everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine
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begging Montgomery county to pursue full shenzhenification
20.02.2026 01:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
"can't talk now, busy canceling various street safety projects on the advice of a handful of hysterical weirdos"
19.02.2026 05:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
this is one way society protects negligent drivers: by forcing increasingly absurd responsibilities onto everyone else
18.02.2026 21:42 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
that's a typo, it's actually from this morning
18.02.2026 18:30 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
that's not fair, it also generates mountains of idiotic slop!
18.02.2026 15:46 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
marxists wololo-ing millions of voters away from the polls for their own inscrutable reasons
17.02.2026 03:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
they're gonna be doing this for donald trump in 20 years once the democrats have drifted even further to the right in order to appeal to "stephen miller voters" instead of normal people
17.02.2026 03:46 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
"vote blue no matter who" types trying to process Harris losing not just the election but also the popular vote has resulted in truly astonishing conclusions
15.02.2026 21:34 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
they would find a way to make that very annoying, too, so perhaps it's for the best
15.02.2026 18:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
LLMs may be creating a bubble that will destroy the economy, but theyre also giving many of the most annoying people on Earth completely novel forms of mental illness so it's impossible to say if they're good or bad
15.02.2026 16:23 β π 23 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
matty is, as usual, wrong. it's not that we can't discipline them, it's that we choose not to
14.02.2026 15:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
i have not learned the lesson and i will never vote for a shitty dem ever again. do with that what u will
13.02.2026 23:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
and without any help from their worthless senators, too! bravo, MN!
13.02.2026 01:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
basically every company, media org, and politician is jerking themselves to completion about AI. go have the conversation with them
12.02.2026 00:11 β π 17 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
weird way to tell the world you've never been to what we call Doglumbia Houndts, but you do you
10.02.2026 23:10 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
not sure what you're on about, mate. best of luck.
10.02.2026 16:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
the who, and the what?
10.02.2026 15:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
relatively tight race between the pedophile fascist and the sundowning genocidaire
10.02.2026 15:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
i'm practicing for luge right now on the couch, ever so slightly lifting my head to see your post. i think i have what it takes
07.02.2026 18:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
the sport that combines the intense competition of the olympics with the relaxation of laying down and takin' it easy
07.02.2026 18:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
this is nothing a little more training can't fix. at a reform through labor camp in the most desolate corner of the united states of america
07.02.2026 00:40 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
it's also a window into the unique societal psychosis caused by our car addiction. the second we allotted so much (theoretically) public space to the storage of private property, we set ourselves up for this problem
05.02.2026 00:17 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
another friend orders a grilled cheese. he gets a slice of american cheese between two room-temperature pieces of bread. no grilling has occurred. he thinks about asking the server to ask the kitchen to fix it and just gives up instead
05.02.2026 00:15 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
friend orders a milkshake. he gets a glass of milk with a scoop of ice cream floating in it. it has not been blended. he asks the server about it and she yells at him
05.02.2026 00:15 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
escaped to tastee diner during a break from drivers ed. guy next to me finds a bug in his cup of water and points it out to the server. she brings it back with another, different, bug in it
05.02.2026 00:15 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
it's all been chill
04.02.2026 23:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
the second group keeps winning because the first group keeps failing to wake up and properly identify them as a primary antagonist
04.02.2026 00:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
the issue is that "Democrats" can refer to both the broad group of people who tend to vote for democrats, and to the cabal of wealthy center-right septuagenarian freaks who run the democratic party.
04.02.2026 00:00 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
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