also a sign of how far trump has checked out-there is zero chance in the old days he would countenance anyone else taking credit, even in a slip of the tongue

Was hoping to go flying tomorrow morning but this isn’t looking great 😒

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time

fellas is it gay to live in a city

We really hit on something with the 12 year old theory of governance because that’s really the entire political project. It’s being 12 years old and not even normal 12 year olds but real pieces of shit 12 year olds

America being well-known for <checks notes> spaghetti “Forget De Cecco or Barilla…instead buy Trump Noodles! Trump Noodles, The Taste Of America!”

So actually, um, you did specifically vote for *all* of this, but you were dumb and didn’t realize you and people you knew would be affected by what you wanted other people to experience.

When Stephen Miller hijacks the Major League Baseball social media account

This, to me, is so telling. When proven wrong, Bari Weiss invites her critic on a podcast. The rotten fruit of the "debate" tree, the fetishization of debate as a conversation in which one "wins" or "loses," "owns" or is "owned." A side-effect of capitalism's anti-intellectual higher ed arms race.

“Perception of what will resonate with audiences” isn’t the news, though

The president is not well, but everyone around him would rather use their arrogated power to harm people they hate and their perceived enemies than do what’s best for the country. This cannot continue; it’s incredibly harmful. But they’re salivating at being able to attack blue states.

Car thoughts: 1) Referring to the mileage of a car by ZIP code should be a thing Ex: “My car’s got Scottsdale (85282) miles on it, next oil change is due in LA (90002)

This sums it up perfectly

Hot take: you should be able to scream “REPRESENTATIVE” at an AI Interviewer until you’re talking with a real hiring manager

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

"it's terrible that the far left is forcing us to do this thing we're visibly excited about doing" is not a good strategy for avoiding blame

Today is a *particularly* infuriating news day, isn’t it?

Fuckin yikes, man

the country is being run by people who got radicalized by being dunked on in twitter replies

basically everything about this is wrong and horrifying but I'm stuck on the absolute fucking chutzpah you'd need to lecture professional military personnel like this after you personally texted wildly classified war plans to the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic

perhaps instead of cowering under a blanket labeled "health care," democrats should respond and advance on the issues that move people. this, of course, would require a foundation of conviction and principle, which may be asking too much of the party's leadership and strategists.

The reason we have rules of engagement isn’t to keep warfighters from killing our enemies. It’s to keep them from killing a farmer with a shovel bc they thought it was a rifle and didn’t bother to wait to check. Or a family in a car bc the driver looked nervous. Or a boat full of fishermen.

the cultural crisis is straightforward: there are no longer any formal consequences for blatantly anti-social behavior, and the rest of us are constantly just getting lectured that we have to put up with these assholes making our lives worse

hi, your resident agriculture understander logging on to remind you that the goal of civilization itself from day zero is to reduce the total number of people that have to work on farms and every quaint aesthetic fantasy you have about being close to food is the product of a marketing campaign

Living up to his name

Three things I could talk about for three hours without prep: 1. Airplanes, particularly jet engines and general aviation 2. The history and development of Mac OS (particularly the Classic era) 3. Progressive rock songs more than 15 minutes in length

HEGSETH: Real warriors FIGHT GENERALS: [noise of restrained approval] HEGSETH: Real warriors DRINK GENERALS: [somewhat less noise] HEGSETH: NOBODY tells real warriors how much to drink or when or where GENERALS: [awkward silence] /1

Congressional Candidate: "The federal government is restricting access to public spaces in order to carry out unpopular and often illegal actions." Very Serious Person: "But why are you dressed like that?"

RIP your 401k

"This used to be the best job I’ve ever had, the best environment I’ve ever had, the best culture I’ve ever had—and they fucking ruined it. I will never ever forget how much they ruined it."

We really, really need a lot more people to do this. Will it make the current DSCC mad? Yes. Do we need to make the current DSCC mad? Yes.

my myst story: a fun "party trick" I learned in the 90s is that you can beat Myst by memorizing the solution to three puzzles. Everyone I knew had a copy (it was bundled with a LOT of new PCs) and had noodled around it and never beaten it, but you can solve it in 5 minutes knowing only 3 things

Finally starting to see new SEPTA Metro signage. Still waiting for this to roll out everywhere.

“I love the poorly educated.” — Donald Trump, 2016. newjerseyglobe.com/media/new-je...

Dana Carvey parodied George HW Bush on SNL — “Nah, wouldn’t be prudent” — the President called him up and they became friends. . Daryl Hammond imitated Clinton through his Presidency, including savage stuff during his sex scandal. Clinton invited him to do a “dueling Presidents” gag.

SCOOP: Internal FAA documents indicate that the planned move of agency HQ employees to the DOT building in Navy Yard could "impact NAS safety" and cost over $250 million, @theaircurrent.com reports. Read more here for all the details about this plan: theaircurrent.com/regulation/f...

Reposting this again, for no particular reason 😐

BREAKING: Disney+ is to replace the two-season run of Andor with a recut version that runs for only five minutes, and is just Mon Mothma apologising profusely to Darth Vader for any inconvenience, and letting him have whatever he wants.

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

Pretty excited that a flying club got back to me about joining (meaning renting an airplane will be $60+/hour cheaper), even if it means I have to go to New Jersey to fly now 😅

The Right is going increasingly masks-off and it's going to get uglier yet.

Alas, no flying today due to an emergency on the field and ground stop at the airport (of course!) — also feels like a bad omen, so next time it is!

Those who oppose the existence of trans people need to be reminded of this, and that one of the costs of living in a free society is accepting that some will live in ways you don't agree with.

It’s very funny how unembarrassed this post is about the author’s jealousy of a much better writer and how thoroughly it fails to articulate a position. Wonder if those two things are related

In case my fellow RPI people haven’t seen this yet 😐

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

kirk's murder violated the ultimate rule of America's punditocracy; nothing they say or do should ever result in negative consequences for them. (the bitterest irony here is that there's every chance his shooter was just a meme-poisoned fascist who picked him for convenience.)

So this is apparently how it goes these days: (violence occurs) TRANSPHOBE: It's the evil violent trans people who have done this! (perpetrator revealed not to be trans) TRANSPHOBE: Ah! Nevertheless -