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Nationalize the oil companies and use profits to transition to greener energy

Imagine playing a chess game against a fascist who sets fires to distract you and swipes your pieces when you aren't looking. Why the hell would you worry about some overwrought sense of sportsmanship when you can beat them in 4 moves?

Win the game, that's why you're there

There are no bonus points for playing a longer or closer game; The opportunity exists for every player to make the same moves; the rules are what they are.

If you don't learn to defend against it you're going to keep losing in the same way. If you opt not to use it to win, you're a fool.

Over the past weekend my son played in a chess tournament and 2 of his 3 victories came via the Scholar's Mate. The game was over in 4 moves.

At first blush it almost doesn't seem fair, or it doesn't truly represent a genuine victory, or on some level is bad sportsmanship.

OTOH a win is a win

My nighttime photo of Hot Wheel City, a local rim shop covered in bright red and blue LED light designs, with a mattress laying in the parking lot, reflecting the red and blue lights so much it almost looks like the mattress itself is glowing.

If anybody misplaced their mattress, it’s at the West 8 Mile location of Hot Wheel City.

Me and my homies all love to casually weep through every episode of our new favorite show The Trauma Room

Did not expect pop tart frosting to burn me so.

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I just watched it last night and I kept thinking like, "oh it's a mirror of the other one. Sometimes things work out."

But things did not work out.

A wide puffy vegetarian omelet leaking cheddar

Pancakes not really your thing? How about a nice puffy omelet? Massive, packed, and baked to perfection.

A wide bowl shaped pancake dusted with powdered sugars served with a side of whipped butter and lemon

Too much? How about something simpler like The Dutch Baby? Simple, clean, and refreshing

A scrumdiddliumptious looking puffed up pancake with apples and cinnamon glaze

You like The Big Apple?

You mean the city of New York?

Absolutely not. I mean a giant pancake loaded with apples and covered in cinnamon and sugar. A puffed up pie, essentially

There just aren't folks out there doing it like them in the breakfast game. Best pancakes you've ever eaten — even the gluten free ones!

It's amazing to me what a staple The Original Pancake House is in metro detroit and seemingly nowhere else.

I was in college before I found out it started in Oregon.

You would think this type of dude would be better at chugging

My 6 year old: "yo did you say Kirby? That's a pokemon"

Everyone says the military budget is too bloated and now they're eating those $3 meals the administration recommended and everyone *loses* their minds

Exactly one year ago today:

The more Bluesky tells me that the timeline is "forbidden" the more I'm going to refresh the page.

You were not alone in that.

But do we have a way to return the Who's to their original size?

And that's good, right?

Still from a human giant sketch. Aziz ansari in a white suit and cowboy hat while a man in a straw cowboy hat and yellow shirt tries to drink a gallon of gas from a pump

The Pope is going to have to call in the pros if he wants to deal with Thiel. These rookies aren't doing it

In his second term, Mr. Trump seems even less restrained and more incoherent at times. He uses more profanity, speaks longer and regularly makes comments rooted in fantasy rather than fact. He keeps saying that his father was born in Germany when in fact he was born in the Bronx. He repeats an invented story about his uncle, an M.I.T. professor, telling him about teaching the terrorist known as the Unabomber. He wanders off into odd tangents - an eight- minute ramble at a Christmas reception about poisonous snakes in Peru, a long digression during a cabinet meeting about Sharpie pens, an interruption of an Iran war update to praise the White House drapes. He has confused Greenland with Iceland and more than once boasted of ending a fictional war between Cambodia and Azerbaijan, two countries separated by nearly 4,000 miles. (He evidently means Armenia andAzerbaijan).

"He would call chestnuts lazy"-ass president
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Can't stop picturing Zuck as the weird robot guy from Grandma's Boy

"people don't get information from social media, but from each other"

Can you explain how these two things are different?

Because I think they are more or less the same thing, especially since Covid.

I think it boils down to screen time. Covid enabled a lot more people to spend a lot more time on screens and it shaped a lot of bad habits around the information blast of these algorithms.

Rendition of Trump's arch showing a winged statue of liberty at the peak

It's the winged Liberty from his arch, right?