Justin C

AOC: The girls are fighting aren’t they

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Be gay do crow stuff

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Hey, I don't have answers, but I'm free tonight and tomorrow if you want to go sit by the beach. Let me know.

The GAO, the OMB, and the various OIGs literally already exist for this purpose and have clear items identified to increase government efficiency. Their work and reports have been public for decades. It's just that lobbyists/the 1% don't like what they have to say, so we pretend they don't exist.

Something in Ender's Game was foundational to my moral framework, but it was along the lines of "in order to truly understand another, we must acknowledge their own self-perception, and in doing so we must love them as they love themselves. This does not stop us disagreeing with or defeating them."

I don't know if you have anyone else telling you this so I wanna make sure it gets said- Even if you put on some weight you'll still be an amazing person and hot as hell. So get some good food in you and have a nap.

Costco and Trader Joes are yin and yang. Together they form a harmonious balance. One sells big piles of normal food, the other sells small piles of weird food. These are the two food piles people need

The answer is more hot dogs than most men are comfortable admitting to.

In heaven there's a big ripe mango, it's not stringy at all, and you're good at cutting it. You cut it so well.

I wouldn't call E or X "food" necessarily, but they'll certainly take you for a ride.

I recognize I'm like five years late on this fight, but I'll die on this hill: Water IS in fact wet. "Wetness" is the quality of having a high moisture content, usually observed through touch. Water both has this quality and is capable of transferring this quality to other substances.

The iconic Carina Nebula image from JWST with a red square zooming into the orange region and showing the size of our solar system, including the Sun, Jupiter belt, Pluto, and Voyager 1 relative to that region of the nebula.

i don’t think we realize just how MASSIVE things in space are

looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.

The circumstances are “we’re not sure if there is a Federal Trade Commission anymore and we’d like to try something”

Balls crossed for you! Not sure if it's luckier, and it's definitely more uncomfortable, but in the spirit of the tanuki it feels appropriate.

All the cranes flying overhead at sunset is such a visceral Albuquerque memory for me. Love that place.

Look, I’m a man of CULTURE. I own the COMPLETE Calvin and Hobbes. I enjoy ferrero rochets on the REGULAR. I’ve seen EVERY episode of Murder She Wrote. So yes OF COURSE I want the tableside guacamole, what kind of question is that?

One of the biggest insights I've ever had into the behavior of the political spectrum in the US was realizing just how vulnerable the human psyche is to the desire to possess "secret knowledge". As a species we are HUGE suckers for the idea "I know the REAL TRUTH that most people don't understand."

Lol we need to buy you some new pants.

For my money, it's staggering to me that modern readers are completely unfamiliar with the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books. I know they're older, but they feel like such central pillars of scifi/humor lit. And yet time marches on...

I was born around when Snow Crash came out. I think it's met the same end as basically all old cyberpunk lit: the ideas, themes, and tropes of the work have become so well-established that to young readers it just all feels cliche and undifferentiated from the genre as a whole.

I'm too old to be hip— are there current popular music artists who are explicitly anti-establishment? Back in the Bush years we had Rage Against The Machine and Greenday and System Of A Down openly calling out the current administration on mainstream FM radio. Who is carrying that mantle today?

(cw suicide) i probably think about this image set more than anything else i saw on tumblr a decade ago. That's Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy btw.

It's all a reckless spray of BS to try and throw the system into chaos, but that's the narrative they're trying to put together.

My interpretation: technically the original memo said "Trump has issued a wave of EOs, freeze all funding until we review and confirm that each individual expense doesn't go against any of the new EOs." They're now claiming "even though the freeze has been stopped, you still have to follow the EOs".

The "first they came..." poem gets quoted and quoted and quoted and quoted and you know what, we do in fact know who they're coming for first, right now, and that is trans people, and the answer needs to be "absolutely the fuck not, you motherfuckers," full stop.

It's /mostly/ ordered by listens, but their Top Songs list has a Recency weight to it. You'll often see a band's brand-new single in the #1 spot even though they have an older song with more plays.

I was all excited because I got a 218 on Wheatus, but then I realized Spotify doesn't order top songs purely by number of listens, and they have a 20mil song further down in the ranking which puts them at 37.

Don't give us too much credit. We're just too stubborn to let anything stand above our distaste for hot beverages.