I dont want any of it. Gerrymandering is bullshit no matter who does it. I’m begrudgingly okay with California doing it to rebalance the scales after Texas’ open voter suppression, but I would much rather it be illegal for everyone, always, everywhere.
Was it a crazy bastard that went rogue or a clumsy idiot that misfired by accident. The world will never know.
I don’t agree about the movie being better, mostly because I think getting Mark’s inner monologue made much of the humor land so much better than the vocalized stuff in the movie. And they had to handwave a bunch of the more technical sciences and engineering that I found genuinely interesting in the book. But it was very cinematic and a pretty solid adaptation.
I expect PHM will have to do some more handwaving on the science, which will be unfortunate, but I also think Ryan can deliver on the humor a bit better than Matt did, so I am anticipating that to work quite well. I feel like Ryan’s personality will be a good foil for both the ultra series nature of the threat and the characters dealing with it and the more out there sci-fi elements in PHM (compared to The Martian).
Proper response: “Who you calling ‘piggy’, fat ass?”
Got hogs on the mind lately, Trump? Call him. I know Bill is thinking of you, too. Dreams can’t happen without the initiative to make them happen.
Wouldn’t surprise me if, after the inevitable bailout, it comes out that OpenAI actually helped China out behind the scenes to fuel the arms race. Why wouldn’t they? The competition, patticularly losing the competition, is to their direct benefit when their end goal is a federal bailout. The more competition, the bigger the ballot they can justify. They can extend themselves further, they can entrench themselves deeper into more companies, and when these inevitable collapse begins, they can take more government money, lest the Chinese “win”.
Frankly, the moment it became apparent that their intent was to use the American tax pay as the backstop to their private deals, let alone when they actually fucking said as much out loud for everyone to hear, the company should have been done. Period. It should have had all assets frozen and all deals legally voided immediately. It should have been dissolved as an entity entirely, and all of its executives should have been charged with tax fraud and likely other charges. That goes for the executives at these other companies making deals for multiple times their current revenue, which still leaves them net negative in the first place, on the unfounded promise of unprecedented future revenue streams. And that is top of dozens of other companies getting similar deals. They have to have known that the intent was to use the federal government to stopgap the deals, making them directly complicit in this fraud. Charge them too.
I wont judge a whole movie just from three still images. I’ll reserve my true judgement for later. But I will say that the costume design looks suitable. And the actors, physically, arent far off from what I would expect for their characters, so I’m at least pleased with that. The tone invoked by the imagery feels a bit off, but, again, without context, that’s basically no information at all.
Herc and Megara went through college with me, moved back into my mom’s with me, through a couple apartments and into my first home before they finally split in half in the dishwasher.
9, but we had some saucers with 8, I think.
She’ll never have my vote for any number of reasons, but to see anyone as deep in the maga cult as her demonstrate any amount of growth… even if she falls back into old patterns at some point… it says something hopeful about steering this ship away from our current course if even she can gain the self awareness and humility to regret participating in these vitriolic forms of politics. Maybe, then, our parents and neighbors can see enough of the light to realize what this is bringing about, where we’re headed, and have the humility to admit that they need to stop and to do better. It’s only the smallest glimmer of hope, but it’s more than my increasingly cynical ass has had in a minute. Keep working on yourself Marge, but glad to see the baby steps being taken.
That and the “without the Bible, how do you know what’s right or wrong” crowd. They have become so externally reliant on direction that they dont even have an independent sense of morality anymore. Also, they must think, in turn, that that non-Christian cultures and people are inherently amoral or immoral. The irony.
Some people just genuinely don’t have those kinds of dark impulses and actually are repulsed to take such actions even in a simulated environment. But I’ll grant you, non-destructive, safe outlets for those impulses and frustrations is, indeed, healthier than the alternative.
Hello, Native people living on the small pockets of land we forced you upon and begrudgingly gave you sovereignty over after invading and claiming all your lands for ourselves. Will you you hold all these people prisoner for us? They are invading our lands that used to be your lands. And that’s just not OK. You get it, right?
They won’t even assimilate with the local culture properly. Some don’t even speak the local language. And as soon as they have kids born here, they act like they have a right to be here. It’s really frustrating, know what I mean? There skin isn’t even the same color as mine! And I can’t tell if they are Christian or not because every 4th one is named Jesus, so who knows who they are worshipping.
Anyway, do me a solid will you? You owe me a favor since we agreed to stop stealing your kids and beating their culture out of them! You’re welcome, by the way. I never did see a thank you card.
Ah yeah, those eggs would be moist. They didn’t have cinnamon and vanilla in them, did they? 😝
Also, I’ve never air fried sausage links before. I can see how that would probably get the whole sausage cooked through before much browning on the casing happens that way. When pan-searing, the casing gets much darker from direct contact with the pan, and it taken longer for that heat to conduct in the meat in the middle. I usually sear them and get them nice and brown, tossing them around to get even browning all over, and pull them at the first sign that casing is about to split.
Man, I use headphones around my own house when I’m listening to something while cooking or cleaning or something like that in a shared space.
Like not if I’m watching the TV or gaming on the TV as I’m in the designated space to make some noise, so long as it’s not carrying across the house. If you don’t care to listen to my show or whatever, go to another room. Or if I’m home alone, I’ll play my music, video, podcast or whatever openly on my phone because it isn’t annoying anyone.
But as soon as I’m just trying to do my own thing in a shared space with others around trying to do their own thing, even at home, I ALWAYS put headphones in out of respect. I don’t often get the same courtesy… but then, I can just drown out their bullshit with headphones if I want to, so not worth the argument. My wireless earbuds case is in my pocket at all times for this reason.
I also always have headphones in while shopping. It’s a polite attempt to project “Fuck off” to everyone in line of sight. I’m not trying to have small talk with every stranger or acquaintance. I’m trying to do a chore while enjoying listening to Dungeons and Daddies or a YouTube/Dropout video or something. If we’re friends I’ll pause and pop out a bud. Otherwise, you’ll get a nod and a polite smile and you’ll be grateful for it. Now fuck off.
Edit: I just realized that I may have given the impression that I’m a teenager living with parents and siblings or something. I’m not. I’m a 36 year old man in my own home with my wife, daughter and a house guest. And despite it being my house, I still give others this courtesy. Just to be clear.
Personally I’d brown the sausage a bit more and get a softer scramble on the eggs, bit it looks good. Well done
Had to do a double take and zoom in to see that they were just painted. I was confused and concerned for a second there.
And it’s required. I genuinely have neither. Am I not welcome to apply?
home is nominal tax. Second home is double that. Third is quadruple. That’d fix housing and rent prices overnight.
I dont think that would fix rents necessarily unless the taxes were particularly prohibitively. They’d just be incentivized and have an excuse to raise taxes more, seems like.
Gerrymandering is not actually illegal. SCOTUS has said only gerrymandering that specifically disenfranchises based on race is illegal due to specific laws passed to protect against that exact thing. Otherwise, it’s fair game. And much more recently, they even relaxed the racial protections, because they’re fucking corrupt.