Playing NCAA 06 with the sliders turned down and giving myself elaborate visions of me catching a zillion touchdowns and leading Cal to three straight nattys
Google says its greenhouse gas emissions have surged 48% in the past five years due to the expansion of the data centers that underpin its AI efforts (Financial Times)
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Your doomposting (boring): It’s hopeless. There’s nothing we can do. Everything is broken forever
My doomposting (cool): RIP AND TEAR YOUR GUTS! YOU ARE HUGE! THAT MEANS YOU HAVE HUGE GUTS! RIP AND TEAR!
it’s cool how the average Biden advisor is like ‘it’s crucially important that you retain adherence to the traditional norms of governance’ and the average Biden voter is like ‘why does Joe not simply get the secret service to ventilate Cheeto Don’
the modern American right has always been the sludge that Nixon left behind, so it makes sense that their courts would eventually exonerate him in some form or another
I am so tired of the already elected saying that things hinge on the next election. Do more now and run on it. If I was president the day I learned that crimes were legal for me I might act on that knowledge and get the Supreme Court in line.
When there's a Dem president liberals are like "the president CAN'T [good thing he campaigned on]." Now the SC is like "the president can do whatever lol [rattles tip jar]" and liberals are still on their "if you expect the president to help anything, you're a child who wants a pony" spiel.
"That's right, I want the refs to screw over America in this soccer match. What do you mean I have no authority on anything to do with soccer? What do you mean it's weird I want America to lose? I said what I said damn it."
We joke about it being like getting kicked in a head by a horse everyday but Musk has literally never had a human relationship outside his family he wasn’t paying for and now he’s basically a 56 year old toddler
There is precedent. 'President Donald Trump commended the U.S. Marshals for shooting Reinoehl, describing it as "retribution", and claiming to have personally "sent in" the U.S. Marshals to "get" Reinoehl during the first presidential debate with Joe Biden.'
SOTOMAYOR: The President could [steps on foot] *order a political assassination*, or [steps on foot] *organize a coup* or— [steps on foot repeatedly]
BIDEN: [to Jackson] ...I think she's talking to you
Sotomayor's dissent is chilling: "When [the president]...orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune."
So many of these people spent YEARS telling people that things that political organizers said would happen would not happen due to 'precedent', norms, collegiality, etc and they were fucking wrong 100%.
American Evangelical Christianity isn't -actually- "Christianity" as it has been known for the past two millennia.
It's better-understood as a political, authoritarian apocalyptic cult centered entirely on "enemies" that need to be "punished" and the "end times" which are right around the corner.
Four movies I despise
-Valerian made me want him dead the whole movie
-Transformers ROTF is why I can’t order butter on my popcorn at the movies anymore
-Star Wars IX, aka Nuh-Uh!: The Movie, aka Big Nerd Pacifier
-Dawn of Justice is not a movie, it is 15 movie trailers in a trenchcoat
[takes a drag off a candy cigarette]
I don't like to go negative, but...
-American Beauty. I will go to my grave spitting nails at this movie.
-Quarantine. Possibly my most hated movie. Unpleasant nothing.
-Summer's Blood. Ugly & hateful & GTFO.
-Mystic River. MORE SEAN PENN OVERACTING, PLEASE.
James Carville is like if Billy Corgan and Jim Cornette did a Fusion Dance and the resulting person had all the combined faults of both while amplifying the smug factor
Listen I’m gonna need someone in the DNC to lock Carville in a broom closet for the next four months, this southern fried foreskin hasn’t won an election since 9/11.
anyway, there's people facing serious prison time for the george floyd protests. there's people still in prison for ELF & ALF actions taken during the 90s. there's climate activists out there RIGHT NOW risking prison time for the planet.
do not let anyone tell you state surveillance is not a threat
I love checking the challenges menu in Street Fighter 6 to see which way Capcom will beg us “PLEEEEEEEASE PLAY EXTREME BATTLES IN THE BATTLE HUB PLEASE PLEASE PLEEEEEEEEASE” while the Extreme Battle cabinets continue to sit in the corner collecting dust
I’m just so pleased that the court decided homeless people can be arrested for existing, the government cannot govern, and the president cannot be prosecuted for committing crimes, all in the same week. Blitzkrieg doesn’t begin to cover what has happened to the rule of law.
THE sentence of the day: A Macronist incumbent in the Marseille region came in 3rd in her seat. She just dropped out to support the left. She said, about why she's maneuvering to block the far-right:
"Defeats happen, but you can never recover from dishonor."