The Sound Defense
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Thoughts about gaming, politics, comedy, cooking and other such. Also I named Sharknado 2 and I'll never do anything else as important in my life.
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I also feel like his body of work really disproves the persistent claim that joyful, hopeful, funny, romantic or lighthearted stories are inherently intellectually lesser and can't be Real Art
Taking a break from the sickening tragedy to focus on the beauty for a moment. Rob Reiner achieved something so rare and coveted that artists and entertainers dream of and rarely achieve: cultural permanence. How many times have you made a reference to something going to 11? Shouted "Inconceivable"?
December 15, 2025 at 8:06 AM
I also feel like his body of work really disproves the persistent claim that joyful, hopeful, funny, romantic or lighthearted stories are inherently intellectually lesser and can't be Real Art
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Yeah sure this sucks but it's also giving us all permission to celebrate When It Happens so whatever
December 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Yeah sure this sucks but it's also giving us all permission to celebrate When It Happens so whatever
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Also could be the absolute classic; the FBI convinced a bunch of losers to do a terror attack, including informants pushing them to make plans, telling them where to buy weapons and making "connections" with "arms dealers," and helping pick the target list.
I’m finding it increasingly hard to report anything delivered by “official sources” in the US. Could be true, could be a coverup, could be completely made up for nefarious ends.
It’s a country now where no one really has any idea what’s actually going on.
It’s a country now where no one really has any idea what’s actually going on.
December 15, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Also could be the absolute classic; the FBI convinced a bunch of losers to do a terror attack, including informants pushing them to make plans, telling them where to buy weapons and making "connections" with "arms dealers," and helping pick the target list.
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this is what the republican party fall is going to look like. people who think MAGA rubes are going to fall to their knees and repent are fooling themselves, it's going to look like "i'm a conservative, but not a republican, and not a maga republican", this is what it looked like in 2007, too
‘I Didn’t Vote for This’: A Revolt Against DOGE Cuts, Deep in Trump Country
Trump administration policies slashing staffing and funding for public lands are waking a sleeping political giant in Montana. Will either party notice?
www.politico.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:54 PM
this is what the republican party fall is going to look like. people who think MAGA rubes are going to fall to their knees and repent are fooling themselves, it's going to look like "i'm a conservative, but not a republican, and not a maga republican", this is what it looked like in 2007, too
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Princess Daisy 🌼
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December 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Princess Daisy 🌼
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if you intake a lot of "news" content, i know that it can feel like a lot is going wrong very fast. but what you don't hear about in the "news" is the quiet, constant effort of billions of good people who are trying in every small way they can to make the world a better place.
we. outnumber. them.
we. outnumber. them.
As shit goes down in Sydney, what I want to remember is scenes like this. The queue of people to donate blood today.
December 15, 2025 at 9:50 AM
if you intake a lot of "news" content, i know that it can feel like a lot is going wrong very fast. but what you don't hear about in the "news" is the quiet, constant effort of billions of good people who are trying in every small way they can to make the world a better place.
we. outnumber. them.
we. outnumber. them.
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Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
December 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
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*builds a machine that just pushes weights up and down forever* Haha yes, bodybuilders will LOVE this
I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
December 15, 2025 at 1:58 PM
*builds a machine that just pushes weights up and down forever* Haha yes, bodybuilders will LOVE this
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Animals with misleading names. I'm seeing this go around as part of a viral tumblr thread so I thought I'd reshare it.
December 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Animals with misleading names. I'm seeing this go around as part of a viral tumblr thread so I thought I'd reshare it.
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FOLKS, FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER
SUPER MEAT BOY HAS BEEN FULLY COMPLETED, ALL 106%, WITHOUT TAKING ANY DEATHS
LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
SUPER MEAT BOY HAS BEEN FULLY COMPLETED, ALL 106%, WITHOUT TAKING ANY DEATHS
LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
December 15, 2025 at 5:54 AM
FOLKS, FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER
SUPER MEAT BOY HAS BEEN FULLY COMPLETED, ALL 106%, WITHOUT TAKING ANY DEATHS
LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
SUPER MEAT BOY HAS BEEN FULLY COMPLETED, ALL 106%, WITHOUT TAKING ANY DEATHS
LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
December 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
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The President is not only making the murder of Rob Reiner about himself, but is seemingly suggesting he had it coming on account of Reiner’s criticism of the president.
This is deranged and disgusting behavior.
This is deranged and disgusting behavior.
December 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The President is not only making the murder of Rob Reiner about himself, but is seemingly suggesting he had it coming on account of Reiner’s criticism of the president.
This is deranged and disgusting behavior.
This is deranged and disgusting behavior.
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We are quickly entering a phase in our history as a country where you have to choose a university based on the state it exists in if you want a quality education that doesn’t leave information out based on political and theological ideology.
“At Texas A&M, internal emails show staff are using AI software to search syllabi and course descriptions for words that could raise concerns under new system policies restricting how faculty teach about race and gender.”
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
Texas universities deploy AI for course audits
Records obtained by The Texas Tribune show how universities are using the technology to reshape curriculum under political pressure, raising concerns about academic freedom.
www.texastribune.org
December 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
We are quickly entering a phase in our history as a country where you have to choose a university based on the state it exists in if you want a quality education that doesn’t leave information out based on political and theological ideology.
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Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
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this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted
December 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted
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I can't even become a short order cook unless I've worked in a restaurant before. However, if I can put up enough TikToks to convince a bunch of racists that I'm more racist than they are, I can run a whole fucking state
December 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I can't even become a short order cook unless I've worked in a restaurant before. However, if I can put up enough TikToks to convince a bunch of racists that I'm more racist than they are, I can run a whole fucking state
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Incredible. How perfectly Trumpian.
As inhumanly, psychopathically low as he had to go to make the boast the he owned the tallest building in downtown Manhattan on the day of 9/11, he STILL had to go even lower and LIE in order to do it.
As inhumanly, psychopathically low as he had to go to make the boast the he owned the tallest building in downtown Manhattan on the day of 9/11, he STILL had to go even lower and LIE in order to do it.
Which was also--of course--a lie. After the Twin Towers & 4 World Trade Center were destroyed, Trump's 40 Wall Street building was still just the THIRD tallest building in lower Manhattan.
December 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Incredible. How perfectly Trumpian.
As inhumanly, psychopathically low as he had to go to make the boast the he owned the tallest building in downtown Manhattan on the day of 9/11, he STILL had to go even lower and LIE in order to do it.
As inhumanly, psychopathically low as he had to go to make the boast the he owned the tallest building in downtown Manhattan on the day of 9/11, he STILL had to go even lower and LIE in order to do it.
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Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
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Sorry I think using AI for placeholders is also bad
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I know you only care about finished art but placeholder art also needs to be made by a human being who also needs to be paid for that
But placeholder midjourney slop cuts that artist out
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I know you only care about finished art but placeholder art also needs to be made by a human being who also needs to be paid for that
But placeholder midjourney slop cuts that artist out
December 12, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Sorry I think using AI for placeholders is also bad
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I know you only care about finished art but placeholder art also needs to be made by a human being who also needs to be paid for that
But placeholder midjourney slop cuts that artist out
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I know you only care about finished art but placeholder art also needs to be made by a human being who also needs to be paid for that
But placeholder midjourney slop cuts that artist out
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One of my all-time favorite clips of Rob Reiner, from his Friars Club Roast in 2000, as he reads aloud Roger Ebert's infamous scathing review of his movie North. The man had an amazing sense of humor about himself. RIP.
December 15, 2025 at 3:53 AM
One of my all-time favorite clips of Rob Reiner, from his Friars Club Roast in 2000, as he reads aloud Roger Ebert's infamous scathing review of his movie North. The man had an amazing sense of humor about himself. RIP.
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Hot take: every elected official & every judge should have to meet with everyday constituents for two (2) hours every week. Just whoever signs up, decided by lottery. And each constituent gets a full 5 minutes. The official has to sit there and listen - absolutely not allowed to leave the room.
December 15, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Hot take: every elected official & every judge should have to meet with everyday constituents for two (2) hours every week. Just whoever signs up, decided by lottery. And each constituent gets a full 5 minutes. The official has to sit there and listen - absolutely not allowed to leave the room.
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Breaking News: A man who had been detained in connection with the deadly shooting at Brown University was released, the mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, said.
Brown University Shooting Live Updates: 2 Dead, 9 Injured and Suspect in Custody
Officials at the news conference said the investigation was continuing. They provided no details about the man who they released from custody.
nyti.ms
December 15, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Breaking News: A man who had been detained in connection with the deadly shooting at Brown University was released, the mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, said.
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Literally just simply us not even using the technologies is enough to shitcan it.
www.reddit.com/r/technology...
www.reddit.com/r/technology...
From the technology community on Reddit: Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot
Posted by aacool - 15,555 votes and 1,834 comments
www.reddit.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Literally just simply us not even using the technologies is enough to shitcan it.
www.reddit.com/r/technology...
www.reddit.com/r/technology...
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The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
December 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.