Wiener King
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Time to watch the best Christmas movie...
a man is sitting in a boat on a river looking down .
ALT: a man is sitting in a boat on a river looking down .
media.tenor.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Time to watch the best Christmas movie...
CFP Selection Committee feeling pretty smug right now 😏
December 20, 2025 at 4:30 AM
CFP Selection Committee feeling pretty smug right now 😏
It always blows my mind the progress we made with smoking. Imagine the rage of people who chain smoked every waking hour being told they have to go extended periods of time without a cigarette.
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
December 20, 2025 at 3:27 AM
It always blows my mind the progress we made with smoking. Imagine the rage of people who chain smoked every waking hour being told they have to go extended periods of time without a cigarette.
If you think more research for cannabis is going to unlock some magical, miracle use of it you're living in a fantasy and ignoring decades of pre-existing research.
CBD peaked as a third line epilepsy treatment for only severe cases with very mixed results and dronabinol is a flop failure of a med.
CBD peaked as a third line epilepsy treatment for only severe cases with very mixed results and dronabinol is a flop failure of a med.
December 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
If you think more research for cannabis is going to unlock some magical, miracle use of it you're living in a fantasy and ignoring decades of pre-existing research.
CBD peaked as a third line epilepsy treatment for only severe cases with very mixed results and dronabinol is a flop failure of a med.
CBD peaked as a third line epilepsy treatment for only severe cases with very mixed results and dronabinol is a flop failure of a med.
First year round advertising for a product the majority can only select during open enrollment is setting money on fire.
Second 60% of the market is insured via an employer, and marketing is targeted to those actual decision makers and not the employees.
Second 60% of the market is insured via an employer, and marketing is targeted to those actual decision makers and not the employees.
Scalise: "Everybody complains, 'Why when I watch TV do I see this Gecko lizard & emu & all these animals out there selling car insurance & homeowners insurance? Why aren't they selling healthcare?' That's bc federal laws prohibit people to have choices for lower cost products for health insurance"
December 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
First year round advertising for a product the majority can only select during open enrollment is setting money on fire.
Second 60% of the market is insured via an employer, and marketing is targeted to those actual decision makers and not the employees.
Second 60% of the market is insured via an employer, and marketing is targeted to those actual decision makers and not the employees.
If this is the fear the guy is living with, do some good and push for food workers to have paid sick leave. Rare/medium beef isn't the threat, it's the line cook with a stomach bug who was told to show up or find a new job.
Bill Marler has worked on foodborne illnesses cases for decades — and he orders his steak cooked gray, never pink.
“I’ve been in too many ICUs. I’ve been to too many funerals,” Marler said. “I know too much.” https://wapo.st/48Rw01P
“I’ve been in too many ICUs. I’ve been to too many funerals,” Marler said. “I know too much.” https://wapo.st/48Rw01P
December 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
If this is the fear the guy is living with, do some good and push for food workers to have paid sick leave. Rare/medium beef isn't the threat, it's the line cook with a stomach bug who was told to show up or find a new job.
Trump is going to meltdown every time a beloved celebrity dies, as he realizes he won't be universally grieved and the recipient of warm/loving memorials like someone like Rob Reiner will. He's bitter and mad watching what he's never going to get.
December 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Trump is going to meltdown every time a beloved celebrity dies, as he realizes he won't be universally grieved and the recipient of warm/loving memorials like someone like Rob Reiner will. He's bitter and mad watching what he's never going to get.
You're not going to save the country from fascism by posting on one site versus the other. That's just incredibly stupid to believe that.
IMO it's hard to combat the dangerousness of the right by participating in a platform where they aren't present.
I think the best way to explain the X vs Bluesky preference is whether a person thinks the left is more annoying than the right is dangerous.
The reason so many Noah Smiths end up on the X side of that equation is that while the left annoys them personally, the right mostly endangers other people.
The reason so many Noah Smiths end up on the X side of that equation is that while the left annoys them personally, the right mostly endangers other people.
December 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
You're not going to save the country from fascism by posting on one site versus the other. That's just incredibly stupid to believe that.
There's a reason why Estratest fell out of fashion. Augmenting estrogen replacement with testosterone isn't anything new.
Social media is selling midlife women testosterone as a hormonal miracle. The science tells a far messier — and less magical — story
Testosterone Isn’t a Magic Cure-All for Middle Age
In the last year or so, health influencers — and a lot of women on social media — have talked up testosterone therapy as a kind of perimenopausal panacea. They promise boundless energy, crisper thinking, better sleep — and, most of all, a roaring libido.
bloom.bg
December 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
There's a reason why Estratest fell out of fashion. Augmenting estrogen replacement with testosterone isn't anything new.
This article is written from the same perspective as a union. You must tolerate and accept incompetence and malevolence from some of your coworkers because if you give an inch to management when it comes to termination they will take a mile.
“Those of us on the left should be fighting to improve protections for workers of all races, and thereby for the betterment of people’s material conditions regardless of their views,” Arash Azizi argues:
Why the Cinnabon Story Doesn’t Make Me Happy
The left should be promoting working-class solidarity, not delighting in seeing workers summarily dismissed.
bit.ly
December 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This article is written from the same perspective as a union. You must tolerate and accept incompetence and malevolence from some of your coworkers because if you give an inch to management when it comes to termination they will take a mile.
I hope his mess campaign follows this up with a text spam campaign asking for donations.
Even with the most innocent interpretation of this, kinda paints your team in a corner if your message is "don't donation texts suck"
Even with the most innocent interpretation of this, kinda paints your team in a corner if your message is "don't donation texts suck"
December 12, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I hope his mess campaign follows this up with a text spam campaign asking for donations.
Even with the most innocent interpretation of this, kinda paints your team in a corner if your message is "don't donation texts suck"
Even with the most innocent interpretation of this, kinda paints your team in a corner if your message is "don't donation texts suck"
Fun fact: Recreational use of a C2-5 isn't legal. If you get caught with Xanax you're using for funsies you're not protected.
And a plant can't adhere to the rules and regulations for manufacturing, distribution, prescribing and dispensing a controlled substance.
No one thought this through.
And a plant can't adhere to the rules and regulations for manufacturing, distribution, prescribing and dispensing a controlled substance.
No one thought this through.
🍃 SCOOP 🍃
President Trump is preparing to order his administration to dramatically loosen restrictions on MARIJUANA.
The order would reclassify cannabis from Schedule I — the same level as heroin — to Schedule III — the same level as Tylenol and codeine and some steroids.
President Trump is preparing to order his administration to dramatically loosen restrictions on MARIJUANA.
The order would reclassify cannabis from Schedule I — the same level as heroin — to Schedule III — the same level as Tylenol and codeine and some steroids.
Trump seeks to cut restrictions on marijuana through planned order
The president is expected to attempt to classify marijuana similar to some common prescription painkillers and other drugs.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Fun fact: Recreational use of a C2-5 isn't legal. If you get caught with Xanax you're using for funsies you're not protected.
And a plant can't adhere to the rules and regulations for manufacturing, distribution, prescribing and dispensing a controlled substance.
No one thought this through.
And a plant can't adhere to the rules and regulations for manufacturing, distribution, prescribing and dispensing a controlled substance.
No one thought this through.
Wrong question. This product is for people terrified of being forgotten after they die and not for those still alive to find comfort.
In the ad grandma dies before or immediately after the kid is born. I never knew 3 of my grandparents for the same reason...
In the ad grandma dies before or immediately after the kid is born. I never knew 3 of my grandparents for the same reason...
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Wrong question. This product is for people terrified of being forgotten after they die and not for those still alive to find comfort.
In the ad grandma dies before or immediately after the kid is born. I never knew 3 of my grandparents for the same reason...
In the ad grandma dies before or immediately after the kid is born. I never knew 3 of my grandparents for the same reason...
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I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
December 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
My hellscape is management thinks AI means they don't have to worry about training staff or auditing their work, that they get to oversee a bunch of George Jetson button pushers who can't fail meaning they're just signing off on time cards and not having to deal with performance improvements plans.
This is really a huge part of why upper management is so in on AI. They think it will let them manage computers the way they currently manage the people who make the computer work. It will not.
I'm just saying I had someone tell me I had to hold the AI accountable and and no no I don't. That was not the effective way to coax it into doing the thing I wanted
December 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
My hellscape is management thinks AI means they don't have to worry about training staff or auditing their work, that they get to oversee a bunch of George Jetson button pushers who can't fail meaning they're just signing off on time cards and not having to deal with performance improvements plans.
I hope that I can live long enough where people yearn to return to life as it was depicted by a Twisted Tea ad.
These days you just can't get "twisty" like you could in the 2020s 😡
These days you just can't get "twisty" like you could in the 2020s 😡
Terminally online Right wingers are telling on themselves
December 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I hope that I can live long enough where people yearn to return to life as it was depicted by a Twisted Tea ad.
These days you just can't get "twisty" like you could in the 2020s 😡
These days you just can't get "twisty" like you could in the 2020s 😡
Don't just react to the headline, read the article. Offering smaller portion sizes at a lower price for those who want it is fine.
December 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Don't just react to the headline, read the article. Offering smaller portion sizes at a lower price for those who want it is fine.
He looks a few years too old to be in high school but he looks like a New Trier or Loyola Academy student in that era.
“When we saw Tom, there was some trepidation. Everybody was going, ‘That’s not the way a suburban kid from the North Shore of Chicago would look.’”
How ‘Risky Business‘ was made — as told by the cast and crew. buff.ly/WrIedtU @longreads.com
How ‘Risky Business‘ was made — as told by the cast and crew. buff.ly/WrIedtU @longreads.com
The Making of Risky Business
Forty-two years after the film’s release, the cast and crew recall the creation of a North Shore coming-of-age classic — and the birth of a Hollywood megastar.
buff.ly
December 5, 2025 at 7:48 PM
He looks a few years too old to be in high school but he looks like a New Trier or Loyola Academy student in that era.
Destroying the East Wing before even having designs for the new structure finalized is par for the course.
Also WaPo if the designs aren't done, and there's reporting Trump wanted an even bigger ballroom maybe don't report the cost of it as fact.
Also WaPo if the designs aren't done, and there's reporting Trump wanted an even bigger ballroom maybe don't report the cost of it as fact.
Breaking news: President Trump replaced the architect he handpicked to design his $300 million White House ballroom.
It is unclear whether he was fired or resigned.
It is unclear whether he was fired or resigned.
Trump hires new White House ballroom architect
Although the two had clashed over the size of the project, the decisive factor was the small firm’s limited capacity to handle such an enormous project.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Destroying the East Wing before even having designs for the new structure finalized is par for the course.
Also WaPo if the designs aren't done, and there's reporting Trump wanted an even bigger ballroom maybe don't report the cost of it as fact.
Also WaPo if the designs aren't done, and there's reporting Trump wanted an even bigger ballroom maybe don't report the cost of it as fact.
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It has been said (not originally by me) that the most utopian thing about Star Trek is that 7 coworkers can book a conference room and adjourn 3 minutes later with a definitive plan of action.
December 5, 2025 at 1:19 AM
It has been said (not originally by me) that the most utopian thing about Star Trek is that 7 coworkers can book a conference room and adjourn 3 minutes later with a definitive plan of action.
I want to live in the alternate universe where Jimmy Carter didn't sell his peanut farm and everyone's worst fears came true and we became some sort of peanutocracy. That's the best timeline.
December 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I want to live in the alternate universe where Jimmy Carter didn't sell his peanut farm and everyone's worst fears came true and we became some sort of peanutocracy. That's the best timeline.
Acetaminophen packaging is a great example of this. Look at OD rates between countries that only sell it in blister packs with limited quantities compared to the US where I can get a bottle with 500 tablets.
It's harder to OD when you have to pop out each individual tablet of a lethal dose.
It's harder to OD when you have to pop out each individual tablet of a lethal dose.
This is not true. This is argument that pro-gun people use to discount red flag and waiting period laws. Ease of access and lethality (let alone cheerful instruction in the best method!) is the #1 predictor of attempts leading actual completion. The more barriers, the more people live.
I think it's fine Chat GPT is telling people how to kill themselves. They'll figure it out one way or another if they're serious.
December 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Acetaminophen packaging is a great example of this. Look at OD rates between countries that only sell it in blister packs with limited quantities compared to the US where I can get a bottle with 500 tablets.
It's harder to OD when you have to pop out each individual tablet of a lethal dose.
It's harder to OD when you have to pop out each individual tablet of a lethal dose.
So after nearly getting blown up, a drift at sea struggling to stay afloat their priority was to stay in the drug smuggling game?
Like they had the tenacity of Santa in a movie insisting the gifts must get delivered no matter what as to not disappoint the children on Christmas Morning.
Like they had the tenacity of Santa in a movie insisting the gifts must get delivered no matter what as to not disappoint the children on Christmas Morning.
Q: What did you see in the second strike?
Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
December 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
So after nearly getting blown up, a drift at sea struggling to stay afloat their priority was to stay in the drug smuggling game?
Like they had the tenacity of Santa in a movie insisting the gifts must get delivered no matter what as to not disappoint the children on Christmas Morning.
Like they had the tenacity of Santa in a movie insisting the gifts must get delivered no matter what as to not disappoint the children on Christmas Morning.