My hope is that someday science will isolate the gene that causes this kind of personality, so that we can start putting something in the water to finally cure it.

"X-MAGA" would have sent mixed signals

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some caulk.

Better not be any of that in the GIRL'S bathroom!!

Ok, but he's also the guy that women need protection from.

Because he's like a very fragile elementary school bully; it's as satisfying to point out all the ways that he sucks as it is easy.

Now they must duel. There is no other way.

Ah yes, more "protecting the children"* to pander to an angry and stupid electorate.

* "Protecting the children" is a phrase used here to mean, "ensuring the next generation of an angry and stupid electorate."

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You can say that again. Growing up in Florida, I've been in a lot of swimming pools and water parks, and I have never seen anything like what is shown in the video attached to this article. That opening is huge. user224's link says the pipe is 30cm (almost a foot) in diameter. Even in giant public pools I've been in, I can't recall seeing an opening or fixture that size. That, coupled with a lack of any cover on it, seems so obviously dangerous. God, what an awful way to go.

The middle school I went to was also named after him. Didn't know about him being a karate champion too!

Vance: I did wanna answer your question, because you did ask it...

Narrator: He did not answer her question.

I loved that show growing up.

Really? It made me- WANNA FART

One study showed that at least 72% of remote workers in the area did in fact own a "nasty cat blanket."

Romanian authorities released this mugshot after apprehending the rapist:

My partner is T1D. When I see stories like this pop up, I am hopeful, but I generally don't share them with her because these revolutionary discoveries are always "x years away." This sounds amazing and if it works as well as it sounds here, it would absolutely change lives.

Ugh, who has time for that? I need all of my waking hours to be devoted to increasing work productivity and consuming products. Computers can feel my pesky feelings for me now.

Dunno if it changes anything, but user224 posted this link elsewhere in this discussion, and it says the pipe was 30cm (almost a foot) in diameter -- I'm no expert, but the photos in this and OP's article seem to show an opening about that size to me. I only mention it because that seemed uncommonly large to me.

Dunno if this helps you at all, but I've been using BitWarden to manage my passwords since I made the switch from Chrome to Firefox (both on PC and my Android phone). It doesn't fill passwords automatically in either case, but it's not much extra work to invoke BitWarden to fill those fields as-needed on either device, and it works very consistently. It's also (I'm told) much more secure. Just thought I'd share that here!

https://archive.is/20240701171319/https://www.ft.com/content/ac9fcdd9-a320-403c-b482-ef636312e3cf

Hopefully this works for you, too -- The original article on Financial Times contains a little more info than the Daily Beast version.

Could it be to protect the rest of the item from getting scratched by the prongs? Especially a screen, or some soft/glossy plastic case that would be prone to scratches.

Edit: I submitted this right after Hylactor's top comment and I agree with them!

Just saw this story on CNN via (HBO)Max, and they were reporting that they found an AK-47 in the bushes:

Law enforcement officials found a weapon and other items left behind by the suspect where he was positioned in the bushes near the Trump International Golf Club in South Florida on Sunday.

“In the bushes, where this guy was, is an AK-47 style rifle with a scope; two backpacks, which were hung on the fence and had ceramic tile in them; and a GoPro. … So, those are being processed right now,” Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-harris-election-09-15-24/index.html

The agreement will allow Disney to build a fifth theme park—possibly a water park—in the state on the condition the monolith donates just 100 of its expansive 24,000 acres to infrastructure projects controlled by the state. Disney will also need to hire Florida-based construction companies for “at least half” of its projects, as well as make a generous $10 million dollar donation to affordable housing in the area.

That last bit is particularly interesting, wonder how that will work.

Abraham Lincoln said something very similar (though the exact nature of the threat he was talking about is the subject of some debates). Those familiar with "Great Moments with Mister Lincoln," the predecessor to Disney's Hall of Presidents, will recognize it. Regardless, it has always stood out to me as very profound and your post reminded me of it:

"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."

These last few years have continuously provoked the memory of this quote for me as well.

This feels like it could be a new indicator for the relationship between economy and education... The Pizza Party Slice Index?

Indiana Jones and The Just-Okay Circle

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Going by her own example, they don't seem to be very effective at preventing unchristlike behavior.

I'm imagining Ratatouille, only it's an anthropomorphized worm steering RFK Jr around by chomping on different parts of his brain. I want to say the worm would be voiced by David Cross. It's almost making this bizarre timeline a little easier to process.

Kinda sounds like he thinks Kamala did unbelievably well.

Honestly, it's much more troubling the amount of people who seem to have come round to 'George is just a bumbling buffoon but a great guy really'.

Didn't you see when he gave Michelle Obama a candy from his pocket? He's just America's sweet ol' grandpa.

/S

No rea$on at all, except for that one little rea$on that we alway$ $eem to keep coming back to...

Some people really just wake up looking for something to get rankled about.

For what it's worth, I agree with you about Lemmy (and Reddit) not really qualifying as "social media." I think of it more as a spectrum than a binary value...

• Old school forums were very specific to a single topic (though most forums I used did have an "Off Topic" board), and only lightly social -- I never knew any forum user outside of their respective forum, and certainly not in real life.
• On the opposite end, Facebook/Insta/TikTok are very social -- there's a lot of expectation that you'll be interacting with people that you know personally -- and they are more "agnostic" (?) of any one particular topic.
• Reddit and Lemmy land somewhere in between those two extremes, in terms of both the social and topical aspects. But neither cross the line into "social media," at least not for me and my personal definition of the term.

And just to split hairs even a little more, I think Lemmy is more palettable than Reddit for me, by virtue of the smaller (and generally more tech-savvy) user base.

I enjoyed watching him regress into "I know you are but what am I?" by the end of that clip. Kamala's really getting to him.

Of course he doesn't smell, his mask completely covers up his nose.

assuming they could get it to stay in place to begin with.

Perhaps the mouthpiece would serve as a "flared base," as it were.