#BREAKING
: The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, ruled that the Environment Protection Agency does not have the authority to mandate carbon emissions from existing power plants, dealing a major blow to efforts to combat climate change.
this is like the least important thing but the text of that Idaho anti-trans law mentions the “removing of any otherwise healthy and non-diseased body part or tissue” which would make haircuts and clipping your fingernails a felony
it has been pointed out to me that this would also make things like organ donation illegal, because donating a kidney or part of your liver or whatever DEFINITELY induces a "profound morphological change" in your body!
technically the bill states it only applies to things that cause "profound morphological changes and/or transient or permanent infertility" and like. okay. two things here
1) what constitutes a "profound morphological change". a haircut can change how you look!
god the fertility thing is so stupid. permanent infertility is, at least, pretty easy to determine. but transient infertility? you'd need to do fucking lab tests. and you'd need to prove that they *were* fertile *before*, which is a WEIRD THING TO DO TO **CHILDREN**
lmao okay another thing that was just pointed out to me: giving birth would be illegal under this law (because the placenta is removed in the process), as would getting pregnant (causes significant morphological changes AND temporary infertility)
and like i know none of this matters and it's just an excuse to get a bill on the books to do a genocide against trans people but i just can't look past how it's also *incredibly stupid*
@cafreiman
so ignoring the fact that gdp means nothing and measuring it over two thousand years is insane, are you telling me the Roman Empire at its height had a $0 gdp
@ColbyDugger5
@floridamanaustn
@petfindernames
my parents always kept the thermostat at 68f in the winter. when I moved out on my own, I treated myself to the frankly luxurious level of heat that is… 70f
@suhmoyed
@atomicthumbs
was always extremely confused by the constant jokes about disco being bad because like. have you ever listened to disco. have you HEARD stayin' alive
@FoxRunTime
@atomicthumbs
bare UVC bulbs are *extremely* dangerous. regular blacklights (which use UVA or B) are not dangerous like these are, these ones will literally cook you alive (very slowly but fast enough that it literally gives your eyes sunburns)
want to grab every well-meaning commenter on this website and shake them by the shoulders and yell "SWAMP COOLERS DO NOT WORK IN THE CLIMATE OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST"
@realRevoLatina
@smallestslime
lol i bought a house about a year ago and the previous homeowner did the same thing except it leaked enough to collapse my whole kitchen ceiling
@internetofshit
"wow these smart lightbulbs are glitchy and insecure i'm gonna make a twitter to make fun of them"
<three years later>
"my plank of wood is being used as part of a botnet to take down Google and mine dogecoin"
@poppy_haze
@Jackapedia_
once i got pulled out of line and had all my shit exhaustively searched by the TSA because i had jerky in my backpack and the drug sniffing dogs lost their mind when i got close to them
@mikurubaeahina
oh absolutely 100%, i just... it's so obviously nonsense on its face. in any functional society this would get thrown out immediately on both moral and technical grounds
@viragocunt
@atomicthumbs
not necessarily, as they're uncoated, they are actually cheaper to make than regular fluorescent bulbs. sometimes you can get them for cheap in bulk as a result
@postingtwink
@atomicthumbs
if we abolish the police, who will show up to accidentally detonate 5,000 pounds of fireworks in the middle of a residential area
@jesawyer
me playing outer wilds and realizing you can walk all the way around the circumference of a planet in under a minute: "well this breaks my immersion. plants tend to be thousands of kilometers in circumference"
@JennyENicholson
i feel so bad for the people who worked for like five years developing the game and then JK rowling just went full terfmode and burned the brand reputation to the ground
@emilianbold
@sleepygoblin3
@Hellotherexu
okay. since you apparently need this spelled out: Twitter isn’t special in this regard and all h1b visa holders are essentially held hostage by the company they work for, that’s why tech companies love the h1b visa so much
@mollygos
<approaching dagoth ur without Slicer and Mixing in your inventory> Welcome, Nerevar! But to this place where pastries are made, why have you come unprepared?
@shaun_vids
honestly i'd say that's really only her character in book 1 and in every book after that her character is Mom who just also happens to read books. every female JK Rowling character eventually ends up as "Mom"
watching hbomberguy's rwby video and learning for the first time that rwby is 1) not an anime, and 2) made by the fucking halo machinima guys???????? what the fuck
@jeffreeeeeeeeee
@TheQuartering
soy has *phyto*estrogens. as in, plant estrogen. as in, it does not do what estrogen does in humans. however, you know what IS packed full of estrogen that can do things in humans? milk lmao
@emilianbold
@sleepygoblin3
@Hellotherexu
the difference, of course, is most tech companies don’t really go out of their way to advertise that fact quite as hard as twitter is right now because most companies tend to avoid going “hey want to do a bunch of unpaid work for a guy that hates you? say yes or you’re fired”
@NoraReed
somebody actually did a study once that proved exactly this, I can’t remember the exact numbers but it was a very small group of people setting up thousands of sockpuppets
@JennyENicholson
it's really cool how this person has the unilateral, unquestioned authority to murder me if she gets nervous, and also reacts like this to a drive through having to prepare her food fresh
@JennyENicholson
chuck e cheese and i would make the play structure the area of a football field and 60 feet vertical. will NOT attempt to retrieve any children who perish within.
lady knocked on my door this morning and was like "hey, we're here because of rising crime and violence in the neighborhood. do you ever think there will come a time when we're not afraid?" and buddy that's the wrong tactic to take at me lol
@emilianbold
@sleepygoblin3
@Hellotherexu
that is why people are calling out twitter right now: because it is an extremely egregious and highly visible instance of the systemic problem. get it now
@Saberspark
@JennyENicholson
the lion king is deeply problematic for promoting the idea of an anti-democratic benevolent monarchy to impressionable children,
when i worked at fred meyer we once had a captain america balloon become neutrally bouyant and float like this all throughout the store, and it was at like 10:45 pm so nobody stopped it. we all were just dying watching it meander through the aisles
@NoraReed
I think it was specifically UK terfs, something like 200 people with like 20 alts each, which they uncovered because they wild all post the same thing at the same time
They always say like “if you smell rotten eggs, check for a gas leak!” but the problem is I have never smelled a rotten egg. no idea what that smells like
@JivemasterJ
@bloodberry_tart
the world design also sucked, though. the dc subways? nightmare. and, my number 1 complaint, in 200 years, nobody ONCE thought to like. sweep out their house. not just live in piles of trash. game looks like it's set morel like 5 years after the bomb fell than 200