

“There must be in-groups that the law protects but does not bind, and out-groups that the law binds but does not protect.” That’s all it is. That’s all it’s ever been.
They are worse than villains from a child’s story.


“There must be in-groups that the law protects but does not bind, and out-groups that the law binds but does not protect.” That’s all it is. That’s all it’s ever been.
They are worse than villains from a child’s story.
On the one hand, better late than never.
On the other, the Republican party has been the party of maximum scumbag since like Nixon.


…what? Go do something else instead of watching YouTube-style content then. Read a book. Take up knitting. Do crosswords.
You can live a full life without Internet videos.
I had a guy do this once when I was struggling to get my laundry bag into my cart. He just used his free hand to steady the cart for me, but didn’t stop his phone call.


They dehumanize them. You probably wouldn’t feel that bad about killing a rat or cockroach.

I wonder if McCain is dishonest, stupid, or both. I think both, but stupid is the dominant mechanism here. I think she’s too idiotic to grasp that all things have a political context and subtext, even when it’s not an explicit “vote for XYZ”. But maybe she gets that and is just being dishonest for clout.
Either way I hope she goes away and never impacts the world again.


I was hoping step 2 was going to be “and then they don’t leave”, but your plan is pretty good too.
Turning off almost all notifications, running adblock , and ditching social media (except Lemmy, if that counts) , seems to really limit the damage.


I am a few steps removed from his social circle. I’ve never met him, but a few friends of mine have. They all have said he’s a sincerely good person.
Now, that’s just a second hand story from the Internet, but for my part that’s helping me be optimistic about him.
It’s always just emotional slop. Conservatives’ words don’t mean anything. There’s no internal logic beyond “in-groups to protect and out-groups to bind”, and “no one tells me what to do. I tell you what to do”
I’ve read that conservatives model the world as “strict rules that have exceptions made on a case by case basis”. That maybe works if you’re in a small village. Smarter people realize that doesn’t scale and you should write better rules in the first place.


Installed Pop!_os maybe a year ago. It’s been fine.
I couldn’t quite figure out how to make the bg3 mod tools play nice. There’s probably some proton prefix stuff I’d have to do and I gave up before getting too deep.
I bet the next time I want to play a game with mods it’s going to be a bit of a headache.
Other than that, it’s fine. I ran mint for about a year before this, with an interlude of windows 11 that came with the desktop.
My cat likes to drink from people cups. Sometimes I “accidentally” leave one on the table for him to discover.


There’s a recurring problem where the people who make decisions aren’t the people who should make decisions. And many of the people who should be making decisions are too bogged down to deal with everything.


Oh man kids and making shit up.
There was a kid who told me he had all these new mortal Kombat games. Just complete fabrications.
I told another kid that if you got all the chaos emeralds in sonic 3 (I’m old) you could turn into super sonic. Imagine my shock when that turned out to be true.




A couple weeks ago I was working with another developer, and we realized we had to change a string’s format slightly. He was like “I’ll do it in chatgpt!”. I just did it in python. Mine worked. His, we would’ve had to check carefully.


Justin Humphrey should be removed from office.
Cliché shitty man unhappy that women aren’t tailored for his personal tastes.
Extra funny that he jokes about banning a book, as if his villain status wasn’t already abundantly clear.
The clash from 1982 still timely