Socializing used to be how you'd find people to buy weed from but now you can just throw a rock and buy weed in any flavor or form wherever that rock lands.
Electric Bicycle Co., a California-based assembler and painter of custom e-bikes, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation last week, reporting total
Mark Ruffalo said, and I quote, "You're wouldn't like me when I'm angry" but in this case if he is angry he remains quite agreeable. Typical Hollywood "say one thing but mean the other" bullshit.
I'm not here to stop you. I just have one question: Can you produce 36oz of load per day? I got that number from a regular size 12oz can of SPAM and multiplied it by 3 for 3 meals a day. This is reckoning by volume not weight.
I just ate Korean BBQ SPAM with an egg and cheese on white bread. It was good considering the effort that went in. My heart is pounding like I just ran a marathon though. I think if I ate another I might die.
We all know the modern complaint: movie sound sucks now unless you have a high-end sound system. Frantically turning down the volume after turning it up to hear the dialogue only to need to turn it up again can be frustrating. Now, this doesn't solve the underlying problem, but why not have a "Volume A" and "Volume B" you can ...
I have a 7.2 stereo plugged into my computer. Sound levels are entirely dependent on what service the sound is coming from and what format(mono/stereo/surround). Netflix tends to be quieter than the others. I should say netflix dialog tends to be too quiet and explosions and other loud noises are too fucking loud.
FBI documents published on the US Department of Justice website show that billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein funded the group Friends of Israel Defence Forces (FIDF) and settlement-building organisation the Jewish National Fund (JNF). ...
The title may sound weird. I initially wrote it as "fuck over the billionaires". But it is not only billionaires, but also multi-millionaires and people who think themselves hierarchically superior. ...
In that press conference you can see woman in green's face. This screenshot is from right when he shit his pants and the smell reached her nose at the speed of stench. Immediately afterward they kick all the press out.
My mom saw a "Colored bathroom" when she was very little on a trip to the big city and was under the impression that it was just a regular bathroom but colorfully painted.
I went to school a block away from a major international airport. Unless you can hop a fence and run with bags on a runway while dodging security and airplanes, what you said is true. I've lived near the airport most of my life and I still have trouble escaping from it after picking up/dropping off someone.
Next time I won't be around to copy paste the article so disable Javascript on fortune and you should have some luck reading it. It worked the first time around less so the second. Don't give them traffic this time.
Author removed because fuck them they didn't write it. Emphasis mine:
Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist and apocalypse are linked to the ‘end of modernity’ currently happening—and cites Greta Thunberg as a driving example
Peter Thiel has begun tying his warnings about “the Antichrist” and an impending apocalypse to what he describes as the “end of modernity,” casting climate activist (and Gen Z icon) Greta Thunberg as a central example of the forces he believes are driving Western civilization toward a terminal crisis.
In a series of recent talks and interviews, most recently behind closed doors in Paris, as reported by Le Monde and Politico, the billionaire investor and close ally of President Donald Trump has sketched a worldview in which environmentalism, technology regulation, and global governance are not just political disagreements, but spiritual markers of an end-times struggle over the future of the West.
In lectures on Christianity delivered to select audiences, Thiel has argued the Antichrist in the 21st century will not resemble the stereotypical mad scientist, but rather a self-described protector who promises peace, safety, and an end to technological risk. Drawing on apocalyptic passages from the Bible, he portrays an approaching choice between a “one‑world state” aligned with the Antichrist and an Armageddon‑style collapse if that project fails, framing both scenarios as live possibilities for contemporary politics and technology.
Some of Thiel’s most extensive public remarks came in a June 2025 appearance on a New York Times podcast, when interviewer Ross Douthat asked Thiel what the Antichrist means to him. Thiel responded: “How much time do we have?”
Thiel links these religious themes to what he calls the exhaustion of the Enlightenment story of progress and the crisis of modern liberal democracy, arguing modernity’s faith in reason, institutions, and global cooperation is breaking down under the weight of geopolitical conflict and technological upheaval. He has suggested the stagnation of transformative innovation, rising bureaucracy, and a growing reliance on supranational bodies are signals that the modern era is ending and that a new, more openly theological politics is emerging in its place.
Greta Thunberg as symbolic antagonist
Within this framework, Thiel has repeatedly singled out Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg as emblematic of what he calls “legionnaires of the Antichrist”—figures who seek to halt or tightly control scientific and technological development in the name of safety or planetary survival. In leaked recordings of a four‑part “Antichrist” lecture series, he described the modern Antichrist not as a reckless technologist, but as a “Luddite who wants to stop all science,” adding, “It’s someone like Greta,” and pairing her with AI safety advocate Eliezer Yudkowsky.
Thiel has argued climate activism and AI skepticism, when tied to calls for far‑reaching regulation and empowered global institutions, foreshadow the rise of a one‑world government that could suppress dissent and freeze innovation. Commentators note that by casting Thunberg and other critics of Big Tech as quasi‑religious enemies, he turns policy debates over emissions, data, and algorithms into a cosmic showdown between salvation through innovation and a deceptive, authoritarian environmentalism.
While it appears that Thunberg has never called out Thiel by name, she has been typically ferocious in her criticism of the wealthy in general. Generally, she often frames “the rich,” including private-jet users and fossil-fuel investors, as sacrificing people and the planet “to maintain their extreme lifestyles,” and has criticized private jets and airport expansions as symbols of this. Perhaps most famously, at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos in 2023, she accused the political and business elite of putting “corporate greed” and “short-term profits” above the planet and people, saying they are “at the very core of the climate crisis.”
Thunberg declined to comment, while Thiel did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Politics, power, and the post‑liberal turn
The apocalyptic framing has far‑reaching political implications, particularly given Thiel’s role as a deep-pocketed backer of political causes. Just this past January, Thiel made one of his biggest political donations in years to help defeat California’s billionaire tax ballot proposal. Some critics counter that Thiel’s fixation on apocalyptic scenarios reveals less about looming biblical prophecy than about the anxiety of a tech elite resisting limits on capital and code at a moment when public pressure for accountability is rapidly growing.
Historically, “the Antichrist” has been a fluid, contested symbol within Christian traditions, not a fixed label for contemporary activists or regulators. Thiel’s claim that climate policy and global cooperation are precursors to a one‑world dictatorship ignores how such policies actually work. International climate agreements like the Paris accord set targets but are implemented through national legislatures, courts, and elections, where governments remain accountable to their citizens and can be voted out.
Thiel’s talk of an “end of modernity” has relevance in a world where democratic institutions are strained, trust in elites is low, and technology has outpaced existing rules. But where he reads this as proof that Enlightenment ideals of equality, rational debate, and shared institutions have failed, critics argue the crisis reflects the opposite—a failure to live up to those ideals in the face of massive inequality and corporate concentration. In other words, who is the real Antichrist?
For this story, Fortune journalists used generative AI as a research tool. An editor verified the accuracy of the information before publishing
I've been using wireless chargers for years. I find it "more secure" in the sense that my phone's port is full of gunk and if I want to wake up with full batteries I can count on wireless a lot more.
teens and twentysomethings today are of a very different demographic and have markedly different media consumption habits compared to Wikipedia’s forebears. Gen Z and Gen Alpha readers are accustomed to TikTok, YouTube, and mobile-first visual media. Their impatience for Wikipedia’s impenetrable walls of text, as any parent ...
Wikipedia already has a simplified version. Literally simple.wikipedia... etc. For example, the page on the Vietnam War can inform you with a few paragraphs on each of the key points of the war. Harold Holt's page has 3 paragraphs and an info box. It isn't thorough by any means. It does, however, give the reader a chance to learn about something real quick with lesser chances of getting stuck in the mud and falling down wikipedia rabbit holes.
Somebody just needs to inform the simpletons that there is an easier to digest format already. No need to shrink a well of knowledge when there is a drinking fountain next to it for those who didn't bring a bucket and rope.
In a blog post, Musk said the acquisition was warranted because global electricity demand for AI cannot be met with “terrestrial solutions,” and Silicon Valley will soon need to build data centers in space to power its AI ambitions. ...
You leave the Klumps out of this. All he wanted to do is invent a potion that turns him into Eddie Murphy. While successful, it also turned him into an asshole.
Yahoo used to have a music video section. The videos would load fine on a cable connection but 56K took forever at potato quality. Had to go to a friend's house with better internet to watch any videos. Load up a video, leave home hoping the internet doesn't disconnect, go to a friend's house to watch a few, and then head back home to see if the video mostly loaded before timing out. The parents at home were okay with leaving the internet running because it stopped telemarketer calls which were rampant at the time.
Cat used to sleep on top of the CRT and got a rude awakening after we upgraded the monitor. Hopped right over the LCD. Computers used to be useful in ways that have been engineered out.
They need a yelp for drinking fountains. Best one I know of in the area is at a hardware store. I would be willing to patronize more stores if they had fountains that good.
I took an international film class and most of the movies were great but I skipped class for HAHK. We had been spoiled by watching Dabangg first which is Salman Khan's best work. HAHK is over 3 hours of trite bullshit and I think the second half of the movie class was on 4/20.
Weirdness rule
Homeland Security has reportedly sent out hundreds of subpoenas to identify ICE critics online ( www.engadget.com )
Meta patented an AI that lets you keep posting after you die ( www.businessinsider.com )
We lost a real one
All my nudes gone.
Pro-Trump CEO Left Reeling as His Dream E-Bike Company Files for Bankruptcy Under Trump Trade Policies ( wtfdetective.blog )
Electric Bicycle Co., a California-based assembler and painter of custom e-bikes, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation last week, reporting total
ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering ( alexharri.com )
Meta reportedly wants to add face recognition to smart glasses while privacy advocates are distracted ( www.theverge.com )
😃😃😃
Trump promised RFK Jr. would ‘restore faith in American health care.’ A year in, trust has plummeted | CNN ( www.cnn.com )
It counts as a workout
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Moving it around made it skip
What are your favourite jokes and puns?
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Mark Ruffalo Wants You To Boycott ChatGPT Because They Donated To President Donald Trump A Lot ( rudevulture.com )
a very tasty snack
some mf really threw an entire hog carcass into a blender and said "yea let's sell that as food. Great."
Ruleinator
TV remotes should have an easy-to-find (by touch) "volume toggle" button that toggles between two volume settings.
We all know the modern complaint: movie sound sucks now unless you have a high-end sound system. Frantically turning down the volume after turning it up to hear the dialogue only to need to turn it up again can be frustrating. Now, this doesn't solve the underlying problem, but why not have a "Volume A" and "Volume B" you can ...
Bad Bunny’s Record-Breaking Halftime Ratings Crush Kid Rock ( www.thedailybeast.com )
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Quentin Tarantino’s New Beverly Cinema Goes Back to Its Porno Roots This February — The cinema will screen hardcore and softcore porn in celebration of the theater's history ( www.indiewire.com )
How fast do you go when you take speed?
... why?
Epstein funded organisations linked to Zionist terrorism, FBI document says ( www.middleeasteye.net )
FBI documents published on the US Department of Justice website show that billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein funded the group Friends of Israel Defence Forces (FIDF) and settlement-building organisation the Jewish National Fund (JNF). ...
Are you doing something to fuck over "the powerful"? If so, what?
The title may sound weird. I initially wrote it as "fuck over the billionaires". But it is not only billionaires, but also multi-millionaires and people who think themselves hierarchically superior. ...
Phantasie land.
Unfortunate Development for Duke Poop'Em
And they called us "snowflakes"
An AI startup founder says he's planning a 'March for Billionaires' in protest of California's wealth tax ( techcrunch.com )
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Science gal
Walking is canceled
Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist and apocalypse are linked to the ‘end of modernity’ currently happening—and cites Greta Thunberg as a driving example ( fortune.com )
Do you think intergalactic travel will ever be possible?
Not good for business
TIL for at last 15 years US government has been able to implant hardware into USB cables to turn them into hacking devices with wireless capability. ( en.wikipedia.org )
Bow to the king
Distraction
Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis? ( spectrum.ieee.org )
teens and twentysomethings today are of a very different demographic and have markedly different media consumption habits compared to Wikipedia’s forebears. Gen Z and Gen Alpha readers are accustomed to TikTok, YouTube, and mobile-first visual media. Their impatience for Wikipedia’s impenetrable walls of text, as any parent ...
What is it with cats and rice cookers?
Fallout Rule ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
When Trump makes election threats, it’s best to believe him ( www.cnn.com )
When Donald Trump looks like he’s gearing up to meddle in an election, still-raw history suggests he should be believed. ...
Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company ( www.wired.com )
In a blog post, Musk said the acquisition was warranted because global electricity demand for AI cannot be met with “terrestrial solutions,” and Silicon Valley will soon need to build data centers in space to power its AI ambitions. ...
New Epstein files reveal he may have trafficked girls to others despite official denials ( www.theguardian.com )
Allegations prompt questions about officials’ contentions that there isn’t evidence to investigate third parties ...
Normal amount
It just keeps getting better
Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies, Professors Say ( www.hollywoodreporter.com )
Can anyone explain this? I’m losst.