Ohhh, oh no! We need your tourism toonies in Las Vegas! We had no idea just how much Canadians spent on American stuff like bourbon and vacations! Ohh no, we’re so sorry for those silly things we said, like threatening your sovereignty and being all condescending and dismissive.
Echoing your sentiment from the middle of America. Get fucked! Begging for visitors like that before doing anything to make amends, ugh.
Her potential voters have to suffer for her racist idiocy because that was the choice she made. Her beliefs, her decisions, and her actions took options away from a lot of people. That’s the job she’s applying for, one in which she makes those kinds of decisions for about 800k people. I wouldn’t hire her.
This only gets funnier every time I see it. Anybody got a line on some small, glow in the dark dinosaurs?
Seriously, who keeps doritos out of the hands of stoners?! It just isn’t right
Please don’t stop there. We need people to witness this and do like the boycotters abroad are doing.
It’s about bullying and exploiting other countries with really high tariffs.
It’s about our full support of Israel while they commit a genocide.
It’s about our failure to uphold the deal we made with Ukraine to get them to agree to nuclear disarmament.
It’s about deciding not to honor contracts made during the last administration, saying that they no longer apply, and allowing the people who benefited from USAID abroad (and tons of federal, formerly dependable paychecks at home) to fall off without even an acknowledgement of wrongdoing, while yelling that anybody who isn’t hand-over-fist greedy isn’t American.
I’ve been saying this since he first started campaigning: STOP GIVING HIM STUFF. HE GOES AWAY WHEN YOU STOP LISTENING TO HIM AND GIVING HIM YOUR STUFF.
Me too. It feels like some piece of the Universe slipping into just the right place.
2025 has had a lot of unexpected surprises!
It’s like they’re not even trying to bring others on board!
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/02/nx-s1-5442506/hard-to-accept-compliments-comic
This piece from National Public Radio (U.S.) helped me get more comfortable with accepting compliments by giving another perspective.
People complimenting you are giving you a little present without expecting (or even wanting) anything in return.
For years, my trained response was to smile and say thank you. It’s good enough in the moment and it leaves you free to ruminate on it later, but sometimes it’s enough to interrupt an anxiety spiral.
This post is causing some serious flashback to that asshole labmate who wouldn’t allow the phase contrast scope used for endospore counts to be serviced because he, the one out four who used it, “liked it better this way.” Just fucking do the proper maintenance on your goddamn equipment, this doesn’t need to be hard!
So are people at all other income levels. You just don’t hear about them as often.
The phone-aux concern is real. An old system like that is nice for decor if you like the look, but having a physical collection of music is so inconvenient when you’re used to streaming and mp3s, I fucking feel that.
If you do want one for the aesthetic, though, I’d recommend checking brick and mortar thrift stores or garage/estate sales. My nearby charity shop always has a few components stacked up on a shelf, same corner as the pandemic breadmakers, haha.
That was my dad, sorry. He was 100% the crabass who had the system and never let anybody touch it, and, worst of all, barely ever used it himself. It was just as fun being his daughter as it sounds. Plbbbt!
I went through this scenario reading that piece on new ways of calculating pi. Did you see that? Pretty cool nerd fact.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/string-theorists-accidentally-find-a-new-formula-for-pi/
Ew.
Ngl, I’m straight up excited to see what kinds of innovations we see for exploring the oceans with all the new energy and storage tech we’re developing. On the one hand, we’re doing it because we’re facing an ecological hellscape; on the other, it’s really exciting to be one of the people who gets to see what we do and where we take it!
That’s a really fair concern. I hope I get to go there someday, and I’m looking forward to doing it with an eye towards good ecological stewardship and responsibility. And not in a floating petri dish, I’m a straight up germaphobe
Ever since the first strangers showed up to volunteer!
Hit pop song plays while every culture brings its best fried dough and desserts game. Hell yeah, world peace could be so simple