Proud Bureaucrat

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this is, at best, someone way over thinking something. Charitably, she thought "there are so many things I could say, how could I possibly narrow it down to 3 bullet points" and the confidence of the AI assured her that "the same three things everyone will say is fine." This is still a bummer!

1) His smug little smile is so irritating, I know that smile, and it's so annoying he's doing it about this instead of like, arguing about star wars 2) I would love him to work for a year in a government's executive branch and understand that you get no good press for good things

If you dislike that Ma Bell listens to your calls, simply use a telephone network built on open protocols

This Saturday, we’re taking action with No Kings in all 50 states to make our voices heard and defend our democracy.

I gotta be tbh if you keep hitting the drum of "class based politics" and "working-class justice" as reasons to not support Good Policy (this, nimbyism, absenteeism) at a certain point I start to think your class-based politics aren't that good

it really is awesome how "unalive" is the exact language structure that Newspeak uses in 1984

I actually think that a part of this blame is Reality TV, which makes everyone do convos on speakerphone so the audience can hear both sides

My life is nothing like I imagined and everything I feared it would become because for 30 seconds I thought there were monsters on the world

Trump’s superpower has always been that he radiates an anti-gravitas field, such that anything he touches becomes seen as fundamentally unserious. This has allowed Trump to pursue wars, tyranny, and corruption of immense gravity, while everyone tries to avoid looking like they care too much.

Knowing that they only got Bugs when Coyote v Acme was in post production makes the weaker parts of the movie make way more sense, because it means they stripped out a whole character/plotline in service of just *having* Bugs in the movie

The full trailer for You Can See Everything is out today. And my first thought is that it should be required that Nathan Fielder film for 48 hrs at every tech CEO’s home.

This is frying me

carpetbaggers, famously the villains of reconstruction

Sorry, nyc doesn’t allow pvc plumbing in new construction ??

Made it 118 pages into my book before I realized that I had read at least 250 pages of it before

audibly said "WOAH" when I saw this one

thi s is one o FF my cats

If only the media had as much interest in the world's richest person, the primary funder of the Republican Party, who spoke at Trump's Inauguration and gave a Sieg Heil, once again declaring his belief "white solidarity is the only way to survive" as they do some Twitch streamer.

I’ll show you state capacity the likes of which you’ll never believe

When you renew your license you should have to take a written test and that test should include questions like “are you ever legally allowed to exceed the posted speed limit on the highway” and “when taking a right on red, are you required to make a complete stop”

Yet another issue where every single person who touched it needs to end up in jail for us to have any semblance of the rule of law. You cannot have a functional democracy where the government creates a plan to literally throw away votes from places that don't support the incumbent party.

trump should issue a bill of attainder just to see what happens

These people are bugfuck insane, “windows cause homelessness because they are expensive” this is why arguing against zoning as a concept is so stupid because you end up saying that the poors should be grateful for their windowless box

Working on a theory that no one knows what the New Deal actually was and 90% of people advocating for "New Deal II" have never heard of the NIRA

I’ve always thought it was odd that the senate didn’t flex the “advice” part of “advice and consent” and say “here’s out list of potential nominees you get you pick one”

this is stupid but even if we were gonna do this format we should at least name like Ford, Toyota, General Motors

Two of my family's go-to movies were Muppet Treasure Island and Charlie's Angels, so Tim Curry was how I understood that characters were played by actors and those actors could play different characters

this rocks this guy just doesn't believe that the law is the law because he doesn't like it

Is there any argument that doesn't just apply to EZ-Pass??

This is why I’m anti anti data center, because even if you could isolate just the ai ones from the ones that let you go Online (impossible) the way people talk about it *does not understand a distinction *

Here’s the thing about high school sports like cross country: most people do not win. In fact the vast majority do not win. Most people who do the sport are competing against themselves. If you get 10th instead of 11th in a race, and you think it’s because someone was trans, you’re a loser

The actual harsh truth about MAHA is that it is an anti-vaxx, anti-science, pro-diarrhea conspiracy movement. It cloaks its arguments in abstractions about "big pharma" and "free speech" to generate *the exact op-ed The Atlantic keeps publishing*. Movements like this need to be fought, not placated.

Educated liberals stop falling for “but *this* republican might be operating in good faith! challenge” [difficult]