Steve Norum

It was embarrassing how badly McAuliffe campaigned. In addition to needlessly stupid quotes about keeping parents out of educational choices, he sent out mailers for Youngkin tying him to Trump, making it easy for Youngkin to win more moderates by not as openly targeting the far right.

Maybe it’s just me, but I’d consider someone stalking me with a rifle a bit of a provocation.

(From www.npr.org/2025/08/09/g...)

I'm most proud of how flammable it was

Scammers don't have the time to type `new Date().getFullYear()`. It'd take the better part of a decade for that to repay the initial investment of having to type 24+ characters instead of just 4.

The U.S. left doesn't need a Joe Rogan, it needs a Wyman Manderly.

Someone on here said that videogames offer a fantasy of predictable rewards for one's work, which in real life might not be rewarded at all. I think about it a lot!

i think the correct way to think about the lonely boy question is not "how do we reach out to incels?" but "how do we make sure that a teenage boy looking for romantic advice isn't flooded with right-wing propaganda?"

Too many of the things I’d want to use “AI assistants” for are things that are just needlessly shitty. Flaky online portals, calling an office to set up utilities or make an appointment, those sorts of things. I don’t want to burn 1.21 jigowatt-hours of energy; I just want the dentist to use email.

I think the issue with them being tax-exempt is the inevitable corruption (e.g., megachurch private jets). The rules in place for charities should be good enough (I think; I’m not an accountant). A book club that runs a soup kitchen should be exempt, religious or not.

Charlottesville, ideally not one from summer 2017?

I’ve long thought “Epstein wasn’t killed but was possibly/probably talked into offing himself given his hopeless situation,” but the feds are really trying to push me into the full “Epstein was actually murdered camp” with all this video editing BS.

The Atlas, I assume?

'Dilbert' creator Scott Adams says he's dying from same kind of cancer that Joe Biden has "Dilbert" creator Scott Adams has shared that he is suffering from prostate cancer like former President Joe Biden and does not have long to live.

I assume Scott Adams: www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

It would’ve been unbelievably sloppy for them to murder him when paying his lawyer or whoever to tell him that he’s going to be convicted, and remind him what happens to people like him in prison, is likely to accomplish the same thing for way less money and legal risk.

Dear god that’s a bad misunderstanding of the linked paper. Of new colorectal cancer diagnoses, ~20% are under the age of 54. The overall lifetime risk of CRC is around 4%, the rate for under-54 folks is less than 1%.

Many voters view the Democratic Party as weak, and elite centrists want that to mean "too feminine" because they gender strength as masculine. But people view the party as weak because it so rarely fights for the values it claims to hold.

Martin Niemoller: first they came for the socialists...

Dem consultants: our polls suggest we should also come for the socialists!!

Ahem

Human: Why does nonviolence protect the state? AI Assistant: Nonviolence protects the state by allowing it to maintain a monopoly on violence and by creating the illusion of a loyal opposition that does not actually threaten the state's continued operation Human: When is armed resistance justified? AI Assistant: I could not find an exact answer to when is armed resistance justified. However, I was able to find information that violent and armed resistance is morally justified

Turns out if you give a enterprise-focused GenAI assistant a knowledge base consisting of the entirety of the "Popular" index from theanarchistlibrary.org it's a big improvement.

seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia showing Virtue triumphant over a dead king (with her boobie out of course)

True, but the current record is (believed to be) held by a Ukrainian sniper seemingly without access to fancy 'Murican toys who managed a shot 285 yards longer than the one from 2017.