the level of wishcasting is astonishing, they really believe they have a magic fairy dust they can sprinkle over a game production and it'll make huge chunks of the workforce redundant

Ah, Sukiya trend. What a dream...😩

The Linux WatchPad

This is what I imagine it's like being in the military right now.

Might be the best one of these yet.

Some on the far right want to repeal the 19th amendment. Many more share a coercive, patriarchal view of women. I wrote about this and how the far right sees subjugating women as key to building the sort of electorate they need to win. @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...

This is what checking in on the news feels like every day now.

What is a man?! A miserable pile of onions and mustard.

Murc's Law strikes again

my analysis is that the reply is bad; not necessarily because of “hop on a call” suggestion but because it doesn’t show any real acknowledgement of the issues so it asks the op to choose between doing nothing and potentially a stressful in-person meeting with someone who doesn’t understand anything

over time i have just become less and less willing to forget or forgive trump voters

US media did the “today is rhe day Trump became president” thing about peace deal and then forgot about it

how long is it before he mistakes an aide or cabinet official for “the late, great hannibal lecter” and freaks out? or maybe this has happened already

The simplest explanation is often the correct one. Plus, you know, the bragging about “passing” the MRI and cognitive tests he recently took.

resigned to the fact that my thanksgiving flight in a couple of weeks will be FUBAR, likely both ways

Is there any video of the Trump "guns a blazing" Nigeria comment that isn't from MeidasTouch?

Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover

just pure gibberish

yeah this is amusing

Every day will mark a point where more unpaid federal employees have to quit and find a job that'll actually pay them. Most aren't in positions where it's quite so obvious as air traffic controllers.

Things beginning to break in obvious ways.

Decided - as I am sick - to watch YouTube on my phone which I don't usually do, so few ad blockers and got: - An ad for Tinder that began "New Year, New You". The new year being 2024. - An ad for an AI app that would help you spy on people. - An ad for an AI app that would stop people spying on you

'Predator' probably has more in common with 'Beowulf' than as a Vietnam allegory. Carl Weathers is Hrothgar.

Thinking about how much of modern 40k owes to James Cameron movies, it's funny how the Tau/Kroot have basically bifurcated the predator into 2 separate elements that make up who that character is: inexplicable advanced alien tech (tau) vs ritualistic jungle hunter who wants your scalp (kroot)

Predator and Aliens work well as Vietnam movies because they often capture the hubris and chaos of small-unit engagements in the war. But I think analysis that pegs it to Vietnam sometimes misses the fact that the xeno (broadly speaking) is portrayed as a superior organism

in one year we will send many of these glorified social media influencers home and get a legislature that actually does something

The way people talk about "media literacy" makes it sound like language, literature, and art aren't subjects deep enough to have doctorates dedicated to learning their nuances. It's a skill worth learning but it's nontrivial in the same way basic mathematics is.

a big part of why the coalition against Trump holds firm is that the GOP cannot be trusted to honor any deal

Hey Seattle! Tuesday night I’ll be talking esolangs, code aesthetics, and expressiveness in the text of code

yeah, the Japanese example is important because the pattern of all military revolts from late 19th century onwards was to condemn the action in a rudimentary fashion while attesting to the nobility of the perpetrators

This is nearly identical to the treatment received by Japanese cadets in the 1930s who murdered not one but two prime ministers, or Hitler following the Beer Hall Putsch. Endless public sympathy and declarations that harsh punishment would divide the country, in the hope that all this would go away.

there's a weird double standard where it is socially acceptable to be bad at math ("it's not for everyone") and its a crime that people can't do content analysis of media. it comes from the sense that math is something too esoteric for normies to master but everyone is equally able to do reading

we don't have to be trapped in the decaying mind of an old man that is becoming increasingly obsessed with his own mortality

a grown adult can handle a muslim mayor without having a nervous breakdown. look at sliwa, the guy is off his rocker, he has double digit cats, he dresses like he could be a cold war dictator, he is not melting down

don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind's blowing today

he did not respond to the Heritage Foundation endorsing Holocaust denial and antisemitism as an acceptable position on the right except to crawl on his belly to praise them for reversing their position, whereas with Mamdani, threats.

its OK to dislike something for purely aesthetic reasons or just because you're a hater

This is a significant takeaway imo. Slop isn't a communication strategy.

There is a meaning to the fact that Dreher cites here and it's this: religious pluralism is great! Qualified people can become leaders in our society without having to abandon or dissemble about their religious faith! Score one for pluralistic liberalism over laïcité or ethno-religious nationalism!

gonna need an entire army of these guys to exorcise the daemonic phenomena from the everything app servers

never forget what they took from us

if you say winamp three times, you will hear IT REALLY WHIPS THE LLAMA’S ASS

My Xitter For You tab was curated fairly well. It was a nice combination of cat pictures, information security news, and a sprinkle of politics Today my For You is Steve Jobs daughter, big breasted women, and Twitch streamers Wtf is this shit? Give me my cats back

If you go into the restroom, look into the mirror, and say "FFmpeg" three times slowly, a voice will whisper "FFmpeg is developed almost entirely by volunteers"

“Sorry you got twisted up in this scene. From where you're kneeling it must seem like an 18-carat run of bad luck. But, truth is... the game was rigged from the start”

radar alert hater and loser detected

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