Operation: Tango?

That was 100% a “whoosh” on my part, had just rolled out of bed and brain wasn’t firing on all cylinders yet.

Look at human history and you will see that every conflict can be settled if you are just willing to use words and nothing else.

An admirable sentiment, but I feel like you and I read very different history books.

Next week: turns out there are more orcas in Louisiana waters than we thought. Who knew?

Feels like we’ve killed Ridley like 10 times across the series.

“Yay, I’ve finally beaten it!”

Music swells, choir begins chanting in Latin, boss’ corpse begins to float and glow

I love how you dodged more than half of the issues, knowing you didn’t have jack shit.

Hence your substantive engagement on what I did mention?

you love mamdani

Never claimed this.

If they’re all the same

Never claimed this.

You should hate him too, right?

None of this is about hate, it’s about which policy decisions are better than others.

So I guess they’re not all the same and Democrats are, objectively better, is that right?

Again, never claimed.

Everything you’re saying comes across as being less about “how do we improve things” and more “I need someone to be angry at.” I would propose directing that anger at the politicians instead of your fellow voters.

Harris wouldn’t have advocated turning it into a riviera

I’m sure the dead would take great solace that their killer didn’t also have real estate ambitions.

leaving aside the fact that Bibi explicitly wanted

Biden was not known for standing up to Israel, to put it mildly. When Harris was asked what she’d do differently than Biden, her answer was “there is not a thing that comes to mind.” She later amended that to “what’s the difference between Joe Biden and me? … I’m going to have a Republican in my cabinet”.

LGBTQ+ rights

The “T” there being the people the Dems immediately tried to throw under the bus when they lost?

Economic Inequality

I mean, look at all the love and support the party is showing Mamdani after he kicked Cuomo’s ass in the primary 🙄

Look, I get your point, and I voted for Harris (grudgingly), but until we primary enough of these crusty old Republican-lites in party leadership these losses are just going to get worse. They yelled and screamed (rightly) about how Democracy was on the line, and when their option was “save Democracy or move right” they chose the latter.

Respectfully, I don’t see the sense in complaining about “wedge issues” and then turning around and driving wedges between you and other people trying to get the party’s head out of its ass.

“Eight? Who taught you math!?”

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I look at it like this: if you’ve accumulated that much money AND have had time to use it to help others, and haven’t? Glub glub time.

If you’ve suddenly stumbled into ludicrous wealth because a psychotic demigod drowned one of your forebears? Well, it’ll take at least 48 hours for you to put that money to more philanthropic use. I figure we can give those folks at least that much of a grace period to decide to be better.

The next Superman can handle them if that’s not enough to change their attitude.

And realistically, this would create so many power vacuums all at once that civilization would probably collapse overnight, but you can only get so realistic with superpower hypotheticals.

Relocate anyone with a net worth of >$500 mil to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

This is what I’ve used on mine and it’s worked well enough for me. I’m using one on my 8a as well. https://supcase.com/collections/pixel-6-6a-pro-cases/products/google-pixel-6a-unicorn-beetle-pro-sp-rugged-holster-case-black

This feels like an appropriate listen today. Sly & The Family Stone - Que Sera Sera

Now I want to try watching Holy Grail in Japanese.

I believe the sound is 「おい、ロッキー、僕が帽子からウサギを出すところを見てよ！」

(Ah yes, my finest work: a joke in a language I don’t speak well about a 65+ year old show most folks here probably haven’t watched. 😅)

I’m imagining the rooster with Bill Duke’s voice.

I recently got stuck with a Tesla rental on a trip and discovered that while it doesn’t have handy stuff like Android Auto, it does have a customizable fart feature. I knew Musk was a jackass, but that (and now this) really drives it home.

Emphasis on “when it thinks”. Not much point to a privacy control that the device can just ignore for unspecified reasons, and they had 150+ instances of that occurring in this data set.

Nobody working on the inside has ever leaked anything regarding this potentially massive breach of privacy? A perfectly secret conspiracy by everyone involved?

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but…