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Reminds me of a passage from my favorite Discworld book, Night Watch.

“I didn’t think you was stupid, Mister Vimes…”

“What?” said Vimes, looking down suddenly. Carcer was smiling cheerfully.

“I said I didn’t think you was stupid, Mister Vimes. I know a clever copper like you’d think I’d got two knives.”

“Yeah, right,” said Vimes. He could feel his hair trying to stand on end. Little blue caterpillars of light were crackling over the ironwork of the dome, and even over his armour.

“Mister Vimes?”

“What?” Vimes snapped. Smoke was rising from the weathercock’s bearings.

“I got three knives, Mister Vimes,” said Carcer, bringing his arm up.

The lightning struck.

It doesn’t even matter. Even if Taylor Swift never makes another dollar, she’s still set for life.

It didn’t matter what the question was, Trump kept turning it back to immigration. He’s only got one talking point, and it’s based on fear of the other.

Such projection. Trying to drastically change the rules less than two months before Election Day, that’s rigging.

Why do we have to keep fighting for a higher minimum wage? We should just set it at a livable rate then have it automatically adjusted annually based on CPI or a similar economic metric.

The finest watch commander Mathnet ever had.

I know Jenny’s number, but I forget the area code.

“You are the least useful steam engine I’ve ever heard of!”

“Ah, but you have heard of me.”

Strong disfavoravilty can also translate to enthusiasm. I know a lot of people turned up at the polls last time because they were meh on Biden but very much against Trump.

Computer, end program. 🫡

Usually Gwen Shotwell, SpaceX COO, is good at keeping Elon in check and not screwing up SpaceX business. I wonder what happened this time.

The Republicans haven’t won the popular vote for the Presidency since George W. Bush’s second term, and he was riding a high from his post-9/11 actions; he lost the popular election to Gore the first go round. The last time a Republican won the popular vote for their first term was George Bush Sr. in 1988.

Yeah, but Trump famously needs to flush eight or ten times to actually get anything to go down the toilet.

Sad, from a nostalgia point of view, but probably a win, environmentally. We have a pipeline to recycle plastic bottles, the mylar pouches are pretty much all single use.

Iron Man 2 extra.

The long term solution is replacing the Electoral College with a nationwide ranked choice system, so you can vote your heart with your first pick but not ruin the chances of the hold-your-nose major candidate you can live with over the other guy. With this in place, the smaller parties can build momentum without being seen as spoilers and maybe actually get somewhere.

My understanding is that debates are exempt from the equal air time laws, so if Trump no-shows, it just turns into a bunch of 90 minutes of free Harris air time.

I swear the people in unit 402 are illegally subletting their place on AirBnB.

Colbert is not a conservative, he just played one on TV.

I love how, despite Musk’s best efforts, 3/4 of the internet still calls the site Twitter.