I think during the Cold War they moved to support NGO Mad Scientists instead of governments.

They work for Palantir.

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Realizing I should walk into an airport thinking “this will take longer than I think, there will be problems,” and booking longer layover times has made my travel experience so much easier.

If someone lets out the one that kills 90% from the lab the survivors will be hunter gatherers in the ruins of our society.

Smallpox. Even if tech levels returned to Roman levels and we lived in filth, it’d still be a golden age without that disease stalking and killing and maiming us all.

The Inflation Reduction Act was the single most aggressive investment in rural America since the New Deal.

Direct investment, high wage jobs, energy security, you name it. It was all there.

Too bad it happened 200 years ago and all the records of it are lost forever.

I hated that dude. Always screaming in all caps if his roads weren’t fully funded. I much preferred the videos in the original.

“That’s exactly what a [their sign] would say” in a tone of sorrow rather than anger.

Geez, stop being so judgy. Who amongst us hasn’t needed the help of our local SWAT team to get up in the morning and face going into work?

Locked in his office, Pete Hegseth pours a sixth bourbon, giggles, and turns another page of the Atlantic.

everything makes more sense when you realize that the average american isn’t very smart

I think, for at least a cycle or two, the shelf life of a lot of these dweebs has passed.

Not going to Texas Roadhouse for a few months in 2020 turned half the GOP into Nazis. Imagine what gas lines or beef rationing would do to them.

Two terrier mix dogs, both brown and white, rest in an outdoor couch in the sun.

Just a little reminder that while you are hard at work at your laptop, your dogs are doing this.

I have laughed about this for almost a full day and probably damaged several relationships forwarding it.

Worth it.

He is so gleeful at an opportunity to take potshots at the pope. He comes alive. 😂

The entire conservative aesthetic is “someone said I can’t do something so I will throw a tantrum and do it anyway.”

If someone told Tomi not to bathe in battery acid she’d release a line of battery acid bath bombs and mid-life crisis’d men with lifted trucks would melt in their jacuzzis.

Men who have never left the shallow end of the kiddie pool thinking their surface insights apply to the diving section.

Usha got pregnant with that fourth kid *strategically*.

So did JD get polling back that convinced him he wouldn't get away with dumping his wife for Erika and that's why Erika stood him up or what.

That was one of the first books I bought with my own money after getting a job in high school. The one about the lady with soft arms and the aside about horses trapped in their trailer as the zombies ate their way down the interstate still haunts me.

I have always giggled whenever someone uses “jams” as an article of clothing. I rather suspect a story about the Hamburgler burgling burgers while wearing jams would reduce me to fits of hysterical laughter.

When I was a kid we used to mock liberal Mormons that would say Gordon Hinckley was a prophet “except for x and y things.” Then as an adult I watched conservative Mormons do the same thing with Russell Nelson and Covid vaccines.

Politics matters more than religion for most Americans in the pews.

LOOK AT THOSE LAYERS!

My dad tried to tell me that Trump was like the Jaredite king “who did justice to the people but not unto himself,” and HATED my exasperated response that it wasn’t a license to vote for the immoral man, but a warning to the immoral man that public achievement is nothing without personal morals.

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Maybe when he said he aced those cognitive tests with a doctor he was just talking to himself in a mirror.

Q: Did you post that picture of yourself depicted as Jesus Christ?

TRUMP: I did post it and I thought it was me as a doctor and had to do Red Cross. Only the fake news could come up with that one.