You need to surround the Arby’s with a kilometer square spike field or I’m getting my roast beef sandwich.

Wait what did they do?

The current Democrat party is like that, yes. However, if this proves ineffective, you’ll see more Democrat candidates with an experimental message. Historically, this is how it has played out. We are currently in the 6th party system. Which means that the parties have had drastic realignment 5 times already. I think we’re entering the 7th party system.

Probably not ideal but I use Google drive for synching and it worked fine. The database is encrypted so, at worst, Google knows I have a password manager.

I was talking about this the other night with a friend. We kind of agree that now is a good time for a shift. The Democrat party has never been so powerless. Either a drastic realignment of the Democrat party (what I think will happen) or a truly leftist party supplanting them (what I hope happens) has never been more likely. Fighting right wing authoritarian populism with vaguely liberal platitudes just doesn’t work. Kamala’s massive defeat proved that. I think the midterm election will be a test of left wing unity. Can we rally behind a coherent message? Or will we see a bunch of Democrats running on a platform of “we’re not maga so vote for us” again?

Definitely her gender and skin color had an impact. What Trump and the maga crowd successfully did was present an appealing narrative. Even the most politically apathetic Americans feel like something is wrong. Tech companies and large companies in general have an increasing level of control over our lives. Cost of living is going up with no sign of stopping. The right made it sound like these problems were the result of “elites” in business, Washington, and colleges pushing an unamerican agenda (via immigrants, indoctrination, etc). This is enough to convert many not overtly racist people to vote for racist anti-intelectual policies. What the left truly failed to do was present the real narrative that capitalism is to blame. I remain convinced that a candidate running on economic populism will sweep an election. Those people just need a better narrative.

This might be a hot take and I have nothing backing this up but: I don’t think the average US voter gives a fuck about the Palestinians or the US support of Israel. The people who do are a vocal but tiny minority, even among Democrat voters. That minority still likely voted overwhelmingly for Kamala. I just don’t think the Israel Palestine issue had any affect at all on the election. If you look online, you’d think it was the single biggest failure of the Democrat party. Which…it is, morally speaking. But I don’t think it decided the election. I’d love to be proven wrong but I think Americans don’t care about foreigners.

We asked ourselves, why couldn’t handlebars function like a car’s cockpit?

Isn’t this just a cycle computer? I have a cycle computer that clicks into place on my bars. It navigates and connects to sensors like pedal cadence sensors, power meters, heart rate monitors, it displays speed. All while being removable so I can easily charge it or just not bring it when I don’t need those functions.

Damn, you’re supposed to call a doctor after just 4 hours

Almost everyone had their phones in cases before phones had camera bumps. Phones have camera bumps because they realized they might as well use the extra thickness for more camera hardware.

I wonder if this actually affects anyone. The article mentions that ~50 of the pardoned were Illinois residents. What are the chances one of them is a state employee? Does this even affect existing employees or does it only affect future hiring? I’m betting a right wing group finds one of them and gets them to apply for a random state position they aren’t even qualified for and uses the rejection to sue the state.

I don’t have a problem of ignorance. That just means you don’t know something. Willful ignorance is a whole other game though. It sounds like they were just ignorant and willing to learn from their mistakes.

I have a vivid memory of my mom teaching me to ride with no training wheels the same way. I felt so fast.

Oh man. I thought you were saying that you asked her out and she said she was fine.

“All across the country, especially here in Mississippi, the vast majority of bills relating to contraception and/or abortion focus on the woman’s role when men are fifty percent of the equation,” he wrote. “This bill highlights that fact and brings the man’s role into the conversation. People can get up in arms and call it absurd but I can’t say that bothers me.”

It’s a Democrat introduced bill with no chance of passing. The intent is to point out the absurdity and creepiness of controlling people’s bodies and sex lives by flipping the gender. Kind of clever.

If the list includes everyone, what good is the list?

Ban the data-mining

If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that some gamers absolutely love arcane bullshit. I think I’m going to give the game a whirl

What a horrible take

Bluesky