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So the same crew that blindly follows slick salesmen types in shiny mega churches every Sunday morning also swallows Trump’s false charm and charisma? He’s just another self-enriching evangelist selling a different product…or is it even different? The “Follow and do not ask” model fits like a glove
That where I find the charm in it — I don’t ask much from horror aside some story and maybe a novel way to scare me (that isn’t just jump scares or torture porn)…sometimes it’s the humor when a movie goes super overboard with an idea or scene (that would kill other movies) it makes the movie for me
Like I was hinting, some of my best watches have been the stinkers, for their own reasons…like maybe a so so movie with the creepiest scene I’ve ever seen…but finding one that is both an excellent film and takes the genre seriously, it’s super special. I’ll also usually stick it out with bad horror
I have to admit, I was always glad having grown up in Boston that Red Lobster was not where anyone went or had to go, ever, but I have heard so much about those damned biscuits that I am dying to see how they stack up to the hype
Oh wow #FrightClub scratches an itch I desperately needed scratched that I didn’t even know I had. Im a sorta recent convert to the genre, and I’ve suffered through tons of 🤮 in a genre with an extra healthy proportion of it, maybe sometimes that’s its charm, but excellent horror is rare &worth gold
November 2028 the GOP will have all sorts of changes of heart on unitary executive theory and probably have tons of legislation ready to pass through their freshly gerrymandered House should they lose the WH. That would be SO Republican to find their consciences just as turnabout -> fair play.
When Trump posts that he will sign an executive order to require voter ID in all 50 states, which I KNOW HE KNOWS would be meaningless, it tells me that he believes his supporters are true idiot f*cking sheep who believe anything he says. Do they not see this either?
Oh man, he died? How am I just now learning this? I got the next round.
Your final step will be submit but it won’t work in that browser. Redo all of that with a different browser. And forget this every time you have to put in for PTO. True story.
Why do they blame the “woke liberal” courts when they block Trump’s EO’s over things clearly outside his jurisdiction in direct conflict with the constitution itself. They don’t deal in logic. They deal in anger and grievance and whipped up fervor…and they LOVE the taste of Trump in their mouths.
You know that guy you present with a problem who always seems to matter of factly have a solution that demonstrates no understanding of the problem, the solution or the universe it resides in, and ends it with “Simple. Next?” He’s now our president. And half the class thinks he’s brilliant.
How does a warship tackle a drug cartel anyway?
Well, in defense of the planet, it was doing fine before He/She needed to create mini me
Beat me to it
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One of God’s less inspired days no doubt. Tough job being the big cheese.
It’s called “King’s Degree.” He must have released his executive orders out of order…that one is probably next.
Let’s revoke his…assuming he doesn’t declare himself King for Life.
Look at their solar industry vs. ours. We have seriously handed them the entire industry. Absolutely needlessly and it’s recently gotten much worse…simply because green energy is gay and undocumented immigrants eat people’s pets.
I think it’s just because it’s “white bread.”
Jeremy Banks killed Michelle O’Connor…that’s my opinion. He was quite clearly saved by a very thick blue line. You can hear it in his 911 call, but more than that, it’s not just the sheriff’s defense of the deputy, but his odd defensiveness and obstinance against missed facts, a grand jury…
Birthday suit? It hits most of your wishlist. Dress up or down with accessories.
I was going to say on the left of the bell curve but didn’t want to be too pedantic…or bring up “bell curve” for other reasons
Those things go slow and usually overheat before legislatures consider it worth the energy and time. A mayoral executive order is quick and easy…but the scope is too narrow; it right, state level law is definitely the right way to go. I’m sure it is in the works at various stages in Dem states 🤞🙏🏼😳
Not a radical concept. Should be baseline.
This has been so obvious from the very beginning, it struck me as so obviously un-American (as someone with half a century of experience with who this country used to be)…the country we once were, we should still be, and we need to get back to being, would never have store for this for one day.
just so they can protect what’s theirs, while the society that has MADE them is cannibalized for its predetermined votes, purely for political power, with no thought given to fairness or representation. I promise, I was here; America was not like this.
And the worst part seems to be that not enough people seem to care enough about it to resist the slide. It’s go along to get along for billionaires, companies, law firms, universities…
We were the good guys and we earned the right to say that. We are not anymore. We used to be trusted, but we are not anymore. We used to be reliable, but we are not anymore, we used to try and do the right thing anywhere we could, we don’t do that anymore.
It sucks to watch, but it really does feel like this once great country is decomposing before my eyes. it no longer embodies the qualities that made it the greatest country in the world…but thinks it has a right to continue to bask in that once earned glow.
Well, statistically speaking, exactly half of the population is dumber than average. I’m going with that.
A proposal to censor info about lawmakers is being sold as a safety bill. But it won’t protect them from anything but investigative reporting. Contact your senator to tell them to scrap the bill and protect their safety — and everyone else’s — without sacrificing transparency and accountability.
It’s a good thing these guys don’t have actual jobs at home that they should be doing.
Hey @scaramucci.bsky.social was it you that I heard the story about Trump acknowledging half the world hates him but him saying something like “but imagine what I can do with the other half” or something like that…trying to remember what and where I heard
Oh yeah, it’s the Show Me State. “Show me what to and I’ll do it” and “show us what to do, because we can’t figure it out ourselves otherwise.” Eff Missouri. I wish DC could stop being pure scheming sleaze and everyone else would stop shrugging and looking the other way. “Whaddaya gonna do?”
And who’s going to be in power when this shit all hits the fan? And who will figure out how to shift the blame back onto Democrats and make it stick? Ugh.
He sure does. I had hoped he wouldn’t be worst pick in the cabinet…I figured Hegseth had that walled p…but RFK needs to go before Hegseth even.
And if you wake up and see a demon sitting in your chest and you struggle to breathe, that system which paralyzes us when dreaming didn’t de paralyze you when you started waking up and given you a night terror.
Ah…he can’t. But that never makes the headline
The problem is that it’s a 30-year, multi billion dollar startup time and cost…and we have a president who has created so much economic instability that people are afraid to plan 6 months out let alone 30 years.
When I saw a show…I think it was Nova, about new nuclear power plant designs with passive cooling and Bill Gates’ company’s sodium cooled reactor, I became a huge proponent of nuclear. Given that it’s not carbon producing I’d have thought more would sign on.
And yet electric bills will still challenge rent as the most expensive monthly expense. Electric rates are out of control now and they’ll just charge us the same even when the cost of that energy goes down.
And China will probably get most of it. We were asleep at the wheel and let them get so far out ahead of us that we might never catch up…and now with Trump, it’s over. He’s killed us in that game. The whole world will getting their solar from China.
This…
Neil Young is awesome. I like his music, not a super fan or anything, but I like how seriously he takes his principles and how ardently he adheres to and defends them…like suing Trump for using his song without permission 😊
He does. When once asked about how it feels to know that half the world hates him, he responded, but look how much I can do with the other half. I wicked paraphrased that and I wish I could remember the source (Scaramucci maybe) and context, but his point is clear…and it’s been working for him.
Yeah the scared thing especially. And I hope it sinks in the grifted money and illegally seized power and sycophantic adulation in the world doesn’t matter. Trump’s existence has forever killed karma or “what goes around” ever coming around for me. I flat out reject it
AI is going to…save us? I
Anyone had a pickleback shot? They’re surprisingly really good…I had one in NYC and haven’t seen it around here…but I haven’t looked much…how far outside of NYC has this thing already? People even know what I’m talking about?
It’s going to be incumbent on the states to help ease us through these Trump years and protect us from as much of his overreach and chaos that they can. I am very glad I live in Massachusetts.
Sounds like the MA law needs to change quickly to prevent a problem that we can see coming…at least until the CDC returns to normality (if that ever happens). www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/29/b...
We need Trump to declare something that is in direct conflict with one of the Ten Commandments and then see how the Christian right tap dances their way out of it. Also, do we believe there isn’t at least ONE Trump abortion out there somewhere?
I’m very worried about the eagerness of the red states to send their national guard troops to blue states, while blue states refuse to send them, that we’re creating red and blue national guard sides. This is scary. They are being used overtly politically depriving us of resources elsewhere
Wait until you see how great it is when he’s done! I have to tell myself he’ll lose the WH and leaves (although his federalizing of the DC police and the National Guard deployments are very concerning) and we can both start undoing what shouldn’t have been done and make sure it can’t happen again
This sounds like shoving AI into somewhere just cuz you can, not cuz you should…even if they didn’t have this problem.
It’s interesting to see how much there is in common between the current day Republican Party and the Nazis in the 1930s German Reichstag, and I’m not just taking the opportunity to scream Nazis. Just as many cowards trying their best to not draw attention unless it’s shoving their tongue up his ass.
Someone in our government or society, most importantly someone who get through to people, to start asking ALL Americans. “What kind of country do we want to be?” It’s an honest question that we need to answer if we’re ever going ti have any common ground to occupy.
Is the national guard in DC going to do a sweep of Pennsylvania Ave and the Capitol and clean up of the crime there? Much worse than the homelessness.
Capitalism is great when socialism is there to save it when it fails.
I’ve been hearing more and more chatter about the first assignation attempt being faked. I know the knee jerk conspiratorial posts on social media, but these have sounded more legit. I do not want to join a wacky conspiracy theory though.
Probably not. With the clowns they have left over there. Fealty to Trump got them the job but doesn’t much help when it comes to actual work.
They don’t know what to think until they are told.
And support things like the suspension of due process with the government, the deportation of people (most who have committed no crime) to hellhole jails in foreign countries with no release date or charges to defend.
What’s really infuriating is I’ve watched Anthony Fauci lead in his role for almost my whole life…I DID k is who he was before Covid…and none of these clowns had any idea who he was until they were told to hate him.
Next Trump will require all soldiers to swear allegiance to him personally and create a new title like “Supreme Leader”.
Watching a show called “Hitler and the Nazis” and they’re explaining g how Hitler became Führer. I’ll be damned if it doesn’t look an awful lot like present day United States. The biggest problem isn’t Trump, it’s the Republican Congress who enables him.
It’s like Bill Burr said. As you drive into Boston there are two dominant buildings in the skyline. They’re both insurance companies, and nobody ever got rich paying people.
I gotta call Amica. They’re ripping me off I think. It sucks because I thought I liked them. Insurance companies always want to pretend like they’re a member of your family and they care about you like their own..or they’re your best buddy. Their goal is to collect premiums and deny claims.
I have had Amica auto insurance for the last couple years. Nothing has changed. I work from home, I barely ever drive. They renew my policy and it’s now $50 MORE per month. I know they do this to see what they can get away, but I shouldn’t pay the same for a car I don’t drive as my health insurance
One of earliest known birthday bros…him, Jacques Cousteau and Chad Everett.
A full military funeral? That’s disgraceful.
Agile has good ideas and some decent process models but if you don’t trim it to your specific organizations workflow, you can spend a lot of time doing things like generating sprint retrospectives that we’d struggle to get down on paper and then never generate action items or get referred to again.
Nothing like the same meeting every single day where everyone talks nuts and bolts about their work that no one else has sufficient context for. Tolerable when we’d get through it in 20 minutes, maybe, but would so often get ratholed by one or two people, keeping everyone hostage.
The absolute lack of compassion for anyone but themselves in the modern Republican Party is so far into gross it’s immoral. And they’re ok with that. Are they?
I also seem to spend an awful lot more time in meetings with Agile/Scrum than I did before…a lot of times it feels process for process’s sake, particularly with elements of Agile that aren’t really used in your organization but aren’t trimmed from the process.
It’s just a matter of time…Orange kittens are little hellions! Watch out! Take it from me…this little guy is now much bigger and now terrorizes the dog of the house and uses everyone else as a springboard, landing pad and attack dummy as he rockets around the house.
Should we maybe have the National Guard just start doing all of the back work created by all the layoffs and firings? We’re gonna need someone to backfill those guard soldiers at the real full time jobs though.
Wait, teenaged DOGE bag named “big balls” who was let loose inside our governments computer databases may have stolen the data that we were all worried about him having access to and stealing (and we were clamored about at the time)? Every bad thing, we easily saw coming…but were called hysterical
And the meetings felt more productive back then…maybe that’s rosy retrospection on my part, but it’s how I remember it.
Good God. Good luck trying to learn and retain in that sort of environment. You can’t put ad breaks into a classroom…it’s totally counterproductive to learning.
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.
Is he related to homo rejectus?
It it bleeds it leads. Meanwhile most of America has no idea how completely the DoJ and DoD have been utterly purged of expertise and experience and replaced with sycophantic Trump loyalists which holds the potential to be deadlier than a thousand school shooters. If this isn’t Rome burning…
Well yeah, of course. I’d never have thought of it or that it was actually possible but the theory makes sense and the fact they’ve figured out how to make it practically worthwhile is amazing.
We need to get back to facts meaning something and objective truths meaning something — without that we can’t even identify the problems let alone work together and compromise on solutions
It’s classic post-truth society. Rather than honestly acknowledging the issues with your preferred policy (and just honestly admitting you’ll accept those to have your way) we just ignore the 800lb gorilla and twist ourselves in knots to whitewash our favorite policy and pretend there are no issues
Yet for creating an authoritarian autocracy, dismantling the rule of law, and destroying the republic as envisioned by our founding fathers, people still don’t seem to give a fuck.
And create a login to our website to enable the AI features.
But if you CAN control it with an app, they will make sure to sell it to you…even if it still doesn’t make sense.
My tattoo came way before the movies…and I’m sure people (who aren’t Finns) who notice it will end up thinking “damn he must really like the movies”. Those who know, though, know. 🇫🇮
It’s mostly good enough and will support much more typical use desktop software than Linux. Yes there are things like Wine Docker, emulators and VMs but if you’re into those you’re already probably deep into Linux. Learning Linux just to use it as a desktop OS just isn’t worth it unless you want to
That was not going to be used for development, I wouldn’t go with Linux. It’ll function perfectly fine as a desktop machine if you need it to, but I wouldn’t go out of my way to use it as a desktop OS. I’ve long been super critical of Windows OSes but for heavy gaming and typical PC work
If you’re a PC gamer I don’t know that you have a choice BUT to go with Windows 11. Honestly, I’ve been using Linux in many of its forms since the mid-90s…and it’s a great OS…if I didn’t have a Mac for software development, I would be running Linux…but if I had a need for a desktop machine
It’s exactly what I feared and tried to impress on people last fall when I was told I had TDS and was being hysterical and alarmist.
She’s going to lose
Very much looking forward to starting this book i just received a few days ago…by @seanmcarroll.bsky.social
The Google AI answer is quite long and involved…and scary, to be honest.
I really wish it was a text and not a voicemail…I’d totally think of something frightening to text him back. I suppose I could just send him a text…the number should be familiar to him…
Just got a voicemail from Google voice obviously intended for the previous holder of this number (I think Google recycles after like 5 minutes) saying that a security issue in Salesforce exposed this guys customer data for some time and wants to know what his obligation is on informing customers.
