So China is not a threat? Great to hear, can we start deescalating now?

Remember the time when Washington DC was invaded by men in high heels, wigs, bows, and colourful dresses? They are still living the trauma of 1812

'); DROP TABLE no_fly_list

“Surely they can’t kill me if I help them win”

Gas Gas Gas

I sometimes read nothing for months and then binge a 2000-page novel over a single week

I just bought a VR game set in medieval Europe, why is there nobody you can pay to cover you with their clothes while you shit in a bucket in the middle of the town square? I demand to relieve myself in the comfort of a human outhouse, it is crucial to my enjoyment of the immersion

Maybe I’m not American enough to understand this, but how does this get bought? How do you store and cool this big-ass jar once you open it, how do you use it up without getting sick of the stuff, why wouldn’t you just buy it in a tube or a bottle, and why would anyone spend 20 bucks on a condiment?

Stock markets are to economics what bouncy castles are to architecture

Between this and the balloon thing, the US seems to have a broadcast malfunction where the audio channel is CNN and the video channel is Looney Tunes

I’m not pretending I know anything about working in a factory or a warehouse, but I have done quite a bit of walking recently, and you really feel much, much better if you wear additional pairs of socks especially if the shoes tend to rub against your ankles

In commemoration of the massacre at Tiananmen square on the Fourth of June 1989, I shall now repeat the names of all the brave freedom fighters who died there:

idk why but the woman in this picture looks about to unhinge her jaw

You’re not a light otaku until you can recite from memory at least 25 crystals that are used used in solid state lasers

Of course you can cringe at furries, or you can keep from infringing on private matters between consenting adults and cast your gaze on any of the thousand greener pastures that are better suited for enriching the leisure of a communist

Even if you ignore the unplastered brick wall with the trident hastily slapped on, the uncomfortably tiny glass table without a cloth, the main course being served on a saucer, and the fact that they brought the emissary of their most powerful ally water in plastic bottles and then just left it there, it really speaks to the post-Soviet rebirth of Ukraine’s cultural identity that senior diplomats on state visits are served Italian food

Ah yes, the classic “she wants him to adopt her indentation practices, he wants her entire race to face total annihilation in a death camp” office romance

According to Elon Musk in 2016, Space X would have produced an unmanned Mars mission by 2018; and according to him in 2020 there should have been cargo trips in 2022

A statue of what though? I think this trident thing is exactly the right symbol to represent the anonymous historical void that is the source and the sink of this regime

This disclaimer actually makes it worse because by invoking “educational purposes” they are pretending to present established historical facts. As in, they’re feeding this slop to kids who are trying to learn history