The "I'm not against it, either" is the point where any self-respecting journalist stops and says "Don't give me bullshit. I'm not here for you to prattle about nothing." But of course, Douthat is there for the bullshit and he and his editor are delighted to publish prattlings about nothing.

If you don’t think Woke Napoleon would have been awesome you have no heart If you don’t think Woke Napoleon is an impossible contradiction in terms you have no brain

It’s kinda interesting that AI generated video came about just in time to be the optimal fascist slop generator machine.

to no one’s surprise, I didn’t find love at a screening of the Marc Maron documentary

I’m gonna miss WTF/Maron a lot.

my other big American literary teaching complaint is that even the good teaching focuses far too much on symbolism and character and not nearly enough on tone, style, figures of speech and the suchlike. It's often a bird's eye view of the text rather than a tight-up read of paragraphs or sentences.

A protected bike lane opened on a historically toxic and deadly state highway, a change that is only known about by transportation planners and political insiders at this point. And then local reporters are surprised that people are still taking their habitual routes on the first day.

When has Trump been able to "reign" in the Israelis once in the past 6 months?? They literally assinated people in the middle qatar with bombs against him last month!

Netentenhyu dragged trump into a bombing campaign on Iran! I feel like I am going insane with this "at least trump can control Israel" nonsense

Nobody is reading the damn article!

see if you can tell when Trump took office

yeah man we are trying to win a civil war before it breaks out

The basic reason I believe this is that I am a highly-literate, highly-educated knowledge worker and I can feel my brain cracking under an endless pouring of slop. I don’t understand how most kids could have a chance under these circumstances.

I really don't understand how David Byrne moved like he did in "Life During Wartime." like I didn't know the human body could do that

Legacy media is such a fucking joke.

This sounds very similar to farm work when my grandparents were children much later on. Women did a lot of the farm labor that is considered paid labor today--including "keeping the books." The public/private sphere of work just didn't make sense until a relatively modern economy.

Given the toxic information environment and the way national media normalizes and sane washes everything Trump does these are AMAZINGLY bad numbers for Trump.

"Under Biden, America was at least going to get a piece of the high-tech industries of the future. Trump is just handing them all to China on a silver platter, destroying the next generation of jobs for MAGA regions, while also taking their health insurance and hospitals."

Maryland is an outlier in the mid-Atlantic vis a vis racoon ownership, probably due to its founding as a Catholic, palatinate colony.

to be clear, the President is bombing civilians in international waters and sending the army into peaceful cities domestically but this fellow thinks he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

Imagining the counterfactual where the press acted as though they had any responsibility at all to, like, humanity and basic ethics gives you such a radically different world that it's almost impossible to comprehend. I *literally* don't think the human mind is capable of hating the press enough.

If you look at the sheer insanity of what government officials and agencies openly post on XShitter, it becomes abundantly obvious how much the press is complicit. If Dems did even a fraction of this poasting it would be saturated in news coverage.

“Dental plan / Lisa needs braces” is the best piece of pro-labor propaganda in my lifetime.

The Portland protest frog has done more to protect American democracy and fight fascism than all but the tiniest handful of elected officials

A frustrating thing about living in the American Empire is that because we are so big and powerful we've already solved many of the hardest problems in the past, but because we are so parochial and myopic we've already forgotten the solutions.

(The reason is that a major party realized that carefully coded racism was really effective at winning elections.)

BART and WMATA were being constructed contemporaneously with most of the Tokyo subway system. The main difference is that we just kinda stopped for no reason, and other countries continued.

no I think Trump v US was pretty much the killing blow and it's just a matter of making the normies, including the electeds, understand that

This is correct. Also, the Supreme Court is illegitimate. (It's a big problem!)

re SORA: “Mirrors and copulation are abominable, since they both multiply the numbers of men.”

Mfw my rabbit brother gets prophetic visions

My confederate neighbor told me the submarine keeps drowning his sailors so I asked how many sailors he has and he said he just goes to the navy and gets new sailors afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding sailors to the ocean and then his commanding officer started crying

If elites will acquiesce to authoritarian consolidation because the economy seems to be chugging along and they personally are doing fine, then that is a problem but also fortunately a fixable one.

I am not sure at this point if Dems at the federal level have a better near term strategic option than “let Trump wreck the economy and hope voters blame him for it”. There are more options at the state level but they are really screwed given how the media has lined up behind Trump.

I think Getting Over It is a very important game.

the implication of this belief is an ethical imperative to dissolve the United States

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

The TikTok outlines that a specific goal of these animations is to multiply their reach by cultivating secondary coverage And indeed, dozens of major outlets like BBC, CNN and Sky News have aired them, in part or in full, often without context

These videos are produced in-house by a small animation cell in the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, working mainly in After Effects + Blender In a TikTok posted after Israel's June attacks on Iran, soldiers describe working weeks under “prime-minister-level secrecy” to prepare visuals

cyberpunk: data fortresses guarded by semilegal killer black ICE that will fry your brain irl real world: 8 million smart refrigerators with the password set to LUVSAMSUNG

How did Gallego get to this first, holy shit

But you see, it would be twice as bad if we had half as many stairs! :P

Is it because America’s building codes are developed by part-time volunteers, instead of full-time professionals? Is it because American building code provisions are often unsupported by research?

* external womb technology * connect brain to Internet * ??? * profit (i know, i know, you hate all of us 🧡)

"I realize now, after spending 5 years downplaying everything he did in the hopes it'd make the shitlibs mad, that having a Nazi President might be bad."

On phone: maximum(500?) minus 1 On personal laptop: 40-200 depending. On work desktop: 20

Pritzker is a lot like the main character of idiocracy.

I think this is probably correct