Peter Boothe

I’ve never had Buster Keaton be funny but I bet I’d laugh my ass off at “The General” in a theater where I couldn’t look at my phone or go to the kitchen when even slightly bored.

That “Putting on the Ritz” scene is one of the funniest things I have ever seen. The pure earnest pathos from the monster.

But it’s a throwback comedy - if your viewing conditions are unlike a theater, it’s less funny. The Marx brothers are kinda funny, but in a theater: gut-busting. Same here.

• 30% of Americans want immigration decreased, down from 55% a year ago • Record-high 79% consider immigration good for the country • Support down for border wall, mass deportation

It's nuts that Democrats are still acting so cowed about immigration when public opinion on it seems quite malleable and there's blowback now to right wing anti-immigrant politics in practice. You can win on this issue, you barely even have to try

Anyway: If this year has taught you anything, I hope it's that white supremacy is fake as hell, fails without support, and requires extensive enforcement and blatant acts of favoritism and exclusion to survive.

All-white/white supremacist spaces, political, social, and professional, are a choice.

I'll go even more shallow: I think he read Snow Crash as a teen and thought "everyone wants this" and never reconsidered his opinion.

Gollum snarling

Mental health experts: You’ll probably sleep better if you leave your phone in another room.

Me:

Photo of a dilapidated Chuck E. Cheese animatronic rotting outside in the middle of nowhere

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Kitchens on fire off the oil in the ovens. I watched tokens glitter in the dark near the skeeball grate. All those moments will be lost in time, like pizzas in rain. Time to die.

GI Joe was full of shit, knowing is at best like 12% of the battle.

I’ll admit this is depressing to me, that the GOP is trying to bring back the 50’s but in their heart of hearts Schumer and Jeffries and their ilk just want to bring back the 90’s. There’s no party infrastructure (plenty of individuals) actively forward-looking.

They did in 2000 when I decided to accept a different job offer.

One of the most frustrating things about Trump’s goons is they think they invented the idea that killing everyone you don’t like makes you safe, like there weren’t other reasons we don’t do it than “we don’t have what it takes.” The laws of war for example exist to stop atrocities AGAINST you too

But I still have to earn my living.

And at the end of the day, anyone who has to earn their living but lives and votes like they're independently wealthy is fooling themselves.

Solidarity isn't allyship. It's self-interest.

the actual key to wealth as a software engineer is not so much saving your salary as “oops I forgot to diversify my investments”

should you sell stock so your wealth is not all tied up in one company? yes

are you much better off if you did not do that? also yes

AI bubble go brrrr

Senator Kelly is correct.

Plus a Public Service Announcement:

KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.

The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

I feel like one of the most underrated explanations for what's happening right now in global politics is that almost everyone has lost their minds.

More than half of white people approve of how Trump is handling immigration.

It turns out approval polls still have the power to shock and dismay me.

It does feel like a lot of scam-like things haven’t unwound and are just kind of waiting around for ZIRP to happen again so they can step on the gas again.

this guy is betting on a future with accountability for today’s crimes, so we should too

We are still, I assure you, New York Fucking City.

Pope stands holding a baseball bat on a plane

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

it’s vitally important for the future of this country that this wildly unpopular administration is tied directly to its enablers in congress and the courts and used to discredit the entire conservative movement

The most reactionary anti-immigrant policy in my lifetime cannot fail it can only be failed, both the absence and presence of violence against the state are seen as justifications for its continued and expanded brutality.

The Reichstag has unanimously enacted the following law, which is promulgated herewith:

Keep the vision board simple and fun.

Just the worst people

Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.

We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."

I would be so much happier to have participated in today’s more inclusive Scouting. Its previous underlying social conservatism of “no girls and no gays” was off-putting when looked at directly. Which is why we generally didn’t, which of course allowed it to persist.

Adding another “papers, please” moment to the American experience.

Fuck this. I became an Eagle Scout because wherever the Navy moved us there was always a scout troop to join.

All the supposedly progressive people saying 'Nigel Farage's racism doesn't matter. His fans love it'.

It matters whether the leader of the party leading all the opinion polls is an outright racist. It matters if he called black people 'wogs' and said 'gas them' to Jews. Not everything is a game