3-4x the price of Qatar, and multiple teams are from countries with “travel bans” or require a 15k “deposit” they’re almost guaranteed to not get back just to enter the country.
But trump will still crack down and piss off people coming even tho they all have to be wealthy and at least ambelivant about trump when they try to enter.
The whole thing is gonna be a shit show, and it’s shocking no teams are boycotting
Each state does their own thing
Kind of…
92% of American k-12 use the same textbooks published by McGraw-Hill, and they’ve always played to the lowest common denominator. Which is often Texas.
If Texas says they won’t buy a history/science/whatever textbook that says _____ then the rest of the 92% who learned from McGraw-Hill books also never learned it from their textbooks.
With the rise of standardized testing, nothing is taught except what’s on the text. If a student gets that done they’re “done” and the focus is on the kids who can’t pass it yet.
Shits fucked and it’s 100% an institutional problem.
And that’s not even getting into how involved Ghislene Maxwell’s dad was with it in the 80s, and his connection to all the spy work and child rape during the same time.
To think people haven’t been manipulating the American education system to get the result (idiots) that they want for generations would be woefully naive.
It’s not about teaching kids to think, it’s teaching them not to question authority.
That doesn’t mean we stop educating, it means we start actually educating instead of indoctrinating.
Quick edit:
This is why things like:
The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
Is ingrained in multiple US generations.
It was in all the same textbooks, all the same homework, all the same quizs, and tests, even the annual standardized tests.
We all got the same information presented in the same way with the same context/interpretations and exact phrasing.
The American education is incredibly homogeneous, even if states could technically do different things.
The real difference is private schools who usually make up the 8% not being served up the same slop.
James Acaster:
That’s why the British Museum is so busy, no British people ever go in there, it’s just people from abroad looking at their own stuff…
Last Podcast on the Left did a long interview with the directors:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKQwLYfrkCQ
It sold me on the sequel
But Elijah Wood doesn’t exactly sign up for shitty movies. He’s not Nic Cage whose goal is to collect castles and dinosaur bones, Frodo just wants to make cool movies like Harry Potter these days.
It’s gonna be good
and stop calling yourself Mr
ManagerSharpie
Michael Bluth Sharpie customer service supervisor
This is like the one good use for AI…
Just trick all these geriatric fucks a war is actually happening, they’re the only ones that never question AI anyways.
It was 99.9% a “four seasons landscapers” type deal.
He shouted at someone to get “sharpie” on the phone to order these.
Some boomer searched “how to order custom sharpies” without realizing how easy of a thing that is in 2026, called the first number, and hand the phone to the president of the United States, who likely got some $11/HR manager at a stationary supply store 5 blocks away from Marlago who thought it was a prank call.
The dumbest explanation is often the correct one these day
I don’t give a shit.
Just don’t listen to them when they try to guide the party.
They can vote D all day and I’ll even thank them for voting.
Are you honestly saying you dont want gullible untrustworthy people voting for your candidate in an American presidential election?!
Look at the fucking voter pool bub. If either party had zero of those voters, they’d never win an election.
Between:
“The head of Sharpie gets a call. I don’t even know who the hell he is,” Trump said. “He said, ‘Is this really the president?’”
And:
Sharpie’s parent company, Atlanta‑based Newell Brands, said in a statement that it had no information about the specific conversation Trump described.
There’s a very real chance he just called a local Staples and placed a normal order for custom designed sharpie and laid the same price anyone else would have…
They can get in the tent and vote D in the general all day…
The problem was neoliberals tried to court hypothetically cross over voters at the expense of the Dem voting base. That’s fucking stupid and a problem. One that the voting members of the DNC rectified a year ago.
But if someone voted trump in the last three general elections and want to vote D in the next, why would anyone talk them out of it?
Let em fucking do it. Just don’t listen to them when they try to guide the party.
Is it a municipal public meeting or a public event?
Nope, that’s just where most lemmy.ml users spend their days…
around 16
Because you’re talking about the political ideations of actual children and pretending they’re old enough to know what they’re talking about
The point is…
People should at least know what the thing they’re advocating to abolish actually is, or they’re running off the same logic as trumpets.
And that train of thinking is dangerous for reasons that should be readily apparent.
Ignorance is dangerous, if people trying to help you upsets you, then you’re gonna stay ignorant and be a danger to the rest of us…
I take your actual danger to everyone else as a bigger issue than you’re feelings about how people should help you.
I thought everyone knew this but clicked to verify:
Light Green: Used on walls to reduce visual fatigue
It’s the “default” color our brains like and zones out about. So it makes the emergency “look at me” colors stand out even more.
It’s like the analog version of “blue light filters” on digital screens.
Actual white reflects too much light and becomes drastically.
They gave all the big subs to corporate overloads well over a decade ago.
The general “tech” subs had mods bought off long ago for general shit
$200 to nuke a topic is nothing to these companies, but an insane amount of motivation to unpaid mods.
It doesn’t take long till the motivation from bribes pushes out anyone without that motivation, and that’s not even getting into how small the circle of mods really is due to years of “add backs”.
Like, at this point we should all accept that real life conspiracies don’t have to involve James Bond. It can be a bunch of idiots doing incredibly transparent and ineffective shit.
That link says absolutely nothing about the source of the “tip"
Because it originated from an anonymous source…
Someone that was aware of who Luigi is and the bounty, wanted to turn him in…
But didn’t take the two seconds to ensure a call was made, instead they told someone else to call and just left.
Bro, if you can’t logic this out, and you only want help when it’s sugar coated…
Just block me.
Otherwise I’m cool to keep answering you’re questions, but this is standard delivery.
Literally the first link from searching “luigi McDonald’s”
Authorities said a customer in the restaurant thought he matched the description of the suspect in Thompson’s killing and notified an employee, who called 911.
https://www.newsweek.com/mcdonalds-worker-luigi-mangione-private-security-1999217
That customer was almost certainly law enforcement, they just needed a scapegoat to call in the tip because they couldn’t say how they found him.
The McDonald’s worker had no idea, that’s why their call was basically: “some guy said another guy is dangerous and wanted by police, I don’t know who”.
And cops immediately swarmed and singled out Luigi.
You may believe you’re “reasonably tuned in” but this information was out within like 24 hrs of his arrest everywhere.
because some dumbass making less than 12 dollars and hour dropped a dime on him.
You really should learn about how that actually happened…
Because it’s most likely going to be how the case gets thrown out. If you care about it, I don’t know why anyone would willing stay ignorant
Yep.
It’s like technically there is no federal drinking age.
A state could set it at 12 if they wanted.
But for decades the Fed have said if any state deviates from 21, they don’t get anymore interstate funding which would cripple a state within a few years, but not before voters would kick out every state level politician who caused the mess.
Especially in 2026, people need to get real about how shit works instead of just glancing at the surface.