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Bezos Wedding Guests Delighted By Amazon Worker With Ring Tied To Collar Crawling Down Aisle theonion.com/bezos-w...
Bezos Wedding Guests Delighted By Amazon Worker With Ring Tied To Collar Crawling Down Aisle
VENICE, ITALY—Smiling at the couple’s lighthearted twist on a traditional ring bearer, guests at the wedding of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez were reportedly delighted this week by the sight of an Amazon worker with a ring tied to his collar crawling down the aisle. “Oh my gosh, my heart is melting—such a good boy,” […]
theonion.com
June 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Bezos Wedding Guests Delighted By Amazon Worker With Ring Tied To Collar Crawling Down Aisle theonion.com/bezos-w...
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let's see what's on Fox News' feed this morning
April 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
let's see what's on Fox News' feed this morning
@reynoldsgareth.bsky.social Listening to the Mickelback Affair Dollop from Perth, you were on fire.
December 12, 2024 at 12:57 PM
@reynoldsgareth.bsky.social Listening to the Mickelback Affair Dollop from Perth, you were on fire.
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"omg if dockworkers strike it will cost billions!"
well shit, that makes it sound sounds like their demands are pretty reasonable!
lol
well shit, that makes it sound sounds like their demands are pretty reasonable!
lol
October 1, 2024 at 4:55 AM
"omg if dockworkers strike it will cost billions!"
well shit, that makes it sound sounds like their demands are pretty reasonable!
lol
well shit, that makes it sound sounds like their demands are pretty reasonable!
lol
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I think you could phrase a debate question in such a way that it would trick Trump into saying he knows Beetlejuice personally
September 11, 2024 at 1:02 AM
I think you could phrase a debate question in such a way that it would trick Trump into saying he knows Beetlejuice personally
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It’s not really a debate if one of the people involved is committed to overthrowing the government.
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
What the First Debate Question for Trump Must Be
The moderators ought to start with the fact that he rejects the foundations of the American system of government.
www.theatlantic.com
September 9, 2024 at 10:38 PM
It’s not really a debate if one of the people involved is committed to overthrowing the government.
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Now, I’m an idiot, but “awful” sounds like it should be even better than “awesome.”
September 9, 2024 at 9:06 PM
Now, I’m an idiot, but “awful” sounds like it should be even better than “awesome.”
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If we're being serious here the first thing Kamala needs to do with this groundswell of liberal and moderate enthusiasm is to tamp it down and tack hard right on everything to court the votes of the people who hate her already and would never vote for her in a thousand years.
July 24, 2024 at 2:58 AM
If we're being serious here the first thing Kamala needs to do with this groundswell of liberal and moderate enthusiasm is to tamp it down and tack hard right on everything to court the votes of the people who hate her already and would never vote for her in a thousand years.
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Since Bluesky can't ever have enough Twitter screenshots lemme just brag about this one real quick
July 23, 2024 at 12:57 PM
Since Bluesky can't ever have enough Twitter screenshots lemme just brag about this one real quick
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Project 2025, page 592: make it harder for employees to be paid at overtime rates by allowing employers to average the number of hours worked over 2-4 weeks
July 10, 2024 at 12:49 AM
Project 2025, page 592: make it harder for employees to be paid at overtime rates by allowing employers to average the number of hours worked over 2-4 weeks
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Trump’s tax law cut the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%.
What did corporations do with the money saved?
They didn’t invest it or raise wages.
They spent a record $1 trillion on stock buybacks the year after the law went into effect.
Nothing trickled down to workers.
What did corporations do with the money saved?
They didn’t invest it or raise wages.
They spent a record $1 trillion on stock buybacks the year after the law went into effect.
Nothing trickled down to workers.
July 6, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Trump’s tax law cut the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%.
What did corporations do with the money saved?
They didn’t invest it or raise wages.
They spent a record $1 trillion on stock buybacks the year after the law went into effect.
Nothing trickled down to workers.
What did corporations do with the money saved?
They didn’t invest it or raise wages.
They spent a record $1 trillion on stock buybacks the year after the law went into effect.
Nothing trickled down to workers.
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My favorite visualization for this is that a million dollars in $100 bills is about waste high. A billion dollars in $100 bills is taller than the Empire State Building.
April 15, 2024 at 12:24 PM
My favorite visualization for this is that a million dollars in $100 bills is about waste high. A billion dollars in $100 bills is taller than the Empire State Building.
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A million seconds is 12 days.
A billion seconds is 31 years.
A trillion seconds is 31,688 years.
This is the most effective way for my brain to attempt to understand the sheer enormity of billion and trillion
A billion seconds is 31 years.
A trillion seconds is 31,688 years.
This is the most effective way for my brain to attempt to understand the sheer enormity of billion and trillion
April 15, 2024 at 12:38 PM
A million seconds is 12 days.
A billion seconds is 31 years.
A trillion seconds is 31,688 years.
This is the most effective way for my brain to attempt to understand the sheer enormity of billion and trillion
A billion seconds is 31 years.
A trillion seconds is 31,688 years.
This is the most effective way for my brain to attempt to understand the sheer enormity of billion and trillion
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I thought there was no way this was true but it is. You'd have about $750,000,000
my fave continues to be -- if you were handed $1000 every single day, every single year since AD 1 and saved every single penny of it, you still wouldn't be a billionaire.
our minds really do not understand How Much Money a billion dollars is
April 15, 2024 at 4:54 PM
I thought there was no way this was true but it is. You'd have about $750,000,000
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I used to be a tech enthusiast. I am becoming a tech dethusiast. I don’t want any more tech to buy. I don’t want smart appliances. I don’t want smart pants. I don’t want smart dumbbells.
I just want things that I can buy and that work for 20 years.
I just want things that I can buy and that work for 20 years.
April 4, 2024 at 11:36 PM
I used to be a tech enthusiast. I am becoming a tech dethusiast. I don’t want any more tech to buy. I don’t want smart appliances. I don’t want smart pants. I don’t want smart dumbbells.
I just want things that I can buy and that work for 20 years.
I just want things that I can buy and that work for 20 years.
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Dunning and Kruger Construction
March 30, 2024 at 6:48 PM
Dunning and Kruger Construction
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so much of generative AI excitement boils down to "hey, we can fill this flour bag with sawdust and sell it for the same price!"
We're going to have to create a new Internet to get away from the avalanche of AI sludge that will make trying to use the one we have unbearable.
March 30, 2024 at 1:58 PM
so much of generative AI excitement boils down to "hey, we can fill this flour bag with sawdust and sell it for the same price!"
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Why am I always so crabby?" he asks himself, logging on for the 1,856th straight day to a series of finely-calibrated Outrage Generation Systems
March 27, 2024 at 5:39 PM
Why am I always so crabby?" he asks himself, logging on for the 1,856th straight day to a series of finely-calibrated Outrage Generation Systems
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Double Congress's salary but provide that any income they make after they leave office is taxed at 100% above that number. I believe @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social proposed this a decade ago and I think it's brilliant.
It's easy to moan about paying Congress more, but we *want* the job to be attractive to the best and the brightest. The pay is meaningless to super rich slimeballs, but a constant matter of calculation and comparison to the private sector for decent people who don't have millions in stocks & bonds.
March 24, 2024 at 1:17 AM
Double Congress's salary but provide that any income they make after they leave office is taxed at 100% above that number. I believe @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social proposed this a decade ago and I think it's brilliant.
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Weird, you mean the 40-60% rise in food prices we've seen in the last 4 years wasn't based on reality or supply chain issues, but rather on pure corporate greed just like everyone already knew? Thank God the government is here to do absolutely Fuck All about it except confirm what we knew already!
Large Grocers Took Advantage of Pandemic Supply Chain Disruptions, F.T.C. Finds
A report found that large firms pressured suppliers to favor them over competitors. It also concluded that some retailers “seem to have used rising costs as an opportunity to further hike prices.”
www.nytimes.com
March 22, 2024 at 9:18 PM
Weird, you mean the 40-60% rise in food prices we've seen in the last 4 years wasn't based on reality or supply chain issues, but rather on pure corporate greed just like everyone already knew? Thank God the government is here to do absolutely Fuck All about it except confirm what we knew already!
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This is basically the current historical sequence we are living in. Someone produces a product or service that makes a profit; finance or hedge funds take notice and take over with the idea that they could make more money; things gets worse; and then DEI is blamed as the most immediate scapegoat.
March 22, 2024 at 5:34 PM
This is basically the current historical sequence we are living in. Someone produces a product or service that makes a profit; finance or hedge funds take notice and take over with the idea that they could make more money; things gets worse; and then DEI is blamed as the most immediate scapegoat.