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Do the people celebrating the bombing of Iran know what a Nazi SS tattoo looks like?

The media running cover for Fetterman.

She's too good at this.

missed an obvious layup for an “Apple Body” joke here.

the Ron Paul Bro →to→ Bernie Bro →to→ Oyster Bro pipeline is still undefeated.

You and I may see it as deeply hypocritical, but 83yo Convicted Pedophile Donald Trump certainly does NOT. And neither do the MAGA hogs. They see all of this as completely totally internally consistent… to them. There’s absolutely zero cognitive dissonance in his audience to attempt to exploit here.

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
They don’t see this as hypocritical, plz try to get used to this framing. “yOUr hyPoCRiTiCaL tHo!” doesn’t work on them.

to some extent this was also true even about classical programs the more they interacted in any way with the external world

This specific case is not a great example of that though, right? I mean there is only two companies affected here: Google and Apple (I highly doubt there’s gonna be any enforcement on this beyond phones) so it’s not gonna be a cottage industry, right? they’ll implement this once and be done with it.

i think there is a very simple explanation for this, at least in 2026. the cultural apparatus orbiting around Trump lives in a world entirely governed by short feedback loops.

gambling

social media

meme stonks

junk cryptocurrency

LLMs

a lot of critiques in aughts alleged that pentagon was influencing video games and in truth the relationship seems to be the other way around

he’s right, it’s an extremely stupid thing to believe.

Bloomberg was a Conservative when he pushed and passed his soda ban.

Sluggo putting a “One Less Sprinter” bumper sticker on his lifted Sienna.

all jokes aside, one of the big bummers about the transition to https is that it did (as some people were worried) make it somewhat less straightforward for people to get to totally amazing old sites like this

<http://www.packomania.com/>

N=17 stay winning.

stop pretending you don’t know what this is.

funniest outcome of this would be RFK Gr. (Groomer) quickly getting “artificial-additives” banned from being mixed into Dunkin’ Donuts coffees in Maine, and then mysteriously support for Platner drops off a cliff for an unknown reason.

bud it's called Great Woods

“Come and take it” flag with a superimposed Dunkin iced coffee

i’ll never forget hearing this dude straight-up yelling at his sister in the passenger seat of his pickup in Maine waiting to go through a Dunkin’ Donuts drive-in: “You’re not gettin seven Splendahs!”

yup, perfect example! “started throttling the maximum performance of some iPhone models with “chemically aged” batteries, when necessary, to prevent the devices from unexpectedly shutting down.”
all other hardware manus would let software updates like this languish, and force you to buy a new phone.

“same shallow centrism and lack of transformative policy.” lol sure chief

that’s more like it!

All that plastic should be tinted slightly purple

er, idk. Putting a driver upgrade in a day-zero point release doesn’t seem like that big of a deal to me.

Also, they were still selling small phones (I’m still using one with a brand new Watch) for over a ½ decade after the iPhone 8 was released. I’m confused about what you’re talking about here?

I have never in my life—literally never, not once—used the first name on my birth certificate as the name I choose to be addressed by. My government name is a quirk of family history, a piece of not particularly interesting trivia.

Anti-trans hostility to people making the simple request that they be called the name they prefer to be called is such a huge tell as to the indecency of their project.

this seems far more believable than any of the claims Oyster Boy is making (or what the Oyster Bros claim he is saying).