It's simpler than that, folks. It's existential to her, in fact. So long as Israel is the main hate object for overly-online lefties whose ideology can be traced back to the USSR or the PRC, and who intend to hijack the Democratic Party despite hating it, Weiss is going to stick with Republicans.

The American Way By Norman Rockwell

This is a complaint borne sheerly from privilege, but I hate how understanding anything about American politics and the intricacies of its media requires me to pay attention to the biggest losers in the world.

Now wait just a minute, I was reliably informed there were oodles of underemployed Americans lining up to take these blue collar jobs that pay $15+ an hour...

Also - the most fulfilled *I* will ever be is raising my kids in a house full of love. I'm enormously lucky to have the perfect spouse to do that with. I'm also not stupid enough to think that every other person on the planet (or of my gender) feels the same way

Somebody please Photoshop a penguin onto a Labubu so we can have Labuntu

Good! An early insight of human centered design is that it was possible to reduce airplane crashes by introducing tactile switches and toggle that did not create confusion or require people to take their eyes away from their core tasks donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-origin...

I am supposed to be a 'words' guy, yet I find that I lack the words to fully express the sense of rage and betrayal that I feel, having been raised to believe in the beauty of the United States as an - imperfect - pluralistic republic, to see these quislings try to turn it into a boring ethnostate.

'Heritage American,' noun. 1) An American insufficiently committed to the founding values of the United States. 2) An American actively betraying those principles. 3) A white supremacist euphemism used by [2] to mean 'white people.'

Universalism and secular civic nationalism or fucking bust. Everyone is a citizen or no one is a citizen.

October-7th and what followed have radicalized me very hard against ethnonationalism. Just legions of people on every side who should and absolutely do know better saying “ok but [attrocity] is good when it’s us tho” and being taken seriously for some reason. Fuck your blood and fuck your soil.

i will settle this debate by putting you both in a supermax prison

They're obviously corn chip lasagna.

lol lmao

I assume they are suing for breach of contract, but "the job of a public artist is to perform for everyone" is quite a telling and obnoxious view of public art

“it is illegal for you not to like me”

Skill issue.

I have stood by this philosophy since childhood.

Every poster who is all in on AI being a supply-driven fad should be made to explain how ChatGPT is about to hit a billion weekly active users. I worked on 3DTV at Discovery. I followed VR very closely for several years. I know a supply-driven phenomenon when I see one. This ain’t that.

I laughed like 4 times

In the eternal struggle between kakapo and towel, the towel remain triumphant. Towels left in the wild by careless hitchhikers are a contributor to the kakapo's dwindling numbers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBnj...

October 2026 is going to be a horror show. Microsoft's extended support for Windows 10 will run out, so hundreds of millions of PCs will need to be replaced because they can't run W11. But RAM and SSD prices are monstrous. System replacement costs may be double last year's.

The two reasons plumbing work is expensive: 1. Nearly every single part of it is inconvenient and awkward. 2. When things go wrong, they often go badly wrong. I just replaced the faucets and spout in the washroom here at Roseholme Cottage. It took 3+ hours and I am still checking nervously.

In search of books to assign my U.S. History 1876-present class. The students will be mostly non-majors. Your recommendations please!

“Then they shouldn’t have voted for this!” Bitch, Asheville is a blue college town and the county has gone blue for decades. I am so sick of this “if I pretend disasters only happen to red areas, it means I’m safe because I’m properly on the left!” No. You’re not safe. That’s why we save everybody.

This is taking food out of the mouths of digital artists who would like to receive visits from the Secret Service

This is an important message to remember.

Given the relative geopolitics, I think Ukraine could be fairly confident that a mutual defense paper relationship with Poland, the Baltics, Sweden and Finland would hold - all of these states are equally threatened by Russia. But for US/GER/FRA/UK? I'd want tripwire deployments.

And it's not just seniors. There will be the same devastating impact for disabled people. The staffing crisis is the same.

Security guarantees in practice are important to the degree that they enforce costs if the agreeing party renegs. There's really two options: membership in larger mutual defense agreements or tripwire forces (or both). Were I in Ukraine's position, I'd be willing to sacrifice a lot for tripwire.

Get Rekt

You can notice this real quick if you play it enough - your first board or two after not playing for a bit will tend to give you exactly the cards you need, but each subsequent run the odds of you getting the cards needed get more and more remote.

People were asking if there’s Solitaire behind the dark patterns and… not really? It’s more dark patterns - the Solitaire framing gives them a bunch of unrevealed cards they can determine the value of as needed to either make you win (feels good) or lose (forcing you to spend money to keep going)

In case you were wondering what it’s like to boot a free to play mobile game in 2025

Just had to check

They gave Balatro an 18+ only rating because it had poker cards in it. Disney Solitaire has literal actual real money gambling with dark pattern lootbox microtransactions and is for ages 3 and above.

Link with no paywall in the replies. Not just "Navy-trained." Brynn Tannehill is a Naval Academy grad, in computer science, with an MS in Operations Research from the Air Force Institute of Technology. And they could have shown her face.

To recap: *The Trump administration illegally renamed the Kennedy Center. They broke the law. *Now they are suing a guy who refused to perform because of the name change for $1 million.

stancil is constantly grinding for XP

you don’t have a grudge against agent 47 , you can’t have a grudge against a ghost that puts poisoned epsom salts in your bathtub after learning that those types of baths are a memento of your long lost idyllic childhood. you have a grudge against a guy that beats you up in a bar fight over nothing

he and derek guy have different fighting styles. guy is a hitman that carefully takes shots after exhaustively following the target. stancil is a fighter-brawler

They're being punished because their school shooter wasn't politically exploitable enough?

I had missed this. Perverse even by the standards of the Trump White House. They’re threatening to pull student aid from Brown over the shooting www.nbcboston.com/news/local/t...

James Cameron 2009

Critically, in both 1920s Ireland and 1940s India, the Empire has already made a commitment to Home Rule and fucking off. Russia has not (and will not) make a similar one.

This a frankly ludicrous and misleading comparison, and utterly confuses the position of all three places and times.

No evidence this is what got trump elected. The data don’t back it up.