lunar housing crisis victim 
O'Grimacey has returned from retirement and has brought shamrock shakes to Mcdonald's - 18
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The shamrock shake is back at Mcdonald's before it's even valentine's day along with Grimace's Uncle O'Grimacey who hasn't been seen since the '80s. He seems like a chill guy (see image below) and I'm happy Grimace has been united with his beloved uncle. 
I got one today and it was sweeter than I remember but maybe they just put too much mysterious green syrup in mine. 7.5/10 but I wonder how it'll taste after I put it in the freezer.
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There's robots and shit bro. It's fricking 2025!!! There's literally AI bro! Frick! We are so fricked!
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donates to Orange Man's Inauguration fund 
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"All the trillion dollar corporation CEOs are donating money and having one-to-one dinners with him. Hello oligarchy." - /u/erotic_sex_worker
So just like it's always been: Biden inaugural committee raised $62M with big sums from billionaires, corporations
I love that it's only news now because Trump does it.
It's (D)ifferent ya know
God America is corporate wasteland now. They don't even hide buying politicians anymore. But don't worry rich orange Jesus is here to save us, he totally knows the struggles of the working man.
This is what 78 million Americans voted for.
They wanted corporate welfare, billionaire immunity, and pay for play.
Oh, you thought you'd get cheaper groceries and a one time $600 dollar check? Fricking dolts.
"I don't want consumer protection, workers rights or more financial freedom like never having to worry about healthcare costs again! I want to stop woke and trans and poor people from having freedom."
terrorists don't attack us anymore because they cant achieve our level of destruction with ignorance voting. - /u/herefromyoutube
I'm certain they wanted more corporate welfare and to not own the libs lmao
Look, I didn't like Trump and never voted for him. I thought Biden was honestly doing a pretty okay job. But as a lifelong Apple fan, if Tim's on board, then I'm willing to give him a chance. - /u/Ok-Echo-7764 [-50]
It's even worse when you consider the fact that he's a gay man supporting this admin. Sad.
These people really think the GQP is really going to take away gay rights lmao - /u/OmniAtom91
Honestly I don't blame Cook that much for this. With Trump as president, you have to pay to play. Trump would be petty enough to do something to ruin Apple stock if Cook didn't pay.
Didn't hate the player, hate the game. - /u/d-cent [-8]
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(This is a continuation of my reply to the recent thread about the Civilization series.)
It's got some issues with, for lack of a better term, historical accuracy. There's some weird dodgy stuff in the tech tree. You may try to scoff and say that it's just a game, it's not meant to be accurate. Yeah, of course not, to a certain point. Old Man Redactor once saw me playing Darklands and pointed out that if you just changed the data files you could use the same engine to make a game about running a laundromat. What elevates games over spreadsheets is that there's some kind of story that it's telling you where the numbers mean something. In Civ, that story is history in general, so it had darn well better at least feel like it has to do with history.
I only realized later that actually my father is a Satanist who was trying to drive me away from good Christian games. One day on the solstice he made carry a bunch of 1-gallon milk jugs full of blood (I dunno what kind) from the garage to the trunk of his old Honda. Then he got in and it flew away into the night. That's when I put two and two together.
The way religion is handled I think is pretty butt-backwards. In the original Civ, it's all abstract. You build a temple and that's it, it's assumed that it's a temple for whatever these people believe in. It doesn't really matter what religion it is because, for the purposes of the game of Civilization, people from different religions act pretty much the same for the most part because we're all human.
The other approach you can take is what they do in Europa Universalis. (I dunno if they still have the guts to do this but they did when I played it.) Where you decide which religions are good or bad and give them bonuses and penalties. This obviously has some disadvantages. Like it's really fricking obvious what's going on when the game is made in Sweden and the good religions that get bonuses are in northern Europe. You can't get away with that if you're making a game outside of an extremely ethnocentric culture like Sweden.
Swedes always score themselves as the happiest country on Earth when they make those rankings, yet all the Swedes I know complain about how their husband just drinks all day and won't do anything even though she physically beats the shit out of him. Curious.
Civ IV tried to have their cake and eat it too but you end up with nothing and you're still hungry. The religions use the superficial trappings of ones from the real world but in gameplay terms they're completely generic with nothing differentiating them except which tech activates them. If they're generic why do we need them? Why not just leave it completely abstract like in Civ I? If we're assigning them to real world religions, why don't we give them their own special bonuses like we do with different civilizations?
The approach in Civ IV is kinda stupid both in terms of gameplay and theme. You might as call the religions pokemon because you're best off just collecting them all. Each one in a city adds happiness and gives you the opportunity to build more improvements. Honey, please. This is a stupid gameplay mechanic where you're encouraged to build missionaries to convert all your cities and build the same improvement several times for each religion. I consider this to be what Soren Johnson (designer of Civ IV) himself called a "degenerate strategy" in his seminal piece "Water Finds a Crack". You're doing something that's stupid and not interesting because the game rewards you for it. There's no interesting choices going on here. The other gameplay impact religion has is that basically it makes some of the AI civilizations hate you for no reason. This was obviously intended to stop you from just turtling and being friends with everyone, but it's annoying when you're left with fewer options to pursue in diplomacy.
In terms of history, this is all really stupid. Religious diversity works in America because the Founding Fathers designed our nation around it. In the rest of the world in the rest of history, having many different religions in one city is not a recipe for everyone to love each other. Let's look at the late 1500s, when religion was perhaps the most important in history that it's ever been. You had stuff like Protestant mobs surrounding the convent and yelling lewd suggestions of what the nuns should do. Today in Beirut they've got 15 religious sects and it's not giving them +15 happiness points. It's giving them continuous simmering animosity. Damascus, Aleppo, Baghdad, great cities that have "stood the test of time" like the ones represented in Civilization are not finding that diversity is their strength. By ignoring these real issues, I feel that Civ IV is demeaning both to America, where we actually solved them to some extent, and to the poor bastards living in those shithole countries where they have to deal with sectarian bullshit on a daily basis.
In 1976 the Lebanese decided that their happiness bonus from being multicultural society was so great that they asked the Syrian Army to come and violently put down sectarian violence experience it for themselves.
Also, what do you do with the Jews and Hindus? If you're putting real world religions into the game they're incredibly important so you have to include them, but they're not like the other ones featured in the game. They're not sending missionaries around trying to convert people. So what do you do? Write special rules for them? Who's gonna do that? You'd need to hire some guy from Hebrew University who also loves 4X to do any justice to it.
Now this is a nice campus.
The way that religion affects diplomacy in the game is stupid in the other direction. Countries won't make alliances with the "infidels"? How fricking naive do you have to be? Are like 4 fricking years old? Let's look at the late 1500s again. I don't have the book at hand at the moment, so this is from memory, but there was an alliance against the Hapsburgs that was something like this: Sweden, Denmark, England, the Netherlands, France, Portugal, Morocco, Algeria, various parts of Italy, and the Ottomans. They'd have added the Moros in the Philippines if they had better communications technology. In Lebanon they've gone through every possible combination of different sects allying with each since 1975. Most hilariously the Druze who have been both allied with and fought everyone else at least once since then. The elites running the country or the faction usually don't give a shit about sectarian hatred except as a tool they can use to manipulate the plebs.
Sana'a Mehaidli. Carried out a suicide bombing against the Israeli occupation force in 1985. I guess nobody ever told her that as a Christian she wasn't supposed to be on the same side as Muslims. 
Which takes me back to my original point about how Sid Meier did it with generic temples. It's not because he's some atheist who hates religion. (He's actually a Christian of the actually going to church kind btw.) It's because trying to fit too much low-level detail about religion into a 4X game is really tricky and probably won't work in terms of gameplay or theme. I've always had a strong impression that this feature was basically put in because there was a feeling among (mostly atheist) 4X fans that religion was a big thing in history so we need a gameplay mechanic for it. And my feminine masculine intuition is rarely wrong.
After all this time I spent writing this I really feel like... starting up a new game of Civ IV. It's a great game. 
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A man working at a cemetery in North Dakota was stopped in his tracks recently by the peculiar sight of three turkeys repeatedly circling a gravestone. pic.twitter.com/avV0HjO3kU
— New York Post (@nypost) February 16, 2025
What did the 
mean by this? 
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Milei refuses to apologize for $LIBRA memecoin scam: "If you went to a casino and lost money, what's the complaint?"
— COMBATE |π΅π· (@upholdreality) February 18, 2025
On promoting the scheme: "I didn't promote it, I spread it... I used my personal account"
"But you're the president"
His lawyer then interrupts the interview pic.twitter.com/ojncW9jVDo
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Protoclone, the world's first bipedal, musculoskeletal android. pic.twitter.com/oIV1yaMSyE
— Clone (@clonerobotics) February 19, 2025
The Protoclone is a faceless, anatomically accurate synthetic human with over 200 degrees of freedom, over 1,000 Myofibers, and 500 sensors.
β Clone (@clonerobotics) February 19, 2025
Torso 2 with an actuated abdomen. pic.twitter.com/ciggvr7b06
β Clone (@clonerobotics) December 6, 2024
same vibe pic.twitter.com/CTgtgFDyDu
β Chansoo Byeon (@ByeonChansoo) February 19, 2025
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@whyareyou I didn't actually think you were fricking that r-slurred but I thought it was fricking funny reading out "why are fricking you r-slurred"
!vibecheck !r-slurs !edgelords
If you want to make your own, you can use this
thank you 
) and posts a generic WU WUZ EVRYBODI! post. Chuds smell blood in the water and come swarming fast! 
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"They" keep posting bait like this in people's feeds... There's a lot of it now and it never happened at this rate before. The Drama gods are good. 
1. 
"so you guys invented slavery?" 
"you invented ugly"
2. 
" no one in my family is the color of 
" 
"okay cave boy"
3. 
"darn... did we have any attractive ancestors?" 
"you'd have fit in back then" 
"Doubt that. I'm gorgeous, dusty"
Pinay deletes post but it must have been good as she caused a lot of seething lol
4. 
"..." 
" 
"
5. 
"this is the truth!" 
"no this is pure bullshit!" "okay drunky" "show my evidence you dumb neighbor"
Pinay girl is back lol
6. chud posts
Guy has fun and posts the "my ancestor" meme... black guy doesn't get it...
7. 
"my ancestors" 
"you a USA citizen?" " no, I'm an anomalocaris" "worry about your own disgusting country" 
Boomer posts gif of black guy stealing stuff and running away
8. 
posts chud gif 
"chudposts harder*
9. 
"the pale cave monkies hate African people! Africans are the original people. Podcast coming soon!" 
10. Some random posts lol
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I know Hamas is popular with some RS people but let's be honest. The Gazans are very pro Hamas and Hamas is a terrorist group. Parading murdered babies around today was probably not a good optical choice for the Gazan people. If the Gazans did not support terrorists, wouldn't it help their case? They want the world's sympathy but taking women and babies hostage and killing them is probably not going to warm people's hearts. I'm sick of paying for Israel's wars but I still think Islam is a wicked and violent religion, barbaric and worthless.
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I have 2FA on (authenticator based not phone number based), I use a randomly generated password, I've removed all active sessions, but someone keeps changing the password somehow and adding a new phone number. I don't know why either they haven't tried to buy anything.
How tf are they doing it. If it happens again I'm probably just gonna close the account as I barely ever use it.
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Yes, we ended up staying at the two seediest hotels in Fort Lauderdale because of my reservation frick up, but if not we wouldn't've seen so many hot Eastern European chicks and the 
with basketball-sized cans.
describe how they are going to divorce 
their husbands for being insufficiently anti-Trump 
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I knew deep down, when he would never give me a response when I have tried engaging him in discussions about women's rights and everything else Trump and his cult have done, that he felt this way. How can he think this, after everything I've talked to him about with abortion bans (we have young girls), Trump's stance on climate change, Project 2025, etc.
I wish I were financially independent. I made the idiotic mistake of taking a break on my career. I work part-time and can work more next year.
I really want out. I just don't know how
From the comments:
"I don't know, Trump really doesn't seem that bad"
"My therapist that I spend your money on agrees with me! You're literally at Nazi!"
I'm sorry for you and your girls. They will know their father stood by while their rights were decimated and he will have to live with that. Not that any of these men are capable of self reflection.
Most sane BreakingMom poster.
"ur a fascist if you don't agree with me"
Trump is a Nazi!
: Source!? Do you have a SOURCE for that?!?
You're all about women's rights but what actually have they taken away from you that changes your day to day life" oh he also is a freakin racist. He 100% proved that on MLK day by saying "oh it's (person who assassinated MLK day)" and I was like WHAT? He goes, "what you never heard it called that before? Everyone I know calls it that" I was dumbfounded. I was like why because you're a racist who is surrounded by other racists??? What the heckkkkk.
We have a daughter. I just can't do this for the next 4 years and who only knows how long after. I start therapy soon. I feel like the world is going to heck and I don't know what to do about it. I'm so scared for my child.
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Period.
It's in the Constitution
No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
im ready to go from millenial cringe on YT to laughing at subtle Political Cat Memes on FB with the rest of the Boomers 
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This is often discussed on the main sub (there's a post about it right now) and the consensus is always that only boring prudes and incels are against them and they're actually very good for... "artsiness" or beauty or something.
I cannot believe anyone feels anything but extreme awkwardness or annoyance when watching them, especially in a group of people. They are almost never necessary for the plot either. Try watching a movie with a s*x scene with your friends or especially family - it's an instant mood killer and everyone just waits for it to end. It was maybe cool when I was 13 and my friends were also 13 and we'd go AWOOGA upon seeing a pair of tits.
Directors have got to be aware of this as well, which leads me to the conclusion that they intentionally make their viewers feel uncomfortable (or they make their movies for 13 year olds). But that would be stupid. So is there something I'm missing?
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Just learned that the social security database is not de-duplicated, meaning you can have the same SSN many times over, which further enables MASSIVE FRAUD!!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 9, 2025
Your tax dollars are being stolen. https://t.co/hSZdNY4wxf
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a few months ago i briefly went a function at aella's house (nonsexual) and saw the "i'm sorry i told you you're not that pretty during a tender moment" card irl. for me it was like seeing the mona lisa but when i tried to explain to other people there no one understood pic.twitter.com/RW0kqqKuyQ
— cold π₯ (@coldhealing) September 23, 2024
Context
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EDIT: OP IS A MOID!
No drama but it just seemed funny to me, like why are you humblebragging on Reddit to a bunch of minimum wage wagies?
Also what the frick is up with that house? Why does it have two garages?
https://old.reddit.com/r/Homebuilding/comments/1hgjwyz/we_are_almost_there/
OP also sucks at parking:
https://old.reddit.com/r/HummerEV/comments/1g343jk/i_pulled_the_trigger_this_weekend/
She posts to /r/ebayselleradvice so I assume she's a stay at home wife with a rich husband.
She really loves humblebragging
And she has some Karen story that I didn't read:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Diesel/comments/1eb968p/i_know_we_all_have_had_bad_experiences_at/
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