No one should put up with this. Linux. Mac. Amish. All are valid choices.

well tbf the kind of people who would watch Scary Movie 6 will love this, Marlon knows how the imbecile demo thinks.

In ye olden days of 2008, phonebooks were still a thing. Lawyers who had been around for a long time spent biiiig on them, like thousands a month cause back when they got started if you weren't in the phonebook you didn't exist.

Even in quotes that makes me sick to my stomach. Grief sucks but dragging it out with AI is just going to make it weirder and last longer.

This is really smart because you know Donald won't be able to understand this and maybe won't kill him because Donald thinks he's already dead.

This whole triggering the Apocalypse thing is why Republicans support Israel so much. The think Israel needs to build the temple to trigger Jesus to come kill all unconverted Jewish people. Somehow this is considered philosemetic.

Did the AI pull that name out of its manus?

This is going to sound awful but I think have genuinely ask: Did they just lower the academic standards enough to juke the stats?

That fatly is doing a lot of great work but I can't explain why or how it's doing it.

It seems to me that AI often points to the areas of our lives that have become full of useless bullshit that we can't imagine getting rid of, but maybe you should see what happens when you do. Write emails like Ellroy sending a telegram. Cancel that meeting instead of getting AI to make powerpoint.

I need to be within 15 minutes of pizza, beer, and books. That said, I don't miss the way you hear sirens every single night in the city or how you have to plan every trip around rush hour.

I suppose taking six months to ask yourself "what else have I been horrifically wrong about?" is out of the question.

The concept of a boycott is so weird when the target company's business model is so poorly conceived paying customers cost them more money than the people quitting. But anyways, boycott away.

I think that’s too smart for Donald but easily foreseeable unforeseen side effect is believable.

Oh yeah he's hoping for some 9/11 let's-forget-he's-a-twat but that's probably why he isn't getting one.

Got a cab near the Department of Education. Hadn’t seen the Charlie Kirk banner before.

Course the people who need to read that won't but it's good to know

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

The great thing about Aurora is that she can sincerely deliver the corniest lyrics as long as she’s allowed to sound like a bird link.deezer.com/s/32zzyCeSmQ...

The State of the Union:

things can’t be this evil and this stupid at the same time

This makes me think of Chevy Chase's roast when the host (the piano dude from Lettermen) sang "We couldn't get anybody good."

I get what cultural appropriation is now

I mean, maybe just release 1 for now?

The Washups

Oh no the religious nuts are drawing stupid charts to justify their faith, I've been here before.

I mean, understands the power of cooperation and comfortable with equitable divisions of wealth, you could do a lot worse.

the hell....

My money is on some internet-soured producer who stage managed the whole thing so that I would care that the Bafta awards exist and I assume have something to do with movies with no idea that bad publicity does in fact exist.

I would love to read a book that unravels all the weird bullshit we have about farming and just describes the current reality of agriculture. It's all so mythologized and politicized that it seems like a grounded discussion is impossible.

That Always Sunny episode where P Diddy talks about the Cosby Show comes across a lot different now.

What was the plan here?

Did the horse pay $20000 in tuition to get trained on how to pull carriages?

I can't wait for somebody to kill a drone with a line drive. If Randy Johnson can get a pigeon somebody will get a drone eventually.

'Thing isn't going to Huge Problem completely, therefore why bother' is a logical fallacy I see all the time, usually with climate change. There has to be better points to make about Ring than that it won't help with white collar crime.

I love my dog but whenever I'm doing anything he goes in the crate because his hovering is unbearable.

I wouldn't go so far as to pay late fees again but I can say that still having my dvds and vinyl sure was awesome when COVID hit and my internet was useless for six months because everyone was home trying to stream in 4k.

The product failed so I guess I can't put too much weight on it but this feels like some evolutionary intermediary where processed food had begun to evolve but it hadn't figured out to walk on land yet or something

This is a job for a amoral way-post-peak star looking to cash out their reputation for one last paycheck, not somebody who thinks they'll still be working in ten years. The news anchor version of The Wrestler, basically.

Honestly I think DVDs look fine but anyway, yes, reviving physical media is silly but most awesome things are silly so that doesn't mean much.

Democratic norms? Those are gone. Fix stuff, then make better norms.

How long has it been since you found an XKCD funny? I'm feeling like for me it was around 2008.

These people claim they hate socialism

You can tell when people are really smart. And you can tell when they aren't.

I don't know whether to be annoyed at liberals or to find it kind of cute that Mamdani got like a one week honeymoon period before people started tearing into him for the dumbest stuff. He's the mayor, of course he's not encouraging this.

We are Green and Trembling is amazing, got me to buy the bulk of Camara's work. Only jst started the Wax Child but it's insane so far, and Marie Ndiaye is always worth a peak.

America's Mood:

Colson is a no questions buy for me.

I have to say put your name on that and if you don’t have the spine to do that, then maybe don’t publish it.

Anyone else's early music taste basically dictated by what was in the dollar store bargain bin? Some highlights: