The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, arguing against a California bond measure on the grounds that bond financing is more expensive than financing from the general budget:
shitposts aside, this one is serious, my loves: if you’re just waking up and you have any service online running PHP 5.4 to latest, you need to take it down RIGHT NOW and don’t put it back online until after it’s patched
absolutely catastrophic vulnerability dropped in the middle of the night
web developer: oh hey you guys are back early
infra: four's haunted
web developer: what?
infra: *loading a pistol and getting back on the computer* four's haunted
since California ballots are now out:
prop 40 is the billionaire tax, and you should vote yes to stick it to them
but both props 41 and 42 are designed to retroactively cancel the billionaire tax because they’re afraid they can’t beat it at the ballot box
yes on 40, no on 41 and 42
I just googled the origin of the pinky raising while drinking tea thing and the only thing I am certain about is that there are about nineteen separate myths about it.
When someone pays someone else a “talent”, and it’s depicted as e.g. a single gold coin, but the work is set in a time period where a talent is more like 30-40 kilograms
This article is the most [REDACTED PER PROTOCOL 4000-ESHU]-ass thing I’ve seen in the wild
“The diplomatic gifts”
“the black-and-white mammals”
“the bears”
“The vulnerable species”
One of my favorite cases of someone being Wrong on the Internet was a very earnest, very confused vegan who was telling people how cruel honey is; and it eventually turned out they thought honey was made by putting bees in a centrifuge and spinning them around until they threw up.
I need younger generations to understand how weird it is that trump is such a unique terrible fuck up that it’s actually correct to blame the president for a demonstrably shittier economy and costs
People get confused about the trans sports thing because at a glance it seems like a small issue that impacts a very small number of people and thus makes sense as a "reasonable" concession. But it isn't, because conceding that is accepting that a kid's trans identity is on some level fraudulent
if it took you 5 seconds of contemplation to think of an alternative you should take at least another 5-10 to at least consider the possibility that it at least crossed the minds of 1 or 2 of the people who dedicate their lives and research careers to dealing with the problems we post about on here
I love seeing your kids’ first day of school pics! All of them are beautiful! But saying this with my cybersecurity professional hat on: you probably shouldn’t be posting pictures of your kids. I’m sorry :(
NEW! The first big announcement for #StarTrek's 60th anniversary week is here — a new collaboration with luxury cookware company Le Creuset to send your kitchen to the final frontier
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The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.
Have we talked about Questionable Content recently? The last five years in particular have just been so darned good. It's humans and robots doing their best, nobody really knows what's going on, and there's a giant cryptic hive mind that spits out different embodied personalities so it can chat.
If your grocery store/restaurant/&c iPhone app starts giving me promotional push notifications, and there is no obvious way to turn them off, I’m fucking uninstalling it
(Yes, I know I can disable an app’s notifications in iOS. But often there are legitimate notifications I actually want, like “your order is ready” or “this grocery item is not available, would you like [X] instead?”)
ive kind of landed on my position here, which is: i don't care if it fixes NOTHING economically. it fixes the fact that they can buy elections and destabilize governments. it's an issue of national security
This idea that the rich people leaving would bring Americans to destitution is dubious imo. They contribute back as little as possible in the first place, their exit might be the best possible outcome actually.