Had no choice but to accept a ride home from the beach in a Jeep Wrangler with Amerikkkan, Blue Lives Matter, and Trump 2020 flags mounted to the back.

In beach towns, this could be considered a license to drive drunk without consequence. You will never get pulled over with these ornaments flapping behind you. 99% of the surrounding drivers and pedestrians will honk and wave at you, smiling throughout the town.

Shit was mortifying. At the moment I truly wanted to die, but I gotta say, there's probably no greater subterfuge that can be deployed if you are riding dirty.

Frenchman Street in the middle of August is a great time to see the best "real" local NOLA jazz. It's so inhospitably hot and humid that almost no one visits at that time, and as a result, the scene is concentrated with avid local players and attendees.

Is this pasta? an unbelievable image

It's nice to have friends who do all the talking for me in my ears while I do laundry

Baste

Now come on, fuck off.

“We are convinced that a future low in emissions and resilient to the climate is not possible if we keep concentrating wealth and incomes in a few hands,” he asserted. “Therefore, to reverse the climate crisis we need to resolve the economic, social, and political contradictions caused by the capitalist model, as well as those that exist between human beings and nature.”

:lets-fucking-go: :lets-fucking-go: :lets-fucking-go:

Jolt Energy drink. The lids that made it look like a can of spray paint. Used to rip those while playing DDR for hours and hours and hours. Also, before Glaceau sold vitaminwater to Coca Cola, they made VitaminEnergy carbonated energy drinks. Came in flavors of Dragonfruit, "Energy" (yellow) and XXX. Those only existed for a really short amount of time.

In a similar vein, the original formula (2010) FourLoko.

My heart is so fucked lol

If he actually drives his own car, it would be kinda funny if the lithium battery fire thing happened to him. You know, as like, schadenfreude. Might actually be the only possible outcome to get the people ceaselessly licking his taint to recognize him as a fucking lecherous clown.

Fuck I hate him

Just got over the BA.2 myself. It took 10 days to feel normal. 2 years of successful dodging this shit down the drain after going into NYC.

Do not recommend, that fucking sucked.

the shaking water bottle really got me :deeper-sadness:

Chargle Kork

This is probably at the direct request of Patreon.

Yo omnipresent cancer vector in every single corner of my body - sup?

Absolute worm

The guy is possibly the biggest amplifier, if not the progenitor of fedoracore libertarian brain. I also can't deny that I couldn't put Cryptonomicon and Seveneves down until I finished. I really liked Fall.. but like Dodge, he's 100% a weird guy with bad opinions.

Delaware :biden:

it may well turn out that the U.S. policy of overextending and unbalancing Russia did not work but has created a backlash that has severely damaged its own strategic position.

:inshallah:

Biden needs to recognize that expanding economic interdependence among his allies is a geostrategic imperative. He should offer Europe a comprehensive free-trade deal to bind the West together; it could be a slightly remolded version of the rejected Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, based on regulatory convergence (under which a product safe to sell in the EU is safe to sell in the U.S., and vice versa). He should also join CPTPP.

How the fuck would this work??? Europe will not accept the absolute dogshit consumer protections afforded to the USA. Americans cannot be expected to lose access to yummy Blue #5. Incompatible.

It is not difficult to imagine Europe or democratic Asia signing up for these sorts of pacts, given the shock of Putin’s aggression and their fear of China. Biden’s problem is at home. Why should the Democratic left accept this? Because, Biden should say, Ukraine, China and America’s security matter more than union votes.

:why-angel:

The U.S. president’s first job is to protect his country. Biden is old enough to remember that the United States won the last Cold War peacefully because it united the free world behind it. This is the way to win the next one peacefully as well. Put together the free world’s economic potential — the EU, North America, Latin America’s biggest economies and the democracies of Asia — and it can do more than see off the autocracies; it can pull them toward freedom.

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Biden should pursue a two-stage strategy: First, deepen economic integration among like-minded nations; but leave the door open to autocracies if they become more flexible. China could be wooed toward freedom. But nothing will improve unless Biden first glues together the free world. That means freer trade — and the sooner he tells his party that, the better.

GOD THEY HAVE ONE AND EXACTLY FUCKING ONE NOTE

Biden can soften that message at home by adding a political dimension to his trade agenda. “Build back better” applies to globalization, too. A global new deal should certainly include a focus on making multinational companies pay their taxes, and the environment should be to the fore.

I WOULD LIKE TO BUY A PLATITUDE

But Biden should also talk about the true cost of protectionism in terms of higher prices, worse products and less innovation. Spreading economic freedom remains the best guarantor of both global and American prosperity: global prosperity because, for all its travails, the last 50 years of globalization have enriched most of the world;

:doubt:

100%. Here's the English translation I found in the r/Ukraine post

Sifting through the :reddit-logo: thread made me dizzy holy fuck

Today I want to express my sincere gratitude to each defender of our strong Mariupol. Our heroic city, which is experiencing the greatest ordeal in its history, in the history of Ukraine.

36th Separate Marine Brigade. 501st Separate Marine Battalion. 1st Separate Marine Battalion. 12th Brigade of the National Guard. And a separate detachment of special purpose "Azov".

Has he identified and thanked Azov officially like this previously?