Honestly it’s the same here in France, and I suspect everywhere… Most people only give a shit about criminal/immoral behavior from the elite if it confirms their political bias. If it’s their guy they’ll wring their hands for a couple of seconds and go “oh well, what can you do? They’re all the same anyways”, or even outright defend them.

Not exactly AAA, but…

Vapes don’t produce smoke but vapor, i.e. nothing “burns”. And inhaling smoke is by far the most harmful aspect of using cigarettes.

Not saying nicotine or vaping is harmless, but I’d be very surprised if vaping turns out to be as dangerous as smoking.

Maybe at first, yeah. But in 50 years, when almost nobody under 60 smokes and it’s prohibited everywhere, who would go out of their way to start this particular habit?

As a lifelong smoker, one of the hardest hurdle to quitting is going out, having a couple of drinks, then seeing other people smoke and resisting the urge to go buy an easily available pack.

There’s the child-raping, and then there’s the whole barreling towards a cyberpunk hellhole that Trump and the heritage foundation are engineering. This doesn’t seem like a difficult choice to make, I honestly can’t understand these people.

The fact Iran even entertained him this long is the only reason he has power at all.

That, and the colossal firepower of the US military.

They have testimonies going back decades if they had wanted to look into it they would have by now

There are several legit reasons why you’d do this. Unit tests, for example: override getRandom() with an implementation that always returns the same series of numbers, and now you have repeatable tests without touching the production code.

As is Scavengers reign, the creator’s previous show.

Today on a post about a woman who enslaved a mentally challenged girl for 25 years, someone said “she’s a real Trump”, and I found it perfectly fitting.

“I may be a piece of shit, but at least I’m not a Trump!”

At the time rumor was that the Benioff and Weiss were already working on their next show (3-body problem?), and just wanted to get GoT out of the way.

IIRC that’s the whole point of luxury car commercials during half-time breaks. 99% of watchers can’t afford one, but the ad is there to remind the owners of that very fact.

As the dude from this picture, let me tell you that piracy was reeeally different 30 years ago (more like 25 for me). We were years away from DSL, downloading a piss-poor CAM rip of Star Wars ep1 took hours. Then you’d invest in a CD burner and exchange movies with your friends.

When I cancelled my subscriptions a year ago, I found out about Jellyfin and the *arr stack, took a couple of hours to set them up, and now I can download a whole show in a couple of taps while my friend is telling me about it, and watch it on my TV in 4K, or on my phone in the subway like 15 minutes later.

Sure, the underlying methods of acquisition haven’t changed much since BitTorrent came out, but the ecosystem is on a whole other level.

Doesn’t work for le lave-linge though.

Yeah, she was a victim of state and family-sanctionned pedophilia, and she was trying to protect her son. In a sane country she would have been acquitted or given a slap on the wrist.

I have a really hard time understanding how he considers any of that a problem.

Their source of “news” is tiktok. Newsom has a better meme game, that’s all there is to it.

Forbidding women from participating in a “fun” event doesn’t seem very benevolent to me.

Also, these ding-a-lings keep confusing rather mid corporate news outlets as “liberal”.

This is how you move the Overton window.

They have already submitted, from the get-go. I have several french MAGA “friends” (yes, they exist). They’re very keen on exposing left-wing or brown pedophiles, but Trump is an innocent angel who’s slandered by ignorant haters (A.K.A. “Trump derangement syndrome”, which is the new and very effective thought-terminating cliché).