The hardest part about being a contrarian is knowing when not to be.

My dear Americans, the first picture is my parents apartment building, the second and third - my grandparents’. This was my home, where my childhood was spent and my family’s whole life was built around. Please shut up the lunatic infusorium that you call a president and wake the fuck up.

Good read. Sounds plausible to me. Another factor here is Elon probably has spent a lot less time actually thinking about and researching this stuff than you'd expect. He's obviously very busy with SpaceX and Tesla.

So Hegseth is blaming the Ukrainians and saying Elon made the decision to downgrade Ukraine’s Starlink service? Isn’t that completely different from Rubio’s explanation that it was a technical glitch? Days into this scandal and they can’t seem to get their stories straight.

should've used a coldcard to generate their keys

Horrific news: Australian MP Helen Haines will never walk again as a result of Monday’s far-left terror attack. Doctors had to amputate both her legs. Her attacker was radicalised on the fringes of the Palestine movement in Australia. He supported the Houthis and expressed support for Hamas. The anti-Israel movement in Australia has so much blood on its hands. 15 dead at Bondi and now an Australian MP forced to amputate both legs. Out of control. The anti-Zionists are literally a biblical plague on any nation that allows their movement to fester

That's psychopathic war crimes minimization. Evil.

This is an example where @opentimestamps incremental timestamps could help. ...except for the fact that the "media" doesn't give a damn about evidence.

“The Simpsons” was a beloved animated sitcom that ran for ten legendary seasons and concluded in 1999. The show was celebrated for what was widely perceived as a near perfect run that wrapped before it wore out its concept and overstayed its welcome. Creator Matt Groening and showrunner James L. Brooks famously decided to bring the show to a conclusion after experiencing the negative audience reaction to the season 9 episode “The Principal and the Pauper,” in which it was revealed that the school’s principal was actually an impostor who had stolen the real Seymour Skinner’s identity. Brooks did not want to sully the show’s legacy by doing a bunch of weird episodes as the franchise slid into mediocrity and cultural irrelevance, so the writers and cast decided instead to go out on top and end things on a high note. However, because of its centrality in 90s pop culture, a long-running Internet joke is to pretend “The Simpsons” is still on the air, a premise that gets more absurd and deranged with each passing year. If this show were still producing new episodes, it would be in its 38th season now, and most of the voice cast would be in their 80s. The joke is to imagine how distorted this charming show would have become if it had been stretched out to more than 800 episodes. Comedy posters on “weird Twitter” used to try to top each other by making up terrible ideas for what modern episodes of the show might be like. For example, a viral 2012 tweet imagined an episode where Lady Gaga helps Lisa Simpson with her self esteem. In 2019, popular shitposter Megan Amram originated the premise of Bart Simpson becoming a men’s rights activist to protest a gender-swapped reboot of “Itchy and Scratchy.” But perhaps the most elaborate Internet “Simpsons” joke was a 2017 YouTube mockumentary “The Problem With Apu,” in which the comedian Hari Kondabolu ironically pretended to be offended by the charming and innocuous convenience store owner character Apu. Everyone thought this was hilarious, especially since the show had been off the air for nearly two decades when the mockumentary was released. So, Twitter ran with the joke by pretending to “cancel” Apu, and the viral gag memorably resulted in the character’s voice actor, Hank Azaria, recognizing the meme by promising never to perform the character again, which everybody thought was really funny since Azaria had been retired for years. Now, nearly a decade later, fans are pretending that the show — which has now been off the air longer than most people tweeting about it have been alive— has brought back the “cancelled” character with a new racially-appropriate voice actor. I actually don’t think this is that funny, and I kind of think the gag of pretending “The Simpsons” is still airing new episodes has overstayed its welcome, a mistake the actual show “The Simpsons” would never have made. If you haven’t seen this 1990s classic, which — and I cannot emphasize this enough — ended after 10 seasons in 1999, you can watch all the episodes on Disney+ (except the one with Michael Jackson that got pulled from streaming).

Thing is Biden was also pushing Ukraine to surrender. Just not as obviously. The Biden policy of preventing Ukraine from attacking Russian infrastructure on Russian soil was guaranteed to eventually lead to a military defeat. Trump ironically put Ukraine on a path to winning.

It's crazy to think if it weren't for Drew being a sperg Albanese would be doing a press conference this very minute trying to ban the internet.

REVOLUT DEBANKED ME FOR DOING BITCOIN STUFF NOW REVOLUT DOESNT WORK AND BITCOIN... STILL WORKS

it’s an offence to rig an election

Imagine how supposed conservatives and right wingers would react if someone other than Putin killed a family of ten.

Alberta overwhelmingly votes to remain as apart of Canada. But also, they voted Yes to Eight of the Nine. I hope the PM @MarkJCarney can respect democracy even when it maybe unfavorable to him.

Yes indeed, the mid range strike campaign by Ukraine was being so effective, it seems the Russians had to get Trump and Musk to turn it off.

ROFL, all this fuss for nothing. Its also probably thanks to Trump attacks on Canada.

I often go back to these photos of American delegations observing the destruction of bombers and missile silos in Ukraine.

RT @Ania_In_UA: Under various disarmament agreements with the US, Ukraine destroyed: - 60 Tu-22 - 27 Tu-95 - 11 Tu-160 strategic bombers A…

Americans have been trying to tell you Europeans for decades that disarming yourselves was idiotic - that personal weapons in the hands of civilians are actually a force for order and stability, precisely because they constrain criminals and rioters. The French police are overwhelmed. Because of course they are. Large-scale, decentralized threats to civil order have to be met with a large-scale, decentralized response - people defending their homes and businesses, using the threat and, if required, the actuality of lethal force. If the riots in France teach this lesson, at least some good will have come from them.

The constant griping about Ukraine and Zelenskyy has become very annoying. They are defending their country from invasion. That doesn't mean we have to give them everything they want or value their security more than the U.S. economy, but the blame for all of this lies solely with Vladimir Putin and I'm sick of pretending otherwise.