I guess you’ve never worked retail/warehouse/restaurants or other low-end jobs. You’re often threatened with your job if you take off work for being ill in those positions.

Sweet, thanks for this, I was curious but had never researched.

Tell me more about how freezing water is the end of civilization.

Just because people are paying a premium for it doesn’t make it any worse than the bags of ice at the grocery store.

Ice was one of the first things humans used to keep things cold, and was super important on the path to refrigeration and freezing.

While I know a lot of technologies are overused, and capitalism twists them to disgusting ends, but refrigeration is a massive boon for making food last longer. Most American families just have ones far larger than they need and as such they end up wasting food instead of getting fresh food regularly and using it all up before it goes bad in the fridge. I personally enjoy a small fridge.

Also, freezers and refrigeration are an integral part of the medical sciences.

Anyway, personal opinion, this is pretty innocuous compared to like, jet travel between Seattle and Portland.

That’s absolutely why it’s being sold. I bet some high end bars just purchase ice like this in bulk. Not surprising they thought there would be a consumer market for fancy ice as well.

Only mildly weirder than what they did with Dianne Feinstein. These fucking people around them are god damned vultures, doesn’t matter the party. They will keep these people in office well beyond where their faculties are working at any capacity.

The fucking aides, pages, interns, consultants… Just everyone surrounding these elderly people are god damned vampires.

Like I know, fuck Mitch and send him packing to hell, but the breadth of this problem isn’t discussed nearly as much as we discuss elderly in positions of power in general. Donald Trump is far from the first and won’t be the last person in a position of power that they Weekend at Bernie’s the shit out of until the body stinks too badly because it’s become bloated and rotten.

Bitch McConnell
Mitch the Bitch
Moscow Mitch
Cocaine Mitch
Grim Reaper
Massacre Mitch
Midnight Mitch
Murder Turtle
The Turdle

May he rest in piss

AUGH they have adorable faces and cute teensy widdle fangs

Oh no I’ve heard of China’s 9-9-6 and such, but it’s definitely American political and social influence that is helping push Europe right.

I would namecheck China if I thought China was the one influencing them like this, but the American cultural and legal influence on Europe is plain to see.

Like examples such as when Sweden was influenced by US media companies to put the guys from The Pirate Bay in jail prison, but those same companies are more or less okay with making “deals” with AI companies despite the AI companies having done what The Pirate Bay admins did but by ten-thousand-fold if not more.

Anyway, yes, the rest of the world often has even worse options, but Europe (in general) has pretty good social and worker protections, and it’s not China exerting it’s influence to reduce worker protections in Europe. China seems happy just kicking back and letting the West make all the mistakes.

EDIT: typos, clarification

*sigh

*un7zips

*starts installing Brutal Legend

Does anyone know the name of this bat? I need to know.

I will hug him and pet him and squeeze him and I will name him George.

Hey Germany, stop adopting the worst aspects of US culture, thanks. We can tell you right the fuck now all this does is make everyone go to work sick and spread disease.

Signed,

US citizen with a third of a brain

Glad to hear!

People have forgotten because he turned out to be a sex pest…

But once upon a time Louis CK would get annoyed with piracy and sell copies of his new standup show at $5 with a no DRM copy of the file, just politely asking people to not pirate.

He made $5 million almost overnight which helped fund his foray into television with Louie which was on TV for five years.

This literally was the thing that took his career to the next level. Where he went from a comic with a pretty okay career to one with a massive career.

He used to do the same for other comedians, too. I bought a couple Todd Barry specials from his website the same way: $5, DRM-free media files.

I still have all those files backed up.

The only thing I don’t like about the word canal is that if you remove the C is spells anal! HA!

-Steven Gonville Toast

2024-2025: AI companies pour money and support into DJT leaving many of us perplexed given Silicon Valley’s history of being left-leaning.

Curtis Yarvin has been writing about his ideas since at least 2009, when I first heard of him and his “Dark Enlightement.” He’s the “philsophical” underpinning of Silicon Valley’s actual values and it was clear long, long before 2024.

He has the ear of people like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, JD Vance, and more.

From Wikipedia:

Yarvin’s ideas were influential among right-libertarians and paleolibertarians, and prominent investors like Thiel have echoed Yarvin’s project of seceding from the United States to establish tech-CEO dictatorships. Journalist Jason Wilson noted that Yarvin had “a serious intellectual influence on key figures in Donald Trump’s coming administration”. Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, an informal adviser to Donald Trump, has spoken in approval of Yarvin. Political strategist Steve Bannon has read and admired his work. Vice-president JD Vance also praised Yarvin in 2021, and said, drawing from his 2012 “Retire All Government Employees” talk, that “what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, and replace them with our people. And when the courts stop you, stand before the country and say, ‘The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.’”

I just updated last night to 2.7.5 ha

Real and based. If you get them on GOG, you can download offline installers with no DRM. My GOG collection isn’t as big as my Steam, but it’s also fairly significant as well. Heroic Launcher on Linux is sweet for GOG games (you just have to plan out wine prefix and directory structure to properly have updates install).

That’s quite a lot of peanut butter. Is that also like peanuts just dumped on the hood?

This both brutally cruel and absolutely hilarious. I can’t figure out if I would ground those kids or reward them for creativity and effort.

Who up heating they meat rn

You would think that’s what every parent would prefer…