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Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · Oct 8

American cars are too complicated now. When will Detroit again make a car I could steal one piece at a time over several years?

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Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 1h

I uh... Am not either. Maybe something about not being directly funded? Leadership was recently reprimanded for oversharing and is pretty clammed up so we're all just kinda hoping we don't get RIFed

Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 5h

I'm army civ and got paid fully. Sort of hoping they aren't competent enough to pay the troops and not me

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Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 6h

So too much for one person but what if we all chipped in...
That's the government, those are called taxes we're reinventing a government

Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 6h

It's like 8 billion

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

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Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 9h

You've determined that coffee has no nutritional value (dubious) and appear to have moved onto knuckle sandwiches. Looking to collect a wide selection it seems

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 10h

Tariffs have rapidly increased the price of coffee—a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes. Yet coffee may also be the one thing Americans can’t live without, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight

Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.

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Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 10h

The substitutes are all made with caffeine extracted from what?
From coffee.

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Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 13h

So, good but baffling news: I got paid. I thought that wasn't going to happen. FNN said only a couple days worth but this is everything

Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 13h

You know how when actors have to play bad actors it looks weird because they have to play it up?
She comes off as an actor playing up being a vacuous person pretending to be smart

Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 1d

Morbidly checking the USAA app a couple times a day to see how many people took out paycheck sized loans from them for the shutdown. 67k tonight, bleak.

Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 1d

Books shouldn't be bound, just loose paper.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 1d

Purgation would take... Uh... Pulls out accountants calculator and punches on it for many minutes...
I mean don't worry about this now

Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 1d

Its so difficult to spend money with the government I accidentally bought 2 sets of equipment last FY because both of them took months to figure out!
(Ok it was more complicated than that and someone else tried to be helpful, but still)

Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's realization he's damned makes me wonder if this could have been prevented with a page whose job was repeating memento mori. Maybe a skull on the resolute desk

Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 2d

Good news for this person on a lot of these actually...

Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 2d

As someone who has never sought out computer game ladies with huge tits I'm going to insist there is a more than ample supply.

Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 2d

The repetition of "Air Plane Trip To London England To Give A Speech At The Royal Animal Conservancy At The Carlyle Castle" is going to roll around my head all weekend. Beautiful

Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 3d

Ah that great moneymaking plan of giving away a bunch of materiel