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For some reason I thought it was mainly to protect Taylor Swift, with teen girls being the afterthought.

If he was ousted I would buy one just to spite him.

Nah, I wouldn't, but I imagine a big uptick in sales after he got the boot would do detrimental harm to his ego.

I've had a lot of trouble searching for a concrete answer to this, but does anyone know what percentage of commercial jets in the US are made by Boeing? I know it's a duopoly between them and Airbus, but to what extent is Boeing's domination?

This is a really good point, my mind is blown

Do these guys ever remember their childhoods? I get nostalgic for mine a lot but it must be weird when all you can remember is wanting to be a cunt when you grow up.

How old is the joke about crying in the shower before work? Was it a more popular thing to do then than now? Do we have more to cry about now, but cry less often because we're numb? What about people with bathtubs but no showers? Why am I crying? Why is Jamie crying?

That sounds incredibly low for America.

Holy shit, that would have gone far if it had gone to the right places. Hopefully it can now.

I cringe every time I see political funds referred to as "war chests." It's just so fucking macho. Gotta be a meme at this point.

The boys and I would call a cooler full of Mountain Dews our war chest before hopping into Halo 2.

Conservatives hate this one neighboring country!

The upside--if the article is to believed--is that her opinion is not shared by the majority in Israel. But yes, the loudest/extremest voices do have a habit of getting amplified and guiding, or subverting, the majority. It truly does read like some kind of fanfic delusions from the Third Reich: completely nuts.

I feel like rich people are more brazen than ever before. It's a long time before we see any guillotines for the rich in my country at least (the US). We regularly put people down who have pennies to their name though or just average Joes living their lives. Death by cop and death by violence in a broken penal system. Also completely unavoidable health issues that increasingly only the wealthy end can afford to rectify.

Thou shalt not covet dat ass.

Drying in the Amazon sure to be a fun time.

Yeah the ENT specialist I saw was three months after I was referred by my general physician, because that's the earliest they had available.

There's nothing admirable about US heathcare (at no fault of the healthcare workers, let me be clear).

How timely! American here who just received a bill for scoping my sinuses by an ENT specialist: insurance covered $28 out of the $415 procedure. This is on top of the $70 copay I owe for the $195 office visit. So all accounting factored in, I owe $450 for what I thought was going to be $70.

Because it was billed through insurance, the provider's hands are tied in terms of further negotiation. I would bet if I had gone in as a cash patient, I'd be much better off.

The icing on the cake is that the scoping procedure was non-conclusive.

The US healthcare insurance system is the ultimate way to make money fast, for little effort. As long as you're on the right side of it, that is.

In the drivers' briefings tell the drivers that a construction crew has mistakenly dropped a box of nails off their truck on some random unknown portion of runoff outside of track limits.

What do you have?

I hope Germany wakes up

Pretty wild that we happen to live in a perfect little time period for capitalizing on dead plants and animals which have turned into energy sources over millenia. It's also pretty wild how we've made a lot of things out of these dead plants and animals when it will be a bit of a wait until we get more of these dead plants and animals again.

We're just like ants finding a sugar cube. But with more at stake in some ways.