you gotta be able to get multiple professionals for that kind of money, right? and you wouldn't have to listen to Aella talk about STI screening which has to be worth another couple hundred
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you gotta be able to get multiple professionals for that kind of money, right? and you wouldn't have to listen to Aella talk about STI screening which has to be worth another couple hundred
do I just not go to conventions or is $1,000 an insane price for an entry-level ticket
there has to have been an issue of some lads magazine that had both of those, just in much cruder terms
get ready to pay 38% for anything you buy from Gabon or some shit
this just means he's healthy enough to roll a random country and a random number again
there's a lot of stuff that definitely *could* happen and I'm trying to be a little more zen about the ones that aren't currently happening
if I'm remembering correctly this is why Pete gets divorced in The League
I think I've figured out why California's politics are dysfunctional: we put the state capital somewhere it hits 106 and all the legislators' brains must've boiled
succession conflict printer go brrr
thinking about the post-presidency Reagan acting career dementia took from us
this is why we need memento mori guys for Pundit Brain
Michelle Obama: "please I'm begging you feed kids just one (1) vegetable" RFK: "some children deserve to die. there's a healthy way to eat deep fried burgers" Media: "these are the same, to me"
literally the only reason magneto wouldn't be a regular Zionist is if he was too busy doing Mutant Zionism
it felt like we were missing two moments for Saw: a big action sequence to show that he can kick ass with the best of them, and a later moment that shows he absolutely cannot function in anything more sophisticated than Luthen's loose network of cells
I have to be honest I've never understood the process by which we go from runway fashion to, like, pants
every time I see the name Rhoda my brain tries to smush Shoda Rhimes's names together and it takes me a second to realize she doesn't count
I think if we push this we can get Rowling to come out against the city
very funny for England's current reputation that Manchester's etymology derives from a woman's chest
fr though I think edpol helps a ton there, you do actually have to be fairly smart to run a CIA or NSA and if all the smart people hate republicans it probably works out okay
let them do coup for enrichment again but against illiberal regimes instead of socialist ones
this is the exact thing I think they should do with the franchie
they might dangle him out in public for bait a bit more
female bond is a bad idea because bond is fundamentally a masculine (you could reasonably say toxically masculine) power fantasy
nothing is old under the sun except agriculture, fire, and sharpening things to kill large animals
you nailed it, boys, that mountain big as hell
there's a powerful moment of human connection I feel when I learn about a big mountain and I find out the name translates to "big mountain"
Archer kinda put the nail in the coffin, at least there's only three Powers movies
I believe we can create a country where people like this go to prison
in a sense it's not just "needs" but "will". if you leave a big "armed enforced of the monopoly on violence"-shaped hole in society some local violence monopoly is going to move into it
one of the reasons the salience of racism in the US is so high is precisely that we are a highly multiracial society
also funny to think about this stuff in the context of how my parents would caution me and my siblings that "the Internet is forever" because it sometimes is but it definitely isn't always
the thing that did it for me is going back to old forum threads and seeing the sheer number of deleted accounts and scrubbed posts and dead links and broken images. digital records are fascinating because you can make a perfect copy for ~free but you have to make a *really* deep copy to keep it
maybe? it definitely shows up in a lot of places. there's gotta be a setting that does "hyperspace fucks with modern computers" out there
Twelve Miles Below does some cool stuff with this too, despite having power armor and kinda-lightsabers the protagonist's society has to use early versions of Excel for their logistics because everything later wants to authenticate against Microsoft servers that no longer exist
there's a neat setting detail in Glasshouse where the very far future people have better knowledge of the 1950s than the 2000s because records of the 50s are on media that are actually stable
historical controversy over the date of Trump's death between "whenever it actually happens" and "yesterday"
can't believe Sanders refuses to use his time machine and make it so we won the 2024 election
she blocked me, which is fairly bizarre since I'm certain we never interacted directly, but I assume she namesearches and found me making fun of her boiling apartment or refusal to reveal her real age
both Trump and RFK owe their positions to path dependency. Trump lucked in to a media profile that made him the perfect candidate, RFK has a last name that turns off brains
it's very funny that she insists that Phone is not just neutral, but actively good for you, because as a guy who is mostly whatever about Phone every time I see one of her posts I feel my resolve slipping
trying to figure out what believing this would do to the morality of making dickwreck jokes
they really hate gay people, huh?
I suspect it depends how bad things get
it's so funny to have their proof of life be him golfing
easily defeating Bronze Age Pervert with my superior iron pornography
I would rather he have gone to prison but having to live to see his approval rating hit 20% would be a nice consolation prize
going around loudly saying "the king is definitely immortal" and creating an extremely confusing court case in which I am still found guilty
maybe Musk showed Trump the waifu and Loomer killed him in a fit of jealousy?
working on a theory that unifies this and "Trump is dead"
Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender — 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender — 4,193. Hope that helps.
does, uh, not feel great to see the number of mass shooters since 2018 put out like that. really just quite a lot of mass shooters
does before sunrise reflect that Americans were always Like That about Europe or is it part of the cultural moment where we became Like That about Europe
if you eat the president you become the president. that's in the constitution I'm pretty sure.
I think he's unelectable but I think basically anyone has a better chance of consolidating power than Trump even if he isn't close to a favorite on that front
it's not *normal* but there's nothing that makes me go "what the hell, why there"
the capitalization makes too much sense
probably put too many drops in at his eye exam I bet it's fine
I'm in a weird headspace from the Eat, Pray, Love thing because I saw the names before I read the actual post and thought "wait another one"
otoh I do really want him to be dead
kinda hope he's not dead because I'm about to be doing a bunch of solo hiking and I don't wanna be offline when it happens
I think you absolutely need *some* vocabulary to talk about the obvious degree of influence "things that are completely disconnected from reality" have on voters. I am open to the idea that there is an academic term we could use, but also I am shitposting on a microblogging site
man, that textspeak really grates on me
@jcsalterego.bsky.social is this true
how did going to the people work for the narodniks?
between this and the screwworm, Americans will finally have to learn to appreciate mutton
(the whole business about Martin finishing GoT touches on this too, no one has a right to make him, but showing he'll abandon a work almost certainly costs him fans and that's a reasonable decision too)
stuff changes. sometimes it changes for the better, sometimes it changes for the worse, sometimes it changes in to something comparably good you just don't like as much. the latter two do suck for you but you don't have a right to tell creators what to do
Star Trek is I think the cleanest example of this. modern Trek creators (with some exceptions) clearly have different priorities for the franchise than longtime fans. and it's reasonable for fans to be upset about that, but a lot of fans act like massive assholes over it
there's a whole very fraught conversation about the ways that people relate to fictional properties and their expectations about those properties and the way those expectations cross lines and the way blowback against that line-crossing can itself be unreasonable
Rowling hater who said "equally" because they don't think anyone should read it
one of the nice things about a "primary everyone" ethos is it makes it fairly easy to correct short-term mistakes in the medium term
tbh I am inclined not to care super much because beating Collins has been hard and I think primarying a one-term senator who turns out to suck is probably easy
I have a pretty marginal idea how pasteurization works but it's still reasonable for me to say that you should make people sell only milk that doesn't cause you to shit yourself to death
talking about the specific technical details of guns is kinda bike shedding from a policy perspective. *someone* needs to know that to pass good regulation but I don't particularly think even activists do
the one that really surprises me is the difference between the Ted TV show and the Ted movies. it's the exact same premise and the exact same guy and the former is somehow much better.
probably not worth it for me since I don't really care for music
a real collapse in civ-mil relations
This came to me in a vision
the next dem administration should dig her up and put the body in a ditch
we gave the teamsters $100,000 each!
it's weird we're only getting around to doing it *now* but I very much do support cancelling Taylor Lorenz
though he hired some random guy who was actually fairly competent to deal with the maintenance, it was just a pain in the ass to get him to show up
both times the apartment I rented from a local landlord in college had issues he a) had absolutely insane theories of what they were and b) had to be repeatedly contacted to deal with them
peter thiel has certainly done more harm to the world than the average down full of rural conservatives but peter thiel is one guy and is not really dispositive of what his environment produces
also in terms of straight partisan politics the bay area is *insanely* liberal. there was not a red *precinct* in San Jose in 2020 (don't know if this was true of 2024 too). the thing with the bay area is that a) a lot of people are NIMBYs and b) a small number of people are insane and powerful
I really worry that the most economically-efficient use for modern AI is going to be basically "fake partner who drives people insane" and the tolerances on that will range from "gets all their money via femdom gacha pulls" to "they kill several actual people including themself"
like, yeah, it might well be true that stuff in Sudan or Yemen or Assad's Syria is worse than what Israel is doing. none of the guys doing it get to address congress, it seems fair to hold our friends to high standards
I do get how people can feel like Israel gets more criticism than worse regimes, but the thing about the worse regimes is that our government treats them worse
felt like it hit a bad midpoint in terms of not really being detailed enough on the law to be a law show and not being hulk enough on the action to be a hulk show
I don't know that it means anything legally but it is a *really* bad look for these stories to be breaking after they rolled back changes that made it less agreeable
I assume she just dyes her hair
the OpenAI approach in particular seems just insanely reckless. getting these news stories after they *rolled back* an update that made their chatbot less sycophantic seems like a huge indictment of their approach
the internet has enabled some really insane crime and I am not sure how to fight it because there are strong geopolitical and technical reasons it is hard to contain things on the internet without some real splash damage
it's not *not* related to our current problems but this sort of thing is one of the worst things that is not really directly a part of our current problems
I suspect a fair number of those people don't see themselves as "cutting off" their relatives and are, or at least claim to be, confused about why their son stopped coming around when they told him that he and Greg were going to hell at Thanksgiving
the forms are physical objects. I have "political stability" in my apartment, it's exactly the right size to stop my coffee table from wobbling.
it was really weird when christman had his stroke because half the posts were "he was the smartest man I ever met, he inspired me to be a better person" and the other half were "he said war orphans were faking it for clout and that losing your parents isn't that bad"
Will Stancil himself used to be a goon!
you can trace a *lot* of the modern internet back to something awful both in the sense that there are stylistic and behavioral similarities and that an insane number of prominent posters were SA users