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  • I'm definitely oversimplifing, but this sort of thing relies 80% on whether or not the SMM can be fucked to make an account on the site

  • Trump floats idea of three-term presidency at NRA convention
  • noted fascist is a fascist, more at 5

    Guys I'm starting to think that this Trump fellow might not like democracy

  • Boxers be boxing
  • All the square head breeds tend to be such goobers, I love them. My sisters in town, she's got a pittie mix. Damn dog broke into my room the other night and woke me up. Took her a second to realize I was awake, and she was definitely purposefully waking me up.

    She's both such a little shit and a sweetheart lmao

  • 1969, Mad Magazine. Still has much relevance today.
  • Wild that being able to change titles to be more accurate is a feature instead of the default right?

  • Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand
  • I know it's kinda cheating to bring them up in this context, but the Swiss manage to run trains to very small towns just fine

  • What drew you to the high seas?
  • Emulation when I was younger (and to a lesser extent now. I own the vast majority of old consoles/games I have any interest in playing these days). These days it's near exclusively TV/Movies and pretty much entirely because of convenience. Between myself and the others in my household, we have near every streaming service, I just can't be fucked to figure out which one what I want to watch is on.

    I really need to get around to turning my old pc into a media server.

  • Texas governor pardons ex-Army sergeant convicted of killing Black Lives Matter protester
  • He's exactly who the MAGA fuckheads want roaming the streets leading up to this election.

  • X now treats the term cisgender as a slur
  • Guys Im starting to think the guy who's only rich because daddy used apartheid slave labor may not have the best views on race

  • What's your most unpopular opinion about music ?
  • I think survivorship bias plays into it as well. Yeah, most the stuff on the radio today is kinda meh. Most the stuff on the radio in those days was kinda meh too. All the meh songs got forgotten, and you only remember the bangers. You've already seen it happen to 00s music and we're watching it happen with the 10s.

    But yeah, it's wild how many people look at how accessible different types of music are now and just... don't go looking.

  • Either way, I'm getting super drunk.
  • In a pretty short span of time no less.

    I've definitely had 16 drinks in a day before, just spread out over, yknow, most that day.

  • Sam Altman Says OpenAI Would Like to Enable Gore and Erotica for "Personal Use"
  • ...why would you put that image im my head

  • 2 Democratic candidates named Bob Ferguson withdraw from WA governor's race
  • I'm relatively certain that JFK did similar during one of his earlier elections, but that's going off memory of something I read a while ago.

  • Evolution of the alphabet
  • I have absolutely zero expertise in the field, but every time you see something like that in history, I always wonder if it was primarily spurred on by a change in writing medium. E.g. paper vs tablet.

  • Helium-3: Mining the fuel of the future on the Moon
  • Car bad, train good

    I fucking hate stroads

  • Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs
  • If we're going old school, go old school. Oldest kid rides in the bed.

  • What is the longest discontinuous marriage?
  • Ah yep, you're right that's the one I was thinking of. Both are pretty interesting, forget how young this country is sometimes.

  • NOAA says ‘extreme’ Solar storm will persist through the weekend
  • I didn't get a ton, but I'm so glad I got to see what I did. I've been waiting to see the aurora my entire life. Hopefully before too much longer I can finally take that trip to Reykjavik I've been dreaming of for so long.

  • What is the longest discontinuous marriage?
  • So I went to double check, and I got a fair bit of it wrong.

    Irene Triplett
    She was actually the daughter of the woman I thought I was talking about. Her mother married her father at ages 29 and 78 respectively, and she was born one of five children in 1930, living until the age of 90 before passing in 2020.

  • What is the longest discontinuous marriage?
  • Not at all an answer to your question, but a very semi-related tangent.

    The last receipt of a US Civil War pension passed away relatively recently. She was a young woman who would regularly help out a local older man, a civil war vet with no kids or family otherwise. Towards the end of his days, he married her so she'd get the benefits of his pension, as things were really really tough.

    Some of the detail might be off, going off of memory, but that's the general gist.

    EDIT:
    So I went to double check, and I got a fair bit of it wrong.

    Irene Triplett
    She was actually the daughter of the woman I thought I was talking about. Her mother married her father at ages 29 and 78 respectively, and she was born one of five children in 1930, living until the age of 90 before passing in 2020.

  • GOP introduces bill that would send anyone convicted of unlawful activity on a campus since Oct. 7th, 2023 to Gaza.
  • Ding ding ding. Authoritarian governments never disarm the right. The police have shown that they won't protect you, if they're not actively joining in on it.

    We protect us.

  • Alto Alto @kbin.social

    I have a math degree and still can't do basic addition

    Anti-tankie leftist

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