True, but I also think the writers meant it unironicaly.

In Star Trek Discovery, Cochrane and Musk get specifically compared to each other, and to the Wright Brothers.

He’s going to live another 20 years in perfect blissful retirement

NYPD cop turned media talking head. His podcast is #9 on Spotify.

I think a good point was made on Hasan’s stream during election night: what was the point of picking Walz, if you were then going to force him to do right wing messaging that he wouldn’t deliver convincingly? For a second there, it almost seemed like the campaign was about to pivot into a more progressive messaging campaign… but then they just ran as if they had Shapiro as VP.

Paul Krugman will bravely continue to do exactly what he’s been doing the whole time and being payed handsomely for.

I think what’s really striking is how close the “blue wall” states are, we’re talking under 400k votes in the states that are winning Trump the EC. Harris could have performed way worse than Biden 2020, and still won a comfortable margin. But instead of performing way worse, she performed catastrophically worse.

Harambe in 2016, peanut in 2024

As unbelievable as it might sound, in the USA justice system, if a lawyer knows their client is guilty as hell, they are not supposed to just pretend otherwise and make up crazy legal theories in court to try to get them off the hook. Lawyers who make such grossly bad-faith arguments like this in front of a judge are supposed to get disbarred.

It’s not Nazi heraldry unless it comes from the National Socialist region of Bavaria!

Especially when talking about air pollution, the literal textbook case of negative externalities. Just throwing bad sounding terms at things you don’t like.

This is flippant of me, but I think it’s obvious that Libertarianism is just what happens when you would otherwise arrive Liberalism or Anarchism, but don’t do the homework.

I don’t think it’s true, nor is it true if what he meant was that more people died per-capita. A perplexing and distracting mistake.

My parents have helped out at food shelf in the rural Midwest for a couple decades now, and the demand is way up, although not as high as it was during 2007-2008. The real unemployment rate is at record lows in that area, and wage growth is actually increasing, but not enough to keep up with ballooning grocery bills and rent hikes. So the families with lots of kids might have more income coming in from wage labor, but their costs are just out of control, and food aid is absolutely essential to keep the household afloat. I think what is not really appreciated is that there’s a huge shortage of rentals that have 5+ bedrooms (renting a house is the only real option).

I think the really cynical calculus from the political establishment is that these people are mostly non-voters, and so actually trying to address these problems is a waste of political capital.

I’ve been really getting into classic Sonic games, and have gotten most of the way through Sonic 2, as well as finally putting some time into finishing Sonic Mania. I dropped Sonic 1 after finishing a few zones, as it became clear that the level design in that game is not up to par with later releases. Also poking around at the Master System Sonic games, which are totally different games than the mainline release, but have some interesting stuff in them (my original exposure to Sonic was looking over another kid’s shoulder while he played Sonic on Game Gear).

I’ve always been a Mario Enjoyer, and just never quite understood Sonic… the platforming aspect of Sonic always felt so clunky because of how much less air control you have. But I think I get it now, it’s all about figuring out the right paths through the levels to just go fucking apeshit turbo mode and blast through them as fast as possible. GOTTA GO FAST.

Also helps that I’ve got a nice CRT tv setup and am playing on original hardware. The super fast scrolling of Sonic works way better, it’s not a blur like it is on a crappy LCD screen.

I think a lot of Americans are ready to do direct violence, but are being held back by pretty strong social taboos against it. The cops jealously guard their own monopoly on violence and power. And when some chud does take matters into their own hands, it seems to surprise them when they get clapped by the justice system. The desired dynamic seems to be “you call the cops, and then the cops do the violence”.

I’m curious to try it multiplayer, so I’m down.