Will Li

Panel 1: Man asks cat "would you eat me if you had nothing to eat?". Panel 2: Cat says "never". Panel 3: Man hugs cat. Panel 4: Cat says "I don't eat trash".

Checking the areas I know decently well (NY/NJ/CT tristate area, New England, Mid Atlantic, Southern Appalachia), this map is very good

I missed one, and I think it was because I thought it was a human imitating a certain author and style, and instead it was an AI imitating a certain author and style.

The last time I saw this many people acting against self-interest it was the same crowd shout to keep stores and schools open during a pandemic, no matter what happened to the old people or kids.

I’m a nervous they’re actually building more muscle memory for acting contrary to their own interest

The combination of being on the downslope of an economic cycle, being in a tech bubble dominated by one tech whose marketing has far outstripped its substantive capacity, and having a gov’t full of people who are hitting the accelerator to drive downhill is not something we’ve seen in our lifetimes

It has to be some version of “suggesting that Democrats are not, running with the above message, when in fact they are” right?

Thanks!!

Is there a good primer on how to migrate oneself over?

…Giant meteor?

Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous?

Chlamydia

When it comes to cheese for a bacon, egg, and cheese, American cheese is in the S-Tier by itself, and every other cheese is somewhere under it

I hate to sound like The Menu, but American cheese is the ideal cheese for breakfast sandwiches and hamburgers

(pork rinds, not hummus)

I put some in my ramen the other day

hello please allow me to once again praise our lord and savior social graph distance sentiment analysis (in other words: the sentiment analysis alone is not always enough, but setting different thresholds for it based on how far away the person is from you can be a 10x multiplier)

D.C. MARRIAGES, SAVED! The D.C. Council just passed an emergency bill to let the city to issue marriage licenses. Because of the federal shutdown, D.C. Superior Court's Marriage Bureau has been unable to process marriage licenses since last week. (The court is federally funded.)

A country road. A tree.

Evening

it's just going to be umamusume, with more pay to play and racism

What is the opposite of the Tennyson line "my strength is as the strength of ten / Because my heart is pure" and is it this

Back pay for furloughs used to be a question. It certainly caused me stress when I was furloughed in 2013.

That changed in 2019 with the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act, which unambiguously guarantees back pay.

It passed the House 411-7. Mike Johnson voted for it. Donald Trump signed it.

yeah I was about to type "two decades" and then I was like . . . shit. It's more like three

I've been doing the message board / social media platform thing for almost three decades now, this is basic stuff.

this is really basic stuff. even setting aside whatever I think about substantive moderation decisions, there has been comms/PR snafu upon snafu.

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You just stare that big sucker right back in the eye and remember what Jack Burton always says at a time like that.

From a former OMB and HHS General Counsel. It doesn't get much plainer than this.

I look forward to reading the articles about how that landed