It has taken over five years of murderous chaos for Republican voters to start to see what was obvious all along: that Donald Trump should not be trusted with a box of matches, let alone the most powerful office on Earth. That's the power of propaganda for you.
Verge headline: Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want by Elizabeth Lopatto Illustration of a brain melting in the sun
"In the place of problem-solving technology, companies have jumped on successive bandwagons like NFTs, the metaverse, and LLMs. What these all have in common is that they are not built to really solve a market problem. They are built to make VCs and companies rich."
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And you say you can't do PR with a straight face!
By not killing Arabs, apparently. Got it
(And it's obvious this whole argument was a tentpole for your Arab-baiting there but I'm not going to entertain it, sorry not sorry.)
Apparently nothing does
The bare minimum definition of a republic is pretty conservative, yes. We've had lots of reactionary republics in the last 2000+ yrs but it likely still comes across as clever if you also think it was clever to say slaves are 60% human for accounting purposes.
Meanwhile, in Commonwealth countries:
Are you going to make relevant arguments at any point or do you just like to watch yourself flatter your own opinions?
Bren brought you something 🐴💐
(or anyone else's, really)
Still didn't answer my question.
courtyard in seoul
my oldest kiddo goes 'damn now this is a vibe'
and... not wrong.
Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.
They're just comfortable being corrupt, is all
We seem very comfortable with ensuring that our candidates pass corruption tests, in the form of gobs and gobs of money from lobbies designed to kill any possibility of legislation on widely popular positions. Is that what's wrong with "purity"?
I've been thinking about the backlash Marie Kondo got and I think part of it was not just that she was saying "buy less shit" she was explicitly say "only buy what actually makes you happy" and in a nation of conspicuous consumption it pissed people off.
"Sergeant, what inspires you?"
Walking Tank from @westfaliaminis.bsky.social for @trenchcrusade.bsky.social
Never start a project hungry.
#miniaturepainting #trenchcrusade #beans #nerdlings #minipainting
I never want to be a killjoy so I won't get in the way of people dancing in the streets when he drops dead but I think one reason everyone is so thirsty for it is we tacitly understand that to be the only consequence he'll ever face. Which sucks! There should be way more consequences
Standing in a drugstore in downtown Los Angeles when the first rain in months (years?) burst out of the sky all at once. A crowd of people rushed in to buy ALL the umbrellas. Shortly thereafter I was on a bus to LAX where I saw South LA dancing in the streets, the golden hour crowned with rainbows.
“Dr. Schwartz, [!!!!!]who holds degrees in biomedical engineering, medicine, public health and law[!!!!], is a highly qualified, traditional choice for the agency’s director”🧪🛟
And it could have been finished already as monorail at a third the cost but we decided to overengineer it into absurdity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Looks like it's yet another hierarchy-of-needs thing, then. Congratulations to you and yours.
Guess everyone I know is just a total fuckup then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Do you own your own home? Are you able to afford payments on housing every month? What is that even like?
you know, at some point, we are going to have to clarify what “if it drags on” actually means
lawrence livermore national laboratory is teaming up with private fusion startup Inertia Enterprises to commercialize the lab’s approach to fusion energy — marking one of the largest public-private partnerships ever within the national lab system
I have not followed every contour of the debate underlying this and would absolutely read something that narrates and dissects it.
From my narrow frame of reference (energy insecurity), more people are increasingly less well off. The estimate is larger and worse.
More details: 15-minute neighborhoods. Green and blue spaces. Community connection. Decreased need for cars. If the city that’s been the automobile capital of the world and that’s been beset by urban blight can do it, that’s a symbol of hope and inspiration.
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NASA’s Orion spacecraft captures the Moon and the Earth in one frame during the Artemis II crew’s deep space journey
Artemis II has been a much needed celebration of science, competency, and humanity.
But reminder: the White House is proposing cutting NASA’s budget by billions.
If you’ve loved watching our astronauts, don’t forget to call your representatives and urge them to keep funding science.
You cannot shout "fire, fire, fire! the house is on fire!" in other words fascism/authoritarianism/DANGER and then do nothing to put out the flames or get the people out. What you do in always a louder message than what you say.
