Become Insufferable

a picture is, it turns out, worth a lot more than a thousand words

The conservative intelligentsia is just wildly, cartoonistly racist, and the fact that this gets less elite pushback from the prestige media/commentariat than "woke" does is such a damning indictment of our whole society.

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Cat Distribution System strikes again

SCOTUS started out by using the Shadow Docket to avoid having to give opinions and now it's just straight up not giving opinions at all.

Lower court judges should just keep coming to the same conclusion in slightly different ways that still comport with the empty language of orders like this.

Proposal to increase EU tariffs on goods from Israeli settlements Divisive debate inside EU about sanctioning Israel for ‘grave’ human rights abuses begins again

France and Sweden have quietly put forward a proposal for the EU to impose increased Union-wide tariffs on settler goods and services.

The proposal concedes that a total import ban on settler goods could be justified, but neither France nor Sweden has implemented that in their own countries.

Russian drones consist of 90% Chinese components

Hackers gained access to a closed-door meeting of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade, where the issue of dependency on China was discussed. It is alleged that over 90% of the key components for Russian drones are supplied from the North Korea

As I've stated elsewhere, data centers do not create many permanent local jobs. This has been the case for like 20 years or more. A skeleton crew of minimum wage security guards at best. Once construction is done, they are literally a drain on the local economy.

This Data Center Is Getting a $77 Million Tax Break to Create One Job No other project in the country has gotten such a large subsidy to create so few jobs, according to watchdogs.

In 2024 a Rockland Co agency held a “public hearing on a proposed subsidy for the expansion of a JPMorganChase data center. In return for nearly $77M in tax breaks, the project promised to create exactly one permanent job. No one showed up… Two weeks later, the subsidy deal was approved.”

When the discovery starts

Genuinely, how are you supposed to teach law when decisions can be handed down without the legal reasoning behind it? You can teach about legal interpretations you disagree with but it’s hard to stretch nothing but “nah” into a whole class.

They usually hide that sort of overt racism in a blog post

I’ve mentioned before how when these guys use the fraudulent national IQ data it suggests they believe the average person from several African nations has a severe intellectual disability but I still didn’t expect them to just say that on tv

TitleAnatomy of Monsters: Anatomy of a WerewolfDescriptionA silver colored wolf-man stands on his back wolf legs, human-oid arms with talons stretched out in agony. His bare human-oid chest has white hair stretching down from his neck. His wolf head roars, mouth open and eyes wide. Dark grey coloring stretches from his nose, down his back and on to his tail, that’s finished in white. His legs and hands are white fur. He stands on a rocky ground.JokesThe Origin: You become a werewolf when ANOTHER werewolf bites you. Then YOU bite and make ANOTHER werewolf… it’s like multi-level marketing, but less skeevy.Aesthetic: His overall aesthetic is “Muppet that has SEEN some things.”Movement: He moves like an unbalanced washing machine.Scent: And smells like bowling alley carpeting.Identification: (points at neck) “Collar I.D.”Snout Utility: (points to head) The perfect snout to get that last Pringle.Dental Work: (points to head) His teeth are arranged with all the precision of a medieval village built without permits.Schedule: He only shows up once a month. …but that’s still better than Congress. ZING!Fashion: Thank God he got the Levis with the lycra.Aging: (points at tail) He still “Marks his Territory,” but ever since he turned fifty, it just takes longer and longer.

The alt text for the "Anatomy of a Dragon" comic by Dave Kellett is broken down into a title, a visual description, and a list of the jokes included in the illustration:TitleAnatomy of Monsters; Anatomy of a DragonDescriptionA green, scaly, four-legged creature with giant bat-like wings sits on a glistening gold dirt. His head is covered in dark spines, heavy eyebrows cover his eyes. He has a heavy chin and smoke protrudes from one of his nostrils.Jokes & AnnotationsClassification: Remember, Kids! - A dragon has 4 legs/2 wings. - A wyvern has 2 legs/2 wings. - A wyrm has 0 legs/0 wings. - And a WORM is the same as a wyrm, but without the hardcore name.The Vaping Dragon: Smoke constantly drifts from his nostrils like a teenager trying to hide a vape pen.Nature's Balance: Every dragon is born with one armor scale missing, for the benefit of talented archers. (It’s nature’s balance.)Dietary Habits: Practices the “Five-second Rule” for dropped sheep.The Landlord Look: The eyebrows of a grumpy landlord (…who also happens to be a nuclear weapon.)Culinarily Correct: Is convinced that shiny armor is just “Stay-fresh” Packaging.The Proverb: Believes “revenge is a dish best served at 3,000 degrees.”Social Media: Spends his weekends swiping right on pictures of unprotected royal treasuries.

The alt text for the "Anatomy of a Sasquatch" comic by Dave Kellett is structured as follows:TitleAnatomy of Monsters: Anatomy of a SasquatchDescriptionAn ape-like man stands in the classic Big-Foot stance, mid-walk. His arms and legs and shoulders are covered in fur, his hands, feet, biceps and chest are flesh. Behind him is a forest of trees.JokesThe Ultimate Cryptid: He’s the ultimate American cryptid!Posture: (pointing to the previous joke) …with the posture of a middle-aged dad trying to find his glasses.Strength: He’s super strong! He can bench 150! (An F-150)Fur Texture: Fur has the texture of shag carpeting that’s been left in a damp basement since 1974.Hands: Knuckles for DAYYYYYS.Build: His build is the perfect blend of “powerlifter” and “dude powering through a few sleeves of oreos.”Shoulders: Don’t think of it as “Hairy Shoulders,” think of it as “Natural Rain Poncho”Origin: He was made famous by a 1967 filmstrip of what is clearly a dude-in-a-Gorilla-Suit.Stabilization: (pointing to previous joke) (Someone ran the film through modern film stabilization software. It is HILARIOUS how much it's a dude in a suit.)Legs: His calf muscles look like four angry raccoons fighting over a corndog.

TitleAnatomy of Monsters: Anatomy of Baba YagaDescriptionAn old lady with a long crooked nose, white scraggly hair held down by a red head scarf, wide eyes, mouth open in a witchy cackle, walks along a path. She has a brown leather bag across her shoulder decorated with bones. Her dress and cloak are brown and tattered. Behind her is a cottage held up by chicken legs.JokesRole: Part forest-guardian and part local terror, she’s a Slavic witch who rewards the polite and (accidentally!) eats the rude.The "Accident": (pointing to the previous joke) “Accidentally” is doing a lot of heavy lifting, there.Reasonableness: As far as witches go, she’s reasonable! Provided you can survive her easy-to-remember 608-step chores.The Name: If you pretend you’ve never heard it before, doesn’t the name BABA YAGA sound like a Swedish band that won Eurovision in 2009?Real Estate: (pointing to the cottage) Her house walks around on giant chicken legs. Which, Honestly? In this housing market? I’d make an offer.Transportation: She doesn’t ride a broomstick! She rides a mortar-and-pestle.Tech Gap: (pointing to previous joke) Which is fun for her, because everyone born after 1810 has to Google what a “Mortar-and-pestle” is.The Fence: Famously, her house is surrounded by a fence of human bones. Which is an aggressive way of saying “kick that ball into my yard, you AIN’T GETTIN’ IT BACK.”

Gang, making these ANATOMY OF MONSTERS has been so dang fun. If you want to read a whole bunch of 'em in a row, they're at sheldoncomics.com

This isn't accidental oversight by our media. It's malicious complicity.

It's funny how many business types don't recognise that economic trends under extreme pressure turn into political-economic disruptive moments where stock markets cease to matter and 'who can shoot whom' comes to the fore

In addition to making computing smaller, we can make it bigger-that is, we can replicate these very small devices on a massive scale. With full-scale nanotechnology, computing resources can be made self-replicating and thus can rapidly convert mass and energy into an intelligent form. However, we run up against the speed of light, because the matter in the universe is spread out over vast distances. As we will discuss later, there are at least suggestions that the speed of light may not be immutable. Physicists Steve Lamoreaux and Justin Torgerson of the Los Alamos National Laboratory have analyzed data from an old natural nuclear reactor that two billion years ago produced a fission reaction lasting several hundred thousand years in what is now West Africa.75 Examining radioactive isotopes left over trom the reactor and comparing them to isotopes from similar nuclear reactions today, they determined that the physics constant

This passage gives a decent feel of the style of argument.

“There are at least suggestions that the speed of light may not be immutable.” We’ll need to verify this, but oh gee imagine how incredible it will all be.

Whole lot of I-heard-a-guy-said-a-thing-now-let’s-speculate-WILDLY.

I also love that he’s leaning so heavily on Moore’s Law, while Gordon Moore was out there consistently saying “this is not a law of nature and it will not go on forever.”

And Kurzweil’s response is just “wellackshually this is much bigger than Moore’s Law and it totally will go on forever.”

Cherry picked graph.

I’m sorry but this is just so stupid.

Kurzweil needs you to believe that the rate of tech innovation and adoption is accelerating. Otherwise the whole theory collapses.

And his evidence is the MOST CHERRY-PICKED GRAPH.

“Mass use of inventions.” Look. Line goes up. But… where’s the fax machine?

The only caveat here is that they didn't need to be ordered to do so.

Nazism was popular with intellectuals! The universities were wellsprings of support for the regime. It's alien to us today because our conception is of book-burnings: but most people in academia didn't like those books either!

Inquiring minds want to know

Trump should be giving this speech to an empty room. Anyone there is complicit.

Trump won’t be happy until our only friends are the Russians and the Saudis.

Beginning to think that the Trump presidential library, like TrumpCoin, or in an earlier era, his hotels, is just a useful front for processing bribes to the President.

Pasolini, an atheist Communist, made The Gospel According to St Matthew - straight, literal, respectful - because he admired its revolutionary message.

Never thought I'd see a Pope go full Book of Matthew, but...

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.

Somewhere Bismarck is looking down in confusion as Germany projects power by sending 4,000 pensioners, 12 buffet stations and a TUI loyalty program through the Strait of Hormuz

Wow. This is incredible. Péter Magyar just destroys the medium itself in their opening salvo of undermining his incoming government.

"This lie factory will cease to exist."

"We will create the conditions for independent, objective, impartial media."