Jared Friedman🇺🇦

Ah! Hope they got it before the de minimis exemption expired!!

Beavis didn't hate women the way these bastards hate women. There's also no way he would throw away a dildo. And he would be making fun of the crypto-bros' haircuts.

I know what would fix this individual's loneliness, and hope he takes the hint soon.

And welcome to 44. I've been here for a few months, it ain't so bad. 😎

Or cranberries!!

I was informed by a full-grown adult this evening that "Ice Ice Baby" came out six years before she was born.

But happy almost-birthday!!

Yes, 100%. But distressing that this should be a completely unremarkable statement of human decency and respect for the law, and yet it's become notable.

He clearly meant to say "—a succulent Ph.D.-level expert."

Sure, in the sense that many people with doctorates are fucking idiots when it comes to any topic outside their field.

GPT-5 is like Ben Carson talking about public policy, but for all topics.

Hey, there's a war on Christmas, if the Republicans can't move it, it's a sitting duck.

Trump take Pepper & Egg.

Wait, I'm confused, didn't they just give him back a bunch of people who fled from his regime?

Polling in Florida must be gnarly!

Ack, that's a troubling thought. But no. I'm ashamed of everything, so gonna go out on a limb and claim humanity for myself. The consolation prize for imperfection.

Make me one, please!!

It can never feel shame, since it can never feel anything. And always comes off as genuinely trying to help.

It's fascinating that it's essentially just recombining written articles on AI, but by casting it in the first person, it sounds almost heartbreakingly self-aware. It is a genuinely extraordinary con-man.

And I hope we'll see our current pols start acting more like this as they start to perceive that morals are both more important and more saleable than the shallowest consensus-building. Look at Hochul, for Christ's sake. To say nothing of Pritzker, Newsom, Tammy Duckworth, Liz Warren etc.

The problem is that it can't work, even if the proposition were morally acceptable (which it isn't), because the ice cream man and trans people are exactly the same. We either respect human dignity or we don't. The fight for one is the fight for all.

Gollum as Lindsey Graham.

Yeah, this. The political professionals think they're protecting electable Mike Castle from insane Christine O'Donnell, but wildly misreading the room. Cuomo and his ilk *are not* electable, that's the damn problem. And Zohran etc do appeal to average people not doing political jujitsu.

Hell, look at Romania, just actually enforcing their election laws. Would be nice...

The detail in the White House is probably real gold, given Trump's proclivities, that looks like cheap plastic trash because everyone associated with it is cheap plastic trash.

They are, and this is a technical term, the softest pissbabies in the known universe.

Come on, professor, it's the corn liquor and you know it.

“We don’t erase history” says the sentient can of body spray who took Medgar Evers and Harvey Milk’s names off Navy ships

I don't really think "ugly" is accurate. The '09 analog was extremely ugly, because the fervor the pols were chasing was ugly - a bouquet of racism and lies about healthcare. What we're seeing this cycle is competition to see who can more forcefully take the gloves off, which is loud but not ugly.

Thank goodness *someone* is thinking of the Hitler concerns!

Unfortunately we have an entire party of fraudsters, along with a nonzero fraudster contingent in the other party.

Is the centerpiece on the table closest to us... a giant buttplug?

What do you mean? Surely widespread public embrace of consumer-facing AI technology, and individuals' willingness to pay a premium for it, is just around the corner! All my Friends(TM) in the Metaverse agree!