Is that more or less than we got in Risky Business?
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Is that more or less than we got in Risky Business?
Anybody who is OK with calling Rafael Cruz "Ted" or calling Francis O'Rourke "Beto" but not OK calling trans people by their chosen names, is a transphobe. No debate.
Nate lost the plot a long time ago. Now he has to get ever-more edgy for attention, and we know that never ends well. He's about six months away from full-on "MAGA is right". He should go back to what he's good at. Winning his rotisserie league.
Well, that explains all the mattress sales
Does "ignorant, arrogant asshole" count as a diagnosis?
I would be happy to see every country Russia has oppressed all rise up at the same time. And maybe China help itself to some of Russia's far east.
Has he tried changing the color of the curtains?
Why are so many of the ads I'm seeing on Youtube for diet scams? (Pink salt, etc.) I don't understand why it thinks I'm interested. Given everything Google knows about me, it is remarkably bad at targeting me with adverts. Everybody I know says the same.
President John Tyler was known as His Accidency. We should get ahead of a nickname for JV Dunce.
Feeling mildly irritated by absolutely everything today. I should probably stay home, avoid people, and kick inanimate objects. So, pretty much what I do every day.
Stop trying to make dorkglasses happen.
Is there any person in tech who has failed upwards harder than Marc Andreesen? He had one decent product at the right time, cashed out before Microsoft inevitably crushed it, and has somehow been regarded as a guru ever since.
Perhaps the greatest condemnation of capitalism is the people who rise to the top of it, like scum on a cess pit.
Me: Well, I'm no expert. Him: But? Me: But what?
Renegade opinion: it doesn't matter what is or is not a sandwich
This is important to bear in mind when it comes time to eat the rich. Get in line early.
FWIW, I quote you and your data a lot when trying to open people's eyes to what a con this whole thing is. I used to work (retired now) for a company that sold software to AI companies, and I've seen how the sausage is made.
Niyeti kötü olanın attığı ok kendine döner. Hz. Ali
My pet peeve is that they don't call him "a deranged threat to public health"
If it wasn't for my succubus I wouldn't get laid at all. But I wish she would return my tee-shirts.
Until I got to the end I didn't know if this was going to be about guns or ICE and this is absolutely the shittiest timeline.
Counterpoint: how often do hear about a celebrity dying in bed, surrounded by their family? This is precisely why I never visit my family.
I'm not usually a fan of "men are like this, women are like that" distinctions, but this one is solid.
The beatings will continue until morale improves. The beatings of other people, that is.
Marked safe from assembling furniture.
The other irony is that these people who say "stop complaining" endlessly complain about progressives. And then they tell you to stop attacking Democrats, while calling you a "coward", a "Nazi", an "idiot", or "a MAGA tool". I fear it is very hard to get through to them.
Ken Martin refused to bring either that committee resolution or one condemning Israel's actions to the floor for a wider vote, saying the issue was "too divisive". Which I guess is true if he means it divides the DNC elites from every past or potential future Democratic voter.
The irony is that Harris started out the campaign talking about progressive issues and her poll numbers were pretty good. Then the establishment voices told her to stop upsetting the donors, and she turned back into the establishment Dem she always used to be.
I long ago gave up caring what Democratic Party "moderates" think. They have presided over the alienation of the party from its base and from the electorate as a whole with their relentless devotion to the status quo, regardless of how bad it might be.
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
Wait, you're saying there's a way to get the billionaires to leave?
Compare also: the average person who assaults a woman.
There is still beauty in the world. (Monsanto, Portugal 📷 unknown.)
The most parsimonious explanation is that "protests expected" and "protests swell" garner clicks, but protests shrinking do not. Trad media long ago abdicated any interest in reporting what is actually happening in favor of "engagement".
Have you also experienced the pleasure of ending a Bluesky post with zero characters to spare? How do they compare? Also, have you ever gone back and spent several minutes editing a post purely to get it to exactly zero characters? Or am I the only one who does that? Actually, don't answer that.
Unsolicited dic pick.
The world would be immeasurably better if Taylor ended up owning Meta. And I'm not even a fan of her music.
If I were the type that likes to speculate, I would put some money into small but innovative robotics companies that are likely to get acquired by Meta/Google/Amazon/MSFT.
My prediction for what the tech bros will turn to when the GenAI bubble bursts: robotics. All of them are desperate for some "visionary" Next Big Thing that will "change the world". We're about two years away from CEOs replacing low-level workers with a robots that can't do their jobs.
The Oasis song, the Joe Massot movie, or the George Harrison soundtrack album?
On a related note, I've been re-reading Revelation looking for loopholes.
Don't get my hopes up, but Weekend at Bernie's deserves a sequel.
I bought a thing from Home Depot and put it down on my workbench, and now I can't find it. Obviously, the best way to make it turn up is to buy another one. This happens to me so often I am having serious doubts about object permanence.
One trying to insert a wire into a circuit board, and not paying attention to where the other end of the wire was. The other with the end of a set square and I can't even explain that one.
Americans are spending 105% [sic] of their income on necessities such as food, housing, and transport to get to work. Where does CNN think they should cut back? Does CNN examine the case for raising wages or cutting costs? I suspect not.
And yes, I know the usual suspects will screech "attack the Republicans, not the Dems!", so let me spell it out. I support the Dems; the DNC elite does not. The only way we are going to defeat the GOP is by having a party that backs policies that its supporters back. How is this not obvious?
"Yet supporters of Martin’s resolution also voted against that amendment [to halt offensive weapons sales to Israel], fearing that so amended, the Minnerly resolution then might prevail if it reached the floor in Wednesday’s general meeting." The DNC literally does not want to do the will of Dems.
Imagine you are the leadership of the DNC. Now imagine that your position is so unpopular, opposed by a huge majority of ordinary Dems and even a large majority of Senators, that you are afraid to bring it to the floor of your own DNC meeting. americanprospect.bluelena.io/index.php?ac...
Relevant: americanprospect.bluelena.io/index.php?ac...
Memo to self: stop poking self in eye with sharp metal objects. This is not a metaphor.
I've dealt with your type before. Your next response will be to call a Putin puppet Nazi. But I won't see it because I've very sensibly muted you.
4. Calling somebody a coward, a nimrod, and - absolutely absurdly - a terrorist rather than addressing the substance is LITERALLY the definition of ad hominem. 5. Seriously, "terrorist"? There is something very, very wrong with you. I am developing a suspicion, that you are not very bright.
1. You did not address a single point, you just called me a coward and said I suck. 2. You have no idea how much jeopardy I put myself in off of Bsky. 3. You call it as you make it up as you go along to make yourself feel good and avoid thinking
So once again, for the hard-of-thinking in the room: we will not defeat the Republicans until we reform the Democrats.
Says the person who began this thread by LITERALLY "taking the safe option" of attacking other Democrats. So your position is it's OK to blame progressives, but not OK to blame the establishment DNC? Hypocrite much? By the way, I am far from alone: americanprospect.bluelena.io/index.php?ac...
I am capable of doing both. And I see you are entirely incapable of addressing the substance of my points, so instead you resort to ad hominems and insults. Well done.
But pretending that an imaginary "Progressive protest vote" cost us the election is just a good way to lose the next election too. Face reality, advocate for change not status quo, adopt popular, even populist, policies, and maybe some of those lost constituencies will come back.
And maybe there was some small number of people for whom the Dems inability to take a stand on an issue where a majority of the public and a large majority of Dems - another example of the DNC serving its donors over its voters - agree that Israel is doing terrible things in Gaza was the last straw.
affordable healthcare including a public option, they want CEOs and tech bros reined it, they want unions restored, they want all kinds of CHANGES and the DNC is only talking about reverting to a status quo that wasn't working for them in the first place.
Even now the DNC continues to message about "restoring things to how they were before Trump". And the thing is, things were already shitty before Trump. He just tuned in to that and exploited it (and then made things worse). People don't want to "go back", they want the things fixed. They want ...
...(see above about low information voters). 3. The party has spent decades alienating various groups that should be part of its natural base by ignoring their issues and instead prioritizing policies of "fine tune the status quo" rather than the radical change people want to see.
Meanwhile the Dems lost because 1. They nominated a mediocre candidate who ran a mediocre campaign that was afraid to piss off the big money that the DNC kowtows to 2. They gave independents nothing to vote for other than "the other guy is worse", a message many of them did not buy ...
Anyway, data proves that Trump won because 1. He motivated all of his base to turn out with the usual lies and racism 2. He also managed to motivate a number of low-information, low-motivation voters who normally sit out to vote for him, mainly by banging on about inflation
... a big part of why the party is historically unpopular (or is that the fault of progressives too?). It's funny, we never hear you saying that the RW of the party are obliged to vote for Progressive candidates when they win primaries. The reaction of party elites to Mamdani is just embarrassing.
Here we go again with "blame the progressives". How many times do we have to knock this nonsense down? By the way, this whole entitled attitude of "progressives [and lots of other constituencies too] have an obligation to vote D or they are to blame for everything bad that happens" is ... 1/n
"and then when the study proves definitively that there is absolutely no connection, we will ignore the study and do what we want anyway." See also: Covid vaccines; autism.
Gangsta.
I read a review about how amazing Chappell Roan is, so I listened to fifteen minutes of her top songs on Pandora. I concluded that (a) she is very good and (2) I am not the target market. Oddly, there were moments when I came quite close to liking her stuff, when she reminded me of Paloma Faith
My cousin's five year old is trans, and her mother has to fight every step of the way, every single day, to get the school to acknowledge that she is a she.
You're rubbing up against complete strangers in the street?
You can't drink all day if you don't start early. And sometimes, you're not starting early, you're simply still drinking from last night. It's all about perspective.
Hope.
Anyway, that reminds me, I have a pickup waiting for me at the bookstore, which incidentally is my "place where everybody knows your name".
Wait, people are blaming women? WTF?
This 1830s illustration depicts "Cholera Prevention Man" covered from head to toe in protective layers in an attempt to safeguard himself from the oncoming cholera epidemic. One for @brunostrasser.bsky.social, whose new book THE MASK looks at a history of breathing bad air: shorturl.at/yKhGK
Preferably with a cat on your lap. Cats are nice.
Nobody drives in rush hour anymore, the roads are too busy.
And so begins the second Civil War. And this time, the loser has to keep the South. BTW, how insane is this timeline that we're even talking about such possibilities?
Yes, and specifically (IMO) "who will the Guard Commander obey?". I (over-optimistically?) expect the rest of the chain of command to follow. And I can definitely see Trump sending Guard units from a compliant Red state into a Blue state city, potentially facing off local guard units.
Yes. None of this "time to move forward and heal" crap. And Democrats should be saying this out loud right now. It might get a few people further down the food chain to rethink their actions.
Asking whether an AI can suffer is like asking whether a submarine can swim. (Caveat: this might not be true when we get to real AGI, but it is certainly true of slop machines like ChatGPT, and even of the useful AI used in e.g. medical imaging. They are nothing more than very complex algorithms.)
Penises are hot dogs. Sometimes they are something really special straight off the BBQ. And sometimes they are from a NYC food cart and you have no idea what you are eating.
Did you also go on Facebook and mark yourself safe from working today?
And then it goes to SCOTUS, who will rule for the President. And at that point we are in the realm of "He has made his decision; now let him enforce it!"
Obviously, I'm way out of my depth here on the law, but at some point (Chicago? Pritzker is making those kind of noises) I expect we get a standoff where the Governor tells the Commander that Trump's order is unlawful and he is not to obey, and if he does he will be relieved of command.
...which makes me wonder why the Commander in CA acted. If that is true, Newsom should have fired him and appointed somebody who follows the chain of command. Unless, of course, Newsom decided that the optics of troops on the streets of LA were good for his new image. I find that wholly plausible
I don't know. I *believe* the Commander of the Guard answers to the Governor unless the Governor tells him they've been federalized, so I guess the next step is that the Commander tells Trump No because he hasn't received that order. I read (somewhere) that Newson did not not give that order...
The one thing Dems should learn from Newsom is energy and fighting back. OK, two things. Everything else about him...
Obviously she would have been better than this demented chaos monkey, but let's not kid ourselves that we missed out on a great president. And I suspect that next time around I will again hold my nose and vote against JV Dunce.
...she was the nominee - even by the standards of VPs she was considered largely disappointing. And then we were all suddenly supposed to pretend she was exciting and invigorating and brought fresh young energy to the party.
(It would also be nice if "vote blue no matter who" also applied when it's a progressive who wins a primary.) If we're honest with ourselves, Harris has always been a mediocre pol whose success was largely down to toeing the DNC establishment line. Read anything that was written about her before...
I don't need the candidate to be perfect. I just need them to be, you know, an actual Democrat. It would be a bonus if they gave me a reason to vote for them other than "the other guy is worse". There's a reason so many Americans don't bother to vote.
Eh. She would have been a mediocre president, too much in the pocket of the DNC establishment and beholden to big money. And she would not have been able to get much done against a GOP congress and corrupt SCOTUS. And it still would have been infinitely better than [gestures broadly at everything]
Studies show that the major outcomes of D.A.R.E. programs are (a) they make teachers feel better about themselves and (2) they make teachers feel more supportive of the police. It would be more effective to give kids $200 a year for staying off drugs.
As I understand it, federalizing the National Guard typically requires an order from the governor of the state, except in specific circumstances such as the Insurrection Act. So if Trump tries to federalize the guard and a governor simply refuses to give the order, what then?
Angry, militant atheism
Popular answer, and rightly so.
Some of us do consider that shameful... but good answer none the less. Somebody else asked what the three scariest words in the English language are and I replied "I asked ChatGPT"