What is the point of comments like this? Yes, we realize this. Are you just hearing about it? Do we really have to face each new horror with admonishments that it is distracting us from the last horror?

Pizza is A toast. Like avocado toast.

It’s bread, toasted with sauce, various meats, cheeses, and vegetables. This seems pretty unassailable.

I apologize. I was trying to make a joke, but it came across more rudely than it sounded in my head. I was alluding to the common saying.

Marijuana’s a lot more difficult to grow than this. You need to keep the males and females separate.

We do have to remember that “First do no harm” is not a universal law of ethics or anything, it’s just the way the powers that be think about things.

Nobody cares about the long run. You can fool all of the people until next quarter, pull your golden parachute, and go suck the marrow out of the next corporation like a locust.

The “true meaning”* of Black Friday is clearing out old stock that didn’t sell and getting it off the books before the New Year.

You used to be able to get some decent deals, but now it’s just warmed over crap produced specially to be sold at a discount.

*This is meant in a parallel to the feeling of “the true meaning of Christmas”. Not the literal meaning.

Our boundaries about sex and violence are weird.

With the caveat that I don’t pretend to be perfectly logical, I’d say that fighting pokemon isn’t really violence. It is just a video game.

Someone who’s jerking off to pokemon is fantasizing about bestiality. This is way better than real bestiality, and I honestly don’t care if someone is into it as long as they don’t tell me about it. But it’s still going to squick me out.

Conservatives’ first instinct is always to lie.

True. But an old joke.

It’s weird to pretend that I’m mad when I’m simply correcting you. I’m just saying that Elon Musk was the head of Doge and I don’t see any reason to pretend he wasn’t, especially because the administration would like to pretend that.

He bought Twitter to help Trump win and Trump won.

No, there are no “court records” that say that. If you want to believe this administration about it, that liquid falling in your face is only rain, don’t worry about it.

How much of the economy in the 60s was telecommunications vs how much of the economy today relies on the internet?

We should have picked back up the Russia investigation and rolled it in with Jan 6th and brought charges two weeks into the Biden administration.

3-5 companies in a sector is an oligopoly, which acts nearly the same as a monopoly. This is not “actual competition”.

All of these companies cornered their own markets, and now they own the backbone of the internet.

If we broke up all of them and required open standards and interoperability then other companies could innovate.

Government shutdowns were largely developed by Newt Gingrich. It’s a choice to hold the government hostage. Obviously Congress won’t mitigate the damage, they could easily choose to not to do it in the first place.

AWS needs to be broken up way more than Ma Bell ever did. We need to have open protocols developed so that there can be actual competition.

Taco seasoning goes great in beans too.

I too am immediately eaten by squirrels.