if you don’t use the sarcasm tag, you’re basically just lying to me

when you have power *and* will get credit from the median voter, use it.

we can just agree to disagree that “Dems should help the federal government aka PRESIDENT TRUMP (to the swing voter, these two things are one and the same) send everyone big fat checks” is wise.

but same team and all that. 🫡

i want like 8 short kings.

but then gothed up (complimentary)!

snapped your enthusiasm

i choose to believe you are holding a shield

yeah this isn’t even a close call. dems can refund tariffs in various ways in 2029, not before.

even without Trump’s signature, the vast vast majority of voters will go “oh cool Trump’s government sent me a check!”

ah. Shame they couldn’t just make music with them (the sledgehammers were real, the anvils were fake and contained bells in them). It is *quite* the fucking song! (Again, I’m not even a classical music guy but it is rousing AF)

fucking lol; I’m a philistine but thanks to booking several jobs back in the day at the Lyric Opera of Chicago I was like Wagner?

Surely he means Il Trovatore’s famous Anvil chorus (in which i played! as a non-musician!).

But i presume you mean Wagner PMC?

also what can you do at home that you can’t at the airport (professionally at least and a lot of types of pleasure)?!

laptops and books and such exist.

(Plus I dunno how you relax at home during that period of “if I leave now I’ll def be real early” and “ok I should go, I’m cutting it close”)

it’s not InfoYours, it’s infoWours

Starm und Drang

arms about smart glasses, yay unto the point of calling for them to be banned, to be met with violence etc, mention outlawing all other surreptitious cameras (and drones and so on).

i’m sure it immediately pivots to “ok then at least prosecute people who use them illicitly” and, yeah, of course!!

I am belatedly reminded of someone one shotting the fuss over the glasses by being like “whatever you do, don’t search for hidden cameras on amazon” (with a screen cap of tiny pin or button size etc cameras dirt cheap for dedicated pervert/creep use).

i have literally *never* seen someone up in

but i also hold myself responsible for how i use *anything* i have and thus use it all ethically (re: privacy plus lol why the fuck would i want stealth pics of anyone? it's not like i'm "holding back" from something i would otherwise want lol)

, an entirely public app).

i buy one off hardware or use the services of many shitty companies and apparently draw the line at "making free art and content and such for overtly evil companies".

was on threads at the time and posting plenty about my life there with a fatalistic attitude about the govt and several biggest companies having everything about me logged anyway.

leaving the Meta social media universe was a principled thing, not a "oh cool now i'll be private" (he says, on blooski

the majority of my pics are still just on the iphone (for control and quality) but some of my best "dad memories" where you can see my hands holding my young child in years gone by are thanks to the glasses.

when i acquired the glasses, it was pre 2024 election and pre-full-Zuck-evil moment so i

how about Pritzker/AOC and they make Pete the sec of state?

Newsom can be, uh, uh hang on lemme think, uh, something? Something to encourage his enthusiastic support on the campaign trail?

get it writ, then get it right

countless other consumer goods that have the potential for abuse!

well they ruined them for cowards, yeah.

although i understand the backlash and i don’t generally “stick up for them” on blooski (i dislike conflict); like people talking about AI a year or two ago (when i was still blanket anti-AI).

you can just use them and not be a fucking creep like with

I do hate meta, though, and look forward to getting an Apple equivalent one day.

A) recognized what they are; or B) *not* been interested in buying a pair, funds permitting, if they were a parent (I meet a lot of them).

There are other ways to surreptitiously record people if you are a creep anyway; I’m not going to let other people sucking make me not use a thing.

I am a dad of a five-year-old and own Meta Ray-Ban‘s that I use as my primary sunglasses. Of course I have never taken a picture or video of anyone non-consensually because I’m not a fucking weirdo. They are incredible if you have a child for a bunch of reasons. Nobody in Los Angeles that I’ve ever

HIS JOB IS CABLES!!!

well you work the job of a saint so, uh, yeah go ahead and be a bit evil on the side, as a treat!

surface streets but it’s not crazy to be less scared of riding in a 30mph car (regardless who or what operates it).

Every day I don’t ride in one is another day of potential improvements/data/etc so meh, no huge rush.

And then I presume I’ll switch over entirely.

That’s funny that you have taken one on the highway now; I had recently just become comfortable with the idea of riding in one for anything other than highway speeds (I just haven’t bothered to install the app yet).

Ironic given that driver assist on the highway is low hanging fruit compared to

i’m 6’4.5” and I love how my knees touch the seat in front of me if I don’t buy extra legroom.

it’s the best. the mice all sit around teasing me and saying I probably also have weird colored pubes (but that part’s at best a half truth)