Pretty funny all the talk of "our democracy" except when someone they don't like is about to get more votes.

Of the people still wearing masks (or of the people who were most gung-ho about masks at their peak), how many have:

1. a first aid kit and training?

2. emergency food and water reserves?

3. A generator with fuel put away?

4. A personal self-defense weapon and training?

5. A garden?

6. Emergency trade goods?

How many of them:

1. smoke, either tobacco or marijuana?

2. do hard drugs?

3. are overweight?

4. don't take a baby aspirin every day?

5. Drink alcohol to excess?

6. Indiscriminately consume sugar?

Maybe everyone still wearing masks has everything on the first list and nothing on the second. But I doubt it.

It's like the people who were getting all worked up about Islamic terrorism in the 2000s. Is there a risk? Sure. But there's a lot of risks. It doesn't seem very authentic when people are only afraid of the last thing the powers that be told them to be afraid of.

I met a kid named Greg with a wooden leg

Turns out he always wanted to get pegged

One of the dangerous things about relying too much on one specific test, sometimes that test might not actually tell you reality.

Considering the pettiness I'm sure you experienced running wolfballs, that's pretty impressive.

Really, considering what the first Trump impeachment was for, the Democrats should be impeaching Biden for sure.

They won't of course, because they're everything we accuse them of being, but they should.

The top internet influencer on earth might not be able to find someone to help them move a couch.

It'd be nice if we could use nostr as a back end for websites like activitypub but more decentralized. Then if the website pisses you off, you just take your private key with you elsewhere

With that corset on, I think the answer to the question is simply "yes".

He looks really surprised. "Whoah. How'd I get here?"

Fighting to take defeat from the jaws of Victory at intel

Sun Tzu says that the victorious general will win the victory first then fight the battle, and the defeated general will fight the battle first then try to win the victory.

In this context, Mike Pence is an idiot. He was the orange man's VP, and then he threw all the orange man people under the bus. So what's he got? The people who hate orange man will hate him for associating with the orange man, the people who love the orange man will hate him for betraying the orange man.

What's the victory condition here?

I love the complete lack of self-awareness. "The thing that we're forcing everyone to do under threat of punishment is getting backlash! Clearly this is exactly like those people who forced a lot of people to do a bunch of stuff under threat of punishment!"

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/elon-musk-pledges-unlimited-legal-funding-employees-unfairly/

I mean, it's Elon Musk so don't assume it's entirely true, but if it is true, might be one of the most powerful checkmate moves I've ever seen in my life for an evil cultural movement.

Nobody who thinks they're immune to propaganda is immune to propaganda.

seems legit.

Heil Brittania!

The second part of what you wrote is really the key.

Both real estate and debt aren't real markets, so they just keep doing things to raise the prices to make boomers feel rich and keep vooting, and all that means is future generations are stuck borrowing a career worth of cash (1 million in Toronto, 2.5 million in vancouver for a Single Family Home, but 800,000 canada-wide at the peak around 2020) just to have a place to lay your head at the end of the day.

Simultaneous multithreading, I believe it's the technology on Intel called Hyperthreading and AMD probably calls it something else, where on one physical core multiple logical CPUs are presented to the OS and they can run completely different threads to keep the pipe filled.

Housing is one of those things where I think you shouldn't treat it like a financial investment. Practically it has been, but I think morally it shouldn't be.

Morally speaking, unlike most things it's actually a zero-sum game. If your house goes up in price, then that just increased the cost of living for the next person who buys it (and probably for you too if you intend to live somewhere after you sell it). It also increases rents -- Not because of the fallacious economic reasoning that says prices are a direct function of the cost to produce a thing, but because the landlords who aren't raising prices ultimately get run out of town by the ones who are.

I wish I could find it, but a few years back I was having an argument with some lefties who thought you could just spend debt forever without consequences, and I warned about this exact scenario. Eventually all those shiny government programs will go away and instead we'll be paying all our money to bankers in New York and Beijing.