Just… I can never ever ever take another conservative seriously for the rest of my life. All their “worries” about big, unaccountable government, waste, fraud, and abuse, following the constitution, and fiscal responsibility were all just a load of bullshit. I mean, I always knew they were hypocrites, but congratulations, you blew up everything you claimed to believe in so that you could make a handful of already breathtakingly rich and powerful people even more rich and powerful at the expense of everyone else. But you managed to feed a few brown people into the shredder in the process, I guess, so I hope you’re fucking satisfied.

It’s wild that they’ve dropped all pretense of believing in any of this stuff, and it makes me hopeful that, in the future, if some new left movement arises, when the cons inevitably screech “but the constitution! But the budget!” we can just answer “lol. Lmao.” And move on with life.

I remember listening to an episode of TWiV where they bemoaned that more negative results weren’t published. They’re useful, too, just not nearly as cool and flashy as positive results.

“Okay, I’ll inspect your genitals, drop 'em and we’ll prove it to everyone”

I love this. This is a really good, simple, impactful strategy.

About the only thing keeping me off Sony is that they’ve got a really bad star eater problem in their DSLRs, and even still somewhat in their mirrorless.

Well, shit. I was planning on getting a Canon for my first camera because it’s hard to beat them for astrophotography, but I’m less sure now.

Can’t recommend a shotgun enough.

Nah, we need politicians to be able to feel fear, imo. If they never have to think “will this come back to haunt me?” then that’s going to enable a lot of awful shit.

FTA: The user considered it was the unpaid volunteer coders’ “job” to take his AI submissions seriously. He even filed a code of conduct complaint with the project against the developers. This was not upheld. So he proclaimed the project corrupt. [GitHub; Seylaw, archive]

This is an actual comment that this user left on another project: [GitLab]

As a non-programmer, I have zero understanding of the code and the analysis and fully rely on AI and even reviewed that AI analysis with a different AI to get the best possible solution (which was not good enough in this case).

The enlightenment era revolutions were, almost unanimously, instigated and led by upper middle class fuckboys.

Thanks, I’ll check it out!

You know, the last ten years have been a whole lot of “no way that will happen” and then that thing happens. I never ever would have believed that Luigi would have caused the kind of outpouring that he did or possibly even set a UHC bankruptcy in motion. We’re sitting on a powder keg, saying it’ll never go off because the sparks never caught for long before.

Tbh, we’re not doing a lot better in terms of only allowing state-approved dissent. We night have slightly different vehicles and methods so we can still keep up appearances, but the real dissidents still get 360 no scoped by the FBI or harassed by the fascist public-private cooperative. That trend is only getting worse under Trump’s guidance, paired with the endless Republican simpering for him and a democratic party that fights its activists harder than it fights the opposition.

So, is this an announcement/plan, or is this an acknowledgement?

Idk, it’s easy to get depressed about it, but I think that there’s another interpretation. It shows that Gen Z recognizes how fucked everything is, and recognize the urgent need for drastic change, which is what Donald promises, even if he’s a colossal piece of shit and the changes he promises are pure grift. Yeah, they’ve been taken in by the right, but only because the right has seized on the populist moment while the institutional left is still fretting about decorum, rank, seniority, process, and literally anything else before results. If the left gets out there and starts swinging for the fences, I think we can turn things around. So, of course, the democrats are preparing to rise to the occasion by offering Gavin Newsom and his plan to build the biggest bulldozers on earth for bulldozing the homeless.

I think this is part of why Bernie was yelling at people to run for office. We need more options, more people who are willing to turn their back on the establishment, on the left.

Brb, putting anime speed lines around Ben Affleck smoking

I had a friend who’s super into this stuff (he’s a furry) break it down. Intercepting rockets is fucking hard, even with computers and advanced sensing and everything we’ve got on our side, it’s really hard. Israel’s Iron Dome fails to intercept a pretty large number of rockets overall, and those are much lower altitude, lower speed rockets compared to MRBMs and LRBMs. According to Wikipedia, during the re-entry phase, ICBM warheads are clocking about SEVEN KILOMETERS PER SECOND. The fastest commercially available bullet is the .220 swift, which does a measly 1.2 km/s. So, knocking down these warheads, without considering the countermeasures that we know ICBMs use (chaff, decoy warheads, etc) is like trying to reliably hit a bullet five times faster than the fastest bullet available with another bullet. This is fucking vaporware, much like Musk’s hyperloop. We could be focusing on nuclear disarmament and building and iterating on proven tech that we know works, but everything just has to be a goddamn scam.

I really want this to be it. I want a big enough mass of freak conservative boomers to die off of old age and for the republicans to finally push everyone else hard enough that this country finally fucking snaps and swings left so hard that Reagan’s grave belches black smoke for a month. I hope we swing left so hard that all the Fox News assholes run bawling off to Russia, all the neoliberal dickheads move to their neoliberal paradise of [some offshore oil rig], and we end up fixing all kinds of shit that’s been broken for basically my entire life.

I know it won’t; we’ll just get a bunch of working class republicans standing around the wreckage and mumbling “can you imagine how much worse it would have been under Biden?” to each other.

I’m a big fan of the hostile takeover proposal.