Micah

somehow actually the least bad option!

desk job + gym membership is the ideal dude life and these dipshits should embrace it rather than attempting to upend the entirety of civilization on the basis of Gender

Tesla sued after Austin shooting suspect allegedly assaulted co-worker A 65-year-old woman says the automaker ignored warning signs before Ndiaga Diagne, the suspect in Sunday’s mass shooting, assaulted her. She sued Thursday.

the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year

the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter

www.statesman.com/business/art...

and it’s all fucking mountains! how well did that shit work out in afghanistan

the entire idea is insane

the stove has been well and truly touched, man

what’s extra terrifying right now is the knowledge that there’s just no backstop at all

we are locked in a box with a madman for another three years and there’s absolutely nothing that he can do to make his own party take the keys away and so the madness continues

it doesn’t feel sustainable, but…

valid argument, there is no universe where that happens because then he wouldn’t be Sam Vimes anymore

Vimes has a lot of great moments in the series but I think this book is him at his very most Vimes

so aware of ACAB that his internal watchman is more than up to the task of taking on an ancient spirit of vengeance

where’s my cow indeed

Discworld QOTD, from Thud!

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

zero percent chance that Susan Collins doesn't immediately drop all of this the second the general election starts if this guy wins the primary - the DoD is 100% sitting on the file on this guy and will send it to her the second he wins the nomination

oh, your weapon of choice is words?

you have chosen... poorly

the GOAT and it ain't close

it's insane that my country's current position is that, if we don't like the leader of a sovereign nation, not only do we get to kill them we get to pick their successor

"I feel liberated," said a top banker. "We can say 'retard' and 'pussy' withtout the fear of getting cancelled... its a new dawn"

We should never ever forget why they did it

"please send this person directly to jail, as this is clearly a mugshot"

ooh, deep cut

when one of them starts to complain of the pain in the diodes down its left side then we know we're really in trouble

preemptively: please do not explain LLMs to me in the replies, the joke format was too obvious to pass up

anthropic: I have made AI

tech nerds: you fucked up a perfectly good computer is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

guess CBP had better use that enormous new budget to hire some tech experts to help with this

oh, throwing more guys at the problem doesn't actually work a lot of the time in tech? well, better throw a LOT of guys then, maybe the entire budget's worth

no new agents for you, sorry

the American economy is like that Douglas Adams quote about space ("[the economy] is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.")

as we have been learning, it is really, really hard for even the most determined president to send it off the rails

but he may do it yet

what’s even more extraordinary is that the economy was mostly doing okay despite his absolute best efforts - as damaging as his tariffs and immigration policies are, we hadn’t tipped over into a recession

and so, unsatisfied, he decided to kick the economy in the dick with a huge oil shock

I loved this show very very much a long time ago

it is long past time to let it (and certainly Whedon and Baldwin) fade away

correct

there is no reason for a single one of them to vote for Mullin (yes, Mr. Fetterman, that means you) and they should make this as embarrassing as possible - which, given Mullin’s extensive track record of putting his foot in his mouth, shouldn’t even be that hard

I will never get the AIM open/close door sounds out of my head for as long as I live

I got my bluesky invite from a friend I first met on IRC

do not cite the deep magic to us

Discworld QOTD, from Making Money

In shambles because my Quote 🐐 remains in his prime and he continues to do so under the banner of my most hated ops 😩😩😩😩

god I love Psycho Joe so much

Point/Counterpoint This War Will Shut Off 20% of the Global Petroleum Supply for A Month and Send the Economy into a Stagflationary Tailspin vs. No It Won’t Published: March 26, 2003