Impeaching Trump is just another Tuesday now. No meaning.

Half the people I know, plus several books I’ve read lately, think that a small nuclear incident is required to get us back on track. We need to see devastation and horror to appreciate peace. Well, shit. Am I rooting for it? Kind of.

He’s planning a speedrun of war crimes, see if he can set a record for multitude and variety at the same time

If you ever see a free election again, tell it I said hello.

I drove through the Midwest last week and was SHOCKED to see no other political bumper stickers in 1200 miles, and only a couple of billboards, mostly for abortion. It’s gone quiet, but not in a “I bet people are getting along better now” kind of quiet.

Yes, but with hundreds of millions of people online, they still need ways to cut and sift the data as they identify… well the “demographics” they want. So using a VPN might make you stand out as more technologically included, or more likely to be hiding something. Either way things they might like to know as they build profiles on all Americans.

I’m surprised they’re not just buying the data but it’s nice that our taxpayers are footing the bill either way for this little service.

From what Elon says to shareholders, Tesla is going to pivot to becoming a humanoid robot production company anyway, the cars are just a sideline. They axed two models when they announced that.

The vice president?

The giveaways are already in motion, the rich aren’t going to let themselves be taxed again, and you can see in realtime how they’re trying to make locations compete for the privilege of hosting them, with the smallest tax rates for ultra rich… no one is going to pay for a New New Deal, all the blood’s been wrung out of the middle class, and the rich are untouchable.

But I do like your optimism

What was her husband’s surprise fetish or have they announced it yet

Just speaking for myself, as a systems administrator, I am actively pursuing my backup plans to get out of IT ASAP. What’s coming is topsy-turvy and will be dog eat dog.

Dammit, Obama maybe - the act was passed by Congress in 2013.

If you’re in a state with mail-in voting, you need the federal government to carry those ballots, and he just told USPS to interfere, so

The average American feels an unmet need for connection. Social media immediately fills that need, exactly like a drug. For a few minutes anyway. You don’t get the benefits of a real connection, just the dopamine. Pretty soon you feel worse, and the best way to stop feeling bad is to hit refresh or keep scrolling. I’m glad we’re finally looking at the consequences of social media for kids, then we can look at what it does to adults.

According to … the constitution

There’s some circular logic happening which Trump sees through. Much like SCOTUS, the constitution can’t enforce itself. So you can just bully it.

The point of capitalism isn’t “make a widget/sell the widget/to a customer” anymore, it’s “create market value/sell the value/shareholders are the entire point.” The widgets are just a prop in a way, the customers an abstraction. If it’s making money, if it’s growing above 3.5, we worship it. If it’s growing at thousands of percent, then it’s a god who cannot be stopped. Everything else just supports this - government, social programs, people’s life and death and joy in between - that’s all an abstraction. Shareholder value is the only thing that matters.

This is why we must restrain capitalism with regulation, but it’s too late, it’s metastasized into its final form now.

The disease is late stage capitalism, the symptom is a mad dash to trade our natural resources for energy and pollution. The mad dash will continue as long as we’re bleeding humanity to keep the shareholders high and dry.

The water cooks out very fast and I’ll bet the salt largely goes with it.

So more cowardly

And that was the high point for many, as they’d end up addicted and living on the streets shortly thereafter.