The "Deep State" is not a secret shadow government. At least that's not what serious people mean when they say it.
The "Deep State" is the Vogon Empire - the unnavigable mileau of bureaucratic red tape in which what should work, doesn't, and in which the unelected permanent
@chadfelixg
There's no reason your computer localization couldn't put your country at the top of the list based on your IP address. I don't know why this isn't a thing.
@ChrisMartzWX
I'm not a climate scientist or even an armchair meteorologist, but what changed my mind about AGW was trying to write a paper in support of it for a writing class in 1996. That's when I started learning about cherry-picked data and the history of Chicken Little environmentalism,
@thatstarwarsgrl
Aren't orcs "made" and all male though? I know in the Silmarillion they are said to be corrupted elves, but in other works they were made of stone or slime by Morgoth.
But the key word here is "corrupted." What do the corrupted minds of elves or men know of family values and
@jcrprojectsllc
@thereal_SnS
Starving soldiers are less effective soldiers. But you're talking about desperate, starving, untrained folks with desk jobs and not so much as a garden to tend outside.
You watch too much television.
@Alphafox78
I guarantee he has either ruined it or increased the price for everyone who comes in after him. I bet there's even new signage and probably a spoken disclaimer when you are seated now.
I hate food waste and content creators who waste food.
And he had to trespass in their
@I_Am_JohnCullen
@JG_CSTT
That is absolutely not a bullet. It's not even slowed down and you can track it with your eyes. You can't even do that with a slug from a slingshot.
We can't let the attempted assassination get memory-holed by the MSM and the DNC machine, but this is not helping and just looks
@uhohitsevans
@moonyeezylegend
@crazyclipsonly
I was going to say, isn't the job of the security officer to protect the liability of the property or business? He caused a liability. But I will add they are both wrong. Kid was told, but that wasn't the way for the officer to handle it.
@HazelAppleyard_
I never had an issue with LGBT+ rights until the boundaries were erased, and TRAs started standing up for folks like the pedo in the example and refuse to exclude any claim of queerness. I support all the LGBT+ folks who do draw that line in the sand.
For those other folks, the
@reddit_lies
Huh, a little over 1 new penis per month for 7 years.
I can't think of a single guy friend, gay or straight, that had this kind of body count in that timespan.
I guess that's not true. I briefly met this one guy who was a HS friend of one of my closest friends, who had a
@TheRealDudja
Pizza Hut.
Liittle Caesars has cheap pizza ideal for college students and those on a shoe string budget.
Papa John's has the garlic butter.
Dominoes has the superior thin crust.
@DefiantLs
That telling a protester, "I'm speaking" is not a leadership quality you should highlight, and that Stephen King may be suffering from senility for thinking this helps him or Harris.
"I'm speaking" is triggering for anyone who's ever been told to "sit down and shut up" by an
@lporiginalg
Unpopular opinion, men who shave their chests fall into 2 categories. They are either gay or they are narcissists who have checked whether "ball ironing" is available near them.
Men who wax their chests only fit one of those categories.
And there's nothing wrong with that...
@HazelAppleyard_
My wife would have disowned anyone in either of our families if someone tried to upstage our wedding to make it their "special day" instead. If you want a piece of the action, we'll send you your portion of the bill... and then never speak to you again.
@reddit_lies
@king_of_shish
I lost one friend who was immunocompromised to Covid. She had rheumatoid arthritis. And she might have been okay, but over the last 20 years due to pain and all the other horrid shit that comes with RA, she'd become incredibly obese, which just made her even higher risk.
Even
@jk_rowling
I don't know why I find this so funny, but this appears to be the most vulnerable post you've ever made. I guess it's just an odd juxtaposition compared to your typical courage.
@caitoz
I still believe war is evil despite knowing how much different life would be without the perpetual US war machine being used to enforce economic supremacy.
Most people don't even seem to realize that's the purpose of most of our warmongering - bullying someone who has something
@PeterSweden7
Bolshevism 2.0.
I wish I remembered where I read it today because I'd give credit, but Bolshevism literally means "the majority" and their publication, Pravda, literally means "truth." So they were playing word games all the way back then too. Their opposition were called
@eyeslasho
It's everything I hate about Grammarly and why I don't use it.
It strips the author's voice and homogenizes all writing. Likewise, it creates the same tone that makes it obvious when someone cuts and pastes ChatGPT responses.
Imagine if you did that to Hawthorne or Salinger
@ChrisMartzWX
When it's over 80 and sunny where I live, the parking lot surface temperature is over 100F as taken with a laser thermometer, and the air temperature in the parking lot is only slightly lower. If I walk off the blacktop onto the grass, the temperature drops by 20 degrees.
It
@Grummz
...PP forgets all the US developed military game franchises that are sponsored by the CIA and Pentagon (and pressure from same to paint them in a good light in film and television). Pot, meet kettle.
@briantylercohen
@jhalifax
That's cool, but they need to produce over 100% of what they need and be able to store the excess for days when they can't produce. And energy storage is a problem that isn't being discussed. Wars will be fought over the lithium needed and there still won't be enough.
@noam_dworman
@LeeCZ73
Class was tried. Subtle hints given. And it's been denials from the captured media and tribalists the whole way. Even before the DNC made him the nominee back in 2020, Democrats themselves pointed it out and were called ableist and ageist, told to "vote blue no matter who."
@smalls2672
Fishing in a privately owned and stocked lake or pond without permission is generally considered poaching in the US.
It is not always easier to ask forgiveness than to ask for permission.
But I'll withhold judgement of who's wrong here until there are more facts.
My
@ClownWorld_
While everyone is whinging at the political message itself, I'm over here recalling that tax-exempt status for churches hinges on, among other things, not doing politics.
"Not Permitted: Partisan Speech
Churches and other 501(c)(3) organizations have been prohibited from
@DesigningMind
@BGatesIsaPyscho
I bought some avocadoes like that a couple years back. They never got soft. I threw them out after 2 weeks and they were still hard as a rock.
Ironic that all other avocadoes I've bought turn to mush in 48 hours.
@JackPosobiec
Yes. Stagnant water often sits on top of rotting vegetation. That composting matter produces methane. I don't know if that's what this is, but I've seen it many times in non-polluted areas.
@dom_lucre
@CaptainMorganTN
They're pissed because they were all sitting scattered around the stadium and the organizers made them all move and sit together. 😂
I volunteered at a well-attended Bernie rally once, and despite the attendance, they asked people to relocate to where the camera would actually
@symaeon
@ThebestFigen
Yup. 1 teacher per 4 kids under 2 years in my state. It's a good ratio, but toddlers don't follow instructions. Hell, they don't even have group cohesion. If they weren't tethered, they'd be going in 7 different directions.
But we usually ran them ragged in the playground and
@Okairo_Uzuha
@Grummz
I notice you bitching about
@Grummz
instead of highlighting journalists who do exactly what you're asking. A bit hypocritical, don't you think?
If you want a different tone of journalism, write it yourself. No one's stopping you but you.
@Kronykal
@Teridax
And until Trump, that was de facto how it worked anyway. It wasn't until this lawfare against a former president running for a second term that it became an issue for the first time.
@JHartley2
@TheQuartering
@Twitter
Only in 2023 could it be considered harassment to post stills of a model who auditioned to be in music videos, signed a release, and got paid. MTV better watch out now!
@Alphafox78
Nobody ate that pot pie with that much salt. If you can find someone who tolerates that amount of salt on their tongue, show me the evidence. This woman is just another food-wasting "content creator."
This is not a serious person, and certainly not someone who feeds other
@Prolotario1
I sounded the alarm about this when my (at that time) employer suddenly mandated us to replace all our security software with CrowdStrike in 2019 after a merger (that turned into a semi-hostile takeover when the intended CEO was pushed out at the 11th hour in a back-room deal to
@J_N_Osterberg
@ChrisMartzWX
Even the Sahara had been lush before, though, and it will be again someday. And there is plenty of evidence Antarctica has been at a difference latitude and ice-free.
@reddit_lies
This sounds like a 12-year-old who just took intro to psychology/sociology and then got high with his college freshman lesbian sister and had an "epiphany."
@InternetH0F
You need to hear the whole story. She was stabbing herself and couldn't stop when police arrived, and that was after she had called the police, iirc. It was the testimony of the police who arrived first on the scene that led to this lenient sentence.
@Bill29487414
@MarinaMedvin
Because it's Madison, a city with a mayor that supported defundimg the police and thinks you stop people from driving 30mph over the speed limit by lowering it. Now they drive 40mph over the speed limit and violent criminals are frequently let off light.
@crsn891
@reddit_lies
@king_of_shish
An ironic bit of trivia, we used to play Magic: The Gathering in HS and she had this really obnoxious black deck I could seldom beat.
It was a Plague Rat deck.
@KalebPrime
Since someone else's post of the purity law is marked spam, here:
The Reinheitsgebot (German pronunciation: [ˈʁaɪnhaɪtsɡəboːt] ⓘ, literally "purity order") is a series of regulations limiting the ingredients in beer in Germany and the states of the former Holy Roman Empire. The
@Scottgas2
@ChrisMartzWX
Teachers need to grade a paper based on the quality of its sources, not adherence to a narrative. If I write such a paper, it has a bibliography, it addresses other arguments.
People roll their eyes at "do your own research" but every science or writing class I've ever taken
@reddit_lies
"Have you ever noticed that movies that feature high schools don't have pregnant teens in them unless the plot is about teen pregnancy, like 'Juno?' It's like directors don't want to waste run time on characters that aren't important to the plot."
That shower thought was so
@HazelAppleyard_
So was their account suspended because of this post admitting they are a pedo, or for some other reason? I expected it to be private, but was pleasantly surprised they're suspended.
@justice_Tyr22
I'm more impressed that the bumper is intact, since it appears she hit it hard enough to ride the bollard up and slip it under the frame.
Probably a panic move, like folks who hit the gas instead of the brake and drive into buildings from a parking spot.
@crit_architect
@HazelAppleyard_
I had this discussion from a couple of different angles when I worked in healthcare.
The one that stuck out was regarding pain meds, if you feel euphoric when you take them, you're on too high a dose.
From my perspective, euphoria leads to addiction. Our patients (on
@9mm_smg
I mean, the video of the attack is bad enough. But if you followed the court case, you also get to see all the shit he's pulled while incarcerated. He's been FAFOing in jail.
Maybe he needs to be in a mental institution instead of prison, but he does not belong in public
@jk_rowling
I am not a fan of arachnids, but I try to be tolerant of small ones and prevent my wife seeing them and have tried to learn about friendly spiders. My brother has a pet tarantula which I still refuse to meet though.
@malteselove67
@jimmy_dore
She has the legal right to do what she did. She very clearly was not evading the police, and I wouldn't want to pull over where there's a barrier to the right either. And I have done this same thing and then pulled off a busy street into a well-lit parking lot to avoid causing
@reddit_lies
Forgive me if I'm being naive, but I thought being punk meant you didn't give a shit what anyone else thought and were militantly anti-establishment.
@reddit_lies
Masturbating in public while dressed as a woman at 3am makes you the creepy criminal skulking in the dark...
And the other people in the sub are right. Telling "trans" people like this not to jerk off in public is a really low bar, and it is, sadly, refreshing to see them
@trendoshi
@TheMarcitect
I work in fintech and I don't think this is the case.
I can find you 33TB of completely useless (to you) data, that even if you had the decryption key it would be meaningless.
The only thing that would get the fed to pay up is if they were actually at risk of having their
@TheEmperorisNa1
@jackhunter74
@michaeljknowles
Then prove under the law that the Church of Satan isn't a religion, or redefine what constitutes a religion. Otherwise the rule of law has no meaning, and that is arguably far worse.
@Grummz
@Adobe
The more you use Gimp and provide feedback, the better it will get. They used to introduce features long before photoshop, and I suspect with a larger userbase submitting feature requests, they can do it again.
@bostronix
@eyeslasho
@noobestjohn
@cremieuxrecueil
@PaoloShirasi
Correct, but if your socio-political view is that everyone is born with a blank slate and is thus equal, but you ignore the scientific fact that iq differences exist based in race, then your premise is flawed. You can extrapolate from there why iq is important to discuss since
@madbutwright
@AniseNot
This is exactly the sort of thing my emotionally abusive, malignant-narcissist, sister-in-law (but actually, sister-in-common-law) would do. So while most men might not, I certainly do.
Most recently, she said my mother could not put her child's name (because the child was