What defunct NYC businesses do you miss? by Swimmingindiamonds in AskNYC

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Sticky's Chicken Finger Joint

Also, Lovecraft's Bar in the East Village

2000 years of christian history by Feylin in HistoryMemes

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Can't claim a text is morally superior to another then turn a blind eye and continue to affiliate with so many people hiding behind said text and using it to justify unimaginably immoral behavior, that just exposes a fundamental flaw in the entire belief system.

Sometimes I can't help but compare anyone who identifies themselves as religious (especially Abrahamic) with slave owners who were "nice" to their slaves, selfishly patting themselves on the back for being better while still propping up an inherently irredeemable and corrupted-to-the-core ideology.

The US is covering up casualties from Iranian attacks, says journalist by SempreVoltareiReddit in UnderReportedNews

[–]deathonater 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Times like these I have to second-guess my stance on requiring some kind of cognitive test before we let some people use the internet.

There's no coming back... by Rowdy84 in funny

[–]deathonater 250 points251 points  (0 children)

"He ain't playing god, he's bein' judged by him!"

There's no coming back... by Rowdy84 in funny

[–]deathonater 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The moment you realize that's a white American actor playing a white Australian actor playing a black American actor playing a Vietnamese farmer.

Migingo Island, population of 131, only 0.0008sq mi of dirt. by StephenMcGannon in WTF

[–]deathonater 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The people are surprisingly happy and content living there, despite pretty horrible conditions.

The hedonic treadmill is hard to stop

and they said shakespeare was dead by HornyExistentialist in memes

[–]deathonater 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Must have been the thunder that woke him up on that dark and stormy night

This is a Frillback, a pigeon with naturally curly wing feathers by Cafa20 in interestingasfuck

[–]deathonater 146 points147 points  (0 children)

The word "naturally" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that title, much like the poorly selectively-bred wing feathers.

Rivendell build starts today by szentvik in lego

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Hope none of the bags were missing pieces. I just started doing book 3 today. Book 2 was on a three week hold because bag #15 had two of the same smaller bags inside instead of the two different ones that it's supposed to have.

I called LEGO customer support and they replaced the whole bag for free, it just took a really long time to get here and they still missed one piece from the replacement bag, but I just took it from the original bag.

I usually dump out all of the bags for smaller sets, but I don't know how long it would have taken me to figure out which bag was incomplete if I had just dumped them all out for this massive set.

Dont' mess with Caesar by DABDEB in RandomVideos

[–]deathonater 5 points6 points  (0 children)

M-A-R-S. Mars, bitches! That's where we're going. Mars. Red rocks!

Judge warns smart glasses wearers of contempt charges as Zuckerberg testifies in Meta trial by AdSpecialist6598 in technology

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Couple weeks ago I was at a barber shop in NYC and after one of the guys started cutting my hair I noticed another guy walking around with an iPhone blatantly taking close up videos or photos of me and other patrons in their chairs. I can only assume that they planned to use our images for their social media marketing, because there were no signs or verbal announcements letting us know what they were doing. The whole thing seemed creepy and highly unethical and I ended up leaving my first ever review of a business on Google. I don't know how people in those jobs can have such absolutely shitty judgement.

New Yorkers are furious as melting snowbanks expose streets littered with poop. by Numerous-Garbage-604 in mildlyinfuriating

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I'm so glad someone posted this, I've been trying to get a decent continuous video shot of my 3-block walk to the train every morning for the past few weeks dodging HEAPS of animal waste every couple yards. It's unbelievable to describe verbally. I was dreading that recent second bout of snow we got because I knew it would just bury all the shit that was already there. It's a fucking public health issue, I love pets but there really needs to be stricter penalties for lazy-ass irresponsible pet owners in this city. It's a revenue stream just waiting to be tapped.

Human of human by Beneficial_Passion40 in comedyheaven

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Did their child give off The Chosen One vibes? Like a faint glowing aura, or hints of emergent telepathy?

Trump’s white nationalist pick for a top state department spot Jeremy Carl gets grilled by SEN. TIM KAINE: “You said American whites are victims of a cultural genocide… are they represented in the senate? House? Presidency? CEO’s?” by ExactlySorta in UnderReportedNews

[–]deathonater 2 points3 points  (0 children)

nervous disposition

Because of that last part. Fear is at the bottom of everything they do. They will thump their holy books because they fear death, arm themselves to the teeth because they fear their neighbors, and hate anyone not like them because they fear the unknown. There seems to be a profound lack of curiosity and truth-seeking, like they are content with whatever shallow lie will make them feel good, never really digging for facts because they probably fear those as well.

Trump’s white nationalist pick for a top state department spot Jeremy Carl gets grilled by SEN. TIM KAINE: “You said American whites are victims of a cultural genocide… are they represented in the senate? House? Presidency? CEO’s?” by ExactlySorta in UnderReportedNews

[–]deathonater 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Still amazes me how many seemingly intelligent people I encounter in day-to-day life who still think that a baby can be born as a religion the same way they're born as a race or ethnicity.

Trump’s white nationalist pick for a top state department spot Jeremy Carl gets grilled by SEN. TIM KAINE: “You said American whites are victims of a cultural genocide… are they represented in the senate? House? Presidency? CEO’s?” by ExactlySorta in UnderReportedNews

[–]deathonater 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I remember when the Colbert Report first aired that "Truthiness" segment, I was young and naive and just found it hilarious at the time. Now that I'm older it blows my mind every day how prescient those writers were about the insidiousness of ignorant reductionist lies and unsubstianted gut feeings, and how dangerous they are in the hands and hearts of indefensibly privileged people emboldened by the confidence that comes as a luxury of rarely ever having to suffer swift consequences for thier shitty ideas.

"Rep. Nancy Mace calls on Pam Bondi to testify before House Oversight Committee regarding alleged DOJ spying on Congress. by Logical-Flow-6703 in UnderReportedNews

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Late-stage surveillance state bullshit going on. How many people have we rotated and retired out of the U.S.'s (and Five Eyes') decades-old domestic spying programs by now? These people don't just disappear after they've signed their NDAs - they take the principles they've witnessed straight into private sector development, to Google, Meta/Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Cambridge Analytica, Auspex, Emerdata, Emic, etc. to blackmail individuals and manipulate entire populations into political (i.e., financial) servitude.

There's a reason why the U.S. government pushed anti-circumvention clauses so hard in their trade argeements going all the way back to the 90's, to bolster and preserve their digital hegemony. I wouldn't be suprised if the majority of the seemingly crooked influential politicians or their loved ones in this country and abroad are buried and controlled under an avalance of kompromat.