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Please do not take this thread to seriously. I’m mostly engaging in idle bullshitting out of boredom and a desire for engagement

NY, Chicago, LA, and the fourth rotates like a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council

Average Ottoman campaign in the Balkans: 500000 strong Ottoman army meets one man with 1000 loyal guards and some random sellswords in a forest grove – 99% of the Ottoman army is slaughtered, "it's the greatest defeat of Islamic forces up to that point", the Pope strips naked…

Normally when a police officer is killed in a high profile event with racial or culture war overtones, large rightwing Twitter accounts will post tributes to the fallen cop. I wonder if this is going to happen this time.

neighbor: hey do you want to help us drive off some Native American hunters? john brown: how about I fucking kill you

Since we're as far from Austin Powers as Austin Powers was from the 60s, a reboot should be about a 90s guy getting unfrozen.

“Fire code is WRITTEN IN BLOOD!” No Richard it’s not. It’s written in suburban fire marshal adding highly profitable requirements for an incestuous group of companies employing other retired fire marshals, w/ no obligation to consider cost, downstream effects, or prove efficacy.

People (led by the media) really went from "Joe Biden is corrupt bc something something Hunter Biden (paintings)" to just accepting the most blatant, open corruption in history with a total shrug.

Seems bad, but the M&A guys who were willing to sell out liberal democracy to get Lina Khan fired do deserve this spiritually

nothing prepared me for how depressing actual casinos are.

somewhere in the Kremlin in 1980 a Soviet apparatchik must have absolutely lost it when he found out the rubles being funneled for decades to French comrades to topple their govt and exit NATO instead went into the construction of A Variety of Exotic Spaces to Nail Your Secretary

requiring Waymos to have drivers does not go far enough. every time you hit play on Spotify, you must pay a live band to perform the song in front of you. every time you use a dishwasher, you must pay a human dishwasher to wash your dishes for you.

The Palestinian Authority agrees with me.

Israelis: "This is our land!" Palestinians: "This our land!" Serbs:

It makes sense to me that so many of the biggest antisemites on this app are men who got traumatic brain injuries for a living.

Any guesses what intended major scores has the highest average *reading and writing* SAT scores? Amusingly, it's math/stats majors. Similarly, they also have the highest average MCAT scores, the highest LSAT scores, and the highest mean GPA.

When I read things like this, I realize: democrats need to recapture the disaffected Trump voters by supporting single payer health care

If she were a Republican, the right wingers would be slobbering all over her about who awesome it is that “she pisses off liberals”. It’s hard to understand why the right dislikes her other than the fact she’s a Dem.

and there are no protests. he and his ministers speeches are not interrupted. nobody is conducting die ins outside the white house. The university campuses were quiet, and will remain so this fall the movement got their guy elected and went home

I have a friend: thin, athletic build, phd in mathematics, built his own cabin in Montana, prolific writer, loves tinkering, but women don’t seem interested I don’t get it

One of my core high school memories is taking a class on the Rwandan Genocide that ended with a visit to the Rwandan embassy in D.C. There, we were given a long, plodding presentation on investment opportunities in Rwanda before being politely sent on our way