One might feel free to base their estimate on how many pants were pissed based on a Black president wearing a tan suit. The response would be, we can be sure, apocalyptic.

"Hey the default rate on subprime mortgages seems to be going up and people are losing their homes. Any message for them?" "Well we talked to the CEOs of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers and they aren't too worried."

I mean other than the oddly incredible ability of this comment to be misogynistic and wildly homoerotic, they've also been saying this John Birch shit as a party platform since my living memory

Having been born in Ottawa, which is a swamp in a valley, lol. I mean sure you can say it's only 20% wetlands (which are more than wet enough to make it effectively a swamp) but lol it would be nice if that humidity could evaporate

My ex loved Project Runway. She always cajoled me to watch it in return for watching Sons of Anarchy with me, and we mutually fell in love with our shows. Anyway, Bessent reminds me of Tim Gunn if he wasn't charming and handsome and was instead a prick, an asshole, and utterly devoid of charisma.

New Glenn sounds like what a lazy asshole names the seagull that showed up outside his window after the original Glenn died.

The Wrath of Khan, a movie where Donnie Wahlberg is a Terminator businessman. Classic. Fuck you if you don't like it.

A reminder that even if signing away Copyright, as artists are wont to do, one must resist signing away moral rights. It's not always plausible, especially in employment (really push for a moral rights carve-out if you can, typically removing the waiver or affirmative acknowledgment of unwaived).

1. Good But 2. I wonder if Cheong, grifter that he is, will be provoked into doing another woke turn. He had a hilarious stint as an SJW -- stereotypically so -- before his Hitler messages resurfaced

Genuinely difficult to know if this is a missing comma or something RFK Jr actually said

Will this be: 1. Oopsies our newly adopted AI tools don't understand the concept of linear time 2. Oopsies our seasoned and experienced HR and upper management teams don't understand the concept of linear time You used to be able to bank on 2 but the future is about bold new frontiers

The guy who is very made that a black lady is the swan egg-hatched daughter of Zeus in an adaptation of a 3000-year-old story is v mad that Eric Kripke made a finally as faithful to the comic ending as he could given the circumstances. And yeah it's great honestly.

"The reason I ate my own shit in the middle of the restaurant instead of getting up and leaving is that leaving without eating is generally considered very rude and degrading to chefs" is certainly an excuse that can be made. As to whether it should be made, well. Why not.

The Trump $1.776 billion slush fund is not mere corruption. Trump is giving his brownshirts money for recruiting, logistics, AR-15's and tactical gear. Nobody in the national media seems to be talking about this, or about how the Paycheck Protection Program played a central role in funding Jan 6

This is absolutely wrong. Ted Kaczynski's FBI derived alias Unabomber, with the 'A' standing for airline. Other than that, spot on.

I'm equally boggling over the statement that these guidelines, which just enforce a status quo ante intelligentiam artificialem (don't gaf if that's good Latin) will tank research. The hell were these people doing before 2020?

If anybody doesn't understand why @gregdoucette.bsky.social always just posts "guillotines" here you go. The problem with guillotines is they're relatively quick.

Yeah it's true. If Ukraine keeps doing this Russia might invade them.

Christ fucking of course they do. First Office now this. I guess it's back to Firefox.

See this is why we're in the state we're in

And yet Trumpalos like Dort cannot and will not get it, so what can you do? I mean legit, "don't kill your men" is fucking alien to them

I mean. You're making it sound good right now.

I mean. It's better than him watching Master and Commander and demanding a 1st Rate to put the Victory to shame,I guess.

We all cannot collectively stress enough. If all the will of all the people who recognize the most basic commitment to human decency it would not be enough stress. Anybody who put their name to that thought should only be given reprieve if they did so with a gun to their heads.

Exactly this. You can't make them like your side, but you can make them hate their own.

Everybody understands that it's nice to feel needed but they just don't get that that comes from being wanted. Like they just don't get that at its roots real love feels like such a strong compulsion because it's actually a free choice.

extremely normal things happening in right-wing media

Remember how in the Matrix Morpheus was like we don't know who struck first, us or the AI machines? Now we know. So that's nice.

My "his statue is not a golden calf" pastor has a lot of people asking questions answered by my pastor

Right below this photo @misshuston.bsky.social comments that it could be a photo from the 1960s and it's the first thought that went through my mind too. About the only difference is that in '64 there were 5 Black reps, and none from the South. "Progress" I guess.

Berlin was the home of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sexual Science). Its personnel coined the term 'transexual' (now pejorative, of course, but appropriate for its time) and performed gender surgery. Easily verifiable. I'd say how fucking stupid is Rowling, but...🤷‍♂️

Not knocking the guy but it's honestly funny to see these classified as the "start" of the Web.

Watching the Russian government freak out about this is one of the weirdest little b-plots to this

Whether it's the Pope or an astronaut, it seems Trump is enraged at the notion of anybody whose cost to Heaven than him. Which, to all our chagrins, is basically everybody.

The Fed absolutely does not need to pay attention to imaginary scenarios. Imagine if aliens landed tomorrow! Imagine if a Cthulhu rose from his dreamless slumber! Imagine if pie could talk! Why won't the fed pay atteeeeeennnnnnnnnnnnntion?

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I'm sure the Moon Men will be devastated by the the maps forced on them by Earth cartrographers slowly erasing their moon culture.

An expansion on this thought, however, is that Trump was surrounded by enablers and has grandiose narcissism. Orban is sane. Not kind, sane. He could tally the numbers and foresee the consequences if he did not.

Which reminds me: Big shout-out to the guy who thought I'd agree to let him be a directing paymaster through my business at his discretion in exchange for nothing. People are wildly ignorant when it comes to KYC/AML/CTF and it's not particularly esoteric.

The election of Leo was considered a snub of American status for basically the long line of French and Italian fuckery that exhausted the church -- took a long time -- and they instituted the "no pope from superpowers" unwritten rule. So the election was its way of saying "you don't own shit."

What the actual fuck? Trump, obviously, not Charlie. Jesus Christ he sounds like if Medvedev somehow lost even more touch with reality

Uh is he projecting when Kim called him a dotard? But he just doesn't know what dotard means? www.bbc.com/news/world-a...

Soldiers eat at McDonald's? Chow Hall. Soldiers live off base? Every residential neighborhood is a barracks. Etc etc. Just insane reasoning

As a reminder, this is the same nuclear program that was completely OBLITERATED last year and anything to the contrary is fake news

In my defense, please remember that the fantasies I predicated my belief on continue to hold value and shield me from being culpable, despite the fact that I now must admit they were fantasies. Imagine this anywhere else: "The guy I killed wasn't actually a demon, but in my defence, he really was."

Going the old European Christian Apologetics route for your anti-Semitism doesn't really work if you can't even spell Pontius Pilate.

It doesn't so much raise fundamental questions as answer them.

Just like that, two Russia aligned powers thwarted a plot by enemies of Orban that, if it had been successful, would have handed him power, which is of course what enemies do when they penetrate your Russian aligned allies, naturally.

It would be useful if the NYT explicitly stated that the pilot, if captured, would be a POW, that there are laws governing how POWs can be treated, that respect for international law on war shapes how the enemy approaches it, and this is why the US conduct of this illegal war has been so dangerous.

The Pentagon told me Revolutionary Guards keep shooting down their planes so I asked how many planes they have and they said they just go to the base and get a new plane afterwards so I said it sounds like they're just feeding planes to Revolutionary Guards and then the Vice-President started crying