Just like they* drew it up

*they = hallucinating jazz musicians? Not sure

I'm gonna go way out on a limb and declare that "young, single playboy" =/= "married man in his 50s"

I could have sworn "young single playboy" =/= "married man in his 50s" but ymmv

Don't worry man, I think how it works is we get all the surplus value if we do the prompt right

Not sure if better or worse: we moved into a house and didn't realize it was already occupied until our cat started bringing up live roaches from the basement and dropping them on our bed, multiple times per night

Look man, I've been in the Adams Morgan McDonald's at like 3 AM on Saturday. Do you motherfuckers even eat at your own restaurant?

Solar is so cheap because it's so simple, and building enhanced geo will obviously be tougher than building a solar farm. OTOH you only have to dig the hole once. What do the geo vs solar economics look like in that case? Like could you amortize costs over 1000 years or something crazy?

I had an extra couple of nights in Cairo in 2002 and I'm slightly ashamed to say one night I caught a stupid monster movie (Eight Legged Freaks with David Arquette) and it was some of the most fun I've had in my life. Best audience experience ever.

Grandpa gave me a life membership to the NRA at age 12 (mom wasn't thrilled) so I got their goofy magazine, and man did Hillary set them off. In 2016 I knew she wouldn't pull many moderate Republicans b/c they had been working on her for a quarter century by that point

Odd factoid: Spokane is the work boot capital of the world, which I as a native Spokanite didn't know until I was 32. White's, Nick's, Franks's, JK, Cruz before he died, a whole town full of bootmaking masters. If you asked them to make a woman's shoe or something for the office they'd be baffled

Second this. I've got a pair of White's that I've had since 2009. Resoled twice and they still wear great. They cost a lot up front but over time I've saved a ton, and they're custom built and molded to my feet so they're as comfortable as it gets

Love to know who's responsible for Modi. That guy's such an asshole, and it's not like there was no Hindu nationalism before so did he get his superpowers because of Facebook disinfo or what

That's not you with the hair, is it?

More succinct version of the above. With all of their rulings about too late/not yet too late, the GOP block on SCOTUS has never bothered to name an actual date before which it's not too late and after which it is, specifically so they can pull it out whenever they want.

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I mean, can they? Scotus just said eliminating the TX gerrymander is bad because it's too close to the next election. Couldn't they just say the same for maps in IL/MD/etc.? The reasoning is horseshit but that never stopped the SCOTUS Republicans before.

The Too Close Doctrine of course being one more made up rule, along with Major Questions, Equal Protection of the States, Nondelegation, the right to ignore black-letter Constitutional text, and whatever else the GOP justices pull out of their ass and call a doctrine. Makes quite a powerful arsenal

It generally seems like new maps/voting rules/etc come out, there's a legal back-and-forth that takes a while, and ultimately the side the SCOTUS Republicans don't like gets shot down for whatever their last move was happening too close to the election. All without any rule about when it's too close

I read "The Ends of the World" a while back and it rules. Hard to make mass extinctions a fun read but @peterbrannen.bsky.social pulls it off

Good for convos with the "but climate changes naturally" people; yes it does, and when it does it often sucks, so you really don't want to do it artificially