Brett Knoss

@simpsons_DG They're booing, because it does't have a football in the groin.

"You truly are the king of kings!" "Excellent..."

@iowahawkblog This is nothing new. Look at the OSI vs TCP/IP fights in the 1980s.

The entire European tech industry appears to have been reduced to a bloated, self-appointed government commission issuing unenforceable regulations on the American tech industry

Europeans: we have applied for a 10 billion EU grant to establish planning protocols for the new Eurotech Centre slated to open in 2047 Americans: back the fucking car out of the garage, I got an idea

Why are blueberries the size or cherries? I'd like small berries.

@SubterraneMDNT @TrumpsWarCrimes @jackunheard True, he just looks good in Pathon, because he was hired as a technical advisor, and he thought George was right to smack a shell shocked soldier.

@TrumpsWarCrimes @BrettKnoss @jackunheard In her language have there been 11 world wars? This is a pathetic excuse for a rotten person. Omar is a dredge of society

Ilhan Omar saying “World War Eleven” is perfect content for SNL and yet they didn’t even touch it. Instead, hey mock an assassination attempt on Trump.

@EarthAnd_TheSun like 7up or ginger ale.

The fuck is a white soda

@HiddenYorkshire Lenny should have been institutionalized, I'm not sure if tdore's a greater meaning. Definitely better than The Grape of Wrath.

I've just read Of Mice and Men for the first time since high school and I'm going to be very woke for a moment because my reading of it has changed quite significantly since then. Yes, Lennie is just big and friendly and doesn't know his own strength and wouldn't hurt a fly etc etc but the whole plot - and audience sympathy - hinges on a physically intimidating, mentally disabled man repeatedly grabbing and holding onto women's clothes. Yes, we know he doesn't mean anything by it, he just wants to touch the purty clothing; but the women don't know that, and the audience is conditioned to sympathise with Lennie and not the women who are terrified by him. Curley's Wife doesn't even get a name, and she's a whore with red lipstick anyway. And it's not an isolated incident. Lennie did it at Weeds, which is what got him and George kicked out of there, and he did again to Curley's Wife. Now imagine that you're one of the women suddenly cornered by a hulking creature of a man who grabs you and doesn't let go and tells you how he loves your red dress, and there's nothing you can do to stop it. That's terrifying. That is where my locus of sympathy sits. Of Mice and Men is a complex book, but I find myself increasingly uncomfortable with the way the audience is conditioned to sympathise and associate with Lennie.

@mobanks10 @CheapSeats411 A lot of department stores owned radio and tv stations.

@CheapSeats411 Sears owned channel 7 at one point. WLS = world’s largest store

It’s hard to believe that at one time Sears was so big that they needed the tallest building in the world to hold their headquarters.

@DanielJHannan Europe needs a common free imigration system. No passportls, sign a registry, basic screuning for infectious disease.

Why do people make this journey? To live on £49.18 a week? Hardly. No, they come to Britain because they know that, when their asylum claim is eventually turned down, they are extremely unlikely to be deported.

@napolidopoli @0laribiwa It's a bit more complicated than that. If your cousins are closely related ie 4th, 5 th cousins for multiple generations, it goes up significantly, but yes the close cousins are serious.

@0laribiwa Never thought to hit the Targaryens with the calculator. The weird truth is once you get to your 6th cousin, the percentage is unbelievably low. Anything 5th and below is asking for trouble. In reality, Daemon and Rhaynera's kids should be way more fucked up.

Daenerys Targaryen’s inbreeding coefficient is 0.375. Charles II, the last Spanish Habsburg who was impotent, drooled, was mentally disabled, and could barely walk, had a coefficient of 0.254.

@allie__voss The best solution in to sell public lands.

Personally I think having bison there is pretty freaking cool (the hope is to re-wild them, and the group that owns them is insanely cool!), though it's understandable that farmers want the area to graze cattle instead Land is finite, it's tricky!

Headlines like this rely on you getting outraged because they know you don't have any context These are privately-owned bison that have had a federal grazing permit since 2022; he didn't randomly start beef with wild animals

@CXCarroll What about the machines at Wendy's that have a digital prompt? They could add a qr reader.

I think this is going to be universal amongst QSRs. Soda isn't "nearly free" anymore and many QSRs lose significant amount of money to customers getting "water" cups and filling up with soda.

@neil_chilson US should look at reforms made. y New Zealand.

America's farm policy is far more wasteful than anything going on in data centers.

@LeMangy @Spyk3O Do yoe mean Chernobyl? Or was this an active campaign?

@Spyk3O absolutely, it's like what the soviets did with the anti-nuclear movement but at least that had some rational basis you could point to

the anti-data center movement relies on people not knowing what data centers actually are

@LeMangy Is this a mine? Mines have a lot of lughts.

@socdemsam @levik49 @ALZavaldski @TwinkRegimer Both, but the people in hospitals were disabled, if not incapacitated.

@BrettKnoss @levik49 @ALZavaldski @TwinkRegimer Are you confusing the NHS with the BBC?

Why do people use these obviously copium metrics genuinely? Relative poverty? Homicide rate? HDI? Public debt? No one seriously believes these measure QoL do they?

@socdemsam @levik49 @ALZavaldski @TwinkRegimer Jimmy Saville

@BrettKnoss @levik49 @ALZavaldski @TwinkRegimer Wtf is the connection between the NHS and rape? 😐

@AbhyudayCv @RxflowR @benlandautaylor @SamoBurja Ecconomists are ignored because others can't stasd the fact that resorges aren't infinite, and their pet projects need to be cut.

@RxflowR @benlandautaylor @SamoBurja this is correct except all the ignored parts (reality) are deliberately chosen by them in order to preserve hierarchy and the status quo

Outsider: I have investigated this academic field and found that it is mostly fake. Insider: This essay adds nothing to the discourse. All of these so-called "problems" are discussed in Hamilton and Schwartz’s "Our Entire Field Is Mostly Fake" (2009). You absolute buffoon.

@HeerJeet Yeah, something tells me Russians didn't consider education policy important, at that time.

True story, after centuries of Romanov incompetence, the Czar was going to pull and all nighter and fix everything -- but then the revolution happened!

NHS FINGERPRINTED A DOCTOR FOR REPORTING A COLLEAGUE WHO WAS INJECTING DRUGS ON DUTY Dr Patricia Mills was an anaesthetist at West Suffolk Hospital. In 2017 she saw a colleague injecting himself with drugs while looking after patients. She raised the alarm. The NHS's response was to investigate her. Management hired handwriting experts and fingerprint analysts to work out who had been tipping off a grieving family about a potentially botched operation. They narrowed the suspect list down to seven doctors. Four of them had one thing in common: they had all previously raised concerns about the self-injecting colleague. Dr Mills was among them. She was off sick for six months. She said she thought she was going to lose a 30-year career. The drug-injecting doctor continued to practice for years after her original disclosure. When Dr Mills turned to the National Guardian's Office, the body specifically set up to protect NHS staff who speak up, she said its response was, in her words, literally useless. The CEO who ordered the fingerprinting resigned when it became public. An independent review in December 2021 fully exonerated Dr Mills. It called the fingerprinting incendiary and extremely ill-judged. It said the treatment she received verged on victimisation. It said her concerns were well-founded from the start. So to recap. Doctor raises a patient safety concern. Hospital spends public money trying to unmask her. She gets sick. The wrongdoer keeps working. The regulator does nothing. And three years later a review says yeah, she was right all along. Sorry about that. Sources: The Guardian, BBC @BBCNews, The Telegraph @Telegraph, Patient Safety Learning @PSLearning, NHS England independent review by Christine Outram, December 2021

@HughHoult @EffectKuleshov What about the Kurds?

@EffectKuleshov Well one is current... but yeah the Armenian genocide has been swept under the rugs as much as the Palestinian genocide will be in the future.

So glad you avoided eating the cuisine of a nation that commits war-crimes Wait…