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This has to be a kid practicing, right?
Okay but you are posting this on bluesky
I mean, that's usually one of the signs that it *is* him writing imo
I guess one difference might be - I haven't met any paparazzi, maybe I'm wrong, but I'm skeptical one of them would tell me that I'm in a bubble and failing to understand Real America if I were to challenge their analysis of a story.
They publish misleading headlines, they fit events into their preferred narrative, and they ignore contradictory facts
News organizations have avoided the *form* of the paparazzi - no loud headlines screaming ANCIENT CELEBRITY MELTS DOWN IN PUBLIC - but they've taken up the function, whether or not they realize it
I think that celebrity gossip mags get this reputation for focusing on style over substance; for publishing loud headlines that grab your attention regardless of the facts of the story; for ignoring the facts if they don't fit the story that sells
If you consider yourself a Very Serious Reporter Who Is A Professional and Most Certainly Not A Paparazzi, this is the kind of thing that would be beneath you. Except... Donald Trump isn't a failed developer who calls into daytime talk shows to rant. He's the president.
I hadn't heard the pregnancy allegations. It makes me think... This is basically tabloid level shit, right? You can see the headline: SECRET LOVE CHILD??? OCTOGENARIAN DONALD TRUMP IMPREGNATES MISTRESS 50 YEARS YOUNGER
Whoops, misread
Last guy should be quoted as Swing Voter instead of Sandwich Craftsman
That's why they're doing it
Unicorn blood
Well then take an honorary "what the hell?" until such time as I can utter it with justification
What is it?
Are you working on a game personally at the moment besides 🔺?
Yes but also - it's a statement about what change they are comfortable with. America *is different* now than it used to be, but it's change they approve of. It matches the idealized past they imagine
Or whose principles have changed but haven't realized it
A political party that cares about a restaurant chain changing its logo is unserious and deserves contempt
They can either increase the font size for him or he can get glasses, and he's not getting glasses
Give Congress a fuckton more cash. Raise Congressional wages by 5x, give them tons of cash to spend on staff, forbid stock trading except index funds
The right wing has yelled for years that we need the 2nd Amendment to be able to defend ourselves against a tyrannical government, and as soon as we got one they began licking its boots. What exactly is the justification supposed to be now?
Now that I'm no longer building the app at all ‒ not managing, not creating releases, not writing features ‒ I can finally ask something that's been bugging me for a while. What's javascript
Mac and cheese is the only unacceptable form of lobster
You can do it!
Jerry no
It's fine for there to be bosses like Maliketh or Malenia where that's harder to do, but every boss can't be Maliketh
Not because of resistances or because I needed to grind DLC levels, but because opportunities to cast were way fewer and farther between
I was a main caster throughout the base game and that play style felt like it got hard countered by most bosses in the DLC
Pretty sure Maelle can handle her if I can just parry those incoming attacks
Who lost their mind this time
(I am a Jew talking about something a Christian pastor told me more than a decade ago. Any theological problems in my retelling are my fault, not his.) 8/7
It's a frame that explains so much of the modern Republican party, I keep returning to it. 7/7
Third, you can search for ways you can label yourself as persecuted, and rally for your "liberation". He lumped a lot of, basically, anger about the culture wars into this camp. 6/x
Second, you can take up the cause of liberation for those who are still oppressed today. 5/x
First, you can be grateful to God and to your predecessors who have helped achieve the liberation you enjoy today, and basically go about your life. 4/x
He reframed the question: in an environment where Christians have achieved liberation and no longer fear persecution, what does that do to the obligation to stand up against oppression? He gave three answers. 3/x
He explained that Christianity was founded in an environment of persecution, and while it might seem unfamiliar to us in modern America, there really was a lengthy history of persecution that informed the development of Christian beliefs and theology 2/x
I took a theology course in college, taught by the college pastor, and one class this question basically came up, and I think about his answer a lot. 1/x
Hey Paul can you share a picture of your hand, no reason, just curious how many fingers you have
I am sick of having negative opinions about the shittiest people only to learn that my opinion wasn't nearly negative enough
Jesus Christ that was NSFW
Actually, that's a problematic comparison because of the colonialism involved with the original excavation of sarc- oh god it's spreading
They're all correct to do so
(3 of 5, you're technically correct)
My prediction is that in that scenario, he blames the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which puts out employment data. Calls them corrupt, run by Democrats, out to get him. Fires people there, insists their numbers cannot be trusted, White House puts out its own fictitious data to make Trump look good
A useful experiment would be for a campaign to hire Carville, get detailed feedback, and proceed to do the exact opposite at literally every step.
What museum is this?
I very much do not want to vote for Gavin Newsom, but right now, for purely self-interested reasons, he's one of the more combative Democrats out there, and if I want other Democrats to view that approach as necessary, I should support him now
I know I'm gonna regret asking but is there a specific story behind the TTRPG thing?
I mean I agree with him and I would like a candidate that talks like this but I really don't want it to be Hunter Biden
SPUDS FOR THE SPUD GOD
Imagine being disappeared in one dictatorship, making it to America, and then being disappeared again
If you enjoy the SCP universe at all, or just good scifi, I highly recommend qntm's book. This was one of my favorite reads in a while.
Unfortunately, I don't think you can do this today, because it's not safe for her to enter the country.
In 2017, after Trump got ripshit pissed at SNL/Spicer for Melissa McCarthy's Spicer impression, I remember thinking, "they should bring on Rosie O'Donnell as a Trump impersonator".
As a New Englander, one of my hobbyhorses is the continued presence of fish and chips in local seafood restaurants. We threw out the British 250 years ago, why do we continue to tolerate this gustatory offense against our culture?
There is one political party lining up to oppose Mamdani for blatantly bigoted reasons, and people of good conscience should vote against it at the local, state, and federal level
The Koreas ana and kata to our branch of the multiverse
Thanks! On a side note - I haven't had the chance to play it yet, I don't have much time to play TTRPGs nowadays, but I do have time to read them, and Triangle Agency is one of the most interesting, innovative games I've had the pleasure of reading
What are some of the sources you've been reading?
When I first read the Head of Vecna story, I didn't understand how anyone could be stupid enough to fall for it, even in a game. I'm still not *quite* ready to believe there's people that stupid in real life, but I'm a lot closer than I was
This isn't reductive enough. No reason for cleric and wizard to be separate. Strict separation between arcane/divine is a D&D invention, one that's not necessary
It was her cunning pseudonym
Also, gas prices weren't high
It's not that I know exactly who would be best, but I know that whoever wrote this question is *not* it
I like it but it's unrealistic for Trump to salute someone else
Very strong #NoKings showing in Lexington, MA
This is true but the oft-forgotten corollary is that if it is useful, it should be celebrated
I told you we’d be back
In a setting with the worldbuilding you've described, being concerned about consent sounds like the abnormal view...
Yeah, I would rather have people whose fundamental competence is governing rather than getting elected, and I worry about the consequences of moving to prioritize the latter over the former, but we seem to live in a world where voters want the latter, so...
AOC: The girls are fighting aren’t they
Siri, play “Bad Blood”
Is it unusual for a justice to say how they would have ruled on a question without hearing arguments?
Is this the kind of "very bad" where a specific answer exists (even if only in the mind of the writer), or is this "leave it unanswered because any concrete answer would inevitably fall short of the required horror"?
I'm sympathetic to the complaint that politics selects for people who can get elected rather than people who are good at the job... but, you know, you *do* need to get elected
Has anyone tried starting this? Have multiple groups each started their own rather than working in parallel? Do they need funding to get it started? Do they actually have everything sorted properly and are working on it now?
Great article. One question I have is, who on the Dem side is running Project 2029? I don't need to know who it is, necessarily, since saying it publicly could make them a target for the administration, but there should be someone doing this
This is the weirdest, most protracted, most masochistic face reveal I think I've ever seen
I think some people just view the underdog as the moral superior. The more successful Ukraine is at defending themselves, the less righteous they become in these people's eyes
Curiously, my very deliberate, ponderous method of speaking truth to power seems to have left me speaking truth to the previous set of people in power, which just so happens to align me with the current set of people in power. What an odd confluence of events!
Unfortunately there are no current issues that demand courageous honesty that challenges our leaders. But if there were, you can trust I’ll be there, speaking truth to power (in two to five years).
Hey, I’m a prominent national news figure and I’m here to promote my new book, in which I tell you I’m boldly taking a contrarian point of view on an important news issue (of 2022) and standing up to powerful men (who have already retired). If only liberals would have courage like me!
I didn't realize John Travolta was in Starship Troopers
A reckoning will not be postponed indefinitely.
Both endings are set up well, we're shown that certain characters have trouble moving past their grief and the problems it causes. Thing is, they're *also* set up well for a third, true ending, and it's just not present
Yes but also I think the number of presidents living or dead who could give a better speech than Kermit is pretty low
a big part of the reason i am in favor of accelerating and affordable housing development is that we need more room in the world for fuckups
I'm not gonna say everyone who voted for Biden in Mass did so for that same reason, but Biden did win the state over its senator
I'm her constituent and after seeing the results in South Carolina, I voted for Biden because I cared far more about party unity than any particular candidate
And Palestinians
Some advice to the doom and gloom crowd who wanna speedrun straight to armed rebellion/dystopic hoarding - if I can’t trust you to show up to city council meetings and give public comment, what the fuck makes you think I’m going to trust you with a weapon at my back?
Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.
you'd think that "the man we are giving complete and total power to on every other subject cannot be trusted not to immediately cause a depression if we give him this power over this one last thing" might prompt some introspection, but no
Isn't the 'heh whatever' a particular subset of 'fuck you this is evil and shouldn't exist'?
