Great Depression (nightcore remix)

The difficulty with parody is that, like, the people being parodied *would actually say this*

And fortunately I work on a team where nobody gives a shit if you're glued to your work computer during the workday as long as you get your stuff done

my niche is, basically, "the weird shit" so sometimes the best thing really is just to go do something else that doesn't require much focus to give myself the time to fully think through the problem

one nice thing about my particular niche within my team is that, like, walking away from my work computer and doing something else entirely can still be extremely productive

fortunately i already treat computers with mistrust, professionally, and am employed primarily to attempt to herd vast and inherently somewhat unknowable monsters (distributed systems with too goddamn many queues and caches) so i feel like these will probably translate reasonably well

Give Scotland another referendum, cowards

instead of Reform I think the UK should Unform

pubsub and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

Just nearly got tricked into listening to Matt Stoller saying words. gotta stay on your toes out here on Al Gore's internet

"what if we made the clock twice as ugly and half as legible"

Windows Vista-ass design

Steve Jobs is rolling over in his grave lol

Wow liquid glass looks *awful*

FFXIV players want exactly one thing and it's to have a hot vampire mommy crush their windpipe until they literally die

doomed yaoi is so powerful...

jrpg protagonists love to be like "fellas is it gay to swear your boundless & undying love for your boys, but like, in a heterosexual way?"

to be extremely blunt, if the US military actually believed it had a duty to uphold the Constitution it would have mutinied by this point.

Paris Trojanwar's gotta be up there

almost like these people's politics have no actual substance and are literally just a collection of villains and heroes to tell stories about

Fascinating watching people who, 4 days ago, would talk your ear off about how the big studios crush artistic expression pivot *directly* to mourning Warner Brothers as a victim of Netflix's capitalist destruction of film

Birthright citizenship is like one of the only unequivocally modern elements of the American constitutional order and should be protected at, literally, all costs.

what is even the point of the ACC if not causing abject chaos

"2016 was a catastrophe, and 2024 was a catastrophe, and we must make sure 2032 is a catastrophe because rethinking even one single assumption we've made might require admitting we were wrong about something, and that's *much* worse"

[wisely] the way you exercise power when you have it is by having spent all your time out of power refusing to develop any theory of what to do with it

"I want people to be so angry about how fascists treat the Constitution that they...surrender and allow fascists to continue doing it" just incredible

imagine being so fucking stupid you think that "using power to protect people's rights" is a form of "spitting on people's rights"

Write whatever shit you want into the Bill of Rights! Argue that the 5th amendment actually implicitly mandates UBI! Who cares if it's "true"!

none of this is about what is *actually true* about the Constitution because the Constitutional framework has stopped functioning, it's all about pure power, so you can just say whatever! Argue that Confederate states' readmission was illegal so they can't have Congressional delegations or EC votes!

one sign, imo, that actually-existing liberalism is unfit to meet the moment: liberal legal scholars' response to conservative legal "scholarship" trying to write the 14th amendment out of existence has been to whine that that's ridiculous, rather than actually fight back

Depends how much longer the left, center left, and center right of every European country west of Poland decide to spend huffing their own farts instead of treating the global far right like a real existential threat