A lot of the more popular ones, okcupid included, all got bought up by Match Group and almost immediately started trending anti-consumer in their updates or removal of features. They want you paying, they don't give a shit about success.

The article posted refers to 2024, TikTok didn't agree to sell to Oracle until 2025 and the full handover didn't take effect until this year. For the purposes of this post, it was indeed conceivably China behind this effort.

There's a decent chance an account as big as Valve gets the "premium business" bullshit for free. Not sure if there's a way to tell but it's definitely possible.

This is really the core of it. If someone starts nitpicking over the other details, they've just joined a crowd of ~46,400 other groups all called Christians arguing in a similar way.

Also it's understandable the source would focus on Mormons but I find Unitarian Universalists getting cut way more offensive. They're like the care bears of religion, come on now.

They just need to contact Mark Rober and his glitter bomb team: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgeXOVaJo_gnexNopBzUKdl3QKoADJlS8

I think I understand the joke, but I've seen things from this point of view as well. Something happened during and after pandemic lockdowns that has led to absolutely unprecedented numbers of people going out and hiking what were previously really quiet trails. It was already tough maintaining them before, now you've got tons of people who don't bother to know the norms or understood rules of the parks.

Several parks near me have had to institute an admittance/ticketing program with reservations made a month in advance just to enter the trailhead lot because they're so overrun with people now. It's great that people are outside and enjoying a public resource, but maybe it's just a few too many people all at once?

I've heard EMTs refer to the result of CPR on elderly people as "bone soup." Almost every time it's described in detail, you get people saying they'll definitely get a DNR order when they get up there in age.

Mmm, colloidal silver and methylene blue, yummy

I don't wear a seatbelt when I'm in DC and I've never been carjacked once...I just walk, take the metro and ride an occasional bus to get around.

You come to a stop at a stop sign, how many seconds do you have to wait for it to be considered a full and complete stop?

Can you prove it? Does proving it even matter to the cop that pulls you over for running the stop sign?

I've had this happen and luckily the cop failed to show to court so the ticket was thrown out...but what if he had shown up? I have no idea.

I just fucking love little bites of information shared in meme form out of context. Really gives a good enough picture for judgement, right?

Here's the article that probably prompted this: https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/07/21/barack-obama-gay-college-professor/

If you read it through, the message is just a bit different from the sentence in this image.

I wonder if it'll function like Twitch where you can get tons of people banned all at once by getting them to say they're under 13.

They used to, then they got caught and said they stopped...then it came out the founder still did it, then he died. His son and current owner probably still does? But then one of its locations recently celebrated a gay couple's marriage and the national chain backed them up so who knows anymore.

Up and down the East Coast of the US, they're known for hiding some of the absolute worst puppy mills. It used to be a big thing every time one of them got raided but you knew they were probably just going to set up shop elsewhere. If you saw an ad for golden retriever puppies way out in the countryside of Pennsylvania, you just knew they weren't going to be treated well at all and probably have horrible health problems.

I dunno about you, but I'm not sure if I'd have invited Carl Sagan either...it'd take him ~13.8 billion years just to get dessert ready.

IIRC a portion of the registration profit goes to LGBT advocacy organizations.

The domain names also tend to be surprisingly cheap, from what I've seen.

Jonathan Swift must have really wanted to cannibalize poor children!

I'll never forget bringing that up in a classroom and realizing adults had no idea it was satire.

Except that isn't how the question was worded...

As you may know, a number of Trump administration actions have been challenged in the United States federal court. If a federal court rules that a Trump administration action is illegal, do you think the administration:

Has to follow the court's ruling and stop its action. (81)

Doesn't have to follow the court's ruling and can continue its action. (19)

I bolded some words for emphasis here, the question is not whether he should but whether they think he has to. Important difference.

Lead might also be the lead of our time again, if the reports about lead being in disposable vape pens are true.

It's by Craig J Spearing on Bloomburrow Commander's Octopus token: https://scryfall.com/card/tblc/14/octopus