That’s the thing I can’t fully understand. What sticky secret sauce does Twitter have that keeps people on it? I never saw its appeal and never created an account. I tried Bluesky and was underwhelmed. Instagram had some stickiness, but then it got stale after the initial novelty wore off. Maybe my brain just isn’t wired for those types of social media.

Is megaprison still the right term, or can it be colloquially acknowledged as a human life expiration camp?

Edit: I don’t think the GOP has ever had any qualms about its own sense of hypocrisy.

Perhaps you should feel concern for that person, because they’re resorting to violence to cope with their feelings of frustration. We’ve all done it and in my own experience, I don’t think I’ve ever come back to my senses feeling satisfaction that I had lost control. I usually feel some shame for the destruction I caused.

Here is the problem: When you spend time thumping an inanimate object, like a pillow, or beating nonliving things in a rage room, you are conditioning yourself to quickly become aggressive next time your anxiety levels rise. So instead of opening up the escape valve on a pot of steam, you are rewarding your distressed feelings with the instant and ephemeral pleasure that comes from throwing dishes against a wall.

Hey, whatever heuristic works for helping people show and feel respect for their environment and the things in it is good in my book. If you’re capable of respecting others in your space without needing to be polite to your inanimate tools, then good on you. Not everyone is like that and if it helps someone feel peace with their surroundings to imagine everything around them has some kind of soul or feelings worthy of consideration, then I’ll take that, too.

Of course, there are limits to everything and if a tool irreparably breaks, hopefully someone is able to discard it accordingly. Pathological hoarding of useless objects is a thing, too, after all.

They were wont to forget it.

Make sure you store it somewhere you don’t mind being surveilled.

Has anyone played Doom on it yet?

Now I’m conflicted about that news article I saw about Trump letting those 70 coal plants operate with emissions unchecked, because now the acid rain they cause will degrade the trucks faster.

No, she was on the ballot with Kelly Chewbacca as the token MAGA candidate. Alaska has ranked choice, so the R ticket split, but people were able to list Murkowski as a backup to their D (or 3rd party) pick.

If only his stupid fucking base would just disown him already…

I’ve never seen so many people so hopelessly infatuated with such an unattractive, inarticulate, uncharismatic slimeball. But…maybe that’s somehow his strength. Like, look everyone, even a fat ugly rough-talking slob can allegedly be rich and surrounded by allegedly beautiful women. That at least explains to me why he has classless dude appeal. Why any self respecting woman would like him is a mystery I’ll take to my grave.

I think it’d be more effective in the short term to show enthusiastic support for these kinds of admissions. Give these early defectors a soft landing. Politicians entirely operate in a perpetual popularity contest, where they’re always trying to do today what they think will make them popular tomorrow. Maybe Murkowski thinks she has a chance of maintaining that popularity and we should do what we can to validate that assumption. If she helps turn the tide, that’ll warrant some respect. After the worst threat has been neutralized, some deeper review of her history and scrutiny of how she intends to continue on as a politician is then worth deep consideration.

But I’ll take allies where I can. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. The worst my enemy is, the better his enemies look to me.

In the pit of despair, suddenly a schadenfreude jacuzzi appears. Stays are limited to 5 minutes, but it’s a nice 5 minutes.

Oh man, you should read Aftermath: Remnants of War by Webster.

Doin’ it for all the kids and future kids.

This technology has been around since thumbs became opposable and spit became slippery.

You’d be his Rosemary? I’m sure your soul is worth more than that. At least hold out for half a billion.

Also Continuum.

But if that’s what he’s after, why hasn’t he just manufactured an army of Musk clones? I mean, Clone and Elon are almost anagrams, after all.

Okay, actually, I’m pretty sure he probably does have a Boys of Brazil army of clones…I’m super surprised we just haven’t heard of them yet.

“Without babies there’s no future, every problem becomes secondary to the problem of not having people on the planet,” said Varsavsky. “Elon believes that a country is not the geography, a country is the people.”

Speaking to an audience at an investment conference in Saudi Arabia last year, Musk laid out the urgency of the matter. “I think for most countries, they should view the birthrate as the single biggest problem they need to solve. If you don’t make new humans, there’s no humanity, and all the policies in the world don’t matter,” Musk told the crowd over a live video.

Possible translation: “I’m going to need many, many future slaves and test subjects for my Neuralink brain chip that will be able to read your minds and maybe even allow me to take control of your minds and bodies whenever I want. Also, I need to blast lots of controllable people to Mars. Many of them will probably die. Pilgriming is hard business, after all.”

Can’t believe how out of touch this sick fuck is. “Have more kids!!” Ya, ok buddy. Maybe when you make housing available and affordable. Maybe when you make it easy to have a life at home and not completely beholden to tenuous corporate interests optimized to squeeze all of someone’s life and soul out of them. Maybe when you start to actually give a fuck about the future health of this planet, so if someone decides to bring new life into existence, they’re not debilitated by guilt at having forced someone to live in the hellish future you’re fabricating.

“Without babies there’s no future, every problem becomes secondary to the problem of not having people on the planet”

Instead, how about “With the perception of there being a really shitty future, or possibly no future, people will conscientiously refuse to bring more people into existence because they don’t want to be responsible for their childrens’ horrible and untimely deaths.”

I, for one, would feel like a complete piece of shit if I were to reproduce today because, sorry kid, the shittiest, most hostile sociopathic people happen to be in charge now and I don’t foresee that changing anytime soon…barring, of course, an extinction event you would have no chance of surviving.

Trump is a drama factory. Drama makes clickable headlines and glues eyes to screens. Trump is good for the business interests of news.

I mean did you expect him to start arresting dissenters within a month and a half of his inauguration?

Actually, yes. Absolutely. I read portions of P2025. I expected the insurrection act and martial law to happen by now, though. Not sure why it didn’t occur after the Hands Off demonstrations, except perhaps it would have meant more publicity and lent credibility to the opposition, which seems to have been intentionally ignored and marginalized by major media so far.