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VERONICA MARS | 2.22, "Not Pictured"

Bonus:

VERONICA MARS | 2.10, "One Angry Veronica"

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Trump is going to lift those tariffs btw. Like we're gonna feel it and it'll suck, and then he will lift them, and things will improve, and people won't realize that things were still better before he put them in place at all, and he will claim credit for making everything better even though things are still worse than when he started. Because of him. Because he made them worse.

So you gotta pinky promise me you're not gonna let yourself or anyone you know fall for that shit.

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Between Taylor's name and her actress Jess Darrow's voice, I now really want Jade Tailor to show up on Elsbeth.

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"You know, I really love this little town. I'm gonna miss it."

AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973) dir. George Lucas

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everyone’s trying to stump the akinator so i’m gonna try and see if he’ll know that i’m thinking of the little symbol on the front of his turban

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Trump's highest tariff will kill tiny African kingdom of Lesotho, economist says

MASERU, April 3 (Reuters) - A 50% reciprocal trade tariff on Lesotho, the highest levy on U.S. President Donald Trump's long list of target economies, will kill the tiny Southern African kingdom that Trump ridiculed last month, an economic analyst there said on Thursday.

Lesotho, which Trump described in March as a country "nobody has ever heard of", is one of the world's poorest nations with a gross domestic product of just over $2 billion.

It has a large trade surplus with the United States, mostly made up of diamonds and textiles, including Levi's jeans.

Its exports to the United States, which in 2024 totalled $237 million, account for more than 10% of its GDP.

Trump on Wednesday imposed sweeping new tariffs on global trading partners, upending decades of rules-based trade and threatening cost increases for consumers.

He said the "reciprocal" tariffs were a response to duties and other non-tariff barriers put on U.S. goods. Lesotho charges 99% tariffs on American goods, according to the U.S. administration.

In Africa, the move signalled the end of the AGOA (African Growth and Opportunity Act) trade deal that was supposed to help African economies develop through preferential access to U.S. markets, trade experts said.

It also compounded the pain after Trump dismantled USAID, the government agency that was a major supplier of aid to the continent.

"The 50% reciprocal tariff introduced by the U.S. government is going to kill the textile and apparel sector in Lesotho," Thabo Qhesi, a Maseru-based independent economic analyst, told Reuters.

Oxford Economics said the textile sector, with some 40,000 workers, was Lesotho's biggest private employer and accounted for roughly 90% of manufacturing employment and exports.

"Then you are having retailers who are selling food. And then you have residential property owners who are renting houses for the workers. So this means if the closure of factories were to happen, the industry is going to die and there will be multiplier effects," Qhesi said.

"So Lesotho will be dead, so to say."

The government of Lesotho, a mountainous nation of about 2 million people that is encircled by South Africa, had no immediate comment on the trade tariffs on Thursday.

Its foreign minister told Reuters last month the country, which has one of the highest HIV/AIDS infection rates in the world, was already feeling the impact of the aid cuts as its health sector had been reliant on them.

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mē, tangō leviter Miētte cum latus pedīs meī: Miētta, dēmovēre ut nōn incurrere in tē

Miētte, cum oculōs ēius magnōs: tū CALITRĀS Miētte? tū calitrās corpus ēius sīcut follis? ēheu! ēheu! carcer prō Mātre! carcer prō Mātre prō Singula Mīlla Annōs!!!!

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This is your captain speaking and yeah we’re not landing. I just feel like we’ve got a really good thing up here and I don’t want to ruin it. This is my home and you are my people

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Cops are trained to be bad. Anyone who insists on being good is not welcome.

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I went to Utena Pop Up Shop in Shinjuku today! Most of the things were already sold out but I bought one surprise acrylic stand and... i got akio 💀 didn't have money for more so...

Luckily I found a Seria that still had Utena merch (somewhere in the countryside near Uchinada) and bought those 3 surprise acrylic stands 🩷🌹⚔️

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Rick Astley's father Ossie Astley celebrating "Never Gonna Give You Up" making it to #1 on the UK charts in 1987.

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Underrated JRPG feature is when one party member uses some non-weapon object as a weapon, but you still upgrade your stats by buying weapons, so now every weapon shop in the world needs to carry parasols of increasing lethality