Micah

ooh, deep cut

when one of them starts to complain of the pain in the diodes down its left side then we know we're really in trouble

preemptively: please do not explain LLMs to me in the replies, the joke format was too obvious to pass up

anthropic: I have made AI

tech nerds: you fucked up a perfectly good computer is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

guess CBP had better use that enormous new budget to hire some tech experts to help with this

oh, throwing more guys at the problem doesn't actually work a lot of the time in tech? well, better throw a LOT of guys then, maybe the entire budget's worth

no new agents for you, sorry

the American economy is like that Douglas Adams quote about space ("[the economy] is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.")

as we have been learning, it is really, really hard for even the most determined president to send it off the rails

but he may do it yet

what’s even more extraordinary is that the economy was mostly doing okay despite his absolute best efforts - as damaging as his tariffs and immigration policies are, we hadn’t tipped over into a recession

and so, unsatisfied, he decided to kick the economy in the dick with a huge oil shock

I loved this show very very much a long time ago

it is long past time to let it (and certainly Whedon and Baldwin) fade away

correct

there is no reason for a single one of them to vote for Mullin (yes, Mr. Fetterman, that means you) and they should make this as embarrassing as possible - which, given Mullin’s extensive track record of putting his foot in his mouth, shouldn’t even be that hard

I will never get the AIM open/close door sounds out of my head for as long as I live

I got my bluesky invite from a friend I first met on IRC

do not cite the deep magic to us

Discworld QOTD, from Making Money

In shambles because my Quote 🐐 remains in his prime and he continues to do so under the banner of my most hated ops 😩😩😩😩

god I love Psycho Joe so much

Point/Counterpoint This War Will Shut Off 20% of the Global Petroleum Supply for A Month and Send the Economy into a Stagflationary Tailspin vs. No It Won’t Published: March 26, 2003

yeah and there’s a reason nobody has taken Trump up on his “we’ll insure your ship, pinky promise” garbage

nobody’s fucking around with this kind of risk

what I’m saying here is the oil situation might be Fucked for quite a while

the thing about “we’re not going through the strait of hormuz because we might get hit by missiles” is that even if you do actually take out Iran’s capacity to do that you’ve gotta convince the people actually piloting the ships that it’s safe

and this is not exactly the most trustworthy group

I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.

I mean Marco Rubio got confirmed 99-0 and he’s got a good argument as the single most evil cabinet member other than RFK

you cannot vote for a guy because he’s polite to you in the senate cafeteria

one thing that’s changed in the House (it started with the Tea Party when some real freaks started getting elected) is that there’s less cross-aisle camaraderie because people across the aisle are the kind of people you cross the street to avoid

the Senate needs to learn this lesson

we are truly in a media literacy crisis

yeah a ton of my favorite character moments came in those sorts of weird throwaway episodes, I miss them

I have a terrible time keeping up with shows nowadays so in some ways the transition has been good for me, but man it just gave you so much room to develop the characters and get the audience attached to them

mf did in fact say manger

fascinating work by autocorrect here

proud husband time: my wife got the permanent team manger position she had been applying for at her job (after being the interim) and I am very proud of her because she is brilliant and amazing and I’m glad they are recognizing that fact

I watched eva a lot as a teenager

drunk misato > asuka > gendo (you know that guy is a world class troll) > sober misato > rei >>>>>>>>> shinji

It’s so cool how we’re in a large-scale military conflict and the President is spending his time building a ballroom.

This rocks. I finally know what being a Roman must have felt like.

it’s real good at “track down this excessively weird corner case” too because it can just spend all day throwing shit at the wall

“2026 is a bad year for me, a Democrat, to be running for reelection” - not a thing basically anywhere in the country, and yet

the Dem base wants you to fight, not throw your own constituents under the bus