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Et in Arcadia ego

[Village Idiot @Hwi561]

@nagamyzuna Smart people and wrong and morons are right more often than the smart people want to admit

[Village Idiot @Hwi561]

Jeff merkley and Ron wyden sponsor bill giving 50k to current home owners looking to sell

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

JUST IN: First-time homebuyers could get as much as $50,000 for a down payment on a house, under a draft bill to be introduced by Senator Jeff Merkley and cosponsored by Senator Ron Wyden, per Axios

[Thomas Banuelos @ReelTommyB]

The great irony of this clip is that *everything* this villainous "Mark Zuckerberg" straw-man is saying is 100% correct.

[🏴 Freedom Enjoyer 🏴 @yourstruly_98]

>Market comes up with a shitty idea nobody wants.
>nobody buys it and it stops being produced.

>Government comes up with a shitty idea nobody wants.
>It continues so long as the bureaucracy wants it to, and is often forced on the unwilling.

[River Page @river_is_nice]

The way chuds post about stuff like this is so embarrassing and obviously comes from a place of extreme insecurity and lack of contact with the outside world. It’s like in the 2010s when people used to write those posts that basically said streaming Beyonce is a revolutionary political act.

[Village Idiot @Hwi561]

Some posts deserve a like even after the community note

[turbomander (TWITCH AFFILIATE ERA) @turbomander]

soooo is anyone gonna talk about what the department of the interior posted today. like some intern is getting fired right

[Kat Rosenfield @katrosenfield]

Actually, what bothers me about this: the essay makes public what should have been a private apology for Hannah-Jones's failures as a mother, and in doing so not only elides the apology she should be making for her failures as a journalist but refuses to acknowledge them at all

[Village Idiot @Hwi561]

Chess in Google Sheets is even worse lol

[/J\ @_joulian_]

chess game using excel

[Village Idiot @Hwi561]

Lmao, I wonder if the permanent security council members veto this one

[Raylan Givens @JewishWarrior13]

🚨 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has laid out a concrete proposal for restructuring the UN Security Council, writing in Bloomberg that the veto privilege held by permanent members should be abolished.

His proposed model:

• Strengthen the powers of the UN General Assembly
• Eliminate permanent Security Council seats
• Have the General Assembly elect Security Council members for fixed, rotating terms
• Require countries seeking another term to win majority support again

Erdoğan’s proposal would amount to a fundamental shift in the UN’s power structure — replacing the post-World War II system of permanent great-power privilege with a model in which Security Council influence would depend on recurring support from the broader UN membership.

[Village Idiot @Hwi561]

@BecomingCritter If not for the aggrieved child it would be perfect

[Village Idiot @Hwi561]

DFW speaks of this

[jay ® @Jayydeennn]

imagine u gettin kidnapped with a stuffy nose and they tape your mouth

[Village Idiot @Hwi561]

Hot take, but this actually sucks. I want to work out a windowless closet and then leave the laptop at home for my trip to Bali

[Yvrk @h_ersty]

Je rêve tellement d’être dans cet état actuellement

[Village Idiot @Hwi561]

Lmao, good for Bessent. Happy to see he’s finally embracing the clown role

[Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent @SecScottBessent]

Great to welcome @jakepaul to the Treasury Department today.

Jake’s path from content creator to entrepreneur and professional boxer is a distinctly American story. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Полковник РВСН @Pravonapadenie]

Of fucking course.

[Hiroo Onoda @OnodaCapital]

“Give us another chance”

I am deceased

[Village Idiot @Hwi561]

Damn, you’re ancestors sound sick! Shame you’re such a loser

[Ryan S. Walters @ryanswalters73]

My 16th great grandfather was King Henry VII, who funded the mission that claimed North America for England. My direct ancestors came to Jamestown and Massachusetts Bay. They fought in the crucial French and Indian War, and the War for American Independence. Two of my 6th great grandfathers fought as offices on the Patriot side at Kings Mountain! And on and on … blood, sweat, tears!

And no one with your name was there!!

So, no, you sit down and shut up child! Show some respect!!

[Village Idiot @Hwi561]

@alanferrier You’d certainly be as irrelevant

[Village Idiot @Hwi561]

Hilarious that cough syrup with heroin in it is scene as a gateway drug to pickles and pork

[Punished Tamale @punishedvaquera]

According to a 1915 temperance magazine, mexican food leads to a drunkards grave.

[Village Idiot @Hwi561]

@UK_is_a_lie The difference is the English were good at colonization, while the Scot’s bankrupted themselves

[Mr. S.T.A.R. @favelaoverlord]

Let’s play girl microblogger ad-libs:
So I was at this like party in [Bushwick/Detroit/Portland] last week and my ex-situationship was talking about how [he/she/they] had like, totally stopped [trendy behavior verb + noun]. This is crazy because our democracy is literally…

[Village Idiot @Hwi561]

Human rabies vaccine: 6 painful injections

Animal rabies vaccine: 1 tasty fish ravioli

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Rabies kills ~59,000 people a year globally. At that rate, the United States should lose 2,500 people a year to rabies. But the real number is fewer than 10, partly because we've spent 30 years dropping fish-flavored ravioli out of helicopters over the Appalachians.

Each one contains a rabies vaccine inside a fishmeal-coated block. Raccoons, foxes, coyotes and skunks find them by smell, bite through, and enjoy the treat. Four to six weeks later, they carry rabies antibodies. Enough of them in one area and the virus runs out of animals to move through.

USDA Wildlife Services has been doing this this line since 1995. It runs roughly from Maine down through Alabama, and its job is to stop raccoon-variant rabies from crossing into the central US, where it has never established.

A single course of post-exposure shots runs into the thousands of dollars, and every rabid raccoon in a suburb produces a cluster of them: the kid who got scratched, the dog that tangled with it, etc. US rabies prevention costs between $245 and $510 million a year and avoids over a billion in medical spending.

Long Island is probably our best case study for this program. A $2.6 million baiting program eliminated raccoon rabies from the zone, and paid for itself in eight years on avoided shots and testing alone.

The biggest question I hear about this is: what happens if my dog finds one? And the answer: nothing bad. This vaccine has been safety-tested in over 60 species at varying doses with no adverse reactions observed, regardless of how much was given.

About 250 million doses have been distributed worldwide since 1987 with no documented deaths in wildlife or domestic animals. The most severe adverse reaction observed was upset stomach.