Get con train going 250 km/h

Killed instantly

I think the more pressing issue is the “we’ve got film footage of an object that defies basic physical laws in a variety of unexplainable ways” and the conclusion is “this must be an alien aircraft with borderline supernatural powers” rather than “this film footage is distorted or entirely fake”.

Stupid primitive monkey people have been making shadows on the cave wall for even longer than we’ve been making drones and VR devices. But apparently we should absorb the footage incredulously while attributing increasingly far-fetched technologies to a blurry dot presented by an organization full of serial liars.

Maybe they’re confusing the literal name with the language? Idk.

I grew up on Perl and holy fuck… Rust is fine.

But can it fit inside a standard two-car garage?

Console yourself with the fact that its 90% bots at this point.

CHA means the Mummy falls in love with you when it shows up

“You feel strangely compelled towards the text and begin to read it in a sonorous chant”

“Up pup pup! Check my character sheet, I’m illiterate!”

“You said you were playing a journalist who could speak seven languages.”

“A photojournalist! I’m illiterate in all of them.”

Joke’s on you…

146 rural hospitals closed or stopped providing inpatient services from 2005 to 2023 in the United States

Where we’re going, we won’t have hospitals

the lives of their constituents

No corporate lobbyist is going to suffer from this decision.

Isekai but you just reincarnated as another kid who lives down the street and then your old self and new self become best friends.

Paxton’s definitely in campaign mode. I wonder how many of these lawsuits disappear after the GOP primary.

The US is where the plurality of cars are bought and sold. You can’t just ignore it, especially if you’re one of the Big Three domestic automakers.

What Ford’s running into is a soft cap on the volume of debt Americans are able to assume in order to buy their bloated flatbed trucks and SUVs. It’s 2008 all over again.

The announcement amounted to an admission by Ford that it had overestimated demand for battery-powered vehicles and underestimated the staying power of vehicles powered by gasoline and diesel. Other big automakers, including General Motors and Stellantis, have also recently changed their plans and placed a far greater emphasis on combustion engine vehicles and hybrids.

The U.S. auto industry’s move away from electric vehicles is also a result of a reversal in government policies since President Trump took office in January. His administration has slashed government incentives for electric vehicles while promoting fossil fuels. This month, the administration announced plans to significantly weaken fuel economy standards, which would reduce automakers’ incentive to make electric cars.

This is the nut of it.

We had a public incentive to shit our method of engine manufacture to all electric and now we don’t.

The federal government is artificially subsidizing fossil fuel production and consumption, while penalizing wind and solar as well as lithium battery production.

But don’t be too worried folks. At the end of the day, we’re gutting the consumer economy with stagflation anyway.

Degrowth, baby! That’s Trump’s future.

One Piece is the straw hat.

He finds it in the first episode.

There. Saved you 1100+ 22min episodes full of fun and adventure and friendship.

You’re welcome.

I assumed the Ghost of Christmas Imperative would just be shouting “CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS!” over and over again, while blowing an air horn that plays carols.

So to ignore class and imperialism in your advocacy for trans rights means to effectively throw the majority of trans people under the bus.

I mean… this is literally what the liberals have said they want to do, re: 2024

Democrats Lost Voters on Transgender Rights. Winning Them Back Won’t Be Easy.

The number of policies liberals seem willing to support shrinks with every election cycle as reactionaries in national media flog them for speaking out. Police Brutality in 2014. Health care in 2016. Climate Change in 2018. Student Debt in 2020. Opposition to Genocide in 2022. It seems 2024 was the year we had to stop caring about LGBTQ.

I wonder what we’ll be asked to give up next in our quest to win that “Moderate” voter.

The Naked Gun reboot was a wild ride. Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson hit it out of the park.

Very helpful if your goal is to impose increasingly draconian state security measures and tighten control over the economy from the executive level. Economic manipulation becomes a carrot-and-stick tool for compelling private adoption of public policies.

Trump’s done an excellent job of enriching the friends in his immediate social circle, so from their perspective (and the perspective of their associated industries) the economy is “doing great”. Then the outside groups get labeled as “Gone Woke, Go Broke” failures and Trump leverages public discontent to intercede in their industries, buy out private firms, force out C-levels and managers under the auspices of “fighting DEI”, and replacing them with cronies he can then lard up with federal money.

This isn’t a novel strategy, either. American liberals sought to open up business leadership to minorities and women with a similar set of carrot-and-stick regulations, contracts, and subsidies. Reagan-Era conservatives employed similar strategies to force Evangelical Christian groups into big law firms and onward to the courts, as well as stacking them on the board rooms of big businesses.

Trump’s adopted the playbook to force a more explicit form of fascism across the Military Industrial Complex and the associated network of (already heavily reactionary) public-private partners.

One would like to believe this alarming tilt towards Barbarism would wake Biden-Era liberals up to the dangers inherent in the heavily privatized economic model they’ve championed. But all I’m seeing is ambient smugness, followed by ineffectual liberal reforms insisting people are “getting what they voted for” when the rotten economy beings to crumble in earnest.

They spilled for our sins.

Hallelujah.