Obviously the US system is most efficient, as there are no wait times for healthcare when no one can afford to get healthcare

but why??

Conservatives went feral after a black dude became president. Its not rocket science…

“Look at me. I am the fire now”

Bow ties are obviously business whimsical

With wings that is called “trashed”. Fry them half way, then sauce them, then finish frying them

Its literally the best way to have wings, but a pain in the ass to find a restaurant that will do it. Let alone one that offers trashed wings as a menu item

When I see Bondi’s face, all I can think of is Skeletron from Terraria

Closing this airspace with absolutely no rationale provided to the public is a pretty huge move. Its adjacent to Fort Bliss, which is a major power projection platform that is always on standby to send out forces of all types for broad geographic use.

It leaves one wondering what might happen in the coming days.

Invasion of Mexico? Seems well positioned for that, but its reach is significantly farther in the hypothetical

Invasion of Cuba? Seems more likely given recent events

Deployment of additional forces to the Middle East for potential conflict with Iran? Could also be possible

Lastly, Bliss is also the location of Camp East Montana, one of DHS/ICE’s concentration camps. Though Im not sure what benefit closing the public airspace would provide to their operations there

Overall, doing this suddenly and without any publicly provided rationale does not portend anything good. Thats for sure

Good social commentary is rarely labeled as “woke” by bigoted people, and often flies under the radar despite its inherent wokeness.

A great example of this is the show Justified, and its subsequent reboot Justified: City Primeval.

The original show was incredibly well written and featured plenty of “woke” social commentary surrounding policing, but no one took issue with the social commentary because it was well written. It was a show with complex characters navigating complicated situations, and not some simplistic “good guy cops vs bad guys” story.

On the other hand, the reboot was not nearly as well written or produced (in general, not just wrt the social commentary), but one thing that was especially bad about it was that the social commentary was shoehorned into it so blatantly. It was pretty clearly inserted to pander to a specific audience, and every line of social commentary was pretty much universally phrasings that took you out of the show and left you thinking that such dialogue would never happen in real life. Even if the overall point of the commentary itself was sensible, the actual writing was such garbage that it detracted from the experience of watching the show.

Good social commentary doesnt get labeled as woke because its not hitting people over the head to make a point. Next Generation is filled with that type of quality social commentary. I dont know about new trek, but id imagine people get upset at the “wokeness” because it features the same type of garbage social commentary shoehorning that has become prevalent in a lot of media. Quality writing that makes points on social commentary in a more subversive and plot-centered way has long since become an artifact of the past

Thats why I created UGC Followers. Are you tired of not getting enough real engagement with your fake ass testimonials? Now you can generate fake engagement characters to interact with your fake testimonials. Think of all the fake trending your fake testimonials and fake followers can generate!1!

This copper is perfectly fine. Although I dont think “aight” is a standard grade of copper, its copper enough to verifiably be copper upon closer inspection

Chirps (chips made of powdered cricket) exist, but they never took off. People have tried a lot of ideas, its moreso that consumers havent really shown much motivation towards insects as a protein

Keratin protein bars is one of the better ideas Ive heard. Even still a lot of people wouldnt touch it if they saw it was insect-derived protein on the label

There are roundabouts all over the US. Our capitol has roundabouts. Small towns in the mountain west have roundabouts. Medium and large cities have roundabouts. In Massachusetts they have roundabouts but call them rotaries. In some places they call it a traffic circle.

We have no shortage of roundabouts here. If were avoidant of anything its light rail systems

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Snowflakes at the winter olympics, what a surprise

Aesthetically, one of my favorites is Zoom Earth. Visually its really impressive. Not the best for granular detail on a local area’s weather but still very cool

https://zoom.earth/

Thiel links these religious themes to what he calls the exhaustion of the Enlightenment story of progress and the crisis of modern liberal democracy, arguing modernity’s faith in reason, institutions, and global cooperation is breaking down under the weight of geopolitical conflict and technological upheaval. He has suggested the stagnation of transformative innovation, rising bureaucracy, and a growing reliance on supranational bodies are signals that the modern era is ending and that a new, more openly theological politics is emerging in its place.

Within this framework, Thiel has repeatedly singled out Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg as emblematic of what he calls “legionnaires of the Antichrist”—figures who seek to halt or tightly control scientific and technological development in the name of safety or planetary survival. In leaked recordings of a four‑part “Antichrist” lecture series, he described the modern Antichrist not as a reckless technologist, but as a “Luddite who wants to stop all science,” adding, “It’s someone like Greta,”

Lets say for the sake of argument his overall idea has merit, but hes way off in choosing Thunberg. Who do we know, what major political figure, has massively undermined society’s faith in reason, institutions, and global cooperation? What major political figure has rejected scientific advancement that would save the planet in favor of the archaic “drill baby drill” model of propping up destructive industries like coal, oil, etc.? What major political figure has argued that the United States should have unilateral control over the western hemisphere, and has time and time again reduced global cooperation via the UN, treaties, etc.?

I dont even think most of his argument is that far off base. I also think its plainly obvious that Donald Trump is the antichrist if there is one. His followers wear the mark of the beast on their foreheads (MAGA). He seemed to suffer mortal wounds, or came close, and yet miraculously survived (Covid. Or almost being shot in the face). He literally calls himself the “President of Peace” which is such a blatant ripoff of the “Prince of Peace” aka Jesus Christ. The antichrist is someone who will turn good people into bad people by convincing them that being on the side of evil is actually righteous. Look at the moral denigration of his followers who will never see the light.

There was a website that tracked all the ways he was similar to the biblical descriptions of the antichrist that is ten miles long. They stopped updating it years ago before he even reached a second term in office. Its only gotten more obvious in the interim. Trump is literally the antichrist

https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/

Thiel links these religious themes to what he calls the exhaustion of the Enlightenment story of progress and the crisis of modern liberal democracy, arguing modernity’s faith in reason, institutions, and global cooperation is breaking down under the weight of geopolitical conflict and technological upheaval. He has suggested the stagnation of transformative innovation, rising bureaucracy, and a growing reliance on supranational bodies are signals that the modern era is ending and that a new, more openly theological politics is emerging in its place.

Within this framework, Thiel has repeatedly singled out Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg as emblematic of what he calls “legionnaires of the Antichrist”—figures who seek to halt or tightly control scientific and technological development in the name of safety or planetary survival. In leaked recordings of a four‑part “Antichrist” lecture series, he described the modern Antichrist not as a reckless technologist, but as a “Luddite who wants to stop all science,” adding, “It’s someone like Greta,”

Lets say for the sake of argument his overall idea has merit, but hes way off in choosing Thunberg. Who do we know, what major political figure, has massively undermined society’s faith in reason, institutions, and global cooperation? What major political figure has rejected scientific advancement that would save the planet in favor of the archaic “drill baby drill” model of propping up destructive industries like coal, oil, etc.? What major political figure has argued that the United States should have unilateral control over the western hemisphere, and has time and time again reduced global cooperation via the UN, treaties, etc.?

I dont even think most of his argument is that far off base. I also think its plainly obvious that Donald Trump is the antichrist if there is one. His followers wear the mark of the beast on their foreheads (MAGA). He seemed to suffer mortal wounds, or came close, and yet miraculously survived (Covid. Or almost being shot in the face). He literally calls himself the “President of Peace” which is such a blatant ripoff of the “Prince of Peace” aka Jesus Christ. The antichrist is someone who will turn good people into bad people by convincing them that being on the side of evil is actually righteous. Look at the moral denigration of his followers who will never see the light.

There was a website that tracked all the ways he was similar to the biblical descriptions of the antichrist that is ten miles long. They stopped updating it years ago before he even reached a second term in office. Its only gotten more obvious in the interim. Trump is literally the antichrist

https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/

However bad this year is, the 2028 Olympics in LA will literally be a near repeat of the Nazis hosting the Olympics in Berlin in 1936

Jumping the shark means that the writers have convoluted the premise of a character or an overall show to a point where it is a ridiculous quasi-parody of its original plot

Its a reference to Fonzi literally jumping over a shark on waterskis in Happy Days