gotta spend that money somehow or else they won't get it next year 
I'm sure the official answer is something like "well, we are one of the biggest tourist destinations across the world so of course we need people on the ground in Australia do you know how many Australians come visit every year??!" or something like that which doesn't really pass the smell test lol.
i don't think there's a great way to decouple it from the colonialist origins, given the reason the drink is named lumumba is because it is 'chocolate with a shot (of rum)' and you know...Lumumba was an African who was shot to death...but who knows maybe he's looking on from the great beyond and going "yeah i would've named the drink that myself. probably would be better to name something else after him that isn't based in racism
Jay Feinman seeing the news tomorrow morning: "I DIDN'T MEAN THAT!!!"
NEVER KILL YOURSELF THERE IS WORK TO BE DONE AND A WORLD TO BE WON FROM THE JAWS OF CAPITALISMyeah i hope he was like a disgruntled cop/vet/etc whose spouse or family member had a terminal illness or something that killed them because of a denied claim. (i mean, not for them - would be shitty to just have your life/loved one/etc die at the whim of some billion dollar insurance company) but it probably would really bring the whole table around to "wow maybe insurance companies are shit" so...
Like most European things - yes.
It's a Christmas market drink - hot chocolate with rum in it. It's called Lumumba - named after Patrice Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of the Congo who...was assassinated by Belgium (well, by separatists technically but the Belgians were the ones who dug him up and dissolved his body in acid & had his bones crushed and scattered) in 1961 because they wanted so desperately to hold onto their colony which had broken away from their control. The US, UK, and Belgium were all very happy about it because at the time during the Congo Crisis, after the UN refused to step in and help, he'd been appealing to the Soviets which made him a dirty communist so why not.
Eisenhower hated him, Dulles was all for assassination, MI6 supposedly had a hand in facilitating his execution. And yet still in 2024, a scant 4 years after Belgium finally repatriated what they had left of his remains & possessions back to his family in the Congo, Germans still go to Christmas market and ask for a lumumba and go 
when you point out that they're basically celebrating colonialism in their own little way.
Many such cases across Europe and Belgium/Germany especially. Mohrenkopf and Negerkuss ARE NOT racist names for chocolate covered marshmallows, yes that means "Moor's Head" and "Negro's Kiss" but they're NOT racist names; stop trying to destroy tradition by getting them renamed!!!
gonna say that this probably won't lead to shit, because surely the NYPD pulled the nearest camera footage from the street/nearby stoplights/hotel he got murked in front of and came to the conclusion he was on some citibike. If the dude used a visa debit gift card that he bought with cash and a burner phone to actually rent the bike, good luck tracking him lmao. Dude definitely went through Central Park based on that pick-up/drop-off area. He's in the wind now godspeed Agent 47
Anthem CEO in like 24 hours: 
ah well, i guess i'll take the insufferably smug german over a racist one but buddy you're not making yourself any friends here
they were at eachother's throats in this picture I dunno why they can't get along!!!
I'm not allowed by my neighbors to capture them and get them neutered because the one elderly retired lady in my building will sit outside her apartment in a chair every afternoon and feed/pet them & honestly I don't wanna take that joy away from her even though I've yet to see a single bird in the 4 months I've lived here 
Don't you feel like a witness in distress from time to time? Is that just the way the roses fade? Do you want to find out? 
not even in my top 3 Phoenix songs but its a banger
seriously what the fuck i've been to every hardware store within 15 miles searching for this rumored plate. What I really don't understand is why every coaxial wallplate I've come across is 1-gang which would be fucking useless for my purposes.
i spent 30 minutes today showing the poor Lowes employee who dared to walk up to me while I was investigating their aisle of Leviton the wallplate in my possession, the part of the wall I need to cover, and the coaxial cable that needs to be run through it. Sagaciously, this kinda cute man went "why don't you just do the 'build your own wallplate' and make one that size" and I was like 'wow okay what aisle is that' before walking over and realizing the goddamn build your own wallplates didn't even have a coaxial option.
is my only option really about to be to just drill a hole into this wallplate or get a single outlet 2-gang wallplate and just have the coaxial cable running through the empty space like a straw through a donut....no...surely not....right??
our homes.
no other incarnation of Ganondorf has ever been this cool. Wind Waker my beloved...
sorry to all my canines out there idk if that's derogatory to say but man I love not knowing what day it is, throwing up the contents of my stomach every time i try to get some amount of liquid or food in there, and my back hurting because all I've done for the past 24 hours is violently retch and curl back up for another 45 minutes to an hour in bed before starting the whole thing back over again. (thankfu
anyways i blame my friend for not telling me their roommate and their husband have both been sick for a week, spent the weekend hanging out at their house & only heard "yeah I've been sick for like 4-5 days" from either of them after I woke up on labor day feeling like ass. IF YOU HAVE BEEN SICK FOR A WEEK WHY DID YOU EAT OFF MY PLATE AT TWO DIFFERENT RESTAURANTS YOU FUCK GFDGHTGEHRWQH
i am going to take a shower now please pray it soothes my throat and/or stomach and/or back thank you
UHC SHOOTER PLEASE COME ONTO HEXBEAR WE NEED YOUR POWER