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It makes sense, we need to tear down the cultural idea of "the deserving poor". The damage that homelessness does to our society is still bad, even if the homeless person is a jerk. wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/7798436...
WIL WHEATON dot TUMBLR dot COM
if you want to actually start to end homelessness, you need to give homeless people unconditional homes, including when we use them to do drugs or sit around drinking. either housing is unconditional....
wilwheaton.tumblr.com
April 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Mr Musk thinks it should be illegal for advertisers to not do business with him. That is the opposite of a free market.
WIL WHEATON dot TUMBLR dot COM
So I want to laugh at Musk picking fights with other billionaires, because it is, objectively speaking, extremely funny Especially when you consider that his argument essentially boils down to the...
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March 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
jensorensen.com/2025/02/26/p...
“Protecting the Children” | Jen Sorensen
Cartoon about the actual risks facing children in the United States
jensorensen.com
February 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
gleanernews.ca/index.php/20...
EDITORIAL: Poilievre’s perfect storm (Feb. 2025)
gleanernews.ca
February 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
thedevilspanties.com/archives/16521
02/17/2025
Return to Tradition
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February 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Can anyone claim to be surprised?

Breaking down allegations CPAC head Matt Schlapp sexually assaulted another man www.snopes.com/news/2025/02...
Breaking down allegations CPAC head Matt Schlapp sexually assaulted another man
Schlapp faces allegations that he sexually assaulted a man in early February 2025, the fourth reported incident of this nature in eight years.
www.snopes.com
February 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
www.smbc-comics.com/comic/strong-3. Oversimplification can create some catchy slogans, but reality doesn't roll like that.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Strong
www.smbc-comics.com
February 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
The Onion has purchased InfoWars.
Here’s Why I Decided To Buy ‘InfoWars’
Today we celebrate a new addition to the Global Tetrahedron LLC family of brands. And let me say, I really do see it as a family. Much like family members, our brands are abstract nodes of wealth, int...
theonion.com
November 14, 2024 at 2:04 PM
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flockofwords.bsky.social
A thousand years ago this Chinese gentleman went from pragmatic cat employer to doting cat slave with no regrets.
November 18, 2023 at 8:20 AM
Seems to me that WB should be the last resort for any filmmaker. They have no interest in making movies.
November 18, 2023 at 7:36 PM
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phillewis.bsky.social
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders could have granted clemency to a man who has spent 32 years in prison for a murder that another man confessed to doing. She denied him clemency, with no explanation

She did, however, pardon a turkey yesterday
Sarah Sanders, who denied clemency to an innocent man, to pardon a turkey today
A silly holiday photo op has a small amount of political value for Sanders, while allowing a sliver of grace and humanity to a man who the justice system failed decades ago does not.
arktimes.com
November 18, 2023 at 5:03 PM
Dream home
September 12, 2023 at 2:38 PM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
Okay. This excerpt from the new book all about how Elon shut down the Sacramento Twitter data center is way more batshit crazy than even I expected. www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/09/...
The facility was costing X more than $100 million a year. Musk wanted to save that money by moving the servers to one of X's other facilities, in Portland, Oregon. Another manager at the meeting said that couldn't be done right away. "We can't get out safely before six to nine months," she said in a matter-of-fact tone. "Sacramento still needs to be around to serve traffic." Over the years, Musk had been faced many times with a choice between what he thought was necessary and what others told him was possible. The result was almost always the same. He paused in silence for a few moments, then announced, "You have 90 days to do it. If you can't make that work, your resignation is accepted." The manager began to explain in detail some of the obstacles to relocating the servers to Portland. "It has different rack densities, different power densities," she said. "So the rooms need to be upgraded." She started to give a lot more details, but after a minute, Musk interrupted. They were somewhere over Las Vegas when James made his suggestion that they could move them now. It was the type of impulsive, impractical, surge-into-the-breach idea that Musk loved. It was already late evening, but he told his pilot to divert, and they made a loop back up to Sacramento. The only rental car they could find when they landed was a Toyota Corolla. They were not sure how they would even get inside the data center at night, but one very surprised X staffer, a guy named Alex from Uzbekistan, was still there. He merrily let them in and showed them around. The facility, which housed rooms of servers for many other companies as well, was very secure, with a retinal scan required for entry into each of the vaults. Alex the Uzbek was able to get them into the X vault, which contained about 5,200 refrigerator-size racks of 30 computers each. "These things do not look that hard to move," Elon announced. It was a reality-distorting assertion, since each rack weighed about 2,500 "You'll have to hire a contractor to lift the floor panels," Alex said. "They need to be lifted with suction cups." Another set of contractors, he said, would then have to go underneath the floor panels and disconnect the electric cables and seismic rods. Musk turned to his security guard and asked to borrow his pocket knife. Using it, he was able to lift one of the air vents in the floor, which allowed him to pry open the floor panels. He then crawled under the server floor himself, used the knife to jimmy open an electrical cabinet, pulled the server plugs, and waited to see what happened. Nothing exploded. The server was ready to be moved. "Well that doesn't seem super hard," he said as Alex the Uzbek and the rest of the gang stared. Musk was totally jazzed by this point. It was, he said with a loud laugh, like a remake of Mission: Impossible, Sacramento edition. The moving contractors that NTT wanted them to use charged $200 an hour. So James went on Yelp and found a company named Extra Care Movers that would do the work at one-tenth the cost. The motley company pushed the ideal of scrappiness to its outer limits. The owner had lived on the streets for a while, then had a kid, and he was trying to turn his life around. He didn't have a bank account, so James ended up using PayPal to pay him. The second day, the crew wanted cash, so James went to a bank and withdrew $13,000 from his personal account. Two of the crew members had no identification, which made it hard for them to sign into the facility. But they made up for it in hustle. "You get a dollar tip for every additional server we move," James announced at one point. From then on, when they got a new one on a truck, the workers would ask how many they were up to.
September 11, 2023 at 11:34 PM
Well, Meta is still blocking Snopes, so let's post this here.
Act Like a Troll ... But Spread Truth, Not Lies: ONA 23 Conference Highlights
Snopes' Executive Editor/Managing Editor Doreen Marchionni shares conference tips/tricks on managing the strange days ahead.
www.snopes.com
September 4, 2023 at 4:04 PM
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stonekettle.bsky.social
Does anyone, left or right, really think a second Donald Trump term would be anything other than a revenge tour?

Come the next election, you can either vote for someone who will move the country forward or a self-involved megalomanic hell bent on getting even with the world.

Those are the choices
August 31, 2023 at 12:20 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
“Conservatives”: We need smaller government, less regulation, and less interference with the private sector

Also “Conservatives”: I am starting a Congressional investigation into beer ads being too queer
kilgoretrout.bsky.social kilgore trout @kilgoretrout.bsky.social · Aug 19
(grandma yelling from upstairs into the basement) tedddddd are you writing computer letters to beer companies again I’m going to unplug that thing answer me teddy
August 19, 2023 at 2:21 AM