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In the long span of American political history, the southern strategy is going to be seen as the poisoned chalice that the Republicans happily drank from that ultimately spelled their doom.

Me: why's the new 2-factor system make me enter my code two times? My IT guy: we really rushed this out and the redirects are a mess. My IT guy (when presenting to executives): we have made users authenticate twice for increased security

I scrolled through all the replies and quote-skeets and didn't see one of my favorites. Although, maybe because video game and not film/TV

I’ve seen how the poor gun storage thing happens. Someone has a few guns, they lock them up safely. But they have the collector bug. Soon they don’t fit in the safe. They don’t prioritize keeping up. The overflow guns find their way to increasingly reckless locations.

I thought this little guy was the cutest safety razor at first. 10/10 would be clean-shaven.

My college roommate had a retort ready to go every time someone asked, “how do you know you won’t like smoking weed if you’ve never tried it?” Like clockwork he answered, “Well, I’ve never sucked a d!ck.”

Please take the delivery off my head, kid. The Doordash bag is extremely hot.

Rage Against the Machine should be invited for a guest testimony performed in song

Man I loath the fundamental concept of “Parental Rights”. Kids have rights, and parents are morally only granted powers in order to secure them.

He's back again! www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXuV...

When I was a newspaper reporter, it was part of my job in Huntsville to go and witness the executions conducted at one of the prisons in town. I don't remember the exact number I was present for but it was close to at least a dozen, each of them via lethal injection. /1

Aw yeah, doing role-based access control implementation on a new system. One of those nice, familiar jobs.

One of the more subtly applications of Murc’s Law

Raqefet Cave in Israel was a sacred burial site for the hunter-gatherer culture known as the 'Natufians' around 13,000 years ago. More recently, we've also discovered here the earliest evidence of BEER BREWING from grains. Even more remarkable because these people HADN'T INVENTED AGRICULTURE YET.

Current status: sitting a a backlog grooming meeting reviewing user stories adorned with screenshots of the feature I've already implemented.

This is my friend, Ms. Sausage

There is precedent for this youtu.be/XkLqAlIETkA?...

The first time I read anything by a singularity believer on the internet (~1997), they firmly believed that ethics was rational and that a super-intelligence would naturally be hyper-moral. This turn to a doomsday cult is very weird.

My 10 year old yesterday after watching some science and video game videos on YouTube, “there were a bunch of commercials. Some of them were saying Josh Shapiro is a good guy. And some saying he’s a bad guy. What’s that all about?” So we had to talk about the upcoming elections and campaigns.

It's like clockwork www.sacurrent.com/news/texas-n...

Here's a gift link to my 9/11 essay in the NYT. Civil libertarians long warned that before giving government new powers, we should consider how an administration with authoritarian ambition might abuse them. We were told that America was too exceptional to elect such a person. Well here we are.

This feels like a cool opportunity to talk about food history as a whole. Who wants to learn about the complicated history of chili?!?

Reminds me of one of my favorites

I missed this one 3 months ago. But that's just an opportunity to share it now

Has Matthew McConnaughy said anything about the destruction in Big Bend. He narrated a 2022 documentary on Texas wildlife. Would love to have prominent Texans weigh in to stop the destruction. www.texasobserver.org/deep-heart-d...

Oh no! Surely somebody will help me eat 30 hard boiled eggs

Hey, this is actually my speculative theory! One proposal of consciousness is a system that ruminates on memories of the past and fantasizes projections of the future. I posit that financial markets do both and the primary substrate of its mind is excel spreadsheets in place of neurons.

I’ve definitely ridden bikes through the drive-thru. But my peak this achievement was definitely Jacki-in-the-Box at 2am with a roommate and two girls we met at a party squatting in a square formation and miming driving a stick shift for drunk tacos.

Leftover Bolognese sauce means Italian Mexican pizza

On a long enough timeline, your two-factor authentication code will be a combination of you and your person's area codes.

Me re-reading my own posts and replies when they pop back up in notifications, "aw yeah, this is the great content".

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Graham Platner once scissor-kicked Angela Lansbury

Devolving into low-trust society is very bad, actually