Trillian! Hadn’t thought of that in forever.

🤞🏽

Fair point. They’ve always defaulted to Shumering because shutting down the government causes a lot of pain for people dependent on public services, but with the idiots in charge already dismantling everything, there’s zero reason not to, most of the people dependent on the government are already getting fucked DOGEy style anyway.

I’m outside Minnesota, but I haven’t traveled today. I’m not sure how to answer the question.

No one has discussed split keyboards, which offer all the benefits of a full size and addresses ergonomic concerns across the board. Need only half your keyboard today? Done and done.

Need ALL the keyboard, we gotchu.

Trust and Faith are not the same thing. A belief is not the same as a fact. Language is a terrible way to talk about this, which is why science uses math.

Yes, help the conservatives. A novel approach.

I’m sure everyone who can easily throw away 40+ thousand dollars has already done so and is probably more than willing to tell you about it.

Yeah, the twitter debacle fucking broke him I wonder if there’s an alternative timeline where he weaseled out of having to buy it and decided to calm down and shut the fuck up afterwards.

Maybe this is the timeline where he eats enough drugs to explode his own heart on a livestream.

EVERY big company CEO is a piece of shit. They just keep it behind closed doors. Fuckface decided to do it in the open.

You probably own clothes right now made by kids in Pakistan. How would you feel if someone set them on fire while you were wearing them?

You gonna slap the food out of people’s mouths because they shop at Walmart?

Wanna kick some homeless dude for wearing a donated Tesla T-shirt?

At some point you gotta realize everyone is a victim of capitalism and punishing them for being part of the system they’re born into is the opposite of how you get them to look around and wake up.

If they really want catharsis they’d go after Tesla showrooms. Musk actually owns those, so you’ll actually be hurting his bottom line directly, instead of fucking over someone who bought the only car you could even get during the pandemic.

Really, if you’re pissed at him fuck with him, not some random with a car payment who probably hates him as much as you do.

(I really want to say cybertrucks are fair game, but that’s the goblin talking, and you really shouldn’t listen to the goblin. If your goal is accelerationism, then we have nothing to say to each other)

It’s a compromise, from the before times when one could assume people elected to their public positions where attempting to do those jobs in good faith.

The idea would be to give everyone something they want so that everyone could agree and actually get something done.

In this case, the house hoarders don’t immediately lose the resources they’ve hoarded, and instead get charged for the damage they’re doing to the economy. Ideally that money goes towards housing the poor, but that’s a side effect.

The point would be to make house hoarding non-viable as an income source, incentivising the hoarders to un-hoard.

Sadly, it wouldn’t do either without a much higher tax, which would never get agreed to

Nowadays it’s just a pipe dream that the money’d power wants to compromise on anything.

Neigh.

*teleports behind you"

“nothing personele, kid.”

WE ARE WORKING DILIGENTLY TO UNFUCK THIS DOG THAT WE FUCKED TO DEATH.

Bravo on that deep dive, and thank you.

I’m super curious why you put scientists in quotes. I literally can’t figure out what that’s supposed to imply.

Get her a Thinkpad with 64 GB of ram and a server-class CPU that blasts enough heat to make the laptop hover. That’s what I had the last time I worked on a project for the government. Company took it back though 😞

The Democrats accomplished a balanced budget in the 90’s under Clinton. Can you guess what the next 8 years of Republican control did to that?

Trump did not have this idea, he is repeating noises he once heard someone make. Once you assume Republicans operate like the fae in old stories, everything starts to make sense: Everything they do is designed to trick you so they can take advantage of you. Absolutely none of what a conservative does is unselfish; by definition they are driven to prevent any and all change, except what they seem acceptable. Agreeing with anything they propose, no matter how good it sounds, is a self-deprecating move.

For context, he did this a year ago.

You’re looking at it backwards:

They’re going to give public lands to themselves and their friends with this mechanism.