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These people are so fucking stupid lol. You and your loser family are more than welcome to pile into the family sedan and drive down to the 7-11 and pick a movie from the Redbox in the parking lot if you want.
Paul Anleitner@PaulAnleitner
If Pizza Hut can return, then we can resurrect Blockbuster. And we should. While Netflix made things more “convenient” we lost something irreplaceable: The ritual of going to a place with your family or friends to choose a story together. That experience was special.
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Charlie's Sandwich Shoppe South End 1978. (Barbara Alper/Getty Images)
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People are unironically protesting AI data centers with AI slop.
Everything is so stupid right now.
Polymarket@Polymarket
NEW: First renderings of Kevin O’Leary’s 60-building, 7,500,000,000-watt Utah data center project have been revealed.
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Trying to kill the site.
Culture Crave 🍿@CultureCrave
Unverified accounts on Twitter (X) now have a daily limit of 50 posts and 200 replies
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"Make it illegal for health care professionals to provide someone younger than 18 with medical care for a gender transition"
It was asked in October 2023 and October 2025.
And it looks like opinion has moved just slightly in the liberal direction.
Biggest shift? Boomers.
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@tracewoodgrains @GAMPbian My recollection is he initially supported her transition including puberty blockers until she became a communist and hostile to him.
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it's old news by now but it's still extremely ugly to me that Elon says this about his very-much-alive child because he's unhappy she's trans
even if you see it as, like, your kid converting to a religion you oppose, they're still your kid
not a dead child, a deadbeat dad.
Elon Musk@elonmusk
@cb_doge The woke mind virus killed my son
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Mayor Quimby, you are well-known, sir, for your lenient stance on crime.
But suppose for a second that your house was ransacked by thugs, your family tied up in the basement with socks in their mouths!
You try to open the door, but there's too much blood on the knob-
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The first known aerial photo of New York — taken by James A. Hart (from a hot air balloon) in 1906.
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Among white evangelicals, here's how much the Republicans have gained by level of attendance:
2008 vs 2024
Never: 36% -> 63% (+27)
Seldom: 48% -> 70% (+22)
Yearly: 55% -> 68% (+13)
Monthly: 64% -> 76% (+12)
Weekly: 72% -> 78% (+6)
Weekly+: 77% -> 85% (+8)
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@CathyYoung63 People were upset about a Spanish actor playing Desi Arnaz:
hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-f…
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Or -- not limiting it to white villains -- to play Abraham Lincoln or Harriet Beecher Stowe in a Civil War epic.
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
These are all biopics about historical figures whose racial identity is central to the story. By the same token, you couldn’t cast a black actor to play De Klerk in a Mandela movie.
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@mattyglesias People complained about a Spanish actor playing Desi Arnaz:
hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-f…
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Yes, you could remake Crimson Tide with a white executive officer on the submarine but you can’t remake Glory with a black actor playing Robert Gould Shaw or the story would be incomprehensible.
Cathy Young 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱@CathyYoung63
Or -- not limiting it to white villains -- to play Abraham Lincoln or Harriet Beecher Stowe in a Civil War epic.
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These are all biopics about historical figures whose racial identity is central to the story.
By the same token, you couldn’t cast a black actor to play De Klerk in a Mandela movie.
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@GAMPbian It can get blueer but actually being blue in a presidential election is not happening in a 90% electorate.
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It turns out that flying squirrels live in most of the continental US, but you almost never see them because they are 100% nocturnal.
I learned this recently because as I knocked down a dead tree in my backyard a family of squirrels flew out and I thought I was going insane.
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@algore_rhythms And frankly they do not look any different from Turks
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