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"Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid." — Valery Legasov (Jerod Harris), "Chernobyl."
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The part that he glosses over is what “embracing RFK” means. Trump offered him HHS. Is he seriously suggesting that Harris should have done the same?
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“In mitigation, I am a terrible driver” is a brave defense to vehicular manslaughter, I will give it that.
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The lawsuit is a stream of
(Describes law-school basic fair use.)
“That’s not fair use.”
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I understand that there is some comfort in believing that this is all scripted and a bit, because the alternative is that the world's most powerful man and the world's richest man are both sociopaths with the impulse control of a 4-year-old who snuck a Red Bull.
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Yeah, I'd say that "constant low-grade stress to blind fury that the country of my birth is being destroyed in blood and cruelty so that a few people with every material possession one could hope for could get a few more" counts as a "substantive change" for me.
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"The attack line that gets us the most traction, everywhere, at all times is, 'Trump only cares about billionaires, not working people.' We need to respond with, 'No, we care about billionaires too.'"
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Would it have killed her to say “govern yourself accordingly” just once? There are forms to be observed here.
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I didn't even have to click through. The preview showed "fallen [a]foul of activism," and I knew what kind of article it was. The "heroic man undone by his own weakness" spin on rapists is just nauseating.
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This kind of crime is (a) easily proven, (b) carries long sentences, (c) makes great press, and (d) rarely involves the exchange of gunfire. It's like an entire box of chocolates with no bad ones for a USDA.
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You know, when you go "imma gonna do something reeeeeeallly legal, like imma i gonna get legal all over your ass, it's gonna be reeeeaally big," and every single lawyer you are threatening laughs at you, it might be time to reevaluate tactics.
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You know, Maine seemed to handle it just fine. apnews.com/article/trum...
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Let's fast-forward to 2028.
GOP voters: "Ugh, that guy was the Governor of California, that socialist transsexual shithole of a state that taxes you into poverty."
Democratic voters: "Ugh, that's the guy who caved to Trump and shat on trans people."
Morally bankrupt, and stupid to boot.
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This is a smart move that will appeal to all the voters who have been thinking, "Where is the politician that will combine blue-state economic policies with red state culture wars? A nice haircut and an ex dating a Trump son would be good, too." There must be, I dunno, five of them?
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I really don't believe that there are a lot of people out there thinking, "What I *really* want is Democrat economic policies but GOP culture wars. And a guy with nice haircut, maybe someone whose ex is dating a Trump son."
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Look, on a purely personal level I honestly don't give a shit whether Bluesky is congenial to corporate or political accounts, what I'm here for is the hangout. Bluesky was pretty good at that when I signed on at 46K users, and it's pretty good at that now, on that level I don't care how big it gets
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I remember when Apple made a splashy pronouncement that they were going to make the 2019 Mac Pro in the US. It was quietly shelved when they couldn't source the parts they needed here, even things like screws.
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3. They never once asked for clarification of any part of the problem, even when I deliberately made the specification ambiguous.
#3 should be a big red flag for vibe coding.
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Oh, don't me wrong, on a word basis I do most of my writing in Scrivener, and I like it. It can be a tar pit of "I'll get to work once I've adjusted these five thousand settings to my liking," though. It's why I use Typora (or another Markdown tool) for my short-form stuff.
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I use Scrivener and like it, but: a) it’s not good for short-form or screenplays, and b) it is kind of the “I’ll start my novel when my filing system is perfect” of word processing software. Death before MS Word, though.
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This is the coldest of cold comforts, but if the administration had taken a boil-the-frog approach to the universities, Trump would have been appointed President of Harvard on his way out of the White House in four years. But patience is not one of their virtues.