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this can’t be real

He put them together at the kids table that doesn’t exist I’m fucking crying

its easy to make fun of this (and i think we should) but its also important to note the description of this new department that trump has given

[transcript: "together, these two wonderful americans will pave the way for my administration to dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies - essential to the 'save america' movement," trump wrote. "i look forward to elon and vivek making changes to the federal bureaucracy with an eye on efficiency and, at the same time, making life better for all americans."]

to be clear: trump is planning to create a new department whose purpose is literally to deregulate and defund government oversight. this will lead to corporations having greater freedom to fuck over consumers while making more money, and he is putting two billionaires in charge of it.

sure, maybe this is just a ploy to keep them quiet. giving them the illusion of power in exchange for backing him. but lets not forget all the regulations trump cut during his last term

which has directly led to the constant recalls of consumer goods and foodstuffs over the past several years. the recent e coli outbreak at mcdonalds? the boars head listeria recall? these are the products of deregulation. getting rid of laws and standards that protect consumers by making sure money hungry corporations dont cut corners.

the funny name is a smokescreen. keep your eye on these fuckers.

Can you guys give me a cute animal and a d&d class?

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just overheard my wife spelling something on the phone and i shit you not saying the words “E as in Eeyore” i am on my hands and knees wailing screaming crying pleading and begging people to learn the NATO phonetic alphabet

like the reason this exists is because none of the words sound like each other, which means that even with a terrible signal both parties should be able to clearly understand the words being spelled

i am dead serious that i believe this should be taught in school

And the necessity of knowing it as a civilian is EXCEEDINGLY low. You have clearly different sounding words for radio because radio reception is crap.

You DON'T need to obsess over this on the phone so long as the word is common and identifiable, which is typically is.

P as in Pizza. X as in xylophone. N as in Nancy. M as in Melon.

It's perfectly fine.

E as in Eeyore is GREAT actually because the person on the other end undoubtedly understood the word. And that's exactly all you need. One single (highly replaceable) phonetic alphabet is not the be-all end-all, and if you're wailing screaming crying over someone achieving perfectly good results with any of a million other options, you need a chill pill.

"My wife did something successfully, but not in my my secret favorite way, so I'm here to say that it's WRONG just because I said so!"

IF YOU PLAY SWTOR BUT AREN'T A SUBSCRIBER:

LOG INTO EVERY SWTOR CHARACTER YOU DIDN'T PLAY THIS YEAR, BEFORE GAME UPDATE 7.6 IS RELEASED, OR RISK LOSING THEIR NAMES!

This was announced during the 7.6 Livestream. Per Swtorista, 7.6's release ought to happen around December 10.

REMEMBER: Log into each character. Simply logging into the game isn't enough.

The way Preferred status works, one can only activate 20 of the characters in a server. As I don't think one can deactivate them to access the rest, I fear the only way to protect more than 20 characters per server is subscribing for a single month at the very least 😒.

(If anyone knows better than this, please post about it 😐)

King Frederick of Sweden received a lion as a gift and was so proud of him, that in 1731, when he died, the king wanted him preserved, but there was no taxidermist available, so he began to decay. They finally found one who likely had never seen a lion before, so this is what the king received back. To this day, King Frederik's Lion can be seen at Gripsholm Castle, a former royal residence that is now a museum in Mariefred, Södermanland, Sweden.

The taxidermist based his work on a Lion of Medieval Art.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_of_Gripsholm_Castle

Hey, the ACLU is getting people to send letters to your Reps to have Congress pass the No Kings Act.

This act would make constitutional amendments to ensure that even sitting presidents are held liable for their actions. That NOBODY is above the law.

Their goal is 150k messages sent and at the time of writing this they're about 2.1k off from that goal!

ACLU gives you a prefilled message that you can edit to send to make the process easier, and will send it out for you.

This only takes a few minutes!

Not unreality, not a joke: I have never posted such a thing before here but- Please do this one for whatever good it might result in.

for those who have been inactive from swtor for a long time and don't have an active subscription. just a headsup as confirmed from the 7.6 livestream highlight:

devs are going to do a name purge on inactive characters. So log on to your game before 7.6 drops.

'wah wah everywhere is falling to the right wing the whole world is doomed' literally like 6 months ago we were talking about how there was a trend in countries getting rid of their right wing governments. poland at the end of last year, france voted in a unified centre left/left alliance, even the UK finally got rid of the tories after 15 years (right wing splitting be damned, it still happened). outside of europe, bangladesh removed a dictator in like 2 seconds, india may have reelected their Evil Guy but on a DISTINCTLY reduced majority, theres been queer rights successes in thailand, with gay marriage set to be legal by 2025, and thereve been positive court cases on it in japan. and this is just stuff i vaguely remember hearing about. im sure theres more if you care to look for anything aside from more reasons to make yourself miserable

the US has a distinct effect on everyone, so this won't be fun for anyone (least of all its population. sorry guys), and there ARE a lot of people sliding into right wing extremism, but presenting this like its an unchallenged worldwide phenomenon is inaccurate, its damagingly bleak, and all it does is encourage despair and apathy. you DO have political power, and you shouldnt forget that just because of bad election results and the media's desperation to make you lose hope

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Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts

Your move, rest of the media.

This is a good start. Keep going, decent people of the world. Leave that fascist pile of shit behind and watch it die.

Menswear guy’s ability to own is so powerful he even owns himself.

PARKS AND REC 7.09

#I’m gonna say something mean: it says a lot that the concept of student loan forgiveness completely dropped off the face of the conversation #around this time last year #because single issue non voters found a more righteous thing to justify their nonvotes

notes from @carsonjonesfiance pass peer review

You would not believe the ridiculous responses I’ve gotten for this. It really upset some single issue non voters.

Single issue non-voters maliciously struck again.

Reblog and put in the tags if you can remember where you got the shirt you’re currently wearing.

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