The hours are brutal. Working 12+ hour shifts with the bulk of the labor happening at the tail end.

Then you’re dealing with other people’s droll and piss and blood. Managing angry drunks, happy drunks, and piss drunks. Tracking orders, periodically against people who want to cheat or rob you. Scouting for underaged drinkers, dealing with sex pests, and still politely catering to the whims of the bulk of your clientele.

I don’t envy bar work even slightly. Crazy to think it’s “easy”, unless you’re already four drinks in. At which point, you’re one of the people making the job more difficult.

months years

Crazy it took them this long

Likely because people over the age of retirement do most of the voting.

But past that, its because our machinery of politics is too sclerotic to implement any kind of reforms that might inconvenience anyone in charge. Literally who would author the legislation? Who would vote for it? Who would sign it?

FFS, we’ve had both parties talking about Term Limits for 80 years running, with not terribly much to show for it. Only 17 states establish term limits for their state legislatures.

While the idea has some broad popular appeal, it rarely impacts anyone’s partisan voting pattern. If anything, the age of a candidate tends to improve their odds of winning election. Voters reflexively don’t trust people younger than them as representatives.. So campaigning as a young person promising to exclude older candidates can be a tough sell.

I mean, it’s also disproportionately expensive, both in terms of capital and labor. The joke of this is Trump just kinda paying off coal barons to do nothing, because the pastiche of the coal mining community is more important to him than the generation of electricity.

Social media absolutely removes the inhibitions of just about all kinds of assholes, builds pat-each-other-on-the-back support groups for them by putting them together with like minded assholes and then algorithmically shovels all that shit on everybody else because anything that elicits strong emotions means more clicks and anger from being offended is one such emotion.

Sorry. A bronze age manuscript says so. No arguing with that.

But the video is encouraging the construction of websites that can easily be self-hosted

It’s claiming they can be self-hosted, certainly. But they’re also claiming this is some kind of “Web Revival”. Do you know anyone who is building neocities sites and self-hosting them, much less getting any meaningful amount of traffic on their self-hosted websites?

Zero planning for repercussions

You’re viewing the backlash as a bug rather than a feature. Vance will be back on TV in a week, arguing the US needs to intervene directly.

Holy shit, the Atlantic are finally acknowledging there’s a problem

The Atlantic only sees a problem when a guy they don’t like is in charge. Their editorial staff will forget all about the GOP’s Nazi Problem the minute Jeb Bush is running the RNC again.

The old Peter Thiel Special

Wonder how many coked up rapists are involved in this story.

There’s a website tool hosted on neocities that’s attempting to become a geocities revival.

The video is functionally an ad for the community and the associated Web building tools.

Another walled garden, right in line with Web 2.0, but with a 90s pastiche done up in HTML5. Reminds me a bit of the Vaporwave style that flared up in the mid-10s. Cute, but not groundbreaking.

Certainly ironic, given the context.

But how else are you going to reach the normies?

Excited to hear Mike Huckabee’s other theories on which ethnic groups enjoy sovereignty over which geographic regions

All of these facts are anti-Semitic

Bold and controversial

Sensational claims on a hot topic are always better fact-checked, regardless of what they support.

Better for whom?

Listen, we’re at war with an existential foreign evil. And I believe anything negative we can say about that foreign power furthers the war effort. Therefore, we MUST believe it, whether or not it is true.

Trump eats an infant every morning to deal with impotency.

You joke, but we did this one already, back in 2016. “Torturing children to eat them for their magic youth chemicals” was a popular mythology for the Alex Jones crowd.

And we believed it, God damnit, because we needed to beat the Chinese Communist plant Hillary Clinton.

Or, a tankie version: Xi Jinping personally installed 150GW of solar power yesterday as he ruled closing of coal plants across the country.

Obviously, solar power is itself a hoax perpetrated by anti-American climate activists. So it’s exactly the kind of lie a Chinese Communist Tankie would spread.

I believe Xi Jinping’s fake degenerate solar panels are undermining Western Civilization. If he’s installing them, he must be stopped at all costs.

If you see a solar panel, it is your duty to smash it. Fuck the CCP!

And now it’s all funneled through Palantir and the various other tentacles of the private sector.

The CIA/NSA are just retail customers of privatized surveillance.

I mean, you can talk about legality and find all sorts of technical restrictions in code.

But who believes any of this shit was enforced?

The closest thing we’ve had to a government action against US propaganda was Biden’s War On TikTok. And that was for the unspeakable crime of mentioning the Gaza Genocide too many times.

According the Wikipedia, it was all a hoax and you can ignore it.

Nothing to see here, folks. Move along, move along.