Fun thing to think about very briefly: who currently has better lawyers, the United States or Nintendo
07.03.2026 00:04
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Fun thing to think about very briefly: who currently has better lawyers, the United States or Nintendo
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
Roses are red,
Violets are icky,
This is not the best part of the firing, but it’s in the Top 10.
76 years ago, Ray Bradbury wrote There Will Come Soft Rains—a story about a fully automated house continuing its routines after nuclear war wipes out humanity.
The date in the story?
August 4, 2026.
“Soft Rains Day” is only about 5 months away. Let’s survive it.
The crap I talk about second-tier Girl Scout cookies is belied by my behavior when I’m left alone in the office with a box of Tagalongs.
A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable
Made it to Friday but at what cost
This goes beyond politics, and is not even a statement about politics.
Something is wrong with us. This nation is broken on a cultural level. I can't define it, and I don't know how to fix it. But we are tearing ourselves apart. If we don't diagnose and treat that, the rest of it won't matter
The reason we have “stupid rules of engagement” is to make sure we don’t bomb elementary schools.
This is how you write a goddamn headline.
Large-language models gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Who could have foreseen that the president who lies about literally everything, no matter how large or small, would lie about his intentions for war? I for one am as shocked as when mommy disappeared behind her hands only to reappear moments later
Love how getting a little banged up is socially acceptable if it’s caused by a visit to the dentist.
“Oh, I made your lip bleed and leaned on your jaw so hard it feels like I snapped it off and wired it carelessly back together? Bummer. That’ll be $800, now get back to work.”
No, WhatsApp, I do NOT want to read an ai summary of the one-sentence update somebody just posted. And you might as well stfu, because I never will. 🙄
Seems like the media should at least express some curiosity about this.
open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...
They are bombing schools in other countries and sending American soldiers to their death and they can’t even be arsed to decide on a reason. It is utterly maddening.
not the most important thing going on rn by a wide margin and not something that is new information to me but nonetheless my mind keeps drifting back to the absolutely confounding idea of going on vacation to dubai
I'm sorry, if you're going to make a big show about how you've got a Department of WAR helmed by a Secretary of WAR and staffed by WARfighters, it's totally inane to then claim that your massive bombing of a foreign country constitutes something other than a war.
literally your customer base was 90% parents of young children who want a good future for their kids in which they can be free to be themselves, no matter who they are. you told those people to go fuck themselves. they won't be back
OF COURSE Iran is fighting back!
OF COURSE the conflict is spreading!
What did they think would happen?
The US is being run by half-wits…
A bonfire on a lawn seen through trees at night. In the background a full moon shines on the sea and a house.
Calcifer on the Lawn
In a democracy, the war on Iran would not be possible.
Oh how I wish our leaders read history books.
Headline in today's Guardian that reads "Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40 percent, study finds. Cognitive health in later life is 'strongly influenced' by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers."
This is why you need to be reading books and writing your own emails, by the way. When you outsource your thinking abilities, you risk turning your brain into soup. Heavy dependence on AI has already been linked with severe cognitive decline. What you don’t use, you will lose.
Let’s all call Massie today and get him to switch parties. Then force Gonzalez to resign. Then get the gavel, issue some subpoenas, and impeach some motherfuckers
Social media has its issues but god bless it for its ability to distract from pain.
Who cares if it feels like a gnome is clawing its way through your digestive tract with a pickax, that dog is wearing sunglasses rad.
this is what they said it would be like under socialism
New rule: if you come up with an innovation that is not, in fact, an innovation — such as an office building with windows that can *gasp* open and close for temperature regulation— you don’t get to brag about your innovative approach to architecture.
Every anti-vaxxer I encounter seems to love weird unregulated supplements. They hate Big Pharma but they love Little Pharma, Big Pharma’s younger sibling who grew up without any adult supervision.