today has been a functional existence proof of this statement

Should have seen that coming. We never do anything in South America without local help

government by four-beers-deep uncle saying “why don’t we just do [X]”

Good news everybody: the accounts that bend over backwards to make everything about how much they hate Democrats are busy at work to let everyone know that the real villains in all this are the Democrats again

So, since I've been informed that I have fallen irretrievably down the home NAS/digital hoarding rabbit hole, the next step for the Dell Precision 5820 is to populate the slim bay with a BluRay drive and get an NVMe adapter so I can free up the hot-swap drive bays

The weirdest thing about Trump's Venezuela fixation is the refusal to connect "Russia is friends with Venezuela" to "maybe we shouldn't give Russia what it wants in Europe"

Underrated factor in all of Trump's military adventures is how much he wants to recreate and surpass the cultural impact of the Bin Laden raid. And it's just never gonna happen because no singular foreign enemy or tyrant other than Hitler has had such a cold-finger grip on the American psyche.

Everyone always rallies around the flag during a crisis, right Jimmy Carter?

I've noticed this a lot too and its crazy how much these sorts of ppl act like 9/11 occurred in some vacuum vis a vis initial public opinion on Iraq/Afghanistan and that 2002 might not actually be the normative way most avg voters view the prospect of long term US military intervention somewhere

What bothers me the most about Kalshi and Polymarket (somehow even more than the gambling) is their insistence that "akshually it's not gambling unless your bet is against the house, otherwise it's just sparkling prediction markets!" Like come the fuck on, it's gambling

Some of the responses to this are under the impression that Maduro is someone most Americans could not only name by appearance or printed name, but also someone that anyone outside of the Cuban and Venezuelan expat communities cares about

Bill Watterson could do Sin City but Frank Miller could not do Calvin and Hobbes

"They're not people! LLMs aren't people!"

I just can't relate to shit like this. I can't imagine asking the computer to name my child. Or asking the computer to write a wedding speech or eulogy for me. Or asking the computer for advice more generally.

Elder Millenials remember there was another wave of teen drama movies in the late 90s where the message was "why chose between the nerdy girl and the hot girl when they can be the SAME GIRL!" To be fair I did kinda follow that advice in dating and marriage

"...the bartender is shiny stuff and dreams are made of stooped necromancers. He sings like a banana wrist, having strayed too close to the constellation on their shaved skulls. The rain of frogs ended and the rain of blood comes down..."

:: Cave Johnson voice :: "Marketing eggheads said it was a bad idea to make an ad about how awful Christmas is. Said it would make us look like grinches. Made it anyway"

"This doesnt actually impact you at all, you just have an internet addiction" easily describes basically 90% of behavior & discourse on any given subject online

It was inflation. That's why we lost. It genuinely wasn't deeper than that

"To earn your trust, we promise to never push back on your priors. Or to introduce you to new, scary ideas"

Video games 🤝academic journal articles What this title needs is a colon, and another title

We must go deeper. Back to the memes of the 2000s

Became an e-waste connoisseur (repairing obsolete game consoles and making PCs out of workstation parts). Seriously though, hobbies are fun. Recommend getting one

Good thing there's definitely no danger at all to high levels of salicylate in your blood

It's kinda funny how every third political post on has some variation of "oh so you think there's going to be elections how cute" in the replies while the daily news is of Republicans getting boatraced in elections, manufacturing the reality you desire to be outraged about isn't just a rw phenomenon

Whelp, I have a feeling I know what's gonna be big new cosplay category this year...

Middle school starting and Calvin & Hobbes ending the same year was a real "end of childhood" moment for me that I only really appreciated in retrospect

Nobody: Not a soul: Dort: It's impossible to be indifferent about squirrels! Everyone either thinks they're cure or wants to murder them!

People really didn't like being told that they weren't acting publicly sad enough about Charlie Kirk. Like they basically tried ordering people to grieve. That's some weird Stalin/North Korea shit

I've been reading this same article for like 25 years and the backflips to make it some shocking development get sillier every damn time.

The elevation of people like Weiss should really cure you of any Imposter Syndrome you ever had. Like there's no way you're less qualified for what you do than doofuses like this

Popularists: Democrats should moderate by looking into the camera and saying they are the exact type of moderate I am Me: Democrats should appear moderate by talking like normal people and making things like defending trans rights and immigration rights a natural part of the American project.

Thought I was harsh, but going by some other people posting this, maybe I'm more or a softie than I realized

Yeah totally no disruptive events happening in the famously calm year of 1991

Once told Tim Kaine (back in 2002) what beers I recommended. In 2006, the lead signer of the Deftones moshed into me in the pit at a concert. He being a large tall man, I was sent flying

Every shitty movement and person over the last decade (Trump, Rogan, Antivaxxers, Manosphere, Nature Woo) had had this "your ignorance is just as good as their knowledge" angle to it

I must again repeat my rule that if you can't afford a car on a 5 year loan, then you can't afford it period

Physical media is back

bluesky is where elder millennials enjoying internet retirement meet younger millennials with untreated depression

"It should be illegal not to be my friend" really does seem to be one of the main principles of conservatism over the last 50 years

Now if they'd just embrace sedans and coupes again, we'd really be cooking

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains

Thinking about ripping backup disk images of my large DVD and BluRay collection using my Dell Precision 5820's extra hard drive bays as a poor man's NAS. Someone talk me out of this idea

Wait hold up, you pay the power bill by feeding £10 bills into a machine down the street one at a time? That's like something out of Philip Dick's "Ubik." No wonder they think "you can send cash" is some amazing banking innovation

My shameless attempt to pass on loving pinball seems successful

I think it's kinda funny how much he cares about tv.

And that's why my next car is likely a Hyundai Ioniq 6

"Now only $1400 for a closed loop cooler, B660 LGA 1700 motherboard, and case!" The weeb tax is real

Christmas Brown Liquid time