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[–] Subverb 106 points 4 months ago (13 children)

Assuming this isn't just shopped, which it probably is... As a guy that bakes cakes from scratch a couple of times a year, two things:

  1. Props to whomever got that pattern into the cake, that couldn't have been easy. Imagine: There's a toroidal swastika in that cake.
  2. That's one ugly-ass cake for having spent so much time on it.
[–] Subverb 2 points 4 months ago

I honestly thought you were going to tell me that was an Idiocracy quote.

Mencken makes sense too...

[–] Subverb 25 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Google makes money on ads. They make $300-$400 annually per user by displaying ads.

They are motivated to tarpit you in order to show you more ads.

Giving you your results quickly and efficiently costs them revenue.

Use kagi, or another search engine.

[–] Subverb 3 points 5 months ago

Yes, he has played a significant role in past elections all the way back to Reagan, and you haven't noticed.

He's an intellectual pundit that was on Fox News until 2017. He writes political commentary for the Washington Post; his column currently appears in 415 newspapers.

He won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary.

He continues to appear on MSNBC to this day.

He's also considered to be a baseball expert who has written extensively on the subject including his own book. Their "baseball fan" comment was intended to be cute, I think.

[–] Subverb 3 points 5 months ago

Unfortunately, as an erudite pundit, most people that would be swayed by him to vote for Harris are smart enough to have decided to do so on their own.

[–] Subverb 2 points 5 months ago

Because think of how Trump is now. Now add two, three, or four more years to his obvious decline.

Even if he doesn't end democracy, they're afraid he could literally end the Republican party.

[–] Subverb 2 points 5 months ago

I commend you, but it's a losing battle.

[–] Subverb 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It really grates on me when I read "sike".

[–] Subverb 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Secret to longevity: keep it turned off 85% of the time.

[–] Subverb 20 points 5 months ago

Thalidomide was originally created in Nazi Germany as a sedative for healthy, non-pregnant adults. After the war many of the drugs created during the war were boxed up by German pharmaceutical companies. The story of Thalidomide is simply mind-blowing from start to finish.

[–] Subverb 46 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Frances Oldham Kelsey at the FDA in the United States almost single-handedly, and while under enormous pressure, kept Thalidomide out if the USA for insufficient safety testing.

One reason that Americans are a bit less familiar with this horrific story.

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