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Indiana Jones saying "Nazis...I debate these guys in the marketplace of ideas."

lol

The single most important instruction in elite is never mentioned in any documentation. When approaching a destination in SC, keep engine power at 100% until the gui displays arrival in 7 seconds, then immediately reduce power to 75%. You’ll glide right in.

I have spent many many hours in Elite. I’m excited for you. You will make so many spreadsheets.

Chinese astronauts become the first to grill wings in space, paving the way for future uncstronauts

Tonight, NYC DSA and Zohran proved a better world is possible. Join DSA to help us build it. dsausa.org/join Photo of Zohran Mamdani marching behind an NYC-DSA banner with other NYC DSA members of all genders and races. Some are carrying signs that say Socialism Beats Fascism.

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Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

Kaiser has prescribed me a medication insisting that I should not stop taking the medication suddenly. Kaiser can not supply me with enough of the medication for an entire prescription period; I have to suddenly stop taking it. This is somehow my problem, not Kaiser’s.

Medical insurance is fraud.

Capitalism is fundamentally, by definition, anti-democratic.

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

YouTube video by tvdays Frankenstein 1910 Edison

This is what passed for a summer special effects bonanza movie in 1910. It has the creepiest Frankenstein’s monster I’ve ever seen.

President Deals, angry that he wasn’t recognized for the Nobel Peace Prize, escalates his illegal attacks on Venezuela, demands the US start testing nuclear weapons again, and folds like a dollar bill on a trade war he initiated himself.

I can’t stress this enough: you cannot understand politics without reading this paragraph about why there’s no such thing as a 1/3rd pound hamburger

There’s still time. Now that he’s not part of the royal family, he lacks their protection in court and is open to civil litigation.

HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.

YouTube video by AnimationStation Make Mine Freedom (1948)

I was mistaken, it’s not a Disney film. You’ll still hate it.

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I lay a lot of the blame for this on the Disney isms cartoon.

You know who the real freeloaders in this country are? Not people who rely on SNAP, but corporations whose business model depends on wages so low that taxpayers have to feed their workers.

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Mayor Johnson is cooking

So much of "cancel culture" discourse is a re-description of the normal functioning of a democracy and public discourse by people who didn't like the results of one, or both, or how it made them feel.

Hebrew calligraphy in dark green stretches in lines across the image. Negative space makes room for a simple representation of an inflatable frog costume with a blue bandana. That shape consists of the English translation of the Hebrew, in a lighter green, and in much smaller text. -- Famously, the Egyptian tyrant causes Egypt to be overrun with frogs because he refuses to free the Hebrew people, but there are additional details that make this a fun one to ponder. For one, the Hebrew says "the frog came up" - ONE frog - even though the rest of the time it says "frogs." So there are a few explanations rabbis have come up with to explain this. One is that a single frog multiplied to create swarms. A more creative explanation is that there was a singular giant frog who traveled and brought destruction. Jewish social media was sharing videos of the Portland Frog protester with the caption, "One Big Frog! One Big Frog!" Of course the frog protesters did multiply, and many were seen in crowds all over the world on "No Kings" Day. This calligraphic work takes the verses addressing the frog plague and combines them to form a simple rendering of the Portland Frog protester. The frog figure itself is made up of the English translations of the Hebrew around it. At the bottom left my signature is in the shape of a lily pad.

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)

As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

You might have wondered why a ballroom would cost $300 million. What if I told you the East Wing is over top of the presidential emergency bunker?

That’s $52 per service member.

Those who do learn from history are doomed to have people tell them they’re overreacting

One of my favorite hobbies is to search Craigslist and surplus websites for old tools and electronics, and when I find exactly what I am looking for at a reasonable cost, I talk myself out of buying it.

Democrats keep talking about the reservations they have about a brown person with a different religion running for mayor.

They are very supportive of the rape apologist with a Nazi tattoo though.

Party priorities.

Me, earlier this week: “I’m not upgrading to win11 just so I can be subject to fake ai bullshit. I’ll install fedora I guess.

one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it