The physiology of ant eaters is absolutely fascinating! Their long beaky mandible and their not inconsiderable tongues are some CRAZY evolutionary adaptations that just fucking WORK, mate.
I, along with several over served girlfriends, once peed on a fire ant colony that was about 10 ft long. Those bites will get you to stand up very quickly screaming at the pain coming from your naughty bits.
And Chait's piece at the New York mag doesn't even mention that Trump is a rapist. This is the most ridiculous double standard in the American media. For comparison, prisoners regard rapists as scum. It's the most fundamental, understandable, "why you must on no account ever contemplate electing this piece of shit" reason there is.
The typical voter doesn't get the chance to incite a riot to overthrow a presidential election, or to steal national confidential material. But the vast majority of us have never tried to rape someone, because we are responsible, empathetic people, not psychopaths. If a background check on a potential VP disclosed that a jury had found he'd forced his fingers into a woman's genitals (without consent, though I hope "forced" implies that), there's no way he'd be considered. Yet Trump goes weeks without the mainstream media noting his fundamental evilness.
It's an American blindspot. I get Democrats telling me it's "old news". People, rape does not become "boring", or "stale", or ignorable. Why was Roy Moore rightfully kept out of office for the accusations of sexual assault, but the media is giving Trump a pass - and people aren't ripping the shit out of the media for coddling a rapist? What the fuck happened to Me Too?
Subscriptions... fuck you Roku for not letting me cancel something online because of ReCaptcha bullshit images, sending me to a call center in India to speak with someone who clearly did not have any technical clue, later allowing me to log on only to find out that the subscription you say can be found in my account isn't actually there, and now being billed again for something I want to cancel. Time to go the credit card dispute route which in itself can be a little shop of horrors.
Thank you White House for helping us out. And watch these vampires' profits go down...
"No anti-Israel or anti-Zionist decision will stop the development of the settlement. We will continue to fight against the dangerous idea of a Palestinian state. This is the mission of my life," said Smotrich.
As someone who values such things as a planet that has a livable environment for organisms other than slime molds, I am a climate voter, and after the Musk/Trump dong-honk I, like Bill McKibben, sought to express just how stupid its climate "content" was. But that content was *so* stupid all I wound up doing was going down a thesaurus rabbit hole of modifiers.
Monumentally, irretrievably, unabashedly, willfully, stunningly, irredeemably, unforgivably, intractably, abjectly, and so on. Those two established a new milestone in the Gish gallop: the list of modifiers alone required to describe just how stupid the views they expressed on climate issues are takes more column space than what they said.
CNBC: Three-year inflation outlook hits record low in New York Fed consumer survey
The New York Fed’s Survey of Consumer Expectations put the three-year inflation outlook at 2.3%, the lowest in a data series going back to June 2013.
Consumers grew more confident in July that inflation will be less of a problem in the coming years, according to a New York Federal Reserve report Monday that showed the three-year outlook at a new low.
The latest views from the monthly Survey of Consumer Expectations indicate that respondents see inflation staying elevated over the next year but then receding in the next couple of years after that.
In fact, the three-year portion of the survey showed consumers expecting inflation at just 2.3%, down 0.6 percentage point from June and the lowest in the history of the survey, going back to June 2013.
DeVos has gotten over her outrage. In an interview with the Detroit News (paywalled), she indicated that she would sign on for another stint as Trump Education Secretary--under certain conditions...such as the administration try to sell her Education Freedom Scholarships, a federal voucher program that she tried really hard to sell last time, even getting Ted Cruz to throw his charisma behind it despite its many problems. It went nowhere.
She also acknowledged that another condition would be Trump asking her to come back, which she allows is not terribly likely. She does not indicate how accepting an invitation from Trump would be meeting her moral obligation to model good judgment for the youngs.
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“The reason isn’t that reporters like Trump or want him to win. The reason is that they haven’t figured out a structural solution to the problem of a candidate whose misconduct, dishonesty, bigotry, and general pathological behavior lie so far beyond the norm.”
Is it really that difficult to just be honest about these things? They have no problem scrutinizing Hunter Biden over every single parking ticket. But they don’t know how to call out Trump for racism?
How about “Trump makes another racist remark” instead of “Trump uses timeworn tactic”?
She was always Republican-curious. Notably, she cannot go full MAGA because Placer county will not tolerate their weird Incel bigotry and Christian Nationalism. Since Dems have a supermajority anyway, it's probably a better and ultimately healthy thing if Republican-curious "Democratic" politicians here change parties. The state and ultimately the national polity will only improve if they can find a post-MAGA future.
We'll see. She's as likely to be primaried from the right as she is to be a moderating voice in her new caucus. They'll crow about her coming to her senses for a while, but she will always be suspected as being a RINO. I look forward to her weekly newsletter on Friday, because she has some 'splaining to do.
She'll be primaried from the right, but “top-two.” She'll probably make it so long as she doesn't alienate moderates. I really dislike Placer county and it's smugly prosperous self-centeredness, but they aren't the Valley.
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Dang, now I want an anteater.
Especially in the late spring early summer, which is the season little tiny ants invade our apartment every year.
The physiology of ant eaters is absolutely fascinating! Their long beaky mandible and their not inconsiderable tongues are some CRAZY evolutionary adaptations that just fucking WORK, mate.
I LOVE this stuff!!
Eatanter!
Now where did I put that? Oh shit, it's missing.
/finds a fresh one
https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/3/banksy-nighthawks-anteater-edward-hopper-canvas-sean-lee.jpg
"Come at me, bro!"
Yup! That's the Anteater "Wanna fuck with me?" stance!
LOL
Some guys just want to watch the world burn.
I would like to eat cinnamon muffins.
i like your thinking, birb.
not an anteater, but that didn't matter for the saturday morning cartoons..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVXoXlqqxuk
Just for clarity, I think you meant the cartoon? The animal in the hed gif is a giant anteater.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_anteater
Are the antisocialist?
Anteaters don't see too well
They get around by sense of smell
Anyone would surely know this
By looking at their large proboscis
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Is that some kind of antstorm?
So long as they're not fire ants.
I, along with several over served girlfriends, once peed on a fire ant colony that was about 10 ft long. Those bites will get you to stand up very quickly screaming at the pain coming from your naughty bits.
This girl is on fyah!
(winces) The worst I've had is toes and feet.
Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M729-i3dECw
Enormous Fire Ant Colony Casted With Molten Aluminum (Anthill Art) #9
FloridaFox Anthill Art
Die, you little arthropod bastards!
Anteaters would always win the 'catch snowflakes on your tongue' contest.
They're pretty good at anteaterlatio and anteaterlingus, too, I imagine.
Along with giraffes and okapis. Prehensile tongues!
It would be an intriguing thing to see on a dating site profile, "Plus, my tongue is prehensile!"
"I can scratch the backs of my ears - with my tongue."
"Hmmmm, maybe I'll just stand back a bit..."
Aunts aren't gentlemen...
That's your uncle's job.
Not in my family. It's your other aunts job. My niecephews have 3 blood related aunts, no blood related uncles. In total, they have 5 aunts, 1 uncle.
(giggling inappropriately)
Libertarians are MAGAs who think they're too good to belong to the MAGA tribe.
They were crazy before MAGA made crazy a political branch of the RNC
And Chait's piece at the New York mag doesn't even mention that Trump is a rapist. This is the most ridiculous double standard in the American media. For comparison, prisoners regard rapists as scum. It's the most fundamental, understandable, "why you must on no account ever contemplate electing this piece of shit" reason there is.
The typical voter doesn't get the chance to incite a riot to overthrow a presidential election, or to steal national confidential material. But the vast majority of us have never tried to rape someone, because we are responsible, empathetic people, not psychopaths. If a background check on a potential VP disclosed that a jury had found he'd forced his fingers into a woman's genitals (without consent, though I hope "forced" implies that), there's no way he'd be considered. Yet Trump goes weeks without the mainstream media noting his fundamental evilness.
It's an American blindspot. I get Democrats telling me it's "old news". People, rape does not become "boring", or "stale", or ignorable. Why was Roy Moore rightfully kept out of office for the accusations of sexual assault, but the media is giving Trump a pass - and people aren't ripping the shit out of the media for coddling a rapist? What the fuck happened to Me Too?
Thank you.
> Ro Khanna, stop carrying the frauds’ tainted water
Ew, is he still doing that? He’s my rep, and that’s why I didn’t vote for him. The other guy was also a Democrat, don’t worry.
Subscriptions... fuck you Roku for not letting me cancel something online because of ReCaptcha bullshit images, sending me to a call center in India to speak with someone who clearly did not have any technical clue, later allowing me to log on only to find out that the subscription you say can be found in my account isn't actually there, and now being billed again for something I want to cancel. Time to go the credit card dispute route which in itself can be a little shop of horrors.
Thank you White House for helping us out. And watch these vampires' profits go down...
Migod watching those women just tear up the track, with form so beautiful
From the McKibben tab:
"At another event, Trump said: 'Harold can just stick his finger in the ground, and oil will come up.'”
To hang an old, terrible, infantile Gomer Pyle joke onto this:
"Why Harold, that's not my ground!"
"Well Donald, that's not my finger."
Fucking nothing for Israel. They are kidnapping Palestinians, some minors, to use as human shields. Indistinguishable from Hamas.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-08-14/ty-article/israel-advances-building-of-new-west-bank-settlement/00000191-50e4-d3e5-a9bd-d8e69bd60000
"No anti-Israel or anti-Zionist decision will stop the development of the settlement. We will continue to fight against the dangerous idea of a Palestinian state. This is the mission of my life," said Smotrich.
That about sums it up.
As someone who values such things as a planet that has a livable environment for organisms other than slime molds, I am a climate voter, and after the Musk/Trump dong-honk I, like Bill McKibben, sought to express just how stupid its climate "content" was. But that content was *so* stupid all I wound up doing was going down a thesaurus rabbit hole of modifiers.
Monumentally, irretrievably, unabashedly, willfully, stunningly, irredeemably, unforgivably, intractably, abjectly, and so on. Those two established a new milestone in the Gish gallop: the list of modifiers alone required to describe just how stupid the views they expressed on climate issues are takes more column space than what they said.
CNBC: Three-year inflation outlook hits record low in New York Fed consumer survey
The New York Fed’s Survey of Consumer Expectations put the three-year inflation outlook at 2.3%, the lowest in a data series going back to June 2013.
Consumers grew more confident in July that inflation will be less of a problem in the coming years, according to a New York Federal Reserve report Monday that showed the three-year outlook at a new low.
The latest views from the monthly Survey of Consumer Expectations indicate that respondents see inflation staying elevated over the next year but then receding in the next couple of years after that.
In fact, the three-year portion of the survey showed consumers expecting inflation at just 2.3%, down 0.6 percentage point from June and the lowest in the history of the survey, going back to June 2013.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/12/three-year-inflation-outlook-hits-record-low-in-new-york-fed-consumer-survey.html
When is Felicia coming back? This place hasn't been the same this week.
𝐃𝐞𝐕𝐨𝐬 𝐆𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐥
DeVos has gotten over her outrage. In an interview with the Detroit News (paywalled), she indicated that she would sign on for another stint as Trump Education Secretary--under certain conditions...such as the administration try to sell her Education Freedom Scholarships, a federal voucher program that she tried really hard to sell last time, even getting Ted Cruz to throw his charisma behind it despite its many problems. It went nowhere.
She also acknowledged that another condition would be Trump asking her to come back, which she allows is not terribly likely. She does not indicate how accepting an invitation from Trump would be meeting her moral obligation to model good judgment for the youngs.
https://curmudgucation.substack.com/p/devos-gets-over-trump-disapproval
these people are just pathetic. every last one of them.
Truth.
Ta, Rebecca. Ta, Martini. Darling fiancé Meccalopolis just brought me breakfast and coffee in bed, and we have so many last minute tasks before we wed tomorrow that we're splitting them up. May we accomplish everything. Good day, beloved Wonketteers. I love and appreciate you all and I bless us all with love, health, peace, and grace.
Please, please stay safe. Wear a mask or two, wash your hands, sanitize when you cannot wash and let the sanitizer dry completely, stop touching your face, take Vitamin D, get a booster shot (in the deltoid, not in the shoulder, asshole at CVS!), avoid indoor and crowded outdoor gatherings and when you must meet, remove masks only to eat, drink, and take quick photos, and stay the fuck away from me and everyone with whom you do not share a roof. Do this because you love yourself, and because I love you, too. Do this in memory of dear departed family and friends like sweet Treg and heroic Tony, Holly's pilot friend, among over seven million dead worldwide. Do this to honor the nurses and other frontline medical personnel, especially ICU Hera Mrs Land Shark RN. Stay safe.
Slava Ukraini. 🌻🇺🇦💙💛
Blessings upon you, children. May you enjoy every drop of the day!
"I don’t think the RNC had anything besides cornhole." Appropriate.
Matt Schlapp was very disappointed when he found out what that was.
Or wasn't, rather.
Thanks doG, tho. It would be even more awkward if we were running around saying "He basically pummeled my cornhole!"
Chait -
“The reason isn’t that reporters like Trump or want him to win. The reason is that they haven’t figured out a structural solution to the problem of a candidate whose misconduct, dishonesty, bigotry, and general pathological behavior lie so far beyond the norm.”
Is it really that difficult to just be honest about these things? They have no problem scrutinizing Hunter Biden over every single parking ticket. But they don’t know how to call out Trump for racism?
How about “Trump makes another racist remark” instead of “Trump uses timeworn tactic”?
I could see that being a problem in, say, June of 2016. Take a minute to adjust to this reality.
It's 8 years later.
My "Democrat" state senator just went to the dark side. I guess the tips are better or something.
https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/california-district-4-sen-marie-alvarado-gil-switches-to-republican-party/
She was always Republican-curious. Notably, she cannot go full MAGA because Placer county will not tolerate their weird Incel bigotry and Christian Nationalism. Since Dems have a supermajority anyway, it's probably a better and ultimately healthy thing if Republican-curious "Democratic" politicians here change parties. The state and ultimately the national polity will only improve if they can find a post-MAGA future.
We'll see. She's as likely to be primaried from the right as she is to be a moderating voice in her new caucus. They'll crow about her coming to her senses for a while, but she will always be suspected as being a RINO. I look forward to her weekly newsletter on Friday, because she has some 'splaining to do.
She'll be primaried from the right, but “top-two.” She'll probably make it so long as she doesn't alienate moderates. I really dislike Placer county and it's smugly prosperous self-centeredness, but they aren't the Valley.
Yeah, and this time (2026) it might be two republicans. This district, man...
I know, ugh. I live ten miles to the south.
gross
She's all mad now because the mean old Dems stripped her of her committee assignments. I hope she's happy in the minority forever.