Flying Squid

He's not pretending.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/12/1705902/-Former-Wharton-Professor-Donald-Trump-Is-the-Dumbest-Goddam-Student-I-Ever-Had

2025-02-22 08:41:45 GMT

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He has almost no filter and I think if he was a secret KGB operative, that would not be a secret by now because it would have just come out at random at some point.
He's extremely malleable, loves rich people and authoritarians, and will agree with almost anyone who kisses his ass. So it's pretty easy for Putin to just wrap him around his little finger.

2025-02-22 08:40:23 GMT

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There is no difference in that sense. That doesn't mean the truth is fungible.

2025-02-22 08:38:14 GMT

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> Dahl was a great author but wasn’t a very pc person , his family have had to apologise for his anti semitism.
That is putting it *very* mildly.
"There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it’s a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean, there’s always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere. Even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.”
He said that in \*checks notes\* 1971.

2025-02-22 08:33:40 GMT

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I don't think this counts as a conspiracy theory. What he is doing is right out of Project 2025 and it is exactly for the reason you are suggesting.
It's not a conspiracy theory when they're doing what they said they were going to do. Trump's weak disavowal doesn't really count since everyone he's surrounded himself with was and still is an active proponent.

2025-02-22 08:31:54 GMT

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So from what I can tell, here is all of the places Trump has threatened either directly or indirectly to send the U.S. military since taking office in January:
Greenland
Panama
Gaza
Canada
Ukraine
Mexico
Did I forget any? I realize the U.S. has one of the biggest militaries in the world, but I think maybe he's going to stretch them a bit thin?

2025-02-22 08:30:19 GMT

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It's no longer misconduct if it's approved of at the highest level.

2025-02-22 07:53:10 GMT

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The sins of the fathers, huh?

2025-02-22 07:46:18 GMT

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25 people have upvoted this bigoted bullshit.
This is why I will always be labeled a Zionist no matter what I say or do. It doesn't matter how much effort I have put into trying to stop this genocide or how much I condemn Israel... nothing I ever say or do will be enough because I happened to be born from certain parents.
I also never call anyone a goy, or consider myself chosen. Again though, that doesn't matter. To at least 26 people on Lemmy. Probably far more.

2025-02-22 07:42:37 GMT

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Such a deafening silence.
https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/

2025-02-22 07:41:44 GMT

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I am a Jew. I have never supported Israel and I have always condemned it.
That never seems to matter though. To people like you, I'm genetically a Zionist.

2025-02-22 07:40:16 GMT

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I do. Betting that Trump lied about something is usually a pretty safe bet to make.

2025-02-22 07:38:42 GMT

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Then I guess the election shouldn't have been a referendum on Palestine for anyone and Trump should have been stopped for all the things he's now getting away with.

2025-02-22 07:29:07 GMT

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Don't piss off [Teju Jagua.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teju_Jagua)

2025-02-22 07:14:03 GMT

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LCARS is very pretty, but it's also really poor as a GUI. It was designed for form over function because of course it was.

2025-02-21 18:46:47 GMT

2025-02-21 18:42:40 GMT

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While all of the other healthcare companies stay untouched.
But UHC has been a useful scapegoat for them of late.

2025-02-21 12:23:35 GMT

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That's not how perspective works.

2025-02-21 10:43:13 GMT

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I could see that if the second bear wasn't missing two sets of legs.

2025-02-21 10:32:25 GMT

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If it's already started slipping into fascism, you could be too late.
You have to stop fascism before it ever starts.

2025-02-21 10:31:38 GMT

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Also known as...
![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8bf456e2-2e05-4aae-8375-4fefad74aec0.png)
Unfortunately, it's *only* Evil Kirk.

2025-02-21 10:30:20 GMT

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So what you're saying is California will declare its independence as soon as the genetic experiments to create an army of two-headed bears are successful?

2025-02-21 10:29:19 GMT

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We are Americans.
We are Americans, oh yeah!
We carry great big guns
'Cause we are Americans!
Oh yeah!
We're strong (we're strong!)
And we're free (we're free!)
We are Coke, We are Pepsi
'Cause we are Americans
We are Americans.
What we'd like to do for you right now,
is a short history of the United States of America.
First of all a short scene depicting the United States
of America, and their diplomacy.
Hey pal, do whatever I tell ya!
No!
I got a really big gun here...
All right then.
Yeah! Secondly a short scene depicting the United States
of America, and their economy, yeah!
Hey pal, gimme all your money.
No!
I got a really big gun here...
All right!
And thirdly a short scene depicting the United States
of America, and I'm sure we all understand their foreign policy, yeah!
Hey pal, let's go fight a war in Iraq.
Okay! Where's Iraq?
Yeah!
And finally a short scene depicting the United States of America, and the settlement,
the settlement of that great nation, we know and love as the USA, yeah.
Hey you Indian. Here's a bunch of glass beads, gimme all your land.
No.
I got a great big gun here.
Nice beads!
We are Americans
We are Americans, ah yeah!
We carry great big guns, yeah!
'Cause we are Americans
We're strong (we're strong!)
And we're free (we're free!)
We are Coke, We are Pepsi
And we wear
Canadian flags
When we travel
On our bags
'Cause we are Americans (ah yeah!)
We are Americans (c'mon everybody, make like you're at Woodstock, yeah!)
We are Americans
We are Americans
We are Americans, Here we go!
We are Americans
Everything I do... I do it for you.
-- [Americans, Corky and the Juice Pigs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNJwIuNq-Fo) [who were a Canadian musical comedy group]

2025-02-21 10:24:38 GMT

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"Think of the business" may be the only way to stop Trump considering who has most of the power.

2025-02-21 10:06:09 GMT

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Pardon and Presidential Medal of Freedom incoming.

2025-02-21 09:58:53 GMT

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I think once you get past carbon dating limitations, it's hard to judge who is older than whom.

2025-02-21 09:19:24 GMT

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No, this happened in 2024.

2025-02-21 09:11:00 GMT

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The less-funny, more realistic counterpoint to this:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/04/nlpd-non-libertarian-police-department/360224/
> I was just finishing up my shift by having sex with a prostitute when I got a call about an opportunity for overtime. A no-knock raid was going down across town.
>"You're trying to have your salary spike this year to game the pension system, right?" my buddy told me. "Well, we're raiding a house where an informant says there's marijuana, and it's going to be awesome—we've got a $283,000 military-grade armored SWAT truck and the kind of flash grenades that literally scared that one guy to death."

2025-02-21 09:07:36 GMT

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That's what I'm suggesting. Did they even look up how to do it?
Of course, they could have used a public library computer or something.

2025-02-21 09:01:28 GMT

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No matter how he dies, there will be a contingent insisting he isn't actually dead.
Some of those insane QAnon people think JFK is still alive. Not JFK, Jr. JFK. Who was born in 1917.

2025-02-21 08:21:43 GMT

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Militaries test their readiness? You're shitting me.

2025-02-21 08:15:18 GMT

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And this makes me wonder if Greg Abbott is trying to get someone for discriminating against him being in a wheelchair.
Because it's always different then.

2025-02-21 07:43:26 GMT

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Me too. These days you see people whining about "liberal women" and what they say...

2025-02-21 07:13:37 GMT

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Although I voted for Bernie, I have always been pretty sure that if he were elected president, both parties would work against him in congress and he would achieve very little.
But achieving very little is better than what's happening now.

2025-02-21 07:07:21 GMT

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Everyone hoping there's still a chance, you need to remember... this is only a city-killer asteroid.
We need to hope for a *much* bigger asteroid.

2025-02-21 07:05:52 GMT

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Anyone has the means to make pipe bombs. Whether they had the *knowledge* is another matter.

2025-02-21 07:01:50 GMT

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Women always getting uppity, am I right? Why is she not in a kitchen right now, I ask you?! And she needs to smile more.

2025-02-21 06:54:58 GMT

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I'm thinking Libertarians will be celebrating until they find out the answer is no.

2025-02-21 06:43:31 GMT

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In these days of WiFi and VPNs, it's pretty trivial for someone to find an unsecured router and start using it to pirate things.
So going after the ISP to find out the name of the home where the piracy is supposedly happening could easily point the finger at the wrong party.

2025-02-20 16:47:20 GMT

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Who knows? Seals can also mimic human speech.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prrMaLrkc5U

2025-02-20 16:04:09 GMT

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Person... person... sorry, all I'm seeing in that photo is a lettuce.

2025-02-20 15:59:24 GMT

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOC_(whale)

2025-02-20 15:55:38 GMT

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You got your link from a Republican's office.

2025-02-20 11:32:16 GMT

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I know a bunch of people learned it in preparation for Y2K. Some of those people must still be around. But I doubt they bothered looking.

2025-02-20 11:18:54 GMT

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They most likely fired them without ever talking to them.

2025-02-20 11:18:05 GMT

> Fox News host Jesse Watters made an on-air plea that the Trump administration be “less callous” when implementing when laying off federal employees after a military veteran friend was “DOGE’d” in Elon Musk’s Pentagon cuts.

2025-02-20 11:10:14 GMT

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And the junior dev uses ChatGPT.

2025-02-20 11:02:12 GMT

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The COBOL thing is what really entertained me. I don't know any COBOL, but I sure as fuck would have someone who knows it inside and out on my team if I was going to inspect systems that run on it. But then I don't think I know everything.

2025-02-20 10:32:51 GMT

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Sticking people in a concentration camp in Guantanamo Bay is not deporting them.

2025-02-20 10:32:18 GMT

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Why does the West have to 'assimilate' them? Why can't the cultures merge?

2025-02-20 10:31:31 GMT

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If you're going to challenge the definition of such words, perhaps you should know the difference between 'immigrate' and 'emigrate.'

2025-02-20 10:28:03 GMT

>On Sunday, White House adviser Elon Musk claimed his “Department of Government Efficiency” found that more than 20 million Americans over the age of 100 have been receiving checks from the Social Security Administration. He alleged the figure included people who were born in 1875. The billionaire shared a screenshot of a spreadsheet he said was from the SSA’s database.
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>Speaking at a conference of investors in Miami on Wednesday, the president reiterated Musk’s baseless claims about Social Security and appeared to add some embellishments of his own.
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>“But listen to this – 3.6 million people are on Social Security rolls from the age of 110 years old to 119,” he said. “Do you think there are really that many? Those people are seriously old. But it gets worse – 3.4 7 million people are on Social Security from the age of 120 years old to 129 years old, 3.9 million people are on Social Security from 130 years old to 139 years old.”
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>Trump later added that there are “3.5 million people from the age 140 to 149 years old” on Social Security, and that “1.3 million people are on Social Security from age 150-159. And over 130,000 people are on Social Security over the age of 160 years old, ok? Including 1,039 people. Think of it. Over 1000 people, between the ages of 220-229. And one person of 240 years old and 249. And the record topper, there is one person on Social Security who is 360 years old, which is approximately 110 years older than our country.”
Also, the 1337 hackers at DOGE don't know anything about COBOL, apparently.
> The challenge with COBOL is that it doesn’t have a standardized way to store and work with dates — unlike most modern programming languages. Instead, many dates in COBOL must be coded to a reference number, often using an international standard, Rege explained.
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> The most common reference date number is May 20, 1875, under an international standard known as ISO 8601. That means if someone applies for Social Security without a birth date, they may be recorded as 150 years old in the database depending on how a programmer troubleshoots the issue.
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> Programmers can overcome these limitations in COBOL’s functionality, but they may also opt to use 1875 as a placeholder for unknown dates if it aligns with the database’s purpose… For example, when the federal government began issuing regular monthly Social Security payments in January 1940, recipients needed to be at least 65 to qualify, meaning they needed to be born in 1875 or before.
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> Those who crafted the Social Security database may have, therefore, set 1875 as the default birth year for anyone who lacked that information at the time.
You'd think at least Big Balls would know some COBOL.

2025-02-20 10:09:27 GMT

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Trump Proposes X.
Media: "Trump can't do X."
Trump [Does it anyway.]
Media: "Judge says Trump can't do X."
Trump: [Does it anyway.]
Media: "Trump uses executive order to do X."
Trump: [Was doing it from the start.]

2025-02-20 10:06:08 GMT

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Sure, just like I heard about Roe v. Wade. Just like I heard would happen if Trump started creating concentration camps.

2025-02-20 10:01:26 GMT

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The one from Newsweek? The map isn't even accurate. Indiana is on it for, based on the data, no apparent reason.

2025-02-20 07:36:35 GMT

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This could be my new Riker...
![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/45af8997-d2b7-43bc-9fa3-e3fd7fdc0dfc.png)

2025-02-20 07:32:12 GMT

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At this point, I have a feeling they put on a sci-fi movie, start jerking off to themselves in the mirror, then turn it off when the credits roll and claim they're sci-fi fans.

2025-02-20 07:31:09 GMT

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Gonna mess our mind?

2025-02-20 07:28:59 GMT

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"Mike Johnson says this" doesn't make it reality. Or factual.

2025-02-20 07:21:01 GMT

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Interesting! I had no idea. Thanks!

2025-02-20 07:19:52 GMT

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I don't know, President Vance sounds like a tragedy to me...

2025-02-20 07:12:06 GMT

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The ceilings here are super high. I wouldn't be able to reach it. Would a heated ceiling be all that efficient?

2025-02-20 07:11:38 GMT

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Apartment. First floor (second floor for Americans). Heat does rise, so maybe that's it?

2025-02-20 07:02:42 GMT

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So it's just really good insulation?

2025-02-20 07:01:33 GMT

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Would the walls and floor still be cold if they were doing that? I honestly have no idea how that would work.

2025-02-20 07:01:12 GMT

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I am not on the ground floor, and I thought maybe it would be some under-floor heating thing like you are saying, but I have walked all over the room in bare feet and felt no heat in the floor.

2025-02-20 06:54:44 GMT

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These people are literally internet trolls, of the 4Chan variety. One of them goes by the name "Big Balls." And their internet histories keep popping up to show how often they troll.

2025-02-20 06:51:18 GMT

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I'm not sure how else it stays that warm when it is below freezing outside.

2025-02-20 06:38:58 GMT

I'm staying in an apartment temporarily and I have absolutely no idea how it is heated. It's a two-bedroom apartment. There is no thermostat. There are no vents. There is one radiator in the apartment's living room, at the front and down the hall from the bedrooms, and one radiator in the bathroom.
I have felt every wall in my bedroom. All of them are cool. The floor is also a normal temperature.
And yet, despite it being at or below freezing most nights in the past month, I can be in my bedroom without a shirt on and be comfortable. It might be nice to be a little warmer, but I don't feel cold or anything.
I am mystified. How is it being heated?

2025-02-20 06:11:15 GMT

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I keep saying the tech bros learned nothing from all the sci-fi they claimed to have consumed. Were they even paying attention?
I definitely doubt Elon Musk's claims of loving sci-fi. He thought Rick Deckard was named ["Bladerunner."](https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-main-character-blade-runner)
More importantly, he claims he loves The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a blatantly anti-corporate series of novels wherein every AI is either broken, an asshole, or both.

2025-02-20 06:08:28 GMT

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Sadly no longer updated, but still quite informative: https://elonmusk.today/

2025-02-20 06:06:09 GMT

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The media needs to accept that internet trolls are running the U.S. government.

2025-02-20 05:49:45 GMT

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I'm guessing the people dumb enough to drive in NYC are not displeased about what Trump did.

2025-02-20 05:35:02 GMT

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Anyone they want to be American will be American. The rules have been abandoned and you cannot just hope they'll obey them.

2025-02-20 05:33:51 GMT

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"Enhance. Enhance."
"Ma'am, images don't work that w-"
"YOU'RE NOT ENHANCING!"

2025-02-20 05:27:59 GMT

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As much as he disliked the military-industrial complex, he also perpetuated the nuclear arms race that began with Truman and Stalin.

2025-02-20 05:25:20 GMT

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Taxes are not "free loans." Libertarian nonsense. When implemented properly, which even U.S. taxes often are at a more local level, you get a shitload of return. You know, like paved roads and food that isn't full of dangerous pathogens.

2025-02-20 05:20:39 GMT

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> If Musk can fly a rocket, Trump reportedly told associates, per the NYT, he can probably fly an airplane.
He's never been on one of his rockets. He's too chickenshit. Fuck Bezos, but at least he had the balls to go up on a Blue Origin rocket. If you think Musk is ever going to Mars, you're wrong.

2025-02-20 05:19:21 GMT

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You don't "opt out" when you're told you can't join in the first place.

2025-02-20 05:18:16 GMT

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I don't know where you've been, but it's entirely the opposite.
https://theconversation.com/why-federal-courts-are-unlikely-to-save-democracy-from-trumps-and-musks-attacks-249533

2025-02-20 05:17:03 GMT

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You seem to think they give a shit what the constitution says in the face of all the evidence to the contrary.

2025-02-20 05:16:07 GMT

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Except the pharaoh had been moved.

2025-02-20 05:15:56 GMT

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Thutmose II was basically a figurehead as Hapshepsut actually ran things, and eventually declared herself Pharaoh. So that's a pretty interesting pharaoh to discover the tomb of.
Too bad it was mostly empty.

2025-02-20 05:10:48 GMT

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You have my pity. Americans, in general, hate licorice, but thankfully it is still available.

2025-02-19 21:11:10 GMT

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The end of the film industry has been right around the corner since at least the invention of television.

2025-02-19 21:05:22 GMT

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Could be worse.
[Could be a toaster.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec)

2025-02-19 20:29:41 GMT

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I don't play games.
Okay, I do play games, but this was not one of mine!

2025-02-19 20:07:18 GMT

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Excuse me, but I had nothing whatsoever to do with this.

2025-02-19 18:15:30 GMT

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> Trump is telling the truth
> Putin is telling the truth
This is all I needed to see to know that you are not a serious person.

2025-02-19 18:00:10 GMT

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Literally one hour old article:
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24948838.us-anti-abortion-protestors-target-scottish-hospital-despite-law/

2025-02-19 17:50:26 GMT

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I have said it to people who are in favor of capital punishment over and over again that nothing good comes out of giving a state the power of life and death over its citizens.

2025-02-19 17:44:40 GMT

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Why is he telling the truth but everyone else is lying?

2025-02-19 16:32:16 GMT

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Ford made a bad car? Are you shitting me here?!

2025-02-19 16:27:39 GMT

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Hey, no one could afford healthcare before, now they can't afford healthcare plus 25%!

2025-02-19 16:21:32 GMT

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Zelensky says it isn't true, Johnson says it isn't true, but some other random guy says it and you believe it. That's pretty sad.

2025-02-19 12:48:00 GMT

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You know who else did that? Nations at threat from Nazi invasion in WWII. Do you need to have the why explained to you?

2025-02-19 12:45:15 GMT

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You think hoarding it is better? Really?

2025-02-19 10:47:49 GMT

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"We are not hoarding anything," they say from the comfort of the antique sofa inside the house which they wholly own.