Jakey

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“We should all emulate the virtues of the rattle snake: strong communication and good follow through”

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Anyone want an idea that will make a billion dollars but also make the world worse?? A vape with a small screen that you can gamble on

A man who can marry the teacher he was hot for and then become president over the most cantankerous western nation is obviously an insanely powerful mind. Unsurprising his political gambit worked.

Data center energy use, which includes Ai and crypto and also the rest of the internet, is ~3% of total use. A drop in the bucket compared to home residential. Be less upset about this and more upset about poor energy retrofit program implementation

Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

Generative AI is a climate disasterdisconnect.blog Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share

My version of this is that I believe every restaurant should have to give away one item for free; the cheapest classic item from their genre of cuisine. Cacio e pepe, chicken broth with rice, rice and beans, buttered spaghetti, etc. ideally they all stock an automat outside their front door.

POSTAL BANKING is a great idea and it leads me to my other great idea: FEDERAL SANDWICH. Guaranteed access to a sandwich to anyone who wants one at ANY US Federal Govt facility. Let me explain. No, there is too much, let me sum up:

TSA is makework for GWOT veterans who had a combat MOS. It would be laudable if it wasn’t constructed in a way that inconvenienced every person in every airport

Jesus fucking Christ I wish I could talk my body so I could say “The pollen isn’t going to hurt you. It’s okay. You can calm down. Let’s just try cooling it with the sneezing and eyes swelling and see what happens okay?”

The idea that I can’t remember something profound and powerful and important that I watched on TV one week ago is insulting

the problem is that most Americans didn’t watch the debate, and the ones that did aren’t going to rewatch it, which means their “recollection” is actually just what they’re hearing about it, which is that Biden was catatonic and couldn’t talk for 90 minutes

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Yeah it seems bad that the normal things a normal candidate would do to bounce back and move the news cycle past this (eg hold a bunch of unscripted town halls and interviews and bring big energy) he is *just not doing*

For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused

Over at the Bad Place, I made a tradition of posting Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July," and I intend to carry on that tradition here. Since most versions you read in classes or in textbooks have parts omitted, the link below has the full text of the speech.

(1852) Frederick Douglass, "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July" •www.blackpast.org On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to address the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of his audience on that 76th anniversary of the signing of the D...

Biden is 20 years older than FDR was at the age that FDR fucking died. Trying to compare Biden’s decline in his old age to FDR’s paralytic illness is apples and oranges!

“No one wants to hold the knife” I know but if Biden doesn’t stop that also means everyone with a voice in dem politics is complicit

I too would like more sleep and to not do too many events past 8am. But for fucking real: dem insiders who heard the president say that shit are spineless wreckers. That is not acceptable for the man who has to respond if Israel invades Lebanon or Russia goes nuclear in Ukraine

And it should be big

i understand this was infinite political controversies ago and nobody’s talked about this in years. but they should still mint the platinum coin

I’d nuke the internet in a second, if I could

"Crimpy and Xx_snud_xX are abusers." "Inflation_Gary is LITERALLY a gaslighter." "Mingus and Bonko are doing elder abuse scams on a private darkweb server that violated pet play consent." We are teetering on the brink of a permanent planet-wide psychotic break. Log off.

Something that I think is getting lost in the discourse is a very important question: Can Biden *actually* execute the duties of the president? Like let’s not argue about the politics of him dropping out, or his record on the merits. Can he even be president is a fair question at this point!

Whoever said that all generic adderall was the same was *LYING*

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How often does it strike you that today, catching covid is more likely to alter your entire life than contracting HIV?

I just wrote such a fucking touching, and heartwarming letter to somebody begging them to let me do them the honor of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to purchase their home

Reminder: flowers are the best value proposition to make someone’s day $15 and they’re delighted

Reviewing debate footage, and I think Tim Scott was hinted at by Trump. Makes more sense than the other big names we’ve heard floated too.

Unironically and my seriously: people didn’t vote hard enough. Hillary lost by ~50,000 votes in a handful of counties in a handful of states. It was a very close election! Why didn’t voting for the lesser evil stop this? Because we lost!

Why didn’t voting for the lesser evil stop this? And other questions for the liberal mind

Yet another day with there is bluesky drama where I have had all the main characters blocked for 6 months already. Get on my level; block annoying micro celebrities and save yourself tons to time down the road

The Democrat Party is our best last chance against fascism. That is of course an insanely, wildly, weak position to be in. There are so many loss conditions on the table right now.

Today is my 11th day working in a row HaHaThisSucks.jpeg

Two choices: either have an open convention or hold the line

as much as i think that debate was bad for biden i also find myself contemptuous of the assorted libs having a full blown panic attack

If you’re not watching this, that’s the healthy choice. This so so fucking bad.

Trump is spewing absolutely vile fact-free garbage to no pushback Biden’s early performance leaned so hard into every concern about his age that it may not matter how the rest of this goes absolute disaster on every level

Bro I thjnk I might be about to buy a house??

My crank theory is that his ex wife who is buried in a pauper’s grave on his golf course has a bunch of really sensitive files in her coffin

That he ran and won on protecting classified documents is mind boggling.