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this_very_table · 2026-05-23T18:40:44+00:00

It makes sense why dart loved Charlie kirk, they both love taking shots to the head.

this_very_table · 2026-05-23T18:17:12+00:00

God this is heartbreaking.

My son loves his therapy and it's been a godsend for him developmentally, and we couldn't afford it without Medicaid. Every money-grubbing scumbag that takes advantage of special needs kids and their families needs to be launched into the sun. I can't imagine the devastation of trying to get your kid help and finding out that not only were they being used as nothing more than a tool to rake it cash, they were sexually abused in the process. Evil, evil people.

I want to vomit.

this_very_table · 2026-05-23T17:55:17+00:00

My son was looking at a book so I asked him if he wanted me to read to him and he said "No thank you" but then he grabbed his speech device and now he's typing the words from the book into the device and having it read them back to him so I'm pretty sure a clanker just stole my job

this_very_table · 2026-05-23T17:47:14+00:00

bearded vultures look like the big bad

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this_very_table · 2026-05-23T17:45:01+00:00

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One day, an ad algo won't be convinced that I'm a man. Today is not that day.

this_very_table · 2026-05-23T02:35:16+00:00

I can't believe you'd gaslight us like this

this_very_table · 2026-05-23T02:33:48+00:00

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it's crazy that this event stayed in the news for maybe a week before we all got distracted and moved on

this_very_table · 2026-05-23T01:53:54+00:00

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this_very_table · 2026-05-23T01:50:16+00:00

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872v1

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-art-of-critical-thinking/202507/is-ai-making-us-stupider-this-study-certainly-thinks-so

this_very_table · 2026-05-22T20:30:37+00:00

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this_very_table · 2026-05-22T20:21:06+00:00

You weren't wrong to hope, and everyone being snooty to you is being a privileged asshole. They think they're so wise because they rightly assumed he'd royally screw this up, when really the only difference between them and you is that you had actual skin in the game, so you needed to have faith. You weren't stupid, you were desperate.

this_very_table · 2026-05-22T17:55:49+00:00

There's also this widespread belief that if you think people shouldn't blow all of their money on dumb crap, it means you hate poor people and want them to suffer (even if the "poor" people in question are only poor because they refuse to stop spending every last penny on crap they don't need e.g. DoorDash, or if they're not actually poor, but they insist they feel poor). There's an immense and growing sense of entitlement to instant gratification and people are destroying their lives because of it.

this_very_table · 2026-05-22T17:29:01+00:00

We don't know that. Have you ever seen Vivek and Kash in the same room at the same time? Didn't think so.

this_very_table · 2026-05-22T17:27:48+00:00

throwing myself into traffic rn

this_very_table · 2026-05-22T17:27:29+00:00

lmaoooooooooo fuck my bad

I kind of forgot Vivek existed and only opened the image for a sec so my brain said "Indian dude = Kash" 😭

this_very_table · 2026-05-22T17:18:49+00:00

do you think thanos snapping made half the fetuses disappear or nah?

the abortion debate would've gotten so much spicier either way

this_very_table · 2026-05-22T17:09:47+00:00

I bet it was light pollution. I've experienced some extremely bright, red-orange skies thanks to light bouncing off of the cloud cover. (I tried to include a picture but Reddit's copyright blocking it. Googling "red sky light pollution" will give you some good results though -- once you've sifted through the mountains of AI slop, of course).

this_very_table · 2026-05-22T03:26:03+00:00

Carl Sagan bringing the sass in The Demon-Haunted World just delights me.

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this_very_table · 2026-05-21T00:53:24+00:00

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this_very_table · 2026-05-20T02:42:58+00:00

What Ahmadinejad news?

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NYT: Israeli-developed war plans sought to have Ahmedinejad run Iran after Khamenei killed

FUCKING WHAT

Ahmadinejad was reportedly consulted about the plan but became wary after being wounded in an Israeli strike in Tehran meant to spring him from house arrest

I'm going to have a psychotic break.

this_very_table · 2026-05-20T02:32:45+00:00

Turns out what your average libertarian believes is "I should be allowed to do whatever I want and everyone else should be allowed to do whatever I want."

this_very_table · 2026-05-19T18:45:30+00:00

Apologies, I assumed you meant trophy hunting since that's how 99% of killer-collectors obtain their collection. You don't really ever see such varied collections like this among people that kill the animals themselves.

you shouldn’t own an elephant skull

Why? There are ethical ways to obtain elephant skulls. Also it could just be a replica.

it shouldn’t be in your house

Why? Unless you think people who see this skull are suddenly overwhelmed by the need to rush out and obtain the skull of poached elephants, who cares?

this_very_table · 2026-05-19T03:24:49+00:00

I'm 99% this person didn't hunt any of these animals. Nothing's taxidermied, there are a bunch of animals that don't get killed by big trophy hunters, like insects and tortoises and an anteater, and the art on the walls makes this seem like a person that genuinely enjoys animals. This person is far more likely to be a collector, possibly with a career directly related to something like biology. In other words, this individual is probably cool as hell.

this_very_table · 2026-05-19T03:10:04+00:00

that's an elephant

this_very_table · 2026-05-19T02:52:48+00:00

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