Nobody here but us chickens.

I know most people don't care about anything unless it has to do with the U.S. but can we please start talking about the Canadian election.

Please don't vote for Poilievre. He's basically the Canadian Trump and plans to put in place laws that harm trans youth, and lots of other shit.

Please vote istg this is the only way anything will get better. Poilievre has been kissing millionaires and billionaires asses. He'll make life even harder, and he loves Trump.

Reblogs are appreciated, especially if you aren't Canadian.

This. I often see "My therapist only cares because I'm paying them $200/session, it isn't real! If they cared they wouldn't charge what they do."

Bestie, I have never known a mental health care professional who set their own rates. When you pay that bill, you are paying the clinic. Not your therapist. They all work for someone else, who sets their rates and their wages. And their rates and their wages are SEPARATE THINGS. And frequently, actually nearly always, they aren't being paid enough, just like you aren't. I don't think I've met a single therapist who was getting paid a reasonable amount.

So yeah, like the screenshot says, we gotta make this cheaper, and we gotta make sure that the actual workers are paid enough.

So stupid. So dumb. #MAGA

America will die trying to protect the myth of white superiority. First Felon has broken the minds of mediocre whiteness. The media has betrayed its mission to warn the public in favor of profits/greed.

The world will pass this American generation by.

Every Republican wants America to crater.

Income inequality is the death of us.

Pitchfork the rich.

Cory Booker has been talking in the senate for over 20 hours now

He’s not filibustering. He’s protesting the current administration.

For those of you from outside the US or those of you who didn’t pay attention in government class, in the US senate there’s really no limit to the amount of time a senator can speak. So sometimes if they don’t want a bill to pass they just. Don’t stop talking. To hopefully get past the deadline to vote on a bill. This is called filibustering.

Senator Cory Booker isn’t doing that. He’s disrupting “the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able”. Just in protest. This doesn’t usually happen.

He’s less than 20 minutes away from breaking the record of the longest speech given on the senate floor

Cory Booker has officially broken Strom Thurmond’s record for longest speech on the senate floor and he’s still going

For those of you wondering what he’s been talking about this whole time, his staff wrote down a bunch of stuff for him to read like stories from people across the political spectrum opposed to what the administration is doing. He’s also been telling personal anecdotes about meeting important civil rights leaders and other democratic senators have been pausing him for “questions” but the questions have been as long as a small speech and have both served the purpose of giving him a second to sit down and updating him on the news that he’s been missing while he’s been talking.

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what I like most about him is that he’s a red herring villain in the sense that he clearly is designed to look evil (he looks like that because he got injured in the war) but once you see his actions in the movie he’s only helping people. his oxygen destroyer genuinely is the device that helps defeat Godzilla. He was actually extremely reluctant to use it because he (correctly) assumed that it would catch the eyes of Cold War nations who would use it against people.

plus there’s a subplot about him being arranged to marry the main female lead but she’s in love with a different man. instead of being the obvious villain again about the situation, he acknowledges she’ll be happier with a spouse of her choosing rather than an arranged marriage

I just love this guy from a 1954 movie looks like a complete cliche of a mad scientist but his character is actually a subversion of a lot scientist villain tropes

Happy anniversary to my long suffering husband 😂💞

DOGE is a bust. Its a front for Musk to steal data and contracts. That's it.

Have you ever looked closely at a car windshield?

The edge of the glass is painted where it is glued to the car but it has these small dots between the clear and painted glass.

These are there for a reason. When the sun hits the glass the painted areas and the clear areas will absorb heat at different rates. This causes the glass to expand and contract differently putting stress on the glass.

These dots help the glass to warm up more evenly over a larger area so the glass does not suffer stress that could cause it to spontaneously explode.

Fun fact: the Tesla cybertruck doesn’t have these.

Yes, the glass will spontaneously crack or explode in the sun.

Democrats make. Republicans take.

The US econony does better when the problems of capitalism are addressed through Democratic policies.

The US economy ALWAYS does worse with GOP deregulation.