#NeedsMoreLikes

[someguy]

In response to Facebook rebranding as FACEBOOK:

@GulliverFoyle

[anon67050589]

Let’s get this up to at least 50, people!

Vincent Price and Boris Karloff both used some weird ingredients in their homemade guacamole recipes

They did the mash…

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A thread of our own- misogyny (Part 1)

This Twitter video must be bookmarked for future use:

[DukeTrout]

"OK Boomer" comes to the NZ Parliament and makes all the right people angry

I like how the billionaire oligarchs and other power elite that actually made the decisions about the shape of society, including mandating a political economy built around the internal combustion engine, and the defense of that structure against change, get replaced with a vague an nebulous “Boomers did it” while laughing all the way to the bank. It’s fossil fuel and fossil feed-stock lobby dollars that orchestrated the climate catastrophe. It’s rich power brokers that engineered the wealth …

Nominal generations divide, they don’t bring together.

[davide405]

One word and nailed the thread.

PHOTO: Rudy Giuliani with Lev Parnas, Igor Fruman, third 'unnamed associate'

Dumbfellas

[anon61833566]

Self explanatory

A Continuing Round-Up of Trumpian Events

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[davide405]

For finding a deeper idea in the topic

You might be a racist if

You might be racist if… You grew up in a white-dominated society. For pretty much everybody, the question is not “are they racist?”, but is instead “how racist are they, and what are they doing about that?”. [8e4bfe72c1fa1eee57610e12c0ff6a237cb820f2] Racism is not really about individual psychology. It’s about power and wealth and the fundamental structures of society. [image]

[davide405]

Because WELL SAID and true!

Beyond antitrust: the anti-monopoly movement and what it stands for

I think I am a good deal more enthusiastic about regulating businesses than most people. But this drive to frame that exclusively in terms of “monopolies” furrows my brow. At best it sounds like unimaginative when-you-only-have-a-hammerism; at worst, a calculated neoliberal placebo. Some companies are indeed toxic monopolies or monopsonies. Funnily enough, the most glaring example – Amazon – is not mentioned nearly as often in this connection as Apple or Facebook. Which is weird because you…

[LutherBlisset]

Also, this:

Why airport gates are so damn far apart

That all makes perfect sense. But airports are huge conglomerations of people experiencing “edge cases” in their lives. Most travelers in an airport are having somewhere between a fairly unusual and extremely unusual day just by virtue of being there. A certain percentage of them didn’t wake up knowing they were going to have to rush to get on a plane. Another portion of them are there on someone else’s nickel. Others are having the kind of once-in-a-lifetime experience where normal rules about …

[Ratel]

George Takei endorses Pete Buttigieg

It’s time like this that I remind myself that although not every leading Democratic candidate is my favorite, I still agree with them on far more than I disagree, and anyone who doesn’t vote and/or donate and/or volunteer for whoever is running with a D in front of their name in next year’s election is no friend of mine.

[Purplecat]

The Planet Zoo economy is broken and flooded with genetically mutated warthogs

I strongly suspect there’s a fantastic economic lesson here. Just based on how the economy has developed, I’d bet the code for the game’s market is chock full of tacit neoliberal assumptions about economic non-interventionism being magically optimal. I have a hypothesis what happened: the "rugged individualists” of the neoliberal right always discount the self-compounding effects of luck in determining wealth outcomes. Given a completely equal starting population, wealth gaps unavoidably eme…

[davide405]

For the sick burn…

Joe Biden campaign emails a post-debate 'did I make you proud?'... hours before start time

To be fair, I think we’re all already qualified to answer…

[Lexicat]

Bloomberg officially announced entry to presidential race over the weekend and no-one noticed

OK billionaire (edit: full disclosure, I’d like to take credit for that, but it was from an awesome tweet by Elizabeth Warren)

[Yri]

I’d love to take credit, but that was actually from a tweet by Elizabeth Warren.

[davide405]

Nailed it, as they often do

How to argue with your racist Facebook uncle this Thanksgiving

I get why the Democrats put this out, but it’s counter-productive for its stated purpose. Really engaging on facts is pointless. If your uncle is driving you crazy with political talking points say something like: I know your political views are very important to you. Getting together with the whole family is important to me. I want to have happy memories of these times. I know that’s hard when each of us feels like the other is living in an alternate reality. But please, let’s try to connect …

[Nightflyer]

A poor, Trump-voting Florida town opened a government grocery store to end its food desert, but it's "not socialism"

Want to drive old religious types crazy? Point out that their definition of “Heaven” is socialist. Everyone happy, free food, free homes, free love, no sicknesses and no need going unfulfilled for lack of money. No status too, everyone is equal - the rich and the pauper.

[Mister44]

Just when you think this dune-riding motorcycle rider is a goner...

Needs music: Should start at :23

Just when you think this dune-riding motorcycle rider is a goner...

Whatever you say, Mister. (no idea how to embed this) ateambiker.m4v (2.3 MB)

^^^ Deserves waaaaayy more likes for making the dream come true.

[Sally_Mahoney]

The perfect stocking stuffer is this Japanese company's new clear eraser

So… it’s like the Crystal Pepsi of erasers? Is there an advantage to having a clear eraser that I’m (hah) not seeing? Other than the neat factor, of course. I’ve used many erasers in my life, and for me the gold standard is the gummy eraser, because it’s moldable. And when you are bored you can pull it apart and mold it into other shapes, like penguins. And make them fight. (eta) I just realized that God is bored. That explains us. He took dust, molded us into shapes, and made us fight.

[Ratel]

How to argue with your racist Facebook uncle this Thanksgiving

I stand apoplectic at the continuing science denial reflected in this funny but ineffectual “guide”. This DCCC piece would receive an F in any cognitive psychology class. As much as it hurts to hear it, decades of work in cognitive psychology, behavioral economics and social psychology show that facts and logic are not terribly persuasive -people are far more motivated by moral values (i.e., beliefs about right and wrong) and emotions. Conservatives have known this for half a century. Huma…

[TobinL]

Woman calls cops on black UPS driver because "walking around with a bunch of packages" makes her "nervous"

I can’t believe we’re still doing this. You know who I feel bad for in that video? The guy who’s trying to do his job and is being harassed. I mean, it’s great that his harasser has elicited so much compassion here, but maybe we should direct some of that concern towards the UPS guy. What happened to him? Does he face that kind of bullshit on a regular basis? How does that make him feel? Just a thought. I’m probably wrong.