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gm, good news for Jeff Bezos, my risk models show lauren sanchez would be a 17 sigma event for leo, an outcome so improbable it should occur less than once in the entire history of the universe

Reposting the greatest shitpost of all time.

due to inflation web3 is now web4

I don't know who needs to hear this but not every ray is a stingray!!! If you're seeing them in the mid- or upper-water column it's more likely that they're NOT a stingray but rather a manta or cow nose or bat ray (or even a skate)

Tofu has an optics problem -- people view it as a "meat alternative" and inevitably compare it to a steak. Just treat it as its own unique food!!!

This is a thread about how journalists decide what is “news” and what isn’t. Anyone shaping the news and anyone consuming the news should understand who decides what counts as news, how they decide it, and what determines what they say about it. Here, I ask a few questions:

Between the Urban dictionary shit and the bus shit it's 100% clear that we're in a meme recession

7 months later the truth about the Chinese spy balloon admitted by highest ranking 🇺🇸 General Mark Milley: "The intelligence community, their assessment – and it's a high-confidence assessment – is that there was no intelligence collection by that balloon” yahoo.com/news/bizarre-s…

May I introduce to you the actual police state

It should be more widely understood that saying the "Uyghur genocide" narrative is western propaganda is not the same as denying that there was an authoritarian crackdown in Xinjiang; empire apologists tend to conflate these two points in a motte-and-bailey fallacy wherein the

this is the average male fantasy btw

Politicians say "let me be clear" and follow up with the most nonsensical, roundabout, contradictory statement to ever exist

The West at its best (like Chinese, Ottoman, Indian civilisations at their best) was able to rise to a certain universality: it was able to defend principles independent of whom they’re applied to. That’s finished now

we need to go back to the days of value accretive capitalism rather than value extractive; nobody needs a shift from a one-time purchase to subscription; or a CRM on toner. We need actual products physical or software that actually make our lives better

If this were happening in Russia or China, it would have made news.

Let’s not forget that President Biden Biden was the Democratic presidential candidate 63 days ago. We were told by the administration and the media that Biden was in perfect health and that videos of him exhibiting serious deterioration were ‘right wing propaganda.’ Then, threatened

Has there ever been a bigger fraud elected the John Fetterman?? Ppl focus so much on AOC but this motherfucker ran as a progressive working class populist only to turn around and be the most genocidal piece of shit in the Senate.

This but unironically

Great reminder that the stock market is not "The Economy". If you were a wealthy capitalist investor, you got much richer in the past 3 decades in India. Not in China. If you were an average worker, your income and standard of living rose by many times in China. Not in India.