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My sister had a cat who was declawed (not by her), medicated, old, sort of inbred, and had lived inside all his life. A more harmless cat you could barely imagine. He regularly found it a challenge to drink his water without fucking it up, and spent a lot of time just staring at the wall.

He once found a moth that was already damaged when he got to it, and successfully killed it. He carried the moth around in his mouth, clearly basking in the intoxicating flood of pride of the hunter he was feeling, for almost an hour before eating the whole thing.

Hopefully the idiots who run these tech companies will learn their lesson soon.

“If the thing is free, you’re the product” applies just as much to dinners at the White House as it does to social media apps.

Rumsfeld more or less bragged about it too, a lot of that crowd did. We haven’t had a serial killer in the White House for a few years, so it’s an adjustment back (and of course Trump is such an overtly vicious person that it’ll have a new flavor now), but this stuff is not new for Republicans.

(Actually Biden and Bush Sr. are the only two presidents since Carter that I can remember that weren’t fans of blowing up random people directly with US forces for no reason. In Afghanistan they did an airstrike on a wedding.)

I mean honestly, US presidents killing random people and families the world over for literally no reason is nothing new. On the scale of Trump stuff, this is pretty minor, as sad as that is to say.

Yeah. In any country with a sane Overton window, it would be a normal conservative paper. But for some reason in the American spectrum it’s this wildly liberal thing.

Someone on Reddit asked one of their editors during an AMA why they covered Biden’s flaws in such eager and abundant detail, and gave Trump a free pass on so much heinous nonsense. His answer was more or less that Trump was popular and Biden wasn’t, so their coverage needed to reflect that.

They had multiple columnists who were sort of “Non-death-camp Republicans,” I remember one of them was a black guy. The whole thing was fuckin’ stupid from the jump, although they did sort of return to a more reality leaning once Trump won and it became a little bit clearer how bad it could get.

https://archive.is/20250729210514/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/opinion/trump-president-policy-success.html

This you?

Hope it was worth it, you clowns. They’re definitely coming for you, too, even AJ and the “good ones.”

“Meatball Ron” was another stroke of real genius. “Sloppy Steve” was another decently good one, but honestly, “Weird Stephen” is fuckin’ perfection.

This wasn’t your question exactly, but here, a good horror movie for you:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8hpcx5

“Pikunikku” from 1996 is supposed to be pretty good too.

I mean, it is going up. Every year that goes by when that chart is above the 0 mark, is additional damage when the systems are already to their breaking point. We’re still hitting the patient every day with a hammer. We’re not healing him. We’re just hitting a little less hard, but not by much, as the days pass and pass, and he’s already shattered.

So many things got put into place under Obama and Biden that our emissions are actually reducing, and thank God for that. But it’s not enough for them to go slightly down. It’s a sliver of morphine, maybe, once a month as his bones are still splintered.

Got it. I tried to watch the movie but I wasn’t into it. I may check out the comics, they are clearly a masterpiece. Sometimes you don’t have to look at too much of something to tell.

Clearly. Even though it actually frees up money for investment into free enterprises, and preserves everyone’s property rights and freedoms. Oops, I mean, communism, boo hiss.

Trump’s biographer Michael Wolff previously said on The Daily Beast Podcast that the president has a less-than-flattering nickname for one of his most loyal henchmen: “Weird Stephen.”

Honestly, even with his brain mostly rotted away now, little glimpses of Trump’s idiot-savant ability to bully at a grandmaster level can still shine through sometimes.

Is this “Weird Tales”? I found some of them in a comics collection when I was little and some of the stories fucked with me.

This is a solved problem though. Britain in the pre-Thatcher years bought up a ton of properties, rented them out at pretty reasonable rates, and thus punctured the bubble and made it so that private landlords were free to do literally whatever they wanted to do (no trying to artificially hit control levers in the economy or legislate people into economically unviable situations), but you couldn’t really do a bangin’ business just buying up properties and renting them out anymore. People who wanted investment income would find businesses to invest in instead, rent was cheap, and the government got a steady stream of income to do whatever they wanted with. Literally everyone wins.

Of course, because it interfered with already-rich people being able to get richer without doing any work, Thatcher hated it and got rid of it. The US probably can’t make this happen for the same reason. But there is a simple answer to this problem that’s proven and works.

I really dislike how some mods like to refer to rules by their number. It just makes things needlessly opaque, it’s part of the “You meet me where I’m at, because I am your superior” mindset. In this case it makes it kind of hard to even see what he’s claiming the issue is with this. Is it because it’s referring to mental illness in a sort of ableist way? Eh, maybe that’s a little bit legit. But that would be a different rule? Honestly, it just reads like dessalines lets his hamster wander around on the mod controls sometimes, or anything he takes personal offense to he likes to delete from the comments, and he takes personal offense very very easily.

It is shocking to remember sometimes, but hypocritical self-centered ass gaskets are represented in every racial grouping. The white people voting for Trump are fucking themselves just as are the Cuban people voting for Trump, and they all got hoodwinked into it via pretty much the same methods.

he US and Europe agreed to for Ukrine to give uo its nukes that if Russia invaded those counties would come to its defence

It’s not quite that simple. The wording (at least in English) was very carefully ambiguous, promising “assistance” if something happens but not quite a security guarantee, but it kind of sounds like a security guarantee.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum

Another key point was that U.S. State Department lawyers made a distinction between “security guarantee” and “security assurance”, referring to the security guarantees that were desired by Ukraine in exchange for non-proliferation. “Security guarantee” would have implied the use of military force in assisting its non-nuclear parties attacked by an aggressor (such as Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty for NATO members), while “security assurance” would simply specify the non-violation of these parties’ territorial integrity. In the end, a statement was read into the negotiation record that the (according to the U.S. lawyers) lesser sense of the English word “assurance” would be the sole implied translation for all appearances of both terms in all three language versions of the statement.[18] In the Ukrainian and Russian version of the document, the wording “security guarantees” was used though.[20][21]

#justclintonthings

First possibility that comes to mind is a backed up federation queue on lemmy.world for some reason.

It could also be some failure on sh.itjust.works, but if I had to guess I would say it’s more likely an issue on the sending end.