Expecting the Supreme Court ruling coming soon explaining why it is fine for Republicans to do this but Democrats doing it is unconstitutional

I laughed so hard the first time I saw this that I almost threw up and immediately printed it out and taped it to the wall by my computer in my parents' basement, where it stayed for like 10+ years

Those high-school-theater-kid-targeted jokes always come out of nowhere and land with an explosion

I think it has just gotten less likely for people to date in general, now that the fascists have all revealed themselves. It is not like sane men are now dating three women at once.

Well, any more than they were before, at least.

I have experience going around a red state saying literally "I'm from the government and I'm here to help" (disaster relief)

Some of the people I encountered were among the kindest people I have ever met, and a few guys threatened me for merely being from the government and reaching out to them

The most interesting part about being demisexual at a time in your life when everyone you are attracted to is married is that you can only engage in interests unrelated to attraction, which is why I reduced my Steam backlog from 400 to 0 over the last 5 years and basically feel like I am a child

One of my favorite parts of writing my dissertation was finding that labor was mechanized basically in every case as soon as it was cheaper than hiring humans to do the same job! This is a fact unrelated to this post and I am not sure why it came to mind

I was ready to support Buttigieg in 2020 until I saw him cozying up to Zuckerberg, though in the intervening years it seems maybe people have finally realized Zuckerberg, like Musk and Thiel, is actually a global civilization-level villain, and will behave accordingly

Gaining a full understanding of that scene was a hugely important moment of my childhood. Like even now I think about it and about how fucking insanely brilliant and depressing that whole setup was

Hello, also Ph.D. in political science here, and I have always heard people use "the West" in like the opposite of how people mean "woke," as in "whatever I want it to mean for the audience of awful people I am addressing," and in this case "things that are good and we should not bomb"

Just as I imagined would happen, people my age have started saying this stuff to me now that I have reached Oh I Don't Know Computer age, and like...why? When did you decide you are too stupid to learn new basic skills to make your life easier, and why did you make that decision? And is it true?

This and the Pipe Strip video are the only things I will probably never get tired of watching. And this has the advantage of being 1/6th the length of the Pipe Strip

Every time I see someone repost this I get sad all over again as I feel like it succinctly explains why I have been single for ~6 years

I think about Howard Dean at least once a month for that very reason

Even at the time I felt like this was proof positive that the media collectively were so hurt about the 90s """Liberal Bias""" stuff that they decided they had to drag every Democrat possible every time they saw a chance

Republicans have literally destroyed the concept of the debate. Like at this point you have to be stupid to agree to a debate given it is just Republicans lying as loudly and as constantly as possible while the moderators fail to contain them

And all of them with non-consenting victims of various ages

Just when you think you have heard all the newsworthy things Tan Guy de Stable did today

Republican voters are not necessarily unanimous in this belief, but a huge chunk of them truly believe that a Republican with no experience is more qualified for any role than a Democrat with a lifetime of experience in a similar role

Yeah the shame is Alito and Thomas are the only two justices where Republicans got exactly the amoral champions of cruelty that they were aiming for; usually they are at least imperfectly evil, and decent odds they would have been replaced by someone with at least one (1) scruple

But WWE is not pro wrestling, it is blood money and sex trafficking. The biggest actual pro wrestling company (AEW) has had a trans women's champion and one of the last heavyweight champions specifically clarified he had the men's heavyweight belt. Not perfect but comparatively amazing

Oh boy I would go put that white sweatshirt with purple nuclear hazard symbol on RIGHT NOW if I owned it

"Have we our coural done? Right, that's proper sorted." -A British GM, Probably

This is how you know MJF is truly as smart as he claims, because he used his real name as his wrestling name so we do not have to suffer through a decade of The Rock transitioning to Dwayne Johnson (and back, but you know)

Both senses of this joke are the possible future, where Republicans collectively decide the reason he failed was because he was not right-wing enough or, the one I would prefer, where they pretend his insane fascist policies were actually what democrats wanted with secret backroom deals and *cries*

Sure, I can see what the author is getting at--if the entire world were made up solely of 90s indie rock fans, yeah, then Pavement would probably be even BIGGER than the Beatles!

I have a CISO friend and he says maybe one person out of ten in his network even understands why he has concerns about AI replacing people, let alone agrees with his concerns

Unfortunately it just continues the decades-long realization that being in tech does not mean you can think

Any cool gadget becomes uninteresting or even irritating if constantly visible to others (watches, smart glasses, Bluetooth earpieces, uhhh, mining helmet lights)

I would be very interested to see the statistics broken down further by, you know, what percentage of my demographic who genuinely care about sports have a sports betting account. Is it, like, 95%? Or am I underestimating how many people follow sports

There is not a single tech bro in the United States with a sense of humor so the outcome was predetermined

100%, something cool to examine and bring you back to the joys of your youth, but not something to actually use for its intended purpose. I like to think of collector's editions as the fine art of the gaming world (MOSTLY ironically)

I initially made the observation before the pandemic that I envisioned tabletop gaming conventions in 20 years being mostly rich tech bros kicking back and gaming as an army of gig workers catered to their needs, and I am increasingly certain of this outcome as the years go by