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Oh look, Cuellar is being a sack of shit, what a huge surprise.

MapQuest Wins By Doing Nothing

Bark Maul

Big Pile of Roasted Vegetables.

Buy a bag of potatoes or other cheap vegetables. Peel (if needed) and chop into bite-sized chunks. Toss with olive oil, salt, and pepper. Roast at 400°F. Check for doneness/brownness after 30 minutes, and 10 minute increments if they need longer.

Hits all the notes of cheap, easy, tasty, healthy, and filling. Toss with more spices if you want, or add more sauces after. My current favorite is just potatoes with hot honey. You can improve the texture of potatoes by par-boiling them, then tossing them to rough up the exterior so they end up way crispier after roasting.

The Wizard himself is also a vtuber.

The rare case of a leopard eating its own face.

Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS)

Count on the army to refer to their missiles as "attack 'em"s.

That’s not a duck. It’s an Ameridactyl!

Well, he would be the expert on unnecessary invasions…

Mitch McConnell must have been his last horcrux.

A lot of people probably simply aren’t interested in going to an outdoor event during a record-breaking heatwave.

Yes, because women are entitled to make decisions about their own bodies. Glad you’re following along.

Close! You’re confusing Luke 18:15-17 for one of the Beatitudes.

"15 One day some parents brought their little children to Jesus so he could touch and bless them. But when the disciples saw this, they scolded the parents for bothering him.

16 Then Jesus called for the children and said to the disciples, “Let the children come to me. Don’t stop them! For the Kingdom of God belongs to those who are like these children. 17 I tell you the truth, anyone who doesn’t receive the Kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.”"

Coffee shops (but who hangs out there?)

Growing up during the Starbucks boom, coffee shops were absolutely a place to hang out after school. There was probably one a short walk or drive from school, and for less than $5 you could grab a sugary drink or a pastry and hang out in a comfortable indoor space with a few friends. Heck, one of your friends probably worked there. It worked great for high schoolers because there wasn’t any alcohol (so minors could be there), you didn’t have to be as quiet as a library, and you could head there regardless of the weather. COVID has probably changed a lot of that as coffee shops focus more on drive throughs and mobile orders, not to mention inflation.

I heard a theory that Trump literally just doesn’t know what a reflecting pool is. He thinks all pools are swimming pools, so he’s turning it into a swimming pool. I have no proof for this but like… it fits.

Yes, hence its inclusion in this meme about North America.

This is why the administration is happy to “promise” $300 billion and other concessions. They know that Israel will never allow the war to end, so they’ll never have to pay any price tag that’s contingent on the war ending.

It doesn’t matter how much they say they’re going to pay. We’re just going to get another turn of the wheel: we’ll be right on the cusp of a deal, then Israel will murder a few thousand people and literally blow the deal up. The war continues but we’re still in a ceasefire, the Straight is open but nobody’s allowed through, Iran’s military capabilities have been completely destroyed but they’re still launching missiles. Give it two more weeks and we’ll be right on the cusp of a deal with another jaw-dropping offer for Iran that won’t matter because they know we’ll just turn the wheel again.

I’ll be the third person to mention Cyberpunk 2077. They genuinely perfected the Bethesda formula. I’ve put in hundreds of hours over half a dozen full playthroughs; it’s absolutely exceptional.

A black hole may not emit heat, but the accretion disk surrounding it certainly does. The gravity and spin causes clouds of gasses to rotate around the black hole at staggering speeds; the friction and other forces can heat the gasses to tens of thousands of degrees. Supermassive black holes can also expel these gasses at relativistic speeds along their axis of rotation. Black holes can give off plenty of energy without letting anything escape the event horizon.