The Stainless Steel Wererat

Everyone knows red ones go faster.

I feel like we should all be keeping diaries so that the future equivalent of Ken Burns has something he can turn into voice-overs to play over sepia-tinged photos of the White House Patio and the Kash Patel challenge coin..

She couldn't beat McConnell, who was widely reviled. Why does she think she'll do better against a new GOP candidate who will presumably not have as much baggage as McConnell did?

Yup. When you cut down on both the overall amount of leisure time and the length of time anyone can spend on leisure, things like reading fall by the wayside.

Good. Organizations like this only give cover to the Trump regime.

Sorry, we had to cut off social security checks because of the shutdown. Our hands are tied. We're still continuing construction on the president's Pervert Palace though. Some national priorities are too important

Yeah, but sometimes he gets distracted by the big map of the USA and his National Guardsmen toys.

It's likely that America would be partitioned, similar to how Germany was after World War II. I doubt you'd get a sane government, so much as foreign military governors whose primary task would be to ensure that America could not rise as a threat again.

We're back to the tariff dartboard, huh?

Except it's a whole industry of Enrons that are daisy-chained together.

"Rich people playing silly buggers with large transactions between each other."

This has way too many syllables and should not rhyme so effortlessly with "Enron."

It's getting harder and harder to argue against the theory that some peoples' brains are just broken.

You just reminded the majority of Canadians we have a Supreme Court. They're not really a big reality show up here.

I don't think Americans want the world coming to America like the Allies came to Germany. If it were to ever occur, it would be a matter of ensuring America was never a threat again, not handing control over to the current regime's opposition.

I mean, traditionally American military occupations have been about moving an insufficient number of troops around really quickly, and then acting surprised when opposition doesn't disappear permanently in the places they stop temporarily.

It's a big number that they can make even bigger, and they only need another big bag of money first. Don't you want to be the on the side of the big number that will get bigger?

Yup. If I can mass produce 100 spears in the time it takes the enemy to handcraft one, my spear technology is superior. The quality of the spears can be debated, but famously, quantity has its own quality.

You knew a hammer was coming down when he went from planning a run for governor to making a run for the exit door.

Remember when Americans used to laugh at foreign dictators with their ridiculous costumes, uniforms, and medials?

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Also that little issue of when you use slave labour to build your engines, they can have a higher than normal chance of exploding or falling apart. Weird, that.

It’s wild America thinks it’s a country where criminals are treated with a cushy lax attitude with law enforcement prevented from doing their jobs when every piece of evidence is that it’s the opposite except for rich people who don’t commit crimes because why would they have money if they did that

I question naming Winston Churchill as your historical example of vitality and movement. The guy was infamous for sleeping late, napping frequently, and working from bed whenever possible.

My theory is that Stephen Miller is a crash test dummy that escaped the lab, peeled off his stickers, and now seeks vengeance on all mankind.

It really feels like how when people tried to explain how Enron was making money. And then it turned out the answer was they weren't. They were just making money up.

They're seeing their audiences grow restless and are trying to figure out how to position themselves to keep the money coming in. There's no actual principles of any kind at play here.

zeldawilliams 20m From Create Mode •• Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, , just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

It's like Americans made a checklist of all the worst American stereotypes and then elected the checklist as president.

Aging empire shuns innovation, seeks comfort in a long-faded history is also a pretty classic story, sadly.

Doesn't this just mean that people will use the free access level to cost AI companies even more money while searching for gifts online?