This was the wholesome content I needed this morning #TreeLaw

Well I, for one, am
looking forward to the U.S. leaving Iran during Infrastructure Week

i am too old for a weeknight concert to have an opener

I’ve entered into the full-on nihilism stage, and here is what I’ve learned so far: clothing resale sites have a very loose definition of the word “hoodie”

Yes, same here. I can’t get on Teams either. It doesn’t appear to be that widespread though?

I say “e.g.” as I’m not equipped to choose age cutoffs in that situation, but someone should be. Again it’s good to take into account human limitations when it comes to the humans making critical, life-or-death choices for us all.

Like, I’m still baffled how every state doesn’t have a requirement that you start re-testing drivers every 6 months to a year after e.g., 75–80 and at 90 you’re done. (Obviously that should come much more availability of alternative transportation options.)

Not sure I agree with replies saying old = out of touch. What I do think is the decline of cognitive abilities is, for *most* people, intrinsic to aging. It’s not ageist to say so, nor to take it into serious fucking consideration when it comes to folks making critical choices affecting
all of us.

I don’t have the answer. But waiting until the next election and repeating the cycle of electing who we elect, while the same system continues to gnaw away at our flesh before promptly landing us right back here again isn’t it. Very open to being convinced otherwise, but haven’t been yet. (2/2)

But we would return to *exactly* this shit in short order, and potentially, believe it or not, worse. I hate where we are and I’m scared. But the shortsighted, American kick-the-can-down-the-road philosophy we have toward our society’s failures has been leading us to ruin. (1/2)

And I do not like our chances that it won’t be a Dem who’s like anything resembling Harris, which is part and parcel of the rot.

I get it. The thing is that the whole fucking system needs an overhaul—again, that’s why we’re here now. And if people aren’t motivated toward reform, even if somehow this ends w/an election, if it’s a Dem anything resembling Harris we will 100% be back here. That’s exactly what happened with Biden.

For sure you can identify certain obvious pain points that’d be better. But the rot at the heart of how we got here both wouldn’t change &
would be driven out of sight in ways both unintentional & totally intentional. And then: inertia, again. People still suffer & in some ways have even less hope.

God they gotta be such fucking sociopaths for that to be the takeaway

I can see how you could say it doesn’t matter. OTOH, just wildly imagining a real 2028 election for a sec, we could get some other shit Dem as a viable nominee before we get, you know, “reform.” So it might matter for political strategy in the future. Or again not a good question here?
(2/2)

Following. Agree on “better vs.
worse” not being the right question re: state of the US, and that we’d still have our core problems with Harris, because she sucks + capitalism. Would we be better *fighting* this shit under her though? Or Trump, since he’s more likely to radicalize people? (1/2)

I literally read that as “this yo-yo ma weather” and was like, “oh I guess because…cello music is dramatic?”

It’s pending the government’s appeal, which they will almost certainly do. But the piece notes that in the interim, the ruling “will improve access in the many states which did not disconnect pharmacists’ powers and insurance from ACIP.” So lives will still be saved because of this.

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NOT NOW, MYSTERIOUS LARGE STEEL CYLINDER

“Predicted” implies that she had some kind of special insight. Anyone who read Project 2025 could have “predicted” this. Also if she plans on running for anything again, well, this comment reflects the same razor-sharp political instincts that helped get her and all of us where we are today, so.

Seems like voters would have been a whole lot less likely to fumble the bag if the campaign hadn’t filled the bag with horseshit.

I…don’t know what that even means?

That is *so cool*

I dunno, Walter White always struck me as a pretty big jerk from the very first episode. And backstory proved he’d always had a fragile ego and wasn’t that great a guy—just a weak, ineffectual one. I think some of us are predisposed to being monsters in a way that others of us aren’t.

I would also add that folks on the left were repeatedly warning that platforming Cheney wouldn’t work for these reasons. When lo and behold, that’s what happened, liberals concluded, “This is the left’s fault and we were clearly right all along!” And they *still* think that! The mind boggles.

It’s nuts to me to look at what happened with Harris’ campaign versus Mamdani’s and conclude, yes, Liz Cheney is the real hero in all this. This take is emblematic of the truism that liberals learn exactly the wrong lesson from every single election.

No, Cheney’s actions pre-Harris helped us get here; her actions during Harris *didn’t work* exactly because of this. Mamdani’s & Talib’s actions have actually been anti-fascist, and they’ve proven that unlike Cheney, their ideas can win if
establishment libs would support more candidates like them.

If Dems ran on this, they’d sweep the mid-terms without breaking a sweat. But they won’t, because “moderate voters.”

Consultants gonna consult.

one thing liberals love to do is describe moral atrocities as quirky minor personal flaws. someone says "I don't want to vote for a candidate committing genocide abroad and funding the Gestapo at home" and they're like "oh so it's illegal not to be perfect now"

She says “because we don’t like what they do with accessibility” as if she’s saying “because we don’t like the snacks they serve.” Ma’am we are talking about people being denied their political participation and voting rights.