It’s the best fast food burger out there. Legit. It is crazy expensive though.
But that’s every fast food place now. Good lucky a few months from now when the massive fuckup from DOGE that is the screwworm issue makes beef prices skyrocket
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“He made it all about himself!”
Such an amazing lack of awareness from a *checks notes* MAGA account, that I’ve got to imagine this is just a bit y’all are doing, I can’t believe there are some of y’all who are legit
not every homosexual is like this but there’s something incredibly gay coded about a guy who was in the vast majority of their sketches for years whining he never felt he was “central” to the show
Bowen Yang says he left "SNL" because he "never felt central" to the show.
"I never played the dad or the straight-man teacher. I was always kind of there as the seasoning."
Stream the full #ActorsOnActors episode now on the CNN app: https://t.co/jrgGNUUacv
Legit one of the funniest videos of all time but there’s a greater social commentary to be made about how non-Latinos don’t really understand that in Latin cultures identify themselves culturally first long before it’s a race thing.
@TECleveland @cremieuxrecueil Despite some bogus grants, a lot of government is like this cartoon. I bet this "small team" would find a line item for "screwworm sterilization" and delete it, not knowing that they just devastated American farming: https://t.co/OAnAkxDSEK
it’s actually shocking how much shit they (and this admin) have got horribly wrong and have managed to make costs / quality of life escalating worse, like, statistically you shouldn’t have that track record, and here we are
From 1966 to 2025 we dropped sterile flies over South America that ate screwworm and thus prevented them from spreading, but the le epic efficient cracked coders at DOGE thought this was a silly waste of the ~0 dollars it cost us.
It’s looking increasingly like he’s going to advance to Nov so actually things couldn’t have gone better for him absent an outright win with over 50%, but that was a long shot at this stage.
Which is not to say he’ll win in Nov but I’m sure he’s happy it’ll be a binary choice
I get that, I even can find some common ground to agree with you a bit here.
And yet:
I limit my drinking to about two times a week, and rarely to excess. I absolutely do feel if you need to drink EVERY night, you are closer to having a drinking problem IMO.
While I was in the Army, there was a period in which they were overly focused on alcohol consumption. They made us do periodic questions about alcohol use.
Upfront, let's be clear: my entire life, I've never been much of a drinker. I'm a notorious lightweight because I drink so rarely. I'm a cheapskate who doesn't like spending money and I hate the spins and hangovers.
But, I am still a fairly normal man and so I'd partake occasionally. If I am drinking at all it is either to have a 1-2 beers at a function, a single beer over a restaurant lunch/dinner, or I am drinking with intent to get blasted. There's no in between.
During my time in the Army, this translated to usually drinking 0.0 beers a week, except for the quarterly party I'd go to where I'd down 10-20 at a time.
I took a questionnaire that asked how many drinks I have a week. I answered "Approximately 0.03." They asked if I ever drank to the point of blackout. Yeah, like three times or so in my life.
That was it.
This use was enough for the Army to flag me as a 'potential alcoholic' and require me to at least get screened by a provider. I worked out the math and explained that this translates to a decimal point of beers a week, and that was enough to get me out of the process, but that was insane.
You know what is even more insane? I've encountered people who think this is appropriate. They think having drank to blackout even once in life should have someone cut back.
Somehow in a culture of rampant weed, coke, fent, meth, high risk sex, gang violence, and overall degenerate morality, we have effectively created a teetotaling culture that views a single heavy night out as a warning sign of alcoholism.
No wonder nobody drinks anymore.
I think it’s really as simple as them being nakedly, cravenly greedy enough that they really did believe they could fire half their workforce in favor of an AI chatbot, and had no clue as to how expensive (and inefficient) that would be.
I don’t even think it’s some sort of big brained scheme these CEOs had to force AI to ensure that their companies got billions / trillions into investment.
✍️“Out of the great cloud of Al hype, the outline of the crash can now be clearly discerned”
Here’s some maths from today’s @TeleBusiness column, now online:
🔗 https://t.co/4MkFivjjER
Look, the right went ultra cringe with the manosphere stuff (largely because the people who have tried to claim that spot as ultra macho, ideals of masculinity are anything but), but the left should really take a seat on defining who codes as gay or not.