Put this tech back into GPU frame generation and ray-tracing, the things it's actually good at doing

Rome just used the Ulysses Grant Principle: As long as you still have men and weapons, just keep fighting

Apparently Mariota just needed a better team to play on than the Titans? Also I just realized who the Raiders' coach is. All Bluesky football roads lead back to the Steelers or Seahawks one way or another

One reason Youngkin will probably disappear into obscurity after leaving office is that he's actually kind of terrible on the stump.

Imagine Reagan saying we should take back the former US embassy in Saigon in like 1983, just because he hates the footage of the helicopter leaving the roof

Nerd hobby spaces, in my experience, are already very aware of a lot of this stuff I realize it's a hot take whenever I say this, but in my experience most nerd spaces I've interacted with over the past 15 years are pretty progressive and pro-LGBTQ

Tiktok 🤝 Gambling Apps 🤝 Talking to Chatbots All Day: Things where I'm so glad my instinctual reaction on hearing them described was "yeah that sounds awful, hard pass"

It's a Friday night, and the Instagram Panopticon has apparently produced this from my combination of "e-waste connoisseur" and "bought the Cowboy Bebop Bluray box set 4 years ago"

Equal chances of James Taylor, Beatles, and pre-1960 rock (Coasters, Buddy Holly, Fats Domino, Bobby Darin, etc)

Aw yeah, that's the stuff...

All the cheerful bliss of late-period Holy Roman Emperor Charles V

I don't remember the exact phrasing but I seem to remember Kimmel saying something like "I understood it was parody, but I later realized Adam never understood that"

Wild how the response to Trump sinking below his lowest first term approvals among so many media elites has been to suck up to him even harder. Is this all some kind of weird momentum from December 2024? Did they really think he'd never be unpopular again?

announcing my new think tank, the "people hate inflation, that's like 90% of why harris lost" institute

"Ugh can't believe there's so many liberals in the liberalism party" - every non-liberal, apparently

No. No more celebrity politicians

Updating the Linux Z440. Issue where Lutris was weirdly refusing to install games from the Epic launcher cleared itself up nicely.

Obviously both dangerous and floridly insane, but on some level they know winning an election by 2% because food prices were too high is not a mandate to remake society writ large (esp since they made food prices worse). That requires gaslighting and force and contains its own self destruction.

My own theory on this is that if you've been using it for over 15 years (as I have) and you've been extremely aggressive about blocking and Dont-Recommending that whole time (as I have) you basically aren't getting the default YouTube experience anymore, so you forget how bad Default YouTube is

Saving this for the next time someone (for some reason) thinks Andreessen has anything of value to say

The question is how bad it has to get before guys like this decide they need their real wage of actual money more than their psychological wage of "Democrats mad"

Ended up with the Pokémon Son and K-Pop Demon Hunters Daughter combo, so kids are on track to be as nerdy as their parents I guess

That line by Karn's boss explaining why he wasn't interested in investigating the corporate cops' deaths because it would reveal how corrupt they were and bring the Empire down on them was when I knew I was definitely watching the rest of it

Seriously I'm becoming very Tom Nichols about people not using headphones/ear buds when playing things with sound on their phone

Maybe I should try posting (or even streaming) my World War 1 mod sometime, just to demonstrate that it's not all weird tankies and wehraboos who play that game. Although it's still too many

while I broadly agree with this, I’d add that it’s this weird, fake, cosplay, whatever word you wanna use, at simplicity. They want a simple trad life, but they also wanna have an iPhone.

Not that I’m on there to get it first hand but it seems like the journalists and pundits who stayed decided there literally is no line, the owner of the site who *every day* proves how fucking terrible he is can apparently do absolutely anything and they will shrug and scoff at the idea of leaving

The ludicrous level of fawning praise was always going to generate a backlash of "wait, he was actually kind of terrible as a person, even if he didn't deserve to be killed," but I didn't rhink it would take only 4 days to get there

I have to admit I'm not sure how we do this without some kind of outside intervention, because there are ways to just completely avoid the algorithm on most of these sites (only show follows in chronological order, only show subscriptions, etc) but many people don't use them

"You're in a bubble!" they said, looking out from an epistemological circle more closed than the Spanish Habsburg family tree

Best pie: Key Lime Best ice cream: Mint chocolate chip Best donut: Vanilla icing and coconut Best Bar: Mint Kit-Kat Best Cake: Spartak Best Other: Funnel cake

Another tendency I've noticed is for weird media people to claim Kirk or Moldbug or whoever is "interesting." Sorry, but that's just not true. Their arguments were shop-worn back when the John Birch Society or Charles Lindbergh were making them. There's nothing new or interesting about them

B.J. Blazkowicz is a terrorist who would sooner turn all Nazis into a fine mist than have an open and honest dialogue. That’s why the left is losing.

Lots of discussion about what social media is for and there is only one right answer: it's about talking to your friends from online in an inscrutable way about sports teams, air planes, hobbies and Star Wars, specifically the Enemy nominated Disney+ TV show Andor

I know I'm a broken record about this, but hiw can anyone think "people don't want to be my friend on the internet" is some urgent issue? Like...do none of these dorks have offline friends or interests?

It's wild how much of public discourse (among weird elites, normal people don't seem to do this quite as much) is built around one long, continuous violation of Thatcher's Maxim that if you have to say a thing has X quality, it probably does not actually have X quality

STARDEW VALLEY (2016)

Hannibal. I guess technically it made it to a 3rd season, but it was basically just an extended post-script to the 2nd season

My first thought when I learned there was video was "uh oh this is gonna be the zoomer Budd Dwyer footage isn't it?" and yeah, I wasn't wrong I guess

Real "the peace sign is a broken cross" energy here

Breaking: Virginia Department of Health issues order to ease COVID-19 vaccine access as federal guidance shifts. (I asked VDH and the governor about this yesterday, as other states have done so in the interim) virginiamercury.com/briefs/virgi...

Wild that Hanania of all people was apparently the first right-wing online guy to say "I don't think it's accurate to say randos on the internet are 'the Democrats'"

Sedan Bros stay winning

it’s a trite observation at this point, but this really is a nation addicted to scams. it’s soul rotting to be sold a bunch of patently stupid bullshit every day by people who think i’m an idiot, whether it’s trump or NFTs or kirk or MAHA or tesla robots or whatever

Not a doctor, but isn't half your face losing muscle tone a sign of a stroke?

One reason I'm not worried about anyone getting the wrong idea about Kirk is that people said nice things about Nixon when he died, then as soon as the funeral was over they went right back to (accurately) calling him an asshole again. That eulogy language never sticks for long

sadly this is probably even dumber. the media is upset that a pundit was murdered

video games are obviously art: I think they are *best* as art when they use the forms and rules of games as art rather than attempting to be movies.

This doesn't even work as a joke, because when exactly has Jeffries offered to "heal the country" by doing what Republicans want?

something i think about when people on here start talking about how we'll never be able to rebuild what trump destroyed. i fundamentally don't believe that--because history shows that you can build *a lot* quite quickly when you've got the will for it