The polyamory will continue until we can form a ska band.

when the people who make the rules say “Sorry, the rules are the rules, there’s nothing we can do” remember that they literally gave a tree human rights just because they felt like it.

once again - not a ban, a seizure. Steve Mnuchin is heading a group of government insiders who want to buy TikTok, and this bill bans it if and only if they don’t sell. The government has decided that TikTok is a dangerous propaganda and espionage network and intends to steal it and run it themselves. Even if you think that TikTok is that dangerous you have to ask yourself: why is it legal for everyone else and why does our government want so badly to do it themselves?

In 2023 Israel spent $4 million in lobbying and got $4 billion in aid. We should pool together and buy ourselves some politicians, y’all. No other investment reliably returns 1000:1.

throw new SameJokeException();

yet another post where the title says “Trump To Actually Be Held Responsible For Crimes Committed On Live TV” and the article is just people who ahve nothing to do with either Trump or the law guessing that someone could possibly do something with no idea as to whether anyone will actually do anything. It’s raw speculation and it degrades the platform, but anything that says “Trump Good” or “Trump Bad” will of course get a million upvotes.

Feels like I’m back on fucking Reddit.

Here’s another question along the same lines - my friend when I was a kid developed gynecomastia, commonly known as “breast knots” when he was 14. They’re completely harmless, but they made it look like he had boobs. Cute little A cups on this otherwise very boy-presenting person. For some reason, no one thought it was “against God’s plan” or “mutilating his body” or “part of the gender agenda” when this 14 year old boy had a purely cosmetic double mastectomy. I wonder why no one batted an eye at a child receiving gender-affirming cosmetic surgery just because he wanted to in this particular case.

Companies: “You are nothing but a cog in a machine. You will be placed in the machine if and only if you help the machine generate maximum profit. If your presence ever causes the machine to generate less than maximum profit you will be summarily discarded.”

Employees: “Okay, so you try to get the maximum profit for you and I try to get the maximum profit for me.”

Companies: surprisePikachu.jpg

Ancaps all live a main character fantasy where they’ll be kings of the rubble.

“Actually you poors are having an amazing time and everything is great, you’re just too stupid to realize it.”

I feel that police departments that treat these calls as legit without their own due diligence is a much bigger problem.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/police-confirm-christmas-swatting-incident-marjorie-taylor-greenes-hou-rcna131131

MTG is swatted so often that local cops check up w her security team before responding to calls.

it’s only dumb til it works

The best part of the Charles Kinsey one in particular is that Kinsey was working with an autistic adult who was having a breakdown. He was sitting in an intersection, holding a toy firetruck and blocking traffic. Fearing that the police would choose to mistake the man’s toy firetruck for a gun, Kinsey stayed with the man and explained to police that it was a toy truck and not a gun. In order to assure officers that he was no threat, Kinsey was lying on his back with his hands in the air. A police officer then shot Kinsey. A different officer asked the shooter why he shot Kinsey, and the shooter replied, and I swear to you this is an exact quote, “I don’t know.” Not being able to articulate what, if anything, Kinsey did wrong did not stop police from handcuffing him and leaving him without medical care for 20 minutes as he bled from his gunshot wound. The officer was convicted of culpable negligence and ordered by a court to serve 5 months’ probation and write an essay about policing. That conviction was overturned on appeal. The police union representing the officer explained that, despite police having been informed by witnesses that the autistic adult was holding a toy truck and confirming themselves using binoculars that it was indeed a toy truck, that the shooter was aiming for the autistic man holding the toy truck and was trying to save Kinsey’s life, despite the fact that the danger existed solely in the shooter’s head.

The people of Miami Dade county, having done nothing wrong, were forced to pay Kinsey an undisclosed sum.

Demi bi checking in. Anyone can buy me a cup of coffee, but everyone has to buy me a cup of coffee first.

you mean friend-wolf? friend-wolf not food!

this got so out of hand at my local fest that they decided to do time traveller’s weekend as a theme. this year we went, and my costume was a cave man who hit his head on a tree branch while chasing a rabbit, woke up here and is amazed by everything

Why USA have to always give money to solve other countries problems, specially war?

since the cold war (and to an extent before that) the US has decided that it will pick the winners and losers of every armed conflict on the globe in order to further US interests. The idea isn’t just to put someone in power, but to put someone in power who, once in power, is always in the precarious position of having to do exactly what the US tells them to do or we withdraw our aid and they lose that power.

in the GOP headquarters there’s a metronome labelled “What we think of Jewish people”. On one side, it says “precious, innocent white westerners who need our help in their exclusively defensive battle with the Islamic barbarians”. On the other side it says “dastardly outsiders plotting the extinction of white westerners and the furtherance of the globalist agenda”. The metronome is set to about 140 bpm.

racist, supremacist, nationalist…normal conservatives

as an American this checks out to me.

it’s an interesting decision to exclude

with the possible exception of treatment for back pain.

and

Spinal manipulation may be cost-effective for sub-acute or chronic low back pain

from the title here