Samesies, but I think my knees are probably too trashed to snowboard anymore, so I’ll just double up on poutine while I watch hockey.

Dan 👏 can’t 👏 reach 👏 the 👏 cookies 👏

His foreign policies were decent. His domestic policies were incredible, especially in the first half of his term. Especially considering he had COVID and its recession to recover from at the same time. If he had been better at messaging to make sure everybody knew what he was getting done and how good it was for everybody, I’m not sure we’d be in this current series of messes at all right now, or ever again if the hamberders keep flowing.

I miss planned shows with a satisfying ending in mind from the start. Too many shows overstay their welcome just because it keeps making a little money. Go out strong. Now I’m not saying that it would’ve been perfect, but what would’ve been wrong with making that cold war, imminent threat of nuclear annihilation plotline lead up to the series finale like 50 years ago? The current plotline is really just a Reagan plotline reboot with some tweaks, and it was already boring and stupid the first time. What’s that, trump is firing people again? The “you’re fired” guy is firing people again. Fucking snore.

I don’t disagree, but also I remember when the SCOTUS handed the 2000 election to Bush and ordered Florida (incidentally governed by George’s brother Jeb Bush at the time) to halt the recount. They’ve been stealing power for a while now.

Truly behavior fitting of the recipient of the inaugural America First and FIFA Peace awards.

Due to economic, environmental, and cultural state and trends, my wife and I are choosing to not have children. Our dog is lovely. I will not spend my time and energy to give capitalists another generation of cheap labor just in time for this class to flee from rising sea levels, suffer malnutrition, and choke on contaminated air and water. I believe that it is inhumane to bring life into this world with the knowledge that they will endure the hardship and suffering that is so obviously coming.

We will sooner see throuples become socially acceptable in order to make rent than offer any real help to the working class. There is a pedophile running America and the American people are still policing bathrooms to protect against imaginary pedophiles. The priorities are beyond fucked.

As an upper limit? As a lower limit? What do you mean?

Forcing people who don’t want kids to have two is insane. Who will make it happen? Is there a conception agency where agents just go a rape women in this imagined scenario?

Forcing a third pregnancy to terminate is also pretty insane. Suppose the mother doesn’t even know she’s pregnant until pretty far along. Suppose a mother hides her pregnancy and gives birth in secret; is that baby getting killed?

In either case, what is the punishment for violation? Suppose a woman is incapable of having kids when you mandated 2; is she to be executed for being unable to fulfill this societal requirement? Suppose a woman intentionally had more than her government-permitted 2 children; what is her sentence for providing extra mouths to feed?

It’s unethical, it’s not reasonably enforceable, and frankly, I’m not sure I understand what such a policy would even be attempting to accomplish.

Primaries and referendums are happening right the fuck now though. I just voted by mail here in VA regarding the temporary redistricting thing. He might be trying to throw a wrench in any blue redistricting that’s in response to Texas and whatever other red gerrymandering is happening.

America isn’t even teetering on the precipice anymore. We’re tumbling down a jagged cliffside, and 1/3 thinks that it’s a good thing actually, 1/3 says holy fuck we need to curl up in a ball and try to survive, and the last 1/3 has been convinced by the first third that both sides are the same and also there’s nothing they can do and also did you hear what Jennifer Lawrence said about that thing you mildly care about but will pretend to care deeply about when you hear how she blasted it?

America’s day in the sun is done and dusted. We’re irrelevant. We were able to bluff relevance for the past few decades, but the facade has fallen. We’re not militarily impressive. We don’t do anything. Korea won, then Vietnam won, then the terrorists won, and now China has won. The best we can hope for at this point is avoiding total collapse.

Dollars per liter? It’d be a little funny to see this be the reason for a pivot to metric. “Ooh, gas is only $3 now!”

“First they came for… Well pretty much everybody, really. But we were all either at work or exhausted from work, and web 2.0 corporate algorithms carved up our community into tiny, opposed slices who would never coalesce into one unified front, so they were just able to cast a wide net. So uhh, yeah, I guess it can happen here, huh?”

– a future, shittier poem about our shittier fascism

Both are strictly enforced by fascists?

And “undesirable” is just code for “non-white”.

Bo French said at CPAC the other day that he wants 100 million people deported. That’s about 33% of the country. I found the 100 million that Bo could flag for deportation.

Suddenly trump supporters might understand that deporting 100 million people is an absurd number once it’s clear to them that that’s every trump supporter.

The reality is that about 70% of America is white. It suddenly becomes clear that “deport 100 million people” really means “deport all non-whites”. So yes, if you support such a policy and the president running it, you are, in fact, racist as fuck. On top of, as you pointed out, in support of a pedophile.

As a former chef who had an astonishingly abusive boss (he literally violated basic labor laws and I didn’t know any better and felt pressured to impress to advance), Whiplash is maybe the most triggering movie I’ve ever seen.

Anybody who watches that movie and isn’t utterly horrified at the ending didn’t understand the fucking movie.

A fatal heart attack at 29 is pretty fucking wild. How does that even happen? Daily bacon, 3+ cups of coffee per day, heavy smoking, too much fox news, and morbidly obese?

See, DM? It’s absolutely possible to do a non-lethal axe throw attack.

Yep. And that’s the same idea behind every democratic election being the most important one to participate in. Democracy is not one and done. Democracy and equity are a daily, active, exhausting fight to keep selfish assholes from sneaking their way into power and wrecking everything just to serve themselves. It’s a Sisyphusian trudge, but it’s a small price to pay compared to the consequences of negligence.

Just replacing one eco horror with another.

Exactly. CEO is maybe the easiest job for an AI to take over, so an AGI is possibly the most perfect candidate for that role.

Put up or shut up, tech bro CEOs. Replace yourself if it’s so fucking amazing.