We pretend to work

They pretend to pay us

Broadly classifies as gross negligence and any business that wants to stay in business will be wise to make that info public.

But I’d rather just not end up in an ER to begin with.

Her, at the funeral: “He needs his glasses! He can’t see without his glasses!”

No - literally rivers were on fire.

BP lit the Gulf on fire a while back. Nevermind the drought induced wildfires all through the Mountain West.

And gay bashing was mainstream, fully tolerated, very common.

Texas Senate Bill 12 is bringing it back.

Lakes were turning clear like swimming pools due to acid rain - kinda pretty, but totally dead.

We had a climate-related disaster every four days last year.

Rivers on fire, gay bashing, satanic panic, abortion clinic bombings, acid rain…

Okay, but we have all of that now, too. What was different?

So, I’m reading two false claims, and I’ve got a long line of highly proficient bald family members to prove it

We are complaining about printers now?

Sadly, no. We’re complaining about age cohorts.

My new next door neighbor is AirBnB and let me tell you how much I hate it

That’s not negotiation! That’s not deal making!

It is. Just not in your interest. Might be worth asking what Trump thinks he’s getting out of it. Did someone at a Russian bank just pick up another $50M in Trumpcoin recently? How will a brokered peace enrich Trump’s family and friends?

The US isn’t Ukraine and Trump isn’t capitulating to an enemy, he’s carving up Ukrainian territory alongside an erstwhile ally. He’s making deals, he’s just not on your side of the board.

He was coaching them on how to convince YOU, Mr. Trump, on how to manipulate YOU

He’s an agent of the Trump administration selling a deal brokered by Russia to his boss, presumably by promising the kind of quid pro quo Trump would endorse.

What’s notable is how sloppy and slapdash the dealmaking was for the benefit of the public at-large. Trump’s team might have gotten out cleaner if the authors of the deal hadn’t just chucked it through Babblefish to get an English translation.

I wish it did. Unfortunately, conservatives seem to rule our world far more often than not.

Everyone here saying they still exist.

That’s not the point.

:-/

It kinda is, though. “I’m here, rather than over there, because I’d rather product content complaining about a lack of a thing than adding to the content of the thing I say I wish I had”.

I miss them because is was a concentration of each niche and there usually wasn’t much competition. No competition for “likes” or whatever.

I think its easy to mis-remember the past. But the idea that people on forums weren’t competing for attention, or that whole communities weren’t competing for degrees of participation, is a product of nostalgia. Jump over to 4chan - a very Old Internet relic - if you don’t believe me.

The thing you remember was the fun you had in your younger days doing a thing you were passionate about. And the thing you hate about Social Media is largely the absence of fun.

I’ll tell you what was good about the old school forums. Once you got up the right combination of browser add-ons, there were no ads. I go on Instagram now and I’m getting 2-3 ads for any given real post. I’m getting a flood of click-bait “Suggested For You” content I didn’t subscribe to or ask for. I’m getting pop-ins and notices and updates and reminders shoved on me. That’s what fucking sucks in Web 2.0/3.0 Just a deluge of corporate shit raining on you at every interaction.

But this dogged insistence that the newer model of forum organization - the Reddit or Wikipedia content ranking formula, rather than the traditional Groups organized by Last Update - is somehow ruining the internet… I just don’t see it. What I see with the newer model is more images and videos, which would have sunk an old school dial-up powered forum 30 years ago.

And I think what old-heads are really asking for is a community that doesn’t use thumbnails/images/videos in the feed. And I’m sympathetic to that. I’m just not nostalgic for fucking WoW forums or SomethingAwful posters or 90s-era content rings. Just like with the modern internet, that era was choked with shitty posters, bot posters, and endless scams. Those things just weren’t memorable in the same way as the fun stuff.

Barely on the cusp of calling it “Fake News”

Rising American anti-Semitism isn’t a foreign influence operation.

If I’m not allowed to blame Putler for this, why should I even consider it a problem?

Yair Rosenberg is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of its newsletter Deep Shtetl

Oh boy, excited to hear his opinions on Israel-Palestine.

The War Israel Was Ready to Fight: The strategy that led to the October 7 disaster is the same one fueling Israel’s current successes.

Yee-haw!

finger snaps heard over jazz music

Some beautiful new art on a very old joke.

A Covert Action: Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland

Shrug

The Eastern Block got the same fuzzy treatment from NATO that countries like Afghanistan and Columbia and Iran enjoyed.

Americans love a color revolution when your government aligns with Russia or China. But they have zero tolerance for dissent once their friends are in charge.

They fled Fidel for the US and lost everything they owned in Cuba.

The Bay of Pigs created their hatred for the Dems.

That’s a story I’ve heard. But Dems continued to win Florida through Obama.

Seems like a lot of the Cuban Exile energy came out of their 80s era gray market role in drugs and arms dealing through the Caribbean. And that put them at the forefront of the crypto ponzi schemes under Obama, Trump, and Biden.

Now they’re just bog standard libertarian fascists.

Sure, that’s a work around. But it relies on a trusted third party, along with wiki mods who don’t yank the entry because they don’t recognize the archived source as a valid citation.

It isn’t a feature integrated into the encyclopedia.

40 years ago poland was the most progressive country in europe regarding homosexuality because unlike everyone else they never criminalized it.

Damn, that’s wild. What was Poland like 40 years ago?

flips open history book

Omg, you’re a fucking tankie! TANKIE! TANKIE! Mods, get this guy out of here!!!

I still have my dad’s 1957 edition sitting on my childhood bedroom shelf.

It is genuinely kind of wild to read through that thing, in light of modern history.