Mamdani is not the mayor of Gaza or the mayor of Jerusalem and New York has a pretty full plate rn. His position on the matter is known, if you want someone to fix foreign policy look to people whose job it is to shape foreign policy.

Trolling is a art. Trolling should be done softly, and should leave plausible deniability until and unless you get to a point where blowing your cover maximizes lulz. Trolling should split the room into roughly the following groups: 85% bewildered bystanders, 10% angry, and 5% who see what you’re doing and either leave you alone or join in. Those numbers are fluid but the point holds that in an ideal situation the majority of people are either too confused to say anything or are on your side.

As I’ve grown up (read: I am not a thirteen year old boy anymore) I’ve started to realize that beyond being mean-spirited bigotry is just not very lulzy. In general good trolling shines a light on how someone who is being loud about their very strong and very wrong opinions online is a complete moron. Annoying the fuck out of hate groups is also acceptable.

Edit: there’s also just being weird and fucking with people by way of a harmless prank

In conclusion trolling is a land of contrasts.

All I can come up with is a sufficiently powerful populist executive who can get people to the primaries in unheard of numbers and has the conviction to not only turn down infinite bribes but also to bully congress into voting themselves poorer. They also will need the courage and cunning to avoid being assassinated by the wealthy powers that be. Shouldn’t be hard to find.

You kidding? This person used to be a good customer and now they dont buy anything! This is very contextual

Stop parking your car in the river then sheesh

I gotta say I do miss having a president that could come out and give like an 8th grade level of explanation for shit. Not just “oh uhhh damn thats… no its fine probably”

Well if they called it Steam Controller 2 what would they call the next one?

Yeah I’m pretty sure the bible says to pass judgment upon your sister and refuse to patronize her business if she believes differently from you. Jesus famously refused to spend any time at all woth people who weren’t holy enough, thats why he got along with the Pharisees so well.

You realize you’re supposed to think Dante’s an asshole in that scene right? Like Kevin Smith literally gets in front of the camera and tells him he’s taking Veronica for granted. Dante is a whiny hypocrite who deserves to learn a painful lesson. That is the entire point of the movie. There are a lot of criticisms you can level at Clerks but celebrating slut shaming ain’t one of them.

AI has not pushed me one inch towards suicide. Then again I treat it like a calculator for words and not a therapist

ah yes, “fiscal responsibility”

I can think of a couple

• expectation management: sometimes call volume is genuinely high, and if you set a floor at say 10 minutes it only feels like a 5 minute difference if the caller’s actual wait time is 15
• engineering downtime to allow agents time to complete paperwork or catch up on emails
• make us all so annoyed with the process of waiting in line we welcome AI agents as liberators

Rock and stone

ah yes, the bigly gains in homeland security that we made tremendously more secure by… um…

Leonard Bearstein Symphony Orchestra. That is all you get from me. Chris Chan is a cognitohazard and I refuse to directly link you directly to the cwcki.

Sometimes I wonder if the dude who was operating that animatronic bear ever learned the butterfly effect impact of him getting some weird sonic obsessed kid’s name wrong in 1992

To hide the soundstage they’re building for the mars landing. It’s my fault, really, I forgot to forward the order for the regolith camo dropcloths on time. The project lead decided there wasn’t enough leeway to delay construction so it’s been quite a strain on the PR team.

Honestly I’m incredibly embarrassed. My manager is telling me it’s okay and that everyone makes mistakes but honestly I almost wish they would fire me. Everyone here at Illuminati hq has been incredibly understanding and kind to the point it makes me feel weird.

If there was more competence none of this would have happened. Their incompetence is not stopping them from mulching innocent civilians and it is not stopping them from fucking up global trade and putting billions at risk of starvation by causing the price of energy and fertilizer to skyrocket.

A competent imperial leadership would have perhaps still had the desire to wage full scale war on Iran, but competence would have led them to do at the very least a cost-benefit analysis and conclude that continuing to leverage soft power would have been more in line with the imperial goal of continued global hegemony. This administration’s actions belie a deep seated desperation that is unnecessary and unbecoming. Precisely because, I suspect, they are all painfully aware that they are not qualified for the positions they have found themselves in and that they are doing a terrible job.

I give you Lemmy gold: