I like how he signed it off with the [Fourteen Words] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words)

That is a conspiracy theory that can easily be disproven if you look literally anywhere outside of Western Europe. Muhammad started Islam and composed the Qu’ran at the beginning of that time period, and the Islamic calendar begins in 622 AD. According to the Phantom Time theory, basically none of early Islamic history actually existed and it’s a fabrication by… The Pope?! It’s an absurd premise. The Abbasid Caliphate was founded in 750 and still existed in 911, with all sorts of written and archeological evidence in favor, and let’s not forget about the other Roman Empire that existed in that time frame and have their own historical and archeological evidence, including about events that overlapped with Western histories such as Irene of Athens being pressured to marry Charlemagne. Again, it stretches credulity that the Byzantine Emperors and Eastern Church or any Muslims whatsoever would be swayed to fabricate so much of their own history by the Pope. This theory is absurd at best and racist at worst because in erasing so much Western European history it just kind of assumes literally nothing was happening anywhere else in the world either.

It was dildestiny

As someone who has used it for viewing legal copyright free content and nothing pirated, I will say that it definitely provides a service that regular torrents don’t- ease and speed. It makes viewing legal and copyright free content just as easy as using Netflix to the point where you don’t have to go onto various websites looking for what you want to watch, you can just get it all in one place. Further, if you have roommates or relatives who would like to view this legal and copyright free content as well, it’s easy enough for them to use as well without having to learn how to find and download said content. I have done both, and I must say that the fee is well worth it to me compared to the amount of time it saves.

It’s a French company that you pay a small amount of money to use their service to access perfectly legal and open source content, and not anything resembling pirated movies and TV shows. If your son is using it to view pirated TV shows, that would be very bad and against their instructions for how to use their service. However, it is possible that this is what he is doing.

I can fix her

I’ve not used Epic games store much at all but I could see this leading to a proliferation of garbage on their service if they take the Steam approach of just letting anyone publish on there. This would essentially be an incentive to publish asset flip shovelware on Epic instead of Steam because “devs” get a bigger cut.

Idk why so many idiots keep harping on this when it doesn’t matter who actually gives the money to the government, it all ends up being borne by the end consumer. If china “paid” the tariffs to the government it would be exactly the same as if the importer did in terms of overall effect.

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

It’s bad and 100% caused by tariffs but a quirk in the way GDP is measured needs to be considered when interpreting this number- imports essentially as negative GDP, so when everyone scrambled to import everything before the tariffs went into effect it made GDP go really low. The idea is that when you sell the imported item that is counted as positive GDP so selling an imported item is basically GDP neutral, but a lot of this stuff hasn’t been sold yet. That said, it’s still a bad sign and still 100% caused by tariffs. It’s just not immediately what it looks like.

It’s just common sense that taxes make costs go up. Any other belief is magical thinking and anyone dumb enough ti fall for it deserves to be fooled

Can’t argue with that. It’s not like he hid anything. He is doing exactly what he said he was going to do. It’s not like these morons couldn’t have googled “what is a tariff” before election day and that’s not Trump’s fault that they didn’t. This is something I actually agree with Trump on. Imagine having so many loyal fans and then suddenly they’re acting surprised and angry that you’re doing exactly what you promised to do. It’s kind of absurd.

Idk I’ve definitely been in meetings that had “war room” vibes like you get like 20 people in a room to solve an urgent problem otherwise there will be a safety or environmental incident, or the company will lose millions of dollars. Then again most people’s jobs don’t have problems that can kill people or release toxic chemicals into the environment if something goes wrong.

he sat out this election

No sympathy. Dumbass got what he voted for, that he didn’t care if Trump won and did exactly what he said he was going to do. So why the sudden change of heart? Selfish fuck only cares when it impacts him personally.

I’m pretty sure “Spice Melange” is trolling. Idk how someone would understand and enjoy the plot of Dune (assuming the book because IDK if they even used that term in the movies) with this poor of an understanding of how trade works.

There’s a gag in Futurama about ads being displayed in your dreams. If that were possible they’d be doing that, but right now they’re settling for just the waking hours.

It’s happening with pretty much all professions. I’m a chemical engineer and it’s pretty much every role at my plant, the plan is just make everyone work so much they hate their lives, and then those people quit and make things worse for everyone else that’s left and it’s all fueled by an endless supply of fresh college grads who are just thrown into the deep end with the understanding that over half of them will get fed up and quit within a few years and those who stay will train the new ones coming in. It’s not just engineers, it’s operators, mechanics, maintenance coordinators, safety reps, anything you can think of. While technology technically allows fewer people to do the same work, that same work is just getting worse and worse because each employee has to do so many different types of things and have so much riding on them personally that they feel like they can’t leave or take any time off without messing up the whole operation - there is no redundancy.

Everyone I know in the chemical industry is saying the same thing. Everyone is overworked and wages for chemical engineers have been stagnant for the past 20 years in spite of inflation and each employee delivering much more productivity than they used to. I have started to envy the production line staff who at least get overtime pay and don’t have to think about this shit once they clock out. They just leave and it’s the next shift’s problem.

A lot of pitties had their ears clipped and tails dockedbefore their current owners got ahold of them. If you get a dog from the shelter that had its ears clipped are you supposed to just hide them under a sheet every time you go outside? Should shelters just kill these dogs to avoid the shame of showing them? This is an absolutely braindead take.

Lmao you saw what they got done in a hundred days, you really think there will be enough rule of law for voting to matter in 2026 if we don’t do something sooner?

Yes but you, like everyone I seem to talk to these days, is under the false impression that Trump isn’t a complete idiot who literally thinks tariffs are the solution to all problems. It’s more comforting to think there’s some massive conspiracy by Russia or that it’s a ploy to make money off the stock market, but I truly believe that Trump actually thinks tariffs will magically fix the economy and his reactions to the backlash are legitimate shock that so many people and the markets don’t agree. Yes Russia does stand to gain from this, but they don’t need to pull the strings when the guy in charge is innovating economic policy so stupid that a smart person would have trouble even imagining it.

Trump decisions make more sense when you realize he is actually stupid as fuck and there’s no hidden chess moves or anyone pulling the strings from the shadows. There is nobody at the wheel who is actually competent even if they’re evil. This is all just the whims of a complete moron who is probably also going a bit senile as well.