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He really is the most devious bastard in New Donk Cit-taay.

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well yeah i have a pet hydra and it only has one head. i'm not going to cut its head off just to make it look cooler, you asshole. that's seriously unethical. and i'm not letting you cut its head off either. if you really want a hydra with multiple heads, you should go for a rescue- but if you want your pet to look cooler at the cost of its physical health, maybe you shouldn't get any kind of pet at all. no, the hydra's not for guarding my evil tower, it's my pet. have you ever heard of a pet? like a puppy or a kitty? you think i can't defend my evil tower by my self?

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Well of course FOX is mad about Paramount/CBS's right-wing turn. All you need to watch CBS is a one-time $15 tv antenna. You need a $70/month basic cable subscription to watch FOX. One of the big networks sliding into their niche would absolutely annihilate FOX News.

Fox News Host Says CBS’ Trump Suck-Up Tarnished Network

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RIP Tom Lehrer 1928 - 2025

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I love Tom Lehrer's music and style of satire and from what I can tell was an all around great guy, who famously hated Henry Kissinger. He was an energetic person who inspired comedy musicians such as Weird Al.

He lived a rich life until the age of 97.

He made his entire catalog of music public domain before his death and it was mirrored by the Internet Archive.

You can find them here

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So obviously, given the circumstances and the people involved, there's not a single name that Maxwell gives that can be trusted, right? Like, even if a handful of people in her testimony were actual clients, 90% of them are just going to be personal and political rivals of Donals Trump. The Obamas will both show up, Bernie Sanders will be on there, Greta Thunberg and Zohran Mamdani be both somehow be on there. All those comedians and network executives he hates will be on there. Govenors and Mayors and Judges who have stood up against him will be on there. He'll just dangle a pardon over her so she drums up a BS list that implicates anyone he's ever had qualms with. It's nonsensical.

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u ever notice when a celeb dies some sicko goes in and changes their wiki picture from them looking old and normal in 2019 to them looking cherubic and mystical in 1973

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I tend to assume 99% of all psychological studies are weak and won’t replicate.

But whatever. Lol lmao

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It's very funny, and sadly not at all surprising, that it was never going to be the failures of policy that brought down Donald Trump. It was never going the open appeals to Nazism, it was never going to be the friends and neighbors that he dragged away to death camps, it was never going to be the support for genocidal foreign regimes, it was never going to be the way he destroyed decades of federal infrastructure, it was never going to be the vast inequality, it was never going to be the basic human rights he trampled on each and every day. It was never going to be any of that nor a million other things.

No. It that most American of fashions, the age of Trump is finally going to end because this rich dumbass forgot that he was implicated in a sex scandal he helped start a conspiracy panic over.

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We have GOT to pick a better name for our galaxy than the Milky Way, if aliens ever come from the Andromeda Galaxy they're gonna think it's a horny thing

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just overheard my dad on the phone going “yeah, i’d be more than happy to buy her daughter off of you, how much would you be willing to trade her for?” and got Very Worried for a second before remembering that he manages dairy farms for a living. surely there’s gotta be a better way to word that man

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I'm starting to understand why depictions of mohammed in islam are forbidden

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I must admit, while I love fantasy, and I do love the Lord of The Rings, I do have trouble with a lot of Tolkien's work. And I think a lot of that stems from the fact that most of the published material is only partially his work, and a lot of it seems to fundamentally disagree with the idea of a person's writing as art.

Like, the Hobbit, the Lord of The Rings, those are fine. They're literature, they are art. There is a story here, with characters, and a plot, and dialogue, and themes. They are complete and wilfully published works of fiction that are open to reading and to interpretation thereafter. You can read the Lord of The Rings, engage with it, and take away from it any number of things that you wish to take away from it.

But then you start getting into the Silmarillion, and The Children of Hurin, and all the rest, and something changes on a significant level. First and foremost, that when these books hit the shelves, the supposed artist, JRR Tolkien, was dead. They were published posthumously by his son Christopher. And whatever John Ronald's views may have been on the matter, the very last thing Christopher Tolkien had any interest in was publishing literature. Christopher Tolkien wanted to build a rigid, unthinking museum to his father that he could charge tens of millions of people $22.95 to enter at any book store in the world, and that's exactly what he did. It gets really obvious when you start getting into Unfinished Tales or that book of letters. I'm rather surprised there's not some book floating around full of photocopies of every little scribbled on and discarded cafe napkin that Chris could get his grubby hands on.

What Christopher Tolkien, and all of these pothsumous publications have done, is they have put Middle Earth and all of its characters into a glass box. You may look at them, but you may not engage with them. Meaning is not for you to derive on your own, it is for us to tell you, and for you to accept without question. Look, but do not touch, and please, no photography. It is reactionary, it is wholly antithetical to art and to literature, and I hate it.

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Generations are horoscopes for people who think they're too smart for horoscopes.

It worked exactly once. To describe an unusually large mass of people in the Western Hemisphere all born roughly around the same time into a suddenly and radically new set of socioeconomic circumstances that had emerged as a result of the United States and Canada being the only Imperial countries left still standing in their entirety following a conflict that ripped the whole, entire world a new one.

In that absolute blue moon, freak of nature, pie in the sky situation, it worked. And even then only barely. The experiences of a black boy in Mississippi were, after all, nothing like the experiences of a Leave it To Beaver-style white suburbanite in, I don't know, New Jersey. But it worked well enough as a very (and I do mean very) broad observation.

It has not been applicable once since.