GraniteM @ GraniteM @lemmy.world

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Harvey Milk took a bullet for his cause. Can Pete Hegseth say the same?

Fair warning: Sisyphus got sentenced to rolling that boulder up that hill for eternity for his attempts to cheat death.

I thought it was *non-*secret stroking that got you a meeting with HR.

Wasn't early D&D played with three D6s, because D20s weren't easily available at the time, and so rolling three sixes would be the equivalent of a natural 20?

I could see how that might be a little alarming to a parent in 1974.

There are people who, disturbed by "big government" today and its tendency to curb the advantages they might gain if their competitiveness were allowed free flow, demand "less govern- ment." Alas, there is no such thing as less government, merely changes in government. If the libertarians had their way, the distant bureaucracy would vanish and the local bully would be in charge. Personally, I prefer the distant bureaucracy, which may not find me, over the local bully, who certainly will. And all historical precedent shows a change to localism to be for the worse.

—Isaac Asimov, Nice Guys Finish First, collected in The Sun Shines Bright, 1981

Being hired as security at a billionaire's Hawaiian apocalypse bunker has got to be the best job imaginable. You get paid to live in a tropical paradise in case The Worst should happen. If The Worst actually does happen, you just go inside the bunker and lock the doors, and if the billionaire shows up, you don't let him in. Easy peasy.

"Do you think that foreign students might have materially contributed to the creation of your spaceships?"

Meanwhile, symbionts:

My mom made money as a lobbyist when I was a kid.

She lobbied on behalf of family farms that wanted to limit the use of bovine growth hormones, either because they had moral objections to pumping their cows full of steroids or because its use gave advantages to factory dairy farms over small family operations.

Lobbying is a disease on democracy, but there are moral cases for its existence in certain circumstances.

Reason Two:

When they grow up they look like emo surfer kids.

I went to a Humans vs. Zombies Nerf war at a university campus a few weeks ago. A couple hundred people, real strong mix of men, women, and others. A healthy mingling of people who were clearly gun hobby adjacent and a lot of openly queer folk, which I think is really quite encouraging to see. Everyone had a good time, no issues the whole day. Good vibes all around.

At the end of the event, the student organizers tearfully announced that the school administration had decided to ban all blaster events on campus going forward. Fuck us all for trying to have a healthy good time, right?

We need a constitutional amendment forbidding members of a president's immediate family from running for president. No spouses, siblings, or children. We can call it the Dynasties Are Un-American Amendment. If we'd had such a thing, we never would have had George W. Bush or Hillary Clinton as candidates, and I think we would all be better off.

Big John Constantine energy.

God that's good!

Fans of The The in absolute shambles.

That is a fair point.

Probably not everyone's, but I'd be willing to bet that the total number of exceptions to the rule either greater or fewer than pretty nearly cancel each other out, on average.