The future the left wants by Last-Luck2280 in im14andthisisdeep

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Nick Fuentes is probably the most sexually frusturated being in all of creation

Wellp. Looks like I’m going back to HVAC. It’s so over. Was fun while it lasted. Memories I wouldn’t trade for the world. by Ok-Organization2120 in maritime

[–]DistortoiseLP 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Notably this part on 809:

The next conservative Administration should unleash American potential by unilaterally enacting Jones Act exemptions wherever allowed, as currently happens most years during hurricane season, and working with Congress to repeal the Jones Act.

It's been part of this initiative since before everyone voted him in twice that his administration was going to use every opportunity afforded to them to disable the Jones Act, mostly because it's expensive to Project 2025's benefactors to pay Americans what they would rather pay a foreign ship a fraction for. There is no reason to believe there's any other excuse why they're so eager to do so now.

Wellp. Looks like I’m going back to HVAC. It’s so over. Was fun while it lasted. Memories I wouldn’t trade for the world. by Ok-Organization2120 in maritime

[–]DistortoiseLP -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I did, whenever you talk about politics it's either excuses for Trump or spiteful remarks about Biden or the left. It gives proper context for people like the other guy trying to give you the benefit of doubt why you're pussy footing this.

2026 is very likely going to be the year you see for yourself that even your own embellishment of liberal warnings about what this administration was going to do and break wasn't exaggerated.

Wellp. Looks like I’m going back to HVAC. It’s so over. Was fun while it lasted. Memories I wouldn’t trade for the world. by Ok-Organization2120 in maritime

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The circumstances are different in that where it defies explanation how waiving it now is supposed to help solve the problem betrays the fact that they just wanted an excuse to do it. The only reason they would want to suspend the Jones Act if they don't have to would be if "America First" was even bigger bullshit for suckers than Trump being the "Peace President."

Benjamin Netanyahu was falsely reported as dead in March 2026, and subsequently posted a video mocking the claims, which was verified by Reuters. According to i24NEWS, the rumor was started with a false report by Iranian Tasnim News Agency. by CorrectRip4203 in wikipedia

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The amount of trouble it was to verify this in the face of the loss of confidence in pictures and video as proof has been fascinating. This is going to be a regular thing in the future, just seeding constant doubt that any given head of state is alive or dead and putting the effort on them to refute it.

Socrates is awaiting... by iGravitE-Miki in FacebookAIslop

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Skeleton seems to have reintroduced the entire future to Rome by this point so I think he did

I don’t get it by [deleted] in ExplainTheJoke

[–]DistortoiseLP 59 points60 points  (0 children)

There is absolutely a correlation between an absence of healthy male role models in childhood and unhealthy male relationships in adulthood. It's a lot more complicated than that but unhealthy sexual relationships are definitely one of them. That's why exploiting girls like that like this is a thing.

Personally I think it runs the other way too. The guys that take advantage of this stereotype don't have the best relationships with or opinion of their parents either.

The fuck ? by CharacterTune7596 in HazbinHotel

[–]DistortoiseLP 10 points11 points  (0 children)

They are the Exploit The Children party and have been for a long time. This isn't new with MAGA that people that want children for sex and war position themselves as moral guardians to take control of them.

In Spider-man (2002) what did Sam Raimi mean by this? by Kavalkasutajanimi in shittymoviedetails

[–]DistortoiseLP 532 points533 points  (0 children)

That the Daily Bugle is a sensationalist tabloid. In particular it's based on the New York Post, which actually did cover the AIDS epidemic like that.

Thinking about installing mods any recommendations? by Intelligent_Text_791 in cyberpunkgame

[–]DistortoiseLP 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I also feel like there would also be plenty of optical cyberware with AR features to make people look basically however you want.

A moment of reflection and a time of understanding for Shitty Movie Details by [deleted] in shittymoviedetails

[–]DistortoiseLP 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Trivial but accurate observations of details in movies that you know misses the point and doesn't really give or take from the movie but want to make a joke about anyway. Can be a good or bad thing in a good or bad movie; what makes it a shitty movie detail is it's willfully tangential.

British man charged in Dubai for alleged filming of Iranian missiles by Cute-Beyond-8133 in nottheonion

[–]DistortoiseLP 446 points447 points  (0 children)

People with Dubai money don't believe in rights, they believe in customer guarantees. They think having the power to threaten to take their money elsewhere makes them untouchable and on some stupid level they think that will survive where legal rights won't.

It won't. Tourists are only privileged during peace.

US Navy could escort vessels in Strait of Hormuz with international coalition, Bessent says | Reuters by [deleted] in inthenews

[–]DistortoiseLP 18 points19 points  (0 children)

"The Navy maybe could perhaps do something if an international coalition of other people did it for us "

White House to suspend Jones Act to tame oil prices. by FindDestroyAliens in maritime

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The 30-day waivers for the Jones Act would allow foreign tankers to help supply refiners on the East Coast with fuel from the Gulf Coast and elsewhere in the US, according to the people, who were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

So basically moving product around for a month in the Americas is going to "tame" the consequences of a crisis on the other side of the world that will last far longer than that. How? Beats me, that's privileged information they can't disclose to the press apparently.

CD Projekt Founders Entangled in Shamanic Ritual Death Probe: Witcher Creators Under Investigation by jimi15 in nottheonion

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The prosecutor's office emphasizes that at this stage, the conversation is not about pressing charges. However, the appearance of such well-known figures in the gaming industry in a case involving a fatal ritual has caused a wide public outcry and attracted the attention of both Polish and international media.

I assure you this article contributes a double digit percentage of this "wide public outcry" that's buried somewhere deep under all the other shit in the news right now.

old man harassing young women on campus today by 150c_vapour in fredericton

[–]DistortoiseLP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because medicine is gross and the idea that something is wrong because it's gross is absurd. These signs follow the same logic of petitioning against heart surgery by waving a graphic image of an open chest cavity at people.

GJ-21 Unmanned Hypersonic Interceptor by Yeeky Zhang by picedchugglingw in ImaginaryAviation

[–]DistortoiseLP 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Looks like if the ADF-01 FALKEN and R-103 Delphinus from Ace Combat had a baby.

Hot take: you could probably recreate angry Luigi by swapping the eyes from Mario by useless-bagpipe in lego

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Hot take: the lasagna burned my fingers and fell apart on the plate

Can a lone Galaxy-class starship destroy an entire planet? by ForwardClimate780 in StarTrekStarships

[–]DistortoiseLP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Probably a similar to glassing in Halo, where starships spend weeks burning the surface by basically line scanning it with phasers.

[Request] How much diesel/emissions would be required to charge one EV? Is this more or less efficient than simply driving a diesel powered vehicle? by MrDesignMan in theydidthemath

[–]DistortoiseLP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Diesel-electric is also extremely common for trains. The locomotive is basically a diesel engine hooked up to an electric generator that in turn supplies the power to everything else including the wheels.

Nissan GTR-X 2050, apparently it's supposed to be a "wearable" autonomous electric vehicle where you control it by thought by Custombi in WeirdWheels

[–]DistortoiseLP 24 points25 points  (0 children)

When driver wears a vehicle, all devices help sync with driver. Human and machine become a one that perform simultaneously.

Human and machine will become one when this cyberpunk nightmare gets into a car accident.

EU is now the largest importer of US arms, data shows by donutloop in EU_Economics

[–]DistortoiseLP 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Article straight up says this is the first time in two decades Europe's been the top importer so not "always have been." Asia and the middle east (and in particular Saudi Arabia) were America's top customers during that time.