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I’ve sometimes fallen into the trap of thinking that complementing a creative person for their work is less sophisticated or desired than discussion or debate about it but very often the best thing you can say to them is hell yeah and that doesn’t make you dumb it just makes you nice
December 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I’ve sometimes fallen into the trap of thinking that complementing a creative person for their work is less sophisticated or desired than discussion or debate about it but very often the best thing you can say to them is hell yeah and that doesn’t make you dumb it just makes you nice
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monolithsoft please give your xenoblade games 60fps updates for switch 2 and ill kiss you on the mouth forever
December 4, 2025 at 7:16 AM
monolithsoft please give your xenoblade games 60fps updates for switch 2 and ill kiss you on the mouth forever
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Also I don't know if it's just me, but these two suits are utilizing design elements that are kinda evoking 'Samurai' and 'Mage' for me. Maybe the rumors were partially right?
December 4, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Also I don't know if it's just me, but these two suits are utilizing design elements that are kinda evoking 'Samurai' and 'Mage' for me. Maybe the rumors were partially right?
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a few candidates have talked about this but any Dem planning to run in 2028 should make it explicit: the next DOJ will, in fact, go after you if you’re funding this awful ballroom, or any other pay to play deals you make with this administration
Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom:
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
November 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
a few candidates have talked about this but any Dem planning to run in 2028 should make it explicit: the next DOJ will, in fact, go after you if you’re funding this awful ballroom, or any other pay to play deals you make with this administration
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Hegseth needs to go (to jail) and so does everyone in that chain of command
Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Hegseth needs to go (to jail) and so does everyone in that chain of command
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And this is so obnoxious because actual-politics is kind of a fucking layup right now.
Your opponents are running a historically corrupt government.
Be anti-corruption. Run on fixing the shit they broke, holding assholes accountable, and improving people’s lives.
Duh.
Your opponents are running a historically corrupt government.
Be anti-corruption. Run on fixing the shit they broke, holding assholes accountable, and improving people’s lives.
Duh.
November 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
And this is so obnoxious because actual-politics is kind of a fucking layup right now.
Your opponents are running a historically corrupt government.
Be anti-corruption. Run on fixing the shit they broke, holding assholes accountable, and improving people’s lives.
Duh.
Your opponents are running a historically corrupt government.
Be anti-corruption. Run on fixing the shit they broke, holding assholes accountable, and improving people’s lives.
Duh.
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It’s a slogan for political operatives who think campaigns are won and lost based on placards and stump speeches.
It tells no story. It has no anchor in the actual world we actually live in. It is a type of politics that eschews being actually political at all.
It tells no story. It has no anchor in the actual world we actually live in. It is a type of politics that eschews being actually political at all.
November 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It’s a slogan for political operatives who think campaigns are won and lost based on placards and stump speeches.
It tells no story. It has no anchor in the actual world we actually live in. It is a type of politics that eschews being actually political at all.
It tells no story. It has no anchor in the actual world we actually live in. It is a type of politics that eschews being actually political at all.
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“Strong floor, no ceiling” is absolutely the type of slogan that a focus group of swing voters will tell you they find appealing after it has been a whole hour and they just want to go home.
It’s a slogan for people convinced this country *really* wants a Mike Bloomberg presidential campaign.
It’s a slogan for people convinced this country *really* wants a Mike Bloomberg presidential campaign.
November 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
“Strong floor, no ceiling” is absolutely the type of slogan that a focus group of swing voters will tell you they find appealing after it has been a whole hour and they just want to go home.
It’s a slogan for people convinced this country *really* wants a Mike Bloomberg presidential campaign.
It’s a slogan for people convinced this country *really* wants a Mike Bloomberg presidential campaign.
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Just hear me out: maybe the Democratic Party’s problem is that the party leadership is full of people incapable of realizing that Matt Yglesias has terrible political instincts.
November 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Just hear me out: maybe the Democratic Party’s problem is that the party leadership is full of people incapable of realizing that Matt Yglesias has terrible political instincts.
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this is quite the detail
November 30, 2025 at 12:41 PM
this is quite the detail
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it’s Vogon poetry, isn’t it
this is quite the detail
November 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
it’s Vogon poetry, isn’t it
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This is a huge part of why so many people think we're in the middle of a widespread "anti-woke backlash": Small movements opposed to social progress are collected into trend stories by conservative media. Far larger movements that want more diversity are ignored or cast as threats.
"Woke is ruining D&D". Meanwhile Dimension 20, one of the wokest real play shows around, just sold out Madison Square Garden and the Hollywood Bowl for live shows and brings armies of new players to RPGs.
November 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
This is a huge part of why so many people think we're in the middle of a widespread "anti-woke backlash": Small movements opposed to social progress are collected into trend stories by conservative media. Far larger movements that want more diversity are ignored or cast as threats.
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of course much of the history of this country is full of white supremacist horror
but you don’t have to pretend otherwise to say we can and should be something else, you don’t have to hand it to the worst people alive
but you don’t have to pretend otherwise to say we can and should be something else, you don’t have to hand it to the worst people alive
November 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
of course much of the history of this country is full of white supremacist horror
but you don’t have to pretend otherwise to say we can and should be something else, you don’t have to hand it to the worst people alive
but you don’t have to pretend otherwise to say we can and should be something else, you don’t have to hand it to the worst people alive
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this is like reclaiming the flag - these people want to lay claim to the very concept of America as an explicit white supremacist place with no place for anyone but themselves
we do not have to accept their framing, we can be better than that and better than them
“give me your tired, your poor…”
we do not have to accept their framing, we can be better than that and better than them
“give me your tired, your poor…”
Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
this is like reclaiming the flag - these people want to lay claim to the very concept of America as an explicit white supremacist place with no place for anyone but themselves
we do not have to accept their framing, we can be better than that and better than them
“give me your tired, your poor…”
we do not have to accept their framing, we can be better than that and better than them
“give me your tired, your poor…”
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also it is a little funny to see Garrison cartoons taking the opposite of his actual positions
November 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
also it is a little funny to see Garrison cartoons taking the opposite of his actual positions
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I can’t decide if AI Ben Garrison is the worst thing I’ve ever seen or somehow the combination of two eldritch horrors goes all the way back around to amazing
November 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I can’t decide if AI Ben Garrison is the worst thing I’ve ever seen or somehow the combination of two eldritch horrors goes all the way back around to amazing
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The ship has already sailed on deliverism, nobody will be able to argue convincingly that it has a chance of working. But "vengeance for the million dead" (USAID) remains a strong possibility.
November 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The ship has already sailed on deliverism, nobody will be able to argue convincingly that it has a chance of working. But "vengeance for the million dead" (USAID) remains a strong possibility.
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the interesting thing is that Dems actually do have a track record of trying to correct for what they think the errors of the last admin were
so it’s very important that the next standard bearer believes that error was “not going hard enough on Trump” rather than “centrism was failed”
so it’s very important that the next standard bearer believes that error was “not going hard enough on Trump” rather than “centrism was failed”
The thing is that Doing What Must Be Done is genuinely really hard and requires extraordinary political will! Biden tried to at least make a stab at it, but fell way short.
There's SO much inertia in favor of "ignore it and hope it goes away"
There's SO much inertia in favor of "ignore it and hope it goes away"
November 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
the interesting thing is that Dems actually do have a track record of trying to correct for what they think the errors of the last admin were
so it’s very important that the next standard bearer believes that error was “not going hard enough on Trump” rather than “centrism was failed”
so it’s very important that the next standard bearer believes that error was “not going hard enough on Trump” rather than “centrism was failed”
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I’ll put it this way: I have significantly more optimism that we can beat this particular set of fascists than I do that Dems will do what is necessary not to hand the country right back over to the next batch four year later
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I’ll put it this way: I have significantly more optimism that we can beat this particular set of fascists than I do that Dems will do what is necessary not to hand the country right back over to the next batch four year later
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The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.
Run on *that*
Run on *that*
November 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.
Run on *that*
Run on *that*
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Seeing it in slow motion with the db's hand in there too 🤯
November 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Seeing it in slow motion with the db's hand in there too 🤯
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what the actual fuck, man
Seeing it in slow motion with the db's hand in there too 🤯
November 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
what the actual fuck, man
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other big companies (Google, Meta) are built on top of money spigots in the form of advertising
OpenAI needs to make money on AI itself, and a lot of it
and I’m no longer convinced ChatGPT is the leading model even if it still has somewhat of a first mover advantage
OpenAI needs to make money on AI itself, and a lot of it
and I’m no longer convinced ChatGPT is the leading model even if it still has somewhat of a first mover advantage
November 30, 2025 at 8:40 PM
other big companies (Google, Meta) are built on top of money spigots in the form of advertising
OpenAI needs to make money on AI itself, and a lot of it
and I’m no longer convinced ChatGPT is the leading model even if it still has somewhat of a first mover advantage
OpenAI needs to make money on AI itself, and a lot of it
and I’m no longer convinced ChatGPT is the leading model even if it still has somewhat of a first mover advantage