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Cake day: December 22nd, 2024

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  • There’s this, and the “Fortress America” thing, where military bases are supposed to be off the national grid.

    Which is 100% a way to speed up nuclear SME roll out. The military already gets different policies for nuclear material, and has been piloting containerized SMEs for a while. What they’re doing is setting up Elon and friends to be the deciding factor and/or the companies selling this to themselves. Bill Gates has a company working on SMEs as well, and it seems like they either want him to do the work and then Elon and Gingrich, who I wasn’t aware could still string 2 sentences together coherently. are in the middle.

    This is seriously African Dictator playbook, Chapter 1. Trevor Noah called this back in 2016.


  • Generally, people weren’t dicks or trolls online quite as much at the time. The internet wasn’t for everyone in 2001. Most people got their news from TV. I had a family member call me to turn on the TV.

    The lack of decency part was how quickly the anti-Arab sentiment came out of the woodwork. With a lot of people still sort of attuned to it from the first Iraq war, it was easy for a lot of people to fall back into that. Tons of racist cartoons and photoshoped images sent around, mostly by email. Lots of email forwards. To be fair, people were extremely pissed, and since it was not a nation-state doing this, it was hard to have someone to blame in the traditional sense.

    But, in general, people were more shocked and terrified. Especially as the anthrax stuff happened a few weeks later, rampant speculation and conspiracy theories ramped up. All of that “jet fuel can’t melt steel beams” started within days. A lot of “woah, I can’t believe it” stuff. It took a few days before things got back to normal.






  • Somewhere there’s got to be an advertising exec that’s trying to figure out how tall the average guy sticking his dick in a glory hole is, so they can slap an ad right at eye level. Then another ad right above the hole at eye level of the other person.

    Add up high for McDonalds

    Right above the hole for 5 gum






  • GreenShimada@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•Bring back the cold, please.
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    3 months ago

    In Greek, the word for summer is kalokairi. It literally means “good weather.”

    Snow can suck a fuck. Totally overrated. Why go somewhere that you need to add layers of polyester just to survive? 1 layer of linen and I’m set.

    Edit: Every downvote from you churns a server in a data center that makes the earth heat up. Bring it on. Let the leopards eat your faces!