Sabata

I’m betting we get 2 years of Vance. Trump is circling the drain.

The only exception I know to 2 terms and 8 years are getting moved from vice president to president and I think that also has a limit. The problem is the US president is now above the law and no one other than congress can stop him, and his sycophants own congress.

The intellectual dark web just won the election!’: meet the coalition of Joe Rogan, RFK Jr, Tulsi Gabbard and Elon Musk

I thought this was an Onion article.

Step one involves owning a dead but intact lion, and a saw.

“Boebert clearly left the hearing without her answers on aliens but said she is looking forward to working with the incoming Trump administration to get to the bottom of this alien hybrid human thing and those underwater alien cities.”

Should I be worried about an insane politician babbling about underwater civilizations and horrors defying description of the weak minded? Shes clearly on a mission to stop the Old Ones.

Look at Mr.Bigshot over here with a defined value and data type.

Guess were all in on genocides rather than pretending were not enabling it and hoping it sorts itself out, sorry.

I can’t convince ~74,000,000 morons to change their mind. ¯\(ツ)/¯

This is the 3rd time I been threatened to be blown up from across the world today and I only been up for an hour and a half. I don’t even read them all anymore.

Are we still the bad guys?

It’s almost like human communication is not supposed to be a product or something…

It jobs:

Need 10 years experience in 1 year old tech

Or

Need 10 years experience in tech that stopped existing 10 years ago.

Or

Need 10 years experience in this software that is a felony to use outside our business and the government.

I just one day said fuck it and gave notice with no plan. I burnt out to the point I was probably getting fired if I stuck around much longer. Besides, If I stayed I was going to quit life instead.

It was a miserable month or 2 of draning my savings finding a new job and I had to take a small pay cut once I did. It was worth it alone for the better work environment.

Line something up if you can, but get out before it gets worse for you.

I wish I knew teaching a cat to speak was forbidden knowledge. She wakes me up at night just to let me know she claimed 80% of the bed, or the bottom of the bowl is visible.

Saying hi while passing each other is pretty cool though.

If she’s not running on your hardware, she only loves your for money.

Close but less incompetent, I hope…

I had a little bit of success with grounding, but you kinda have to be aware you’re zoning out. Look at or touch an item, like observe the crap out of it describing it to yourself for a few seconds and then move on to another after a moment. Doing something engaging enough to hold your focused attention helps, but it’s also hard to motivate yourself to want to zone back in. Basically you got to focus on the outside world and drown out your inner thoughts. You only can really manage to focus inside or outside at once.

Reality sucks, and I refuse to relax anywhere near it.

Americans are lazy and kinda dumb so voter turn out mostly driven by drama, feel good messages, and rage. A lot of the “go out and vote” messaging is genuine, but all politics becomes scum and strategy. They can target certain demographics that are likely to vote in a certain way. The goal is to get a demographic with a statistical likelihood of voting for Asshat-A to go out and vote as the Asshat-A voters in that demographic out number Asshat-1 voters.

Voting varies by state law but most of it comes down to mail in a ballot, check a box in person, or click a button in person. The problem is speed bumps. There are major corruption issues that plague US elections as the guys elected are trusted to not be self serving pieces of shit. The voting process can be potentially changed by the people getting voted in, so naturally corrupted groups make voting as inconvenient as legally possible to dissuasive a demographic that is likely to vote against them. (Past efforts:ID checks, reading test, checking if you’re a white land owing male, checking if you are brave enough to walk past the KKK, long lines, stupid rules, de-funding the post office to make ballots late.) Gerrymandering manipulates voting by changing districts on a map to change outcomes of votes. Actual voter fraud is rare in the idea of stuffing a ballot box. The corruption game is payed on a map and spreadsheet, with the threat of bribes not showing up.

Voter turn out is generally a good thing as it can offset corruption and is widely pushed, but each group has people they do and do not want participating in the vote. A single Asshat-1 voter staying home because the line is too long, or too dangerous might as well be a vote for Asshat-A and that can be enough to change the outcome of a district. Lower turnout makes corruption easy and leads to a shitty outcome, and everyone is trying to move things in their favor or win the game.

Investment firms, the 5th horseman.

There is creativity and risk in anime that no western media company would ever touch, even if its disagreeable or just shitty. Western stuff is cookie cutter slop aimed at checking all the boxes of a profitable product.

Western media seems to only push things that fit the mold of an investor worthy price of art. Anime goes for a “throw things at the wall” approach so things that are a gamble get made. I think its an issue of scale, anime has a smaller market so the stakes of fucking up massively are survivable while having a huge farm of original indy stories dreaming of being an anime to source from. Western stuff dose not not have the pool of creativity to lift from as scaring or offending investors with risk gets you fired. Triple A gaming seems to reached the same point, bureaucracy and safety prevents new ideas that are risky or they come out bland and boring. Without risk you stagnate and people think your boring. Animation is cheap enough to take risk but has less returns since the market is smaller.

TL;DR: Western media is too bloated to take the creative risk needed and they got to throw buckets of cash to prop up Ol’Reliable season 20 instead.

Same. Mastodon was nice to shit post to when Lemmy dried up.