He can’t say that in a meeting that will obviously have leaks. It would be “value-destroying.”

What’s the point of having “Fuck You Money” if you don’t say “Fuck you” when it matters?

A dumb sunuvabitch who didn’t respect civilian authority and you don’t know why a lot of the rest of society seems to love him?

There’s always somebody winning at SEO and gaming the algorithm, and there are few tactics more effective than “Exciting and Wrong”

Whenever people act like disruptive protest is such a terrible tactic, I have to wonder what they think would work instead. Like, do they think the letter writing campaigns that have gone exactly nowhere in 40 years are on the verge of a breakthrough?

Or would they prefer the environmental movement to compile an overly literal companion reader to Andreas Malm?

The Prime Minister is de jure the acting president in case of a vacancy. Given the strength of legal institutions in Russia Mikhail Mishustin would have some work ahead of him to actually hold power.

At some point, and we all have to draw our lines somewhere, which means this will vary person to person, we have to acknowledge that this deniability is no longer plausible.

Years of replying ‘good point’ to every “Camp of the Saints” reference on the social media website you bought followed by a Roman salute feels like a good place to draw that line.

Nah, death by bulldozer shows up in any modern industrialized country that really wants some people out of the way. For instance.

He was on that Blitz Rationing.

Like Turkish Delight is fine, but it isn’t “get your siblings murdered by a witch” good. But I suppose if you’ve been cut off from your home country’s empire’s only source of flavor for a year and a half, your judgement may be clouded a bit.

Yeah, and the Capitol subway probably has loads of security. Can’t have a new Guy Fawkes Day in January.

I wonder how much of the rejection of real issues with marijuana are the after effects of nearly a century of it being demonized with sources like “we made it up” or “we just really want to jail black people and college students”.

Then again, we have people out there believing that the entire world was ruled by a single nomadic horde, the world was flooded with mud in the mid 1800s, and 1*1=2 so we might just have a broader issue with people rejecting facts they don’t like.

State charge. Garland can’t even claim credit for this conviction-without-a-sentence.

Order people to fire off more explosives than the human mind can comprehend in a war, then launch more explosives than that entire war in every battle of the next war, and you get called a “great man”

You toss a single grenade at that first guy and suddenly you’re the “bomb thrower”.

Blue sky (and just about anything else) is an improvement, but remember, there is no bottom, things can always be worse. Truth Social and Gab both still exist.

These websites, because they are all centralized, are all ultimately moderated in accordance with the whims of their owners, the effect of which was thrown into sharp relief after Apartheid Willy Wonka bought Twitter.

With a federated platform like Mastodon, no single owner would be able to do this. If an instance suddenly became terrible, they could be de-federated and they’d lose their reach.

Of course, if one instance became particularly large, the ‘whims of the owner’ problem would come right back, but at least the alternatives would still be readily available.

2010-12 I’d reckon.

Before your dad had a smartphone.

Before all social media had switched from chronological to algorithmic serving of content.

Before the fraudulent-data-driven “pivot to video” that killed all the websites that aren’t part of the cycle of screenshots from one of four websites reposted on the other three.

That’s the margin the Dems have in big cities. But unlike all the states where you have cities, their suburbs, and the rural space between, DC is nothing but urban center.

Just spray your roads with industrial waste to control dust. What’s the worst that could happen?

Should be about sea level.

(The top of the cliff is, assuming Google maps is halfway accurate, about 600 meters)

Kennedy wore a top hat to his inauguration. And I feel like any impression of Jackie features the pill box hat.

And Bond is British, what would he care about fashion trends on this side of the Atlantic?

The fact that there’s very little clearance for a proper hat inside of a car (as opposed to the higher ceiling in trains and buses) played a much larger role in killing the hat.

The social media rhetoric is a response to the material conditions. If people weren’t regularly pushed to bankruptcy or left to die by the “Delay Deny Defend” industry, they wouldn’t have any malice towards the industry’s leaders. If the industry didn’t give nearly everyone a reason to hate what Brian Thompson represented, they wouldn’t have celebrated his death.

He said he was going to do what he said he would do.

Not that he wouldn’t do things he said he wouldn’t do.