the (false) sin/cos dichotomy

but… but… if sin/cos is false, that is literally tan ! (yes, I was frequently bullied in high school, why do you ask?)

What is drawing top comedians to Saudi, a place where you get killed for saying or writing things the ruling family doesn’t like?

I see a trend there but I can’t quite… Wait, could it be loads of money?

no. no, what she was trying to say is that we are 100% shooting Russian jets IF they are on the table. Unless we’re having dinner, in which case we’ll invite them at the table because hospitality is sacred if you are armed and not an immigrant.

To be fair all kings initially became kings exactly the way Trump is trying to do. No matter how they try to paint it as a God-given right or create elaborate origin myths, it all started with violence, marrying into power, betrayal, political scheming and a lot of inbreeding.

It’s kind of appropriate that a kingdom recognizes this (although that was probably not what they were trying to do).

Best (or at least most addictive) use of AI I’ve seen so far is https://anycrap.shop/

I can’t imagine how sternly worded our letter to Russia is going to be! Scary stuff.

How does the madman theory work when your head honcho is an actual, bona fide madman? Don’t go anywhere, we’ll find out right after this quick commercial war!

Awesome, isn’t it?

Turns out that if the government is controlling the narrative by threatening, harassing or jailing whoever dares go against it, people will only read about the good things!

Wouldn’t it be great if the US did the same thing? Could we all become a happy place like China if we tried a bit harder to make our country… I dunno… great again?

“Trump insider” sounds like a tapeworm

Hedonic threadmill: it’s the hypothesis that we tend to a baseline level of happiness and on average, after some time, people who win the lottery are as happy (or unhappy) as people who go bankrupt.

Look at us, we are apes, barely out of trees. We were fighting predators and cold and diseases that no longer exist. Just by being alive, we are the winners of millions of years of genetic lottery, evolution, fights, love and ingenuity.

We have access to most of human knowledge through devices that fit in our pockets, can visit other countries that were legendary to our forefathers, instead of hunting wild beasts we have satellites that guide us step by step to the nearest McDonald’s.

Imagine having a time machine using it to travel a few generation back, imagine describing our life to our grand-grandparents, seeing their eyes grow wide; imagine, at the end, telling them how ennui got to us and we can no longer find meaning in our life.

I’m surprised they didn’t go for their signature move.

"Here’s the list. Aheam:

• Biden
• Biden
• Biden
• Clinton

… "

yes, but which one is more likely to try to invade Sweden, grab the Nobel Peace Prize and take it to Trump with blood still dripping from it?

thank you for raising awareness on this, I had no clue

I want to boycott Lockheed Martin but man… I was really looking forward to getting that Black Hawk helicopter for Xmas! No, but really, a few of the companies in this list are a relative surprise (Bcom, AirBnB), others are well known pieces of s*t, a few are literally in the military industry and are probably involved in every conflict in the world (or they are actively trying to)

translation from Russian: they will keep bombing schools and hospitals in Ukraine, but now it’s going to be a “reaction” just because they were provoked

can he hang from a web

no, he can’t, he’s a pig

1 ot of 5 dentists is right

Same here. I also found myself trying to express things in my language using English constructs or colloquialisms that don’t have a direct translation. And my English isn’t even that great, but I have to use it daily for work.

“he’s no longer the sensitive man and caring lover that I used to know”

That would be… horrifyingly effective. Just the thought makes me want to bleach my brain