Cocaine in the soda water.

That's the most United States thing I can come up with. And snake oil salesmen.

So just a reminder that each of these countries has the highest number, per capita, of

delicious delicious billionaires.

No reason for anyone to go hungry with all this delicious food amongst the population.

Side note, the countries with the most billionaires per capita are
Monaco
Liechtenstein
Guernsey (small island group near the UK)
By far

Then Hong Kong, Singapore, and Cyprus.

Then Switzerland, Israel, and Sweden.

So really a lot of small islands in this group. Take those out and Sweden is even higher. Note Israel's position.

Of all countries, Sweden is one of those that has the most billionaires per capita.

Their far-right political party (Sweden Democrats) won 73 seats and have given the right-wing a majority of seats.

The SD is - just like France and Italy's far right parties - directly derived from the Nazi party and/or founded by neo-Nazis. (Italy's is from the actual OG National Fascist Party)

One wonders if the billionaires had anything to do with it but if course they did.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62913356

Where IS that asteroid already?!?

If you need to remove all your e-mail from Gmail, you can always use Thunderbird and POP (download, essentially) the mail to your local computer.

Added benefit is your on-line inbox ends up completely clean and tidy :)

You do lose all the folders. You can preserve them, but it's a little more complicated and you have to use IMAP (a different protocol).

So Trump says people should pretend that he's on the ballot and vote for Republicans. He will in exchange give every American $5,000 dollars

This is far fewer dollars than the number of times that Donald J. Trump is mentioned in the Epstein files, which have not been released.

How the hell do you even sell an original Renoir. Who buys them?

"Farmers in Thailand were losing crops to hungry elephants, so they began replacing sugar cane and bananas with coffee — a crop the herds largely leave alone, allowing farmers to protect their income without fencing the animals out"
https://scienceblog.com/d-farmers-in-thailand-were-losing-crops-to-hungry-elephants-so-they-began-replacing-sugar-cane-and-bananas-with-coffee-a-crop-the-herds-largely-leave-alone-allowing-farmers-to-protect-their/

...

Until one fateful elephant developed a taste for coffee and now we have RAMPAGING CAFFEINE-FUELED ELEPHANT HERDS WHO SUFFER MAD MAD WITHDRAWAL HEADACHES WITHOUT THEIR FIX

I'm joking but that's how I read that title in my head.

My autocorrect can't even choose the right word, but I'm expected to believe that AI can autonomously hack into computer systems and take over the world?

A lot of people think that United States English is the same as English from England or Canadian English, but they are actually very different in important ways.

For example, in America they call it a garbage can, as we do in Canada. However, in the United Kingdom they call it a dustbin.

In America they refer to a knitted cap, but we in Canada call it a toque, and England says "what?"

Finally, while America refers to The President, we in Canada and the United Kingdom use the term "pedophile".

Spain was recently plunged into darkness as a solar eclipse swept across it.

The United States of America was also recently plunged into darkness but no solar eclipse.

"Since 1872, deaths related to hot springs are more than double those from bears and bison combined – 22 people have lost their lives due to scalding,” the agency warns."

_Man dips finger in Yellowstone hot spring, accidentally falls in and dissolves_
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/general/man-dips-finger-in-yellowstone-hot-spring-accidentally-falls-in-and-dissolves/ar-AA29LQKF

This story is exactly how it sounds so beware

Don't lose your heads (right-wing) guys.

Here's a guillotine joke to relax.

https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/114807225031452360

So people in Salem, Oregon brought a guillotine to a City Hall meeting about a new data center and the data center people left because they felt "unsafe"

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/salem-brought-guillotine-oppose-data-151045877.html

And if you look at the articles that are written about guillotines, the right-wing is in an absolute tizzy about them.

Must be on to something here.

It's International Cat Day so be kind to any foreign travelling cats you bump into today.

The far-right oligarchs busy saying there's an evil left-wing global reset underway when they are busy resetting everyone to be their wage slaves.

As usual, every accusation is a confession with them.

Brazilian authorities refused two Trump administration members visas. They had said they were going to meet Bolsonaro. The Brazilian government said they were there to meddle. Good for the Brazilian government.

It looks like Brazil and Korea are busy fighting for democracy and the United States and Canada are busy capitulating to fascist oligarchs.

I hit W and I was wondering what the next word would be and the autocorrect suggested WONDER

IT GETS ME

this could be big y'all

send $$$$z now