For what itβs worth, my partner and I were long distance when we first got together, and he funded his plane tickets to visit me by selling his plasma. I still find this equal parts horrifying and incredibly romantic.
16.02.2026 22:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
And they passed it on to their kids. Everyone wants to blame the faults of gen-z on the darker corners of the internet, but theyβre susceptible to that shit because their parents are just as nihilistic and didnβt bother teach them any values.
16.02.2026 21:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Thatβs because the UK is probably buying it from the US, which produces 70% of the worldβs human plasma.
16.02.2026 10:23 β π 10 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Iβm a Rom quoting the communist manifesto on DS9-type liberal
13.02.2026 15:12 β π 11 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
hold on i gotta take this
13.02.2026 02:33 β π 4968 π 1383 π¬ 5 π 0
protip you can always listen to mountain goats and feel better about it
11.02.2026 22:11 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor
11.02.2026 01:46 β π 20262 π 4531 π¬ 111 π 67
Theyβre stunning! Do you thrift the molds?
10.02.2026 18:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I see a lot of commentary on white evangelical, but wtf is wrong with white Catholics?
10.02.2026 11:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The really thrilling thing about Star Trek is the wild variance in episode quality.
09.02.2026 10:27 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
who called him Jeff Bezos and not Lex Loser
08.02.2026 07:48 β π 1263 π 287 π¬ 17 π 3
salsa de chile de arbol > any other salsa. especially if eggs are involved.
07.02.2026 20:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Uncooked tater tot hotdish, the tots spell out βICE OUTβ
Fully cooked tater tot hotdish, the tots spell out βICE OUTβ
Normally my tater tot to hotdish ratio is much higher, but sometimes we have to sacrifice for the message
04.02.2026 00:41 β π 109 π 20 π¬ 3 π 1
Could be worse. Could be Applebees.
01.02.2026 01:37 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
These were the people who held the careers of female scholars in their hands . This is who was shaping or epistemological world
31.01.2026 17:14 β π 1925 π 583 π¬ 17 π 6
there are more important things to be angry about right now. but this ad says some truly amazing things about the kind of person that the NYT sees as their primary audience.
28.01.2026 18:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A NYT ad that says βTake Actionβ about depicts a woman doing lunges
lol
28.01.2026 18:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Beat the champ - the mountain goats
best album about pro wrestling
27.01.2026 20:11 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Robbing your child of a future in that way is just astonishingly selfish.
23.01.2026 22:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Fair enough, but it definitely needs to be much more heavily regulated. I know way too many people who were βhomeschooledβ for religious reasons who were severely educationally neglected.
23.01.2026 22:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
Home schooling should absolutely be illegal. Itβs a great way to get your kids out of sight of mandatory reporters.
23.01.2026 22:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
My mom wouldnβt let my sister and I get the HPV vaccine because she thought that if we had premarital sex, we deserved to get cancer.
23.01.2026 21:02 β π 26 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1
I think mar a lago face still exists, but it just describes a surgically enhanced look that is about 5 years out of date. A-listers have moved on to a different set of procedures (face lift, bleph, less obvious filler besides the lips).
16.01.2026 15:36 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
And unlike DHS and ICE, there are plenty of Coast Guard members who are not all-in on this whole ethnic cleansing thing. Lots of them signed up to do search and rescue, or to do safe inspections.
14.01.2026 22:54 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Fun fact: The CA governor in this episode actually was Gavin Newsom
13.01.2026 19:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Extra crunchy and wet?
08.01.2026 18:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I would love to hear about who you consider to be the weirdest bastards you have covered on the show. Which of these monsters were, in addition to being evil, just utterly incomprehensible freaks?
29.12.2025 22:44 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I personally would not describe someone who has been accused of rape as a βpossible low-grade sexual harasser.β
23.12.2025 11:08 β π 9 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Iβm a single issue voter and the issue is being allowed to ride in my own car while itβs being towed by a tow truck
22.12.2025 20:21 β π 70 π 8 π¬ 1 π 0
i mean, he made every night-school aspiring nurse hate his guts by categorizing their programs as non-professional
23.12.2025 03:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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