Thanks! That was also my idea. Remember how in Zombieland they were willing to eat twinkies because food no longer exists? I figured The Last of Us would also make people depressed and willing to consider Arby's.
The state of the economy is stressing consumers, but in focus testing we found that increasing the price also increases the feeling of dehumanisation to achieve maximum Bloodshed.
I have made multiple comments in the past year that the endgame of the Polymarket Society is gambling in hospitals. Doctors against nurses, care teams against patients, patients against their own bodies, and surgical theatres for high stakes tables. You and your EMT will be betting on the time it takes for the ambulance to arrive, and by the time it does your kid will have played 6 hands of video poker and died. It's coming. Heaven told me this.
There will be a subliminal voice repeating "You WILL sit in the truck. You WILL eat the meats." while this scrolls across the screen. We're trying to attract customers who have given up and are willing to accept us now.
I learned a trick in Catholic school, entering it at like age 12 when I already had a secular science education. My "biology teacher" insisted that evolution wasn't real and I got in trouble for constantly questioning her. Instead I let it purify my hate. I could repeat the textbook answers cynically to get the grade, but knowing I was being lied to motivated me to read the truth after class out of spite and reject the lie ideologically. My horticulture degree made me an eco-Marxist because my professors were usually so insufferably liberal that I needed to learn the things they weren't teaching in defiance of their goals. If I studied history, the most valuable thing I could get from that degree is refining my ability to critically read things with a sense of formal historiography because I hated some professor relying on bad sources to lie to me.
I think if my apartment complex's recycling bin had a chicken bucket, I would be tempted to put more things there instead of the river.
That is going to be such a brilliant collaboration. His character on On Cinema is perfect for an Alex Jones pivot.
So now you're getting bizarre initiatives like a partnership with KFC for "charge and eat" service stations:
Could this be the key to getting Americans to electrify? We could even integrate fried chicken into other socially positive behaviours like taking the bus or recycling.
I like her Re-Enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons too. It ties in a strong ecological critique.
I'm not losing I'm not losing I have hella french fries actually STOP
One of my favourite theorists is the Marxist evolutionary biologist Richard Lewontin. In books like The Dialectical Biologist and Biology as Ideology, he studied the dialectic between organism and environment to understand biology in its wider context. The role of a Marxist scientist is to be anti-Cartesian, pushing for a broader intersectional understanding of a subject with the intent of changing something through political means instead of reductively isolating things until they reinforce existing power structures. My horticulture and socioecology work is doing Marxist geography with plants that I understand through Marxist ethics/biology. Nature is the proof of dialectics and each plant is nothing but internal and external dialectics across spacetime. The praxis of the work is creating the most scientifically valid space that achieves the greatest socioecological mission over time, transforming the city's greenspace in line with my Marxist urbanism, art theory, and pedagogy views. Nothing has been more important for my work than a formal and applied understanding of dialectical materialism.
I just took a trip to NYC. By and large it wasn't bad- I really didn't have too many complaints about the early accomplishments of his administration- but the police kept stopping me and asking if I had a license to not be pregnant. When I told them I didn't know it was the law, they called me "bourgeois".
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President Donald Trump has posted an image of Jesus embracing him to his Truth Social account just days after widespread backlash over an image he shared depicting himself as the Messiah.
The new image, which appears to be AI-generated and was originally posted on X by a Trump supporter, depicts Jesus with an arm around the president’s shoulder and one hand on his chest in front of a halo of light and an American flag. Their heads are leaning against each other and both have their eyes closed.
Trump posted the picture Wednesday morning with the message: “The Radical Left Lunatics might not like this, but I think it is quite nice!!! President DJT.”
On Sunday, Trump posted an AI image on Truth Social portraying himself as Jesus in flowing robes and healing a sick man with beams of light coming out of his hands. In the image, Trump is surrounded by patriotic symbols, including an American flag, the Statue of Liberty and eagles.
The image sparked outrage among Christians and across the political spectrum. Former Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene slammed the post and said she was “praying against it” while Vermont Independent Bernie Sanders described it as “deranged” and “egomaniacal behavior.”
“This should be deleted immediately. There’s no context where this is acceptable,” Christian activist Sean Feucht wrote on X.
MAGA influencer Riley Gaines questioned the post on X. “Why? Seriously, I cannot understand why he’d post this. Is he looking for a response? Does he actually think this? Either way, two things are true. 1) a little humanity would serve him well 2) God shall not be mocked,” she wrote.
Members of faith-based media also shared criticisms of the post.
“This goes too far. It crosses the line,” David Brody, a journalist with the Christian Boadcasting Network wrote on X. “A supporter can back the mission and reject this.”
“I don’t know if the President thought he was being funny or if he is under the influence of some substance or what possible explanation he could have for this OUTRAGEOUS blasphemy,” wrote Megan Basham, a conservative writer and commentator. “But he needs to take this down immediately and ask for forgiveness from the American people and then from God.”
By Monday morning, the post had been deleted from Trump’s Truth Social feed. The president later defended the post while speaking to reporters outside the White House.
“I viewed that as a picture of me being a doctor,” he said. “You know, as a little fun playing the doctor and making people better. So that’s what it was viewed as. That’s what most people thought.”
The president said he took down the image because he “didn’t want to have anybody be confused,” and blamed the “fake news” for causing the controversy.
Trump’s allusions to himself as a savior came as he gave an interview claiming to be the sole force preventing the world from falling apart.
“If I weren’t president, the world would be torn to pieces,” he told ABC News’ Jonathan Karl in an interview aired Wednesday.
The Trump administration is struggling to agree on a peace deal with Iran during the nations’ two-week ceasefire, which the president announced last week after threatening to obliterate “a whole civilization.”
The president suggested in the ABC News interview that a deal could be imminent, despite the first rounds of talks failing this past weekend.
“I think you’re going to be watching an amazing two days ahead,” Trump said. “I really do.”
The Iran war, launched by the U.S. and Israel at the end of February, has engulfed large parts of the Middle East in violence. More than 3,000 people have been killed in Iran, according to state media, and millions across the region have been displaced. Thirteen U.S. service members have been killed and hundreds have been wounded, according to the Pentagon.
The conflict has battered economies around the world as Iran enforced blockades on the Strait of Hormuz, a key passageway for about 20 percent of the world’s oil. The war has led to oil prices hovering around $100 a barrel, and see the average U.S. gas price hit $4 a gallon.
And then after class said that she would like to teach another one where the question is "should we even have a livestock industry at all?". I told her that I'd love to teach one where I just make the students repeatedly read The Jungle and Grapes of Wrath until they start burning shit down and she replied that it already seems like we're heading that way.
My only good professor.
I'm sorry. This is whatever the opposite of ASMR is. It's the most obnoxious thing I've seen in a while. Yale costs around $98k per year to attend.
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I like this project a lot. The site was formerly a degraded lawn with a shitty apple tree. It's in a park next to two child-centric locations and a parking lot, so there is a lot of opportunity for it to be an enriching public education spot. My crew spent last year turning it into a dry creekbed garden full of native plants.
It takes about three years for a pollinator garden to really begin flourishing here, but even after the first season it's so much nicer and supports a lot more wildlife. The creekbed even serves a dual role of diverting water away from the parking lot while storing it for the plants to minimise irrigation.
Video game tie-ins do NOT work for us. We tried to do a Minecraft one where players facing starvation could choose to eat a delicious Arby's sandwich that appeared in front of their character. Over 95% of them chose starvation even though it was right there.