I was looking at this more, and if you're going to order through customs, you should do it soon. If you order now it can still get through before the de minimis exemption ends on the 29th. After that it might be more difficult/expensive.

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That got me too, right when I was going to order. They just updated with their reopening plans, though.

English said he left his phone at home in order to evade surveillance and that he had bought an atlas with cash a month earlier in order to find his way to D.C., the affidavit said. He also said he wore clothes that would conceal his appearance when purchasing the atlas, it said.

This is 100% a "I know what I'm doing, I saw it on TV" guy

China's planned "grab and go" architecture "does not give you the comprehensive look for the science community," Nelson said today.
"Will people say that there's a race?" he added. "Well, of course, people will say that. But it's two totally different missions."

Doesn’t count unless you get samples from multiple locations apparently.

This is a political maneuver, not an accident. If there was a fund to cover important expenses during a shutdown, then the leverage wouldn't kick in until the fund was about to run out, and that's when the negotiations would start happening. We'd be in the same position.

People criticized Obama for performatively pretending to drink water, and now here's Biden actually drinking water. Sometimes we just need to maturely accept incremental progress and not let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

A few years ago there was a study where something like 20% of Biden voters said they where “not sure” whether he’s the head of a pedophile cabal.

"Bombing civilians is acceptable because Hamas is using them as human shields!"

"Bombing civilians is acceptable because Hamas is cruelly excluding them from their military areas!"

The most aggravating thing about these is that they keep implying hexbear is a straight site that made the decision to let us be here. When they make detached from reality insults like hexchan or israel it’s easy to say ‘lol, no’. But I hate that they’re also trying to smuggle in the idea that of course it’s the straight people that are in charge of this website. Probably without even realizing it.

Personally I prefer the ones where they just call us fake queers.

Exactly. Sometimes people will defend it with some supposed high-minded origin, like "it's not saying being gay is wrong, it's using trump's homophobia and insecurity against him and turning it into a vulnerability that we're using to trigger him". And maybe some of the people repeating it actually believe that, but the images don't come with a paragraph explaining the nuance. They're just supposed to be an easy shot at trump, you're supposed to laugh and keep scrolling. Most people liking or sharing them aren't thinking about it any more than "haha, he's owned cause he's gay".

You can spend all day convincing yourself that your specific way of thinking about it isn't racist/homophobic, but when you share this shit online all that stuff stays in your head, and you're just spreading bigotry.