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i was lost in my own thoughts when this ancient, new grounds web-animation popped into my head. this was originally uploaded almost 20 years ago (October 6th, 2004).

nostalgia for the oldheads, i guess. i don't really get what the inspiration for this was. just another weird, low bandwidth flash animation. i guess the dad is jacked up on the devil's lettuce... back in the days when buying the weed drugs from some guy in the parking lot of an IHOP meant you were literally helping Al Qaeda do more 9/11s.

You can use Autogenerated subtitles translated to English

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

If you can handle a slightly annoying british accent then you will be delighted at the utter failure of this project.

I had the react court supercut on in the background to make my work day less monotonous but I had to fucking stop immediately when he started reading this, I couldn’t breathe. Most normal Redditor dropped and you’re just telling me this, I’m hearing this for the first time

the LOOORD OF THE MANOR

A judge in the US state of Michigan was surprised when a defendant appeared for his remote court hearing while behind the wheel. Corey Harris, who is charged with driving on a suspended licence, joined the call from a moving car. "I don't even know why he would do that," the judge said to the defendant's lawyer.

Power move

Adm. Rob Bauer, NATO's top military officer, discusses what business and government can do to defend themselves, what he sees as the need for increased defense spending and how a second Trump presidency could affect the alliance.

from WSJ News

a few of the phrases:

• rules-based international order (no mention of ICC/ICJ etc obviously)
• govts should be more like business, business should think more like govts
• in China they all think about 'we', but in the west it's all about 'me'
• invest in MIC for the future of the west

the message is pretty clearly 'more austerity is required for more MIC or we are gonna be screwed' if you read between the lines a bit

youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBbSIFpt_UQ

The West Has Fallen

I’d love to do an effort post distilling some of her arguments about fast fashion and modern clothing production.

Farah breaks it down for Michael.