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supreme-leader-stoat

DNI if you've ever:

Been to Greenland

Been to Denver

Buried treasure in St. Louis (or St. Paul for that matter)

Been to Moscow

Been to Tampa

Been to Boston (only if you went during the fall, though)

Hoisted a mainstay

Swabbed a poop deck

Veered to starboard

You know what just DNI if you've ever sailed at all

Walked a gangplank

Owned a parrot (I shouldn't have to explain this one)

Been to Boston in the fall (cannot overstate this)

edgar-allan-possum

Okay, but what if I've never plucked a rooster and I'm not too good at ping-pong, and I've never thrown my mashed potatoes up against the wall, and I've never kissed a chipmunk and I've never gotten head lice, and I've never been to Boston in the fall?

supreme-leader-stoat

You're safe

supreme-leader-stoat

bet-on-ratts

I know i am violating the DNI but I hit 6 of these... and the only one of the locations I've been to here is Moscow. Does a layover at Denver Airport count as going to Denver? I didn't count it.

starlightxraven

Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.

appalachian-werewolf

"Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry."

It fucking better.

mrsjdavis

Like to charge, reblog to cast?

newbarktownalumni

ben-the-hyena

Today I woke up with AI reviews imposed to me at the top of my searches, I had to use -ai in my searches. They better fucking leave

the-davest-of-uncles

A quick way to get an AI-free search without any extra work.

stumpyjoepete

what the hell

named mcdilda??

jacopo-belbo

ivan-fyodorovich-k

Simultaneously the most American and most Imperial Japanese thing I’ve ever read

generallemarc

Can any veterans explain why this bill on prohibiting the transfer of information from the DVA to the NICS background check system is a thing?

Summary of H.R.1041 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act

Full text is on the next tab on the page, but to quote the part of the summary I can't wrap my head around:

the bill prohibits the VA from transmitting personally identifying information of a veteran or a beneficiary to the NICS solely on the basis that such veteran or beneficiary has an appointed fiduciary to manage their benefits, unless there is an order or finding of a judicial authority that such veteran or beneficiary is a danger to themselves or others.

The way this reads to me is that the information can't be transmitted regardless of what it is unless it's that the veteran could be a danger to themselves or others, which is likely about mental issues leading to violent and/or suicidal ideation or urges. And if that's what it's saying then this is a law saying the DVA isn't allowed to transfer relevant information to the national background check system on if someone is legally able to own a gun, which is absolutely insane. I learned the importance of honoring veterans from my dad and grandpa(Air Force and Army, respectively) and there's few people more pro-2A than me, but if a person or entity has information about another person that, if known by the government, would disqualify them from owning a firearm, then to make it legally prohibited to share that information seems like a decision made out of pure insanity.

But I'm not so sure it is, because this wasn't a fully partisan vote. Brian Fitzpatrick, better known as the centrist version of Thomas Massie(and I mean actually centrist in that he's almost too moderate for a two-party system, not the far-left version that means he's not a rabid extremist) voted no, while seven Democrats voted yea. @silent-calling God help me but I can't remember if you served or not, and none of my other mutuals did. Any other veterans, or people who know how gun law works, please chime in and help me stop being confused by the specter of complex wording after a day at work on too little sleep.

silent-calling

It doesn't look like a blanket prohibition outside of potential danger to themselves or others. It reads like NICS can't pull someone's info under these protected groups on the sole basis they have a fiduciary, excepting those cases. Those people have an appointed power of attorney.

generallemarc

What does fiduciary mean in this context?

bet-on-ratts

According to USC s38 c55 - guardians, conservators and even powers of attorney.

(1)a person who is a guardian, curator, conservator, committee, or person legally vested with the responsibility or care of a claimant (or a claimant’s estate) or of a beneficiary (or a beneficiary’s estate); or

(2)any other person having been appointed in a representative capacity to receive money paid under any of the laws administered by the Secretary for the use and benefit of a minor, incompetent, or other beneficiary.

purpldology

"Rocky my hand is up" he is SUCH a teacher omg I love him

generallemarc

I haven't seen the actual movie yet, only read the book. This is my first time seeing an actual scene. I'm no longer unsure as to why the internet latched on to Project Hail Mary. For the record, I always imagined Rocky as being roughly comparable to Grace in size, but even if they shrank him down for the sake of the movie, I think it was the right call. Their dynamic was always gonna be hard to translate over to the big screen, but if this is an accurate representation of how they did it then they managed it with serious finesse.

bet-on-ratts

He is described in the book as the size of a Labrador if i am remembering it right, so the movie sizing is right

sawbuckplus

round9-fight

the-prairies-calling-out

"I didn't read many books last year", I say to myself.

I read the Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, Tolkien's Beowulf, Ivanhoe, and the first two Wheel of Time books.

Perhaps I should give myself more credit.

uncle-beanbag-mojave

You read quality over quantity. Now for the third one where Rand is barely in it

digital-meat

>quality over quantity

>Wheel of Time

uncle-beanbag-mojave

Get fucked

I've read all of em multiple times

bet-on-ratts

Why the attacks on Wheel of Time? It's a phenomenal series

ultramaga

Leftist: I’m gonna kill some ICE officers! ICE: No. Walz: We have never before seen such brutal oppression. This poor woman just wanted to kill ICE officers and they wouldn’t let her. Further proof that Trump is a fascist, and armed insurrection is perfectly cromulent if we do it.

gsirvitor

If you watch the video, she drives in front of the ICE vehicle, parks diagonally across the road to impede their progress, and when she was told to get out of her vehicle, with guns drawn, but not aimed at her, as ICE officers have been attacked already, she puts it in drive and begins to accelerate toward the ICE officer in front of the vehicle.

Yeah, it’s a shame she died, but no one can say she didn’t bring it on herself by doing this.

gsirvitor

Oh god, she was a legal observer, so she was trained not to interfere with what happens between police and protestors, but to monitor and document it, instead she chose to be an activist

For those who don’t know, a legal observer is supposed to maintain strict neutrality, avoiding chanting, signs, or participation to remain credible observers, though they support protesters’ rights, not the police.

yourtoradorasextendedwarranty

These people never actually do that. Because they are leftists who believe they are above the law.

bet-on-ratts

Legal observers are not legally a thing. There is no qualification to be one and no special rights or protections attached. It's a label people just claim for themselves to try and claim they aren't active participants in the event of a roundup despite being part of things

karcatgirl-vantas

the default way for things to taste is good. we know this because "tasty" means something tastes good. conversely, from the words "smelly" and "noisy" we can conclude that the default way for things to smell and sound is bad. interestingly there are no corresponding adjectives for the senses of sight and touch. the inescapable conclusion is that the most ordinary object possible is invisible and intangible, produces a hideous cacophony, smells terrible, but tastes delicious. and yet this description matches no object or phenomenon known to science or human experience. so what the fuck

skluug

this is what ancient greek philosophy is like

ace-disgrace-on-the-case

False! “Sightly” is a positive word, so the default way for things to work is good as well.

The true most ordinary object is beautiful, horrible sounding, very smelly, intangible, and delicious.

I still don’t think it matches anything in existence but to truly understand a thing one must know its true nature.

professionalchaoticdumbass

"touchy" is also a word! however it's mostly used for things that aren't objects, like subjects of conversation. it either means "oversensitive and irritable" or "requires careful handling/wording, delicate"

i think the second one works well for our hypothetical object. so we can use that.

therefore, the Default Object is:

beautiful

makes a horrendous sound

smells absolutely awful

is very fragile

tastes delicious

and i still cannot think of anything that matches this

and-a-pidgey-in-a-wepear-tree

behold, the default object!

ospreyonthemoon

DEFAULT OBJECT FOUND

scrunchie-face

A MAN?????!

1americanconservative

curious161

👍👍👍

bet-on-ratts

I can't find anything that says this has happened. It doesn't look like the National Bar Association even has had an ethics probe into him.

nancylou444

Favorite Kurt Russell role:

Snake Plissken (Escape from New York)

Wyatt Earp (Tombstone)

Ego (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2)

two of the three

ALL OF THEM ARE AWESOME

Who's Kurt Russell? (totally judging you 😒)

Voting ended onNov 11, 2025

airasilver

I have not watched Escape From New York yet, I should I know, so I said two out of the three.

For now.

uncle-beanbag-mojave

No Captain Ron?

bet-on-ratts

theredandwhitequeen

I doubt you'll know what all these things are.

Try this buzzfeed quiz it’s fun.

dragonsglare

Well heck. I only missed 2, although one of the ones I got right I just guessed on. The rest I knew from sight. Yes I’m old.

telemna-hyelle

Jokes on you buzzfeed I'm not over forty, in fact I straddle the line between millennial and gen Z, but I wield the awesome quiz busting power of baby boomer parents and growing up with not much money, so there

artist-at-play

mozart-the-meerkitten

I am TWENTY NINE

I think YOU'RE over 40 buzzfeed and you underestimate the youth.

edgar-allan-possum

I'm in my 20s. Why were there so many can openers?

beardedmrbean

because there were different kinds of cans to be opened some had a pull tab, some had a key, and some took a blade

Guilty as charged, used everything in the list except the toaster too

mister-christmas

I'm 30. In fairness a few I did work out from context clues and the available choices, plus I just find old stuff like this neat.

But also

delicatefury

The stupid thing kept randomly refreshing, but I’m betting I’ll get “over 40”. So here are my thoughts. My hypotheses on what is happening here:

Buzzfeed employees are all gen Z or younger and don’t actually know what millennials grew up with.

Buzzfeed employees never visited their grandparents. Ever.

They’re farming engagement with an obvious taunt and we all fell for it.

Because, let’s be honest, most of us millennials to mid-gen Z have seen these items and know what they are because our grandparents or parents still had them around the house. My dad’s truck had crank windows and our family van we got when I was in middle school still had the cigarette lighter. Most of the older gadgets my grandparents had and sometimes still used.

Heck, Grandma only upgraded from her old dial television several years after the turn of the millennium because she wanted to watch baseball and she needed hi-def to actually see what was happening. I can picture the old remote with perfect clarity.

Anyway, I got about halfway through before I realized that I’d been played, but I was committed. Until the page refreshed for the second time and undid my progress.

So, congrats Buzzfeed. You got me to click.

mister-christmas

I could see some things genuinely stumping millennials.

The credit card reader got me, probably because I'm Canadian and we've had portable card machines for as long as I can remember

The cube lights I've just never seen before

The old TV remote I've also never seen and just guessed. My grandparents all had modern tvs.

I've only seen toasters like that in museums

The headlight brightener again I've never seen one that looks like that or is placed there. Though it was in area of vehicles I wouldn't have really noticed or cared about as a kid so

wanderer-chronicles

I doubt you'll know what all these things are.

23/25, the headlight brightener and the TV channel changer got me. Yes, I'm over 40, but... that's what Millenials are. 30s to 40s. Gen X is in their 50s and 60s now.

such-justice-wow

18/25

I feel like some were very american or car based

But mostly what i got was that being over 40 was about having various ways to open cans

brosef-von-dudehomie

Tbh yeah, everything was in cans you had to crack open one way or another.

I only know the headlight switch because I saw @hatesaltrat talk about it before, and the toaster because @uncle-beanbag-gaming has mentioned one, I think. Everything else except the Zenith Clicker, I currently own at least one of somewhere between three houses and a storage locker.

uncle-beanbag-mojave

Yeah the Zenith is why clickers are called clickers.

I've used all of these.

bet-on-ratts

Almost all of these except the TV remote, pull tab cans, and the headlight control know were in common use well into the 90s and rhe pull tab can is fairly well known. Even the later born millennials should get most of these. This is a poorly made quiz (like most of buzzfeed). Also the answer choices on many included such blatantly wrong answers...

plasticterrarium

Americans - how do you function in daily life knowing there could be a gun on the same street / in the same bus / in the same Walmart as you? At any given moment? Like how do you not go insane with fear? I am genuinely asking.

plasticterrarium

Can someone who isn’t a bona fide nutcase answer this please

greater-than-the-sword

I do not know what kind of answer you are looking for, because to most Americans the idea of living in fear because a regular citizen around you might be a gun owner sounds legitimately mentally unstable. That itself is the answer to your question. Self protection is just a thing that people have. It's legal and it's normal. I have a gun in my same house, it is mine. Guns in the Walmart? We used to sell guns in the Walmart.

It's just not computing to me why I should be deranged with fear about the existence of an object which has no malice or ill-will or morality in itself. And it's illogical to be suspicious of the 'kind of person who would carry a gun' when I myself am the kind of person who would carry a gun. Normal and well meaning people do carry and guns don't shoot people on their own.

arizonaconservativegal

Guns are about as commonplace and dangerous as cars - except that I have yet to see someone texting or applying mascara while firing a gun but I saw people doing both while driving a two thousand pound piece of machinery at 60 miles per hour today. Going mad with fear over personal vehicles seems pretty irrational to most people. Fear of personal firearms seems even more irrational to me.

justkillingtimeuntiltomorrow2

More generally...

Being afraid about some POTENTIAL thing that you know is out there and think could get you at any moment, but you have no evidence is an imminent threat, is called 'generalized anxiety' and is itself an actual textbook case of mental instability. The question asked is no more sound than someone asking 'how do you function knowing the CIA is out there and can be stalking you at any time?' Both cases involve powerful forces that could, theoretically, do harm. But functionally, both are background-level, non-imminent potentials, not justified objects of day-to-day fear. Being paralyzed by the idea of ambient threat is not a concern for safety, but an expression of irrational, ideological driven fear; a phobia with a moral veneer.

What you are describing is a cognitive distortion, not a rational worldview. If you’re not allowed to live in fear of car accidents, lightning strikes, or gas stoves, why are you expected to live in fear of firearms? I'm not going to adopt your pathology just because you feel really, really strongly about it.

bet-on-ratts

Well said

bonesbeetle

they let the fucking skull wraith on the mound again. this is such bullshit i hate this league.

bet-on-ratts

In this over the top thumbnail's defense - Randy Johnson would have terrifying at certain points in his career. He pitched crazy fast, somewhat wild, and famously blew up a bird.

prismatic-bell

The New Jersey Democrat has been criticizing the Trump administration's policies on immigration, education, the economy and more since 7 p.m

Today's action item:

Call Cory Booker's office and say thank you. If you're not one of his direct constituents, say so and indicate you're calling to show he has national support. Aides and pages are allowed to speak with him and other Senators may receive messages they can pass on via questions, meaning he will find out at some point in proceedings.

Also, you can watch direct from his website:

The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey

theredqueenandthebloodwyrm

The NPR article is so so good, just FYI.

If Booker continues to speak a few minutes past the 24-hour mark, his speech will surpass the previous longest-spoken filibuster, set in 1957 by noted segregationist Strom Thurmond, who took the podium at the time to oppose the Civil Rights Act.

Booker is Black.

He beat the record by the way! So suck it Thurmond and Cruz!

The speech has covered a wide range of topics from health care and Social Security to immigration, the economy, public education, free speech and foreign policy. And it included portions of letters that Booker said he had received from affected constituents, as well as public comments from world leaders, in recent weeks.

And he's not doing bs tactics either.

Booker has not yet pulled out the phone book or children's literature to read from, as some of his predecessors have done on the Senate floor. He has stayed focused on the topic of Trump's agenda and how he says it is hurting everyday Americans — weaving together domestic and foreign policy concerns.

Unlike other politicians like Ted Cruz in 2013

Later that year, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, took to reading Dr. Seuss’s "Green Eggs and Ham," while holding the floor to oppose former president Obama’s health care law.

prismatic-bell

At 25 hours and one minute, with basically no voice left, Cory Booker has ceded the floor.

The longest speech in the history of Congress is now one in defense of democracy, checks and balances, and protection for lower-class Americans.

We finally found one, guys, it's a Democrat with a fucking BACKBONE.

misslucy21

I was so thrilled he made it past Thurmond's record. I watched him for awhile very late last night and listened on CSPAN most of the day today while I was working. I went out tonight, but kept checking in on him. I hope he has the best night of sleep of his life tonight.

fullbarbarianllama

THIS is courage, THIS is leadership, THIS is empathy and compassion and a willingness to fight, and THIS is what we need NOW!! Come on, Dems - time to step up to the plate!

prismatic-bell

After what I heard today I'm legitimately wondering if it's time for our next Black male president, because holy hell.

Booker/Harris 2028?

brazenautomaton

"Booker/Harris 2028" what the fuck is wrong with you why would you bear that fucking albatross again way to completely undermine the endorsement by making it clear you only see race and nothing else

prismatic-bell

The hell are you on about?

He's Black. I'm pointing out, although perhaps I could have been clearer, that the driving force behind fighting Trump these last few years has been Black people. Fani Willis? Black. Alvin Bragg? Black. Harris? Black. And now, Cory Booker: Black.

Harris was one of the most qualified candidates in history. She was hampered by a short campaign during which she had to both be "not Biden" and "not so unlike Biden that you should be scared to vote for her." She still received an impressive size of the vote, and I think in another year would do better. Booker has 13 years in the Senate, friends on both sides of the aisle which is VITAL if you want stuff to pass, and if the last two days haven't shown you he knows his shit I don't know what will.

Obama set up this firestorm by having the audacity to say "I can do this job." I think we need that kind of audacity again.

What the fuck is wrong with you, to suggest a candidate is an "albatross" simply because of their race?

brazenautomaton

Kamala Harris is not an albatross because of her race. The fact that I said her race does not make her a good candidate does not mean I must think her race makes her a bad candidate. Her race is not relevant. She's an albatross because she's really, really bad at running a campaign. She was not one of the most qualified candidates in history, that's just a thing democrats always say about everyone (They said it about Hillary too, who was not, and was also terrible). Her relevant qualifications were "dropped out of the 2020 Democratic primary before a single election had happened" and "got named VP not for her accomplishments but as a way to appease certain voting blocs" and "lost the 2024 election very badly."

Like her "impressive size of the vote" is the worst performance for a Democrat in a long time. Last time, Trump lost the popular vote and only won in the electoral college; Trump straight up won the popular vote this time. Compared to Biden, Harris lost share among every single demographic. She lost whites, she lost blacks, she lost Asians, she lost Hispanics. She lost men and she lost women. She lost old people and she lost young people. She put up the worst performance of a Democratic Presidential candidate since John Kerry in 2004.

You don't get to make excuses for that! Excuses don't win elections. You can have all sorts of excuses about how the electoral college isn't fair, or she didn't have enough time to campaign, or Trump lied too much, or people hated her because of her race, and none of them matter, because what matters is ability to win the election and she was the worst at doing that in 20 years.

The office of Vice-President is on the Presidential ticket mostly as a signal of priorities and allegiances. One reason people did not like Harris was that she was never vetted by going through an election, and she refused to distance herself from an extremely unpopular incumbent. If people hated what Biden was doing, and she refused to throw him under the bus, then she represented adhering to a status quo people didn't like (and also was not good at campaigning, throwing Biden under the bus was a fucking lay-up). The Democratic party is extremely unpopular right now and one of their main image problems is the (correct) perception that they don't actually listen to or care about what people think, whether the voters of their own party or the American people. If they nominate the worst-performing candidate in 20 years, who was unpopular because she refused to distance herself from an extremely unpopular and out of touch Democratic President, that's a fucking signal and a half of "We are out of touch and don't know or care what people think, we picked this person because the out of touch favor-traders and apparatchiks liked her.."

The only candidate who could be a worse pick than Harris would be Hillary.

siryouarebeingmocked

Also, "this guy should be President because he spoke out against the opposing party's president at length" is not a good qualification either.

bet-on-ratts

Especially since he didn't actually filibuster anything. No vote was being debated. He just made a really long speech. Arguably his record doesn't count because of that. It was simply performative anger with no effect.

generallemarc

The US Department of Health and Human Services asked the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study vaccines and autism, a perso

What an efficient usage of government money! Our tax dollars at work.

yourtoradorasextendedwarranty

I'm actually for this. Better money towards this rather than Trillions to other countries and trying to make animals trans and studying them. Because what this will do is deradicalize MANY people who believe this. Meeting people halfway will make it so a number of people who MIGHT be susceptible to falling into that line of thinking.

This is the most optimistic take. Just satiate their skepticism. Even if we can't save them all, but if we can change the minds of some it's better than none.

dark-rx-deactivated20250608

It was TRANSGENIC, not TRANSGENDER.

I know the Trump Administration isn't big on paying attention to details, but this is next level given these were genetically altered mice used in medical research into finding cures for diseases like cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, asthma, diabetes, heart disease and Parkinson’s disease.

And they say the Left is virtue signaling...

generallemarc

nazilism

You're not helping anything by going Godwin. It is in fact entirely possible for a government to do bad things, evil things, even anti-democratic things without it being Literally Nazi Germany. Doing this is what's helped ruin that word the same way the right has ruined the word "communism" by applying it to every Democrat they don't like. They're both extremist, totalitarian, and very specific ideologies, not simply political profanities meant to tar anyone on the opposite side of the aisle you don't like, even if your reasons for not liking them are valid. I did not like alot of things Biden did, but I didn't call him a communist because he wasn't one. Simple as.

dark-rx-deactivated20250608

And it is entirely possible for me to disagree with your assessment. If you honestly don’t think Trump and Musk are making moves to fascism, we have no further common ground to discuss it.

You aren’t helping anything by pretending there are “good people on both sides” of the current situation in the United States. When it comes to what is happening now, there is no center. There are those who stand up for what is right and against their NAZI ideology, and everyone else.

BTW, since you seem to be trolling on multiple of my posts, you ready to call on your right wing friends for their misinformation on the post I corrected?

generallemarc

If you honestly don’t think Trump and Musk are making moves to fascism, we have no further common ground to discuss it.

Behold the Secretary of the Treasury and his husband and son, who according to you are a part of Trump's

NAZI ideology,

Because we all know how pro-gay the Nazis were

Behold Trump's former Secretary of the Treasury, Steve Mnuchin, a practicing Jew and agent of Trump's

NAZI ideology

Because we all know how pro-Jew the Nazis were.

But please, do go on about how Donald Trump wants to implement an ideology that wants all Jews and gays dead by appointing Jews and gays to cabinet positions.

bet-on-ratts

Just to add - the White House brought receipts, and even CNN had to retract their incorrect fact check about "Transgenic". It was in fact "transgender"

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