“Abolish the police” I guess? Usually the X centrist types mean trans issues, but they ignore the actual polling of those issues.
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“Abolish the police” I guess? Usually the X centrist types mean trans issues, but they ignore the actual polling of those issues.
I would say this is all just racism, but I feel like people would get upset if a bunch of folks in Appalachia were getting this as well (though probably less upset)
Lakshaya Jain (sp?) probably also has a point, he’s can be annoying but I don’t think he’s a MattY/Josh Barro type, he does seem to argue in good faith. Which is my entire issue with MattY, honestly, that he doesn’t.
He’s in his 70s and was noticeably in decline for his last few years as a Pats coach. No matter what he’s ngmi.
Progressive politics requires people at all levels of government, because there are too many people willing to leverage the government to screw over people otherwise. I don’t want want Z as president, I want more people like him (or a Michelle Wu in Boston) in all levels of government.
Look, I like to joke about my big Irish head but seriously - wtf is this cursed image? Is his anger for trans people existing causing his head to get bigger?
Tesla shares rise $22 on the news, for…reasons
I think he is meaningfully worse, If be unsurprised if he’s already had a couple of strokes. But he’s not going anywhere.
Totally unrelated - I have some incredible tulips for you, much better way to store your money than AI stock
“For too long the Sea Peoples have plundered our cities!”
Drop an old person you're going to turn into in the future (I won’t be, but I will try)
That’s a lot of false positives, but how many false negatives? With minimal false negatives that’s an amazing first test to give someone. With a number of false negatives as well it’s worthless.
Netflix (the on-demand movie app) is a lot more convenient than Netflix(the mail 3 DVDs to your house service) but I’m not sure it’s that much “better”
I think that’s the only point of whatever announcement, proof of life. [I tried to write more but literally everything I wanted to write would get me a visit by the feds]
AI is lying to you because it was programmed to lie to you. JavaScript can’t multiply numbers because of the way it represents numbers in memory, not because it’s decided it can’t do math. You are exactly right, we need to stop anthropomorphizing everything.
I mean, this is Trump. His announcement might be that he’s issuing an Executive Order that he can play one of the cats in Cats, when it plays at the Kennedy Center.
Ruin a movie by making it Gary. Star Wars Episode IV, A New Gary
If art didn’t matter no one would ever try to ban it.
When I lived outside of Boston sometimes I’d use someone’s driveway to turn around. Never crossed my mind it would be an issue. I don’t do that now that I live in the country, because I know someone who was shot at for doing this.
Wait, what? Even if Trump was too ill to do the job of president, there is zero chance that he would ever resign the job. None. And yes, this is why Richard fucking Nixon of all people was a hundred times the man Trump is.
Coptic Christians split off nearly 2 millennia ago, Mormons are only a hundred years old but look like they’re going strong. Lots of other offshoots out there, a MAGA church that has Trump as God’s final prophet would not surprise me.
I’m never going to discount racism, just seem too many blatant examples of it in corporate life to pretend it’s not a thing. But the biggest reason for this is that we’ve nationalized all media, and most of the remaining media live in NYC, so we’re forced to constantly hear about NYC politics.
“New technology comes along, feels miraculous. Leads to countless improvements, feels like we’re just getting started. And then things start to show, as it becomes a mature tech” “Better living through chemistry” was the DuPont logo in the 1930s, because chemistry was the computers of its day.
Had the same thought when I read your first post.
bluesky is dying and there's only one way to save it: by putting on the biggest gosh-darn bake sale this community has ever seen!
The vibes are immaculate for both of them. But Mamdani is more charismatic, and no small part of that is he’s a good looking guy who wears clothes well. It’s a huge part of his appeal, and no reason to pretend otherwise!
Companies charging market rates instead of subsidizing Instacart and Uber Eats doesn’t count as inflation (because that would be insane), but it did impact how much people were paying for things.
And also to destroy the uppity Asian lady who won’t stop pointing out how much the administration sucks.
Nate Silver: “Blueskyism is far worse than racism, sexism, racism, anything else you could imagine” Me: “okay, sure Nate. But what is Blueskyism?” Nate: “when people are mean to me or to the people I’m in a group chat with”
A lot of people on here hating on 11 yo me’s dream house and I do not appreciate it.
As a member of team “lyrics don’t matter” this was a fascinating conversation between the two of you, glad I could read it.
This is true. But watching Trump defy years of settled law, while Congress, the Supreme Court and major media institutions just let it happen - I don understand why folks are concerned
Worse than that - if they were infantalized there’d be no expectations for them to do anything. Instead, they’re expected to perform every action required to maintain society, maintain the home - while not allowing them to give input on how society should work.
Indonesia has 280 million people in it and I know less about it than I do, I dunno, Lesotho. I have been to Indonesian restaurants in the Netherlands and could not tell you what the food is like.(Thai meets Indian, kinda). I’d love an Indonesian festival so I could get some idea!
He’s a bad person, but FWIW I do think he believes the crank stuff he puts out there.
Putting an ICE ad on during a WNBA game feels like malicious compliance by someone (though probably just laziness)
Vance (who’s going to make damn sure there isn’t one)
Also, it was a good pun, don’t apologize.
Between this and Lowtax”s Laura Loomer tongue ring post, are the Normal Men having a worst post competition? Should I expect something horrible from George any moment?
I liked Mitchell and the Machines more, and my kids loved it. But my 7yo is *obsessed* with KPDH, in a way I haven’t seen since my oldest first saw Moana 8 years ago.
I think this is by far the likeliest scenario, but given how smug Vance has been looking lately I’m not ruling out him being dead.
This is officially the group chat I’d least like to be part of now. And I’m including the Andreeson one.
YouTube I at least understand, it’s TikTok where I just feel old (or maybe I just have no idea who to follow)
I still think season 5 is a very good season of television, it just pales in relation to every other season of the Wire. Other people disagree, but I find the Bubbles arc really moving.
Nah, because the current Republican base will insist Trump rose after 3 days.
I liked neontaster a lot more when I thought he was Ben Shapiro’s dad, you could pretend he was trying to defend his son instead of just being an idiot.
So, National Guard person I know was talking about how they all had to perform for JD Vance last week, and a woman in our group chat said “but at least you got to meet him. He’s a Great Man, isn’t he?” So I think some of the base will be there for JD
I get angry every time Aaron shows up in my feed. Not because he does anything wrong, but because he accurately reports the lies our elected officials are putting out there.
I quit smoking, now I’m losing the weight I gained when I quit smoking, and this is what RFK does to me?
As a church we have issues (Lord we have issues) but migrant issues is something we do really well! Disgusting to see this language from a priest.
14! Bilbo Baggins was the 14th member of Gandalf’s crew because 13 was an unlucky number so 14 was lucky, I’ve always loved it.
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Virtual? Don’t post while waiting for the baggage carousel, I guess
I think it was golikehellmachine, sincere apologies if it was another poaster
Dictatorship have no legitimacy other than popularity. The courts and (for some fucking reason) the media will try to project legitimacy onto this regime, but even they can’t stem the tide. To paraphrase @golikehellmachine.com, they will not break us, they will break upon us.
It is true that we are lighting virtual government functions on fire and it will take decades to recover. But this administration is historically unpopular, AND it’s never going to get more popular than it is right now.
Isaiah Thomas was not right about Larry Bird being just another good player, he’s pretty easily a top 10 player, and he’s not 10. BUT - Zeke was right to back up his teammate, even though Dennis Rodman was an idiot.
I was in San Francisco when Obama won the election in ‘08 and there were spontaneous dance parties in the street. You’ll know when the other thing happens because the celebrations will be even bigger.
Tesla isn’t a monopoly though, it’s just priced like it is for reasons I don’t begin to understand.
If I wanted to be kind I would point out she really has no control over her city and groveling before Trump makes a certain sense. But it hasn’t worked for anyone (take a look at Columbia) and I honestly think Trump had some blackmail on her.
79% of Americans view immigration positively! poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
What exactly is the idea, if there’s an emergency Red Cross can’t help anyone unless they produce papers first? wapo.st/3Jy4ptv
The positive spin is “wow, Captain America’s real superpower is bringing out the best in people” or some such. But if I lived in Earth-616 I’d live in constant terror of all these people.
I am genuinely embarrassed that I never made the connection before.
This is why housing needs to be the single most important priority in liberal politics, because otherwise competition for housing will continue to raise prices on literally everything and that will inevitably allow another demagogue to rise Trump-style.
Black Widow for me - if I hadn’t read the “history of the marvel universe” comics I never would have known she was introduced as a villain (Scarlett Witch/Quicksilver also good choices, so is Hawkeye)
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety” - hard to say which founder would be most embarrassed by the present administration, but my money is on Franklin.
In Rainbows was the best Radiohead album, and it’s not close.
The thing is, if I had to guess DC is marginally more dangerous! Shoving all resources from where crime happens to the spots visible from Trump’s limousine won’t actually help crime rates.
1) Pritzker is not going to be president unless he goes on Ozempic. He needs to be big, just less than he is now (to be clear, if he runs he has my vote)
I spent 20 minutes trying to force myself not to write a post that would have gotten me a visit from the FBI. So new plan, every time I feel the need to write one of these posts, I’m just putting an unpopular opinion in this thread. Ideally one of these will get me run off BlueSky so I stop posting.
Obviously some people are further left than others, but the leftist/liberal distinction has no meaning in the real world, normies will look at you like a crazy person if you try and describe it.
Part of the problem is that no one thinks SF politics are a national issue, but media types are unwilling to admit that NY politics aren’t either.
Phrasing it that way makes people assume it was modified in some way to make it vegan. One of my daughter’s friends refused to get rice off a restaurant menu because it was “gluten free”, and she refused to believe it just described normal rice.
It absolutely could be a real job, if Brett deeply researched topics before he wrote about them. But since he just parrots what a bunch of wealthy C suite types think about the world, no idea why he needs this person.
What a wonderful reminder that there are a whole lot of “disability advocates” here on social media who couldn’t be bothered talking to disabled people about their opinion on anything.
If i had stupid money I’d make a golden statue of DJT just to film people worshipping it.
Chicago - I love you, you’re easily the most underrated city in the US, but it absolutely should not take 2 hours to get downtown from O’Hare on pubic transport.
Also, I do think even liberals memory-holed a lot of the Trump I administration. Twitter in 2017 was politics 24/7, and that administration constrained Trump enough that the news was much less dire.
Resenting the same people is a much stronger recipe for coalition building than I ever would have guessed in 2016.
Christopher Columbus was probably the worst director of the HP movies, but I give him a ton of credit for the way he set everything up for those kids.
Certainly more than when I first joined - I tried to make BS my primary home in ‘23 and it was just politics and inter-group fighting, and I couldn’t handle it (the fact that there was so little activity didn’t help)
Really?!? It honestly never occurred to me that he did it himself, my mind is blown right now.
I love Michelle Wu for much the same reason. She doesn’t have the burning magnetism that Zohran does (no one does, except 90s Bill Clinton) but the woman clearly loves Boston, and loves being mayor of it,
I admittedly have a soft spot for the man, but Kerry outperformed the fundamentals. By quite a lot, actually.
Every single person involved in detaining this woman should be in jail for the rest of their lives.
I have seen a LOT of people complaining about it (which is fine, it’s not good). I haven’t found any people besides conservative pundits complaining it’s a woke conspiracy.
I spent a not-insignificant portion of my youth marching on Teamsters picket lines with my Teamster dad. I have multiple family members that are still Teamsters - and I 100 percent endorse this.
I think Cuban’s logic is that Trump’s insane plans will only last 4 years, but Warren would put a permanent change in tax law into effect. I think this is idiotic, but I’m guessing it’s not so easy for folks on the Andreeson group chat to understand why it’s an issue.
Are you trying to imply that the Courts would let Texas’s gerrymandering go but stop Californiana? I’m not concerned at all, due to the fair and nonpartisan nature of our Supreme Court, and especially our Chief Justice.
Trump single-handedly ended the war on Cancer, and you libs refuse to give him credit.
You laugh? The man ends the War on Cancer and you laugh, instead of thanking him for doing that horrible nightmare of expanded lifespans and people getting more time with their families?
Also - maybe the makeup of the guard will change quickly, I can’t tell you what the guard makeup will be in 2 years. But people I know in the guard who have been called up have less than zero desire to be doing this, and (unsurprisingly) are doing as little as possible.
Ha! It was a neighborhood kid, honestly sweet but kept getting into fights and had a very scary cousin that was around quite a bit.
How long does he think the Holocaust lasted, 6 months?
I don’t know exactly what happened at Vox that broke everyone’s brain - I loved Matt Yglesias when he hosted “The Weeds”. The only person I can think of who didn’t become radically worse after working at Vox was Jane Coaston, which is probably the only good argument for college football fandom.
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Because his whole deal is “what if you took you tried to make the president from a 1980s action movie the actual president?”
I knew someone in the Boston mob who thought the same thing (which came up because he heard my gf was Jewish)
My old coworker from Paris told me that shop workers in Montreal would do the same to him.