Department of Education is (soon) kill!?

I was talking to a irl maga person a month ago and they were like:

...what? It doesn't matter who gets appointed to head the DOE because Trump will dismantle it. He literally said so lol

And I was like

pshhh that will never happen...

What is going on at the Air Force…. Reportedly at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico pic.twitter.com/5PD7DqdyWe

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 14, 2025

@RealDeanCain This isn’t hazing, or a bet that was lost - it’s Freestyle Friday where crew chiefs get into rediculous shit to launch their aircraft while everyone else shits themselves laughing, and the CC bangs his head against the wall.

— MSgt. Daniel Sawn, Retired U.S.A.F. (@Aska8122) February 14, 2025

Well, this happens all around the world in every flightline of any nation you can think of. It’s been happening since before I entered in 1999. Google “aircraft launch freestyle” and you’ll see.

Most of the times when leadership gets involved after the fact, it’s not good…

— MSgt. Daniel Sawn, Retired U.S.A.F. (@Aska8122) February 14, 2025

Sounds plausible. Someone lost a bet is another option. But rightoids of Twitter will do their thang.

This is why the US military needs to be decimated by Trump. Useless people everywhere pic.twitter.com/kkAOKdxBkQ

— God Emperor Trump (@ImperatoreTrump) February 14, 2025

Thank you God Emperor Trump, decimating the military for having fun will definitely keep us safe.

Looks like another example of woke nonsense infiltrating our military, this time at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico.

The Air Force should focus on defending our country, not promoting radical ideologies.

What's next, mandatory diversity training for our pilots?

— Stop Socialist Tyranny (@endlibtyranny) February 14, 2025

Even I'm getting tired of seeing the word "woke"

Do young Airmen typically put on thong bodysuits to send our billion dollar planes out of the hanger?

— GodParticles (@G0DParticles) February 14, 2025

Apparently, yes

Everybody knows the Air Force is gay anyways…but this is WAY too gay.

— Valentina Gomez (@ValentinaForUSA) February 14, 2025

2024 YR4 is an asteroid recently discovered by scientists in Chile (it's not the flying Tesla "asteroid", this one is legit). It is an "Apollo-type" near-Earth object that crosses our planet's orbit.

This week, scientists learned it had a 1.2%-1.6% chance of hitting Earth on 22 December 2032.

At a diameter of between 40 and 100 metres (130 and 330 ft), an impact with the ground could release approximately 8 megatons of destructive energy.

For reference, that is 533 times the bomb at Hiroshima and more than double the maximum yield of a US Navy Trident II ICMB.

All this places 2024 YR4 at a troubling 3 (out of 10) on the Torino Scale of impact hazards. It is the only non-0 threat, and the second highest ever recorded, exceeded only briefly in 2004 by 99942 Apophis before closer observations revealed that asteroid would not hit Earth.

So that is the bad news. Ready for the good news?

Calculations by NASA and the ESA show that 2024 YR4's "risk corridor" (where it would hit) doesn't pose a threat to anywhere important.

Other sources:

https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Planetary_Defence/ESA_actively_monitoring_near-Earth_asteroid_2024_YR4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_YR4

9 11 is canon in mlp

— domomajig (@stonydomo) January 28, 2025

I farted in the stairwell at work and it caused a entire ordeal.

So anyway I drank my usual morning protein shake and it gave me some bubble guts.

Im going up the stairs to my office and I ripped a huge fart in the stairwell. It was one of those steamy ones that really stink.

Anyway I guess the SVP of HR came in not long after and got a big face full of my beef.

She contacted the facilities team and they came to a conclusion that a rodent must have died in the walls or HVAC.

This led to them getting big blower fans and calling our HVAC company to check out the ducts and Orkin to scout out the walls

Anyway that's my story.

Sure, I've neglected everything else I'm supposed to be doing but look at that view count.

The EU has 450 million people, a nuclear-armed country and several more countries that could build nukes in a year or two if they decided to, and a $20 trillion GDP.

Every time I see articles that are like "Europe must prepare its security for a world without US help" I feel like I am taking crazy pills. Europe faces no serious external threat. People who think that Putin is going to try to launch a war against a EU country after 3 years of barely conquering a few villages have no understanding of how military affairs work. Who buys this crap? "Oh no a country that has 1/4th of our population and 1/10th our GDP is going to attack us, we all need to prepare to raise armies now that Drumpf told us we suck". It's ludicrous. Putin is r-slurred but he isn't ideologically motivated like Hitler was, he isn't going to risk his regime by invading any EU members.

How did I just get the most golden clip without prompting... pic.twitter.com/K7qO0pmZLt

— DosXXMachina (@DuosEquis) January 30, 2025

I know people are going to talk about the money, but say someone was buying it for you, what are your opinions of the game outside of cost?

And yes, because I am a troll, I want to join the same Pirate Software server and join that guild harassing him in-game. teeeheeee

Please help me feed my family $ANNA AsCzbtFHxokNyoJr4xzoXXPmpGdcHnH275sC7frrpump pic.twitter.com/VKbErEIejs

— Anna Khachiyan (@annakhachiyan) February 12, 2025

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https://boards.4chan.org/tv/thread/208713765#p208713765

The smartest guy at my highschool, a legitimate genius that got into both Oxbridge unis but chose to go to Manchester b/c of their nuclear physics department and got a job offer from CERN halfway through his degree dropped out to play WoW, turned trans and launched a porn blog https://t.co/gxCBRGHv7Y

— Adam Wren (@G0ADM) January 22, 2025

For context, Alexandera Houchin is a niche lolcow and currently the flavor of the year in the obnoxiously socially conscious world of alt cycling. She's a fat, nativeish girl that decided to start riding ultra endurance MTB races on a single speed but also managed to finish the Tour Divide (continental divide mtb/gravel bike race from Banff to the Mexican border) without losing any weight. Since then she's been on a victory lap trying to hoover up whatever sponsorships she can get before her knees explode, sort of like a BIPOC !bikechads version of Ragen Chastain

Also Esker is a company that makes bikes for dumbfricks who want a Surly but wish it was more expensive.

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

!marseyfans

Mayor Adams kicked off the two-day summit with a rousing speech in which he likened himself to a hero in the war against rats.

"I don't think there's been a mayor in history that says how much he hates rats," he said. "I dislike rats."

Exterminators weren't invited to the event, and neither were the city's rats. Kathleen Corradi, whom Adams appointed as the city's first "rat czar" last year, described the event as a space where rodent experts could share their philosophical treatises.

We are already losing the WAR ON RATS

Matt Frye, of New York State Integrated Pest Management, entered the rat symposium espousing a more diplomatic approach for dealing with Adams' public enemy No. 1.

"The 'war on rats' mentality may not be the best approach for our urban areas," he said.

Dr. Chelsea Himsworth, founder of the Vancouver Rat Project, compared the never-ending fight to the WAR ON DRUGS — and said health officials should focus on harm reduction instead of eliminating the vermin altogether.

"It can't be solved," Himsworth solemnly declared. "It can only be managed."

"I've handled 700 rats myself," said Byers, who fondly recalled driving around Vancouver in a "rat van," capturing rats, collecting their feces and urine, and even anesthetizing the rodents to pick fleas off their skin.

"They're symbols about a lack of resources in your community," she added. "Rats live in tight social groups, When you remove some, you change how they interact with each other. You're changing how you fight for their social hierarchy. And they do urinate on each other that whole time."

"They're just like us," Corradi, Rat Czar of NYC tells us as she bounds into a planter, pushes aside long stalks of milkweed, and points out the entrance to a burrow. "They want to live in a nice place, have food nearby, and not get into too much trouble if they can."

VICTORY! Rat Birth Control Trial Passes Unanimously in New York City Council

https://www.peta.org/blog/rat-birth-control-program-nyc/

Instead of using glue traps, poison, snap traps, or other methods that maim and kill rats instead of preventing their presence, break the cycle of violence.

Literally Wannsee'd

https://nypost.com/2025/02/17/us-news/doge-discovers-4-7-trillion-in-treasury-payments-were-missing-critical-code/

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doge-says-found-nearly-untraceable-budget-line-item-responsible-4-7t-payments

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/doge-4-7t-treasury-payments-untraceable-b2700115.html

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/doge-finds-47-trillion-virtually-untraceable-treasury-payments

mmt of this Sept 10th 2001 speech that Donald Rumsfeld gave as Sec of Defense early on in Bush's first term

!superheroes

Haven't been to a non-AMC theatre in awhile and I was shocked by how ugly and fat everyone was. Greasy, fat neck beard type men and all the women were mid at best but made a point of making themselves uglier by dressing like they smelled like mothballs and having shaggy haircuts.

It was especially jarring since we just came from a bar where everyone, especially the women, were very attractive and well-dressed. Why do only ugly people seem to appreciate art? Or why do people who appreciate art seem to not care about being attractive?