I've never had someone give me an honest response to "What do you mean, too far left?" that wasn't rooted in some kind of bigotry.

It's never, ever about them being too far left economically.

I once had someone tell me that Harris was "far left" on trans rights and that's why she lost the election and…it took a lot for me not to crack a molar.

I had this book as a kid. It's fantastic and so, so weird.

They were really hoping to get "back to normal" after the regularly scheduled chair-switch in 2026 and now that's at risk.

They won't erase their history.

Yours, on the other hand...

A screen capture from Apple's "1985" Macintosh ad, juxtaposted against a photo Tim Cook giving Donald Trump a golden participation trophy in exchange for tariff exemptions.

1984 wasn't like 1984, but 2025 is like 1984, only much stupider:

I've seen this line of reasoning, but with Mad Max and Australia.

Nope. Still going to watch the whole season. I have no choice in the matter, it's for research purposes.

I could have sworn Shockwave was in the pilot, but I guess the only remedy is for me to watch all of Season 1 today.

That was what I was struggling with. There was some Escher-level perspective-bending going on here.

It's nowhere near as horrible a regression as, eg, the loss of the spatial Finder in the move to OSX

I'd agree.

And honestly, Win8 wasn't that bad, it was just the Start menu that broke two decades of muscle memory and upset a lot of people who really liked the hierarchical Start menu.

And I'm not sure that was a bad thing, considering what an average user's Start looked like after a few months

The rest of what you're saying is absolutely true, though.

He's not a conspiracy theorist, he's a grifter with a history of making money off the snake-oil "alternative health" industry, specifically via legal extortion.

He's a fucking ambulance chaser who caught the ambulance.

Scene from the best Transformers media property of all time: Megatron, in a car, attempting to blast Cliffjumper, also in car form

I'd love to know how much of it is because of legitimate Sturmabteilung tactics, and how much is just spinelessness.

Ford doesn't really care about bike lanes. He cares about his real estate developer buddies.

He's doing this to keep you distracted from the deregulation and land grab elsewhere.

Hold his feet to the fire on that.

As a queer man, fuck you Pete.

Sometimes issues don't have multiple sides. Sometimes one side is right and the others are wrong.

"Please sir, don't blow up my business model!"

If there's one thing Ford hates, it's competition…

Nice!

Amber gas-plasma screens are the best.

This is where age-related hearing loss can be helpful /s

On a serious note, one of the nicest features AppleTV has is the ability use Airpods directly and I'm curious to know if they support 5.1 or 7.1.

My space isn't suited to speakers, but I've never actually tested how well airpods work.

Make Brutalism Great Again.

I'm sympathetic to callousness on the part of city councils, but that sympathy ends with the NIMBY attitude that only downtown renters deserve all the downsides urban living.

"We weren't consulted!" seems to be the battlecry.

Like, my dude, I wasn't consulted when forty crack addicts set up shop for three months in the park next door, but you were upset when they were eventually evicted after setting things on fire

But now that it's your neighbourhood it's an issue?

I'm watching the champagne socialists in my area. Many have "Basic Income Now!" lawn signs and decry tent-city evictions in downtown parks, yet they're having a conniption because the city is building a shelter/low income housing in their neighbourhood.

God, I miss the full Metro.

I generally speaking hate Windows with the fire of a thousand suns, but I do very much like Win 8, WP7 and Zune.

Learnt from the TF podcast that the UK government didn't apply the Online Safety Act rules to online gambling, and I think that tells you everything you need to know about how the country is run.

Example: Smearing critics of a state’s behavior and refusing to call it out left a vacuum that actual anti-semites were happy to fill.

Re: class, the center-left establishment can’t smother left-populism and then make pikachu faces when rightwing frames take off.

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