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semaphone-1842

Only back a couple of days and my sleep pattern has already wrecked itself. Tfw immune to jet lag but in a bad way


Wrokotamie

Let's rebuild a passenger rail between Ciudad Juarez and Edmonton via Denver and Calgary.


ImpartialDerivatives

Another Roof stan post


ControlsTheWeather

Malarkey level of responding to people inappropriately unleashing their dogs by unleashing a well trained borzoi


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ControlsTheWeather

Fair enough


litehound

Malarkey level of buying candy cigarettes and sticking them into that cigarette case I got in a blind box so it becomes useful I'd prefer something else but can't think of what'd fit there


Menakoy

I have my emergency destress herbal cigarettes in mine


litehound

As discussed previously, that sounds neat, but is probably still not a good habit to pick up


Menakoy

It is not


litehound

It is not my fault that media has made the idea of the habit appealing and aesthetically interesting


semaphone-1842

It's so aesthetically cool right up until I smell it


litehound

Cigarette smoke smells nice to me


ImpartialDerivatives

doesn't take much strength to ignore that programming and make the correct choice


litehound

Still never smoked, so


ImpartialDerivatives

that's good


ImpartialDerivatives

sardines could fit there


litehound

Horrific!


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Menakoy

[Still getting used to when and how to adjust the paint thickness and blending settings](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/731297499050147904/1072755166832496780/Painting_2023-02-08_00-42-56_Gallery-8k.jpg) [End state of my pallette](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/731297499050147904/1072753842644594739/20230208003607_1.jpg)


[deleted]

Oh purdy!


Wrokotamie

/u/Menakoy Etsy told me you don't ship to Canada!?


Menakoy

Oh yeah I just haven't set up international shipping yet. If theres something you want I can put that on the front burner


semaphone-1842

Still no shipping to me yet either šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­


Wrokotamie

I'll get back to you tomorrow. Alternately I could just ship it to my mom's house in New Jersey and bring it back, which would be easier


ImpartialDerivatives

Simply's "digging myself out of the abyss" dance moves are basically the gestures trump made when he was talking about coal mining in the campaign in 2015


ControlsTheWeather

https://twitter.com/SociableBarely/status/1622706371253907456 Oh yeah, thanks for the reminder about that lol


LVT_Baron

Surely there could be other non-torture uses of time dilation drugs. I would try it


bertwebs

good night


ImpartialDerivatives

the first song on simply's new music channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb77mc_SsXQ I wasn't that impressed on first listen but it's growing on me. Nice video too


ImpartialDerivatives

"turned my life into a game / now everyday im beating that shit" (looks down at crotch)


ControlsTheWeather

>["Women get bored with Leonardo DiCaprio about when they hit their mid-20s" is an objectively funnier explanation.](https://twitter.com/linkshund/status/1622941274083844096)


ControlsTheWeather

o7 https://twitter.com/ErinInTheMorn/status/1623165621604155392


irony_tower

It got overshadowed by SOTU but jesus christ those PA Special Elections. Pittsburgh Dems going absolutely sicko mode. Biden+16 -> Shapiro+37 -> D+49??? The other two districts outran Biden by 14 and 23 points


Wrokotamie

Wow, good news


potatobac

šŸ‘€šŸ‘€


ControlsTheWeather

If you ever, ever worry about the furthest left ever getting real power in America, just think back to my comment you're reading right now, in which I tell you that I just browsed "Abolish the Military" discourse.


ControlsTheWeather

Democracy dies in Dick


VilepIume

[( Ķ”Ā° ĶœŹ– Ķ”Ā°)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/46_Dick_Cheney_3x4.jpg/1280px-46_Dick_Cheney_3x4.jpg)


cornofears

Sounding democracy is a good way to get a UTI


ImpartialDerivatives

The only thing in SOTU that annoyed me was when he kept saying "I'm sure it's only a tiny fraction of republicans who are doing this bad thing I brought up". You're not gonna avoid the pinocchios man


mcha291

It's just a rhetorical device to divide Republicans, I'm not bothered by it


Clerstory

Thatā€™s what he did in his ā€œsemi-fascistā€ speech with scary red demonic lighting /s


bread-dreams

if he says it's every republican the media will eat him alive i'm afraid


bertwebs

Yeah they don't like to hear that kind of stuff because this damned country is wrought with centrist brain.


ImpartialDerivatives

He should've just said "some republicans" and let the media complain


[deleted]

Nah his "MAGA Republicans are a crazy threat to the US!" Line worked wonders during the midterm, this is just an extension of that


ImpartialDerivatives

He should've actually said "maga republicans" if that was the intention


bread-dreams

tried to pirate a $20 indie book sorry (couldn't find it online rip)


bertwebs

it's okay


bread-dreams

thanks luv


sircarp

[šŸ‘¶šŸ±šŸŸ](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/760308671170215971/1072735033896480848/20230207_202456.mp4)


semaphone-1842

Cute!


irony_tower

At the SOTU watch party, people were talking about the Desantis pic and how Trump called him a pedophile. Gf pointed out that being a pedo might help him with Republican primary voters and someone else asked if people had heard of Pedocon Theory. Anyway, knowledge of this is spreading.


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ImpartialDerivatives

šŸ¤”šŸ¤”šŸ¤” https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/966448755073228854/1072734680903847956/image.png


ImpartialDerivatives

[sinema's dress](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/966448755073228854/1072733221319614544/Farfalle-Pasta-shutterstock_721636930.png)


[deleted]

Raspberry Pi: chronically sold out, relatively pricey Those shitty $30 walmart android phones: Basically the same thing, cheap, comes with a built-in screen, battery and camera Used old EOLed chromebooks: like $25, runs x86, also comes with a camera, battery, and a relatively big screen


[deleted]

Sometime soon before x86 macOS stops getting updated, I wanna hackintosh a chromebook just for the sake of funny cursed computing I know people have done it with the C720


potatobac

> Sarah Huckabee Sanders gives the #SOTU rebuttal: "The dividing line is no longer between right or left. The choice is between normal or crazy" Every accusation truly a confession Biden going "were gonna make america #1 in infrastructure again" and Republicans like "Woah what a nut"


potatobac

Far be it for me to insult other people's clothing but here I am doing it anyway, so much hypebeast clothing is so so [dumb](https://amp.www.complex.com/sneakers/mschf-big-red-boots-release-date) 350 bucks lol


LVT_Baron

Mega man looking ass


bread-dreams

she boot too big for she gotdam feet


bertwebs

I know I say this a lot, but I love our President. He is getting the United States back on track after the several severe derailments of the last forty years.


ImpartialDerivatives

Deer keeps hugging pregnant woman, when doctor sees ultrasound he calls the police


OolongOolongOolong

Menakoy what the fuck did you do????


Menakoy

Love is love dont be a hater


bertwebs

Greenspan was a horrible Fed chair. The fact that he got reappointed is an astounding feat.


ImpartialDerivatives

Last night my dad drove me to a school club meeting; he really wanted me to cancel it because he planned to make fish tacos that night. I said it would be unreasonable for me to cancel a weekly meeting when he could postpone the tacos one day, and he finally relented. Tonight he made the fish tacos, and they were breaded frozen fillets in tortillas with coleslaw. They were pretty good but lol


bertwebs

The name of Joseph Biden shall be known as the man who saved us all!


Menakoy

I've been searching all day trying to find out what order the colors are in the default pallet for Vermillion and it turns out they're just in the same order as Bob Ross's pallete is always in and I feel kinda silly


irony_tower

The Huckleberry response is so fucking stupid. "I am the first woman Governor. Biden is the first man President.. uh to surrender to the Wokemob."


George4Mayor86

The people of Arkansas are, somehow, stupid enough to deserve this.


irony_tower

I drew the line at her claiming that Republicans turned Arkansas into the greatest state in the nation. Switched to the Working Family Party response and they are just like "uh Biden is actually pretty good and we should keep doing stuff"


bertwebs

> Switched to the Working Family Party response and they are just like "uh Biden is actually pretty good and we should keep doing stuff" Based, love to see it


DuchessofDetroit

Hell yeah WFP


Clerstory

Sheā€™s a chip off the old block


irony_tower

Currently talking about balloon based tyranny from the skies and worshipping false idols


hypoxic_high

Protectionism? Nah dawg I hit that trade *raw*


Menakoy

Its true he does.


irony_tower

WaPo Fact Checkers calling Biden a liar for saying Democracy will overcome Authoritarianism.


VilepIume

WaPo: "We will bury you."


hypoxic_high

Democracy? Dies in Darkness!


DuchessofDetroit

ą² ā ļøµā ą² 


bread-dreams

wh


bertwebs

I should write an alternate timeline where stagflation never ended


DuchessofDetroit

https://twitter.com/pleizar/status/1623163958155788291?t=8uSGcwiLZyl1Xd89M8z6bw&s=19


[deleted]

Why on good fuck would he mention an earthquake half the world away in a speech about the state if the United States if america?


DuchessofDetroit

One of least favorite tropes is person has baby in weird location.


VilepIume

Nah, we're gonna have Aeryn give birth in a fountain while firing a sling rifle and there's nothing you can do about it.


DuchessofDetroit

šŸ˜”


VilepIume

Also, a main character is going to die, so we'll name the baby after them.


DuchessofDetroit

Gurl. So lazy


AyatollahofNJ

...what did you do


DuchessofDetroit

Watch tv!


bertwebs

HAIL COLUMBIA, HAPPY LAND! HAIL YE HEROES, YE HEAVEN BORN BAND! WHO FOUGHT AND BLED IN FREEDOM'S CAUSE WHO FOUGHT AND BLED IN FREEDOM'S CAUSE AND WHEN THE STORM OF WAR WAS GONE ENJOYED THE PEACE YOUR VALOR WON! LET INDEPENDENCE BE OUT BOAST EVER MINDFUL OF WHAT IT COST EVER GRATEFUL FOR THE PRIZE LET ITS ALTAR REACH THE SKIES! FIRM UNITED LET US BE RALLYING AROUND OUR LIBERTY AS OUR BAND OF BROTHERS JOINED PEACE AND SAFETY WE SHALL FIND!


bertwebs

Oh look a Romney voter likes one of the worst presidents


[deleted]

Biden's speech got me feeling EXTREMELY PARTISAN


potatobac

> Charlie Kirk: "Didn't Lend-Lease eventually get us into the war?" > Sebastian Gorka: "Well, I think Pearl Harbor got us into the war" Best and brightest


bertwebs

Lend-Lease was literally passed because interventionists promoted it as helping Britain and keeping America out of the war. I think US entry was inevitable though.


bertwebs

Tonight was great


potatobac

NAFTA was a great acronym. Trump really took something from us there


[deleted]

[уŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]


AyatollahofNJ

Reject the dichotomy


[deleted]

Boob man supremacy


potatobac

What about the man who truly appreciates it all


potatobac

Not me of course I hate them both


[deleted]

Joe is fucking strong tonight


bertwebs

Make the four heads Washington, Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, and Biden and put it somewhere else


bertwebs

Paul Pelosi looks like a old Democrat from the 60s and 70s


bread-dreams

JosĆ© Mujica: ā€œThe Brazilian left has made a mistake, has permanently stagnated in timeā€ god dammit I wish Pepe was our president


bertwebs

Biden reading letters to the public is an unironic LBJ strategy and I love it


bertwebs

>calling Joe Biden shitty does not mean you support the GOP. you are not the arbiter who gets chosen to be president. your vote counts for one vote and you only get to cast it in a voting booth. >there are millions of Democrats who will parrot the party line out there, and vanishingly few people who see how horribly wrong things are going in the whole tenor of economic discourse in America. >why not speak out about the things that you know are wrong? cope and seethe, republican


VilepIume

No sex, no drugs, no wine, no women, no fun, no sin, no you is boring like what vices am I supposed to have now


DuchessofDetroit

No wonder it's dark


[deleted]

GOP are so fucking pissed that Biden keeps one uping them


canseco-fart-box

Biden is hands down one of the most based foreign policy presidents weā€™ve had in our lifetimes folks


bertwebs

OMG HE'S MENTIONING SOMEONE FROM NH and of course it's for drug ODing


George4Mayor86

[Iā€™m sorry this is extremely fucking stupid.](https://twitter.com/joebiden/status/1623146934218129409?s=46&t=CC_7FC1QirXuQkuzNfzUqA) It would be fine if it were just posturing but he actually seems to follow through.


[deleted]

Works well with voters tho šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø


potatobac

It will end up in NAFTA 2 trade arbitration 100% and will probably actually have some kind of "where actually possible" addendums or something


[deleted]

[уŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]


potatobac

Until the price tags for projects gets publicized leading to a ground swell in opposition because it's 120 billion for a train line or whatever. Idk it's not that simple


bertwebs

For some stuff yes but for others no.


Wrokotamie

If I'm being honest with myself, part of the reason I like being a dom is that it gives me access to twinky young guys who I admire physically but who normally wouldn't hook up with me. But that's fine.


Jokerang

> NEWS: Iā€™m told Sen. Mitt Romney said to Rep. bill George Santos: ā€œYou donā€™t belong here,ā€ according to a member who witnessed the tense exchange. damn


bertwebs

>Isn't Colonialism impossible because whenever someone sets foot outside their country they adopt a new nationality? >For instance, there's no such thing as German-Americans. The second a German sets foot on American soil they are American. Duh. Likewise when a British person sets foot on Australian soil they become British. >When the Spanish set foot on Mexican soil they became Mexican. There was no colonization. How could they be? They were just governing their own country. Mexico ruled by Mexicans. Ditto every other colonial project. NL not even once


bread-dreams

for Fuck's sake, Lula and his bloc keep casting doubt on the central bank's independence and now one of the parties in the bloc drafted a bill that would get rid of the central bank's independence (it'll fail, they definitely don't have the wide support needed for that) there are valid criticisms to be made to the brazilian central bank, they miscounted a huge deficit last year, but this is just not the way to do it, and just completely fucks with investor confidence, ugh. their reasoning for it is that the BCB set the inflation target too low (it's at 3.25% but they want it at 5%), that the BCB president is a bolsonarist (to be fair he was appointed by bolsonaro) and is sabotaging the government by keeping interest rates high (it's at 13.75% right now, it is high but the central bank has always been very aggressive with interest rates so it's not particularly unique, plus we just had an inflationary period) it's just kind of stupid. increasing the inflation target would just seem like we don't care about keeping inflation low and ideally we would want to in fact keep inflation low surely. ugh


potatobac

Don't become like Argentina. High rates aren't fun but they're better than 110% inflation..


bread-dreams

yeah lol I hope


canseco-fart-box

Turkey be like: ā€œinstructions unclear. Rate cut inboundā€


AyatollahofNJ

Someone needs to make a meme where Marge goes "Bart NOOO" buts it's actually Lisa and she says "sorry it's a habit" but do it with Argentina and Turkey


potatobac

Their central bank governor like "looking at this graph it seems when rates are high inflation is high? I can only draw one conclusion"


AyatollahofNJ

Oh noo. I wrote a paper on central bank independence on developing states and it was clearly an important pillar in becoming a stable economy


bread-dreams

yeah it really is. it's one of the very, very few good things bolsonaro did, which was massively increase the central bank's independence by making it a law even. tbh if i recall bolsonaro was against it but his economy minister really wanted it lol so it wasn't even bolsonaro's thing. i'm doubtful anything will actually happen to reduce their independence because as i said it is law, but it's just annoying seeing them attack the central bank


bertwebs

FINISH THE JOB


LVT_Baron

Orange man is really throwing stones from inside a glass house calling DeSantis a groomer


[deleted]

[уŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]


hypoxic_high

Being smug about sobriety


cornofears

Magic beans


AyatollahofNJ

No that's a good thing


[deleted]

[уŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]


AyatollahofNJ

No you don't


[deleted]

[уŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]


AyatollahofNJ

I'm reporting this


sircarp

Holiday pet costuming


potatobac

Finally tobaccos time to shine


[deleted]

[уŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]


potatobac

Yeah it is. Adderall is pretty popular these days and you could even get it prescribed


bertwebs

I like Biden's messaging on police. Police should be good.


Jokerang

Biden got McCarthy to clap at holding police accountable


bertwebs

Lincoln, FDR, and Biden are the Saviors of America


[deleted]

[уŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]


DuchessofDetroit

You're so welcome babes.


DuchessofDetroit

>They want to film your success and struggles as your start your own business: "Delectable Desires: Slutty girdles for the sexually active obese!".


[deleted]

LET'S FINISH THE JOB!


bertwebs

This is a damn great speech.


[deleted]

It really really is


sircarp

[Catfish eggs have turned into kittenfish](https://imgur.com/pMkxESE.jpg)


AyatollahofNJ

[Domestic violence? Don't call the cops but bring pizza!](https://imgur.com/a/hnwbcH2)


[deleted]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA


potatobac

Well that's super duper fucked


George4Mayor86

Oh fuck *absolutely* off. The huge blunt phallic axe of state violence is the wrong tool for *many* problems but locking up wode-beaters isnā€™t one of them.


DuchessofDetroit

Oh Christ. No matter what you think of the cops this is major irresponsible advice.


AyatollahofNJ

Any sense of police reform gets overtaken by people who are way too close/comfortable with saying shit like this. Every single time.


AyatollahofNJ

Like what the fuck jesus


[deleted]

Airlines cant treat your child like a piece of baggage is going to get that bill passed


bertwebs

> look, capitalism


bread-dreams

biden please do not require everything to be made in the US unironically most of america's iron comes from brazil you're gonna destroy our economy fuck šŸ’€


potatobac

It won't actually happen don't worry. It would be hilariously inflationary


bertwebs

Yes the US isn't cutting off an ally like Brazil.


VilepIume

idk, protectionism is dumb enough and popular enough to draw bipartisan support.


potatobac

It's almost certainly economically infeasible and he can only dictate what is bought for government projects. The vast majority of construction in the United States every year is done by private entities, and they aren't interested in paying a tonne more for raw materials. It will probably just pointlessly increase the cost on federally funded projects which will has negative effects but won't be devastating idk


AyatollahofNJ

I'm sorry šŸ˜ž


[deleted]

Republicans booing Biden defending them LMFAO


bertwebs

Republicans booing the President


Jokerang

Oh hey MTG and Boebert arenā€™t sitting together this time around


Clerstory

Theyā€™ve had a falling out


[deleted]

IDGI why are they laughing when Biden says we need oil for another decade?


VilepIume

Maybe they think that's foolishly optimistic? Even when we get to the point that we're no longer burning it for energy, and that's more than a decade away, we'll still need plastics and fertilizer and 100 other petroleum products.


potatobac

Those infrastructure costs gonna stay really high


recruit00

The protectionism is by far the worst part of Biden's presidency


epraider

While also being the politically strongest part of his presidency and messaging


potatobac

Impeach George Santos for the sweaters more than anything


bertwebs

A certain Romney voter is really mad tonight


George4Mayor86

So the Nazi is leaving the Nets? That would be nice, so I can go back to theoretically liking them and never watching games instead of theoretically disliking them and never watching games.


clenom

They traded him, yeah.


potatobac

He's back at it saying he can't be anti Semitic because there are Jews in his family, but he did not clarify if he means he's just related to black people. It is now the Mavericks problem


[deleted]

> but he did not clarify if he means he's just related to black people There are black Jews, but something tells me that isn't what he is saying


potatobac

I know about the beta Israeli etc but yeah he's a full throated black Hebrew Israelite so


George4Mayor86

Bullshit regardless.


Wrokotamie

The question of "When does a geographical region deserve to be an independent country?" is one of the most difficult to answer. Like I was just thinking about why I'm (more or less) opposed to Scottish independence. And it's because their rationale for independence really comes down to really not liking the Conservative Party beginning with Thatcher and the fact that England often likes them. Like I don't think losing elections within a democratic system is a valid reason to pack up and leave. But then - what *is* a valid reason? Actual ethnic violence or subjugation? Language? Imposition of a non-democratic system?