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Insane equivalency

Can you empirically say internet access improves wellbeing? Anecdotally, my answer is a resounding "no".

If those guys are "comedians" then I'm Elvis Presley.

Try it out in front of your employer. Then prattle on about Great Replacement theory semi-regularly. See what happens.

Predictable, wind-up doll response from the siloed information consumption crowd.

The film Magnolia dramatizes just such a character. Her father, the perpetrator, is a well-connected, well-respected TV game show host. She's an isolated, mentally unstable drug ab…

Party balloons along the southern border beware.

His stablecoin, USD1, is his primary instrument for laundering. It now constitutes roughly 1/3 of his entire net worth. Attached article gives a great breakdown. https://archive.is…

That would certainly explain the lack of publicized confrontation. If they were mostly deporting actual criminals / gang members, one would expect more stories akin to the events t…

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What were their roles in the Biden Administration?

Just don’t look up how they made the horses fall down.

There are some terrific point & click games on iOS (preferably iPadOS). The Room series, The House of Da Vinci series (superb Room knockoff), and The Eyes of Ara (personal fav) jus…

“Gilding the Mickey” would be an apt description of this article.

Tangentially related, there’s Eastern Air Lines Flight 401. The flight crew unwittingly crashed the plane while preoccupied with a burnt out landing gear confirmation light. https:…

Precisely, the story of the Titanic is nearly ubiquitous. A fair amount of Americans probably couldn’t even locate the Mediterranean on a map.

Horse meat would be a few euros cheaper.

You’re not wrong, but lots of breeds are bred for just such a purpose, particularly thoroughbreds. They’re very expensive animals. Losing those competitions would come with consequ…

That blank stare from Super Dave gets me every time.

> Prayer gets a bad wrap from anyone that gets their theology from ’The Simpsons’ If you found yourself in a strange city at night with ten men approaching, god willing a Simpsons …

Either case is speculative. With Trump, a narcissistic gesture is far more believable than one of reverence.

His usage of pseudonyms throughout the years is stranger than fiction. Stranger yet, he named his youngest child after one of them. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudonyms_of_Do…