Midst all the celebration about Hungary. Yes! Voting is a powerful tool! But only if you have someone to vote for. A Yellow Dog Democrat still loses if there isn't even a yellow dog to vote for.

A weird thing about rich people is that they only ever want to spend other people's money. If he spent his own, he'd be less rich! Can't have that

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A digitally drawn homage to the George Herriman comic strip Krazy Kat. Starting left of frame we see yellow Ignatz Mouse having just thrown a brick which is sailing across the center of the frame and in another instant will bash the oblivious Krazy Kat (a blue bipedal cartoon cat wearing a red scarf) in the back of the head as he walks innocently to the right. Everything is drawn in rough black pen and colored in pale washes. A speech bubble from Ignatz reads ‘Maybe it will…’, the word ’Happen’ appears in the whooshing trail of the sailing brick, and a final speech bubble belonging to the Kat reads ‘…Today’.

No, I don't think I will

What a pathetically weak, counterproductive statement.

It would be cool to have a legislature that acted to defend its own constitutional prerogatives and, maybe as a treat, the interests of the people it represents too.

Democrats Wear White Flag Pins To SOTU To Indicate Surrender

Democrats Wear White Flag Pins To SOTU To Indicate Surrender

And other petrochemicals, plastics, lubricants, etc. It'll be interesting to see how that plays out.

I think there are a lot of fundamental problems with humanoid robots and I doubt we'll see useful ones in my lifetime.
But there could very well be useless & silly ones in the next decade or so, and Musk has the advantage of an apparently endless stream of cash from surprisingly dim major investors

This is all awesome! Are you pushing these as ICE-specific reforms or government-wide?

OK but is it "toe the line" or "tow the line?"

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

Next 3 hours or so are going to contain a lot of this as folks wake up across the US

An SAE shit ton would be 22400 people

It's also a reflection of their wishful thinking about the "strong floor" - that various classes (women, unions, Hispanics, etc) will automatically vote for them, so there's no point doing anything to keep that vote - gotta go after your racist uncle instead

You spineless, worthless loser. You have no idea what it means to fight. Resign so someone who might work to protect our country can take your place.

This was awesome, thanks for the effort

Not being even vaguely sarcastic:

At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”

On the plus side, the darts that ICE keeps throwing at Chicago PD could end up driving a wedge between the two. Keeping local PD more firmly on the side of the local government is probably helpful

Scene from Airplane! (the movie), showing a Soviet TV news anchor giving the broadcast with a gun pointed at his head

Legit curious if a notable number of users actually asked for AI anything. Having to sift through about:config to turn off obscure settings isn't really the same as having a choice, especially if the settings get changed back if some MBA decides usage isn't high enough.

A nice thing about Masto is that likes are likes, and the poster sees them, but bookmarks are just for you, and nobody else sees them. That makes sense to me because sometimes I want to find my way back to a post without bothering everyone else about it. I don't know if that's how bsky did it

Everything is short term.

Salt and buttering with a bready weapon

Reolink can talk RTSP to a local NVR and you can disable their cloud access. Some of their stuff is at Micro Center

The parallels between Chavez's rise to power and Trump's are alarming

Honestly running 40' containers full of batteries from wind/solar/whatever plants across the country isn't such a terrible way to get around transmission difficulties. Or do disaster response!

I'd love to see stats on how many people clicked "Unsubscribe" at the bottom of the propaganda e-mail from the SSA last night.