

FlyingSquid ,
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This was a much bigger problem when it came to developing nations of the region. News like this spreads and what the fuck was the U.S. thinking?!

theguardian.com/…/cia-fake-vaccinations-osama-bin…

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I’d be more surprised if they didn’t vociferously support Moms for Liberty.

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One social media post, by a user described as a “MAGA2024 Ex-con deplorable” and viewed 10m times, shows a male officer carrying a large gun next to a female agent in action at the Trump rally.

Its caption says: “Secret service agents: Before DEI vs After DEI.”

As the article says, the first female agent was appointed in 1970.

Someone tell me who the woke liberal pro-DEI president was back in 1970 because Republicans must really hate him.

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My wife only got it a little firsthand because her family is evangelical, but her mother is one of the kindest, most accepting, most tolerant people I’ve ever met. Despite that, and despite being an atheist since she was a teenager, she still has dreams about going to hell in her mid-40s.

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You’re being sarcastic, but that’s what they actually think now.

newrepublic.com/…/christianity-today-editor-evang…

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From the article before the paywall:

Between 2012 and 2021 foreign firms increased their collective Chinese research personnel by a fifth, to 716,000. Their annual R&D spending in the country almost doubled, to 338bn yuan ($52bn). Add investments by local firms and China now matches Europe’s R&D tally (see chart). Only America splurges more.

So it sounds like it kind of is.

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I think that quibbling over an a/the issue when the article in general doesn’t really take that into consideration (journalists generally don’t write headlines, editors do) is not the best way to approach this subject.

I think the article itself is pretty good.

You can bypass the paywall here: archive.is/nVZTB

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Again- authors of articles generally do not write headlines. Editors do, just like editors have control over the artwork on the front cover of a book. You are judging a book by its cover. That’s why you read the blurb on the back and find out that Bigfoot isn’t actually in The Fellowship of the Ring.

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Not the Fifth Circuit for once.

Still, I’d like the judge to show us on the doll where the drag queen hurt them.

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Art as a service can also spread propaganda. Something North Korea knows all too well, as did Nazi Germany.

Make no mistake, I do not want any restrictions on artists and I am a big believer in public arts funding, but I’m under no illusions that the right government can twist that sort of thing for their own use.

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I’m actually wondering if there might be an unfortunate crooked keel situation going on with these men’s suits.

FlyingSquid ,
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I think once saw that ballet in Germany.

FlyingSquid ,
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Bomb Mexico. And these idiots could be in charge of the U.S.

Depressing.

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It’s not the policy, it’s where that slogan comes from:

www.mnhs.org/lindbergh/learn/controversies

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He’s leaving out the fact that the people smuggling in fentanyl are mostly U.S. citizens. Shockingly, citizens are less likely to be searched and you can smuggle a huge amount of fentanyl in a tiny container. Who is he planning on bombing to stop that?

npr.org/…/fentanyl-smuggling-migrants-mexico-bord…

It’s still Mexicans, isn’t it?

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The NRA has got his back, right?

Right?

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At least some good news made up for the loss of Bob Newhart.

FlyingSquid ,
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Cool, how about everyone else that is homeless?

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People don’t remember it anymore, but Bob used to do standup. Most of it was one-sided conversations. The driving instructor routine was the most famous, but I like the opener to that same album (The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart) about ad execs trying to punch up Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address before he gives the speech more-

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTG3glnwoKE

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Just discovered (and am now watching) that Judd Apatow made a 20 minute documentary on the friendship between Don Rickles and Bob Newhart- www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3cs7PyXPsU

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For those wondering, it was from an episode of MadTV, which was pretty uneven, but had some really good sketches like this one.

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I’m sad he’s gone, but I can’t be too sad because he lived a good, long, happy and very successful life, with a loving marriage, great friends, and terrific kids.

May we all be so lucky to have a life like his.

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Well that sucks. My favorite Pink Pedia number is Shine On, You Crazy Wiki.

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Wow. Read the article. They really did come right out and say it. “We’re killing the world.” And half the workers in the company didn’t immediately run to the press. They were pretty much all, “well, at least we’re getting paid.”

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once deeply skeptical of Donald J. Trump

Utter nonsense. This is him being “deeply skeptical” of Trump according to the article:

Days before the 2016 election, he told CNBC that Mr. Trump did not “seem to have the sort of character that reflects well on the United States.” After Mr. Trump won, Mr. Musk told some associates that the outcome was proof that they were living in a simulation, according to one person close to him. In 2020, Mr. Musk, in a private conversation with another associate, called Mr. Trump a “stone-cold loser.”

Also, bypass paywall here: archive.is/oPbWK

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This is going to be deleted because it violates community rules, but that’s both disappointing and fucking hilarious, because I’m picturing Trump running, naked and screaming, down the hall with Slimer chasing after him.

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Please be rentboy… Please be rentboy… Please be rentboy…

Damn it.

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Rent boy, or rentboy, is a term that is used to describe a particular type of male prostitute. It refers primarily to young men (although its use extends to male prostitutes of all ages) who have sex with men. The term originated in Great Britain, Ireland, and New Zealand and originally was applied to a male prostitute who was both young and working-class. Middle-class and upper-class male prostitutes more commonly would have been called escorts, and older male prostitutes would have been referred to as hustlers. The rent boy was almost exclusively a street worker who charged low rates for his service. Although the term retains its original meaning, it has gained a certain cachet within the sex-worker community and sometimes is appropriated by higher-end male prostitutes who wish to provide a rough trade fantasy to their clients.

The most famous use of the word was by Thomas Swinscow, who admitted in 1895 to having worked as a rent boy in a London male brothel. The subsequent investigation, called the Cleveland Street Scandal, implicated high-ranking officials. Rumors circulated for decades that the prince of Wales was involved in the scandal, and records released in 1975 confirmed that, although they did not conclude that he was a patron of the brothel. The public outcry over the scandal was partly responsible for the prosecution of Oscar Wilde that year on charges of gross indecency. Victorian morality could not accommodate the existence of rentboys, and rejection of the practice led to a general increase in homophobia.

www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/…/rent-boy

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“What would i do next”

Stop this nonsense and pay the car loan?

No, it can’t be that easy!

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No “let them” about it. They’re taking the car whether he likes it or not.

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If you haven’t seen the move Repo Man, you should.

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Right, but why do you think it was rejected now and not some time in the past? It’s because Netanyahu is getting less and less popular, but he can claim dictatorial powers as long as there’s a war on.

I keep recommending people read this article about Netanyahu’s former best friend saying that this is all about him being a dictator. www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-798324

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If Netanyahu thinks it will benefit him, he will not hesitate to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque and announce the rebuilding of the Great Temple.

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Apart from India’s government hating Muslims and the fact that they’ve fought against each other in three declared wars, one undeclared war, and a ton of fighting over Kashmir? Nothing.

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Will there be any left to see?

'Not harmful to health': Korea's Buldak spicy noodles return to shelves as Denmark reverses recall (m.koreatimes.co.kr)

Buldak spicy noodles are back on shelves in Denmark after the food authorities there canceled part of their recall decision concerning the famous Korean instant noodles product, originally issued due to their extreme spiciness and consequent health risks....

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No problem, it’s one of my favorite Monty Python factoids.

For what it’s worth, the Norwegians have since made up for this issue by making a really funny TV show. And doing it in both Norwegian and English versions, which must have been an extra challenge since so much of comedy is about language and it would have been the second language for most, if not all of the people involved.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norsemen_(TV_series)

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Cool. That implication doesn’t matter if you’re in an abusive relationship where your husband expects you to keep pumping out children.

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He also graduated from Liberty University.

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