Misc Chat

[pale flower]

^

[eager parrot]

not even his own republican allies are supportive of this insanity at this point

[blazing depot]

I mean, he said he wants to move them all out, so no one left to give that to

[eager parrot]

but they won't do anything about it

[marsh oracle]

I mean

[pale flower]

Saudis fighting against the displacement -> "We convinced Trump not to do it if you demilitarize" -> Demilitarization of Gaza -> Rebuilding

[ruby helm]

Trump rebuilds all the houses -> Democrats elected next cycle and give them for free back to the people

[marsh oracle]

Saudi arabia needs some workers, 2034 football world cup coming up there

[pale flower]

I think it's a crazy idea but at the end of the day..... we really need some new ideas for what to do with this whole stupid region 💀

[marsh oracle]

The new idea being literal ethnic cleansing

[pale flower]

No I already said I don't think they'll follow through with it

Don't put words into my mouth

[eager parrot]

the idea of demilitarization is just a nonstarter

I just can't see how that would be achieved

how do you demilitarize a simultaneously political and governing body that is also a guerilla 'freedom fighting' group?

[marsh oracle]

Idk why we still pretend trump doesnt follow through with his insane ideas

[eager parrot]

they still couldn't be stopped after all their leaders were killed and their lands razed to the ground for 15 months

[hoary charm]

assuming the democrats get their shit together and find someone who isnt completely unlikable

or else its 8 years of vance

[eager parrot]

I genuinely take everything he says literally since forever now

he is going to do this even if it costs 20,000 US troops' lives

[pale flower]

I mean it's a good question but currently their leaders have still not given up on fighting. And if they don't then the ceasefire will end one day and the fighting will continue

[ruby helm]

None of the countries bordering Gaza are going to accept millions of people, so I think practically that is never going to happen

[pale flower]

No of course not

Practically none of it will actually happen

I think it opens the door for leaders to "compromise" on helping to rebuild Gaza again though should Hamas be out of power

[eager parrot]

all those countries have already accepted literal millions of palestinian refugees

[pale flower]

Well in the past yeah, not from this war

[eager parrot]

and it didn't turn out well for them

[pale flower]

True

Didn't turn out well for Israel either

I think that's what started the 2006 war with Lebanon

[eager parrot]

that's why I say annex the two sides

and given then citizenship

wait a generation

then resolve it internally

[blazing depot]

Trump just gonna find a nice new home for them at the bottom of the Dead Sea, cause lbr, that's how much he cares about the people there

[eager parrot]

it's the only way

80 years of trying literally everthing else has failed

[pale flower]

Yeah but then it becomes a demographic issue. Also there's a lot of strife between the two sides right now, it's a bit hard to annex the regions while keeping the peace between everyone

It'd just turn into civil war

[blazing depot]

It became a demographic issue the minute Israel was founded

[eager parrot]

I mean if multiculturalism is good for European and North American countries, and Israeli leaders encourage them to accept hundreds of thousands of refugees

then why not Israel doing a bit of that heavy lifting?

[pale flower]

Wdym Grumpy?

[pale flower]

....Because the two people hate each other LOL

[eager parrot]

you already have 2 million palestinians that are citizens

what's another 3-4 million

there's still enough Jews to outnumber them

[pale flower]

Yeah and those are the peaceful ones who are willing to live together
Not just Palestinians btw but Arabs

[pale flower]

Well for now yeah, a generation from now it'll likely equalize

[eager parrot]

Israel is already one of the most racially diverse places on earth

[blazing depot]

I mean that there was always gonna be a significant non-jew population part.

[pale flower]

Like what does annexing the land practically look like for you?

[pale flower]

Oh yeah but the majority is still Jewish and that's the point of the country

Like it's meant to be a majority-Jewish country

[eager parrot]

I mean honestly, just redrawing the borders I guess

seems to be a habit anyway

in Syria, Lebanon, etc.

[pale flower]

Right but borders aren't what I call "practical"

I mean how does day-to-day life change from a declaration of annexation?

[eager parrot]

annexation usually involves giving the people you are annexing equal citizenship

[pale flower]

How do relationships between the two peoples improve? Do Gazans just get free movement into and out of Israel? And vice versa?

[eager parrot]

that's what Trump has promised Canada

if you given them citizenship, they become Israeli subjects with the same rights and privilages as everybody else

and Gaza becomes Israeli land

[marsh oracle]

Thats probably what has to happen in the long run but it wont ever happen cause fringes in the two groups will immediately start killing each other

[pale flower]

Especially after October 7th yeah

[blazing depot]

That was the point of the country 80 years ago, sure. Things change, countries change. 80 years ago half the earth was still a bunch of colonies slowly throwing off their shackles for instance

[eager parrot]

it's inevitable

[pale flower]

If you think it's not necessary for there to be a Jewish country anymore I completely disagree

[eager parrot]

a lot of European countries still call themselves a Christian country, Israel can still be a Jewish country

[pale flower]

It's not about it being by name alone though, and Judaism isn't only about the religion but an ethnicity - Jewish people

[toxic spoke]

great news to come home to
so cool we elected another geriatric
can't wait for his Reagan moment "my guardian says I can't talk"

[pale flower]

I think it's probably better for us all to just wait and see what comes out of this proclamation

[eager parrot]

I call dibs on a nice beachfront property before the prices skyrocket, better weather than greece or cyprus too

might even ask my mom if our family qualifies for right of return...

I joke, but they've never checked lol

[pale flower]

Oh are you of Palestinian descent extra?

[eager parrot]

nah, mom's side has slavic/germanic ashkenazi background, but they are all non practicing

[toxic spoke]

yeah i'm ashkenazi on my mom's side too i think i'd qualify lol

[pale flower]

Oh it doesn't matter if you practice the religion LOL that's exactly what I mean

I think Jewish right of return is like... if your grandparents are of Jewish descent? I can double check

[eager parrot]

I get that, I do.

But then do Danish people (my people) or Swedish people or English people or German people or Japanese people or Korean people or otherwise don't want to maintain their ethnicity and have a country where majority of them share a culture and high trust society?

[deft spoke]

https://tenor.com/view/fish-spin-sha-gif-26863370 fish

[toxic spoke]

fish intermission

[eager parrot]

If anything, Israel is visually and racially more multicultural than even most parts of the US

[pale flower]

Not sure I understand, if you can rephrase this

[glossy kite]

[pale flower]

It is!! I like it a lot

[hoary charm]

https://fixupx.com/pitdesi/status/1886642596296229365 speaking of sea creatures

[deft spoke]

shrimp

[eager parrot]

I've been for work a few times, I've seen it first hand, it's great and somewhat genuinely surprising

[deft spoke]

🦐

[eager parrot]

why do shrimps and their cousins have such great eyesight and see so many colors we can't see?

I want to see 12 different color cones too

[hoary charm]

there's a jaden smith tweet along the lines of this somewhere

[toxic spoke]

https://x.com/officialjaden/status/329768040235413504

Jaden (@jaden) on X

How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real

X · May 2, 2013, 1:23 AM

[eager parrot]

[marsh oracle]

https://tenor.com/view/shrimp-as-that-clash-royale-hee-hee-hee-haw-gif-25054781

[hoary charm]

a true philosopher

[deft spoke]

lets talk about the political state of the world

[pale flower]

It's called the law of return and it depends on if your mother is Jewish (ethnically)

[deft spoke]

yo mama

damn about yo mama jokes its been a good while since ive seen one

[eager parrot]

well if the US empire falls in its war with Denmark to take Greenland and I no longer have a country on either side of the atlantic ocean, I'd give it some serious thought.

though I suspect if things get that bad, there won't be much of middle east left at all

if nato countries are fighting each other, shit has truly hit the fan

[pale flower]

Yeah my friend who's not Jewish visited Israel too and she was really surprised too, she enjoyed her stay a lot though

[hoary charm]

$500k and you can have my backyard as a bunker construction zone

[pale flower]

Israel is just a very walkable place in general, it being tiny is a huge plus in that regard

[toxic spoke]

I Will Bring My Enron Egg

[deft spoke]

europe be like

[pale flower]

Like you could probably ride the train from the very north of Israel to the South in about 7 hours or so

But every city is just full of very close stores and such

It's part of what made me start going on walks/runs

[deft spoke]

huh thats funny i be on the other side of my country in 2 hours by car

[eager parrot]

that's not a country

that's a city

[pale flower]

Well there's a very desert-y portion of Israel called the Negev

[hoary charm]

gotta pay for its fuel in $ENRON

[deft spoke]

damn i guess nl is a city now

guess thats why americans call our country amsterdam, all makes sense now

[pale flower]

But when it comes to the most populated regions (around the middle portion of Israel to the North) it's probably more like 2 hours by train

[eager parrot]

see your mistake was measuring distances in car rides, but it should be in bike rides instead

[deft spoke]

oh tbh it would take me no more than 10hours tbh

[eager parrot]

relatable as a danish citizen lol

[deft spoke]

everything is flat anyways, whats the struggle

[eager parrot]

though our bike lanes aren't remotely as well planned as netherlands

[deft spoke]

its ok, i too didnt sign up for to be more bycicles than citizens

theyll slowly take us over

[pale flower]

LOL

[eager parrot]

AI powered bikes

[pale flower]

Who's gonna ride them....

[deft spoke]

and before yk it ill be part bycicle part human

[pale flower]

damn

[eager parrot]

drone bikes

[deft spoke]

huh about that..

[pale flower]

That'd be sick tbh

Sounds Ben 10 coded

[eager parrot]

sorry to break the war rule for a tech article, but relevant to drone ai bikes taking over: https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/02/from-motherships-to-shotguns-drone-war-evolves-rapidly-in-ukraine/

I feel like I've seen this movie before

or maybe it was Starcraft

[deft spoke]

"drones are now launching drones" made my brain go brr for a sec

[eager parrot]

carrier has arrived

why is it that we invent and discover the best stuff

when trying to figure out the most efficient ways to kill each other

[pale flower]

Yeah not to bring up war stuff but Israel is literally inventing a laser system to fend off against missiles it's crazy

[marsh oracle]

Speaking of drones

[eager parrot]

literally the entire modern medicine is thanks to world wars and the stuff countries did

[deft spoke]

because people suck

[marsh oracle]

Whats going on in New jersey nowadays

Are the aliens still flying around?

[deft spoke]

idk if they got good beers idm

[eager parrot]

US also just tested their first 300kilowatt laser on a ship outside of lab setting

which is enough for drones and small stuff I guess

need 1megawatt for the cool pewpew

[eager parrot]

turns out it was all airforce testing

skunk works going nuts

[marsh oracle]

Thats what they want you to think

[eager parrot]

my mom's one wish before she dies is to know if aliens are real or not, dammit Trump keep your disclosure promises

[marsh oracle]

Maybe thats why he wont disclose the epstein file

Epstein had aliens on his island

[eager parrot]

he certainly had aliens

[fossil basin]

again, very similar to what Turkey is doing defacto (unreasonable amount of percentage taxes, limits on how much imported goods can arrive from a country (around 30 dollars only, nuts), basically destroying each sector to satisfy greedy small businesses and "turkish firms" that only overprice for inferior products while overworking their staff still

though atleast in Turkey it stems from the fact that Turkish firms are all on accord in Erdoğan, so he has personal interests to protect rather than economic or social ones

https://fxtwitter.com/GrimKim/status/1886898588099240401

[half heath]

😮‍💨

[vital needle]

Chill out you economically iliterate liberals, here's a lesson for you

[last eagle]

damn

[fossil basin]

Andrew Jackson also massacred Native Americans and ordered to cut up their noses, hardly an examplory president

[fossil basin]

Idk about liberals, but i would personally rather tax people for their incomes and possessions

I live in a place while consumer taxes and tarrifs are very high, and rich evade or are granted to pay no taxation despite legality

does not really work for the economic relief of the gp

or to increase consumption of the gp

[vital needle]

It's what I say man, Israel for the jews, europe for the europeans. Miss me with that multiculturalism garbage, poluting our bloodlines wtf

Demographic issues are very concerning

[fossil basin]

I will say this, i did not think even if kamala won, that there were any relief coming for non-Israeli people at the region from an agreement, it is just not going to be followed up

i do not think there is too much to be followed up, with trump expansionism with US is going to be even more blatant

[vital needle]

Kamala would want to put undesirables in my ethnostate

Ew

[fossil basin]

I just learned to not have any positive expectations from politics

or any expectations of leading politicians or administrators being competent at their jobs

preparing for that would make people less caught offguard

[last eagle]

i heard they eliminated subreddits even tho these subreddits didn't explicitly break the rules

even when it's fully moderated they banned it due to "unmoderated"

[trim flicker]

i told them to

[last eagle]

which is weird

yep

i heard that one

kinda rare W tbh

[vital needle]

Why?

[last eagle]

despite of what reddit did in the recent past

[trim flicker]

nah you have to keep some of that

but of course there's some that were better gone

[vital needle]

Uh

[marsh oracle]

Leroy on the semen retention arc?

[last eagle]

[vital needle]

Yeah

[trim flicker]

not really

[near jetty]

maybe

[last eagle]

sex-education is something important

[trim flicker]

it can be really bad

[vital needle]

Well its your choice really

[trim flicker]

like really really bad

specially for young dudes

[last eagle]

yea

[trim flicker]

dont have to pretend its harmless

[deft spoke]

porn is ruining peoples brains and expectations on sexual intercourse especially teenagers

like it aint that hard to understand its just a big L

im genuinely grateful that sex education was never something taboo within my household to talk about, but sometimes i hear dude friends talking about certain stuff whereas i am like "just no bro, no"

[trim flicker]

kids having unrestrained internet access and lack of proper sex-ed doesn't help

[deft spoke]

real

and a lot of young people underestimate that watching porn can become an addiction

[dire canopy]

well the brainrot I see doesnt come from porn most of the times

[trim flicker]

i don't think the content itself is the main problem but the unrestrained access and lack of education about it

[vital needle]

I just don't see how thats different from being against alcohol because some people are alcoholic

[deft spoke]

i'd argue but unfortunately im not good enough to explain this in english

[dire canopy]

well I personally dont see porn as that big of an issue but I would be up for banning alcohol honestly

[vital needle]

Try portuguese then

[deft spoke]

lmao i dont speak portuguese

[vital needle]

Aw fuck

[deft spoke]

yupp

[last eagle]

language barrier moment

[fossil basin]

i like that oldpeoplefacebook was reinstated

[trim flicker]

also how isolated people have become in general lol

[fossil basin]

it was my favorite subreddit, i find old people struggling with social media funny

[vital needle]

Lol its always the same conclusion isnt it

[trim flicker]

lonely ass teenagers with no life prospects seeing the world explode

[vital needle]

Most of porn's perceived faults arent its fault at all rather its because capitalism is a fuck

[livid frigate]

male loneliness epidemic strikes again

[near jetty]

my Twitter must not be the same as yours lol

[trim flicker]

my twitter is just kpop and art

[dire canopy]

I never even made a twitter and I dont think there is any reason nowadays

[deft spoke]

porn can definitely influence sexial behaviour and beliefs, not to mention a negative approach to a sexual or intimate relationship, there is a lot what it can do to a person without the right sexual education

[near jetty]

lol ok

[vital needle]

My twitter is non existent 👐

[trim flicker]

this is true

[fossil basin]

i like lucifer, and i like mephiles, that's what i will say about this matter

[vital needle]

Mephiles sounds like some bullshit from the book of mormon

[trim flicker]

good

[fossil basin]

https://tenor.com/view/sonic-x-shadow-generations-sonic-the-hedgehog-shadow-the-hedgehog-sonic-mephiles-gif-9533144750352371415

it's this guy

[vital needle]

Oh

[near jetty]

I live right next to a Mormon church

[livid frigate]

my condolences

[trim flicker]

i live next to my grandma

[livid frigate]

hope they don't kidnap you and take you to utah

[near jetty]

God please no

[fossil basin]

Turkish state functions close to a hypothetical Mormon one/Utah, atleast in the non-metropolitan areas

[deft spoke]

its not only addictive but from what i've gotten at school, a lot of young adults also create a negative self image due to the "expectations" and people they see, ig its like a kid seeing a pretty influencer and not thinking they good enough lol (but yeah ill quit talking about it now, thats all)

[fossil basin]

unlike Utah or Mormons we do have tobacco or caffeine though

[vital needle]

I had three mormon students in the last school and one of them dreamed of moving to the us to attend byu

[near jetty]

they don't have Culver's in Utah

[vital needle]

All of them were black. I didnt have the heart to tell them

[dire canopy]

that is just social media in general not just porn

[fossil basin]

I wish the best of luck to AJ Dybantsa, he got paid a ton to go to BYU

Also suspected NO.1 Prospect of 2026 draft

[deft spoke]

huh about mormons, i watched the movie Heratic starting Sophie Thatcher, it's a pretty interesting movie regards on a dude and his beliefs on religion, i'd say take a watch

[near jetty]

no child should be subjected to living in Utah

poor things

[fossil basin]

There was mormon housewives series or something like that?

the secret lives of mormon wives

that is it

[vital needle]

That american primeval netflix show apparently features brigham young a lot too

I wanna watch ot just for that

[fossil basin]

Imagine Dragons, PATD and Benson Boone are all Mormons

[deft spoke]

pretty good movie, plus hugh grant so ayo

[livid frigate]

my parents are watching that show

[fossil basin]

that's why I do not like their music it seems

because it seems to show to their music

more so that i had wondered why i did not like their music prior to knowing they were

[livid frigate]

imagine dragons are mormon?

[fossil basin]

atleast Dan Reynolds is

[vital needle]

Its a suckage that transcende ideology and faith

[fossil basin]

https://people.com/imagine-dragons-dan-reynolds-explains-why-he-left-mormonism-exclusive-8673144

[vital needle]

They are just awful

[fossil basin]

well, he "was" mormon

but his family etc. are mormons currently

[livid frigate]

like johnny harris

[fossil basin]

i was lucky i was not put on a specific set of beliefs from my parents

especially my mother warned me about being able to choose what you want to believe in, instead of letting others decide that for you

[vital needle]

Youre free to convert to mormonism then lucky you

[fossil basin]

My mother is theist

[deft spoke]

religion is an interesting concept to me, i dont think too deep about it, i believe and not believe, both influences from my moms and dads side of the family, but ayo each their own bro's

[fossil basin]

my father is somewhat in belief of sunni islam, not to action of it much, but i guess

i do believe and i would like to believe some sort of deity exist, i think it's mysterious stuff, i think god if is here, would be a more interesting concept than a lot of people think

i am not necessarily abrahamic on belief of the god, but it's quite interesting to me

i also love learning about religions in general

adds into my love for history that is why

[marsh oracle]

Not that i have a big horse in this race but something being harmful to society and whether or not banning something is good are two different arguments

[vital needle]

I tried wording it carefully because I think my opinion does not change in any of those arguments

But as a base the argument was about banning it on reddit which is completely inconsequential in the grand scheme of things

[last eagle]

for kst shenanigans

[vital needle]

Check out my dog's ability

[livid frigate]

scary

[marsh oracle]

Yes

[trim flicker]

seems legit to me

[dreamy ledge]

it does, not that I've gone to one. "in this economy?"

[dire canopy]

I found a cool video today

https://youtu.be/Cse3pUxvecY?si=bifsYersVd3UmUiA

[blazing depot]

Let me just say this about the pr0n topic: the issue is not the content, the issue is ease of access and parents not doing any parenting when they're supposed to.

I still think kids have no business being on ANY SNS platform, they're all shitty hellholes filled with stuff far worse than (often) naked people doing things. Cause none of these platforms has a kids friendly version of their app besides maybe youtube and even that is rather dubious cause it relies on creators tagging vids accordingly.

[fossil basin]

youtube automation also sucks

they tagged a Perfect Places - Lorde live performance as youtube kids automatically

because it did not even used to be tagged by the creator that way

Perfect Places is a song that includes f-bombs and references substance usage, i love lorde and the song but i do not think it is kids youtube worthy

[shadow elbow]

misc chat always popping off

[deft spoke]

ofcofc

[blazing depot]

It's the doomscroll of Loonacord

[shadow elbow]

https://tenor.com/view/kpop-triples-lynn-phone-scroll-gif-12903274521075617071

[half heath]

it is nice to see engaging discussion even if its depressing sometimes

[brave pelican]

quick lucifer share a tweet

[shadow elbow]

https://x.com/help7759/status/1732897898298253748

help (@help7759) on X

#NewProfilePic

X · Dec 7, 2023, 11:00 PM

[dire canopy]

I remember when Hey Ya by Outkast won the Kids Choice award

also not very kid friendly lyrics

[blazing depot]

Tf, that was a thing...
https://x.com/AriDrennen/status/1887003530143392051?t=yzaiWSpyT0iJkwFwyK4BRA&s=19

Ari Drennen (@AriDrennen) on X

BREAKING: A federal judge has blocked President Trump's executive order forcibly to detransition trans women inmates and transfer them to men's prisons, citing the 8th amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.

X · Feb 5, 2025, 5:01 AM

[half heath]

wtf

good but also why not stop like everything else damn

[marsh oracle]

Cause a judge decides a case and not everything at once

Ending birthright citizenship also got blocked

[half heath]

so all those executive orders that were reported are still being processed?

[marsh oracle]

Yep

[half heath]

I see, i was under the impression a lot of things were already in effect

[marsh oracle]

The real fun starts when trump doesnt give a shit about a court blocking his orders

[half heath]

i thought he was doing that already

[marsh oracle]

I mean they are in effect until somebody challenges it and a judge orders an injunction

[half heath]

right okay makes sense but also a little strange since a lot of damage can happen before a judge rules on it

[marsh oracle]

Yea but whats the alternative

[fossil basin]

https://fxtwitter.com/FOS/status/1887169816206758077

[marsh oracle]

Any challenge in court immediately stops something?

[fossil basin]

one of Trump's pollers also claim there is a chance he might be running

[marsh oracle]

Good luck with that

[half heath]

wouldn't the alternative be only go into effect after review?

[fossil basin]

He has said this about SAS not Trump

[half heath]

lmfao i saw the thing about stephen a. What the hell is going on

[marsh oracle]

You want every single executive action to be automatically reviewed by a judge?

[half heath]

not automatically but if it's violating something shouldn't it?

[marsh oracle]

Thats just not really how its set up and you would need a lot more judges

[fossil basin]

If I had wanted a sports personality to rule the US by 2028, I think it would be Lebron rather than SAS

[marsh oracle]

How do you know its violating something

Executive orders are weird little quirk of the american system anyway

They arent really a formal thing, the president could just as well release a daily newsletter with his directions for the executive and it would have the same weight

[half heath]

hmm not sure how it would be decided. I just seen the headlines. I guess a lot of them aren't really violating anything actually

[marsh oracle]

A lot of the large number of EOs he signed on day 1 didnt really do anything

But everything for a good show and for every dipshit on twitter to lament how biden didnt do anything

[trim flicker]

its peak

[fossil basin]

https://fxtwitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1887208938082300014

[blazing depot]

Here, have some actually worthwhile content
https://fixupx.com/PtDefianceZoo/status/1886849627640701200?t=lqGG68bvp3rlC86ryr5_fA&s=19

[half heath]

moo deng got competition

[last eagle]

uwu

[brave pelican]

damn i missed the gooning convo

[half heath]

start it again we need the insight

[fossil basin]

https://fxtwitter.com/PopCrave/status/1887238917973549497

[blazing depot]

Cool, bro played the "but I have autism, so it's ok" card

[brave pelican]

https://tenor.com/view/oogway-gif-21230005

[half heath]

to goon or not to goon 🧘‍♂️

[hoary charm]

never_goon_ai_minion.jpg

[brave pelican]

why is it not showing up

[hoary charm]

censored by discord

king gooners up there

[brave pelican]

i will ss this channel out of context and put this on twitter

goodbye loonacord

[shadow elbow]

inb4 lock

[vital needle]

Thanks for spoiling the joke discord

Very cool

[clear tide]

didnt get the spoiler dw

[fossil basin]

https://fxtwitter.com/mondoterremoti/status/1887593264221720953/en

[blazing depot]

Fun fact, we were planning a vacation on the Greek isles. Well, not any more.

[oak lodge]

la caldera oh no

[fossil basin]

https://fxtwitter.com/kanyewest/status/1887817888222044331

Kanye West has showcased his support to "free Diddy"

he is also going on a HUGE rant with slurs thrown in, that i am not posting all of it

[deft spoke]

its kanye, not really surprising news

dude is always been a whirlwind of news

[fossil basin]

https://fxtwitter.com/BirGun_Gazetesi/status/1887770771121979564/en

not surprising, everything is at black market at some method due how much tariffs are there

but people will drink methanol if they cannot find ethanol, and that will kill them, trying to practically ban things by making them out of reach in price does not really lead to betterment of society

especially distillation is risky to do at home for alcohol, and unlike fermentation, is not legal to do at home in a lot of places

governor also prioritizing that people "should not drink alcohol" than to get them to check on fake alcohol, and at very least for methanol, would be the sensible thing to do

https://www.ntv.com.tr/turkiye/ankara-ve-istanbulda-sahte-icki-103-can-aldi,LcvkQuzlaE-mUusEyuSV7g

since 14th of january, 103 people have died from counterfeit alcohol in 2 cities

a lot of deaths happen due methanol poisoning, and you cannot really put it to test which is which

[deft spoke]

seems like their own personal risk issue

[fossil basin]

it's more due alcohol being extremely priced out of general consumption due religious inner aims, government wants to turn the state into a Sunni Utah if that makes sense

[deft spoke]

eh ig so

[fossil basin]

a lot of parallels are there with the mormons, main difference is that coffee and tobacco is allowed

[deft spoke]

still, its a person their own choice whether or not to buy something from the black market, the name itself says enough to stay away from it

[fossil basin]

regardless there is still something the state can do to not let that happen

[fossil basin]

and the name really does not say enough, black markets aren't just all shady alleys

[deft spoke]

people their own choices 🤷‍♂️

[fossil basin]

it's driven out of artificially inflated prices though

people get careless and killed because of it, surely there's something to do about it

[deft spoke]

alcohol isnt needed in life, its a luxury to have, so if you go out of your ways to buy something thats risky (in this case the potential of poisoning) then really thats your own consequence

[fossil basin]

it'S different when you make a good out of reach and people consuming it for variety of reasons have to resort to other means

i think you are quite selfish stating "there is nothing we could do" about people you do not know

I am not even that big of an alcohol consumer, i like to try the occasional drink here and there watching documents

but first thing hearing a lot of people die from something preventable should not be "they deserved what is coming to them"

quite frankly you do not know all those people that died

[deft spoke]

i come from a world where i've seen and witnessed stories of whereas people go out of there ways to get such items (alcohol ect) so i dont feel much empathy when people are fully aware of the consequences they might risk

[fossil basin]

so do not I? People are willing to risk a lot more when they are broke

[deft spoke]

with this i mean family works in gov/prison

[deft spoke]

ofc, but if youre broke, is alcohol really the saviour? no

[brave pelican]

yes

[fossil basin]

I was merely personal witness of those products being made in house, i am not speaking out of nothing

not in my house, but in people's

again, if i was in lesser economic situation i would not know where i would be or how i would turn out for example

[deft spoke]

I mean, like i said oneself their own choices whether or not to consume it so yk

[deft spoke]

bet

[fossil basin]

definitely not, but a lot of people have their economic status degraded drastically rather quick in turkey, and also, education system about relatively taboo topics is not that great

religious fundamentalism and broke nationalism only goes so far

[deft spoke]

cant speak on that, only spoke that people are fully aware of their own choices whether or not to consume or get something ofg a black market is all

[fossil basin]

when i say blackmarket, it's more either extremely cheap drinks sold in some regular small markets, or poorly sighted distillation in house or underground

[deft spoke]

be like godzilla, drink dr pepper instead

[fossil basin]

there's a lot more blackmarket for various drugs

[fossil basin]

because when relatively lighter stimulants are out of price, and hobby activities are seen harmful or not given as much priority, people do not turn to great things

[deft spoke]

seeing all these random news articles, might as well post every dutch article i see

[fossil basin]

I love to drink overall, I want something to drink with me just because i am bored, I do not have a big bar culture because bars make me sleepy

[fossil basin]

there won't be 103 people died on alcohol poisoning in a dutch article quite frankly

[trim flicker]

i drink a shot of this one peach liquor i bought sometimes

[fossil basin]

though i would be interested in dutch articles if you post them

[trim flicker]

cause its sweet and yum

[deft spoke]

brother its a turkish article

[trim flicker]

so so sweet

[deft spoke]

real

[fossil basin]

i could not find an english article, i look onto non-english articles at times and autotranslate them to english

so i figured you'd like to do that as well

[deft spoke]

wait don, have u tried that soju peach + yakult hack yet

[trim flicker]

nope i should get on that

[fossil basin]

I occasionally make iced coffee cocktails

[deft spoke]

i aint gonna post news of my own country simply bc it doesnt benefit everyone

i wouldn't want to torture misc chat like that

[fossil basin]

I did not think posting news would mean benefitting people specifically

[deft spoke]

nah fr you should, peach soju + yakult + sprite trustt

[fossil basin]

but posting specific news

i would have looked onto the news you'd have posted

[trim flicker]

its ok

[trim flicker]

ill get on that asap

when i visit market

[half heath]

tbf a lot of the US news here doesn't really benefit all of us, it's just enough of a spectacle that we engage with it

[deft spoke]

[deft spoke]

this

[trim flicker]

US news lately havent been benefitting anyone at all

[fossil basin]

i thought 103 people dead in like 20 days due counterfeit alcohol was big of a spectacle

[trim flicker]

well except some rich bastards

[half heath]

but for sure try to post English at least

[deft spoke]

i refrain from posting random pop culture or some other bullcrap in here because nobody gives a crap about it tbh

[trim flicker]

i do not really like beer taste

[fossil basin]

when i find english articles, i will, there are not that many turkish sites willing to post their inside bad business to english

[trim flicker]

but its drinkable

[fossil basin]

some of those that do are related to pro-government/nontrustworthy sites

[half heath]

I've had one drink in my life and I was underwhelmed

[trim flicker]

personally i like trying out anything but beer

[fossil basin]

I like a lot of kinds, beer is decent

some beers are better than others, but i do not drink a ton of alcohol

[deft spoke]

bro fr a good texan bbq or crawfish soup with a can of beer

[fossil basin]

i just like trying out things i had not tried

i like Heineken's SOL in terms of beer

i like the lime flavoring on it

[deft spoke]

heineken aint hitting the same outside of NL

i said what i said

[trim flicker]

barbecue and beer feels like a global tradition

[fossil basin]

i should taste the craft ones though

[trim flicker]

very common here too

maybe just europe colonization moment

[fossil basin]

I liked the Sol product

I also like Corona

[deft spoke]

oh for sure, even in winter we will turn on the outside grill and enjoy it with a can, devided by country but united by experiences

[fossil basin]

I am not a gourmand of any means, i just am alright with a ton of things

i am not picky

beer is common here, but i am unsure if the connection with barbecue is there

[fossil basin]

alcohol and fish is a connection in the coastal parts atleast

[deft spoke]

alcohol is fun, but i dont drink it much outside of clubbing tbh

i dont bother much

[fossil basin]

I like drinking in peace watching history documents

[half heath]

yea seems meant for social settings. I'm surprised the taste is enough for some ppl

[fossil basin]

I get overstimulated in clubs or bars, get real sleepy

I like talking and listening, but in high volume i fail to hear

[trim flicker]

i really only drink with friends and take a shot of that aforementioned peach liquor sometimes

for vibes

[deft spoke]

clubbing fun as fuck, extroverted top activity

not the normal clubs though, the music in there is boring

i simply do not want to hear tiesto or dua lipa, i'm good

lmaoo

yeah techno hits different

theyre fun tho, but honestly in the right setting

[trim flicker]

leroy gotta go to a jazz club

[fossil basin]

I get overwhelmed at closed settings like clubs

[deft spoke]

leroy wouldve loved rotterdam its jazz festival

[fossil basin]

I prefer when they have activities I can partake in like beer pong, otherwise it feels boring to me

because i am someone chatty, but i feel disrespectful when i cannot hear people due loudness

[deft spoke]

you party, hookup if ur into that, do shots, join the dj, many of things that are fun, but if youre aint a club person you wont feel the vibes to its full potential

[fossil basin]

i do agree

[deft spoke]

its certainly not for everyone, many of my friends prefer a normal bar instead

to each their own

unless theyre dutch pubs, you dont wanna enter that

or well ehh it depends really

dude berlin has such a fun karaoke bar

suggest it to ur friends 10/10 activity

scream to some random pop songs

yess

its super fun! you should definitely do it sometime

[fossil basin]

https://fxtwitter.com/SASForPres/status/1887723720656974006

[half heath]

this can't be real

he's too damn funny

[fossil basin]

would not be my prime choice of candidate, but if democrats want their own trump, he would be the prime candidate

he also has a reported desire to debate other candidates

[half heath]

trump works cause the voter base they target are okay with someone who tells them what they want to hear. I don't believe those same ppl would switch to stephen a.

[fossil basin]

not too different from stephen a smith on that regard

[half heath]

maybe if he really slam dunks on republicans in a way that grabs attention

[fossil basin]

atleast he would be able to make people convince of things

[half heath]

I dont think Democrats base would be okay voting for a guy that seems like a puppet

[fossil basin]

trump seems like a puppet more so because he is quite old at this point and less coherent than SAS, which is hard to achieve

he is not that old for a president (57)

trump was also in a similar situation with %1 polling and being a not too politically relevant celeb

https://fxtwitter.com/SASForPres/status/1887884424315871352

vice chair of dnc also follows the account for SAS 2028

[half heath]

they really couldn't find anyone better...

[marsh oracle]

my dudes

its february 2025

at least wait until the midterms

[half heath]

it's just too funny stephen a fr

[fossil basin]

i mean the account gained like 20k+ followers in 3-4 days

i was there i follow them

[marsh oracle]

yes because the internet is drumming it up

[fossil basin]

and official acknowledge from dnc is interesting

[marsh oracle]

talk to me in 2 years about this

[fossil basin]

could be a start of a trump-like rise

could also not be, but could also be

[marsh oracle]

david hogg follow 2.6k people

official acknowledgement

[fossil basin]

not that many

for a 1m followed account atleast

the account is also from 2013

[marsh oracle]

david hogg is a single issue activist and i dont think stephen smith will like that issue very much

[fossil basin]

the only thing we know for sure is that he while previously stating he is not a politician, is now open to being a presidency candidate

if trump was memed into presidency, i am not saying possibilities are 0

both parties also had contacted taylor swift for a 2028 run before, from a The Hill article

I would rather have him than Shapiro

[marsh oracle]

implying the maga base would accept a jew

[fossil basin]

maga base are quite incoherent, and a presidency candidate at this point should be one that can pull people to their beliefs, not pivot to them further

[marsh oracle]

ok so not shapiro

lmao

[fossil basin]

shapiro has that murder case going on, his election race would be over before it began

[marsh oracle]

oh you mean that shapiro

[fossil basin]

yeah

which shapiro you thought i was mentioning?

[half heath]

Ben probably lol

[fossil basin]

oh hell no

[half heath]

[blazing depot]

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/06/climate/doge-energy-department-trump/index.html

This seems fine

That department only controls the nukes, no big deal

[marsh oracle]

Is that the one that was fired because he was being a race realist on main or another one?

Hard to keep track of everything

[blazing depot]

No, that was a 25yr old

I really wonder how many of these actually are Russian plants

Surely Elon carefully vetted them and didn't just hire whoever agreed to work 90hrs per week for free out of patriotic sense of duty

[ocean vigil]

https://fixupx.com/atrupar/status/1887875978048766165

very cool, thank god trump saved free speech

[blazing depot]

Radical left spinning is bad for your neck

[ocean vigil]

and he's bringing plastic straws back

[blazing depot]

I'm sure McDonald's will ecstatically switch out their whole inventory again

(They won't)

[trim flicker]

everything i wanna say about what's happening in the US cant be said on loonacord

beyond ridiculous shit

[blazing depot]

Bet

By the end of the 4 years the radical leftists will all be gone, trust

[fossil basin]

why?

you can say if you wish to?

[trim flicker]

nope

[blazing depot]

Would probably trigger auto-mod

[fossil basin]

oh right

I get autobanned for saying people slayed in another way

[trim flicker]

yeah i won't risk it im chill

just devastating shit all throughout

[marsh oracle]

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/07/elon-musk-doge-racist-treasury-x-staff.html lol

[fossil basin]

i know how you people might feel about devastating political decisions

[trim flicker]

incredibly fucked

[fossil basin]

i would know, i never had a stable political environment around me

[trim flicker]

meant to post this cat instead

but sitting sad horse is good

[fossil basin]

I miss the old kanye

[blazing depot]

When you remember that his wife is of Indian descent you just know bro has no morals left to be bothered by

[marsh oracle]

Gets a lot easier to understand when you realize theres no actual belief system behind anything its all about personal power and grievances

Like my opinion on elon is very low but even i have to assume he realizes gutting usaid doesnt do shit for the budget deficit

But what it does do is provide a shit ton of food for endless tweets and media cycles about how a stapler cost 3k or whatever, makes your base happy

[blazing depot]

The point of all that is distraction from the actually important behind the scene stuff that all the billionaires decided to support Trump for

Basically that council from the Fallout show

No spoilers, but iykyk

[fossil basin]

well yes

[fossil basin]

not surprising

https://fxtwitter.com/SASForPres/status/1887948102285341005

SAS does not want to be the VP if he was to run

[blazing depot]

https://x.com/BenjySarlin/status/1887909017357562176?t=SbhMJZ4V0uesckYhNIbZfA&s=19

Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) on X

Political quantum mechanics posits that a 25 year old is both a delicate child who must be protected from their own views and also an important adult who needs to manage the most powerful nation’s critical payment system

X · Feb 7, 2025, 4:59 PM

Accurate comment

Also, the WH is officially Barad-dur now I guess
https://fixupx.com/MarcACaputo/status/1887602696611586272?t=cHlv94ZxyNWYzwhL301yow&s=19

Likening yourself to Sauron is definitely a choice

Super subtle, too

[marsh oracle]

https://fxtwitter.com/JBPritzker/status/1887949566525186554?t=4UIIgwSx5hvuwjIv3Het9A&s=19

Finally some good news

[blazing depot]

I gotta assume that's satire

[marsh oracle]

Hope not

Illinois could teach those rust belt swing states a thing or two

[vital needle]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/He-gassen

Had to post it somewhere i guess

[woven flare]

He gassin

[dire canopy]

reminded me of the situation we had in czech republic in 2012

but over here it wasn't at home alcohol being bad but people being greedy and making commercially sold alcohol be bad

ended up with a year long prohibition

[fossil basin]

you can make safe alcohol at home, but you have to be quite careful during process

a lot of issues stem however, from people using methanol in home alcohol to be greedy to sell others, or people selling methanol as ethanol

[dire canopy]

it's not that difficult that you have to be that careful

[fossil basin]

it's not that practical to distinguish between the two, you need an iodoform

[dire canopy]

ethanol has higher boiling point than methanol

[fossil basin]

i remember that my father were in a prestigious restaurant for a wedding, and instead of alcohol, they accidentally served up pure ethanol

[fossil basin]

atleast it was not pure methanol, it would have killed people

[fossil basin]

people drank the ethanol and had not noticed, staff had noticed it after

[fossil basin]

you have to be careful for the distillation process

it's not too easy to distinguish between ethanol and methanol when in a drink atleast, but there are ways so

the cheap commercial drinks having methanol mixed in with ethanol does not help either

like it's not always methanol alone, it's often mixed

In the summer I will likely try fermenting wine, it's legal up to 350 liters to do so as long as it's not to sell them

I am not planning to do up near to that amount either, so, just need to look up the equipment and stuff

I am more in for the experience and stuff, I like trying new things

would be wise of me to check the grapes best suited for the job though

[marsh oracle]

https://fxtwitter.com/mpopv/status/1887985156092489818

[fossil basin]

i miss the old kanye

[hoary charm]

only on x the everything app

[fossil basin]

also, i do not understand the vitriol about paper straws

atleast there are reasonably made paper straws

[hoary charm]

thats probably the one thing i agree with trump on

paper straws are an abomination

[fossil basin]

i like paper straws, i do not like starbucks' paper straws, but i like paper straws

other franchises do make decent paper straws that do not dissolve immediately due being made a different way than wrapping it around and around

i also just prefer using the sip lids

[marsh oracle]

Yea but that costs 2 ct more per piece so we cant do that

[fossil basin]

sip lids or more reasonable paper straws?

[hoary charm]

tf kind of fast food place has sip lids

thats just for like, hot drinks

[fossil basin]

i meant coffee franchises

[fossil basin]

for cold as well

[hoary charm]

well yeah, no one complaining about paper straws is doing so in regards to coffee

i get a coke or milkshake from burger king and its coming with a straw

[fossil basin]

hmm, that i could understand more, but i had not seen paper straws for fast food drinks

atleast not here

[marsh oracle]

Thats because erdogan is keeping the woke mind virus away

[deft spoke]

just bring ur own mug. at most places u get a discount as well for it

[fossil basin]

my preference is still sip lids, more practical, and less waste

[fossil basin]

i have a mug, problem is i had not seen places offering discount so far

i have asked personally

[deft spoke]

who cares either way discount or not, if ur that against paper straws simply dont buy or bring ur own mug ezz fixed

[fossil basin]

it's also 700ml and i cannot get more liquid even if i offer to pay more for the liquid, i understand why they can't do that so it does not really make me mad but still

[fossil basin]

i am not against paper straws i like them

[deft spoke]

thats why you got coffee mugs on the go

[deft spoke]

never said you do

was saying in general

YETI tumblers are ideal for on the go hot drinks, theyre starting at 10oz + dishwasher friendly, a life saver as a coffee drinker myself

them thumbs up💀💀💀

@hoary charm when i catch you

[hoary charm]

personally i simply just contribute to can littering by drinking too many energy drinks

[fossil basin]

I do not think we do have yeti or hydroflask sold here

[deft spoke]

at least ur ass can grt some money back if u save em ig so lowkey a winwin

[fossil basin]

we have stanley sold here, i have one of the 700 ml waterbottles gifted to me

[deft spoke]

you can get those brands at outdoor stores^

[marsh oracle]

Coke > energy drinks

[fossil basin]

I like mineral water and mineral water based drinks

[deft spoke]

ngl energy drinks are ass sorry kairu ly but no

[fossil basin]

I also like matcha at occasion

[hoary charm]

https://tenor.com/view/wrong-drumpf-trump-stupid-gif-6220235

you just havent found the right one

[fossil basin]

I am not picky on drinks, i like to drink something at most times

[deft spoke]

nahh i just dont fw energy drinks ez as that

[fossil basin]

i drink like 4-4.5 liters of water a day

[deft spoke]

4 liters diabolical💀💀

if i drink 4 liters im killing myself

my body aint handling that bros

[fossil basin]

I just feel thirsty if not

I had a roommate who drank like 8-10 liters per day due feeling thirsty

[deft spoke]

crazy, i max drink 1,5-2l a day because my body simply doesnt need more

[fossil basin]

no i would say they were somewhat built, liked to go exercising

[deft spoke]

bro lobotomied himself

[fossil basin]

but other than that, idk why

he was the only guy i had seen that drank more water per day than me

and he was not like 2 meters

he was not even an athlete he worked at a bank

he just exercised regularly

[deft spoke]

im too busy on a day to even properly sit down and get a cup of water 💀

i cant even drink when at work, like on a 9h shift ive only got an hour break time

aint no way thats happening

[fossil basin]

https://fxtwitter.com/AybasOzgur/status/1887944203856134339/en

[brave pelican]

Neil Jacobs, who was acting administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in 2019 when President Trump altered an expected hurricane impact map — an incident known as "Sharpie-gate" — has again been picked by Mr. Trump to lead the agency.

lols

[fossil basin]

https://fxtwitter.com/Acyn/status/1888055554611790043
now it's the eggs' fault

[ocean vigil]

https://tenor.com/view/northernlion-huh-stare-glasses-eyes-gif-2484439535124850298

[blazing depot]

https://x.com/democracynow/status/1887619786869297283?t=qbSB-QlzbDfVrxrYe0ue6Q&s=19

Democracy Now! (@democracynow) on X

ICE Agents in Colorado Go Door to Door Demanding IDs and Asking People to Turn In Their Neighbors https://t.co/1scTgklOYz

X · Feb 6, 2025, 9:50 PM

Good ol denunciation

[pale knot]

16 and 15

[last eagle]

https://twitter.com/Dexerto/status/1888803084073087298

Dexerto (@Dexerto) on X

Kanye West has deactivated his Twitter/X account

X · Feb 10, 2025, 4:12 AM

bruh

[blazing depot]

Good

Stay deactivated

[last eagle]

true

[marsh oracle]

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/10/trump-doj-foreign-corrupt-practices-act-pause.html

[ocean vigil]

lmao

the justifying takes on this one gonna be great

[marsh oracle]

Good guy trump just making sure all the bribes are being done in an orderly manner

[blazing depot]

Truly draining the swamp or something

[hoary charm]

https://www.wsj.com/tech/elon-musk-openai-bid-4af12827

ok fuck discord

then https://x.com/sama/status/1889059531625464090

Sam Altman (@sama) on X

no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want

X · Feb 10, 2025, 9:11 PM

[marsh oracle]

I cant believe elon is making me cheer for openai

[blazing depot]

Please take the deal, Elon

At least chatgpt isn't Grok

[hoary charm]

claude 4 soon so we dont have to root for openai

[blazing depot]

https://x.com/koshercockney/status/1889031663407206603

Kosher🎗🧡 (@koshercockney) on X

Kanye West produced this weird Super Bowl ad below 👇🏽 telling people to go to his clothing website “yeezy . com“

And the only item he is selling on there is a shirt with a Swastika on it

Is he insane?

X · Feb 10, 2025, 7:20 PM

So this is what he was up to I guess

[marsh oracle]

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-ordered-fully-comply-with-order-lifting-funding-freeze-2025-02-10/ at least theyre quick about the whole fascist takeover thing, might be done this year already

[eager parrot]

turns out when the executive branch is in charge of enforcing the judicial branch's rulings ... it gets a bit complicated when they just ...... refuse to enforce it.

this is going to go well beyond a simple constitutional crisis.

[last eagle]

trump... trumping the whole america

[last eagle]

https://twitter.com/PopBase/status/1889092034213843201

Pop Base (@PopBase) on X

Google Calendar has removed key cultural events from their site including:

• Pride Month
• Black History Month
• Holocaust Remembrance Day
• Jewish Heritage
• Hispanic Heritage
• Indigenous People Month

X · Feb 10, 2025, 11:20 PM

[eager parrot]

at least they're somewhat consistent and not selective

so things have gotten weird nearby

lincoln heights in cincinnati specifically has a lot of armed people out

because of the nazi gathering a little while ago

[pale knot]

Welp time to use bing/yahoo

[blazing depot]

"At least they're consistently supporting the nazis in charge"

[eager parrot]

basically they've all fallen in line because of the money or they are just showing their true faces

in case of google, they get tens of billions every year for their government contracts, and that's just the publicly revealed ones we know about

who knows how much money NSA pays them for all the data

so executive branch can easily scare these companies into compliance with their nazi agenda

[blazing depot]

On the really, really stupid shit end of things

Congratulations, you have a new official national holiday
https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1888707846000570775

The White House (@WhiteHouse) on X

HAPPY GULF OF AMERICA DAY! 🇺🇸

X · Feb 9, 2025, 9:53 PM

[eager parrot]

ah so funny

this reminds me of petty geographical naming things that east asian or middle eastern countries get up to regularly

who knew americans are just as bad, thanks a lot trump

[blazing depot]

Hey, the naming it that is yesterday's news

He actually proclaimed that a national holiday

[eager parrot]

god this timeline is so fucked

like Persian Gulf, most Arab countries especially Saudi Arabia call it Arabian Gulf, the US used to have a policy of just calling it "The Gulf" when they used to bomb countries around it.

there are all sorts of bodies of water and islands that various countries in the east and southeast pacific fight over

but this gulf of mexico renaming is so bizarre and hilarious in the worst way

[fossil basin]

Google also changed it to Gulf of America

https://fxtwitter.com/Acyn/status/1889055127019172219?t=ja029XYWn-ARZIb2xpngDw&s=19

[fossil basin]

I did tell this would happen

Either Trump wants a 3rd term of Elon wants in for 2028, either way someone wants to change constitution to be allowed into office

[proud tulip]

I don't think Elon would want it, he wants the position next to/above it like he has now

if Trump can't figure out how to get a third term he'll make one of his kids run

[hoary charm]

god emperor barron

[ruby helm]

Surprised he hasn't already done a "The american people should decide who is the president not some people who lived hundreds of years ago, that is why I am announcing a bill to amend the constitution and remove term limits."

[safe ferry]

don;t give him ideas

[fossil basin]

Give it a few years, from experience i have seen amendments to change constitution come in play more when elections are near

Possibly in 2026-27, there'll be big discussions

[hoary charm]

assuming the dems get their shit together, they probably wont have a chance if/when maga loses the midterms

[fossil basin]

Outlandish assumption to make

But yeah, normally this should be what happens

People also should be prepared for election fraud

[marsh oracle]

If the midterms happen

[fossil basin]

Yeah

[marsh oracle]

Theyre already openly defying court orders

[ocean vigil]

midterms will happen

elon will just take care of the vote counting

[fossil basin]

Most likely outcome

[deft spoke]

yeah the world is going to shit

how lucky were are to witness it!...

[last eagle]

2.3% chance for meteor to destroy a city, yay

[dire canopy]

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1161

[blazing depot]

Ah yes, Red White & Blue land

[trim flicker]

redd white

https://tenor.com/view/redd-white-phoenix-wright-ace-attorney-shrug-heh-smug-gif-9374081957037509780

he is not cogniferous

[eager parrot]

to be fair the term limits were just one of those founding fathers' norms that wasn't codified into law

until FDR decided to run for FOUR terms

and people were like, nah, fuck off after two, and passed a constitutional amendment.

[livid frigate]

Republicans decided that

[ocean vigil]

that's what happens when you let people who go by "Buddy" sponsor bills

[blazing depot]

Ukraine is super fucked, great times.

[ocean vigil]

https://fixupx.com/atrupar/status/1889748418895007893

good luck with the "rest of the world" part

[marsh oracle]

Still cant decide what makes trump sound stupider, his writing or his speeches

[eager parrot]

stupid sure, but the frightening part comes from the fact that his writing, his speeches, they turn into applicable actions

[fossil basin]

To me, the more frightening part is that this is definitely elon behind curtains

https://fxtwitter.com/jimstewartson/status/1889816278233444570?t=p6iJOabt1T2HzWO2AUVgRg&s=19

People think a 78-79 year old Trump has too much political coherency

[eager parrot]

definitely elon behind curtains

I'm fairly sure he's right there in front of the curtains

this is all out in the open

[fossil basin]

Agreed, my bad

But i do not think having criticizied coherency and stamina of Biden similarly aged, i just do not think Trump has the physical tools to be able to do all that by himself

[marsh oracle]

Musks kid seemed like an absolute sunshine there

Essentially telling trump to fuck off multiple times lmao

[eager parrot]

https://tenor.com/view/lotr-side-by-side-legolas-gimli-elf-gif-9010525511851777828

hey if we're all gonna die anyway, might as well get it over with

https://tenor.com/view/fallout-show-nukes-scene-nuke-nukes-fallout-apocalypse-gif-12805196998166995329

[fossil basin]

He would have seemt like it in any other context, but in here it seems like a new hereditary dynasty

Not something i am comfortable with

[half heath]

barron vs musk jr for the throne

[eager parrot]

I mean that's why he's maximally producing offspring

and Trump's family certainly has no shortage of kids either

[hoary charm]

i get you hate the guy but jfc its a 4 year old kid

[eager parrot]

yesterday I think in #kpop-chat we were talking about cooking devices and explosions

https://apnews.com/article/taiwan-explosion-taichung-shin-kong-mitsukoshi-f01bf8916ca406bb5948ea3e8b022db5

well this certainly doesn't help my fears

[blazing depot]

As I said, the one actually scary thing are gas stoves

[fossil basin]

I mean i do not really care for a 4 year oligarch/prince i would say

[fossil basin]

There was a video about how the ma-a-lego people or whatever are dressing as british royal family

[trim flicker]

im scared of pressure cookers

i aint trusting something that could explode and hit me with a bunch of pieces of metal and giving me burns all over my body

im perfectly content with only my neck having been completely burnt, thank you

[last eagle]

on a positive news (or rather... concerning?) news
https://fxtwitter.com/BRICSinfo/status/1888646126623920182

this is cool tho

[trim flicker]

a tweet without a linked article or anything

sure

i believe it

[fossil basin]

Interesting

But yeah, not the best source

[trim flicker]

brics news

a fountain of knowledge

[deft spoke]

every heater in your house rn:

[fossil basin]

My major enables me to trust them

[trim flicker]

man i live in brazil theres NO heaters at all in my house

THANK GOD

[fossil basin]

Atleast gives me ability on knowing how these work

[trim flicker]

only heaters in my house are the songs i play

[deft spoke]

floor heating >>

but about cookers, ur reminding me i should put it on my to buy list

merci don

[trim flicker]

that would be cool if i didnt live in brazil and it wasnt like summer 80% of the time

brazil very rarely gets below 15C

[trim flicker]

[deft spoke]

meanwhile im freezing my ass off

[trim flicker]

huge contrast with me on 30c weather at work with the AC on maintenance

at least i have a big fan pointed in my direction

[marsh oracle]

Farming twitter engagement off russian bots that try to appear real might be the secret money hack

[fossil basin]

https://fxtwitter.com/SASForPres/status/1890108879952081321?t=UZXnKH3A9xTR-QWLD1hQ3g&s=19

[fossil basin]

https://fxtwitter.com/TMZ/status/1890128179466997970?t=sFwj6kNXW6Uhl_KYQWWNhw&s=19

[deft spoke]

cant be the only one who's confused with duolingo atm

like whats going on lmao

[clear tide]

the owl is dead

[eager parrot]

somebody just gratuated with a marketing degree and is having fun

[brave pelican]

i cooked it

[marsh oracle]

Somebody named censori being famous for walking around naked is pretty funny

[pale knot]

What if I told you she's being manipulated to do so (not surprising tho)

[ocean vigil]

Fun weekend ahead, what could possibly go wrong at a security conference in Munich

[fossil basin]

https://fxtwitter.com/SASForPres/status/1890180591196533156?t=Nefvy8sj8nFV1CdPzO2h3A&s=19

[half heath]

lol you'd think they'd be way past alarmed already

[trim flicker]

very alarmed about this guy called Mussolini

[fossil basin]

Would consider it an improvement from the common politician reaction

https://fxtwitter.com/atrupar/status/1890129337245950149?t=4PMC-MV5InOML3XjGljmFw&s=19

Elon also has met up with Modi without Trump's knowledge

[blazing depot]

Just a bit of casual robbery, it's fine

[eager parrot]

https://theconversation.com/mirror-life-is-a-scientific-fantasy-leading-to-a-dangerous-reality-a-synthetic-biologist-explains-how-mirror-bacteria-could-conquer-life-on-earth-245842

new fear unlocked

[hoary charm]

https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1890441976417264027

The White House (@WhiteHouse) on X

Happy Valentine's Day ♥️

X · Feb 14, 2025, 4:44 PM

can't believe this is real

[blazing depot]

Truly the dumbest timeline

Like, at least post this on your main, Donald

Or honestly, probably Elon

This one is more Elon style

[oak lodge]

some corny intern

[nova holly]

huh tenet is actually real

[fossil basin]

https://fxtwitter.com/Kurrco/status/1890537288423338158?t=UiiHdPZf6d3kH9PlHYCI5A&s=19

If Diddy gets out or without punishment, it's the fault of that Trumpie lawyer Buzbee

I am not even a believer of Jay Z it's moreso that buzbee is an incompetent lawyer

[half heath]

So just learned that Gretzky and Trump are friends....

😮‍💨 either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain

[blazing depot]

I mean, why do you think Trump wanted him specifically as governor for his 51st state

[half heath]

ngl my filters been doing good work, I'm missing some news

[blazing depot]

That's good for your sanity at the very least

[marsh oracle]

https://fxtwitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1890831570535055759 america

[blazing depot]

Very cool

SCOTUS agrees of course

[marsh oracle]

Not sure scotus opinion will even be considered

Good thing vance is on a tour to teach europeans the ways of democracy

[dire canopy]

well Nazis never broke any law as well during their entire rule iirc

[blazing depot]

That's going over super well for sure

Such a likable guy

Watch Trump perform the miracle of making Europeans stand together and actually form that EU defense force

So on Kanye note, apparently he has no prenup with his current wife who dumped his ass for obvious reasons.

A bunch of divorce lawyers gonna be veeeeeery happy to take up that case

And basically take everything he owns

[valid magnet]

No prenup is he crazy

Nah this is a rhetorical question

[fringe juniper]

Didn’t take his own advice

[oak lodge]

"it's something that you need to have
cause if she leave yo ass
she gon leave with half~"

https://tenor.com/view/dance-ayye-hype-lit-gold-digger-gif-16975016

[blazing depot]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gj45DrDXIAE0yfR.jpg:orig

#thisisfine

[hoary charm]

its okay he's too busy knocking up conservative twitter commentators to be doing anything

[marsh oracle]

How much time does that really take when you dont give a fuck about the child afterwards?

[dire canopy]

he has been using one of his kids as a body shield ever since that Luigi incident

[fossil basin]

https://thehill.com/homenews/5145928-white-house-ap-oval-office-air-force-one/

AP seems to be barred from the white house completely

[fossil basin]

Since the child comes out of the womb

clearly he wants to build up a biological dynasty which is scary to me

https://fxtwitter.com/Swipeline_tr/status/1890447132525568307?t=7G1rHMsseSffJqnbRYgHSA&s=19
a media company called Swipeline in Turkey paid for a dough bites/lokma truck in order to mourn Duo's death

shout out to memphis grizzlies?

[valid magnet]

Now i want some lokma

[fossil basin]

https://fxtwitter.com/AssLatam/status/1890609602892288126?t=8lmAp4iN_9FbMAp2gmhlQg&s=19

[marsh oracle]

Coffeezilla gonna have a field day with this one

[hoary charm]

he already has an hour long interview with the “dev”

tldr is basically just admitting to a dozen international financial fraud crimes

[fossil basin]

Who

[hoary charm]

youtuber who focuses on crypto fraud

[blazing depot]

Has exposed some pretty big scams, too. Cryptoscammers do not like him very much

[fossil basin]

Sounds like someone that'll come up with his own crypto scam some time in his career

Reminds me of that nepo baby canadian trumpie who was "exposing" celebrity scams while promoting his own "bee better" greek honey scam

I am comfortable with using the term nepo baby on that boy because he brags about being a young self made business while his father was in a high position for a company close to Trump

[blazing depot]

Not even gonna bother

[fossil basin]

Grift is just unavoidable

[dire canopy]

doesn't know who he is, learns that he is doing investigations into scammers and exposes them online, "must be a grifter"

[fossil basin]

I said "he will turn out to be a grifter", it is a prediction not an assumption

Not saying he currently is one

His platform in theory would serve as an excuse to "look i am not like the other scammers" should he pursue to scam people himself

People making constant expose content can become grifters, it is not an uncommon sight

[fossil basin]

Azealia Banks currently claims that Grimes had told her about Elon Musk having had a botched penis implant

Not the most random source for Elon's personal life, the triad of Elon, Grimes and Azealia goes deep

[last eagle]

i dunno who they are but maybe congrats or sorry for your loss

[fossil basin]

https://fxtwitter.com/KellieMeyerNews/status/1891578093749362816?t=zCqj7kordTBOk5RmQWV0Aw&s=19

Per multiple news articles, all people on board are accounted for, 15 are injured, amongst 3 currently in critical condition, but no casualties

https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/local/peel/article/live-updates-one-child-two-adults-critically-injured-after-airplane-crash-at-toronto-pearson/

[marsh oracle]

(Non fatally injured still count as a casualty btw 🤓)

[fossil basin]

it does?..

[marsh oracle]

Yep, common misconception

[fossil basin]

i guess everytime is time to learn something new

https://fxtwitter.com/NewsWire_US/status/1891581231768252536?t=lXYov9O5R2dieoDcFuF0qQ&s=19

[hoary charm]

considering it's been looking like they've been training grok to be an reddit rightoid, this is pretty good

who knows if it passes the vibe test though

[last eagle]

lmao

[last eagle]

https://www.dexerto.com/kick/japanese-citizens-create-wanted-list-for-nuisance-streamers-3135296/

[proud tulip]

did johnny somali get out of korean prison?

[eager parrot]

he was never in korean prison

he's just not allowed to leave sk

[proud tulip]

ohhh

i thought he got arrested

[eager parrot]

yeah, but he wasn't jailed or sentenced, he was kept for a little while I think just at the police station

and his trial keeps getting delayed and postponed

so he's rightfully facing some serious fafo

[proud tulip]

gotcha

[eager parrot]

not sure why I even know this, I just remember looking up the wiki page lol

[proud tulip]

yeah hes a complete scumbag and deserves prison time

i just saw the videos of what he did in japan and korea and the ones of him getting beaten up

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1iruukr/the_informal_meeting_of_european_leaders_that/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

I spot Starmer

BReturn?

[eager parrot]

I see Frederiksen

not sure why she's even there

what's denmark going to contribute to european defense smh

[marsh oracle]

Greenland

Good distraction

[eager parrot]

true enough, totally forgot greenland is still under threat

[proud tulip]

i wonder if their meeting was only about US or also Russia

but then again there isn't much difference these days

[hoary charm]

china making more moves on the pacific islands now

[eager parrot]

should have included more of the nordic countries tbh, like the finns spend so much on defense and have first hand experience with the russians

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp1T7kPEdDY

stuff like this must be real embarassing for republicans if they were capable of shame and self reflection

meanwhile as the US is busy alienating allies, practically overnight we stopped isolating russia it seems https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-riyadh-talks-trump-putin-rubio-0c3beebfef5839e9d509ff58239a6bc5

we got a nice country, they got a nice country, let's divide up the world - trump, probably

kind of like the Portuguese and Spanish did 500+ years ago

[pale flower]

Or the French and Brits

[eager parrot]

somewhat the same, except they didn't come to an agreement with one another on that global colonial division

they were always at war with one another and competing instead

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tordesillas

[pale flower]

KInda the same with Russia/the US right?

Also I don't particularly know what to think about the negotiations with Russia but to be honest the isolation doesn't seem to have had much of an effect when it comes to actually stopping the war. So at the very least they're trying something different?

If it does end up being basically "welp goodbye ukraine and europe" that's a whole nother story though

[deft spoke]

very interesting

welp we'll have to see how it goes

[last eagle]

https://twitter.com/Razor_Language/status/1891737466815541547

Rajor (@Razor_Language) on X

Indonesia is in the middle of a mass protest over bad direction of governmental action, you won't see this information anywhere because they are trying to cover it up, even the local TVs won't show this.

It's happening right now.

You can check the rest in #IndonesiaGelap

X · Feb 18, 2025, 6:32 AM

it has been going on since yesterday

and yea i personally doesn't like what the president's directions go to, it's like giving false promises

[fossil basin]

This seems to be where it is heading

Again, one even if late or hard, i think is ought to start learning mandarin or cantonese

All i need is to not push it late and late

Adam Silver the visionary

https://fxtwitter.com/Seoh_Officiall/status/1891547511237521894?t=fxuTz4aGhaPixuOMGnx3Bg&s=19

I wanted to post someone's good art, but also, the reason i posted it here is to make coversation about the Odyssey movie, while i like the casting, the roman era helmet is making me worry

https://fxtwitter.com/odysseymovie/status/1891519115262669304?t=tmu7HIEPNboQICtH1vVGSg&s=19

I am not that picky in historical pieces of art or movies, but i want to feel like within the supposed era, i hope they manage to do it

People also told me that i somehow look like Matt Damon, makes sense