Missile sirens in Tel Aviv and across central Israel. Another missile from Yemen fired right at Tel Aviv.
i was pretty mad that they took out liars dice in rdr 2. its a fun game that few people like/know how to play irl so it was nice being able to play in the game
this is not exactly headline news to most, but the US Forest Service will not be hiring any seasonal employees at all next year, except for firefighters, due to budget constraints. the forest service employs thousands of seasonal workers across the country in trails, maintenance, archaeology, natural resource management and science positions, etc. without seasonals it'll be a hell of a lot harder to keep the millions of acres of forest service land well maintained - especially considering that many non-fire seasonals are called in to help fight the fires in one way or another when they begin, and since so much FS land can hardly be called "well maintained" already. i have to imagine this will also put a strain on the national park service and other land management agencies who'll have to deal with thousands of applicants to a far fewer number of jobs - not to mention the seasonals at those agencies who'll be looking at this and seeing that their departments could be making the same decisions a few years down the road.
as always, congress can spend billions at the drop of a hat for bombing children across the planet, but breaks out the fucking abacus when it comes to hiring people who actually do useful and decent work. wonder how long before they just decide to straight up sell entire forest service ranger districts to timber companies or ranchers. can't be too long, at this rate!
first ???? is "unfit". second one is "of". seems like the letter got cut off
i remember at the time chuds saying "well you have to hand it to him, he is a hard worker, doing two rallies a day, hillary can't even go to an event without collapsing afterwards"
this is the guy who was cranking off in porno stores every single day like 20ish years ago right? some people really are just operating on a completely different level of horney
haven't seen the ocean in a few months. wonder what it's been up to
it's done that to me before re: captchas, reloading the page has reset it for me though. logging on to old.reddit even on desktop will take you to a completely separate login page and then when you log in it takes you to your front page (instead of the page you were on before) and on the new reddit site instead of old.reddit. i've also noticed it won't let you browse the site at all on a private browser with a vpn on. it's becoming more and more obnoxious to use
tangentially news related - america's worst magazine, the atlantic, has unveiled next month's cover. it amazes me that liberals have spent 8 fucking years now convincing themselves that trump is not widely beloved by the entire republican party and that he is instead dragging them along. he had like 90+% approval among republicans during his term! but these fancy lads from the ivies have surrounded themselves with the half-dozen remaining die hard romneyites in the country and believe that they represent the party, not the skidoo dealership heir who blew the family fortune on the iraqi dinar and has been in prison since january 6
while i dont think she wants him to win i think hillary would love to not be the only person to have ever lost to donald trump lol
I absolutely oppose the genocide in Gaza. But I guess I'm a genocide supporter just because I will be voting for the Genocide Party in November?
if the us had always been a parliamentary system or became one after the civil war or something i can imagine things like universal healthcare being easier to pass during or after the great depression and the red scare might not have been as bad but if we woke up tomorrow and magically had a parliament i don't think it would change too much, it seems like in this age of neoliberalism even if third parties wind up winning seats or even a majority they simply become a slightly different flavor of libs
i guess ukraine, being in europe, is more like nato's backyard or home turf than afghanistan (even though ukraine is obviously those things for russia, too). iirc, ukraine was the best armed and trained military in europe outside of russia before the war. nato had been pumping it full of guns, money, and specialists since 2014 so a loss after all that, and right on their borders, will sting more than the loss in afghanistan. ukraine losing also means a win for russia, while the loss in afghanistan was really only a win for the taliban, who of course aren't really big players on the world stage
dirtwit is actually pretty good. very curious to know the context for the time(s?) someone has used the phrase "dognozzle"... or maybe on second thought i shouldn't be. the first thought that came to mind was a nozzle that released dogs, not a dog's nozzle
just get a good job and buy a big house and some land! wow, it's so easy and within reach for every american, i can't see why it wouldn't be within reach for literal refugees too!
oct 7 could barely even be considered "preemptive," even before that date 2023 was already the deadliest year to that point for palestinian children since israel's founding iirc
damn you're good!
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i was way off in the bahrain one but pretty close for most of the others
bahrain i guessed was virginia or thereabouts, 2007
second one i knew was iowa but based on the lack of hats i figured it was early 60s. should have looked at the cars more closely
third one i knew was bangkok's chinatown but i figured it was also late 2000s
fourth one i knew was kiev, but figured it was from the early 80s since i don't often see color photography from the ussr from the 60s
fifth one i knew was london but guessed 50s instead of mid 60s... shouldve been looking for hats here again lol
fans of daily games like tradle might like https://timeguessr.com/ it's like geoguessr but you guess when and where pictures were taken. i got 30,526 / 50,000 today
judge rules that breonna taylor's boyfriend is responsible for her death, not the cops who actually killed her, charges against cops thrown out https://www.cbsnews.com/news/breonna-taylor-kenneth-walker-judge-dismisses-officer-charges/
https://xcancel.com/jessicaschulb/status/1826613836239237202#m democrats remove death penalty abolition from their party platform, first time since 2012. it must feel so freeing for them to finally be at the point where they don't even have to pretend to want to change anything anymore
the post of the guy with the milk has me thinking. has anything written anything at length about how RWers in the west seem to have a lot of hangups relating to childhood? there are a bunch of weird things that they have done/picked up on that seem childish to me, or seem to display an inability to move past childhood:
-the brief milk obsession that seems to rear its head again every now and then (oedipal?)
-the frequent focus on what's going on in schools and colleges, often in lurid terms: furry hysteria, transphobes often discussing locker rooms/bathrooms
-obsession with gaming, anime, star wars, etc. hobbies/interests that most people pick up as kids
-charlie kirk's diaper thing a while back, i think crowder has also dressed up as a child/baby in public too?
-doubling down on things instead of confronting them, like going on all-meat diets as a reaction to more people questioning the ethics of animal agriculture, and then doubling down on THAT and going on an all raw meat diet. also the pro-tobacco fringe that seems to be especially popular among red scare, "post left" types
-aversion to sex and sexuality
-"this is what they took from you" captions accompanying images of kids playing N64 or riding bikes, nostalgia more broadly
-"trad" stuff presenting essentially a dollhouse version of motherhood
idk if there's anything there but it seems like enough that someone could write an interesting essay about it. tie it into alienation and the nuclear family/suburbanization and the end of the american dream maybe. like all these people want to live life like a 1950s burger ad, the only time in their life where they've felt close to that was in childhood, and now as adults they see that the whole one-income, two kids in the suburb thing isn't possible anymore so they just retreat into memories of childhood (consciously or not) and get angrier and angrier about it
An easy pick for me but it captures the last decade so well. Lincoln looking at the noose/halo is what sends this one over from being just a funny picture into being genuine art. It should be in a gallery. It should be in the entryway to the White House.
