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All viable politics is harm reduction.

There is no way that woman is 31. She is at least 40.

Everyone knows it’s impossible for the NSA to buy rack space in Bulgaria, where they literally don’t have to deal with any US legal process.

It’s also impossible for the NSA to market such a service via pop-privacy blogs and social media profiles.

The funny part about this is that the Snowden leaks showed that the NSA actually put a lot of effort into doing shit like this specifically to avoid all the paperwork which came with accidentally collecting data from US citizens. Keeping the data and analysis off shore means no pesky FISA paperwork.

The idea was that the Saudis and Russians pump money into the stock to keep the price propped up until Donny can cash out, but that only works if you have enough cash to backfill the volume ratio as needed. It would work a lot better if they could have been quieter about it, but Trump basically makes billions as long as the price doesn’t actually go to zero since his shares are grants for using his “brand.”

It’s not so much money laundering as a completely legal path for foreign agents to buy favors from a possible US President.

600k active accounts. Maybe half of them are real Americans.

So I guess that means Trump must have had a secret earpiece. Or maybe a vibrating butt plug.

This is exactly why non anonymous voting is a big problem for the fediverse

This is simultaneously the most hilarious and least consequential meltdown on the internet this year.

Too many tourists just means you need to raise hotel prices. Locals don’t pay for hotels.

This shit has been the same cycle for literally centuries. When times are good, locals hate tourism. When times are bad, the locals wonder where all the tourists money went.

In these “tourist economy” areas it’s easy to miss the fact that even if you don’t directly work in the tourist industry, there’s a ton of infrastructure and services which get propped up by that industry. I’ve been on both sides of this, as a local and a tourist, and most of the whining is privileged elitism. Every local knows how to avoid tourists, and every local has also been frustrated by something being closed in the off season. Connect those dots and stop complaining.

I got banned for saying I didn’t think the meme was funny.

I legitimately do not care about that, but I do care deeply about how funny Beaver’s tantrum is, so I hope she keeps it up.

In most cases if you are a tourist and are accused of minor crimes you just get deported unless you’ve done something else more serious. Detaining someone on a short term visa is awkward (what if their passport expires while in custody?) and kicking them out of the country accomplishes the same thing as jailing them.

There’s a reason why countries with proper transit infrastructure view alcoholism as a novelty.

Don’t respond if it is mostly “Blue MAGA” and “Genocide Joe”

It could also be instance admins fucking around.

You should out the users and topics they are engaging with.

“You will soon enter the state of Texas. Have you considered not doing that?”

Words cannot express how fucking weird this is.

Bruh, if your brand of veganism is “confrontational memes” can you at least try to make them funny?

As the movie industry discovered, it’s a dice roll in terms of pissing off the censors. Hard to invest millions when something as stupid as a map can get your game banned.