Bill Dunn (he/him)

Depends on the felony for me. If they were convicted for encouraging people to burn their draft cards (Eugene Debs), that might be worth a vote. That's standing up for anti-imperialist war principles.
But 34 business fraud felonies SHOULD be disqualifying for a job that's supposed to have integrity.

The info you come up with via texting ultimately defines the course of the mystery and the crime involving Alice. It's highly structured and kind of brutal in a way. I'm not sure my current group would be keen on playing it, but maybe I'll suggest it as a side game. (end)

Cover of the Alice is Missing role playing game box. Image is of the back of a woman, dressed in autumn weather clothing, overlooking at town in the distance. Byline is "Designed by Spenser Starke".

I picked up a copy of the Alice is Missing RPG. And it's a doozy. The podcast Ludo Narrative Dissidents just reviewed it and intrigued me enough to get it.
It's a silent RPG - once playing it there's no talking. It's all done in group texts since you're a friend group searching for Alice. (1/-)

Yeah, have you SEEN this guy's burritos? I shudder to think of them.
The horror. The horror.

It was a great ad. But what are you going to do for us in 2026, Apple? Or was standing up to a tyrannical Big Brother just hypothetical?

I have backed Mutants and Masterminds 4. And I decided to add on the Condition Cards as well. I REALLY want the condition cards.

Hate the surveillance state? I don't think so. It's always been about WHO was being surveilled. J Edgar Hoover and his COINTELPRO programs, the PATRIOT Act, the GOP has been as surveillance-friendly as anybody else... as long as it's the other guys being surveilled.

AKA "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

That was a great statement and Mamdani does well to echo its sentiments.

That's one of the problems with most health care insurance options - you're stuck in a network and can't just pick any specialist you want. Medicare allows you to pick anyone*.
Single, national payor - it's a way OUT of restrictive networks.

*Anyone who takes Medicare payments at all, that is.

You've just opened up a Star Trek themed restaurant.

What are you calling it?

It'll be a Chinese chicken restaurant...

MAKE IT TSO

We're already deficient at this. It's not like a massive reform is going to make it much worse - if we follow models that people have already used.
Who tells people they can/can't get care? Corporations - is that better? No.
Who runs it? Brian Thompson and his care-denying AIs? Not really better.

But can they trust what the LLM is reporting back to them? Will the information be trustworthy or a hallucination from the AI? Will those boys have the tools to analyze what's coming back to them or will they accept anything, no matter how faulty the information is?

Speaker Johnson, don't threaten me with a good time.

The place is so neat. Do people actually live there? How are there not papers and stuff stacked about every horizontal surface?

This is one of the scenes that has always stuck with me from All in the Family. I'm not sure exactly why, but the whole "sock and a sock and a shoe and a shoe" really embedded itself in my brain.

Wouldn't MILITARY GRADE often be made by the lowest bidder?!?

Prompt was: Type your zodiac into gif and see what comes up! Post your fave one.

I went with Chinese Zodiac.

Kind of underscores that George W Bush's PEPFAR, an example of supposed "compassionate conservatism" that may have been sincere for him on this topic, represented just a blip among Republicans overall.

That game is giving off “It Came from the Late Late Late Show” vibes.

Where Last Jedi falls down is it utterly wastes Finn, a complete shame when it handles Rey's and Poe's stories so well.
It also writes itself into a corner. ESB succeeds at split parties and pursuit by never specifying a specific timeline - LJ specifies things in hours - a real immersion killer.

I generally rank Phantom Menace as the best of the prequels. It may have overlong space battles, overlong pod races, and stupid ascension guns - but it has 2 interesting characters - which is 2 more than either of the other prequels. Plus, hands down the best light saber fight.

Wouldn't that be JD sleeping WITH the couch?

Trump advisor openly implying the Trump administration is or will be calling on the US military to do illegal and unconstitutional things.

Even before the internet, people have a tendency to judge their fellows in an all-or-nothing way. Saints or demons.

But just because MTG and Boebert are terrible people on most issues, that doesn't mean we can't have common cause on occasion. If they can help release the Epstein files - use it!

A fascinating thread.

Yet another reminder that Republicans really have become terrible people.
If you vote GOP, this is the kind of asshole you’re voting for.

Bernie Sanders is 84 and serving his 4th Senate term. Mandatory retirement and term limits would have deprived the US of his voice a decade or more ago. It's not the age or number of terms that are the problem.
A bigger problem is lack of choice driven by voter apathy and corporate money.

Trump shares false claim Obama earned $40m in ‘royalties’ from Obamacare US president promoted fictional claim from satirical website that has been debunked repeatedly since 2017

Cheeto “the Pedo” Benito is either the stupidest motherfucker or he thinks his MAGAt supporters are.

This is the challenge of democracy in a society full of unequal relationships. People in power and using it to keep wages low, access to care down, and rents rising are always outnumbered - but they can count on many people tuning out the political process that could otherwise keep them in balance.

He's naming it what now? The Epstein Ballroom? Is that what I heard - Epstein Ballroom?
Got it. He's building the Epstein Ballroom.