The computer may not be shitty, but the government that consistently keeps computers teetering off the edges of desks, perched precariously over buckets of water sure is. These types of "unprecedented" individual events are actually part of a blaring collection of events, which when viewed together comprise a blinking neon trend. To be fair though, the cause of this trend has only very recently been identified in 1896, so politicians haven't had adequate time to prepare.
Unfortunately chaos breeds usury. The more fronts the little guys are forced to fight on, the more dilluted their efforts, and the more unified the ruling class can become. The goal is always chaos, obfuscation, distraction, entropy. There are two camps: the social, and the antisocial. While we have to worry about maintaining a functional society, the antisocial are completely unfettered, and free to exploit any and all ambiguities. They are the disease, we are the immune system, and the world is the body. They are unconcerned with killing the body, while we must both fight them, and preserve the body. For this reason we are at a disadvantage. And for this reason they should never be underestimated. Eventually a cough becomes pneumonia, and at a certain age pneumonia is a death sentence.
As it is he is now required as a felon in NY to submit a DNA sample, which I am very doubtful he will do. Aint no way they're going to he able to get him to even give up spit. So yeah, no way he would have given up actual money.
As a side note, if somehow he does submit a sample, imagine the chaos if the database got a hit on an open case. Absolute fantasy fodder, I know, but man would that be sweet.
I've done it several times. When the bee wakes up it takes care of office odors. Something to do with airflow or something. Anytime my office gets smelly I just grab a bee from under the sink and pop it in the freezer for a bit. I've even taken a bee camping before by using a thermos. It wasn't as easy to get into my mouth, but once I figured it out it worked great!
Who indeed? Who among the chronically comic book, lone wolf, hero culture obsessed United States could be inspired to action against a singular existential threat? In the interest of nonviolence I hope we never find out. It would surely be a tragedy if someone among the downtrodden stepped up and made their voice heard on a global scale by doing something desperate.
That's certainly part of it. But it's also a nation trend in communication. Trump has done a brilliant job at weaponizing and popularizing clipped, terse, sparse, blunt, chunky, speaking. He's basically made headlines into a kind of vernacular, where everything is at once overly explicit and yet open to interpretation. Like, tone over content, and difficulty to ignore over clarity. It's less that he has invented it, and more like he identified it, but has used it as a form of lexical gamesmanship. Set the narrative by being the one that's remembered, fidelity to truth be damned. And giving his black-hole-like ability to bend discourse to be on his terms, everyone is falling in line and speaking in big dumb wooden blocks in order to remain competitive.
At least stabbing has the whole Brutus thing and depicts additional information; "Knifes": betrays as well as attacks. But why not just say "betrays"? If there's one thing Americans seem to universally hate, it's syllables.
Pretty neat little conspiracy. Musk tells Don, I can rig it, Don takes the deal, monkey paw outcome: Musk blackmails Don with proof of cheating. I don't know how plausible it actually is, but it's interesting as a story.
Amusingly, I left a comment about 8 hours ago that sort of applies to this photo. Someone compared the behavior of republicans to toddlers, to which I replied:
Toddlers eventually learn though, and progress. Trumpy people a more like dogs: They can appear clever, but only up to a certain threshold. They may even perform useful tasks and tricks for their handlers. But ultimately they need someone to feed and supervise them otherwise they'll eat something they shouldn't and get sick. That same contented trot, and look of purpose you see on a dogs face while their owner walks them is what a republican gets when they're getting walked by fascists. Both the dog and the republican think they're part of a pack. Both the dog and the republican will be euthanized by their masters when they become too burdensome or they've outlived their usefulness.
The coastal elite thing was always real rich to me. The same people who gripe about the coastal elite somehow chose a billionaire new york real estate tycoon, whos whole personal brand for the past 40 years has been gold plated, cartoonishly decadent, opulence.
I just looked it up.: The median age of voting House lawmakers is 57.9 years, down from 58.9 in the 117th Congress (2021-22), 58.0 in the 116th (2019-20) and 58.4 in the 115th (2017-18). The new Senate’s median age, on the other hand, is 65.3 years, up from 64.8 in the 117th Congress, 63.6 in the 116th and 62.4 in the 115th.
The computer may not be shitty, but the government that consistently keeps computers teetering off the edges of desks, perched precariously over buckets of water sure is. These types of "unprecedented" individual events are actually part of a blaring collection of events, which when viewed together comprise a blinking neon trend. To be fair though, the cause of this trend has only very recently been identified in 1896, so politicians haven't had adequate time to prepare.