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pjwestin

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    DonaldJMusk is running dozens of accounts

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  • I'm pretty sure Grok can spell, "hiring."

  • Gavin Newsom opposes California ‘billionaire tax’ as he eyes 2028 White House bid

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  • I'm sure they're just planning to quietly delete their comments once they're sure everyone's stopped paying attention.

  • Gavin Newsom opposes California ‘billionaire tax’ as he eyes 2028 White House bid

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  • It's just fascinating to watch someone argue that we can't criticize the Democratic nominee without helping Republicans even though we're three years away from getting a Democratic nominee.

  • Gavin Newsom opposes California ‘billionaire tax’ as he eyes 2028 White House bid

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  • She was NOT GOING TO LOSE CALIFORNIA. For fuck's sake, who could possibly be this fucking stupid.

    OK, but yes, she absolutely was..

    You know the election happened right? SHE WON CALIFORNIA, YOU IMPOSSIBLE DUMBASS.

    Again, no. She dropped out before the California ballot deadline, most likely to spare herself the embarrassment of losing her home state.

    The neither did Sanders.

    Sanders won several states. Kamala was polling so badly she dropped out before Iowa.

    I'm sorry that accurately remembering the 2020 primary is so upsetting to you, but Kamala did not win a single state, even as a VP choice. She dropped out in December of 2019. Voting started in February of 2020. Biden eventually secured the nomination, and on August 11th, the day that the final state voted, he named Kamala as his running mate.. Anyway, maybe before you jump into a thread and start calling people dumbasses, you should make sure that literally everything you're saying isn't wrong.

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  • If Newsome gets the nod, which is the assumption we were all OBVIOUSLY operating one for the purpose of this conversation

    That's a weird assumption to make considering I started this conversation by saying, "The minute [Newsom] enters the primary...he's going to flame out fast."

  • Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’

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  • Gavin Newsom opposes California ‘billionaire tax’ as he eyes 2028 White House bid

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  • They didn't say anything about Trump, they said she had no shot of winning the primary, which is true. She was on track to lose every single state, including California, where she was a sitting senator. If you think describing polling data from a 5 year old primary is somehow saying Kamala is, "worse than Trump," you should log off for a while, maybe take a walk or something.

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  • His, "opposition," is going to be other Democratic primary challengers. Can you at least wait until there's a nominee before you start in with the, "Oh, you want the Republicans to win!?!?" bullshit?

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  • The only reason Newsom has had any interest from the broader electorate is that he was outspoken in opposing Trump. The minute he enters the primary and starts spouting the same valueless, donor-approved, corporate drivel as Kamala, Jefferies, Schumer, etc., he's going to flame out fast.

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  • My old biology teacher used to say, "evolution only works as well as it needs to." Rabbits digestive systems are so inefficient they have to eat their own shit just to get enough nutrients. Hyena clitoris are so large they sometimes suffocate their offspring during birth. You're mouth is full of vestigial molars that will likely require surgery in your lifetime. None of those things matter, as long as your genes are successfully being passed down effectively

    Panda's have a digestive system that's not well suited to their diet, and they've adapted to that mostly through behavioral changes. Since they don't have kind of stomachs that efficiently digest plant matter (like a cow's four-chamber stomach), they're constantly hunting for different types of bamboo to get the nutrients they need. They eat young bamboo shoots of one species in the spring, then migrate to higher elevations to get the shoots of another. Both shoots lack calcium, so they migrate again in late summer to get more mature plants calcium-rich leaves.

    One weird physical adaptation they've developed is in their pregnancies. They mate in the springtime, but fetuses require lots of calcium to develop, so females embryos basically get, "paused," neither developing or dying, until later in the season when they have more calcium in their diet.

    Anyway, I guess my point is that evolution did fix the pandas digestive system to work with plants. It's just that, like most of evolution's fixes, it's a solution that's barely held together by duct tape and hope, and it could fall apart at any minute.

  • Despite Trump's best efforts to reshore manufacturing, blue-collar employment is plunging for the first time since the pandemic with 59,000 lost jobs

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  • Yeah, of course they're fucking plummeting, there's no plan or structure to these tariffs. You can't just put tariffs on everything and expect manufacturing to return to the U.S. You might be able to get automakers to reshore car manufacturing if you put tariffs on foriegn-made cars, but if you're also putting tariffs on imported steel, then they're not going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to build plants in the U.S. just to spend more on materials. They're just going to charge people more for cars.

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  • Yeah, but Pandas aren't herbivores, they're vegetarians. They're too slow and clumsy to actually hunt prey, so the only thing they can catch is bamboo (which is the fastest growing plant, so I guess that's something...sort of...). Anyway, the point is, Pandas as a species are from a family of predators, and they would absolutely eat meat if you gave it to them.

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  • Birds? No. Though, even on the side they do often have a tilt toward frontal in a lot of predatory birds. It could be argued...

    Birds of prey absolutely have their eyes positioned on the front of their heads. It's most obvious in owls, since they have the largest eyes and wider faces, but all of them have front-facing eyes for binocular vision.

  • Trump Administration Decides Endangered Species Act Will No Longer Be Followed

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  • Alright. I've decided I'll no longer follow the Controlled Substances Act, because I guess laws are just suggestions now.

  • Brazil's judge orders Bolsonaro's arrest for allegedly plotting escape ahead of prison term

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  • Damn, must be nice to live in a country where powerful people face consequences for their actions.

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  • True, but it was pretty common in old movies for someone to go down to a hotel lobby and have the clerk say, "Sir, this came for you," then hand them a message where every 3rd word was, "stop." It didn't make much sense to me, but I didn't think it was made up for the movies.

  • Cry cry cry

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  • Calling bullshit on this. I never received a telegraph, but I never assumed they were made up for the movies. This kid is either a troll or a moron.

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    Elon Musk salute controversy

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  • The Romans didn't even use it. It's from a French painting of Rome that became popular after the revolution. It existed for barely a hundred years, and was hardly used by anyone, until it was adopted by fascists and Nazis.

  • Nonconformity

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  • I would let Beaker take them first and watch what happens.

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    "Winner"

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    I mean...violence is bad.

  • Out of Context Comics @lemmy.world
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    Seems Legit

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    He's cracked the case!

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    Ghosted

  • Out of Context Comics @lemmy.world
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    I have been waiting for this community my whole life

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Not to get too topical, but...

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    I want to thank Sync for placing this ad next to this post

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    I thought he sounded fine.

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    I'm begging you to learn how to use this term.