Trump lying counts as “shocking”? Really?

Really?

on the day that Putin, Trump, or Elon dies, the global wine industry will see a spike in sales so sharp you’ll be easily able to find it on historical graphs for the next century. I personally have a bottle earmarked for each of them.

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Is a circle round?

And it’s current-day Boeing. So there’s actually a really good chance.

Gonna be honest, whether it’s a bot or not, the idea of banning people for voting on posts or comments in some way you don’t like is deeply funny to me.

“YOU’RE INFLUENCING THE MADE-UP INTERNET POINTS THAT DON’T MATTER! EEEEEEK!”

even I’m not so terminally online.

“I’m not a Nazi, I just want to do all the things Nazis do without having to deal with the criticism Nazis get!”

bro I’m sorry but all the money in existence can not buy your way out of reality and the fact that doing nazi shit will get you called a nazi.

I would but there’s a site I use called RVRB that only works with Spotify Premium AFAIK, and I enjoy the site too much to give it up. Great way to discover new music.

Yeah, but we have no useful way to channel the energy from nuclear fission into propulsion, so that’s a moot point if we’re talking in practical terms. At least, we don’t without irradiating everything. My point was not that combustion-based propellants are energy efficient, merely that it takes a lot of energy to escape gravity, and while theoretically nuclear propulsion would be more efficient, in practice, burning shit is really the best we can do without giving someone cancer every time we want to put something in orbit, because gravity is a fuck.

legit I pay for Spotify and I love spicetify, been considering canceling it because spicetify and revanced spotify exist

Au contraire, mon frere. “Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son-of-a-bitch in space.”

if you have enough mass moving quickly enough, someone’s gonna have a real bad day. Gravity is fantastic for getting a lot of mass moving very quickly, it’s why space missions slingshot around planets to get from A to B instead of burning propellant straight there. Even dropping tungsten rods from orbit can get you atom-bomb-sized explosions, and if you had any means of (even weakly) accelerating them before that, gravity would help further accelerate them.

That, and have you seen the amount of propellant required to overcome gravity? Compare that to the amount of fissile material you need to make a viable nuclear device. It’s peanuts. A (small) nuke might as well be a rounding error compared to the amount of fuel you need to overcome gravity and leave earths orbit, gravity is that much of a fuck.

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The president was asked by a reporter on Wednesday if he had spoken with Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, about the tariffs that have sparked a potentially costly trade war between the countries, and have led to predictions of empty shelves before the end of the year as imports dry up.

Trump said he had not, and offered his own prediction as to how Christmas might look for American families.

“Somebody said, ‘Oh, the shelves are gonna be open.’ Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls,” he said.

“So maybe the two dolls will cost a couple bucks more than they would normally.”

Some real “let them eat cake”/“it’s one banana, Michael” vibes. Like the average American family has been buying “30 dolls” for their kids for Christmas for years. And people thought Biden and Kamala were out of touch with the economy?

More than that, Trump isn’t in the middle of actively fighting a fucking war, and a funeral has one single, solitary wardrobe expectation: wear black.*

Even if not for that utter dumpster fire of a press conference, I also remember the fuss made about Obama’s tan suit that he just happened to wear during a televised event (which was not a funeral). On every level, this clown deserves mockery.

sorry but if the choice is between “going quietly with the men from the government” for being an undesirable, and just ending it there and then, I’m choosing the gun. I’ve suffered enough where I am.

I’m in the middle of a bout of heavy depression right now, I just want to live long enough to outlive my close family, namely my parents. They shouldn’t have to sit through my funeral.

Being gay and neurodivergent, though, I don’t think I have that long in this country. And I have no method to escape.

I’ve resisted, all this time, getting a gun because I have a history of depression and I didn’t want one in the house

however, given I have the blessing of castle doctrine in my state I’m really starting to think getting one might be the smarter decision. at least I might get to go out on my own terms.

my god it really is like the Nazi high command eating each other because “fuck that guy and his ambitions, I’ve got my own”

this would be positively hilarious to watch if I weren’t American, neurodivergent, and gay.

what, don’t you keep track of these things somehow? I’m supposed to remember all the rich/powerful assholes in the world deserving of loathing, with just my memory? I can barely remember what I had for dinner last Tuesday.

yes, yes that does in fact piss me right off.

Unfortunately she is merely one in a very long list of complete shitheads with wealth/power they don’t deserve, and I can’t be angry at that many people all the time. There aren’t enough hours in the day.