I cant help thinking that SPLC law vs the few remaining DOJ hacks isn’t really a fair fight. 🤷

That’s some DEEP cover, my friend.

Fun version of this: living in Korea I encountered hot, hotter, hottest, in this order. Eating food prepared for Americans at restaurants that catered to Americans, then eating more traditional food, with Koreans, then going back to the cater-to-Americans places and ordering the traditional stuff.

Imagine someone who simply wrote his name at the top of his Harvard application and sent it in blank not responding well to being challenged.

YEAH BABY!

Flea's new jazz album is fun! Not like, mind-blowing or anything but the man has always had trumpet chops. Also Mei Semones and Mohini Day are both worth seeing--we saw Mei last week in Philly and we've seen Mohini twice this year. Both really great musicians.

Hey you know what brings down costs much more than “some folx gotta die lol?” A coherent national policy to provide universal coverage!

That’s not actually how that works? 😬

Secretary of War Pete Hegs... • © • 39m The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately.

General George Washington required Continental Army soldiers be inoculated for smallpox. We would not have won independence if he hadn’t.

You dumb chucklefuck.

call me old fashioned but I'm just not so very concerned with digital security that I feel the need for 2fa on the electric company website.

Kristi Noem?

It's good people got properly skeptical anyway but tracking unanimous consent last year really clarified for me how much we all live in a fake fantasyland controlled by politicians who make up pretend stories about how things actually work.

On top of everything else, we're clearly not getting the Spice Girls' 30th anniversary reunion world tour. :(

oh yeah those were the superior multi-disc changers. I have a lot of CDs; bought a CD transport a few years ago but I haven't used it much. And now my setup in Prov is super-minimal (amp, speakers, streamer) so it's in the box.

uh... no. 🤣

See I’m not with you on that at all. There’s so little use for physical media now. I feel like a decent pluggable outboard drive is fine.

I replaced the LED panel on one of the plastic hard shell MacBooks a while back, using the iFixit guide, and my friend, who had offered to help because he literally assembled Dell laptops for a living, got up and left halfway through because it was too stressful.

Yeah that’s it. Interesting.

The one with the phone chip?

Which is probably why I'd never be in that position.

A repairable and upgradable laptop.

Jake what did you do?

Don’t sleep on Dub Side of the Moon.

Dude's like an '80s t-shirt: Drinking problem? I drink, I get drunk, I fall down. No problem!

Yeah I was just reading about it. Started in my hometown, no less! Very cool.

I’ll have to read it.

I was talking to a friend yesterday, and it was not the first such conversation I’ve had on the subject, about how we were drawn into tech careers by the potential to do GOOD. And it’s just an awful way to make a living now because it’s so morally compromising. That and the layoffs. Ugh.

The really funny part of this is the East Asian guy dressed as a renaissance-era depiction of a Middle Eastern dude that looks strangely Western European.

Weekend borediors.

In a scene from the B&w movie Scrooge (1951, released as A Christmas Carol in the United States) an adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol (1843), Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge has awoken on Christmas morning after being visited by the three ghosts, he leans out the window and tells: YOU BOY ARE THE STRAITS OF HORMUZ OPEN OR CLOSED TODAY