That sounds right in line with the techbro mantra, “move fast and break things.” The results are a little different when applied to physical systems, rather than software, though.

That’s why electroconvulsive therapy uses pulses of about a millisecond. But, then, it’s not actually turning the power off, ECT is more of a warm reset of consciousness.

Unironically fascinated to learn that there’s a difference between pigments and dyes!

FDR said, “I welcome their hatred.” Look at how today’s Democratic establishment wring their hands over the Republican reaction to a democratic socialist winning a primary.

The big political news stories about the overt fascists taking over the United States rightly get all the attention, but stories like this indicate that American culture is rotten all the way down.

I mean… good? Why would we want a politician that’s acceptable to him?

The Democratic primary was RCV. The general election will be FPTP.

The fact that the Democratic Party cares more about internal politics than the good of the country is part of why we’re in the situation we’re in now.

Yes, mathematicians first encountered equations which could only be solved with complex numbers in the 16th century.

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There it is. That’s the issue. One’s teenage years are a time of figuring out one’s identity, and a huge helping of insecurity about it. He’s giving away the game by claiming to be so mature.

Spoiler: He desperately wants to be seen by others as mature, but he doesn’t feel it inside yet.That’s why he makes a big show of rejecting “kid stuff.” Nobody needs to point out what’s obvious about themselves, so if he felt mature, he wouldn’t need to say it.

He’ll get there eventually. In the mean time, he’s hurting your feelings. Tell him that, in plain words, like, “Badmouthing the things that I like makes me feel bad. It makes me wonder why you’re with me. You don’t have to like them, but please accept the fact that I do like these things, and keep any criticism to yourself.”

Bernie’s the only politician of national stature who’s even talking about shortening the work week, and this framing sounds like common sense to a lot of people. If the idea gets into the national consciousness, then we can move further into the work week we actually deserve. Let’s not let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Oh dear! Democrats better take the hint and move more to the right, so that MAGA won’t hurt their feelings by saying bad things about them! /s

TL;DR: We can’t hold them accountable for their crimes, because they might try to hold us accountable for the same crimes.

Also, to be fair to Jefferson (whether or not he deserves it), he was deluded enough to have a vision of a pastoral America, in which each family would have a decent-sized plot of land to live on and farm. (I say “deluded,” because even in his time the actual, urban U.S. was taking shape, in the form of big cities like Boston.) You can see a concrete example of this in his township-and-range system, which was the basis of the Public Land Survey System which has shaped so much about U.S. geography. At least in his reckoning, future Americans would have had a lot more control of their lives by owning a big chunk of land that they and their families could fuck off to and make a living independently, should the political situation become disagreeable.

Also, pertinently, the distribution of voters was supposed to be a lot more even among the states. (Which means they should’ve scrapped the Constitution already in 1807 once the Lewis and Clark expedition reported back to him about the landscape of the interior.)

The Red Green Show

Easy-going comedy with minimal plot, mostly there to tie together an episode of shorter skits. Some Boomer humor, but not too cringe, I think.

One of the Big Lies that they repeated over and over throughout the election season was the one about the “border crisis,” where allegedly criminals and rapists were flooding into the country across the southern border by the millions. They promised to round up and deport all of them, literally millions of people. You can see where the problem arose: Lies collided head-on with reality. There simply are not millions of migrants for ICE to round up. They don’t exist. They never existed. It was all a lie.

Now, the regime has to appear like it’s Doing Something™ by actually deporting people. Stephen Miller has even given ICE a quota of 3,000 deportations a day, and it’s struggling. They have to make the numbers somehow, and the low-hanging fruit are the immigrants that they already have records on, and know about. ICE can just comb the immigration records, and go pick up people whom they know exactly where to find. Morality and logic have nothing to do with it, it’s all about throwing the red meat of performative cruelty to their base, and intimidation to their political enemies.

Yeah, FAFO. What does Microsoft have to do with it? Unless this is war propaganda, mentioning Microsoft to make Americans feel under attack when they recognize a familiar, American name.

But, CNN doing war propaganda? No way!

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How is this wrong? If the monitoring equipment was removed, it had to have been there at some point. Thus, Iran had been doing enrichment under IAEA supervision, which is what the JCPOA was all about until TACO tanked it.

My guess was cave exploration. He said he was going to a remote area where pooping was an option, but he didn’t want to, which makes sense when you know you’ve gotta carry that shit out with you in your cave pack. There are only a handful of scientific cave expeditions that go into caves for three days, so I figured that if he said so, he would unequivocally dox himself.