I listen to those stupid ASMR videos when I'm sleeping by myself because having someone making breathy girl noises next to me while I'm asleep makes me sleep better.

Heroism deserves to be rewarded.

Doing my PhD dissertation about how it's possible to be a cishet white guy and a decent human being.

Feel like we should make senators kill their predecessors with a knife so they understand what a horror murder is.

Mad that I had three beers with dinner because now I want to paint some Custodes and this really isn't the best time.

Extremely briefly: The US has a big pool of "light, sweet" crude oil that's low in sulphur and fairly easy to turn into various fuels and petroleum products. We export a lot of that because we have a ton of sophisticated refineries that can take much shittier oil and make it useful.

Me c. 2009:

I’ll be watching this 5,000 times

Also, you goofy bastards watch what you're posting!

He'd have been absolutely thriving between 1995-9/11 when every policy was just a rehashed version of early-80's Reagan/Thatcher cruelty.

btw, this isn't "Regime Change". Regime Change is when you're an external power trying to force one set of elites out of power for a more preferable set. All we did was murder 40 people and kidnap Venezuela's president.

I know everyone is sick of "This is Late Republic Roman Senate shit" but this is Late Republic Roman Senate shit. Wish these useless old fucks would start stabbing each other.

Breaking three months of casual sobriety and just made a couple polish sausage with kraut and a side of fries because fuck it.

High of 20F in Minneapolis today. That's ~-7C for those without the freedom to get 40 Rods to the Hogshead.

“Surrendering is unimaginably more dangerous than struggling for survival.” -Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

I knew today was going to be stupid when my phone blew up at 4am but it's somehow turned out to be even more of a consequential farce by a pack of slapfighting dumbfucks than fucking Death of Stalin.

I don't think they are.

Unless there's shit going on we don't know about I've seen no signs that the US is moving the sort of force we'd need to invade and occupy Venezuela.

Guy thinks Fidel is still alive.

Oh that's a zesty distinction.

This reminds me of that time a bunch of guys robbed the NYC Tiffany & Co. store and got away with millions in jewelry but didn't plan for the aftermath so they got caught doing stupid shit like trying to sell it in Times Square.

We aren't. We're not going to be short of an invasion. And even if we invaded and installed Pinochet (Venezuela) the oil he wants to pillage is at least several years from hitting refineries.

Seems pretty destructive and spectacular for a negotiated exit, but we'll see where Maduro ends up. It is strange that Trump hasn't perp walked him yet.

Says something when the French are calling us cunts.

I really, really didn't want another war and I'm pretty sure that the general public doesn't either. Otoh, I'm a political extremist compared to the general public, so take my ability to read their mood with a grain of salt.

the pace everything is getting so much worse is simply staggering

Francisco de Goya, El sueño de la razon produce monstruos (from Los Caprichos), ca. 1797–98, British Museum

Initial take is that someone sold Maduro out and Trump is hoping that he's a key enough piece that the government will just collapse and/or that we've bribed enough people to make it collapse. Think he's underestimated how enraged Venezuelans will be over this.

Thank god I gotta work all day instead of just scrolling like a lot of jerks.

Oh fuck off! Don't wake me up at 4am for this shit.

What an incredibly weird thing for a news organization to say.

Got hit by a car, went over the top and crashed down on the other side, stood up, dusted myself off, and went about my day. I can't be harmed by conventional weapons.

"Rugged Individualism" is a myth, and moreover is a trap. Collectivism is how we break our chains. And NYC in particular was essentially run as a huge social democracy from LaGuardia until Ford told the city to drop dead.

Folks who were in Minneapolis in 2020 might feel a pang of familiarity.

This is why I haven't posted a pic of myself or my loved ones for a decade.

Interesting move. It not only wipes out a lot of Adams' later policy moves, but it also casts his post-indictmen administration as illegitimate and opens the door to make more radical changes.

Feels like releasing the CSAM machine without guardrails to ensure it doesn't produce CSAM should be legally actionable, but what do I know.

I prefer to listen to advocates and subject matter experts rather than regular jerks because they tend to know more.

Notably, doctors don't enjoy wasting their time on unnecessary tests and also don't waste the president's time on unnecessary tests.

Philosophically speaking, I'm convinced that humans can't program an intelligence smarter than we are, but it's nice to see someone expert in the field agree with me that LLMs are a dead end.

He lifted the policy of conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism and made it possible for municipal entities to boycott Israel.

This is how elites will handle Mamdani. Just an endless cycle of petty complaints until the bad vibes pile up.

And people still call me a radical because I'm a Communist.

Badly. But the minute one of these injures one of our neighbors, we'll start slashing tires. Oh and BTW, did you know that if you leave a Waymo's door open they pay a human $20 to come close it? Never close the door behind you.

Letting kids get sick when they don't gotta is eugenics. Idk how else to describe it. If someone could die from a disease and you let them get it anyway for zero benefit, it's eugenics.

I used these apps when I had Covid and they were lifesavers, so I ain't gonna harp on anyone for using them based on need. But if you're using it as a burrito taxi you should prolly knock off because they're even more evil than we thought.

women are so beautiful

When a decision point comes, be decisive instead of conservative. More often than not it will end in victory. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4Po...