Well looks like he did just ruin the World Cup.

I think it's very difficult to understate what impact a bad slate of recommendations of the SECB seemingly tainted by bias would do to The Stranger. The whole AMR scandal a year and a half ago was bad even though there was no way that the SECB would ever recommend her opponent...

Aha - wondering why people yesterday were recalling how awful she is and shrugging when polls were showing her down 9 against the R.

Back on my bullsh

And again, the only thing keeping Democrats from being a hated enemy for me are Republicans.

Everything that he touches should be torn down or ripped apart, and his name should be stricken from everything.

This is aligned with how people from NA go to Europe and come back marveling that you can walk everywhere. You can have parties and street life like this all the time, and you don't even need a criminal enterprise to provide the reason.

The irony is that this is the type of elected that both expresses genuine joy and can effectively leverage that in an exciting campaign, and national Democrats seem allergic to it.

I feel like Talarico is yet another symptom of the consultant capture of the Democrats, where a candidate is practically grown in a lab to suck up out-of-state donor money for long-shot races in deep red states.

With The Bear, Squid Game, Stranger Things, and others, I've found over the past several years that a one-and-done strategy works so much better where I appreciate first seasons and completely ignore the rest.

So I found this last night...

End of the world - I'm on Farkas' side over something!

It feels like Britain is so starved for leadership that Burnham is probably in the running for all three

Vancouver has been made unlivable by residents of single-family homes that pay far less in taxes and pull development cost charges from new development to sustain their infrastructure.

Patrick Condon is liked by the kind of people that talk about how much they love Obama but vote conservative every time

It's like people are looking at the Great Recession in 2007 and saying, "How can we do this again, but dumber?"

Apparently Colin Kaepernick has fallen under the whole "you either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain" thing

Until you radically increase the pay of members of Congress, issues with corruption and representation will remain. They should be receiving just as much as the head coaches of their state's university sports teams, and not the salary of a junior tech worker.

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

And we are live! Massive thanks to everyone who contributed to this. Reading your posts made me so much madder than I ever knew was possible

It's not successful citizenship applications now that people should be watching... it's going to be the severe lack of in-migration in five years.

And this is just financial debt. Doesn't even get into infrastructure debt.

The fact that Democrats cannot seem to press hard on the fact that Republicans like Pratt are stunningly incompetent is a serious societal problem in many different ways.

Deciding to get an EV has been such a no brainer that I can't believe that more people don't do it. Even without a Level 2 charger at home it's been a lot easier to manage and a lot less expensive to operate.

If this is a big focus of her thoughts on housing policy, I take back every single good thing I ever said about her.

This is why gerrymandering is a disaster and one of the worst sins against democracy.

I'm just having a hard time figuring out what Emmer thinks "corruption" means or what kind of turd-polishing they can actually do

I will relish the day when his name is stripped from everything

Allowing Chinese electric cars into the market would shatter the US political system at every single level, especially if sales were handled in ways similar to Tesla. There are some genuine reasons to be cautious (e.g., power grid capacity, union busting)...

I wish that people would realize that "AI" in this case isn't "running" a cafe... it's searching through books and spitting out answers, it's not intelligently responding to inputs about how a business is being run. (Which is I guess how some businesses are being run IRL, but not "intelligently".)

I find it unsettlingly ironic that I've lived for almost half my post-university life in Canada, became a permanent resident, and have strong personal connections there and the fastest way I have to get citizenship might just be a great-grandfather that left Quebec because he hated the French.

While it often feels like things are rotting in entertainment, I can say for a fact that if we had The Pitt in the 90s or early 00s it would have blown our minds.

I think we need to have a post-Trump reconstruction conversation where we seriously discuss why tax cuts are not a solution.

Unfortunately the US is going to be reaching the FO stage of these idiots' FAing when they've left for countries without extradition treaties.

Boomers and Gen X'ers didn't just vanish after 2010, and the tax cuts and deregulation in the 70s and 80s promoted by the Silent Generation did a whole lot more to sink access to housing and spur pointless consumerism.

This is important, but the scary part about this is that once people of character and morals leave as conscientious objectors, the folks who remain are far less likely to object in the future.

There are some diabolical and irredeemable elements of this, but what this highlights is the collapse of our social supports for a vulnerable part of the population. Constraints on AI are great but won't fix this.

Literally the worst idea ever. You cannot have an efficient, equitable, predictable, and consistent design review process that involves the whim of the public.

What's telling is not that he can't answer the question, it's that his staff did not prep him in a way where he could come out looking even marginally okay. This suggests that the party is so uncoordinated with the administration that they can't even nail down talking points that sound okay.

This is a banana republic situation where all norms have been removed. If his cabinet tries to do this, he'll fight back and his supporters will claim that it's "perfectly legal" for him to retroactively fire his cabinet and deploy the military to retain control against a "coup".

Went on one in Vancouver!

Needed a bit of a BlueSky refresh!