Sometimes I think I’ve accepted the finality of the future we have in store, and then sometimes I get really irate and want to go scream at the deniers I know. It’s a weird balance. How do you mourn the future? Real question, my therapist is struggling with it too.
I’ve already started production on a line of (still in stealth mode). I think I can do enough in sales - both direct to consumer and wholesale to shops - to patent it and then cover my mortgage and other bills. And hey, if AI doesn’t take my job, maybe I’ll finally get out of debt. Of course it could fail and I’ll be out the seed money, but I’ll also have hundreds of (product) to remind me of my shame, so, whatever.
It’s like when a kid grows up with an abusive father, watches his mom get punched and treated like an animal, and thinks “I’ll never be like that,” and then 15 years later he’s wondering how to make his knuckles less bloody when he teaches his wife a lesson.
Wouldn’t the more a accurate headline be “Fetterman is the only pro-Iran-War senator to claim to be a democrat?”
Can you imagine how furious the shareholders would be if we built hospitals and water treatment facilities with their money?!
You don’t want to discover you wanted to layer the queef track AFTER the artist has left the studio.
Joke’s on you, holy water fart bubbles are my kink
You can certainly compile and run your own apps, you need to pay the developer fee if you want to distribute the software to other people’s Macs or iOS, or use advanced features like iCloud integration or push messages.
I shared an office with Frank Meeink for a week while he was in town giving lectures and speeches. Which only furthered my belief that redemption is always possible. Although since then Trump has been president twice, so I am revising that to “in most cases.”
Also there’s an issue with soil microbes and soil exhaustion. It’s been a minute since I heard about it, but I had a friend at a government lab who was testing soil in various areas, and found a shockingly low number of crop cycles before the soil is depleted into a dead substance. So that’ll be neat because we sure won’t reckon with it in advance.
Peace of death you say
In before everyone trashes IQ for being racist and pointless.
And I’m not saying it isn’t ethnocentric and a bit arbitrary. But walk around a Mensa meeting and you’ll see things in common.
Mostly that everyone is really socially inept if not outright problematic.
But 90% liberal, yeah.
Let’s let capitalism intervene until they’re all in a call center in India
Eyes his french press suspiciously
I thought there were multiple confirmations on that
Nothing about the % of Americans who think trans people should be able to play HS sports on their new gender.
Because that’s like 45%.
Or who think trans youth should have access to gender affirming care, which is similarly low.
And those are the issues that the GOP is hammering, because they know it.
We have to get the spotlight off these issues we got ahead of public perception and there is a cost for that - a whole generation of trans people denied rights (I am less interested in sports than I am gender affirming care, which is hugely important for trans youth).
You can see trans folks realizing this… like 1/2 of the plaintiffs for the sports case that made it to SCOTUS thought the suit should be dropped before it got that far, because they realized it was going to go the wrong way.
It’s time to be more strategic until/if the GOP gets out of power, so we stop kneecapping ourselves.
Expect a tidal wave of “I can’t believe the Democrats did this to me” as that unfolds.
We saw what he’ll do during the Obama ape post. Blame a few staffers, not by name. Then say he’s not sorry and move on. I doubt the upset Christians will remember this or care in a week, two weeks.
Our last real election is in our rear-view mirror. People keep talking about the next president, the next Dem, I don’t think it’s a reality. We saw what he did the first time around - instigating a mob to storm the capitol. I don’t think this time he’ll be conceding, and I doubt he’ll let himself get into a position where conceding is even on the table. It’ll just a patchwork mess of states with fucked up elections, and it’ll be too much to reset in a couple of months before inauguration.
And there’s every chance they’ll continue to steal power, steal the elections, maintain control of the most powerfully diminishing country on Earth. So it doesn’t matter how much of the world hates them, at least to those of us trapped under them. The patients are running the asylum, they’ve shot the guards, and life goes on.