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The funny thing about Google's results for the Gulf of Mexico is that right below the title "Gulf of America", in its own slideshow display, there are multiple pictures where the gulf is properly labeled.

In case anyone wants to do anything about the whole “Gulf of America” thing. Here’s something we can all do!

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This year it feels like the opposite.

So January was 17 weeks long. And February is 3 and a half horrifying days. Do I have that right?

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The gig economy works by paying workers below-market rates to undercut existing services.

Mercenaries famously do not put up with bad pay, in a manner that makes it very clear that THEY have all the weapons, YOU have all the gold, you obviously have NO weapons because you're hiring them, and they see a very simple solution to the situation.

This is like holding a match over an open can of gas.

We've reached the "on demand brownshirts" level of the gig economy.

We all knew this was coming, right?

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Musk's young fellows are at the very age that militaries try to recruit people, because they're a lot more pliable than older adults. With less experience, and little time since they've left their parents and their old structures, they have less of a strong sense of self than their elders. They don't have as much psychological strength to resist commands.

So I hate the weird ageism and hatred of the young by the old, but I will push back against people saying the criticism of Musk's 19 year olds is silly because of age. It's mainly bad because they're doing bad things, yes, but also: if you're 21 you're likely to have no experience, are thereby much more likely to fuck things up, and thus should also be viewed as having access to power not through skill but through loyalty.

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Sure, the villain sounds like a cross between Elon Musk and Curtis Yarvin. Dude even has a full fleet of evil satellites.

there are some ideological arguments that are so irl cringe inducing that even when the bad guy is going off on their "I'm so evil" motive rant about how equality is the enemy or w/e it's hard to read.

Points to April Daniels for making this villain sound so damn realistic to his type of person irl though.

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North America right now

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Books are supposed to be entertaining. You can add a moral if you want, but the audience might not like that.

“it sounds like you’re justifying their actions-“ i am. they’re a fictional character. i’m okay with anything they do all the time. hope this helps.

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Talking of economic incentives!

Old Hollywood isn't the first time this has happened. In the theaters of Elizabethan England, there was no copyright, so the only way to protect one's work was to never give anyone a complete script. Actors were literally handed their lines to memorize ten minutes before their scene came up.

Proving once again that whatever you can think of, Shakespeare did it first.

I think what modern filmmakers keep forgetting (especially disney affiliated productions) is that actors used to have a much more hands on and involved part. they weren’t just reading lines handed to them in a dark alley ten minutes before filming. they suggested script revisions and could improvise lines on the spot bc they knew their characters.

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Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut has said that Democratic politicians are currently dealing with death threats. On the one hand that's scary, on the other hand, come on, it's death threats from Americans. We're all a bunch of paper tigers over here.

ngl even the feckless hindutva lite indian national congress manages to shut down parliament and create some chaos when modi is being excessive they don't confirm his appointments for free i am coming to realise usa has far less democracy than anyone has thought lol

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They can't do the shooting themselves? They can't even get past one director standing in the way? What a bunch of fucking wimps.

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In such troubled times, I must always remember this:

Whatever happens, I have the ground beneath my feet, the sky above my head, and my friends by my side.

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This time we'll take Toronto for sure!

*Five days later*

Welp. Washington is on fire again.

How likely do you think military action against Panama, Mexico, Greenland, or Canada is?

it seems likely enough that i wouldn't wave it off as a joke, but it's not a certainty. each of those options has different risks, motivations, and costs, and therefore a different probability of playing out. the danish government is a mixture of furious and terrified; sheinbaum isn't, but going after the cartels seems an easier sell than invading a founding NATO member

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Did someone say piracy

People with most mainstream tastes imaginable should not open their mouth on how anti piracy they are btw. Yea no shit you can depend on legal sources to watch Marvel and listen to tswift and Maroon 5. Thank you so much for signing the petition to close that platform that was the only one i could download this 2008 romanian dungeon synth ep from

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Oh I thought OP was talking about like

if you moralize to people in the global south about piracy youre going to hell btw. no atonement no take backsies. guaranteed hell forever permanently.

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Was the movie script written by AI

my mom took me to see mufasa for some reason and did you know that mufasa’s right to rule comes from his bene gesserit training

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I'll tell you this much: surrounding yourself with yes-men means they'll never tell you when something has gone wrong. Trump's got the helm but is it connected to the rudder?

mercy seems like a long shot here, so my prayer for inauguration day 2025: may they be incompetent. may they just be really bad at implementation. may their egos choke their effectiveness. may they drown themselves week by week with infighting and selfish posturing. may they be easily distracted. may the very governors and senators and agencies and religious leaders that the new administration expects to be friendly force endless stalemates to preserve their own power. may every delay turn into a three ring blame circus so chaotic that no one remembers what they were doing. may the good and necessary parts of government be too boring to draw attention and keep running quietly in the background. may the next four years be full of sound and fury and signify nothing.