Presumably also a waste of government money.

*CORNbread - don’t forget the subsidies. Those farmers know on which side their bread is buttered. While I’m at it - ethanol for fuel… it’s all to encourage homegrown solutions.

Mike Snow baby 😎

Maybe more of a soup since they’re already kinda a vegetable? 💁

Did you mean, “for the misinformed like me” bud? Bone Apple Tea 👌

No. He’s a toroidal sphere, essentially pure asshole.

It’s not a leak, it’s VANDALISM!

One of the big reasons is that GOP control congress atm. The jackasses who flouted their responsibilities and legal obligations to answer to congress (under this administration and Biden’s) have been republicans. They knew that Dems didn’t have the stomach and/or the numbers to prosecute them or hold them accountable for evading their responsibilities - so the repubs called to give evidence or testify in front of congress just did what they wanted with impunity.

Fauci is a persona non-grata with this administration and its party as a whole. Fauci knows he’ll be subjected to any and all prosecutorial avenues the GOP can utilise. I believe the thinking is this is the surest way to protect himself. His legal way to say nothing without lying, maintain his own ethics and morals, abide by the law and his obligations under it, and ensure he doesn’t give them one iota of ammo to use against him in future actions.

TL;DR: Fauci has integrity and believes in the rule of law.

The USA doesn’t recognise the ICC because they do not want their citizens to be subjected to it. There are quotes from senior officials and diplomats essentially saying that the USA agrees with the concept of the ICC but only for lawless countries where people who violate international law are unlikely to be held to account. Essentially it is a humdinger of an example of “rules for thee but not for me” creedo. The US hides behind its UCMJ (Uniform Code of Military Justice) as a panacea excusing it from subjecting itself to the rules it wants to enforce on the rest of the world. The argument is that the UCMJ is sufficient to enforce accountability and international law, and that the ICC is superfluous. It’s a tenuous argument at best and ultimately shelters the USDF from international accountability for their actions.

This should be in /antimemes

The tracking is used to identify the source user who shared the link - that is connected in the DB to the user who received and used the link. That connects their two digital footprints as far as the website is concerned. It’s one element that leads to strangely tenuous “people you may know” style lists. If you and the person you share with have totally separate online lives. The moment you share that link - everything YouTube (Google) knows about both of you is connected. If one of you has shared your contact lists, your phone number, address etc is potentially now connected to you even if you’ve never posted it to anything online. It doesn’t take much for someone to be linked to 1000’s of people in a chain reaction of connections started by a single shared link that hasn’t been anonymised.

It is the only way. The belly demands it. The universe demands it. Faceplant and then breathe 🥰

It’s hard to believe they’re the same species.

As the camera zooms in on Mr Vance, who was talking near his seat in the corner of his room, he appears visibly concerned by the Iranian delegation’s walk out.  He approaches Mr Sharif and Mr Munir shortly afterwards and the three men are seen talking before someone chimes in with a question: “How are the talks going so far, Mr Vice President?”

That reporter has brilliant comedic timing, I’m dying!

Nawww what a cute lil Splatty Gilmore 😍

My vote is mildly annoyed at being filmed. My cat gets irritated when the IR light gets emitted (I think for the autofocus) - he can tell when the camera app is open vs not - I think it shines right in his eyes and it gives him the irrits.

What in the ever loving fark Australia!?

A ship of fools you say?

Good grief. You couldn’t pay me to go on a cruise. I just… don’t get it.