I'm not defending watching sports as a great use of time, but the barrier to playing Minecraft myself is wildly lower than playing football myself. All of that said, use your downtime for whatever you want.
I'm not defending watching sports as a great use of time, but the barrier to playing Minecraft myself is wildly lower than playing football myself. All of that said, use your downtime for whatever you want.
Their denial about Project 2025 was so half-assed and unconvincing. "I don't know anything about that even though all of the people who wrote it were my close advisors and influential policymakers in the last administration." They thought voters were stupid and they were right.
Can we talk about how good Andor is? The last few episodes of season 2 are some of the best Star Wars content out there, bar none.
I know there's no rational basis for believing the "end is near" when it keeps not coming, but still...wtf?
I don't use the word "cringe" lightly, but this is cringe af.
Great. So itβs no longer OUR choice. Itβs the governments choice on our preventive health care too.
Yeah, who would have thought a profoundly stupid anti-vaxxer, pseudoscience enthusiast would do and say profoundly stupid things?
The R1 is too big and expensive for my taste, but the R2 looks great! I'll definitely make the trek to test drive one when they arrive.
It's so disingenuous and exhausting. Also, the death toll of air and water pollution from fossil fuels is immeasurable.
The algorithms really really want me to know about Taylor Swift and Cracker Barrel and I could not care less about either of those things.
I mean, props to Team Trump for yet again forcing Democrats and other reasonable people to defend another truly unlikable person.
True and to make matters worse, his taste in decor is absolutely awful.
This is why the powerful executive is a terrible substitute for a functional legislative branch. The whiplash is bad for everyone.
Straw men? All day and night. Hypothetical situations? Not so much.
Such a gen goonie thing to do (ugh, I hate typing that even as a joke)
I heard this gif
The love for that movie is pure nostalgia. If you didn't watch it 20 times as a kid, it's not even good.
Friends are out here making puns and then this reply drops.
and he was like 'there goes my gyro'
This is also the classic "productivity gains benefit only the corporations" bit too - we'll need to solve that if whole industries can actually be replaced by AI (doubtful, but CEOs will certainly try)
Meanwhile, my thermostat is letting the house get hot to slow peak demand during a heatwave. Seriously, why the hell are my electric rates going up at all? These companies need to cover all electric grid improvements and more.
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Europe out here throwing haymakers bsky.app/profile/webc...
I saw it too! SUPER COOL!
"tariffs, by definition, cannot be inflationary" says the guy Trump just nominated to be in charge of defining and measuring inflation. (He also also wrong. He's playing with MV=PQ reasoning, and assumes a supply shock won't βQ.) [Source: www.aging.senate.gov/download/05/...
They're just pulling a different lever to produce the same outcome, right? Post-COVID spending put more money in peoples' pockets allowing companies to raise prices, while tariffs directly make goods more expensive.
You're probably right, but applying zero pressure certainly isn't going to work - we're never going to get bipartisan support by letting the GOP steal majorities in Congress with this practice.
I guess my point (while entirely agreeing with you) is that a business will try to wring every dollar of profit out of any transaction, but the transactions we're talking about provide public benefit instead of shareholder value.
And also somehow fails to recognize how badly they have been screwed over by businesses.
What I want is for the practice to be banned nationwide, but it seems we have to play the game to get the GOP to agree that it's bad.
F*** YOUR feelings, not f*** MY feelings
I got dismissed from being a juror on a DUI case by the prosecution because I was a college student at the time.
It's possible we marginally grow manufacturing once/if tariffs ever settle...but the only way to offset expensive American labor is to automate the hell out of it so you don't need to pay humans.
I'm really sick of this slop. Nature is amazing here in reality, so there's just no need to fake it or exaggerate it
I'm not sure we'll ever know how much money DOGE lit on fire like this, but it is a huge amount.
Nuclear deterrence isn't working here, so we have to fire the nukes to make it obvious we're serious. (This clearly only works because the nukes are all metaphorical)
Just to be crystal clear, gerrymandering is bad for America and democracy. The outcome I want is a nationwide ban and the only way to get there is to fight fire with fire. If the GOP is going to do it in Texas to nakedly try to steal seats in the midterms, blue states have to do it as well.
Data is super useful for illustration, but I can tell things are going badly because the sun is choked out by wildfire smoke today and this is a very new phenomenon here on the east coast.
It's almost irrelevant that they likely can't do that - they'll try and even a delay while it works through the courts to get overturned will cost lives.
LA is just ash and mangled, burnt-out Teslas. These are the facts.
They certainly wouldn't release these stats for 2024 (you know, when Biden was still president) if Trump had his way.
Definitely watch. It is excellent.
I really want to find this clip, but the AI shitbots won't let me.
Your regular reminder that Congress can take back their Constitutional power and put an end to these tariffs whenever they want. The GOP controls the House and Senate. We have these tariffs because Trump is levying them and Congress endorses that.
Same and I was around when this was one of four total memes on the whole internet.
Libertarianism and anti-vaxxing: only "feasible" because so few people subscribe. Whatever you do, don't get critical mass!
There was that $10 billion Wall Street Journal performative lawsuit, but I take your point that normally he'd be suing everybody.
Not to us, but I strongly believe MAGA believers (the voters) are just finding out about it somehow. The MAGA stooges already knew and have been working relentlessly to shield the voters.
Between that and the Soros money, I can retire tomorrow
Can't wait to see what nonsensical needle the Supreme Court will thread to allow Texas to do it, but not blue states. Of course, we should do it anyway to force them to out themselves as partisan hacks (again).
NOAA has released their official animation of the propagation of this week's tsunami. It took almost exactly one day to reach Antarctica and was reported at 0.6 feet high.
Come on, "Royale with Breeze" was right there.
Motherfucking wind farmsβ¦
I can't say exactly where the line is for "I disagree with this person, but we're still friends," but pedophilia and child sex trafficking are way tf past that line. There is no excuse in the world for overlooking that.
Wait, Geek Squad isn't actually contacting me about random people with super unsuspicious attachments?
@kenwhite.bsky.social Saw this meme and, as a loyal listener to Serious Trouble, immediately thought this has Westfall Act + dismissal all over it. What have you all done to me?!
So glad we got all these "deals" sorted out to still raise our prices by 15%. Stupid policy made by stupid people based on stupid ideas.
He could always just quit. Literally at any moment resign.
"I don't even know what they're talking about" *proceeds to offer a cagey response to exactly what they're talking about*
Clearly all of the MAGA playactors (Congress, right-wing media) already knew Trump was a creep and have been part of covering it up. I'm hoping the MAGA true believers are finally getting the idea now that he's hiding the Epstein documents because he's a creep and is all over them.
That's the only real escape hatch for Trump. MAGA doesn't *want* to find out Trump is a pedophile, so if the administration can trod out evidence about MAGA bogeymen, that may sufficiently distract MAGA from true transparency.
In light of Tulsiβs recent ridiculous claims, a friend just posted this old explainer from 6 years ago about the scope of the Russia investigation that Iβd completely forgotten about! π youtu.be/o-CCxLmkn-w?...
Yes please! Also, all the fascists who think they are clever: "BUt pEopLe had To WEar MaSks durING covId"
Let's hope MAGA's infinite distrust of institutions helps them see through whatever "truth" comes out of this.
Both sides are not the same, but if someone on "my side" did something bad, I want them to be held accountable.
INFRASTRUCTURE WEEK, BABYYYYYYYY
I'm sure all will be revealed in two weeks along with his healthcare plan!
Why won't Trump just release the Epstein documents instead of invoking every bogeyman to distract his MAGA pals?
Stunning timing that none of this Obama or Clinton stuff came out in Trump's first four years, but is all dropping at the same time years later. Just a wild coincidence I guess π€ͺ
I'm not even sure MAGA is buying it despite the invocation of their favorite bogeymen.
I know this administration has no sense of shame, but it's just embarrassing how hard they're trying to change the focus to Obama and Biden to distract everyone from Trump's decades-long close friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
"There have already been comments on LinkedIn" π
This isn't a blind scam attempt. They're looking to scam lawyers with vaguely lawyer-ish messages and it's already trivially easy to find a bunch of information and emails.
It also seems plausible to me that he doesn't actually know what's going on in his administration (which is inexcusable), so when someone asked why weapons to Ukraine stopped, it was legitimately news to him. Sure seems like Presidency-by-committee, which is terrifying considering the ppl involved.
I see replies like this and I don't understand how/why they do it. I'm not aware of any autocorrect that would case things this way, so they must be doing specific, intentional work to produce weird casing (or maybe it's a bot with bizarre settings?)
"I kept the faith through 91 indictments, 34 felonies, and 2 impeachments. What finally broke me was when he said there was no Epstein list.β
This has been the longest two weeks ever
If I've learned anything, it's that the plan will be released in two weeks.
I mean, he also doesn't appear to have any leverage with Netanyahu - Netanyahu told him to drop the bombs on Iran and Trump just did it. Weakest "strongman" ever.
100%. You skip the fun parts like design and implementation and jump right to debugging someone else's shitty code.
I didn't see the posts, but can only assume you wrote "Gulf of Mexico"
Why the hell am I getting political spam from official government email accounts? Piss off with your propaganda nonsense.
The issue isnβt that there are revolting deranged bigots in America. The issue isnβt even that they have their own following. The issue is that they are prominent advisors and friends to the President of the United States and his team.
Thanks for fighting this nonsense. Regulation is already way behind AI and we absolutely cannot afford to let this thing spiral even further out of control.
Negotiations are wild. "I WANT 5 CRACKERS" "That's too many. You can have 3" "NO I WANT 2" "You drive a hard bargain, but OK"
You could stick the Onion header on this and I wouldn't even question it.
Eric Adams looking like the clean candidate rn
Ugh, this is such a baited trap. They're going to find some obviously horrendously people as test cases and make Democrats defend the rights of child molesters or something.
Also, taking the employee's health insurance cost directly out of their paycheck is diabolical. Many people probably don't even perceive how much they are spending on health insurance because they never even see the money.
It gets me every single time! I clicked my notifications to see reactions to the post and had a solid chuckle yet again.