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Good luck getting her or the Party to admit that, they'd rather keep losing elections since it helps bring in donations while avoiding any chance of their bluff being called—they're far happier with Republican policies than their voters are

It’s great that every issue that could be solved by asking corporations and the wealthy to live slightly differently now involves a government being like “oh you have a small light that stays on in the bathroom? Way to fuck everything up dickhead”

That's true, it would narrow down the possibility space to N-1 possibilities

I'm a huge disbeliever in proprietary software, and yet whenever I use #macOS I find myself astonished by some way it still manages to limbo under my low expectations

Latest example: apparently it'll let you set the hint for a user account's pass to just, like, literally the entire pass verbatim?!

I mean there's the dogwhistle way to read the ad but the simpler way (and this is not to say that both can't be true) is that her genes would likely carry a predisposition towards big boobs

"well PAST fascist Republican administrations were fine, it's only the current one that is bad, we shouldn't dismantle the Gestapo"

I don't know what you're talking about, no hero would be Refusing The Call
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They just desperately want to still like the books

I Montréal last week I spat on a Tesla I saw parked, and one of the folks I was traveling with was like "c'mon Keith, I get the sentiment but..."

Then later we were walking by another Tesla and a random guy going past it spat on it and I was like "see, this is socially acceptable in a real city!"

It woulda been incredibly cool if we got an actually Maoist Chinese Century but "doing Capitalism just not the super dumb bits" is still putting them on such a better trajectory than The West that it's gonna be astonishing

*Strange New Wars* is eternally embarrassed of Kirk's double-fisted stage fighting from TOS and it thinks high-concept fight scenes are what people tuned in for and were disappointed by. Like no man. I was okay with the camp, fully on board with camp, I don't want to see the fights I want resolution

I went ahead and made the most basic raw technical implementation of such a site, and because I'm so extra when doing this stuff I nonetheless opened a bugtracker ticket in my personal bugtracker lol: beat.keithzg.ca

Okay fuckit lets do this, pick an openly licensed font and lets start there I bet I can have something up in like an hour (gotta rush to but albums before Bandcamp Friday ends first)

Yesssssss

Healthcare to what?! Reduce chronic disease, emergency care costs, and protect worker productivity? In this economy?

My graph of a main floor sensor and two upstairs ones, closely grouped and slowly sine-waving from ~22° to ~28°, while the outdoors garage sensor that gets direct sunlight in the evenings swings WILDLY

I'm lucky enough to live in a place with large, openable screen windows (including a full screen pullout for the front door) so when there's a bit of a breeze at night and I shut everything up and close the blinds early enough in the morning, it's very doable! But that does seem tenuous, heh

I feel like climate change will eventually make it untenable, especially in combo with smoke, but I've managed to eke out an AC-less existence so far and boy howdy does the right breeze help

What AI companies want everyone to think AI can do, what CEOs want it to do, what workers want it to do, and what it can actually do feels like a Venn diagram of 4 discrete circles

Arendt needs to be removed from anyone who isn't already deep in the subject, and with warnings that her book is complete bullshit lol.

Growing? That’s been the only consensus within the Democratic Party of how to respond to the right wing in the 36 years I’ve been alive.

And Pete is maybe one of the *least* surprising Dems to jump at the chance for a little deal with the devil to give a perceived advantage to an org at the expense of people's lives, guy worked for McKinsey and US Intelligence!

Soldier protecting sleeping child meme: The onslaught of weaponry is labeled "valid criticism" The soldier is labeled "the abstract concept of women" The child is labeled "liberalism"

Yes, that figure who was briefly feted in the early 2010s for openly and provocatively speaking out on issues such as feminism and LGBT rights, before more capitalist and neoliberal views disillusioned many former supporters, is now dating [is it funnier to put Trudeau or Perry here?]

I think in general in "Western" "democracies" it is other than weird and/or small edge cases, and Mayor of NYC might even be the biggest of them. Though I'll let myself hope that a win might change headwinds elsewhere...

We really need to build Gundams and send them to Ansar Allah already

Or in other words, a Liberal

If you buy the right one of them, you can also buy and install SailfishOS, which is as gorgeous and practical as the Somy hardware deserves

there are Joes Rogan of the left everywhere for those with eyes to see

Well, they're working just fine for capital!

Do . . . do you think Epstein was in the Senate?