Bio? You expect me to fill out a bio? Nice try, FBI.
Hesbollah must disarm
What, so Lebanon is even more of a sitting duck to Israeli bombing and invading? This is the rot within the “international rules and order” crowd, they’ll finger wag at both parties, but when it comes actual consequences it’s only the countries outside of the imperial core that get them, those within suffer nothing more than the talking down to.
Using boiling hot water to make ice cubes will prevent air bubbles from forming in the cubes.
Pokopia’s been pretty well received, but Koei Tecmo made it so that’s why it doesn’t have the usual half-baked cash-grab Gamefreak stink on it.
The allegedly compromised data includes:
Negative prompts (Site filters)
I’m curious, does that mean filters users put in for things they don’t want in their porn, e.g. no redheads? Or are those things the users requested that the platform won’t allow them to generate, e.g. CSAM?
A school full of innocent girls being flattened is heartbreaking.
The US empire having to suck up an L is just desserts.
It’s real, page 673. Appears they got the chart by plugging in “characteristics” of the figures. Although unsurprisingly, it’s presented as a “do you agree or disagree with the chart?” thought exercise, not a “this is authoritative political truth.”
I think there’s some rule where every public high school is required to have one cryptofash/libertarian history teacher.
For me it was him doing a 180 and glazing Dubya in service of making Trump out to be an abnormally bad president.
The margins in Kamala’s loss were way bigger than the totals for all the third party candidates, and certainly more than all the accelerationist revolutionaries out there. Kamala lost because normies felt that things got worse under Biden and Kamala was promising no significant departures from his policy. But of course, for shitlibs the party can never fail the people, only the people can fail the party.
When the Chinese display military might, that’s a sign that they are a dangerous aggressor to the world. When they don’t display military force, they’re being irresponsible in not providing a counterbalance to the US.
i could also imagine a food truck, for similarly low-rent/low-overhead reasons.
There’s definitely been a trend around here of food businesses starting out as food trucks, gaining a popular following, and then transitioning to a brick and mortar restaurant. There’s less risk in that route, more gradual scaling up than going 0-60 immediately.
Juvenile son of noble is taller than he used to be, real groundbreaking journalism there
The proposal: that Congress place an abridged version of the Constitution on U.S. currency.
Okay so do this, but abridge it so it’s only the least interesting passages. Shit like “Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other Place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting.”
But also in the dorkiest way possible.
First off, this is absolutely one of those sort of issues where the particulars of how the question was phrased drastically shift the responses. I’m positive if the second question was phrased without the “may not directly consider” language then you’d see a much different response.
Second, this isn’t the sort of thing that would significantly shift the results for or against Dems because it’s just too niche. This isn’t a, will I have a job in six months, can I afford a mortgage, can I afford groceries, what will happen to me if I get significantly sick, kind of issue. This isn’t high on the priorities of those just scraping to get by. There’s not enough voters whose big concern is “will Hayden get just good enough grades/SATs/extracurriculars that he’ll get into the good private school or will he have to settle for, ugh, a state school.”
There were plenty of pre-social media sites where horrible people spouted their opinions that were reinforced by the other users. The difference is back then it was confined to whatever particular site they were on. The original sin of social media is that it funneled everyone into the same five websites. People no longer had online communities, they had the faceless expanse of everyone.
Which is why we ended up with phenomenon like “owning the libs” and “everyone who criticizes my worldview is a Russian bot.” Without community, people just latch onto resentment towards people not like them instead of building bonds within their groups.
Imagine if any one of us showed up to our jobs, and said this kind of thing, if we openly spewed hatred about someone else’s identity.
Oh FFS I had coworkers decking their desks out with Israel flags after 10/7.
Question is, how long will the continent put up with absorbing the fallout of America’s decline that America shifts from itself to them before the political and economic strain is too much? Right now the Russo-Ukrainian war has upped the tolerance, but once that comes to some sort of conclusion, it’s going to become increasingly obvious that Europe is getting the short end of the stick on the deal and that China is offering much better terms.
It all points, imo, to the American downfall as being one of those “gradually and then all at once” scenarios. Eventually the one key support pillar will crack, we probably don’t even know for sure which one it is, and everything quickly snowballs around its collapse.