I remember hearing somewhere, and believe, “a person can do a bad thing, but that doesn’t make them a bad person.”

Also, higher property values can mean increased property taxes. As out of reach as it feels, I’d rather my future home cost me less money to just live and grow old in, thank you :c

Know where can I find a breakdown of the symbolism behind the intro?
For me, it’s hard to watch. I feel like I got bungeed down into the deepest depths of the bottomless Uncanny Valley, coming back up covered in oily black ooze, but I look down at its just my hands, my clothes, my normal skin. I think I’d appreciate it more if I knew what and why what was going on.

POs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HY-2mMcq9Y

Wish I knew where to watch this documentary. I remember it being a fun watch

I get that this is leopardsatemyface, but also What education is needed here to vaccinate people against the virus of ignorance?

Damn, an even more ancient meme

I’m still stuck on CAT. Imma kitty cat. And I dance-dance-dance, and I dance-dance-dance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

Toxic as in workplace relations or toxic as in environmental effects? Or some other third meaning?

I’m out of the loop on this one

https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details?pubid=102979

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/08/nx-s1-5288119/a-soybean-farmer-recalls-how-he-was-impacted-by-chinese-tariffs-in-trumps-first-term

“We Canadians”

(source: just my best guess rn, I’m not Canadian)

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/understanding-the-lrad-the-sound-cannon-police-are-using-at-protests-and-how-to-protect-yourself-from-it/

I didn’t know what an LRAD was

https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/stopped-by-police#ive-been-stopped-by-the-police-in-public

For those out of the loop as I was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humorous_units_of_measurement#Scaramucci

A Scaramucci (or Mooch) is 11 (sometimes 10) days and is named after the length of White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci’s tenure under President Trump.

Further reading, because I like further reading: https://web.archive.org/web/20190831011113/https://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/anthony-scaramucci-called-me-to-unload-about-white-house-leakers-reince-priebus-and-steve-bannon

I imagine they meant Hegseth is as if the raincoat was wet in a way that just soaks you - the opposite of helpful. Useless, even.

On Boost, the columns got narrowed to each three characters wide, just to fit all columns on screen width-wise

On the one hand, no one here is downplaying this administration’s illegal treatment of immigrants.

On the other, anything that helps my neighbors realize they are not fucking safe either from this administration’s dumpsterfire is a small win.