Gotta respect some good character-growth, and learning from one’s mistakes. Between this and Ashton stepping down, we’ve really been demonstrating the power of the public shaming recently.

Ruby Franke’s is just the latest in a long line of stories that illustrate the gap between the image the Christian right likes to portray and the ugly reality just under the surface.

There’s no hate like Christian love.

Not defending studios, fuck them, pay your talent

I think they’re thinking they can patch this over with reality tv (or at least they did in the last writer’s strike), documentaries, and with international content. I’m betting Netflix is shifting a ton of money towards the Asian and European markets for next year’s content.

Regular maintenance, reinforcements and retrofitting can extend a dam’s safe operation well past 100 years and bring a structure up to current standards, Perera and Shannon say. But many dams don’t receive routine repairs and are not aging gracefully. Just making the recommended fixes to most U.S. dams would cost an estimated $157.5 billion dollars, according to a 2023 report from the Association of State Dam Safety Officials.

So much of today’s news feels like we’re frogs in a pot of boiling water.

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“You guys have food here?!?”

De Croo spoke just hours after a sixth school in the French-speaking Wallonia region was torched this week.

Sixth burnt school this week! Holy shit.

I’ve acquired an array of venereal diseases and parasites by way of the restaurants I choose to patronize!

I think this is my favorite sentence I’ve ever read on Lemmy

They certainly didn’t.

Forget Paris Fashion Week, I want to go to Okeechobee Fashion Week.

One of the more reliable jobs in the old west was selling pickaxes to hopeful prospectors. They may not find gold, but they’ll certainly be buying your axe to try. Years after the area runs out of gold, people are still going to be buying your wares.

It’s always been good business to sell products targeted at people hoping to make it big.

“When it comes to throwing horses out of airplanes, just say ‘neigh.’”

PETA could never

God bot

Obligatory fuck that guy

Rolling Stone contacted more than 50 Tonight Show employees, past and present, during the reporting for this story. After reaching out to representatives for Fallon and NBC, Rolling Stone reached out to an additional 30 current and former staffers. While many of them praised Fallon’s immense talent and comedic gifts, not a single one agreed to speak on the record or had positive things to say about working on The Tonight Show. Nor would any of the program’s nine showrunners since 2014 comment about the program’s namesake on the record – they wouldn’t even give statements of support, as is common in the entertainment industry.

Holy shit. When they contact 89 of your employees and no one will say a single positive thing about working with you.

The least destructive sports: Let me fling this ball at 120mph (at another human being).

The most destructive sports: Let me fling myself at top speed at another human being.

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It’s been years since I’ve met a fellow North Earther. What is up!

Richmond was the former capital of the confederacy. The Mason-Dixon line is actually at the Pennsylvania-Maryland/Delaware border.

North of Richmond is referencing Washington DC which has a large, fairly poor Black population and its suburbs, which are very rich and somewhat liberal.

If only the little man at the big table didn’t have such a Napoleon complex