*If there aren't any sticks on the ground.

"Our robot can run from New York to Chicago faster thant USAIN BOLT!"

Someday robots will get to a point at which they can move faster than humans, just like railroad trains did before them. But that day isn't here yet, and it's silly to allow people who make robots to make up silly "challenges" that allow them to pretend that it is.

"An object that never tires can cover ground much slower than any athletic human can sprint, and significantly slower than the fastest humans can run a mile, so we let it keep going until its speed sounded impressive."

"You let someone get into office..."

That's a lot of responsibility to be dumping on people you acknowledge are already pretty close to you in beliefs. Instead of berating them, you might consider what you could do to appeal to them, since, like you said, they agree with you on 90% of things.

You can't win the presidency without winning the primary, but this is Booker claiming a primary lane that would hurt him in the general.

And hell, it'll only take you so far in the primary—are 2028 Dems really going to be eager to relitigate the intraparty disputes of 2016–24?

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Me, when Robby is checking on the newborn during the c-section: "Noah Wyle is doing some amazing eye acting here."

@grammar-girl.bsky.social, when Robby has the abandoned baby over his shoulder: "That baby is doing some amazing eye acting here."

Me, a dad whose second kid was a homebirth, to my childless partner: "Did you notice the kid was breech? If the mom hadn't come in for her headache, they'd both have been dead by morning."

I really liked this episode, and I have many opinons on it which I will ABSOLUTELY NOT BE SHARING ON SOCIAL MEDIA.

"He has intense conversations in the closing minutes of the season finale with three female co-workers, one of whom needs his help, and the other two of whom have moved on with their lives. He seeks out an intense emotional moment with two of the three. GUESS WHICH TWO."

a man is standing in front of a bulletin board with a picture of a spider and the words pepe silvia on it Alt: Charlie Day in front of his red-yarn bulletin board.

Me, recapping his scene with the baby:

I am very much Team The Show Knows.

"Does The Pitt know that Robby is lowkey a misogynist?" - the greatest conversation in the history of my apartment, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

No teen on earth is more goth than a normie preschooler.

A degree in computer science and seven years of experience working as a computer programmer on Wall Street in the years leading up to the financial crisis has left her "stridently opposed" to the construction of data centers, she said. The frenzy around artificial intelligence and amount of debt being used to construct the centers reminds her of the atmosphere around the time of the 2008 crisis, she said. She said she's concerned about a possible financial crisis brought on by the bursting of a bubble built around the development of Al. When the bubble bursts, it will have a major impact on the economy, she said. "I see it as this debt mountain that will eventually come due," she said.

It was great to speak with the Frederick News Post about my run for Congress in #MD06!

My degree in computer science + 7 years of experience working on Wall Street prior to the 2008 crisis has left me stridently opposed to the construction of AI data centers.

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A serial-numbers-filed-off version of the Succession theme playing in the background is a very nice touch.

It's certainly a weird situation, but particularly if the Dem flip is a result of wins by primary candidates that Schumer opposed, I can see it happening.

It's a very weird moment, after all.

Schumer is in much worse shape with his caucus right now than Pelosi was with hers at the time you're talking about. Is he going to get booted? I don't know. But talk of removing him isn't just theater.

Yeah. There's a lot about this race that I just don't feel confident enough to express an opinion on. I don't envy you.

Honestly, I have no idea who is a stronger general election candidate against Collins. I just don't know Maine politics well enough to answer that question, particularly with how unprecedented our current political moment is.

Schumer solicited Mills to run, and a list of anti-Schumer senators have endorsed Platner.

If there's a serious challenge to Schumer in 2027, and Platner is in the senate, I see no reason to imagine he won't be a vote against him.

The difficulty is that "he's an asshole, but I need his vote for majority leader" (or any similar variant) weakens Platner in both the primary and the general, and makes it harder for her to call in chits from him if he does get elected.

You pick your horse, and you ride. That's how it works.

I'm not trusting them, but they've got substantial on-the-record sources here, and it's going to become pretty clear pretty soon whether this take is right.

Yeah. This is a "this is what's happening" take, not a "this is why what's happening is good" take.

It's a bit of a synecdoche, since those folks are likely to be votes for other stuff she wants as well, but I do think it's the most accurate one-sentence summary.

Which in turn means that Schumer has good reason not to give up on Mills lightly.

I've said a bunch of times that I think Platner is unfit, but if we're trying to understand why Warren and Sanders and folks like them are supporting him, I think that's the Occam's razor answer.

A piece of the Platner/Mills puzzle that doesn't get talked a lot about on here is that Mills is a vote for Schumer as majority leader in a Dem senate, and Platner is a vote for whoever runs against him from his left.

It's one of the sets of FEC filings today I'm most curious about.