Presidents have immunity? Cool. Biden, time to order a hit on Trump.

Oh yeah, maybe. I don’t really know how you’d measure that.

Sorry, by “standing in the way of” you mean “pushing for improvements to…and succeeding”? That “standing in the way”?

That’s absolute hilarity. More ridiculous than when Laborites criticise their actions regarding Rudd’s climate policy. Because at least that one appears to be a valid critique of the Greens if you don’t have all the details (like how Rudd’s policy would have no reduction in greenhouse emissions for 25 years). But this? Even with the most cursory of looks, the Greens did the right thing here.

It was explicitly created to be “TikTok, but on YouTube”. What would you expect?

Jamie being a unisex name, I dunno if “she’s amazing” is the typo or “he is a guest” is.

cheering for a dude hooking up with his aunt.

Which dude, exactly?

Only one example immediately springs to mind, but that hasn’t happened yet in the books. And the way it happened in the show, I’m not sure was executed very well, but I don’t think it was really portrayed as a case where we “cheer for a dude”. He barely seemed into it, definitely not as much as she was.

• Syria, 1949
• Egypt 1952 (possibly—at the very least prior knowledge of the coup)
• 1952 Iran
• 1954 Guatemala
• 1960 Laos
• 1961 Dominic Republic
• 1965 Indonesia
• 1973 Chile
• 1975 Australia (this one’s the most controversial on the list because of the US’s long friendly relationship with the country. If the CIA was involved, it was by encouraging the abuse of existing constitutional powers rather than a direct military coup as in most examples.)

That’s just a list of successful coups I could find quickly on Wikipedia that were clearly backed by the CIA during the Cold War. There were other failed attempts, including multiple 1950s in Syria and Indonesia and, yes, Cuba. And other successful coups where the US was definitely involved but it’s not clear to me from a cursory look that it was via the CIA specifically, like 1971 Bolivia and 1976 Argentina. And there have obviously been CIA actions in the time since.

I think the key fact is that in almost no cases did the CIA singlehandedly do a coup. They supported people on the ground who already wanted to do a coup to make their attempted coup more likely to succeed, and to ensure that they’d be friendly to the US afterwards if they did succeed.

Wow, this lyric actually works better than the original, thanks to the near rhyme between walk and fuck.

Like many other admirer’s of Nabokov’s novel of a pedophile who pursues a 12-year-old girl, Rowling loves it for the writing style.

Oh ok, fair enough. Not an especially controversial take.

"There just isn’t enough time to discuss how a plot…becomes…a great and tragic love story

Oh…oh no…

This is how I feel about leftists who join ostensibly “centre-left” parties, in countries that don’t use FPTP.

Like the “Labor Left” wing of the Labor Party in Australia. Guys, you’d be doing so much better work in the Greens.

When I hear an American with the caught/cot merger say “caught”, it sounds way more similar to my (unmerged) “cot” than my “caught”

Happy cake day!

Do you have ceiling fans? I honestly have rarely even wanted AC because ceiling fans do such a good job at keeping the place cool up to at least the low 30s, when I’m not headed up from doing exercise.

The reason is that too be a Short it has to be vertical.

Sweatdart

YT Shorts are basically just TikTok crossposts anyway

Hey that’s not true! Some of them a small clips from longer main videos.

Yeah same for Australia.

I thought they mostly made money through sponsorships rather than direct payments.

The difference is just another nit pick someone will find excuses to argue over

No, it isn’t. The scientific research actually suggests that keeping DST is worse than switching back and forth. I have to admit I find that confusing, since a lot of the specific studies I’ve looked at concentrate on the effects caused by the switchover itself, but the meta-analysis doesn’t mince words:

In summary, the scientific literature strongly argues against the switching between DST and Standard Time and even more so against adopting DST permanently.

Thank goodness 4-chan is there

Isn’t this Tumblr?

I don’t love the way it has to tear down the other characters in order to prop up the one. Surely the message could have been gotten across in a more wholesome way?