No, I'm sure his umbrella was involved in the process too.

Before that, actually: this episode aired in 1973, 3-4 years before the first VHS and Betamax VCRs hit the market.

Home VCRs did technically exist but they were fantastically expensive and uncommon, and prerecorded tapes with a movie or an aerobics program on it weren't around yet to buy or rent.

Does compromise with the far right benefit the Latino teenagers being sent to camps? does it benefit anyone?

In one corner we have Pornhub refusing to store users' PII & government IDs because of the myriad security problems inherent in that situation

In the other corner, openAI very much wants to store your government ID attached to your gooning chats

Lmao I wonder what percentage of charGPT users who willingly upload their government ID to openAI for gooning purposes are aware that until 3 days ago openAI was under court order to store all users' chats lmao and at any time could be court ordered to do so again

It seems to be worse in the plant-based protein powders, so my guess is some plant ingredient that's being grown in a place that has heavy metals.

A lot of them include rice for example, and rice is annoyingly good at taking in heavy metals like arsenic from its local environment.

Ohhhh ok so there is a coordinated effort to paint a literal Nazi as “liked by the left”

This Nazi had to go into hiding because his comment “your body my choice” led to such harsh and IMMEDIATE pushback from left women that he got doxxed

Would you deny veterinary care to cats that happen to be from outside the U.S.?

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

this is an incredibly ominous beginning to a future with a largely carved out federal emergency response system

If it was cool for Obama to drone strike whoever the fuck he wanted, why isn't it cool for Biden or Trump to do the same?

Did the rules change suddenly after 2012, or something?

You mean...that thing they did anyway despite getting everything they wanted from Biden?

Leverage can do this kinda shit, but that's because the entire heist group is running on "I don't want to do white-collar crime: I want to ruin the lives of white collar criminals!", it makes sense they'd spend more money than they make sometimes.

Biden was forced to do that. OK he wasn't forced but he did it because he needed to. OK he didn't need to he did it because he wanted to, but why are you mad about that? You shouldn't talk about this ever again and also you shouldn't work to ensure it doesn't happen with next POTUS. I am smart.

"But what if every single other person's calculations are wrong and the Earth is smaller than you think?"

"Christopher, you're wrong and yourself and any crew you drag along on this fools errand are gonna starve to death in the middle of the ocean unless you happen to get STUPIDLY lucky."

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

So yes, immigration changed people's names. They actually created a system to do so systematically.

At some point, the US government came up with standard romanizations for different Chinese characters.

Which, uh, neglected the fact that the characters were pronounced differently based on the dialect you spoke.

One of the things that happened is that if you were Chinese and got here early enough, your family members would have different legal last names--that wouldn't even read the same to white people here--because there was no standard romanization.

I understand the point, but telling people their name definitively wasn't changed by immigration is in itself making assumptions about the kind of people who were immigrating, and when.

Lots of us have great-grandparents names who were absolutely changed when they came here, and when people say otherwise, they're assuming your great-grandparents name was in the Roman alphabet.

The other fun one is where people retcon the joe biden being forced out by leftist posters rather than like a bunch of dem insiders leaking to the times axios and other rags starting early spring 2024. like pelosi was leaking this shit by march and most of the ones pushing it early didnt want harris