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Belgium and Germany have joined Austria, Greece and Malta in allowing 16 and 17-year-old to vote in the European elections -- (link) - budice Jun 12, 08:46 1
- age 50+ only! -- nm - USA Jun 12, 08:51
OK, I need a breathing technique or something for when a MAGA says BUT HILLARY! BUT HUNTER! -- nm - loosilu Jun 12, 08:34 12
- Serenity Now -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 12, 08:46
- It's easy. Don't pay attention to them or argue with them. -- nm - spamlet Jun 12, 08:43 5
  - I sincerely don't know how any respectable network could have Jim Jordan on ever again -- nm - rollo 🐙 Jun 12, 08:45 4
    - "Jim Jordan, once again showing he’ll ignore any crime that takes place with a shower nearby" -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 12, 08:47
    - Yeah, but we're talking about Fox. -- nm - Reagen Jun 12, 08:47
    - We do need to discuss Tomorrow in Miami - is it Jan 6th number 2? Will the cops be ready? -- nm - Pippy Quintas Jun 12, 08:46 1
      - I feel like the rhetoric has a life of its own at this point, but Trump is less and less attractive as a fulcrum for actual shenanigans by MAGA types -- nm - rollo 🐙 Jun 12, 08:50
- Mantra " I don't give a F about these idiots" repeat rinse. - Pippy Quintas Jun 12, 08:42
- Walk quickly away from those people. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 12, 08:38 1
  - Not too quickly, though. Their vision is based on movement. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 12, 08:41
- BUT HIS BATHROOM TILES -- nm - Beryllium Jun 12, 08:36 1
  - YOU CAN GET TO THE TOILET BUT YOU CAN'T GET TO THE SHOWER!! -- nm - Diva Jun 12, 08:38
I finished the last of The Last of Us episodes* last night. Liked it quite a bit. A- - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 12, 08:24
Hey, didn't Principal Skinner go looking for one of these? -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 12, 08:21 [flickr] 1
- Note: not one of my photos. I don't know that birds here get that interestingly-coloured. - Beryllium Jun 12, 08:22
Capcom has launched a 40th anniversary retro games website where you can play a bunch of old games. -- (link) - JaxSean Jun 12, 08:10
Is Priceline still an ok way to get a hotel reservation? -- nm - kelly Jun 12, 08:07
thedailybeast.com/Julia Davis: Putin’s Pals Dream up Fresh Plot to Help Trump Beat Biden - mud Jun 12, 07:58
Joseph Fiennes lightened his skin and wore a prosthetic nose to play Michael Jackson -- (link) - budice Jun 12, 07:57 1
- They really needed to cast an actual child predator to play the role. -- nm - Qale Jun 12, 08:16
"It's a Christmas lunch, mind you" -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jun 12, 07:56 1
- I feel sorry (I think?) for her. I wonder what on earth happened. -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 12, 08:31
Jean-Claude Van Damme was the original Predator -- (link) - budice Jun 12, 07:44
Knowing the season is going to be bad, the Buccaneers are breaking out the creamsicle uniforms. -- (link) - Volnelk Jun 12, 07:37
Five foster kittens and a feral (but pretty tame) mama, coming to my house on Wednesday! - Andie Jun 12, 07:37 2
- !! exciting. I can't wait to see them -- nm - Pippy Quintas Jun 12, 08:20
- We will, of course, expect pics. -- nm - Coach Bearond Jun 12, 07:44
So how many STers are moving from Reddit to kbin instances? - JaxSean Jun 12, 07:28 15
- The main thing I need Reddit for is Home Assistant. Sure there are tons of other subs that are helpful, but HA is my main. - sycor Jun 12, 08:24 1
  - I'm going to be a lot more productive at work today -- nm - oblique 🌈 Jun 12, 08:29
- We're aware of problems loading content and are working to resolve the issues as quickly as possible. -- (link) - budice Jun 12, 08:01 1
  - Ah, the ol' if you won't pay for our API we won't keep the API running trick! -- nm - oblique 🌈 Jun 12, 08:07
- It's been floated, but my main sub is pushing towards a move to Discord. -- (edited) - colin Jun 12, 07:48 3
  - Same shit different domain. Try Discourse instead. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 12, 07:52 2
    - They're not Facebook, so.... we'll stick with Discord for now. It's hard to grow professional communities in smaller or difficulty to use platforms. - colin Jun 12, 07:57 1
      - Will they be able to handle the upcoming discord account rename concept? :) -- nm - Beryllium Jun 12, 08:20
- reddit will cave and everyone will be back -- nm - oblique 🌈 Jun 12, 07:40 3
  - He'll be visited tonight by the ghosts of Live Journal, Digg and Fark. -- nm - Reagen Jun 12, 08:46
  - No way it will. Did you see the CEOs comments, accusing the Apollo dev of blackmailing the company and misrepresentation of conversation? - colin Jun 12, 07:50
  - Just another toxic tech relationship, yeah. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 12, 07:46
- Hadn’t heard of it. -- nm - mara Jun 12, 07:30 1
  - Twitter is to Mastodon as reddit is to kbin/lemmy (so fediverse version of reddit). -- nm - JaxSean Jun 12, 07:36
- A lot have moved to discord, I know. -- nm - Dark Callisto Jun 12, 07:29
workwatching: a few good men. -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 judge jones 🏳️‍🌈 Jun 12, 07:25
Tens of Thousands of Dead Fish Wash Ashore on Gulf Coast in Texas - crash davis 😺 Jun 12, 07:18 6
- "It doesn’t take long for them to sit there in 90-degree heat to really rack up an unpleasant smell" LOL - Pippy Quintas Jun 12, 07:26 5
  - I've never been to Galveston, or actually anywhere on the Gulf Coast. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 12, 07:37 4
    - I've cruised out of there but it's a pain to get there from Houston. -- nm - Meg Jun 12, 08:22
    - Galveston is one of the grossest beaches I've ever been to. The waterways are so polluted with all the oil refinery ship traffic. -- nm - colin Jun 12, 07:58 1
      - Supposedly it was lovely before the hurricane. -- nm - loosilu Jun 12, 08:35
    - I have heard the Alabama Coast is better. -- nm - Pippy Quintas Jun 12, 07:41
At least we're driving 95 going south this weekend, and not north -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 12, 07:01 5
- I thought both directions were closed -- nm - sycor Jun 12, 07:12 3
  - Sorry, I meant that we're heading south from here (DC) -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jun 12, 07:53
  - it matters where you start from. if you are south of the collapse headed south, no bigz. -- nm* - 🏳️‍🌈 judge jones 🏳️‍🌈 Jun 12, 07:23 1
    - oh yeah. Derp. I was assuming he was north. -- nm - sycor Jun 12, 08:01
- "Lets go to the Four Seasons" -- nm - budice Jun 12, 07:06
7 years since the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting where 49 people were gunned down -- (link) - budice Jun 12, 06:44
I'm sorry, but loosi sent me to Twitter. Is this really Elon Musk? Is this really someone the nation is supposed to take seriously? -- (link) - crash davis 😺 Jun 12, 06:26 30
- he lost mainstream appeal, and is focused on being popular to a segment now. B/c he thinks twitter represents real life -- nm - MDH Jun 12, 06:50 4
  - and I believe the Dave Chapelle show where he got booed on stage was shocking to him. Up till that moment, I believe he thought he still had it. -- nm - Jovian Jun 12, 06:54 3
    - I suspect that you are correct, but I further think that he thinks that that's an anomaly. "it's just chappelle fans. not everyone." - 🏳️‍🌈 judge jones 🏳️‍🌈 Jun 12, 07:30 1
      - oh yea his massive ridiculous ego makes him probably think that. - Jovian Jun 12, 07:33
    - nm -- nm* - Jovian Jun 12, 06:57
- now imagine buying a car from that guy -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 12, 06:42 12
  - Tbf, I've probably bought a lot of cars from people like that. -- nm - Reagen Jun 12, 06:42 11
    - And many other things. The tweet doesn’t seem exactly unusual, just unwisely frank. Didn’t STers used to post group photos of women and pick their preferred one? -- nm* - mara Jun 12, 06:50 10
      - It’s a little false equivocal, but I do get your point. Musk’s post is full on Man Show, whereas Hot or Not feels a little less benign. However… - Qale Jun 12, 08:24
      - The Kochs are objectively worse and most of us probably buy products from one or more of the companies they own. - TWuG Jun 12, 07:23 6
        
        other than rockets and nazi tweets, he only has one product -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 12, 07:39
        
        Elon Musk is 10x more dangerous then the one surviving Koch brother imo. Hes quite literally Henry Ford / Charles Lindbergh reborn. -- nm* - Jovian Jun 12, 07:39 1
        
        I'm not sure either's political influence lasted as long as their lives. - TWuG Jun 12, 07:51
        
        this is fair-ish, though musk does a lot more press (and is covered a lot more in the press) than are the koches. -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 judge jones 🏳️‍🌈 Jun 12, 07:32
        
        Heck, I still buy plastic and I think it’s basically poison. As a wise man once said, “Don’t you love what you got used to.” (Billy Strings) -- nm - mara Jun 12, 07:28 1
        
        It's definitely a bit of an illusion of action. That individual choices are the best way to address large problems. - TWuG Jun 12, 07:33
      - mara, you are not supposed to bring up my past bad behavior when I am busy chastising someone else. Don't you know anything? :) -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 12, 06:57 1
        
        Everyone starts where they are. :-) -- nm - mara Jun 12, 07:02
- Yes. That pioneer who many thought was the next Steve Jobs is nothing but a childish tech bro -- nm - Jovian Jun 12, 06:31 1
  - addendum: this above understates how dangerous he is though. Hes antisemitic and his purchase of Twitter was to undermine the media and the government -- nm - Jovian Jun 12, 06:58
- He is the world's most divorced man. -- nm - Reagen Jun 12, 06:28
- That's definitely him. -- nm - loosilu Jun 12, 06:28 8
  - Is he 12 years old? -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 12, 06:28 7
    - He’s also a counter-elite playing to the emotional maturity level of his audience. -- nm - znufrii 🦄 Jun 12, 06:46 2
      - I like "counter-elite" -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 judge jones 🏳️‍🌈 Jun 12, 07:21 1
        
        I need to read the book referenced in the article I linked here yesterday. -- (link*) - znufrii 🦄 Jun 12, 07:27 [Backboard]
    - That’s the tell. He’s got the emotional stunting of a teenage boy discovering all these things for the first time. -- nm - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 Jun 12, 06:44 1
      - Yeah, he has the social skills of a 12 year old and enough money that his cohort won't call him out. - TWuG Jun 12, 07:29
    - That's how you know it's him. -- nm - loosilu Jun 12, 06:29 1
      - Thanks everyone. I'm going back to totally ignoring the dude -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 12, 06:50
I dropped my ear bud case. Both popped out. In an airport bathroom stall. - colin Jun 12, 06:23 2
- That’s okay! Most old men’s semen is sterile. - Qale Jun 12, 08:26
- *shudder* -- nm - Krusty Jun 12, 06:26
Why the U.S. Electric Grid Isn’t Ready for the Energy Transition - crash davis 😺 Jun 12, 06:22 5
- adding a few hundred million EVs shouldn't be a problem -- nm - hollywood big shot Jun 12, 06:42 1
  - This is the USA -- (link) - crash davis 😺 Jun 12, 06:46 [youtube]
- I have a friend in alternative energy...solar has variable output and the stress that puts on the grid is insane. You have to have ingest points - colin Jun 12, 06:26 2
  - There a lot of challenges, but I'm hopeful we are getting around to tackling them. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 12, 06:31 1
    - When something so critical as power infrastructure is left to for profit corporations, we have little hope of seeing sane planning for the future - colin Jun 12, 06:41
Time magazine headline: How Ukraine's dam collapse could become the country's "Chernobyl." - loosilu Jun 12, 06:21 6
- nathanfillion.gif -- nm - znufrii 🦄 Jun 12, 06:31
- Tweet of the year candidate -- nm - colin Jun 12, 06:29 1
  - Keep in mind Twitter is now paying blue users for ads serves in replies, so they're encouraging shit posting. -- nm - colin Jun 12, 06:36
- OMG -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 12, 06:23 2
  - It gets worse. The dam didn't collapse, it was destroyed by Russia. -- nm - loosilu Jun 12, 06:28 1
    - Yeah, in my Ukraine update it notes that the Russians blew up another smaller dam to slow an Ukrainian river crossing. A$$holes -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 12, 06:31
And yet Henry Kissinger lives. - TWuG Jun 12, 06:19 1
- He lived long enough to see a lot of people turn on his legacy, so that's nice. - colin Jun 12, 07:52
Analysis - Why the Battle for Supremacy in Asia Begins With China’s Coast Guard - crash davis 😺 Jun 12, 06:12
x/6 - rollo Jun 12, 06:07
Have you seen Ariana DeBose's number in S2 Schmigadoon? -- (link) - mara 🍂 Jun 12, 06:03 [youtube] 2
- aaahh. that's where I knew her from last night with the Tony's -- nm* - oblique 🌈 Jun 12, 06:09 1
  - I first learned her name because of Hamilton. She was in the chorus, but kind of a principal member. -- nm* - mara 🍂 Jun 12, 06:11
Ukraine claims it has recaptured another village in the east. - crash davis 😺 Jun 12, 05:50 1
- NATO nations kick off their biggest air force drills since the end of the Cold War. - crash davis 😺 Jun 12, 05:52
Silvio Berlusconi, a Showman Who Upended Italian Politics and Culture, Dies at 86 - crash davis 😺 Jun 12, 05:37 1
- Good riddance -- nm - Jovian Jun 12, 06:40
Stanford stayed alive last night by beating Texas. The Stanford starter threw a 156 pitch complete game. - Volnelk Jun 12, 05:29 8
- Heroic for the pitcher, criminal for the coach. - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ Jun 12, 05:52 5
  - He was drafted in the 19th round last year by theRays so he would be a senior draft for cheap this year. Criminal coach and stupid Stanford player. -- nm - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 Jun 12, 05:59 2
    - I don’t put any of the blame on the player. The coach is the adult in the room. - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ Jun 12, 06:14
    - MLB Pipeline has him ranked 119th so he’s a going to be a cheap signing option within the first 5 rounds. - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 Jun 12, 06:04
  - great subject line! -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 12, 05:52
  - yup -- nm - Beaker Jun 12, 05:52
- He should learn to switch-pitch so he can go twice as often. -- nm - Coach Bearond Jun 12, 05:50
- At this point, criminal. He’s thrown 300 pitches in the last ten days. - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 Jun 12, 05:38
ST: What did you watch this weekend? -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jun 12, 05:28 15
- The Tonys. And my recording of the Top Chef finale. (Padma's last. 😥) -- nm - Diva Jun 12, 08:37
- Dead & Co. final tour Friday and Saturday. A-. -- nm - zunk takes things literally Jun 12, 08:18 1
  - Seeing them here on Thursday. Hopefully they’ll get to do a full show this time. - znufrii 🦄 Jun 12, 08:32
- Pope's Exorcist B, Trae Crowder's comedy special B, -- nm - Pippy Quintas Jun 12, 06:56
- 1/3 of Avatar: The Way of Water - Jovian Jun 12, 06:41
- A’s ballet recital, A++++ -- (pic) - znufrii 🦄 Jun 12, 06:24 [Attachment] 3
  - adorable!! -- nm - Pippy Quintas Jun 12, 06:55
  - 😺😺😺😺😺 -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 12, 06:39
  - Beautiful!! -- nm - Krusty Jun 12, 06:34
- Merpeople on Netflix. B+ -- nm - loosilu Jun 12, 06:22
- Never Have I Ever S4 (A). We're also caught up to Silo. Recently also we finished Mrs. Maisel (A+). -- nm - oblique 🌈 Jun 12, 06:01
- First episode of Foundation. I expect it will be very talky, as the books were. -- nm - Coach Bearond Jun 12, 05:48
- Joe Pickett S2, E3. I love Joe Pickett -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jun 12, 05:41
- Bluetooth - B-, Renfield - A, Rainn Wilson and the Geography of Bliss - B+, Based on a True Story (5 eps so far) B, Deadloch - B- -- nm* - Krusty Jun 12, 05:40
- Avatar The Way of Water B (Visuals A+); UFC prelims/PPV - fights were ok we watched, but every Canadian winning in Vancouver was an A+ - Beaker 🍺 Jun 12, 05:29
An anniversary that you may not have been aware of. -- (link) - Volnelk Jun 12, 05:21 2
- The first person that talks shit today gets pistol whipped* in honor of Tommy. -- (edited) - Krusty Jun 12, 05:31 1
  - MMM, pistol whip. -- nm - Reagen Jun 12, 06:29
ECHL - Unfortunately, the Kelly Cup is over. The Florida Everblades swept the Idaho Steelheads 4-0. - crash davis 😺 Jun 12, 05:20 2
- Yay! But the Everblades still suck. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 12, 06:11 1
  - The Steelheads are a Dallas Stars affiliate so its probably good that they don't have totally dominant players. And you're right: - crash davis 😺 Jun 12, 06:41
TV PSA: NBA, The Rising, American Ninja Warrior, Raw, Stars on Mars, Barons, Eric Andre Show, Black Ink Crew, - Beaker Jun 12, 05:12

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