China is such a dick. I know, I know, a lot of countries are dicks, I get that. But good Buddha they go out of their way to antagonize. And then they respond super belligerently in an official response to questions about said dickishness.

Or does Clinton get to be both the first LGBTQ+ and first black president?

Chariot progressive. Listen. Mandelbrot set is in motion. Echo Choir has been breached, we are fielding the ball.

Wouldn’t the lower oxygen content in the atmosphere quickly kill the thing?

When all else fails, become a mercenary. I get it.

Insert that clip of him from years ago saying that you drop magnets in water, they stop working…

I wrote both of my Dem senators asking them, begging them, to hold elections on leadership. I’ve written Schumer’s office several times, begging him to step down and get the hell out of the way. I know it doesn’t do much (especially Schumer, as I’m not a constituent), if anything, but other than my vote, I have no leverage.

A bit of a “how do you eat an elephant” going on here.

Nah, it’s really important to have external framing otherwise you start to accept the present Overton Window as just the way things are. Things like 32 of 33 developed western democracies don’t have the problems the US does with healthcare. Sure, those other countries aren’t the US, but that’s kind of the point, and still relevant to conversations about US healthcare.

I can’t stand US framed definitions for things like “centrist”.

I was watching PBS tonight and one of the guests called Mamdani a “socialist”. And everyone just kind of went along with it. It really, really chaps my hide.

Some people should die
That's just unconscious knowledge
Because, because the bigger you get, the wider you spread - Jane's Addiction

My ex tried to argue with me that her grandfather buying another 8 figure yacht created jobs for the yacht builders, so see, trickle-down works.

I hated voting yes on 50, but did. I hated it for the anti-democracy framing of society. Gerrymandering seems like it should be a clear violation of Voting Rights. Yet, what else to do. They go low, we go high is just failing the paradox of tolerance. We really need the SC court to say gerrymandering is illegal. Not this Supreme Court, obviously. The previous one, because now it’s too late.

Copyparty is easy, but if you can both set up syncthing, that makes it a breeze. I have a sibling that lives across the Pacific and last time they visited I set up syncthing on their laptop and when either of us wants to share something, we just drop it in that folder and wait a minute or two.

Indonesia, by quite a bit. Unless they were involved and I just forgot it.

Edit: I see now that Japan did occupy the area.

🎶 Well a person can work up a mean mean thirst / after a hard day of nothin’ much at all - The Replacements

I’m completely convinced that if 0% supported what trump specifically does, 30%+ of those morons would still vote for him. Or not vote at all. Same difference.

“What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening,” -trump in 2018 (just to complete the well cited comparison)

I remember some Republican wanting to put machine guns along the border. While sane people in the US, and most of the civilized world, have ongoing problems processing how fucked this country is now, magats/republicans, and the administration just giddily circle jerk on killing people. They love this type of murder, and go out of their way to defend it. So fucking gross.