Found the German.

Mizzik Thunderboots

I’m not sure if this is a meme or a meta-analysis of our current dystopia…

…and dear god what is Mr. Beast doing with his other hand?

Another German banger I heard awhile ago:

“Ask me if I’m a schoolbus.”

“Are you a schoolbus?”

“No.”

Duke spilled the beans…

Ok, now I need to know how much weed I’d have to smoke to knock out a mosquito.

Don’t need to kill them, just keep em mellow enough to stop being bitey.

Texas is worse. If anyone finds out you’re trans there, your life is in danger - the cops will turn a blind eye to whatever JimBillyBob and his kin decide to do to you. The only place in Texas you might be able to live somewhat safely is Austin.

Plus, in Texas even the young people are fucking Boomers. Same entitlement, same attitudes, same fucking racism and hatred of anything different, same fucking Megachurch bullshit… it’s like the entire fucking state collectively decided that the 50s were the height of cultural development and has actively invested in generational stupidity ever since.

Don’t get me wrong, Florida is shit too, but it only recently turned to shit - pre-DeSantis it actually was worth visiting, and living in if you were near the beach (nothing like swimming in the east Atlantic down there).

But Texas has been working on being a shit state since before they joined the union - IMHO Florida has at least a couple of decades to go before it gets as absolutely idiotic as Texas.

Best - California. Even the worst parts of the state are better than most other places in America, and the best parts are literally world wonders (Yosemite, Redwoods, Sequoias, Death Valley, Joshua Tree). Pricey AF, but you get what you pay for, and it’s all here - mountains, deserts, ocean, lakes, Hollywood, Silicon Valley, big cities, little towns, pretty much any kind of life you could want, you can live it here if you’ve got the means to afford it.

Worst - Texas. It’s where the worst of America decided to throw an endless rodeo and most of their trash. Yeah, other states may be stupider, or more racist, or more desolate… but nobody nowhere is louder and prouder of being a drunken pain in the ass than a Texan. Florida man comes in a close second if he’s methed up enough, but Florida actually has cool shit like the Everglades and Miami and manatees and alligators.

Texas has Buc-ees and lot lizards.

TIL - thanks!

In terms of my post, I was interested in the Khajit specifically, as I think the extensive specifics written of both their culture and their variant morphology would make for some incredible storytelling and plotlines. It’s one thing to meet the parents when your girlfriend is Caitian… quite another if she’s Khajit.

Mom could be looking like this:

…while Dad is looking at you like:

Haven’t seen those, so wouldn’t know… I’m more interested to see what the Federation would do with the Khajit as they exit in Elder Scrolls - all of the different morphologies - from the giant Senche-Tigers to the tiny Alfiq.

I’d also really dig seeing a throwdown between a Klingon and a Pahmar-raht:

With a side helping of E-coli and a garnish of outlawed Argentinian antibiotics…

Goddamn, I’m so sick of this bad faith argument. Fucking Fortune bullshit.

Remove the Social Security Cap on incomes over $184k and this problem goes away. It’s really that fucking simple.

TAX THE FUCKING RICH ALREADY.

Your DMs are not private on most Fediverse platforms. The ActivityPub protocol doesn’t provide encryption or filtering on non-local content, and treats DMs very much like it treats comments or posts.

For instance, I equipped a Wordpress install with the ActivityPub plugin and connected it to a small Mastodon instance. I found that it could read every non-local DM coming from that instance.

Essentially, if you’re DMing within an instance, it might be somewhat secure, depending on how the instance is setup. If you’re DMing between instances, there is no security - assume anyone who can read the ActivityPub feed can read your messages.

Great. So now the choice is between Nazi and Sugar-free Nazi.

Ohio, once again earning its title as America’s toilet bowl.

50,000 broken lives, punished for the crime of being born on the wrong side of the border.

Sounds like it’s time to send in the bounty hunters.

These days reading the article counts as research. Have an extra upvote for honesty tho ;)

Nice investigative work - this is the first I’ve heard about the contamination. It looks like China caught the issue back in March, and its highly likely more of the supply chain was compromised. This would make it subject to further Chinese boycotts, endangering the Argentian economy and screwing Milei because it makes things bumpy for Peter Thiel in his new home.

This is why Trump is both helping Milei and refusing to say where the beef is from.

Btw, these are the side effects of chloramphenicol:

Serious and fatal blood dyscrasias (aplastic anemia, hypoplastic anemia, thrombocytopenia, and granulocytopenia) are known to occur after the administration of chloramphenicol.

There have been reports of aplastic anemia attributed to chloramphenicol which later terminated in leukemia.

Blood dyscrasias have occurred after both short-term and prolonged therapy with this drug.