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they should have the little bird sit with you at campfires imo

part of a greater tend of democrats acting like every single candidate is Inevitable for as long as possible. it's like even the illusion of the primary process being about having the best candidate win is just completely gone

it's what Microsoft deserves to happen to them, tbh

yeah the rural urban divide is basically "is your neighborhood a food desert other than Walmart"; this is the result of Walmarts systemically destroying small downtowns for decades. there truly is full market capture for those outside of cities and suburbs

This gives away the whole game, as people have been warning for years and years. This is identity erasure of a whole class. the precedents for having documents revoked by group…are not good.

I don't get how the ceo of the company could think that the joke pronunciation of their name was somehow rooted in the quality and reputation of the store, like "wow people thought we were fancy!" rather than "folks are ironically trying to dress up a big box store shopping trip as something else"

I can personally very much relate to that and I share that feeling, though it feels different than my peers' feelings

when one's emotions are suppressed we tend to think of ourselves as highly logical / rational beings, and I think our unleashed emotions have a strength of conviction to them that feel like objective rational thought to those unprepared for it

ehhh, I think this is partially true, but a lot more of it can be more easily explained by just having much more intense emotional responses for the first times in our lives, but all of our social coping skills were grown when we were suppressing so many of those emotions

the nice thing is that this is her character in literally every Bill Lawrence show

wait is the only trans woman who's ever appeared on the service the contest winner for that one game changer

a formative trip to ride the subway in Washington DC as a child is probably why I'm such a weird freak about moody indirect lighting today

the first app that has a button for "oh did you see something interesting in the moment between refreshing and the new page loading? wanna go back?" will win my undying loyalty

always funny seeing this one come up in the wild... i made this in the bathroom of my job in 2018. however it took me another 10 months to quit that job because it is hard to take your own advice

oooooo that's one of the good ideas of all time, esp with the jornay kicking in early for some reason

couldn't sleep basically all night due to Vague Body Problems and I'm at the threshold of deciding between sleeping for like five hours and trying to work from home or just toughing it out and slinking into work like a zombie with

fancy pear with seeds sounds like a decent, solid fruit tho. we all know that name is doing 95% of the heavy lifting tho

everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine

The post that's in your head is already gone, bud; it needs to be liberated from the ruling class that controls its editorial direction for it to have any hope. it's not just "the opinion page"

this one's going to straight to the apps, double-chin be damned

just got back from a Rock Band party and damn we need to play more of that game. are there cool kid ways to "unlock" the whole RBN library on Rock Band 3 now that all those licenses and storefronts are dead anyway

it's gotta be signs though, if we let them get to say words then it doesn't work

it's perhaps both my greatest flaw and asset that there is no one I can't find fascinating. shout out to any and all folks who've let me know them for any amount of time

I cannot imagine how someone can be born into a universe with this many remarkable and funny and charming people and choose not to be social. there are no dull stories, from anyone. this place is just full of whimsy and wonder from top to bottom

The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited Techno-cynics are all just wounded techno-optimists.

"Techno-cynics are all just wounded techno-optimists." -- Gita Jackson, aftermath.site/anthropic-cl...

I feel this in my bones.

can't wait for them to means-test the crap out of a campaign promised refund check to the point where nobody gets even half that amount back

"Nobody knew [subject] could be so complicated" is another fave

I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.

with this admin there is always a healthy chance of Maybe They Just Won't, under the What Are You Gonna Do About It doctrine