I love that Siri is kinda stupid for just this very reason.

Lucky you then that Amazon now has their own pharmacy!

The other things were like a large purse/tote bag and a rug, so yeah it was kinda random (so it seems) but apparently the evidence is pretty solid in that case.

Doesn’t make it any less weird though.

Wait what? Can you elaborate on the 4G thing?

Fuck Texas.

Source: I live in Texas. Well, ‘live’ is a kind way to say that I inhabit the state. It’s more like I just kind of exist there in perpetual anger and frustration.

This headline is everything.

What the fuck are even these headlines? What the fuck RFK Jr?!?!

When my Dad died young, 60 or so, the so many “sympathy cards” that we had to read after the funeral emphasized this. I was at such a low point - we were very close and his death was an absolute nightmare - yet it was as if they were comforting themselves by letting me know he was with Jesus now.

And it just made the entire situation somehow worse and more demented.

Seen on Mastodon, posted by a trans woman in TX:

Oh, anyone bored and looking for something to do?

Definitely don’t give this email ( DLCourtorders@dps.texas.gov) to everyone and anyone. And definetly don’t flood it with nonsense from automated scripts using random DPS emails.

Don’t title the email “Sex Change Court Order”, they need that only for official DPS emails.

The State of Texas needs that to track and database everyone trying to change the gender marker on their drivers license.

Which they won’t actually process, despite valid court orders.

If you want to really make it look good, you’ll need a scanned fake court order (pick any family court in Texas) and DL number. Texas drivers licenses have 8 digits btw. :)

We can’t even have liquor in grocery stores here.

My parents were Canadian.

Thank you, friend. Thank you for understanding.

They couldn’t handle all the seamen. (I am sorry)

This is fucking bullshit.

I review science proposals for the government that come from private companies responding to an announcement about grants for specific kinds of technology.

I have to submit a financial form every year disclosing stock that I own to make sure there are no conflicts of interest.

The fact that is guy is allowed to shrug and say “nah” and just keep going blows my mind.

FWIW, I’m seeing a lot of Twilight reflection going on right now that’s not unlike the Star Wars prequel reflection from a few years ago. It’s definitely being revisited.

Sure it can…the following book is about that and nonfiction. They want bunkers in New Zealand and shit. Crazy story but basically they do think their money can save them, so they have no incentive to act in any way other than selfish. And maybe they can “buy” the government, like Thiel with Vance and all the millions he gave him to run for Senate.

If the person with the most money wins the apocalypse, then their one objective in life is to become richer and richer and richer. It’s a fascinating yet horrifying rabbit hole to go down but it does help to explain their fucked up actions.

Survival of the Richest, Douglas Rushkoff

Five mysterious billionaires summoned theorist Douglas Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk. The topic? How to survive the “Event”: the societal catastrophe they know is coming. Rushkoff came to understand that these men were under the influence of The Mindset, a Silicon Valley–style certainty that they and their cohort can break the laws of physics, economics, and morality to escape a disaster of their own making—as long as they have enough money and the right technology.

In Survival of the Richest, Rushkoff traces the origins of The Mindset in science and technology through its current expression in missions to Mars, island bunkers, AI futurism, and the metaverse.

Here is a podcast where he talks about it, sorry for Apple podcast link; the episode website itself doesn’t seem to exist anymore:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/you-are-not-so-smart/id521594713?i=1000631377648

He’s been on lots of them, so search his name on your favorite app for more, but I recommend the above Episode 207 of You are Not So Smart.

I’m sure Peter Thiel had some input, too.

Monkey Money or Monkey Mart? Something like that?

There are 9-10 billion people on this planet.

Among those people, you have countless personal preference based on everything from what they expect to what makes them comfortable based on past experience.

There are also 10% or so with ADHD and other things, changing it up even more.

So run all of that through a computer showing you a majority of the likely outcomes, and there you go. There’s no way that your style, your choice of content, your presentation, how you present the material, etc, will please everyone because it’s impossible to do.

Dude did you miss the part of your own sentence that said “white guy”?

This means he has a penis. And it is white. I don’t understand the question.