Additionally, games should not start with cutscenes. Make my controller useful asap. You may exposition dump on me while I get used to the controls.

Without stating your age, post your favorite film released the year you turned 18.

Cyndi Lauper fans stay winning

Star Wars is, at its core, about how weird-looking robot guys and aliens do or do not get along with British people

To be clear this is for long haul backcountry trips. Pacific Coast Trail, Appalachian trail.

Ultralight backpackers are at the stage where they cut their toothbrush handle in half and drill holes in it to save grams.

“they really just knew it was onto them”
They don’t know enough about it to think that. You’re giving them too much credit.

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a screenshot of the "New Bestsellers" list from Substack, with Andrew Tate in the #1 position

Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

we should treat these pardons as null and void as far as i am concerned www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.

Lina Khan helped Joe Biden set this up, but he never pushed it hard to take credit for it.

Now, with Khan working for Mamdani, he's doing it for NYC residents. And actually telling them he's doing it.

Good policies aren't good politics unless you take credit constantly for them.

The singular goal of all future US politics is to ensure Trumpism is defeated and cannot again take root here, and everything that serves that end is to be considered and prioritized. It's a holistic organizing principle, from a Green New Deal to Nuremberg 2 to expanding the court to Reconstruction.

Americans suffer from a desperate need to believe in the inherent goodness of the American electorate--the idea that a voter in 2024--after nearly a decade of unfiltered, widely broadcast, deeply fascist rhetoric from Donald Trump--was simply "tricked" by a Facebook algorithm or a Fox News segment.

the guys walking around in shoes that don’t fit are not gonna do a 25th Amendment

Donald Trump is completely unhinged. His statement threatening to eradicate an entire civilization shocks the conscience and requires a decisive congressional response. The House must come back into session immediately and vote to end this reckless war of choice in the Middle East before Donald Trump plunges our country into World War III. For years, Republicans have enabled and excused Donald Trump’s deeply dangerous and extreme behavior. Enough is enough. Our brave men and women in uniform have been put into harm’s way in the Middle East. Over a dozen have already been killed and hundreds injured. Gas prices are skyrocketing, the cost of living in America is out of control and billions of taxpayer dollars are being wasted on a reckless war of choice. It’s time for House Republicans to put patriotic duty over party loyalty and join Democrats in stopping this madness.

After Trump wrote, in reference to Iran, “A whole civilization will die tonight,” the entirety of the House Democratic leadership issued this joint statement:

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back

Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

it's really so beside the point by now, but i cannot believe people gave this psychotic motherfucker a second chance.

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

actual nytimes headline FEMA Official Says He Teleported to Waffle House. Experts Are Dubious.

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides

the nytimes:

If only.

The Trump DOJ quietly closed more than 23,000 criminal cases in the first six months of Trump's second term — abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to immigration cases, according to an analysis by ProPublica.

reminder that the number one issue that the press covered in 2016, the one they told voters was THE MOST IMPORTANT thing in the election, was Hillary Clinton's compliance with Presidential Records Act record-keeping

In this scenario we must finagle a way to give them slightly less power then the modern house of lords.

Norman Rockwell’s ‘Freedom of Speech’

The United States should abolish the presidency and become a parliamentary democracy

incredible comment on one of my youtube videos

Some people call this "sane-washing" but I think a better description is when the real Trump falters, they sub in a fake, imaginary Trump into their stories. Beyond cleaning up untidy remarks to make them sound more coherent: "Trump super concerned with nuclear proliferation" is an imaginary guy

Trump has the highest disapproval of all time on inflation, higher than Biden, higher than Carter.

Inflation is currently 2.4%.

Look, I don't feel bad for Trump. But we are experiencing a complete breakdown of the political information system.