Oh good I can get out from my desk now hooray

Oh boy! I’m hiding under my desk again for a Lockdown!

My fucking kingdom for Gmail to open new drafts in a separate window

Dead eye psycho

Alright, that’s enough socials for the day I think. Be good to each other

Remember not to say anything on social media you wouldn't want read to a grand jury.

God this is vile shit

Support Extra Points, imo

It is, once again, instructive to watch who people immediately blame

I think we’re running into the part of the cycle where we’re forgetting that the electoral fortunes of the party in 9 months are incredibly unlikely to turn in any kind of like, messaging from Dems.

The Klobs thing is funny (derogatory), but like let’s not pretend this shit matters. This is really where we need to adopt a Republican strategy of not giving a shit what these dipshits say.

EV adoption and battery capacity continues a pace despite the administrations best efforts.

This seems pretty accurate. It’s hard for me to see what breaks the Vibes at this point in a direction towards Trump. None of this shit is popular and he’s a whiny old man with no juice.

going to be real: i think if you're on the left and still using X your brain is going to be pickled

Anyway my actual take of the day: Janeway was correct to kill Tuvix

I am going to loop this back around to my other thread of the day and say that for all of D&D's faults as show runners, I actually think they did two things with the IP that are very, very hard. They maintained solid fidelity to the source material, and very clearly told a Game of Thrones story.

SPICY TAKE: GOT ENDING WAS ACTUALLY FUCKING FINE

also i am annoyed because i say gray throughout this thread and its grey but whatever fuck english language

i am not picking on this person - but i think a very misunderstood dynamic in WW1 was that it was, baffling to people that Germany "invaded" France. It wasn't. Every decision maker understood the interlocking alliance system meant war between Russia and Germany, meant war with France and Germany.

this a good one

@camislike.com (and I think @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social but not @ed3d.net smh) have you ever wanted a cherry cola with 200 mg of caffeine but no sugar?

you are not “italian-american,” hoss. there hasn’t been an italian member of your family since the 1800s. sorry fratello, you’re simply american.

my grievances are mostly noncontroversial. people who park their grocery carts in the middle of the aisle and proceed to have a lane-blocking conversation should be shot from a cannon into the sun, for one.

"old man filled with dread over his looming mortality, The Presidency"

This seems like it fits with the timeline and almost certainly the editorial decision most easily supported by precedent. Prob also explains why we quickly got more details.

as I was saying

I think this is what they kind of dream of but this is how you get a (not great) situation where he has to be evicted by the military

To be clear, this does not mean Dems should be passive and I think they would continue to be better served with a more confrontational posture.

This is truly bonkers shit

Sincerely though, the only thing a dem can do is file impeachment articles in the house that goes no where. Anyone can do that!

If I were an even slightly large account I don’t think I could deal with this shit without going this Not entirely a solution to some shit behavior, but certainly a step posters can take proactively

This is almost certainly true, but as a Star Trek fan, I can absolutely tell you that if your choice is a fanboy or a disinterested mediocre loser who doesn’t care about quality, you take the fanboy every fucking time.

Dems could withhold cloture in the Senate over this, which would be the morally correct thing but politically? Republicans are extremely unlikely to deliver that kind of rebuke to Trump and are perfectly willing to shoot the hostages here.

Jesus Christ

lot of things i could say here but mostly i guess i would like to implore everyone to find a personality other than "least favorite roommate during a house meeting in portland, oregon"

Great work by the writers to bring this plot back but for the Republicans

apropos nothing, but its incredible to me even now how hard this entire bit hit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L50I...

like my working theory is not actually overly optimistic. its that, cynically, people are rather lazy and tend towards easier options when presented with them. remaking the international order without the us is far, far more difficult than simply going "oh god moms home"

i honestly think this website and Canadians (understandably) over state the likelihood this happens lol

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the banality of toxic masculinity

In the spirit of not putting people on blast, this might be one of the funnier things I’ve read lately. “They rely on consultants, which is why they should instead get together and come up with talking points” Like what

Way, way more likely for grifter/maga people to say they’re doing this, take the money and never do shit

Threads iirc has over taken X despite literally no one caring about it

Yall need better hygiene

People should Pokémon go outside

My real concern is that I feel pretty certain if you introduce the idea that this is fake news to a number of people, in this community in particular, their priors will just shut it down. It would be helpful if the grifter who nominally leads the anti-AI movement on this website didn’t traffic shit

Oh my lord get a grip

Casey did basic due diligence here, and it's depressing (and not even a little surprising) how many people wrote takes/stories on the post without doing that.

This is a good description, and it predates twitter snd whatever, but at least this stuff (mostly) got shut down on SA. But we see it in real life too. See, the couple at the Coldplay concert.