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I know, I've had a YouTube account for nearly twenty years. Kids these days think you are supposed to be glued to it and know every meme and every creator! Madness!
My brother in Christ, I think if you know who obscure YouTubers are, it is YOUR brain that is overcooked.
He had a famous heel turn from staunch liberal, might as well call him woke back then, to far enough right that he was hired to be a talking head on Fox News
SARAH PALIN: "There are going to be death panels!" RFK JR: "Technically, it's just me."
As to the former, they aren't left wing: they supported Trump for right wing reasons. As to the latter, you have yourself framed their opposition to Harris as based on their opposition to a Republican. As in, 100% of their attacks on Harris are attacks on Republicans, too.
I really am gonna be flying my family to Canada for vaccines, aren't I?
Booker seems to be spending most of his time attacking Mamdani and trying to get a serial sexual harasser elected to the New York mayorship. Or possibly a MAGA-adjacent cop.
Who are these people you're talking about? I keep hearing about them, but I didn't know a single leftist more critical of Dems than Republicans. Can you name one well known figure?
Oh don't worry I already blocked and moved along. It's what I do habitually do online when people act rude to others. Billions of people on the Internet, it's not worth doing anything else if someone doesn't seem to understand how to be kind, really!
Your tweet wasn't "I call bullshit." It was far more insulting and dismissive. Be better.
Update: I asked Google about how many Gs in guava last week. "2" was the answer.
"trying" doesn't mean "always succeeding" No need to dunk on someone for one bad take. They're more likely to respond positively to a straightforward "janitors know a lot about students'lives". Someone talking like to me is why I became much more sympathetic to sex workers. Let's not be Twitter.
That's because everything is mixed for a movie theater not your TV, so it sounds awful on TV without a great speaker setup. They don't wanna pay for a second mix.
lib.install.local is already a game changer for me as a person who likes to write small, single purpose libraries!
It's not just that. Japan lost, but they still don't teach accurate history about WW2. When I went to uni there, my classmates didn't know about Nanking or why Yasukuni Shrine was controversial among their neighbors. They still deny the forced prostitution of Korean women by the Japanese army.
It's not just the USA. Germany is is the exception in the honesty they bring to their own history.
Blue states don't send tax payments. Employers do. Apple isn't gonna stop paying the IRS.
I got 2048 problems but a bit ain't one (it's off)
Yes. And running a marathon is, too. But you don't get a kid interested in exercise by making them run a marathon.
This is boomers. The greatest generation is dead. Literally.
"Lupita nihongo" is a top tier pun
John Oliver just says the thing. I'm happy for him.
"I personally don't want black people to die, but I also think we shouldn't spend money making it safer."
Cookies should be opt in, with a narrow exception carve out for basic functionality when you're actively on the site. No cross site tracking cookies.
Have you seen Sketch? My wife got tickets for me and my daughters yesterday, and it was astonishingly good. Having seen the purple crayon movie, I had low expectations. Instead what I got was a legit suspense movie (signs, bird box) but somehow feels appropriate for children?? Big recommend.
Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.
Ironic that the turing test would end up being a measure of human intelligence instead
And this guy used to be held up as one of the best opinion writers in the country
How people ever thought Matt Taibbi was worth reading...
Okay I guess this did actually happen.
"Hate to break it to you" One of the nation's papers of record in 2025.
"I don't think most Nebraskans agree," as if this rat is a senator representing Nebraska as a whole rather than congressman representing the people who are there in his district booing.
Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."
Always a joy to see someone discover the source of an avatar meme
In class this fall, I promise to continue to refer to algebraic simplification as math's "obsession with cancel culture" and the quest for explicit solutions as "gain of function research."
morning mood
Haaaah process of eggs has nearly doubled under trump
A dance that never ends #loz
This is moving. Kamala Harris feels the pain we feel. Not just from her loss, but from the trauma and abuse our country is living through. What could have been…
Obsessed with this photo of Mr. Rogers that looks almost exactly like The Onion sickos guy.
Your position would create the possibility for strangers to coerce a child into doing things behind parent's back.
The cutoff for me is whether their life is in immediate danger. That's a case by case factual question medical professionals make. A 10yo can be coerced easily to do a lot of things, which is why we require parental consent for non emergency medical procedures. That doesn't sound monstrous to me.
You' be wrong though. Emergency has a specific meaning in a medical context. In short, a medical issue that has to be immediately resolved or else there will be serious injury or loss of life. A 15yo ten weeks pregnant is not in immediate danger. We agree that abortion should be legal fyi. No maga.
You need a parent's permission for any medical procedure at that age. Can't get surgery without a parent's permission either except in emergency situations.
For what it's worth, Japan is also prohibited by its constitution (written by the US after WW2) from having a military. Right out of Article 9: "land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained."
Definitely one I'm going to be listening to! I have enjoyed Awkwafina's creative output since My Vag dropped.
This @today.yougov.com poll is why I'm going to become the Joker. The US murder rate in 2024 was likely down nearly 30 percent relative to 2020 and down nearly 50 percent relative to 1990.
Mah-jawn is an incredible pun here
If. you're going to be in the software industry for a while you'll likely end up depending at some point on being referred by someone you know. More often than not they'll be ex-colleagues.....so, remember, be nice to the people you're working with right now 😀
They're calling it a male loneliness epidemic. I think definitionally speaking it can't be just one person.
🎊 Tab completion for remote projects and branches on Unison Share is here! No more typos or flipping to the browser to check spellings. It's a delightful quality-of-life win for Unison devs!
anything to avoid gun control,
No one is going to read your entire back catalog of messages whenever you make a claim online. It might be your first few days on the Internet, because you don't seem to know how this works, but that's a wild thing to expect of people.
Should be pretty easy for you to link me to a headline copied from a far right publication.
All y'all are giving off strong Russian bot vibes
Do you not listen to NPR ever? Because it seems like you don't.
You're talking to the other half, mate.
Hope in the twilight of his career was like the jazz clarinetist, Benny Goodman - still technically proficient but empty. Watch his movies and early routines and compare him to the old vaudevillians. He virtually created the nebbish character and was a huge influence on modern comedy after 1955. .
lol
I use bare essentials spray, it's titanium oxide so it's a mineral sunscreen and it's not greasy
Most women don't have a model's boobs and yet we celebrate them wearing low cut tops! Why shame men from jump like you're doing now? Maybe you can fuck off!!
A test to see which cast iron is better for making an 80s style Pizza Hut pan pizza. Darby says yes
Legit took me the whole message to realize this was about sports not tariffs XD
From Buenos Aires to Bangkok, Montreal to Moscow, nearly every taxi driver in the world understands "OK." It's a gift from American English that's spread across the globe in less than 200 years.
Probably some "worldwide, perpetual right to sublicense" language so databases like JSTOR anda Lexis don't need to ask authors, just publishers.
(since this one is referred to as "estimation")
If I had to guess, it means looking at the age of an email address. I've had mine since 2004 and no doubt Britain has some DB that knows this.
Oh no I really hope Bill Clinton isn’t in the Epstein files, I’ll have to get rid of my Bill Clinton hat and my Bill Clinton sneakers and my Bill Clinton cologne and my Bill Clinton watch and take down my Bill Clinton flag and I’ll have to delete my Bill Clinton nft trading cards
Getting into the Japanese media translation industry, especially for manga, is a lot harder nowadays, but here are some resources for translators, letterers, and editors
I AM SHRIEKING 💀🤣 Forget the statue at City Hall, this guy is the *real* Spirit of Detroit. 🫡
love when a paywall sounds like it’s drawing a gun on you
Doesn't seem he ever took American citizenship tho
Does it necessarily mean they're scrambling? Couldn't they just be casually succeeding?
He never had a supermajority. He never even had enough to break the filibuster.
Pretty interesting article, and the author is talented with metaphor. > I felt he wanted me, which was what I wanted — to be organized and oriented by his desire, as though it were a point on the dark horizon, strobing. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/m...
Excellent design! Vintage Dennison 1920s (earlier?) Halloween crepe paper border.
To this day there is a certain subset of people who seem to think that Japanese is a sterile, wooden language (and thus, wooden translations are more “”accurate””) when the real Japanese is infinitely more creative than they could ever imagine
Ah, this I assume. Relative clauses are truly cursed
You have lost the plot if you're equating Zionism with being Jewish in New York City.
And New York Jews aren't in Israel so expressing concern for his constituents isn't supporting Israel
The internet and its discontents run wild in a new film by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, a prolifically offbeat Japanese filmmaker who's spent the last four decades putting subversive spins on traditional genres.
Better to focus your energies where they can achieve something
No buddy, you're right, the social justice guy who routinely calls out Israel and defends Palestine was really trying to destroy Mamdani on Israel www.instagram.com/reel/DJ1TJrm...
His approval rating is still in the 40s. Don't count your chickens etc
100% certain the "bad" questions he asked Mandani were at Mandani's request. That's how chat shows work.
This is how he wins so much. Flood the zone with shit and his opponents can't stay on message bc they feel like they gotta talk about EVERYTHING. Pick the one thing and stick with it
What do you think happens when you complain about a guy saying his job is fun? You lose credibility and give Trump more power. Fifty complaints a day about trivial word choices and then he raw dogs the DOE and no one has any energy to listen anymore.
Venezuela the same. So many leftists during the chavez area rode his jock while he was a legit fascist. Meanwhile my family that is actually from there... not really fans of the dictatorship there
When I read this, it makes me think of chapo trap house. I went to the reddit sub one time a few years ago (apparently it's been shuttered?) and everything there was so crazily aligned with Chinese talking points. Isn't that a nominally leftist podcast or something?
Nitpicking this quote hurts credibility. For lots of us, "fun" equates to "interesting." There's a comic about a similar concept, that for a lot of us, "happiness" is less desirable than, or a weaker form of, "interested." To me, he's just saying it's a stimulating job. Don't we all want that?
Honestly I barely know who she is. I definitely couldn't pick her out of a lineup. My encyclopedic knowledge of pop stars ends around 2002😜
Which is why 1900s is correct, and someone implying it's wrong, is wrong!
Me and my fellow white people call each other "white trash." That doesn't make it acceptable for an out-group to refer to novels by white people as "white trash books." It would, in fact, be a slur to do that. (I'm sure you've by now drawn the connection to other slurs used by in- and out-groups.)
slur, noun: "an insinuation or allegation about someone that is likely to insult them or damage their reputation" It seems like this is the moment you learn what "slur" means.
But 1999 is in the 1900s???
That sounds classist to me, and exactly what I'm railing against. The use of "fan" to describe work that isn't profitable is gross w/o further justification, which is why using it to describe works by fans of an existing property is not. It arises not out of class but out of the concept of a canon.
But it's the same bigotry in action there: "the establishment" approves, so "it's the default and requires no qualifier." Perhaps I should've used "classism" instead of "slur" to be clearer, but I don't see daylight between being classist and being a bigot.
I'm the guy who calls Aliens, The Da Vinci Code, etc. "fanfiction" :D None were made by the original creators of Alien and The Bible.