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Listen, I think it’s very immature and unfitting of this August publication constantly to be making fun of Charlie Kirk’s face when HOLY FUCK THAT’S ACTUALLY HIS FACE?!!!! What the fuck happened? Wait, he was like this from birth? How? Did he fall out of the birth canal right into a running cement mixer? What the fuck?!!

I mean... (takes deep breath)... Sorry... Seriously, instead we should be assessing his obviously deeply considered output—as obviously it’s so worthy of serious consideration—not asking questions like do you suppose maybe that’s why he does this ridiculous grifty internet troll shit for a living? Because other work wasn’t available because hiring managers run screaming when he shows up for the interview? Or do you suppose it’s some kind of revenge thing? Like he figures if he has to look at that face in the mirror every morning, well, then you get drooling neofascists in the legislature and no you can’t have a functioning democracy... Sorry I did it again didn’t I? I’ll... Maybe it’s the same deal as with the Joker in the first Batman movie and there was some terrible accident oh fuck it I give up.

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Whenever I see Charlie Kirk's face there's always a beat where I think someone has run it through that filter for laffs, the one that shoves all the facial features into the center. Then I realize that's actually his face and think huh, well that's unfortunate.

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Disqus seems to be taking longer than usual. Reload?

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Potatoes (the cat) is currently doing pitter-pattery zoomies between the two bedrooms with wooden floors. Extra noise! She gets so excited about Tabs about to post.

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Tater is a tuxxie like Potatoes!

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Kind of a niche thing, but cute, nerdy Japanese weathergirl reveals she has a love life (not even a *sex* life! just a boyfriend!) and a large share of her fans turn on her like rabid dogs. Because she was supposed to stay available for their fantasies, don'cha know?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7QG9owYEUY

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That's what the whole idol business is like.

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Yep, yep, same basic setup.

ETA: I'll be interested to see if this turns into a duplicate post, as I tried to post it and it vanished when I hit "post".

Edit to the edit: Yup, the first one finally showed up about 3 minutes later.

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I've heard a lot of stories about obsessive fans in Japan.

Guys, why you gotta be so weird about a person on your TV?

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It's all part of idol culture over there, which the guy in the video above touches on.

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I'm glad he does, because yeah. It's a big issue and that whole industry appears to be pretty exploitative.

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Celebrity culture in Japan is a form of glamorous prison.

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A gilded cage.

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You know you've *really* fucked up as a gaming company when /Axios/ is publishing a story about you.

https://www.axios.com/2023/09/13/unity-runtime-fee-policy-marc-whitten

This is the first Axios article I've actually read, and I question their style choices.

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I just glanced at it, and it looks like they make tools for making games?

That's what my stepson does, but he does it in house for an enormous company.

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As you said, Unity is a tool for making games. They're called "engines". "Unity engine", "Unreal engine", etc. Unity is used throughout the gaming dev community, from small indie projects to larger AA and AAA titles. He may very well be using Unity, depending on what company he's working for.

That aside - pretty neat thing to be doing. I wonder if I've seen any of his work. 🤔

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My son in college doing this kind of stuff. Can't wait to see where he goes with it.

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We get so few lucky breaks, so I’m incredibly grateful that Trump’s off-the-charts narcissism has one side benefit: He’s a one-man Streisand effect. Because Republicans have the sort of message discipline that Democrats can only dream of, they’ve been able to successfully implant the “Biden’s too old” narrative in the media, all without much attention paid to the fact that Trump’s nearly the same age — and in far worse condition than Biden. And not just because “215” sounds closer to the weight he’s put on since 2016 than his actual scale number. Every all-caps post or rambling interview Trump gives, I’m reminded his father died of Alzheimer’s — which has a genetic component.

Trump is probably aware of this, too, which is why he produced a hilariously over-defensive reaction to a WSJ poll. The poll asked about both Trump and Biden, if they were “too old” or “mentally up for the job.” In theory, Trump should have been thrilled since he did better on both questions, showing he’s successfully snookered voters into not noticing he can’t even speak in complete sentences. Instead, he’s mad that they asked about both candidates and not just Biden.

“MORONS,” he wrote on Truth Social, psychologically projecting as always. He bragged about how he “ACED” a test they literally use to see if you are up for living without assistance, not your actual intelligence. He challenged Biden to a mental acuity test competition, which goes right into the “sure I’ll testify” bucket of checks his mouth writes his ass can’t cash. He bragged about his golf scores, which exist solely in his head.

All this, of course, only serves to raise more questions about how much brain damage the man has accumulated in the three years of Diet Coke-fueled fuming since the day he suggested we inject bleach into our lungs. If he kept his mouth shut, he could have laid back and benefited from the media’s ridiculous double standard on age between him and Biden. But of course, impulse control requires mental acuity beyond Trump’s reach.

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TFG is well past the age at which the inherited form of Alzheimer's would have manifested, which means that his cognitive deficiency is almost entirely due to poor choices of lifestyle, and because he was never smart enough to want to learn anything.

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I wonder if he'll override his lawyers -- maybe by holding his breath until he turns blue -- and insist on testifying in court. Just imagine him up against Jack Smith or Fani Willis, or their hand-picked interregators.

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The PAB testifying will set up an insanity defense.

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Oh, please...oh, please....

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His lawyers seem reluctant to assert themselves -- witness Meadows' account of how they didn't force the issue of returning the classified material because they thought Trump would "go ballistic".

That sounds like the kind of fear that abusers instil in their victims, though we all know that PAB doesn't have an abusive bone in his body. [Bitter sarcasm. Every one of the 206 bones in Trump's body is abusive.]

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Also too - the test was from *2020*. The guy is bragging about a basic competency test from *3 years ago*.

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Not even that recent -- it was /2018/. And it was given by Dr. Feelgood, I mean, Ronnie Jackson, the same guy that claimed he was in perfect health and only 235 lbs.

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Message discipline is one way to put it.

I woulda put it as "own most forms of media so have the only message getting out"

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That's what pisses me off when people around here start complaining about Democrats being 'bad at messaging' - where are they supposed to get that message out?

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I mean....

Does not one remember how when Dems just /talked/ about impeachment the press was 24/7 "Gonna give Trump a bump in the polls!!!!!" and "Partisan!!!!!"

For odd reasons I cannot quite fathom, the "Biden Impeachment!" seems to be getting...none of that.

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I don't know that anyone's updated the research, but I remember a decade or two back reading that Republicans were invited as guests on the talking head shows at about a 5 to 3 advantage, or something along those lines.

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Just from listening to the Sunday shows hubby watches, I would guess that still holds.

The real fun is how Democrats are asked about one thing and held to it while Republicans get to say whatever and if there is any "push back" it is pretty weak sauce and generally just the one time

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Morning shift checking in.

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Going to be another productive day at the snark mines.

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Ahhhhhhhh-LO!

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𝐏𝐢𝐠𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐚𝐰𝐧𝐦𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐬. 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐍𝐘 𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲 𝐠𝐨𝐚𝐥𝐬?

The pigs were, well, being pigs, hogging the grain Caleb Scott dumped from a bucket while sheep spy the feast from a safe distance, waiting for a turn that never comes.

A few with the courage to venture near are angrily snorted away. When the feed is gone, a few grunting pigs tuck their snouts inside an empty bucket, trying for the last morsel. And the sheep get back to grazing.

Another day on the farm.

Make that a solar farm, where pigs and sheep are learning to co-exist peacefully (mostly), while grazing fields of fescue and wildflower beneath 30 acres of 18,000 solar panels in Lansing, north of Ithaca.

https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2023/09/13/pigs-and-sheep-could-they-help-nys-solar-build-out-problem/70613717007/

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A place where I used to work had sheeps. They often roamed in front of our building and we could hear them when the windows were opened.

I'm a city girl, so I didn't get to see farm animals as a child. I was surprised by how big they were.

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I'm very disappointed that the neighbor's goats aren't keeping my backyard eaten down. Maybe I should encourage them to get a sheep.

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I originally read the bold headline as "Pigs and sheep as lawmakers," and I thought that was what we already had.

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*raises hand* me too. Obligatory Animal Farm refs through my head and everything

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Four Legs Matter!

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Per the Wanderer...

"hunger is the best seasoning" - if you're starving, something made with year-old meat would be mighty appetizing.

I used a similar analogy to explain to a coworker why my boss was fooling around with one of the clients. The coworker said to me one day, "I just don't get it, what is the attraction?"

I told him that when you have been driving through the desert at night for hours, you're going to stop at the first diner with an open sign and order, no matter how it looks, smells, or if anyone is in there at all.

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(snert)

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In a few days, it's going to be "Surfs up!".

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Moanin' Schmoe's currently talking about Gaetz's rather predictable threat against McCarthy - "Either impeach, or you're out" - and I can foresee any articles of impeachment barely squeaking out of the committees on party-line votes, maybe succeeding in a whole-House vote along party lines, and failing miserably in the Senate.

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I don't think it passes the house.

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From what I heard, Qevin's gonna bypass the whole committee thing, despite them passing a rule saying that impeachment had to be initiated in committee first during tfg's term -- because they thought it would save him from a second impeachment. Opsie.

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How do any of these chucklefucks have a dick left? They keep shooting it on a weekly basis.

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We need to build a steppin' rake factory, for all these idiots who keep doing so on the daily.

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I don't see it succeeding myself. At least not right now.

If Kevin had the votes, he woulda done the whole thing a whiles back.

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I doubt he has the votes in the full House to manage impeachment, which is why he tried this to appease that part of the party.

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yeah he is probably hoping he can stretch it past the election, in the hopes they retain the house, cause until then those "moderate" republicans are gonna ask him if he is on crack or what.

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I don't see McCarthy lasting as Speaker.

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No one else wants it.

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Me either, but HE thinks he can hold on XD

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Depends on how many times he can humiliate himself.

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Profiles in Debasement.

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I figure he's got the staying power of a paper flower in a hurricane myself

But considering how he has debased and humiliated himself so very much, I figure he thinks he is doing real good

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All that scheming to get into that job, and /nobody's/ ever gonna have anything good to say about his tenure. He's gonna be a punchline for the rest of his life.

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See too: Boehner, Paul Ryan

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(eastern Washingtonian/western Idahoan) "Chinese HOAX!"

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Interestingly, those fluent in Chinese slang know that ho-ku su (phonetic equivalent of hoax) means “stupid fuckin’ white people”

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The first picture was taken by my brother, who lives in Puyallup, and the second is from the NYTimes. A geologist quoted in the article said that when the glaciers are gone, Mt. Rainier will look "like Darth Vader's Head".

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So better than Michael Stipe's head.

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Devon of LegalEagle covers the Oher vs. Touhy case, aka "The Blind Side"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GQ1S9v6XXM

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Had to look it up. A sportsball player in conflict with adoptive parents, or something?

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The story (from his side) is that a wealthy white couple took in a foster kid with athletic talent, love bombed him, promised to adopt him but instead the paperwork he signed was not for adoption but instead to appoint them as his conservators. They then made a bunch a deals in his name and started making money hand-over-fist, which included making "The Blind Side", which also depicted him as a bit of a simpleton. Now he wants the money he says he made for them.

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yeah it's a real nasty story.

He thought he had gained love and acceptance but what they saw was an investment and cash cow.

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edit: Especially the bit where they made sure that only their "biological" children would profit.

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Your morning Lonnie.

𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴: 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗦 𝗗𝗢𝗝 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺𝘀 𝗘𝗹𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗸 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱𝗹𝘆 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮 𝗙𝗧𝗖 𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝘄𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿'𝘀 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 — The Justice Department makes the accusation in its response to a motion from X asking that the consent decree be dismissed

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/12/elon-musk-consent-order-ftc/

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ha ha. I forgot about this bit for months.

How is there any popcorn left anywhere? Come to think of it, is there any popcorn left anywhere? I haven't seen any, (I haven't looked), so it must all be gone.

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I remember someone on the former Twitters saying that Lonnie was setting himself up for this.

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He's such a fucking idiot.

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But .. but .. he looks like such a dreamy visionary in the picture used to promote Walter Isaacson's biography! Surely he wouldn't do anything ... wrong? /sarc, obvs.

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And Isaacson lays bare a lot of fucked up Lonnie stories.

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