Apparently Rita Lee, the singer from 1960s Brazilian psychedelic rock band Os Mutantes, was descended partly from some of these confederate slaveholders.

r/oldschoolcool

As the age verification technology would forcibly deanonymise all EU users, opening a huge new vein of behavioural surveillance data to the zuckerbots.

They mean Klaus Barbie, of course.

A social liberal is a neoclassical liberal who has been arrested. A neoclassical liberal is a social liberal who got a larger than expected tax bill.

USA #1! 🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸

You made the right call. The ball is in his court if he wants a good relationship with you, and had you not done that, there’d be nothing telling him that maybe performatively being an asshole is not an acceptable life choice.

Is Jesus wearing a bra?

Most normal lemming pick-up line

IIRC, Spotify watches the system volume and doesn’t pay for streams playing when it’s muted. Physically unplugging your speakers should work, though.

Sometimes discretion is the greater part of valour.

If you’re going to name a cat that, adopt two and name the other Weed or something.

Not having zero, they couldn’t have computers and thus social media, so they had to improvise

By then Gen X will have replaced them, and going on about reminiscing about how mix CDs burned from MP3s downloaded from AOL sounded better than the vinyl and TikToks the kids are listening to will be the “we drank from the hose was our curfew” of the time

Bet it’s the Moonies. They’re cashed up and all over right-wing politics across the world.

If labour is free, you don’t need industrialisation, and that attitude carries over to logistics.

Given the confluence of weeb culture and the alt-right (think incels and “traditionalists” with anime avatars, right-wing gamers pointing to Japan as a high-tech conservative utopia untouched by wokeness and such), it was inevitable that sooner or later someone would try to imagine a Japan that goes to Latin Mass.

That’s just life, friend.

This is an accurate description of Scientology doctrines.

L. Ron Hubbard would disagree. Scientology doctrine holds that we inherit all our stress and anxiety from clams who were our ancestors, and their tension between their desire to open and close their hinge. (It is apparently possible to stress out an indoctrinated Scientologist by making opening and closing motions with one’s hand, subliminally reminding them of this.)