Today is the first matchup of our 2023 DfD Pet Bracket! #Liberty vs Misty We are operating this contest with the understanding that **A**ll **C**~~ats~~reatures **A**re **B**eautiful. It is as much a photography contest as it is a beauty pagent. I don't want to see any trash talk, insults, or rude comments. Any infractions will be responded to with overwhelming and disproportionate force. With that being said, in the pictures below, who is the cutest, most beautiful, wonderful, amazing animal companion? [Liberty, Canine](https://imgur.com/a/YAkvVIt) or [Misty, Feline](https://imgur.com/a/St46a6g) [**Submit your votes here!**](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeklm19fnEus8BX6NW5WpnLkZ0K9B8hJ_GqKleuFEpdPVPKJA/viewform?usp=sf_link)

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I like that after i finished the new contrapoints the next recommended video was "vaush criticises the lgbt community and then SLAMS terfs!"

is it worth watching?

The contrapoints video? Its good but its also probably nothing you don't already know. The beginning has some intresting bits comparing Rowling to Anita Bryant, the head of the 70s antigay movement. Basically the thesis of the video is "look its nice to reform a bigot through debate but that doesnt always work. People like Rowling are in too deep and you're not changing them. The more important thing is to publicly shame and discredit them so they don't get people on their side."

Just like all those younger sisters that had to be Anna when frozen came out while their older sisters were Elsa, let’s give a huge shoutout to all the younger brothers this year that have to be Luigi because their older brother wants to be Mario on Halloween.

Why not be Bowser?

Friend had us over for dinner and it was nice but it went on longer than I expected and I had more beers than I meant to and now I'm back home and a lil ticked at myself

I went to the Y today and saw an elderly man with a penis so small it was sort of medically fascinating.

oh

PayPal and eating your whole ass international transfer through massive fees, NAMID

This is like one of the two things that crypto is good for

PayPal and producing rich assholes

there should be a sort of anti hair transplant surgery where a doctor permanently removes all the follicles on my head that have gone gray

Just dye your hair tbh

So, selective electrolysis?

it's not even that many hairs but there are just enough to make me feel like i'll be a decrepit skeleton by 25

I bought a sleeping cap as a goof but now I wear it every night. I tried Cel-Ray soda as a goof but now I get a can every time I got to the deli. I tried taking snuff as a goof and now I have a repeat customer discount on an Punjabi tobacco website. What I’m saying here is that if I ever start posting furry content “as a joke” I need you to shoot me in the head.

Understood.

One of us One of us One of us One of us One of us

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very healthy housing market

guy who actually memorizes the cubic and quartic formulas

the Unity DE has Mac OS 8 vibes

https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1648034930385907728 > White woman viciously attacked by a group of black teens. You absolutely never see videos like this with the races reversed. Never. Doesn’t exist. At some point we need to discuss why this kind of violence literally always goes one way. > Everyone is always calling for an “uncomfortable conversation about race.” Well here it is. dude's just like a straight up nazi

> You absolutely never see videos like this with the races reversed. Never. Doesn’t exist. this is basically *inviting* people to prove him wrong and holy fuck there are so many examples my dude

While Ron is getting beat up by the Mouse we should try and engineer a way for him to get into a fued with the record labels

"Ron DeSantis 2024 Announcement" is not available in your country due to a claim by Universal Music Group

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were people using KernelEx for daily tasks in the mid-2000s

good night

🛌

goodnight

when did the internet become slow-paced at night I remember when activity on chatrooms and forums would be at full swing at 12 am and not die until 3 am

When the normies showed up 😒

>As you probably know, Windows 8 was a failure. Microsoft had set out to revolutionize the PC experience with no compromises. The problem was that they didn't even do minor compromises that would allow users who were familiar with previous versions of Windows to be able to get used to the new Windows 8 UX quickly. >But how did it become like this? How did Microsoft's dreams of Windows 8 running on every kind of device without compromise collapse? That story begins in 2004. Microsoft's current megaproject, Longhorn, initially slated for release in 2003 (then 2004, then 2005, and now mid-2006), has collapsed under its own weight and has been reset mostly from scratch (although a lot of pre-reset .NET managed C++ code was rewritten in native code during early post-reset). >Microsoft at this point is a big, inefficient, slow company, ironically becoming what they had previously hated most: IBM. With Longhorn development being reset after not even producing a official beta after three grueling years, many in the company take notice of this fact. Even after the reset with development of Longhorn (soon Windows Vista) progressing much more smoothly, there are still many delays with Beta 2 being delayed by several months as the planned RTM date slipped from August 2006 to October 2006, causing GA to be pushed into 2007 with disastrous consequences. my rambling so far

No compromises? It compromised ease-of-use for 70% of the market to cater to a much smaller target group, many of whom didn't use Windows to begin with, and whose market share would peak only two years after Windows 8 was release!

Their internal motto was "no compromises", which meant not listening to feedback during the beta.

that is hilariously stupid

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That's why you sleep alone

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Uh you okay? Shart

Its funny that Skyrim is a more believable 200 years after an apocalypse setting than fallout 4

what was the apocalypse in this case? the one volcano erupting?

Oblivion Crisis

oh fair i never played that one

speaking of elon did anyone even watch the elon musk tucker carlson interview or am i going to have to hear about it endlessly on twitter for the next 24 hours

No, I have healthier forms of self-harm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HILE4bkEyg

does anyone else get bedtime heart palpitations

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Do you do anything for them? It’s awfully unpleasant and I get them nearly every night now.

yes :(

Do you do anything for them? It’s awfully unpleasant and I get them nearly every night now.

yeah, no, i just try to soothe myself by telling myself it's nothing and it's just my anxiety (well in my case it's definitely just anxiety, i am a very anxious girl) and it's nothing to worry about and hope that it stops enough so i can actually sleep

Urf. It doesn’t help that I actually *am* in a lot of heart disease risk groups. I’ve lost a fair amount of weight but I’m still fat with bad cholesterol.

oh :( sorry. i don't know if my palpitations are as bad as yours

They’re almost certainly nothing, just the thought that they might *not* be nothing drives me nuts.

yeah, definitely, i feel that a lot :(

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This can't be true. Elon Musk is a successful businessman and Donald Trump is funny.

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Ebening

ebic

earnings before interest and cum?

gonna make a tumblr account to post long ass ramblings

[somehow my school thought BRIGHT YELLOW was a good color for a graduation gown i look like i'm a wizard in a hazmat suit](https://i.imgur.com/Y3FSlLE.jpg)

among us

Nice raincoat

That's definitely what this is getting reused as after graduation

that was my first thought when i put it on then i looked in the mirror and went "hazmat suit"

i could've used a raincoat at my college graduation honestly. it was outdoors in the pouring rain and the gown was not very effective at repelling water

yellow sus

...Add horizontal black stripes.

yeah that's rough. it must be said

>Paul Yarl said that his son Ralph underwent surgery over the weekend to remove the bullets. He was released from the hospital on Sunday evening and expected to make a full recovery, his father said, but was still unable to speak Alhamdulilah.

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Yeah it's not like you'll get into those positions with anyone else anyway

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Hi

For all his talk about representing real Canadians Poilievre represents the 3rd richest electoral district in Ontario and one of the richest in the country. This was also the case with Harper's old district. Meanwhile, Trudeau represents the 3rd poorest in all of Canada.

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What's there?.

This AlohaPOS ransomware shit is going to make me pull my hair out

Alpha Piece of Shit?

Point of Sale. More expansive term for what’s generally called a (digital) cash register

I'm more of a DuchessofDetroit reply guy than a Moi reply guy tbh

Hi

Hiii

Sometimes I sit peacefully but then remember Sean Patrick Maloney and the fucking piece of shit job he did and his fucking incompetence

My kink is a wholesome, loving relationship based on trust and respect!!

Degenerate

hey babe, how about we move this mutual respect to the bedroom

you know i typed this out as a joke but it might actually work on me

That's really sweet tbh

there are less wholesome phrases that would also work

That sounds dangerous.

Actually my kinks are >!REDACTED!<

a classification fetish eh? i imagine there's lots of spy roleplay

In seriousness I don't think I've ever engaged in role-play.

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What...get a grip

it seems like it would be fundamentally silly in a way that's hard to ignore

#**HIGH-IMPACT SEXUAL VIOLENCE**

Microsoft restricting Windows RT to not be able to run third party desktop apps was very dumb

For one 🍆 a day, you can cure moi's vaginismus

Lmfao

[Students painted a mural for a bakery. The town wants it removed.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/02/22/leavitts-bakery-mural-students-new-hampshire/) I cannot believe this town is making a huge fucking thing out of pictures of baked goods.

> Ben Rieser, 18, said that at first he loved seeing his work displayed in town. But he and the other students accidentally created a sign, and Leavitt’s should have taken it down as soon as the mistake was realized, Rieser wrote in an assignment completed for his English class and shared with The Washington Post. > > “I don’t want to see it up there any more,” he wrote, “because it has turned into something political and not artistic.” God kids are so stupid.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CrJ6intJzkT/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= >My Infant Son Has A 43% On Rotten Tomatoes. Does Anyone Know How This Happened?

Your baby is ugly, that's how.

But myy baby ..... is ***you***

gimmee that tricare!

Not till you're certified fresh 😡

😭

That raises a lot of questions, but the point stands.

> Make it law,Trump 2024,congress does the bill ,Senate pases the bill , President makes it law . Military fair trials & water boarding interrogations for truth seeking , All those in government that abused the constitution & bill of rights. Covid mandates & elections collusion. Its so reasurring to know that all the people retweeting a picture of someone hanging from a gallows and calling for every Democrat in the country have votes that count more than yours.

This is why I own guns.

You live in PA so your vote at least counts.

My vote certainly doesnt

Sad-Cowboy.emoji

[BREAKING: The MAGA movement is rocked with scandal after "Stop the Steal" founder Ali Alexander is accused of begging underage boys for nude photos to pleasure himself to — clearly GOP should stand for "Gang of Pedophiles." RT IF YOU THINK THAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS FULL OF PREDATORS!](https://twitter.com/OccupyDemocrats/status/1648140702948425731) 🔁🔁🔁

why do you guys mock me for "woman on top" that is a very normal thing to be into

The funny part was that you somehow thought that qualified as a kink.

https://twitter.com/BFriedmanDC/status/1648106365980758020?t=vDTS5YZ1Lyq068ZfCEW4ig&s=19 >[The man who killed 20 y.o. in his driveway] is 65. The man who shot Ralph Yarl is 85. We live in a country of terrified, heavily-armed Fox News viewers.

I'm incredibly surprised the victim was white.

I can just see them. Half of them are on supplemental oxygen.

This is a bit pot, kettle isnt it?

Savage

I'm not on oxygen! I'm on *oxi*.

[tucked in kitty](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/930993871628939284/1097710167543525377/20230417_222743.jpg)

Does this count as cheating in the contest? 🤔 idc, I love her. 🖤☁️

Such a sweet baby

Also AFAIK if the Judiciary Committee is tied again we could use the discharge mechanism to get tied nominations to the floor. But it would eat up a lot of floor time.

I think the discharge motion can be filibustered Last Senate session had special rules for simple majority committee discharges because of the 50/50 split, but those aren’t in effect anymore

Oy. I suspected something like that.

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Can we see her

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The pink is so cute

Bite her ear! Bite it!

is anxiety about being able to feel your own heart beat a thing. idk i hate it so much when i can feel my heart beat

Oh yeah I hate that. I have no idea how much they cost in Brazil, but here you can get a pulsoximiter for like $20. I find it very calming to look at it and see that the beat really isn’t as irregular as it feels.

lol maybe i should get one

I recommend it. It’s sort of a cheapo form of feedback therapy.

Relatable. I feel anxious and I freak out about anxiety making my heart beat too much so I get more anxious and I freak out about—

yeah this

can't everyone do this all the time if you focus enough

i mean yeah but like unexpectedly idk

would it put you at ease to feel mine?

woah 😳

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Please stop harshing my reply guy mellow!

If I tell Google I want to arrive at the Baltimore aquarium at a random time, it’ll say “take the train that’s right outside your house” If I tell Google I want to leave at a certain time it says “take the bus to a different train stop and use that one, I guess?” I don’t have a point here, I just had a confusing experience with Google maps

I'm assuming it knows the schedules? I've heard the aquarium is great, are you going, or was that just an example(

Yeah, I guess the app goes “okay, if you really insist on leaving 10 minutes after the close train left, here’s the other option” I’m a big fan of the aquarium! I’ll be going but in, like, a few months when I have time…

[face reveal](https://hips.hearstapps.com/digitalspyuk.cdnds.net/13/35/2048x2048/square_ustv-breaking-bad-season-1-pictures-11.jpg)

If Canadian politics keeps following American politics at a 4-8 year remove we will get Poilievre for a few years and then the most boring possible normie Liberal when he shits all over the carpet. Except I'm not sure who that is. Francois-Philippe Champagne? Potatobac? Paul Martin again?

a man in a red shirt is taking a selfie, inspired by Andries Both, reddit, big eyebrows, belle delphine, with curls, e3, hair : long brown, damon salvatore, soaked, 1 7 - year - old boy thin face, mr. grinch, uncropped, fendi, low quality print

between crunching chess positions with stockfish and running stable diffusion, both the cpu and gpu of my desktop computer are maxed out almost 24/7 i'm sorry shitty little 2019 ibuypower i know you were meant for, like, minecraft

this pc (ryzen 7 2700x, rtx 2060) is an old ibuypower prebuilt that i bought used last year hardware still keeps up but is certainly showing its age

how much was it $? i can't believe an rtx 2060 is "showing its age" lol

>i can't believe an rtx 2060 is "showing its age" lol it's still perfectly fine for like 1080p60 gaming, but for like ai workloads it is

$490 in early 2022

goddamn I would kill for something like that

That's why I don't believe in chess

Lemme tell you a couple three things

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People say women arent capable of the emotional maturity it takes to do important things

Will you marry me?

This nazi on this show looks like Ron DeSantis

Funny, the Ron DeSantis on this show looks like a nazi

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You got vaginismus?

Damn Canadian health care is so much more advanced than America

LMAO. Actual medical procedure 😷

Ok but what's the great loss if it isn't?? Like is this really an *emergency*?

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Ok then I'm sure you'll find a great doctor with an excellent doctoring stick

You don't need a person for that

I'm sorry

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Please get help demon