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they killed him for this

ive invented (note: dubious claim) something i call the bear diet which is mostly fruits and vegetables with fish as the main protein source and something like once a month you eat a few hyperprocessed foods of your liking because that is when you, the bear, raid a dumpster in the suburbs

stellarskyes

after the hyperprocessed foods, do you take tranquilizers to simulate getting captured by animal control and returned to the wild?

agnesmontague

i would settle for melatonin gummies but well. knock yourself out

tamamita

Final announcement from president Joe Biden

gyrrakavian

For anyone curious, 'Spokey Dokey' by The Seatbelts.

Yes, this is from the Cowboyd Bebop (original series) episode 'Asteroid Blues'.

#love to recognize music

prokopetz

I enjoy a joke about fucked up German fairy tales as much as the next nerd, but it's genuinely striking how often the source for the really fucked up stuff turns out to be "yeah, this is only in the Brothers Grimm version and doesn't appear in any extant oral tradition, and we're like 80% sure they added it themselves". To a large extent it's not German fairy tales that are fucked up, it's two specific German dudes.

thelovers-thedreamers-and-me

in retrospect we probably should have given the fairy tale writing to the Brothers Happy instead

trekinist

> The Stalker says he can take me to the Zone

> I ask if the Zone is creepy or wet

> He doesn't understand

> I light a cigarette and make my speech about what constitutes something being creepy or wet

> He does not laugh and says "The Zone demands respect"

> it's creepy AND wet

redstonedust

what happened to "cool as fuck grandma" as a character trope. i miss "cool as fuck grandma"

fwippy

bourtange

i am so tired of hearing politicians talk about california high-speed rail like it was a huge stupid mistake. the reason it hasn't gone anywhere isn't because it was a bad idea, it's because politicians aren't investing in it because they don't give a shit. it took twelve fucking years after it was approved by the legislature for it to even show up on the ballot, and it's been another eighteen since then. thirty fucking years to barely break ground on one fucking train line!!! transportation in the united states is decades behind every other country of remotely comparable size and it's not for any reason other than a complete lack of political will. to get from my home in san diego to san francisco—that is, to travel between two of the largest destinations in the country, which are about 500 miles apart in essentially a straight line—takes me about 7 to 8 hours of driving, but when i enter it into amtrak's trip planner the shortest route it gives me is over 13 hours, and most of the options it gives me require me to spend over half the trip on a bus. (lest anyone think i'm deliberately nerfing the numbers by picking san francisco, whose geography makes it tricky to reach directly by train, i also ran the options for sacramento, which is about the same distance but more directly accessible. there were more options, including some that don't require buses, but the fastest route is still almost 12½ hours long, and even those without buses still require transfers because the only amtrak route leaving san diego ends in san luis obispo 🙃)

meanwhile, to get from paris to barcelona, which is approximately the same distance as the crow flies and probably even a little bit longer than sd–sf on the actual route, takes less than 7 hours. beijing to xi'an, which is actually a bit longer of a distance (closer to 650 miles), has trains taking as little as 4 hours and 10 minutes. it is extremely doable. politicians who call it a "boondoggle" are lying. (where do you even hear the word "boondoggle" outside of politicians complaining about spending money on anything other than bombs?) california high speed rail isn't a wasteful pipe dream. it is a vital necessity that is being needlessly murdered by a political system that does not serve the public good

quendergeer

also, paris and barcelona are in TWO DIFFERENT COUNTRIES and have THE PYRENEES in the way

and you can do it for about 50 euros which is about 60 bucks and you'll be lucky if that covers your gas cost for that trip

boringkate

Everyone wants queerness to have countercultural asthetics because that's cooler. Gay graffiti is cooler than glossy pride themed posters. But those posters are better. Both in what level of already achieved progress they represent and their effectiveness in further normalizing queerness. Those posters are what winning looks like.

The problem isn't that a makeup ad is performatively pride themed. The problem is that makeup ads are fucking inescapable. The problem is that we live in a capitalist hellscape where cheeseburger commercials are legit our primary method of asserting shared cultural values. You can't go anywhere or do anything without seeing ads. You should be pissed about the straight ones too.

card-designers-without-borders

fwippy

I like this but it's totally busted

deadgenerations

"a Romanian scam artist tricked people into investing in an "eco-friendly" steam powered rocket in the early 2020s" sounds like a fake story your racist uncle would tell you but it was real. it was getting very straight faced press coverage for years. Governments gave them real money. they built "test hardware" and actually conducted "test fires". then they announced they would fund a larger version with a crypto token. what follows is a real official render of the proposed EcoRocket Heavy

Discover the sustainable future of space travel with the ECOROCKET. Explore its cold reaction, reusable first stages, technical characterist

it's very important to me that you know this is real.

notaaronsroommate

Have you checked out their fashion label?

You really should if you haven't. You're in for a real treat.

deadgenerations

okay so whatever I was expecting it wasnt that.

Stand out in the modern world with high-tech luxury fashion. Explore the ArcaFashion collection.

literallymechanical

Excuse me????

woman-becomer

he's full of... schwibble, libber kind.... hes.. hes the yeast of thoughts .. and mind......

cassette-cryptid

The Glon Glogabgalab

woman-becomer

thats him.

boringkate

Nobody wants to tell you about the downsides of going on estrogen and becoming a curvy tmilf, but somebody has to, so I'm going to: After you take a shower you're gonna have to lift your boobs to dry off the spot underneath them. It doesn't take very long, but it is still an extra step and imo showering was already such an ordeal.

If you already have boobs though? May as well go on estrogen. The gynecomastic boy to happy tgirl pipeline is well established. It happened to me, so it can happen to you.

rabbitkinglune777

DJ in da house!

(she/her) 🐕🎶🏳️‍⚧️

rabbitkinglune777

waiter waiter more fat trans girls please!

rabbitkinglune777

she works as a DJ for a nightclub and is very much well respected by her peers! she's kinda short and is also a lesbian! likes peanut butter too

rabbitkinglune777

oh and she's black coded too(hairstyles inspired by 90s black girl styles and ponytails) and she is intersex (klinefelter's)

foone

Oh my god, I'm having to take some workplace training thing and it shows you a page of text and then there's a Next button, but if you click the next button before 60 seconds have passed, it tells you:

"To better understand the material, please spend more time on this page"

I am a very fast reader with ADHD! This just means I read the page and then spend the next 48 seconds fucking around in another window.

Amusingly the page I'm currently on is about respecting neurodiversity in the workplace.