SeattleHorn

This is too stupid to be real. Off to the ignore list.

So you would be fine continuing the investigations into Trump's various adventures?

You know, just like they locked up Hillary after all her crimes.

This is incredible. Let's do tariffs next. I'd love someone on Trump's side to break them down just like the Ukraine discussion.

I'm sure this is a tiny county, but inject this into my fucking veins, via https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/interactive/2024/11/05/compare-2020-2024-presidential-results/

I filled out my ballot last night and let my 11yo daughter bubble in the big one. I'm still nervous as hell but I think it's going to be a good memory for her when it's all over.

All 6 of them voted for Haley in the primary. No votes for democrats. If it breaks that way tomorrow, all is good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixville_Notch,_New_Hampshire

Oh for sure, I just want to have them all in one place.

I'm going to need a list of all these assholes I can spite for the rest of my life.

It's going to be a landslide. I've got other bets to hedge this, but lfg:

Yep, the article gives specific examples of how Trumpism embodies every single point.

If you end up in a discussion with someone about whether or not Trump is a fascist, here's a great read from a historian I like: https://acoup.blog/2024/10/25/new-acquisitions-1933-and-the-definition-of-fascism/ It goes through some of the history of Germany and Italy, and is exclusively grounded in what Trump himself says, not what other people say about him.

Pump the stock price?

He doesn't even sound like he believes in the con anymore.

This is just another rep of the elon musk playbook for wealth. Here's how it works: pick a big ambitious sounding goal, preferably one where there are government subsidies in the vicinity (electrify transportation, make life multi-planetary, solve traffic by building tunnels), and where your competition is stodgy existing companies that listen to their lawyers and shareholders make a bunch of insane promises that make this vision sound so good that you pull in investor money and idealistic, naive young engineers coerce young engineers into working incredibly hard by massively overpromising schedules while encouraging them to disregard any existing best practices This is not the worst way to do things, but it also explains why he has all these different companies -- he needs each one to be existentially focused on something for step 3 to work. Twitter did not follow the playbook, and so he's run off the rails into "become a drug-addled dipshit fucking up democracy" territory, which is no good for anybody. Imagine if Howard Hughes had been able to live tweet his breakdowns to 100M people.

New Zealand is only a 4 hour difference from Pacific time, so I didn't have much trouble with that. The season change was wild though -- we went in December and flipping from 8 hours of sun to like 16 was bizarre. - Rent a camper van - Don't take the bus or drive to Milford sound. It's nice but not that amazing, so it's only really worth it if you fly. - We did a canyoning outing (put a wetsuit and hike in a stream at the bottom of a canyon) and it was great. Good activity for decently athletic people (I think the age range is like 10-60) - Eat as many meat pies as you can - Pretty random, but be on the lookout for deer farms as you drive around. Apparently they raise them for the felt on their horns. - If you're in the area, stop here and buy a bunch of raw salmon and eat it while looking out at the lake.

I wonder if aggy did anything stupid like invite 100+ recruits to this shit show.

Ukraine is going to have an incredible defense industry when this is all over. The gear will be battle tested, incredibly cheap compared to stuff we build. They can't be that far away from just dropping pallets of drones near the front line. When a observation drone spots something, an FPV operator sitting in a bunker somewhere could launch a drone from the pallet without any other humans in the loop.

What are the odds that after Texas puts up a good record in 2024 we start hearing the phrase "Old SEC" to refer to that mythically glorious period between 2012 and 2023?

Just tell your GI doc they don't know what they're talking about if they tell you not to eat anything the day before: https://www.statnews.com/2024/03/19/colonoscopy-preparation-liquid-only-diet-data-gastroenterologists/

I think there is a chance she takes the role of AA in a later season, but maybe the showrunners will read the room and bring in somebody new.

At long last, a thread I can contribute to instead of just lurking. I loved all 3 books, but book 3 has a lot of scenes that are going to be amazing if they adapt them well. So, it sort like Netflix rushed through book 1 to get to the good stuff. Ye Wenjie's story in the books is a bit more fleshed out and her decisions make more sense, but I don't think they had enough episodes to really dig into it here. I'm optimistic so far. Hopefully Benioff and Weiss can do this one without fucking it up since all the books are written.