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You're More Stressed Than Ever - Let's Change That
YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
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November 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.
Trump on Ilhan Omar: "I look at somebody who comes from Somalia...and she comes in and tells us how to run our country. 'The Constitution says this, the Constitution says that.' The whole thing is crazy."
November 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.
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This is brilliant
November 3, 2025 at 4:44 AM
This is brilliant
Yet soldiers will line up behind him at his on-base rallies and cheer for him, even though this is what he thinks of them.
Trump: We gave her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It’s much better than the Congressional Medal of Honor because soldiers get the Congressional. And they’re in very bad shape because they're dead. She gets it and she's a healthy, beautiful woman. And they’re rated equal
November 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Yet soldiers will line up behind him at his on-base rallies and cheer for him, even though this is what he thinks of them.
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My last word on the matter
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
My last word on the matter
Fam, is it a good sign for the automotive industry that the trade publication that is essentially funded by dealerships is laying people off?
Layoffs across Crain Communications publications. At least 25 positions were cut late last week: talkingbiznews.com/media-news/c...
Crain lays off more than 25 across publications - Talking Biz News
Detroit-based Crain Communications, which owns industry-specific publications as well as business newspapers in major cities, laid off at least 25 staffers late last week, multiple sources confirm to ...
talkingbiznews.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Fam, is it a good sign for the automotive industry that the trade publication that is essentially funded by dealerships is laying people off?
Good job, everyone.
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Good job, everyone.
I've got the perfect James Bond solution. You Kelvin timeline it. As the bombs destroy the island, it causes a rip through spacetime, and Bond flies through it. He appears at MI6, nearly dead, before Casino Royale. His last words expose Vesper as the mole in MI6, changing the course of history.
November 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I've got the perfect James Bond solution. You Kelvin timeline it. As the bombs destroy the island, it causes a rip through spacetime, and Bond flies through it. He appears at MI6, nearly dead, before Casino Royale. His last words expose Vesper as the mole in MI6, changing the course of history.
"You can't have him waking up in the shower and saying it was all a dream."
Yes you can. You can literally do that. Bond has always been a bit on the ridiculous side, so it's surprising that it took until the last movie for him to die. Not being able to solve this problem is a lack of creativity.
Yes you can. You can literally do that. Bond has always been a bit on the ridiculous side, so it's surprising that it took until the last movie for him to die. Not being able to solve this problem is a lack of creativity.
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"You can't have him waking up in the shower and saying it was all a dream."
Yes you can. You can literally do that. Bond has always been a bit on the ridiculous side, so it's surprising that it took until the last movie for him to die. Not being able to solve this problem is a lack of creativity.
Yes you can. You can literally do that. Bond has always been a bit on the ridiculous side, so it's surprising that it took until the last movie for him to die. Not being able to solve this problem is a lack of creativity.
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I think my first one was a parallel port one. At some point I bought an internal one as well. When I moved from Europe to California, I backed up my data on a couple of Zip disks and lost everything!
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I think my first one was a parallel port one. At some point I bought an internal one as well. When I moved from Europe to California, I backed up my data on a couple of Zip disks and lost everything!
My first Iomega ZIP drive was the 100mb version, and IIRC the eject function was too powerful and sometimes would shoot the cartridge completely out onto the desk.
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 AM
My first Iomega ZIP drive was the 100mb version, and IIRC the eject function was too powerful and sometimes would shoot the cartridge completely out onto the desk.
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President Trump won’t forget John Fetterman’s vote to end the shutdown on Republican terms. The senator can expect a full pardon the next time he pulls a gun on a black jogger.
by Karoline Leavitt
by Karoline Leavitt
November 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM
President Trump won’t forget John Fetterman’s vote to end the shutdown on Republican terms. The senator can expect a full pardon the next time he pulls a gun on a black jogger.
by Karoline Leavitt
by Karoline Leavitt
Thanks to @huntingbenjamin.bsky.social and @mikeschlee.bsky.social for having me on their podcasts recently (The Unnamed Automotive Podcast and The AutoGuide Show). Maybe give them a listen?
Recent podcastings
Where you can hear my dulcet tones
word.chadkirchner.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Thanks to @huntingbenjamin.bsky.social and @mikeschlee.bsky.social for having me on their podcasts recently (The Unnamed Automotive Podcast and The AutoGuide Show). Maybe give them a listen?
Jake Tapper’s book in 2029 chronicling all of this decline will be a page turner.
Trump: "They had hundreds of countries, companies working on it and they were spending billions of dollars and when they turned it on it didn't work. That's why you had a helicopter crashing into an airplane. If we had a great system, bells and whistles would've started going off."
November 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Jake Tapper’s book in 2029 chronicling all of this decline will be a page turner.
Blocking the crosswalk indicates that maybe the bumper stickers aren’t exactly accurate.
The bumper stickers should have to specify when they thought Elon went crazy. We need an exact date-slash-inciting incident
November 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Blocking the crosswalk indicates that maybe the bumper stickers aren’t exactly accurate.
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Lots of people comparing Senate Democrats to Charlie Brown trying to kick the football, but that analogy only works in a version where Lucy has told Charlie Brown she's going to pull it away, and also that afterwards she's going to have Snoopy executed in a foreign prison
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Lots of people comparing Senate Democrats to Charlie Brown trying to kick the football, but that analogy only works in a version where Lucy has told Charlie Brown she's going to pull it away, and also that afterwards she's going to have Snoopy executed in a foreign prison
Gee, coming out and backing Trump's tariff plans and anti-EV stance sure helping out the aftermarket industry, eh?
It's the Economy, Stupid: Post SEMA Show Edition.
I follow automotive groups as part of my day job & the largest auto aftermarket show, SEMA, just took place last week. Last year, people celebrating Trump's win thinking he'd "fix" the economy. Now, it was a depressing time as reality has sunk in.
I follow automotive groups as part of my day job & the largest auto aftermarket show, SEMA, just took place last week. Last year, people celebrating Trump's win thinking he'd "fix" the economy. Now, it was a depressing time as reality has sunk in.
November 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Gee, coming out and backing Trump's tariff plans and anti-EV stance sure helping out the aftermarket industry, eh?
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Nate Silver is the Matt Yglesias of data scientists.
November 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Nate Silver is the Matt Yglesias of data scientists.
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Funny thing about Nate's attempt to show he and his buddies on X are normal:
Sydney Sweeney's new movie just posted one of the worst wide-release openings ever, whereas Predator Badlands—somehow deemed "woke," "gay," and "feminist" by online right-wingers—crushed it, setting a franchise record.
Sydney Sweeney's new movie just posted one of the worst wide-release openings ever, whereas Predator Badlands—somehow deemed "woke," "gay," and "feminist" by online right-wingers—crushed it, setting a franchise record.
the hipsters, they’re ordering double frufru mocha soy frappuccino. doesn’t anybody order a black coffee anymore
November 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Funny thing about Nate's attempt to show he and his buddies on X are normal:
Sydney Sweeney's new movie just posted one of the worst wide-release openings ever, whereas Predator Badlands—somehow deemed "woke," "gay," and "feminist" by online right-wingers—crushed it, setting a franchise record.
Sydney Sweeney's new movie just posted one of the worst wide-release openings ever, whereas Predator Badlands—somehow deemed "woke," "gay," and "feminist" by online right-wingers—crushed it, setting a franchise record.
Was he hot?
who was earl grey
November 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Was he hot?
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Dems, maybe if we make a deal Trump won't starve the poor.
Trump - fuck no. Starve the poor.
Trump - fuck no. Starve the poor.
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TELLS U.S. SUPREME COURT IT CONTINUES TO SEEK HALT OF JUDGE'S ORDER THAT REQUIRED IT TO FULLY FUND FOOD AID THIS MONTH FOR 42 MILLION AMERICANS
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Dems, maybe if we make a deal Trump won't starve the poor.
Trump - fuck no. Starve the poor.
Trump - fuck no. Starve the poor.
“Democrat Shutdown Hoax.”
Good job, Democrats.
Good job, Democrats.
Trump to air traffic controllers: "For those that did nothing but complain, and took time off, even though everyone knew they would be paid, IN FULL, shortly into the future, I am NOT HAPPY WITH YOU. You didn’t step up to help the U.S.A. against the FAKE DEMOCRAT ATTACK"
November 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
“Democrat Shutdown Hoax.”
Good job, Democrats.
Good job, Democrats.
On this fateful day, I'd like to remind everyone that this is a good beer.
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Edmund Fitzgerald® | Great Lakes Brewing Company
Robust and complex, our Porter is a bittersweet tribute to the legendary freighter’s fallen crew—taken too soon when the gales of November came early.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
On this fateful day, I'd like to remind everyone that this is a good beer.
www.greatlakesbrewing.com/edmund-fitzg...
www.greatlakesbrewing.com/edmund-fitzg...
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court DENIES former county clerk Kim Davis's request for the justices to take up her longshot bid to overturn 2015's Obergefell v. Hodges marriage equality decision. No justice even writes about the request.
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
BREAKING: The Supreme Court DENIES former county clerk Kim Davis's request for the justices to take up her longshot bid to overturn 2015's Obergefell v. Hodges marriage equality decision. No justice even writes about the request.