As someone who has stood up in a fifty mile per hour wind, the idea of a scooter that goes that fast is completely demented sounding.

burning another precinct so when the smoke turns white we’ll know a new police chief has been selected

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

I feel like this article is sleeping on the whole "we just keep the brains alive for a while after the person dies" thing. www.science.org/content/arti...

there's just this centrist Dem-brained notion--Andrew Cuomo has a much worse version of it--that helping your own voters is basically cheating, and a Savvy Political Operator knifes them instead

In. My. Veins.

This is a very fun thread because it is almost exclusively either: "Don't [thing my parents did to me]" or "Be nice to them." The second one is probably good advice. It's not fun being small, there's no need to add to that.

It worked great for the Golgafrinchans, and it could work great for us!

So the US will give up 25 Billion in seized funds, withdraw a lot of troops, and then negotiate for a deal while Iran starts to recover economically and the US starts to feel the real effects of stopping oil shipments, which we've been putting off due to shipping times.

The more I think about it the more it makes sense that a billionaire wouldn't see the difference between a search engine, and saying a question out loud and expecting the answer delivered to you pre-chewed. It's like someone who only ever used a personal chef trying to run a grocery store.

The irony here is that the real problem with Flock cameras isn't that they're state surveillance cameras, it's that they aren't.

We just need more regionally, and ecologically appropriate golf courses. It's stupid to have flat grassy spaces in Vermont, when you could have bogs, or in LA when you could have a giant parking lot with some holes in it.

Impressive when they line up like that.

"... did not initiate the encounter" is magnificent lawyer language. The other people initiated it by being in his way.

Posted at 11:42 a.m., quote posts disabled an hour later. I'm sure there's no lesson to be learned though.

I don't know if I've ever see white collar crime punished appropriately before. This scale of fraud should get sentences like this every time.

And this is the one that, last time I checked, was the supposedly good business that was supporting the rest of Elon's nonsense (because no one had access to information about whether it was actually good or not).

Elon Musk is what happens when everyone in finance comes to the realization they can all get richer if they just agree that they all get richer, with no actual empirical constraint on it.

Shocking, really, coming from an author who boasts about having a Master's degree in Truth.

Same, tbh.

This is (accidentally) great. Terraforming means making somewhere that can't support human life suitable for people to live in.

Preparing to be very unhappy if he casts Page as Achilles and Nyong'o as Helen because THOSE CHARACTERS ARE NOT IN THE ODYSSEY.

Iran, still on the couch in pajamas, texting. "On the way now. Traffic is bad. Be there soon."

I remember responding to a friend's post about the difference with "Stop saying this where White People can see it!" and getting a lot of laughs from people who (reasonably) thought I was joking. But I was not joking.

It's true that it's easy in hindsight to view them that way. Easy enough, in fact, that anyone who needed hindsight to do that in the first place should be put under some kind of political-view-conservatorship, to allow someone who did it at the time to tell them what to think.

This is absurd. No three year old can be expected to hunt safely. They just haven't had enough time to learn to hold their liquor, even in Wisconsin.

The temptation to go put a bunch of cannabis seedlings out is strong...

AI psychosis is just “I really think the stripper likes me” for guys who don’t leave their house

Sam Fielden gave the speech that was used to justify the police crackdown at the first May Day rally in 1886. He was a weaver and a stone-cutter, who'd started working at 8 years old in England. He'd been a Methodist preacher, who moved to the US south to preach in support of Black rights.

Oscar Neebe was the only haymarket defendant who wasn't sentenced to death for the crime of working for an anarchist newspaper. He was also one of the only American-born defendants. He said to the court that he wished to be hanged alongside his comrades.

Adolph Fischer was hanged for the crime of editing an anarchist newspaper. He told the court: "I was tried here in this room for murder, and I was convicted of Anarchy. I protest against being sentenced to death, because I have not been found guilty of murder.

Louis Lingg was the youngest haymarket defendant. He had a watertight alibi: he couldn't have thrown the bomb, because he'd been at home with his friends making bombs. He spoke to the court with nothing but contempt. He told them:

August Spies was one of the "moderate" anarchists, the editor of a newspaper whose title translated simply to Worker's Paper. He worked 12-16 hours a day on that newspaper, fighting for the eight hour day for everyone else. He kept a circle bomb on his desk in the office.

Albert Parsons stood out from his defenants. He was American born. At 13 he'd run away to join the Confederate army, and after the war he dedicated his life to undoing the evil he'd helped promote. He was shot for trying to register black voters in Texas.

George Engel was the oldest of the Haymarket defendants, but one of the most radical. He wasn't on speaking terms with some of the moderate anarchists with whom he would soon share a gallows. He was a German immigrant toymaker, gentle and honest.

It drives me around the bend that people will talk endlessly of expanding the court*, and we already have the ability to just kick people off of it. No need to dilute the votes of openly corrupt justices! Just get them gone!

Having the military murder fishermen in the Caribbean for him is how Trump self-soothes.

There are no words for how badly I want this.

Keep in mind the lack of fed cooperation we got when Alex and Renee were murdered. No Minnesota-based agency should have any interaction with the feds until there are large steps towards accountability and justice.

Not only is it pretty clear that the only shooting was by the secret service, it also looks suspiciously like they caught him because he tripped.

[Time Traveler appears.] : "I just had to come see America's greatest President, Donald Trump!" Why would you say.. :"He prompted reforms to immigration policy at the end of his term!" What :"He orchestrated the change to renewable energy!" No, that's really not :"And the Ballroom!"

Aquinas tells us that souls in heaven, who no longer have the kind of emotional responses you get from physical bodies, will spend most of their time taking pleasure in watching the eternal torment of the damned, and listening to their screams, so fancy prison might not be a bad idea.

The endless game of "is he choosing to be wrong or is he trying to manifest a different reality by lying" is exhausting, but this one has been stuck in my head every since he posted it.

It's amazing. You can hear the sound guy turning up the gain to pick up more and more of the page turning.

I don't know when it was that every conservative in America started believing that the US had nationalized our oil fields, but it was before I started paying attention to the news that's for sure.

Sounds like DHS really has too many employees these days.

Has anyone asked Hassett the obvious follow up question about doing surprise bombings of (a country we thought was a) a nuclear power? This really doesn't seem like a good lie to be telling.

It's amazing that Angie Craig is still running at all.