Can I make it any more obvious

Political considerations aside, the federal government should: - Ban meat and eggs - Spend 1/10 of GNI ($2.9 trillion / yr) on foreign aid

Journalists, with some exceptions, seem incapable of dealing with modernity. Bunch of math-averse troglodytes whose epistemology beings and ends at "a guy said a thing," and who cannot grasp that institutions may be structurally flawed while having noble individuals within them.

Nix is kind of the apotheosis of this, in that it: - Has probably saved me a month of work - Took me most of the week to learn - Would've taken me a few hours to learn, if anyone had bothered to write a half-decent tutorial

Gavin Newsom satiates his dark urges in a normal and wholesome way (philandering with ADULTS, hunting CONSENTING homeless people for sport at the Getty compound, and alcoholism). it's not that hard to live your values.

Build is working great, but now the cluster is down

This is a cold take, but the only problem with functional programming is that it selects for people who are terrible at (or uninterested in) writing documentation.

if parents actually knew the true extent or how absolutely cooked education studies is academically, it could trigger a right wing backlash so bad that we’d get a comic book idea of a dictatorial dystopia

Not sure I agree with the "how we got here" part, but jesus christ, PRE-K??? This, like finding out that NYC does gifted programs for 5-year-olds, makes me feel like I've stumbled in from an alternate universe.

I put the Greek yogurt in the freezer after breakfast this morning. This post, per the request of my girlfriend, is a public apology.

forgot to mention: - bespoke Perl clusterfuck - bespoke ~Python~ clusterfuck - Javascript horror that may or may not break your filesystem - Cabal/Stack, which probably works but the first build WILL take hours

The 3 types of build systems: - "Run configure, make, make configure, autoconf, & automake in precisely the right order. Oh, it's broken? Skill issue." - "Have you ever wanted to murble your Flumps? At enterprise scale? Now you can, with Xooply." - "Categorically speaking, what IS a dependency?"

“How can I be blamed for sexting with a source I was profiling? After all, 9/11.”

HPC cluster at my new employer has maybe the most fucked config I've ever seen

fuck Autotools

guy who chooses a book so he can look intellectual on the subway, but lands on The Let Them Theory

The Democrats should ask the Republicans what happens when you scream about how these are unprecedented times but then ignore your base's demands to grind everything to a halt to stop the unprecedented times.

what star wars really need is a HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER style submarine thriller

The degree to which every single major journalist seems to just hate math is palpable in almost everything

i think we do actually need to force this issue. "we", collectively, as humans i think that we have had a window of internet driven activism that has notably elevated people with emotionally satisfying but practically disastrous policies and positions if we want to succeed it has to end

resolving to the correct answer after the polls close is not the same as predicting the race in advance!

"We did it, Patrick! We defeated cringe liberal norms on the limits of political discourse."

Media elites despise communities like mine: urban, educated, professional class wage earners. But here in real America, all the volunteers at the bike co-op I work at were excited about Mamdani. The American press is out of touch with people like us and it shows.

this is the problem with people not being able to just like or dislike stuff. "30 Rock is better than Parks and Recreation" is a totally defensible (and imo correct) take. you don't need to make it part of your politics, you can just like one more than the other

Look, maybe it's a bubble, but I'm still impressed that Anthropic managed to build an "explain to me why Autotools isn't working" machine.

there are multiple extended plotlines that are "leslie fights privatization tooth and nail." leslie is a caricature of a government maximalist. there are honestly not many possible analyses more wrong than "leslie knope is neoliberal"

Gonna be an annoying centrist here: Blue areas being being run poorly is a genuine problem for the Dem brand, which is why the Mamdani campaign is a breath of fresh air.

Republicans traded a group of suburbanites who turn out in every election for occasional exurban voters that turn up for Trump and no one else. That's not a great deal for the party.

oh my god these House of Delegates results

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

MSNBC just called yes on Prop 50

GET ME A CAMERA ON ANDREW CUOMO RIGHT FUCKING NOW

All YIMBY ballot measures are currently winning in NYC by 10-point margins at least

Talked to a voter today who was extremely hyped about Mamdani and excited to hear there was a local race she could vote in

the fun thing about home espresso brewing is it will absolutely not save you money, especially if you are the kind of person who tends to become obsessive about technical details

The problem here is that polls have very well-characterized statistical errors but poorly-characterized systematic ones. Stats people report the statistical interval, but everyone else hears "confidence interval" and thinks it includes systematic errors.

no one: zombie natasha bedingfield: FEEL THE BRAIN ON YOUR SKIN

gonna reiterate a hobbyhorse of mine: 'let the ATF keep electronic records' is a good fight to pick on guns. it doesn't impact normie gun owners at all, it's an insane bit of GOP mandated dysfunction in government, and it's being "tough on crime" in a way that actually matters

“Trump is using the excuse of antisemitism on the left to take over universities and the media’ is true but try making the case when you just covered up your totenkopf with this *after* your campaign launch

Further- if our highest profile ‘anti-AIPAC’ candidate of the cycle has a Nazi tattoo, good luck pushing back against AIPAC

To preface this: I like Mamdani, would probably have ranked him 3rd in the primary, would happily vote for him with zero reservations if I lived in NYC. But after seeing the response to Platner's tattoo, I completely understand how someone could find the "intifada" comments disqualifying.

you cannot keep doing this without eventually becoming misanthropic and feeling that the values you grew up with are meaningless and the people around you will excuse anything as long as it doesn’t personally inconvenience them

there is something soul destroying about having to assume repeatedly — like, at a rate of several times a day given how numerous it is - that a scandal that would have destroyed a political career a decade ago is “priced in”

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peak baseball is indistinguishable from the feeling of hitting your head against a cement wall

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wait, no, YES