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ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 15h

It ebbs and flows, but personally I feel like this arc is one of the slower ones.

ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 16h

Frankly, I think the word "trying to decide" gives Brianna Wu far too much credit for having functional thought processes in this regard.

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 1d

It’s okay to be glad that restaurants are doing stuff like this AND absolutely furious about the utter failure of the United States government.

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ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 1d

That's a "depends on which comment" thing, the complaining comments on-comic are about half "boo there will never be consequences" and half "hurry it up already, they have been cute long enough".

(I fall into the latter camp, but meh, "I'm not 100% happy with the pacing" is not the worst complaint)

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ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 1d

Watched Halloween (1978) tonight with @jdoern.bsky.social , as is tradition.

Somehow managed to break the blu-ray in some kind of unwatchable skips-huge-portions-of-the-murders way. I didn't even know that was POSSIBLE.

ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, and let's also not forget that if I had a nickel for every time a woman boxer beat a Russian boxer in a worlds-level bout got accused of being a trans woman immediately after by a Russian boxing organization, I'd have at least two nickels just from last year.

ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 1d

The thing I say is "If 1% of people are trans (lowballing for effect), then you'd expect 1% of all top women's sports champions to be trans women. If more than 1% are, then trans women have a provable advantage. If MANY less than 1% are, for example the 0% we see in the real world...

ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 1d

Oh geez, yeah. I found myself telling people "you know that intrusive questionnaire you have to go through to get life insurance above a certain amount these days, where you just know every question is basically adding a line item charge? All health insurance signups used to be like that."

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ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 1d

Drugs are super expensive. No one is giving them to your kids for free in Halloween candy.

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 2d

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ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, I remember being in a weird gray area where I COULD stay on my parent's insurance since they were buying it as individuals (small business owners, y'know) and even then it was $180-ish/mo for a single 18-to-23-yr-old with no smoking, alcohol use, or chronic conditions in 1997-2002.

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ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 2d

A third option is that a lot of people simply didn't have coverage because they didn't believe they needed it or couldn't afford it.

A lot of the specific objections to the ACA were coming from those folks back in the day -- " I don't need health insurance, I'm healthy, why force me to buy it?"

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ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 2d

Obviously, the Maduro regime has provoked him with all SORTS of acts of war like... *cricket noises* ...and as such, the fact he's ONLY doing stand-off missile/air strikes means he's being MORE peaceful than he could have been.

ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 2d

Charitably, your examples do not show the things you are claiming they do. Neither the "face" nor the "font" examples look anything other than superficially similar to the ChatGPT examples you chose.

ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, no, you misunderstand. Having FRIENDS and FAMILY and COWORKERS and SOCIAL PEERS in the house is fine. Having HIRED HELP in the house? People of LESSER SOCIAL CLASS and POSSIBLY a DIFFERENT RACE? That's the part that grinds a lot of folks' gears.

ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 3d

I had a guy's boss call me and ask if I MEANT to leave a $200 tip when I paid. I'm like, fuck, the team was here to do a moving-out cleanup including hauling a fuckin' piano on *checks notes* the record-highest heat index day ever, fuck yes I'm tipping them $200 on a $1000 job.

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ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 3d

The kind you hire to clean up once a week instead of every day or live-in. Which is, as far as I can tell, the most common way to get maid service for all but the ultra-wealthy.

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ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 3d

I'd say "who hurt you?" but I lived in a relatively well-to-do suburb, so I know exactly who hurt 'em, and it rhymes with 'itch fight meeple'.)

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ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 3d

(Nothing, frankly, gets me in more of an angry-left mood in my day-to-day life outside the news when I have service workers of some kind in my house, and they APOLOGETICALLY ask to use the bathroom or grab water and are RIDICULOUSLY grateful when I say "of course you can".

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ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 3d

From the wealthy folks I've know, probably a combination of "racism" and "generally not wanting to interact with 'the help' as though they're human" -- the "advantage" of the shitty robot is that it's not a real actual human in your house, asking to *gasp* drink your water and use your bathroom.

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ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 3d

I'd go so far to say that I would actively seek out neighbors who spoke a different language, given how I've seen studies that boil down to "being exposed to other languages/cultures makes your kids smarter".

I can see why Vance would oppose that, though.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d

The Senate is still meeting and holding votes as normal despite the shutdown.

The House has not held a vote in a month and a half now solely because Mike Johnson wants to prevent the release of the Epstein Files.

They've killed our government to save their pedophiles.

Jason Odell @luminescentphoto.com · 5d

A quick reminder that the House is not in session because Speaker Johnson CANCELED it, not because of the current shutdown.

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ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 4d

The only way I'd credit this at all is if the author is a relatively low-generation Slavic immigrant, at least based on my family who were VERY tetchy about who was whose great-aunt or fifth cousin twice removed or whatever the hell.

By my own generation, "cousin" and "distant cousin" reigned.

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ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 5d

At this point, I'm convinced: we don't have "centrists", we have "people addicted to maintaining THEIR personal status quo, regardless of what happens to literally anyone else."

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 5d

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

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🎃 Scare-by Ca-poltergeist 👻 [Feral Edition] @virtuistic.bsky.social · 6d

"Goldman Sachs has estimated that the average ChatGPT query uses nearly 10 times as much energy as a Google search."

"A midsized data center uses as much water in a day as 1,000 American households, about 300,000 gallons, one research scientist told NPR."

More: share.google/BOXHTwok4Ltr...

Researchers issue warning on harmful side effect of using ChatGPT: 'It's a concern'

Tech executives have been frustratingly opaque.

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ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 6d

Well, remember, if they criticize Republicans too much (or at all), the Republicans might accuse them of being unfair and biased to the left, and what would that do to their reputations?

(Democrats of course are expected to be stalwart supporters of old media regardless. Where else would they go?)