This Is Fine

12:50 AM

Same-sex couples will now be able to get married in Northern Ireland, more than six years after it was legalised throughout the rest of the United Kingdom.

Memor-X

1:22 AM

Conservative group calls for Burger King to remove Impossible Whopper commercial

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> The ad, showcasing people’s reactions to the Impossible Whopper in New York City, includes a man saying “Damn, that’s good.” One Million Moms quickly launched a campaign to edit or pull the commercial from air altogether.

In a press release, One Million Moms said that it “finds this highly inappropriate. When responding to the taste test, he didn’t have to curse. Or if, in fact, it was a real and unscripted interview in which the man was not an actor, then Burger King could have simply chosen to edit the profanity out of the commercial.”

if it just me or is this group just being lazy to what they should be doing, raising their children but, i don't know, telling them what is a bad word when they discover it?

> The Burger King petition currently has 9,029 signatures.

wait, how is an organization called One Million Moms not already have One Million signatures already?

murgatroid99

@Memor-X I assume it's supposed to be a "silent majority" kind of thing, where they're claiming to speak on behalf of a much larger group

Memor-X

> New #bushfires video PM Scott Morrison told @abcnews even if #Australia shut all its coal power stations, the impact on climate change would be minimal because of China. But... Australia emits far more per person than China. And what about emissions from exports?

it's that kind of argument that pisses me off since my mum uses it too. "there's no point for us to try and tackle climate change because the US and China emit more and they'll still screw us over" doesn't mean we can't take the moral high ground

@murgatroid99 yeh i had a feeling that was the case

Tim Stone

2:39 AM

English is now cancelled so that we don't have to acknowledge the existence of the word "cheetle"

Memor-X

3:11 AM

@TimStone no

it's Cheeto Dust

Russians hacked Ukraine gas company central to Trump impeachment inquiry

> Hacking attempts began in early November against the company on whose board former Vice President Joe Biden’s son sat, The Times reported

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The hackers successfully secured login credentials from some employees and successfully infiltrated one of the company’s servers, according to Area 1, the California-based security company that first caught wind of the hack.

when did Rudy Giuliani finish gathering his "evidence"?

Stormblessed

4:09 AM

@Memor-X what the Duck?

Stormblessed

4:43 AM

@Unionhawk so if you’re a libertarian socialist, does that mean you’re anti taxes?

Elise

@Memor-X they're just moms, not parents. Parenting is not a requirement to be a mom, although it's certainly recommended

they're too busy being triggered by mild stuff online to be parenting, it's for the greater good /s

Nzall

8:23 AM

@Memor-X Hang on, Damn is a curse? Fuck

Btw, is One Million Moms also opposed to Trump, since he has done far worse things than use a mildly profane word?

Memor-X

10:30 AM

@Nzall well the article calls them a conservative group so i expect a double standard

Wipqozn

11:20 AM

Trudeau says Canada wasn’t warned of Soleimani strike, says crash victims would be alive if not for U.S.-Iran tensions theglobeandmail.com/world/…

GnomeSlice

1:29 PM

@Wipqozn Who is to say but... yeah this is fucked

Been reading about that crash like nonstop in the news...

MBraedley

1:42 PM

@GnomeSlice It's a pretty clear causal link: US assassinating Soleimani leads to heightened military readiness in Iran leads to Iran mistakenly shooting down a civilian passenger plane.

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