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“Tattoos. Coke. And chronic stress. These were the ingredients chosen to create the perfect line cooks. But Head Chef Marco accidentally added an extra ingredient to the concoction: Chemical Gay.”

Hence “4+”, because I agree with you wholeheartedly.

When I told people that literally every aspect of life will be worse under Trump, I absolutely meant it. Republican poison will seep into literally every aspect of our lives. And this is exactly what I mean when I say “everything is political” to those who only single out a handful of hot-button issues as “political”.

With the rise of fascism in the US, just keep “everything is political” in the back of your mind for the next 4+ years, and if you don’t believe it by then, I don’t know what to tell you.

Oh man, I loved this part of Hengsha in DX:HR. Such an exaggerated and creative depiction of a hypercapitalist, dystopian hellhole.

I know this story didn’t happen because there’s no such thing as “too many tamales”.

Ngl, this article feels bloviating bordering on AI-generated and/or a padded high school essay. Here’s the relevant Wikipedia article. For instance, by the way:

This event underscores the complex relationship between catastrophic environmental changes and evolutionary processes, offering valuable insights into the resilience and adaptability of life on Earth. [thank you, obligatory ‘Conclusion’ paragraph from all my phoned-in high school essays.]

The Carnian Pluvial Event, also known as the Carnian crisis, has left its mark in geological records across the globe, suggesting a widespread environmental impact. [no shit it had a widespread environmental impact??]

Waiting for the article from the NYT about how this is bad for Harris’ polling with police officers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypn3Fe_PLts

The FBI disclosed this to CBS, meaning it’s plausible the specific videos weren’t shared by the FBI.

My brain didn’t read “labradoodles” as part of a proper noun for a second, and my brain tripped up the stairs picturing a bunch of actual labradoodles doing this.

Seriously fucked up, though; puppy mills are a scourge.

Having a 0 as the condition for a ternary operator seems redundant.

Trained solely on HowToBasic’s emails.

Honestly, in hindsight, the variability was the most fun part of Halloween. Every kid knows they could just as easily ask their parents for $10 and get a bag of candy bars, but it’s ultimately the variety of what I could be getting and the unpredictability that made me excited. Was there sometimes weird shit I didn’t like? Sure, but probably just as often, there was some weird shit I did like that other kids probably didn’t, so I think it evens out. There were definitely kids out there who were jazzed to get black licorice, or there were some parents that were jazzed to get a small treat on the side after a night of escorting their kid(s) around since their kid(s) didn’t want it.

I think giving kids weird shit on Halloween as long as it’s safe, edible, and reasonably palatable is pretty cool tbh and should be encouraged. Like I still remember one house gave out little baggies of Goldfish crackers, or I think another gave out apple slices. One gave out huge sour candy strips. Like I think the best Halloween is one where there’s a foundation of “regular” treats with maybe about 25% oddballs sprinkled in.

Incidentally, we try not to use these sorts of “Forbes contributor” articles on Wikipedia when possible. They’re effectively just blogs masquerading under the credibility of Forbes staff’s actual journalism.

That said, I don’t see anything wrong with this excerpt. This is legitimate attack vector.

They’re our Reform UK, our Rassemblent National, our Fratelli d’Italia, our Fidesz – arguably our AfD at this point.

Answer: no.

The two criteria I suggested were “not saturated with ads and AI trash” (technically just the latter would satisfy OP’s problem), and DDG meets both of those with no problem. Its AI “assistant” and its ads can both be trivially disabled. I use DuckDuckGo because I love its frontend and because it gives me fewer problems than Google did. I’ve only ever used alternative search engines that piggyback off the major ones (as you listed: DDG, Startpage, and SearX), so someone else would have to answer that for you.

Using a search engine that isn’t saturated with ads and AI trash also solves this problem.

Yeah, but injections look much more precise and clinical rather than like brutally murdering someone, so they keep up an appearance of humaneness to the public. So it’s clearly still the preferable choice.

I’m just so surprised that in addition to not deterring crime at all (and possibly making it marginally worse), not being humane whatsoever, and being far, far more expensive, it’s also completely wrong all the time.

Anyone who still supports the death penalty state-sanctioned murder at this point is either grossly mis-/underinformed or is a “but it’s fine as long as we make really, really sure they did it!” person (not realizing there’s a decades-long appeal process or that administrations who use it don’t actually give a shit about the certainty of a conviction). That, or revenge just makes their pp hard and they genuinely don’t care about the fact it’s categorically worse in every way.