Sherman's March to the Erdtree

If the Internet successfully Rick and Morty-ifies Smiling Friends I am going to lose my mind.

We've got a good thing going here. Can we please be normal about it?

Saw one of them doing genocide apologia about a month or so ago. It's hard out here

My favorite part about this app is that some of the most insightful leftist posting comes from a Kirby pfp in an age gap relationship and some of the most reactionary takes I see come from a lib with a John Brown pfp repeating DNC bullshit

Wall of train station with sign that reads "Highwood Police Substation"

Interior of train station. Empty benches and boxes on the floor.

Why yes hello, what stage of capitalism is it when a well-to-do town's train station gets locked up and is subsequently turned into a police station?

This is not unique to Trump, but I will never be able to wrap my head around the rich’s obsessive overuse of carrara marble.

we need a civ with a bassoon solo

The cynic in me thinks that they're doing this specifically so they can kill and copyright strike the fan projects that have released original film scans over the past few years.

4k77, 4k80, and 4k83 are very well done

Subprime Lender PrimaLend Enters Bankruptcy After Bond Default

A criminally underrated aspect of the increasing unaffordability of homes is that our financial crises are becoming low-rent.

There is currently a subprime loan crisis for cars. Two lenders have gone bankrupt and delinquencies are at the highest level in decades.

The world would be a better place if more people were capable of empathy and abstract thought. You shouldn't have to go to solitary confinement to support prison reform

However, one thing that the article is correct about is that the Dutch oven is the only well-crafted thing Le Creuset makes.

Nothing says basic like a Le Creuset pepper mill or coffee cup.

1. Cheugy was slang that became dated almost immediately. This article is written by a millennial.

2. You don't like Le Creuset because nobody in your life is discerning enough to buy complementary colors.

3. Overconsumption and heirlooms don't mix. You hate the marketing not the product.

I do not consider myself a Taylor Swift hater by any stretch of the imagination, but as someone who doesn't care for her music it feels nice to see Swifties hearing what I have been hearing for the past 10-15 years

I'm watching Kamala and the DNC at large not only learn nothing from losing the past election, but actively throw trans people under the bus while they continue to court a mythical conservative centrist that has not existed in 30 years. There is no reason to think that Hasan is off base for this.

Also, the few things in this video that "no longer exist" can be lumped into the retail experience, which is something that was directly destroyed by the financialization of everyday life.

Free cookies and lobster tanks kill ROI. If you miss them, be mad at private equity and the soulless c-suite

The most pathetic part of this type of nostalgia bait is that this is not a bygone era. You can still do/have 90% of this stuff in 2025.

It's also very telling that late 90s/Y2K nostalgia is just consumption as opposed to anything contributing to culture.

I'm sure they are, but the train being 1-2 hours late (sometimes more) puts a real damper on the whole thing

I took a train to Cologne. When I got to Cologne, a guy asked me how I got in and I told him I took the train and that it was nice. He said that I was the first person he met who had anything nice to say about DB.

The worst European train is better than our best Amtrak route.

That 54% figure is much more dire than taking it at face value would suggest. 21% of American adults are functionally illiterate, which is characterized as having a 4th grade reading level at best.

A majority of children were left behind.

I'm not the first person to have had this musing, but that "good times create weak men" poem actually holds true because a lot of the social progress we've had in everything from labor laws to medicine to public health is being undone by people too dumb to remember when people simply died

The Third Reich killed millions of people in 12 years

Pinochet also killed 40k in 17 years and his specter fuels Latin American fascist movements to this day.

The problem is not that 2025 is forever. The problem is that these things do not end passively.

Fascists tend to go down swinging.

You can develop exercise intolerance if you overexert yourself too hard after covid. I had a 4-6 week period where even light physical activity would make my heart rate shoot up for no reason. Take those walks slow and keep them short for a bit

Broke: Idiocracy is a documentary; only idiots are having kids.

Woke: Idiocracy is an imperfect look at an anti-intellectual society, but we aren't there yet.

Bespoke: Idiocracy is a documentary. Also Crocs are mainstream and I don't know how Mike Judge predicted that.

I can tell this guy was raised by salespeople (derogatory) because his startup "ideas" are:
-a solved problem
-a solved problem (group chats exist)
-a solved problem (it exists and tastes bad)
-too broad and too vague
-a solved problem (cash exists)

Is that a Checkpoint? I don't think I've seen one in that colorway before

The Coca-Cola Freestyle machine is an echo chamber. Good luck finding nuanced debates about hot button issues on that touch screen. It’s just soda names and flavored syrups

I love these liberal power fantasies because I cannot remember a time when a DNC president has delivered on a high-stakes campaign promise.

Biden still owes me $600 and people think the next Dem president is going to pack the Supreme Court?

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Happy Labor Day! Some fintech losers made an app where you can gamble to have your bills paid!

www.coverd.us

Every Funko Pop is a policy failure

I'm not going to beat a dead DNC, but I will say that it is impossible to scam someone ironically. You're still doing the scam.