Doctor Memory

Pictured: George Washington putting the Delaware River in between himself and Isaac Chotiner.

Think how bad the COVID response was with Trump in charge, and that's when we still had real public health people in charge of the CDC. We have a war halfway around the world against a country of 90 million being led by a weekend Fox News Host. We're going to get what we voted for good and hard.

Chotiner go on Hot Ones.

I mean, only the rich can afford to take helicopters from the chelsea piers to the Hamptons, and the solution to that problem is not to subsidize helicopter rides for everyone else...

I can confirm that if you’re even a little bit Online, this one is a jump scare for the ages.

Democrats may not be able to prevent Mullin's confirmation, but they can certainly turn his track record of offense and stupidity into two days of televised humiliation so spectacular that he is wounded in Trump's eyes from day 1. That is the job.

My second favorite song on Kid A.

The domain blank.org was registered in February of 1996.

Heh. Heh. Heh.

Another 5 years and blank.org will be eligible to run for president. (And I was Online for at least five or six years before getting my hands on a domain name. Closer to 12 if you count BBSes.)

More seriously: I think we really do need to figure this out, because I can't see any way that we ever get a hold on our absurd level of registration and insurance fraud without RPP.

No one ever listens to my brilliant idea, which deals neatly with the resident-to-curbspace ratio problem:

Auction the permits.

("My 'I am not a crank' t-shirt should answer any questions raised by my t-shirt or for that matter this post.)

If NYC would like me to remove my AirPods, NYC can reduce the ambient volume level by about 20dB. Sadly, cumulative hearing damage is part of our brand, and there isn’t a single problem this city has that someone doesn’t think can be solve by either a siren or an automated announcement or both.

Yeah we didn't build any housing in the 2020's either so Texas will take at least four of our Congressional seats. But on the bright side, all the single family homes and surface parking lots will rise up and overthrow capitalism.

The current inhabitants of the Falkland Islands.

*runs away cackling*

The trend shift in adults per family household is so insane.

its even more insane that every important policymaker and economist thought we were slowly soaking up a glut of homes even into the 2010s.

And it’s even more insane that there are still supply-crisis skeptics today.

He heard that you can pick your nose and you can pick your friends but you can't pick your friend's nose... and he took it as a challenge and an affront.

2005. Which was just yester— wait, I'm getting an update from the control room. Shit, what? Are you _sure_?!

The whole "The Dems would be a center-right party in Europe!" line is so old and moldy that having it in your apartment would open you to eviction. This was true in like 1998, maybe, but the past 28 years have seen America move significantly to the left while Europe stagnated.

Farscape did everything Firefly tried to do better

I'm going with "no".

He's just gonna be Like That until he packs up his bags and moves back to Bangor.

You may look at a problem and think "Aha! The solution is to run my own email server." Now you have two problems, Google is marking all of your email as spam, an unknown number of threat actors using your server to spread malware because you forgot to patch something, and a small pile of subpoenas.

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a close up of a robot with a beard and a beard . Alt: A Cyberman (specifically, a Cyberleader) entering via a sliding door.

I understand that Kristi Noem is going to “spend more time with her family,” presumably in their ice tomb on Telos.

"It's fine we'll just eat crow and hire him back wait he what?"

...and then collapse to zero when you fire your one competent songwriter six milliseconds before your first album blows up.

a screenshot of githubstatus.com, showing "Multiple services are affected, service degradation."

Welp, there goes github's last 8.

...six sevens of reliability, anyone? You could spin it as a play for the youth market.

Having it do damn near anything in a codebase that mixes two libraries with the same name (eg java.lang.time and org.joda.time) seems to reliably trigger a nervous breakdown: I’ve now twice had it _revert all of its changes_ and give up after looping for 15-20 minutes.

Got briefly tempted to say “ACTUALLY David Cronenberg’s Snow Crash” but then I realized that’s basically EXISTENZ.

tfw Dan Davies reviews the book you helped your friend write

Chotiner: You've made the claim that no one has ever fed you in your life.
My Cat: Maow.
Chotiner: Yet there's food in your dish right now.
My Cat: Maow.
Chotiner: Let's change the subject to the ripped-open bag of sandwich bread on the floor.
My Cat: Maow.
Chotiner: I have read different things.