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I think it's important to keep a few pairs of underwear you hate like poison in the rotation
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watching peep show again and this image comes to mind roughly every 5 minutes
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underrated bit about this is the woman from the photo replied and you can go to her page and see this photo isn't in her recent media, so Ian either subscribes to her onlyfans or went really, really deep in her media tab to find it
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google has gotten so good that now when you google the most well known show of all time the video in the result is from an entirely different show
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I got on reddit in 2008 and it was like this then, almost word for word. 16 years of completely clacified arrested development
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stop looking at shit on your phone and go see it in real life where physical objects exist and have texture and depth and interplay of light and it is a point in space and time being experienced by you and the work and you will immediately understand
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one of the most formative memories of my life was me calmly watching millionaire as my mom frantically put together a midnight escape from my father. she was calling airlines, packed bags, and rushed us out as the confetti fell for the first ever winner. I remember she left it on
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the californian brain is so powerful. arrive at in n out in the world's largest parking lot and there is a line of cars triple snaking to go through the drive thru. walk in to a total of three people. they can't conceive of getting out of the car!
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Incredible, even the US Congress now admits that Australia will probably not get the AUKUS submarines. And they propose an alternative that achieves the feat of being even far worse than AUKUS (which was already a terrible deal).
In a new report (which you can find here: crsreports.congress.gov/prod…) the US Congressional Research Service admits that the country's industrial base is very far from achieving the target of building 2.33 submarines per year needed to build replacement submarines for those sold to Australia: in fact the rate is currently only "1.2 to 1.4".
Given this, they actually propose to just forgo the sale of submarines entirely (!) and go for an alternative approach where the US deploys US submarines manned by the US Navy to Australia instead: "up to eight additional Virginia-class SSNs would be built, and instead of three to five of them being sold to Australia, these additional boats would instead be retained in U.S. Navy service and operated out of Australia."
But since they don't want to miss out on the Australian money meant for the subs, they conveniently propose that Australia instead spends it on other US military products: "Australia, instead of using funds to purchase, build, operate, and maintain its own SSNs, would instead invest those funds in other military capabilities—such as, for example, long-range anti-ship missiles, drones, loitering munitions, B-21 long-range bombers, or other long-range strike aircraft".
All this for the purpose of "performing military missions for both Australia and the United States".
So essentially, from Australia's standpoint, the new deal would mean:
- Zero control over the submarines operated on its territory since it'd all be manned by the U.S. Navy
- Australia still spends a similar eyewatering amount of money ($368 billion) on US military equipment that is mostly "long-range": "long-range anti-ship missiles", "B-21 long-range bombers", "long-range strike aircraft". Meaning by definition not used for the defense of Australia but undoubtedly to attack China. Which is pretty clear: China is mentioned 44 times in the document...
- This US military equipment is to be used, as per the document, to "perform military missions for both Australia and the United States" which is extremely unusual: militaries normally don't perform missions FOR another military. Allied countries might perform missions alongside each other or in support of each other, but not explicitly "for" each other.
How could Australia possibly justify such a deal to its public? AUKUS was already, according to former Australian PM Paul Keating the “worst deal in all history” because it'd "turn Australia into the 51st state of the United States", but this new proposal would strip away even the illusion of Australian sovereignty.
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do you ever just think about how this is still Out There. every single tub of floam still exists, unchanged, floating somewhere in the ocean or a landfill, and will for centuries. "this floam was created closer to the reign of Cleopatra than today," future people will say
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my mom and sister just visited and I found out they spend 80% on their phones of their time watching the comings and goings of anyone who drives by and tracking every movement of my brother in law. insanely unhealthy
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Not in school but when I was in boy scouts I didn't realize the scouts was a religious organization and got the wrath of god when the leader asked who wanted to say grace at dinner and I said "rub a dub dub thanks for the grub" and was literally thrown outside into the woods lmao
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if you wear one of these you are terminally dripless and will not survive the winter
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the three most important things in a city are how's the music scene, how are the museums, and are you allowed to drink or stumble around drunk on the streets without being harassed by cops
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so good knowing there's been a guy whose job was to listen to endless hours of the wailing of the damned from beyond to find out if there's anything meaningful in it
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there was a father and son crossing guard duo for my elementary school who were in their 70s and 90s. I remember always being tickled by it and think of them fondly so often
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I was super excited to get some education stuff at UCLA, it is a massive con job. It's run by a guy who can't stop sexually harassing undergrads and were fired for it
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It took me an embarrassingly long time to really internalize that I am 6'3" 220lbs and not, in fact, a puppy dog sized person that can casually lay across my wife without crushing the life out of her 😔
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something about regis and the KTVU morning news hosts voices have very calming effects on me still whenever I feel a deep bellowing pit of stress, can't explain that
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buy eggs now. buy thousands. store them in your basement. in 6 months you'll be able to triple your money on them. in 2 years it'll be worth 20x as much. you cannot lose.
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maybe an obvious answer but my friend and I have tried three times to watch Sausage Party and cannot make it more than 20 minutes, words can't capture how barren it is
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you and I actually had this exact exchange less than two months ago, while I was hungover lmao
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it's incredible that after 15 years I can still learn something about my wife. like I just found out she thinks she can't put hot food into the fridge. what the hell. that's so stupid ❤️
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so fucking good that they've taken on the positions of "all leftists want to fuck kids" and "actually I believe fucking kids should be an enshrined right of based trad christians" at the exact same time and equally rabidly lmao
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to my old almost entirely fascist neighbors' credit, all the responses have been "what the fuck are you talking about don't do any of that and use a leash"
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I just can't believe a whiny conservative loser is a welcher, this changes my whole worldview of their stiff upper lip bootstraps ideology
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"we hate doing the right thing HAHAHA" (background actions of the greatest mobilization of resources and people of all time for mitigation, containment, investigation, and human selflessness to ever occur) "and that's just because we're afraid of the government or something HAHA"
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reddit quips as reviews, terrible. it has the same problem that imdb had of being extremely useful but having the worst community
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thinking about how it completely destroyed media and journalism in a way that it has never and probably will never recover from, ending entire fields of careers and centralizing media under ~10 billionaires, and literally nothing happened to any of their executives
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swag asian is one of the most enduring archetypes, even going back to when they were a subset of west coast cholo culture in the 90s
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real moment of realizing I live in a bubble because I did not think writing this bad could existed, let alone got published. that's on me. that's my own naivety.
Bald soy fascist that writes sub-Chuck Wendig Epic Narwhal Bacon SLOP taking digs at one of the best authors of the genre's history! Sad!
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I have used that quote forever it's so real. here especially where we're not even really a suburb, it's its own forest well away from everything, and their #1 concern is the looming mobs of minorities coming to kill them, followed closely by how that'd affect property values
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0341 myself, more than half of us were sucking and fucking constantly. caloric intake was probably 50% cum
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you all have any terrifying near misses? I'm having a great career reflective day and thinking when I was 15 my 19 year old girlfriend was desperately trying to trick me into getting her pregnant so she wouldn't have to go to college anymore. a different life on a razor's edge!
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Richard. Richard. OneDrive is a folder on your computer. it's a local folder with cloud options. you can even sync your local desktop and documents folder so it's automatically in there! there's no downside! (if your company is paying the bill)
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only five thousand dollars for a slice of heaven
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how did we reach a point where people can rightly see schooling like this from catholics as ideological indoctrination but refuse to see the direct parallel? Liz says nothing incorrect here but it's become standard practice to call jews questioning that as antisemitic
oh wait she's literally just mad that her parents made her go to hebrew school. that's her whole deal
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we're being robbed not letting cinematographers capture a throbbing cock. think of the artistic possibilities
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ADDING A CLARIFICATION for all my gcs throwing slings and arrows and vinegar and dirt on me for this: you get an exemption if the shorts are slutty. if you're wearing hot pants and showing off your glutes and thighs fine. if you're wearing IT tech cargo khakis it's over for you
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the "haters hating" she's referring to here is her previous hospital and likely federal authorities making the legally required disclosure that she stole patient information to give to her newly founded startup for marketing purposes
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we drove cross country and found something nice and enjoyable literally everywhere we went. not Gary. vibes alone there were off the charts satanic, on top of seemingly everyone there hating everyone else and every building, all attempting annihilation
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how do you all keep running this line? he was already president! he was bad and a bog standard republican! Biden hasn't governed in a meaningfully distinct way! he has actually doubled down on some of trump's worst policies!
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it's a distinct possibility the cormac article author is actually the worst writer of all time
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I cannot fathom looking at this year and thinking biden or harris were in any way an important part of any of it. they were just... there, and intentionally empty
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he built absolutely zero of those companies, he bought into every single one that was already established at a level demanding to be listed as a "founder". the most you can debatably say he's done is know how to milk government subsidies, but more likely he just puts money in
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with incredible timing, @edzitron has a whole piece out now about the coup that led to this that started in 2019. you'll all be shocked to learn it's because google wanted more profit from search and because they love getting fleeced by dumb hucksters
Today's newsletter is the story of how Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's former head of ads - led a coup so that he could run Google Search, and how an email chain from 2019 began a cascade of events that would lead to him running it into the ground.
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an alarming amount of jiggling on one side and an equally alarming complete lack of jiggling on the other
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HOW MANY PEOPLE SPECIFICALLY CANNOT GO TO THE GROCERY STORE. DO YOU THINK THE MAJORITY USING SLAVERY APPS ARE IN THAT GROUP. DO YOU THINK IT'S GOOD THAT DISABILITY IS USED AS A DISHONEST CUDGEL EACH TIME LABOR RIGHTS ARE DISCUSSED
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I'm actually laughing irl because these are the exact words scientists say to me and then cry when they lose five years of data lmao. I just started setting it up onedrive anyway and they were none the wiser
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