David Pakman, is that you?

I think it’s probably more newsworthy when he tells the truth.

She fucked around and found out. I’m exhausted by people talking about their ethical failings “as a Christian.” If she were successful in her attempts, along with others, to overthrow the election, she wouldn’t be apologizing. She would be saying that God helped her. The issue is that she just doesn’t have an ethical spine, and she has to borrow a misguided one from a religion.

Yeah, this really resonates with me. I have family and friends who I would describe as good people in general but for whom the maga era has completely unhinged their rational faculties. It’s really sad to see. It also makes it such that there’s really not much to discuss with them, because so much has been impacted by the MAGA lies. Politics, religion, current events, weather (it’s cool in the fall, so global warming isn’t real), local matters, what my kids are doing in school, the list of things that the MAGA infection has affected is stunning. I guess technically the MAGA movement has just exposed some of the brain rot that was already there in my family, but I also think it has actively made them less rational. Fucking populism.

Fucking great time to figure that out, Joe. I’m all for ranked choice voting and options like it, but he’s just talking about a third party option, which means we’ll just feel the negative effects of the party system more quickly, and possibly spoil the election to shoo in Trump for another term. We don’t need him running for a third party as though that’s the fix, we need to overhaul the voting system as a whole. Things like ranked choice, automatic registration of voters, voting at any location, etc (not to mention getting rid of the EC) would all significantly improve the voting system, and access to it.

“Felter? I hardly know her!”

It’s the high speed that lets you know he is right, and that the full-speed gish-gallop that runs over you is legitimately discourse…

Oh, gotcha! I thought it was some sort of tech lol.

I feel very silly because my google-fu usually gets me an answer, but I can’t for the life of me figure out what “hevy” means here. Can someone enlighten me?

Yeah, I thought it was a metaphor. That’s a beautiful photo though.

I don’t think this is a joke.

Earlier in this fever-dream hell-scape timeline, I didn’t imagine that kids would literally need a VPN as they tried to just exist. Yet here we are, and I’m right with you, I’ve been setting my kids up with VPN as well, and talking to them about what sort of things they need to be careful about looking up without the VPN connection. Fucking dystopian.

My locally owned bookstore has a display featuring banned books. It’s not an entire store of banned books, but I think that’s good. I don’t think a store with only banned books would be viable in the long term.

To be fair, Plex/home theater stuff is so stinking fun tho.

I feel silly now, I thought climate change was because all the books in libraries about gay and trans frogs.