“Would you like a payment plan?”

Sweet Christ on a cracker. This guy is even stupider than I imagined. I have suspected that his promotion to Major was some kind of professional courtesy thing. But how the hell did this dipstick make it to captain? Dumb as a bag of hammers.

Wow. I’ll believe it when I see it in November. But yeah maybe they are due for a change after a couple decades of GOP misrule.

Right wing churches, think tanks, political groups, and media organizations need to “pluck the timber out of their own eye before telling me about the sliver in my own.”

Exactly. I am willing to say that academics have some serious quirks. But any problems pale in comparison with the psychos on the right wing. And some of them are on faculty at law schools which makes them “elites” by any definition.

Sam Altman will say or do anything to become a billionaire. It’s as simple as a planarian reacting to light

Area man discovers affinity with the party of child rapists.

Tim Cook running Apple in the USA the same way he ran in the PRC

Kinda. Whenever people bemoan the unjustifiably high bar to amending the US Constitution I look over my shoulder at the Hungarian Constitution which Fidesz has rewritten or revised on an annual basis since 2011. There has got to be a sweet spot between frozen in amber & running water

Getting a PhD and then working outside academia is dope. My advisees who’ve done that are more or less uniformly happy and feel that they’re using the skills they trained on. (I talked to one today who just landed a great gig). Just wanted to convey that to anyone it might benefit.

Huh. Gravity works the same in Phuket and St. Petersburg. Go figure. Falling Russian tends to stay in motion until they hit the ground.

this is a win-win.

Discovery=Yay! we find out everything Kash likes to do

If the Atlantic loses= Yay! The Atlantic loses!

Yeah this. If those boneheads would shut up nobody would resent them & they could enjoy their money. But they want to dominate us all. I don’t think they’ll succeed. Mainly I want to be left alone to do my own thing without constantly hearing how an AI chat bot can do it better.

The currently escalating tech backlash must be put in the context of:

“people have been listening to the most insufferable techbros in the world gleefully threaten everyone else with mass unemployment for over 6 years, and they’re sick of their shit”

It’s a terrible quandary almost unanswerable. Like a zen koan. But worse because you are buying something made from petrochemicals.

3-panel comic. (1) (A person with a picture of a spacecraft behind head.] PERSON 1: There are now three spacecraft headed to Europe: NASA’s *Europa Clipper*, which will investigate Europa’s subsurface ocean, (2) [Person is gesturing at a picture of a different spacecraft while talking to a person with a ponytail and a person with short hair.] PERSON 1: ESA’s *Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer*, which will study the topography and chemistry of Europa and the other moons, (3) [Person with a picture behind head of a Zamboni with a rocket launcher underneath] and the NHL’s *Zamboni Voyager*, which plans to resurface Europa. PERSON FROM OFF-PANEL: Oh no. PERSON 1: We tried to stop them, but the league is set on an expansion.

Europa Missions

xkcd.com/3234/

Isn’t Goodwrench a GM subsidiary?

I'm disgusted by the TechBros who come up with this shit. But I am even more appalled and disappointed in the journalists who try to polish the turds and help sell it to the public.

Happy thought!

Is worthwhile to risk the felony assault charge by smacking the glassholes upside the head with an axe handle?

My colleagues look at me with blank expressions whenever I say, "The Chronicle of Higher Education is not a trade magazine for colleges & universities. It is a trade magazine for Higher Education managers." Even when they include faculty voices its always edited from the perspective of the managers

And Lo, it shall come to pass
the frogs will be made gay
and a rainbow will be set
over the sign of mine enemies.

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

It's essential, but also a fitting punishment for someone who spent so much time and energy protecting the statues and memorials of the white supremacist traitors who came before him in the Confederacy.

Boots on the Groundhog Day

Ukrainian cat activated. FPV drone eliminated. 🫡

a real testament to stefanik’s total lack of dignity that she is doing this AFTER trump totally threw her under the bus, backed up, and ran her over just to be sure

Steffanik wants to be there with him in the bunker when The End comes. She’ll be cheated then because Trump will commit suicide without her knowing.

Ooops.

The 1950s aren’t distant enough. Eighteen fifties is better. 1550s is best