We have a pirate surplus lately. Pirate quality has deteriorated. The captains don't respect the crews like they used to.
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We have a pirate surplus lately. Pirate quality has deteriorated. The captains don't respect the crews like they used to.
Yes, you're being set up. Unless you're going to take initiative and put forward your own point of view, you are open to being set up. www.axios.com/2025/09/18/c...
😡My time is priceless; your time is worthless.
Because Kirk was someone Republicans knew; his murder touched them personally, while other victims are just news stories to them. "The tears of other people are just water."
And with at least two different women. Kissinger was right about power as an aphrodisiac.
Could you, maybe, find out what they do and whether or not you need them before you shoot your mouth off? Or are you really the only essential ingredient? www.businessinsider.com/opendoor-kei...
We are in the early days of a Holy War, quick & dirty, between evangelical Christians & secular humanitarians. It is far from over. The consequences must become more intolerable before people will stop.
Is the $ meter running while you must keep trying to solve this?
Anybody can speak facts who waits long enough for them. Only a Very Stable Genius(TM) can speak facts before they are known.
🙃🙃 Arguing with my definitions of anything is also political violence.😑
Everything is rational provided it happens to someone else. This is a consistent problem for libertarians.
I believe Abby was being sarcastic. clause61.wordpress.com/2019/11/03/t...
Then I can't follow what your call to action is.
Enjoy your journey down Thoughtcrime Street. I won't be going along.
But there will always be others taking their place.
Software companies are cults. Because they provide software, they believe software can do anything better. That includes writing software. Yes, they are about to eat themselves.
The Arianist heresy, the labor theory of value, socialism. People will continue to revive these forever.
You're not going to kill ideas by killing the people who advocate them.
George had some self-restraint.
That's a CP of which to be proud.
If true, then the populist faction should walk away and make the split official and visible.
As long as people don't care about process, an Article V convention won't end well.
A Modest Proposal: The Democrats should split in two, along elitist-populist lines. Then we can see which half survives.
I can abuse them in a car. I can abuse them near and far. I can abuse them here or there. I can abuse them everywhere.
Tradesmen I know are much the same way. They'll do stuff for you all day if you feed them and stay off their backs. Put them on a schedule - fuhgedaboutit.
Why does His Majesty not go back to his compliant Congress to get these changes? Does he not trust them to do his will? Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow freeze on billions in foreign aid www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Not so weird. Dog on right has coon hound and Catahoula Leopard Dog in her. She's not as strong but more agile. Compare paws.
Does she have double dewclaws?
The idea of a con man as FBI informant is transparently ridiculous.
Who are "the oligarchs"?
Patrick Henry did not say, "Give me liberty, unless it's going to start trouble." People can't take your rights without your consent.
War is more honest, but now that we have been calling it Defense all these years, it's not a priority to change it.
We would have to have the attention span to win the peace after the war. It's not easy.
Q: What's the difference between J. D. Vance and ChatGPT? A: ChatGPT has some pride.
The almighty presidency has been such a fact of life for the past 90 years that hardly anyone knows it could be any other way.
So I reckon we can forget about due process? Thank you for your inattention to this matter.
AI is at the place on the hype curve where the more outrageous the claim, the better. This is going to crash hard, and the sooner, the better we'll be.
No bread, but lotsa circus.
I recommend God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater.
Marketing. Oh, was that my outside voice?🫥
It's been done before. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_W...
Although FDR was able to provide none of these rights, this is still historically important.
OK, maybe not gold standard. Still, the least homely sister is the family beauty.
8. Blame Biden.
You have dogs that could do this for you. Or did they sleep through it?
It's called the IBM Polyanna Principle.
So the obvious thing to do is to tamper with all the economic measurements.
"Don't believe everything you read on the internet." - Abraham Lincoln
A necessary input is the full set of business events from the people having domain knowledge.
He's not stupid. He's impulsive, self-absorbed, predatory and he thinks with his dick. He's smart in a predatory way, like Stalin was. It's a mistake to underestimate either of them.
We're all going to lose our influence.
I shall not build my credibility at another's expense. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
Several years ago, I looked at my ISP router and saw a bunch of devices connected that I didn't recognize. So I bought my own router, put it behind the ISP router and put our computers on my network.
His Majesty and Speaker Johnson cannot allow a Democrat House in 2027. It would rain impeachments. There will be some kind of shenanigans next year. Counr on it.
I hope that, in 100 years, people look back on our understanding of neurodivergence as incredibly primitive.
"The madman has not lost his reason; he has lost everything except his reason." - G. K. Chesterton
The framers were clear on the requirements for a virtuous citizenry. www.usconstitution.net/founders-vis...
It predates the web. I worked for a company that sold memberships in call centers. There was nobody whose job was to cancel a membership; there were people whose job was to save a membership from cancelation.
Not really different from the Lockheed (1971) and Chrysler (1980) bailouts, except the government gets an actual equity position in Intel. Another species of Too Big To Fail.
Unfortunately, defending against zero day exploits requires updates to windows. They packed too many features in that are ripe for misuse. Now we all have to live with it.
Compromise and raise them as Pennsylvanians.
We're awash in data, but little of it rises to the level of information. To qualify as information, it has to be factual and help you reach a decision.
While we're on the subject, stop carrying on about defending democracy. Trump won the 2024 election, with 77.3 million votes. That's democracy. The US is meant to be a constitutional republic. www.axios.com/2025/08/22/d...
So get out and vote.
Until it's turned on them. Too late!
And he invented the light bulb.
I believe I misattributed the quote; it's actually by Victor Frankl.
Otherwise, you get a feature creature.
Ask yourself: Who were the stakeholders, and how did you manage their expectations? What were the risks, and how did you manage them? How did you handle requests for changes during the project?
Not just greed; also wrath, envy, gluttony and misplaced pride.
"Life asks, 'What is the meaning of you?'" - Erich Fromm
The black holes would enjoy it more than Rubio is. He can't lie to himself well enough.
America should give Ukrainians offensive weapons to inflict consequences on Moscow. To be fair, Biden also failed to do this. He lectured us about World War III.
Saw that here. www.ivpress.com/cat-dog-theo...
That's not fascism. It's authoritarian if an authority figure dictates the impressions and myths. It's a cult if people put belonging above their own experiences.
Rubio's interview today by Martha Raddatz showed us a man who is being made miserable by his job. He acted like a cornered animal.
Having standards of business conduct doesn't make you a Luddite.
Yet there are people who always will confuse the two.
Only people who believe in manipulating others want to fake the data. Your life is anecdotal. You aren't 4.9% unemployed; you either have paying work or you don't.
His Majesty may be going to Alaska, but he's living in his own Private Idaho.
No, he's just moved into his own reality bag and baggage.
As Saint Barack Obama used to say, "elections have consequences."
Electing a king wannabe as President is not an example of American exceptionalism. We're still not clear on what that exceptionalism is, but it is definitely not that.
It is the Ukrainians who are paying with their blood. It is up to them to decide if they will relinquish territory to end the war.
People serving in the military risk their lives. Police risk their lives. Around the world, in places like Iran, people must be prepared to die fighting for their rights. While it is understandable that elected officials don't want to risk their lives, it is not a sufficient reason not to serve.
It would be better if the conditions for people weighed more than the conditions for swamp critters, but as it is, I'll take it.
Most American towns don't want manufacturers. They think it's greasy and dirty. They have zoning for light industrial, like warehouses, but that's as far as they will go.
Only $710 trillion?
When you lie in the street bleeding out, she's angry at you.
I can. My government is not my country. Although everything we do is not right, it's still my country. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46780/...
We shoot every third messenger. The second one just left.
Putin doesn't believe anything short of a direct attack on NATO will bring about such a war. "The moral is to the physical as 3 is to 1."
Ukraine is not going to leap all the way to 20th century standards of government in one bound. They need time to find their way just like the Anglosphere had to.
Putin thinks the West is weak. Where is the evidence to prove him wrong?
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What are the reforms to the Fed that you want?
You're almost ready to work in the Trump administration. All you need is your sexual harassment merit badge.
You've heard of the deep state. Now we're seeing the shape of the shallow state. It is not an improvement. clause61.wordpress.com/2025/07/21/t...
If you don't enjoy it, then don't do it.
