I think it’s entirely possible to simultaneously be horrified by his murder, feel deep sympathy for his family, and be glad he’s no longer in the world.

But she didn’t suddenly lose it.

She wiped out cities full of people before. But it took her doing it in Westeros for people to see that it was because she was insane.

That was last year.

Now it’s… Tylenol?

I wonder if it has something to do with how they count users with ad blockers.

I thought it was rough-cut dimensions.

Actually, Harris was the tail-end of boomers.

It’s also a really slippery slope when the justice department can blanket declare entire swaths of people mentally ill. Soon, anyone who doesn’t vote would be banned from owning firearms due to their “Trump Derangement Syndrome” being classified as mental illness.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Liberals need to consider arming themselves while they still can. Guns have caused a lot of harm, but right now 90% of the guns are owned by the fascists. I’m hoping I never need guns, but I know I don’t want to find out I need them after I can’t get them.

They’ll he defined as a generation thay never got to be in charge.

The youngest X-ers need colonoscopies, and the Boomers still fucking refuse to step back.

MRAPs for police departments are usually scraps thrown away by the military. They tend to he in terrible shape when the military ditches them, so the “free” armored vehicles end up costing a fuckton on money to repair and maintain.

Need to share this with my boss.

Yesterday we were listening to a recording of a public meeting we were both at (we work in government and were working on staff reports and minutes for the follow-up hearing), and I mentioned that I hated listening to myself speak, and we had basically this same exchange.

We’re both huge Trek nerds, so she’ll appreciate it.

David defeated Goliath with state-of-the art weaponry.

Don’t Quixote wakes up on his deathbed disillusioned about his insanity, rejects chivalry and all the harm he’s caused pursuing it, and declares that his neice will be disinherrited if she marries someone who reads of chivalry.

So is it bad that I’m on prescription amphetamines and had to do some unexpected work on the wiring on a 3-phase compressor after having a beer?

It really depends on where you live. Your primary vote is meaningless if that party can’t win in the general election.

I’m in Texas where they do everything they can, legally and otherwise, to supress the Democratic vote. So I do vote in Republican primaries against MAGA Republicans.

If you live somewhere the Democrats win elections, then you need to vote in Democratic primaries.

Sure would be nice to be privileged enough to be able to relocate myself and my family.

And, increasingly, there’s no such thing as offline.

Yes and yes.

Also, you tell the Dems how to act by changing out its leadership through more and more primaries.

That rule existed through many, many Democratic governors. Texas’s famous redness is a recent phenomenon.

2003 was the first time that the GOP EVER had control of the Texas legislature. And in 2003, they changed voting requirements and gerrymandered the shit out of the state mid-cycle, leading the Democrats to flee the state (sound familiar).

Texas had never had a majority Republican delegation to the US House before the 2003 redistricting. In the 2004 mid-terms, the GOP won over 2/3rds of the seats.

Texas isn’t very red. It’s just that the GOP legitimately won a single election in 2002 and rigged the game ever since. That’s why you must ALWAYS vote against the GOP in the general election, no matter how mediocre the Democratic candidate is.

Fun fact about Texas special sessions.

The governor exclusively gets to determine the agenda, so they can only do shit he wants them to do.

And since the legislature only meets every 2 years for a regular session, he has sole.power over what can be legislated more than 3/4 of the time.

The more impressive thing is that they managed to get the Nvidia upgrade to be backwards compatible with existing Framework 16 models.

That’s the push I need to really, truly believe they’re committed to the goal of upgradablity. Too many “modular” products have come out where the “upgraded” modules were only available if you bought the newest version of the base product.

In the next year or so, I’ll probably be buying a new laptop, and this has convinced me that Framework is probably the way to go.