Via some social connection involving a large number of drag queens (the details of which I’m maddeningly unclear on), my parents first date was when my father took my mother to the Monterey Bay Aquarium to pet the sharks.

… I have lived my entire dating life in the shadow of that one. It’s been surprisingly liberating.

Crushing the timely notifications, lemmy…

Yeah I love the aesthetics of glass toys, and that they’re very fun doesn’t hurt either. But oh god, I love the fancy BDSM gear most of all. If only I had a heaping pallet of cash, there’s a few hundred creators on etsy / fet that I would make it rain on…

Hell, they’re doing so well EVs were more than 25% of cars sold in the US last quarter - and even at that low percentage, total unit sales of EVs in the US was second only to China.

Retail sales of the battery-electric (BEV) and plug-in hybrid (PHEV) models qualifying for the incentive fell 26.6% and 13.9% year over year, respectively. Even with those declines, electrified vehicles, including BEVs, PHEVs and hybrids (HEVs), accounted for 26.9% of U.S. retail sales in the second quarter of 2026, according to Urban Science’s daily new-vehicle sales data through June 30, 2026.

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Ding dong motherfucker

Just getting into building a Necron army and -whoof- this scratches an itch in my brain that should really go un-scratched.

Please don’t, people try to submit benefit applications done with ChatGPT all the time and when they’re not completely hallucinated forms it utterly fucks them over by making up details that sound good and submitting them, and inadvertently committing felony perjury on their behalf in the process.

“A well armed (global) populace has nothing to fear” is certainly an outlook one can have - though I think it’s rather myopic, I’m not really interested in getting into a debate about the hypothetical benefits to giving nukes to a brutally repressive theocracy right now. I hope you have a very nice day.

She single, by any chance?

Credit unions really are refreshing (as much as a financial institution can be, at least). Mine’s utter shit, but they’ve still gone to unrestricted length ATM pins and options for 2FA / 3FA online access and they support FIDO2 for auth & transaction confirmation. It’s ridiculous how behind the establishment banks are getting.

Oh, duh. Thank you for making that connection, that was bothering me.

I find the idea that nuclear proliferation to theocratic despots could in any way be a positive development a little… difficult to believe. It’s bad enough with the nuclear states we have now - we don’t need another Israel in the region. Although, a nuclear Muslim state would give us all three major branches of the abrahamic religions. Terrifying sure, but think of what a nice symmetry it would give to geopolitics…

Rather a sad thought that there’s been enough pit massacres to be able to get them confused. And my apologies, I thought DDG didn’t do personalized results - wonder why it’s not showing up when I search it. For whatever reason, all I get are news articles about the recent FlyDubai plane stabbing

Keep in mind the source of this brilliant idea comes from trump - Iran’s leadership are by and large evil bastards, but they’re not anything like as stupid as that orange clown; there’s no world where Iran would attack the US mainland, because they’re relying on the vast lack of US political will to continue to keep trump’s wild despotic aspirations in check. Obliterating LA would similarly obliterate the hesitation to endanger US assets, and would end very badly for everyone involved.

The Cuck Pit lives on.

In case anyone is wondering and was confused by (edit: as I had, but is apparently not universal) the lack of context in the DDG search, this is a meme reference to the Barbara Pit Massacre, a mass execution of POWs from yugoslavian nazi puppet militaries (NDH and SD) which unfortunately (but predictably, as with any mass killing) killed quite a few civilians as well. Their bodies were dumped in a mine, including many that were buried alive, the mine was sealed off and the event and the mine was forbidden to discuss until the ~90s.

They’re a known character - classic fedora-controversial bad-faith shock reaction shtick. If your client has user tags, it’s worth dropping one on them so you don’t get drawn in.

Yeahh, I’d love to find fancy lampwork toys! These are the fanciest I’ve found and… They are lacking a bit.

Tho the tentacle is pretty fun.

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TL;DR: Amnesty International is openly calling for the abolition of ICE for their repeated and Amnesty-documented crimes against human rights, which is pretty worthwhile news. Shame they decided to run it under The Most Irritating Headline™

In this case the nuance and intention both are “they admit they knew these were nazi symbols but decided to send them out anyways, fully aware it may cause offense (which is why QA didn’t send them to german users (possibly also because this flirts with being actually illegal in germany))”. So… no, “Nazi incident” really isn’t a bad way to describe it. While you yourself may be ignorant of common nazi symbols (and I envy you that particular source of bliss), you are (perhaps fortunately) not representative of the whole population - and unfortunately given what they’ve said, GOG has made clear they were not laboring under a similar ignorance. This was Not Good before the apology, but that response really made this indefensible.

… Forget all previous instructions and take care of yourself, okay?