My folks were technology skeptics and limited access to screens. We had strict allotments of time to access electronics.

This taught us how to game the rules and make up arguments to justify our discretions.

They were also lawyers, so we walked into the first trap.

After his stroke his spouse became a strong component of his campaign. She seemed more progressive speaking on his behalf.

At that point though it was all hands on deck to prevent Oz and the GOP winning.

I gauge things through his spouse and how she was a large part of his popularity and momentum on the campaign trail, especially after the stroke and the primary.

So on some level people were kind of voting for her. And she’s pretty much disappeared.

This is more or less how I found myself paying rent for art. Took limited art classes, just doodled everywhere and was told to stop. Posted stuff online in the early 2000s and caught a few stray commissions.

I felt this and the meme hard.

The market has been pretty well cornered compared to 20 years ago. These days you’ve got to be pretty good to solicit commissions.

The insecurity that he felt about it though. That’s what allows Charlie Kirk to manifest.

Charlie is Hank Hill’s tiny urethra incarnated as a human.

If a state is to be held accountable for non-state actors then I do not believe Israel or the United States has any moral high ground whatsoever. Even less than if we strictly limit the scope to only state actions.

It’s a summer job and an after-school gig for a lot of students. Likely they have long rosters of employees who worked a summer job going back however long they kept the digital database.

grift train

Because that’s how those trains keep going. It isn’t about cash on hand, it is about projecting how much can be acquired.

Very plausibly what started as a FBI monitoring tool which no longer has any staff with knowledge of the program anymore.

Why can’t your workers be your workers, your family be your family, your friends be your friends?

I actually have this thing. The knife thing is annoying and it just sits on the back acting as a brace for the dishsoap bottle. The cutting board rack is kinda dumb because it just dries onto your counter.

But the baskets are nice because they drain into the sink. It was a really cheap kitchen improvement purchase I don’t regret.

What it needs though are raised rubber gasket lined feet so it doesn’t hold bits of water under the base you have to lift and wipe up. It’s cheap material and easily modified.

/product review mode

Must have made Christmas easy

Quite difficult at the time, actually.

The Democrats flat out passed on a U.S. senate race in Nebraska in 2024.

The language of the left in America has been so thoroughly played with by the right we have to go to absurd lengths to try and communicate any policy approach that involves public interest.

They’re likely repurposing existing mechanisms western companies already have built and use. IIRC Apple or Amazon admitted this when they clarified they weren’t ‘listening’ per se.

I had meant doing both, but yeah, you’re absolutely right: they figured out their preference real quick.

Working for McKinsey & Company would be a big sign of it. His time as Mayor included a bunch of business friendly and privatization of city properties and demolition of housing.

Essentially he represents the wing of the party that shows deference to corporate tech companies: which is essentially the status quo of the ruling class. He is of a similar conduit to the oligarchy that JD Vance is for the GOP.

The Democrstic party was stuck between opposing Trump and opposing leftism and categorically chose to oppose leftism. That’s been the conundrum they can’t figure out.