They also had another girl scout cookie one called Thick Mint that was *legit*
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They also had another girl scout cookie one called Thick Mint that was *legit*
Wait When is it used as a cleaning agent?
I had a Southern Tier beer based on Samoa girl scout cookies, but that's the only good coconut beer in the world
100%! They should have impeached and removed him three seconds after the first path.
Impeachment would be great. We don't have the votes and we never will.
I think he psyched them up and refused to combat them, so he did it But "I say he did it" isn't a legal status
Yeah like I *declare* that the First Amendment doesn't protect like a metric ton of horrific speech That ain't actionable, and politicians not agreeing with me isn't feckless. Laws having weight kinda matters.
Fucking copium I also want the world to be good It fucking isn't and people need to deal
Yeah but SCOTUS didn't rule that way. You can't actually just say "My name's Biff and, for free, I declare this monster is inadmissable." I wish you could!
"Well clearly, Congress won't be friends with the president, so--" đ
Do your laws allow for recall elections? Ours unfortunately don't.
Well like I don't know the ins and outs of Duterte But Trump was unfortunately legally and democratically elected. Removing him early would be a coup
That must be an upsetting existence for them
Oh, interesting. I was thinking about when Biden had them rebuild our (Pittsburgh) collapsed bridge in the equivalent of like 2 minutes
What's the old saying? You want cheap, fast, or good, and you gotta pick two? Would you say that USACE picked Fast twice?
"It's easy to do good journalism; all you have to do is get me outraged and confirm my priors.
I had to have every single friend's family explained besides mine. Did you know that most people's parents (when I was growing up, anyway) are married, live together, and not with their own parents? I had to keep remembering how that works.
This is the Discworld bit that people know in their bones even if they've never heard of Discworld
It's weird how we seem to be extremely purple for governor, redder for Congress and bluer for president. This has to be one of the most "median voter has no idea what's going on" states
Congestive Asshole Failure
It could actually be upsetting for elections if this fucker gets the Army Corps of Engineers to YIMBY a bunch of new affordable housing, but realistically, we *are* still waiting for Infrastructure Week.
Yeah, the amount he marks up root beer has to be bonkers, and I think he used to explicitly rig the dabo wheel
Gotta be. When Quark goes back in time to 1947, one of his first thoughts is, "If these people buy cancer sticks, we can sell them anything."
Unironically, he sure does.
As long as the mines don't wear *SEETHING* ... clothes ...
There's money on DS9. They don't pay for all your luxuries unless it's entertainment on a military mission.
Only if he counts as a war criminal while surrounding the station with self-replicating mines. So: probably
Courts still matter.
Ew
I think it galvanized people not to just suffer through all normalized and to actually stay mad. We were out for a birthday that day at a bar with TVs and they had it on every channel. That was unexpected.
It's gotta be horrible when it never happens, though, no? Over and over. It would feel like everyone's a complicit betrayer.
Reading the NYT feels like watching my aunt suffer through dementia. This used to be a lively, competent paper. Now, its eyes are hollow, its affect inscrutable; the good days are few, the bad difficult to take.
happy labor day
I wonder if I'll ever hear it again.
I was gonna say, when did he start sounding like some kind of sucky weirdo like this, then I remember I haven't even thought about him in months
My petition to replace the Banner with literally anything is still in effect. My personal top choices are "The City of New Orleans" (serious submission) and "The National Anthem" by Radiohead (that one's just kind-of a Fuck You tbh)
This is sad enough that it just kinda knocked the wind out of me. This is right up there with that border library.
I'm sure a lot of us remember him being booed online by his weird-ass cult for saying roughly "COVID was really bad before the vaccine I'm glad I can get one."
Couple of awkward normie ex-Republicans chatting behind me. It's still really cringe to listen to, but nature is healing, at least in this exact location.
I blocked that account just now but who in the fuck says "treasure" about money? That's gotta be something-coded, but I don't know what.
First Term, didn't this dickwad make a huge deal about getting drugs from Canada for people for cheap?
I only stayed on BlueSky because there were a bunch of people here who knew how much we deserved to win and how hard we were trying.
It took me a while to realize some number of people actually expected mass protest to make him step down or somehow cause Democrats to "take the government back."
I will be taking one of my standard trips from Pittsburgh to Philly and back, soon. 8 hours each way. And this is one of the more efficient routes we have ...
It's weird how the exact same people who claimed Biden was hiding have absolutely no concerns that the man who is all about dominating every news cycle is not having any public events.
Bigot-ass screeds are, in this scenario, shitting in the street.
I don't need to convince you that you're wrong if you have horrific bastard opinions. I just have to tell you No, along with everyone else with any sense. It's like shitting in the street; it's not on me to explain that you could contaminate the water supply or whatever -- just Hey, Fuck Off!
wow
I've been thinking about "Succession" again because reasons, and remember toward the end (Logan's end and the show's end) when he had a UTI and forgot his meds and was suddenly completely checked-out and delirious and everybody had to frantically cover for him? Suspenseful! Just saying.
God, I wish Pittsburgh suburbs were just like 20% bluer. We'd never flip red again. This was such a solid blue (for president) state for so long.
We all draw our lines. I personally consider, say, my union shop compatriots who fight for my job even as they fuck my rights by opting out of democracy, to be my allies in a lot of respects. Which is why they disappoint me so much.
That really depends on the degree of fucking up and the overlap. Sometimes it's your supportive parent who has your back in a fight but still talks about your life like you're some kind of alien.
I think everyone and everything at least *kinda* sucks for one reason or another or several, and I'm sure that affects my perception of the world.
You wanna shoot for like 20 friends and a couple of billion allies.
Call me fucking stupid, but I enjoy when people don't want to hurt me, and I try to deal with people in such a way that they don't leave the interaction wanting to hurt me.
"No one in human history ever used a synthesizer until AI replaced music with slop."
I don't know how else to tell people that it's good not to try to make enemies.
Guy shouted âfucking lesbianâ as I walked to the microphone tonight, and before I had chance to compliment him on his power of observation the entire audience went âNo! You need to leave.â To him and wouldnât let me start until theyâd physically thrown him out.
Seems like the basis of a good chant in D.C. Trump hates you Hey hey You won't get Full active pay
This shit sucks man. Medically proven and effective treatment that would save trans youth a lifetime of pain and discomfort in their own bodies thrown in the trash because our country enables the most evil people imaginable.
I was gonna paint large swaths of existence with a broad brush, but instead, I'm gonna get coffee.
a bunch of you really believe that trump is the unstoppable god king who can do whatever he declares and it is dumb as hell
You can either contextualize propaganda or redefine it, and I believe pretty firmly that contextualizing it is the only one that makes sense. Here, the context is, Judy Hopps does not save the day by being shitty to people. That is not the aspect of the job being glorified. That does mean something
"Captain Marvel's movie was military propaganda" is another take that about ate my brain. Yeah, sure. I do not have to pretend Carol harbors unspoken hatred of being in the military to enjoy her film or the exploits within it. Nightcrawler loves Jesus. I've never imagined asking if he's "right."
Before there was "How would Magneto react to real-world Middle Eastern military action," there was, "Is Batman a brutal cop?" Yes, Batman is a brutal cop. You like to read the exploits of a fictional brutal cop. It's fucking fine.
Comic book kids have such trouble understanding that they can enjoy a story without mapping it all onto the real world, and that this mapping creates uncomfortable questions unless you contort them to for your priors. Meanwhile, lit hounds are like "Makes you think, huh? Anyway--"
Yeah, to be a Good Things influencer, you wanna be a person who is recognized as cool and popular and having good ideas first, and then you have to say good things afterward, once you have them hooked.
It seems that there's some kind of national, may worldwide, consensus that "woke is dead and you won't ever be ostracized again, so we're gonna stop regulating our behavior at all." My goal: make them cut it out.
Staying up until 1 am building Magic decks is something I used to do literally every night in a row. This is the first night I've done it in uhhh gotta be more than 15 years. And it felt pretty good!
OK it's this article. Slight retcon here: He dances through the fact that several things we see never really happened and the whole point was for us to be left confused. I still didn't like that. Rather than the surrealism being clues, some of it is intentional confusion and we can't tell which.
I'll find the article, I think it was Rolling Stone. Don't form opinions based on my off the cuff memory until I get back! I'm not THAT Bluesky
To bring the mood down, as is Bluesky's Whole Thing (I hear), my problem with that movie is that it unlike the Lynchian "I won't tell you what happened, but something happened" (laudatory), Eggers said something like (paraphrasing) "lol that's stupid, the clues were meaningless, it's all vibes"
People see self-preservation as the Sin of Pride and it is getting extremely old and sad and detrimental.
But by far and away, the biggest priority for a Heritage Foundation-captured CDC is going to be using the agency's legal frameworks for access to medical data, and weaponizing them to control women. *Most* of the Project 2025 plan for CDC is a witch hunt against abortion on an unprecedented scale.
"I tore out my oxygen mask trying to help someone three rows behind me get theirs on and then failed at that" type of shit going on around here
I'm certainly not saying everything should be about you or you should never care about planting trees you'll never shade under, etc, but like *Many* things you care about should be about you? Right? Like it's bad to put your own shit on hold forever in service to some nebulous elsewhere issue
It's some plane they'll never fly in. That's confusing.
I haven't had regular access to a phone in a few days and I love not knowing anything about this
After what the Campbells did to them at Glencoe, I give the MacDonalds a lot of leeway
Train is on a crazy detour through town (long story) and these fucking kids ran to the front at a stop they almost missed just going AY WHOA AY UH UH WHOA and the driver didn't open the door until one of them said "Please?" and then the driver opened the door. Maybe nature can heal.
The problem is that it worked in Bush v Gore đ
someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
"They got Sea Spaniards on the land?" "We call them 'Land Sea Spaniards.'"
The bane of this website, and Twitter before it, is that we all talk past each-other without even trying to agree on definitions
I remember when Reese's Puffs came out and my brother brought them solely because Lenni from Ghostwriter was in the commercial
WhatsApp confirms it has fixed a security flaw that allowed hackers to get into Apple devices without any interaction from the targeted victims. www.whatsapp.com/security/adv...
"Great news: a friend of mine rolls me around in shit-covered barbed wire!"
People think the first thing? Jesus.
Just because I own a Zoodler, and I eat Zoodles every day, and the neighborhood kids have taken to calling me Ol Zoodle Ass, it doesn't mean I like Zoodles, OK? People on this app making all kinda fuckin assumptions.
I have no idea which pundits talk about Calvinball, but I know what it is because I read the source material. I kinda assumed everyone else did too lol
Oh? I guess I've curated my BlueSky experience so hard that I actually don't even see these grifters, I guess. That's bad for a journalist, but good for me.
think the federal government should spend a shit ton of money on healthcare. that will not happen because we are trash, so then i go utilitarian and say what will reduce suffering for the greatest amount of people, and thatâs funding urban areas. if rural areas suffer, i hate it, but i can do math.
"Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who made a series of conscious, ill-advised decisions to engage in treasonous behavior, and she got exactly what she deserved. She was a traitor. She was a threat to national security. There is no nuance needed here."
It is only right and just and fair that every adult in this country has the right to vote, including a lot of people who currently don't tbh But like It doesn't create the best results. If you redid voting based on how to get the best results, Christ, I don't know what that looks like. Not this.
Because I like the actors, and it's a fantasy set in a magical land where cops want to help. If it played out bleak instead of hopeful, I could never stomach it.
"The median voter probably shouldn't vote, because they're so bad at it" is unfortunately the thesis we have to live with.
Yeah like genuinely, I'm not judging, I just have some blind spots for society and this is one of them.
Yeah, I figured you were talking about writing other religious characters with more gravity, but I feel like the collective desire to despiritualize characters leads to this lack in the first place. I could be reductive, but that's how it feels.