He said rape is bad, but also any sex outside of marriage is bad.

So, by his logic, raping someone is no worse than getting consent if you aren’t married.

Was hoping to open the article and find out that it was an exaggerated clickbait headline and he was just doing laundry.

I should never hope when it comes to Republicans.

Insurance companies make deals with hospitals along the lines of “We’ll pay 1k for this procedure which should cost 300 bucks, or 40% of your standard rates, whichever is lower.” So the standard rate becomes $2500.

Then the insurance company will require a 40% “copay” based on the standard rates, and the patient ends up paying the $1000 and the insurance company doesn’t pay shit despite collecting hundreds a month in premiums.

If you tell them you don’t have insurance they’ll frequently discount the fee to the $300 it should cost.

I suppose we could make Flock feeds into porn sites…

I used to follow them back in the 90s. The lead singer then left due to drug and alcohol problems.

Their most-recent lead singer, formerly of DC Talk, turned out to be a super rapey POS.

I used to be the liberal gun salesman in a store full of right-wing crazies. I ended up being one of the top salesmen because word of mouth got around that I was there and didn’t spend the whole time being a dick and talking about how evil liberals and gay people were.

She’s one of a few the Republicans have had strategically vote against the party when her vote wasn’t needed to pass a bill. Basically her, Murkowski, and for a while McCain, until he really bucked the party with the ACA vote and became a pariah until his death.

Engaged people typically do have a ring.

Super PACs are so 2012. In 2024 SCOTUS ruled that officials are allowed to accept “gratuities” so long as they don’t directly say it’s a bribe.

Unless it’s for the President. Then they can just say it’s a bribe.

4mph is close to the maximum speed in downtown Austin traffic.

It’s Austin. The traffic is so shitty you can’t go fast enough to get in a wreck most of the time.

I live in the area, and can confirm anecdotally that the Teslas are bad drivers and the Waymos generally are excellent.

I get it.

Our dachshund was born on my 40th birthday.

Childless uncle here. My role is to love my nephew and support him in whatever way he needs me to.

Sometimes he just needs me to be a responsible, safe adult he can count on who isn’t burdened by the need to act parental.

That’s because they’re guaranteed to sell all the water when there’s a storm anyway. There’s a reason there’s laws against raising prices in an emergency.

He’s not saying use a grinder. He’s describing polishing as micro-grinding.

Fun fact - the major cause of his felonies was that there is a conservation easement over the Trump-owned land surrounding Mar-a-Lago, which he didn’t disclose when borrowing against its value for better rates.

The land is a liability, not an asset because it can’t be developed but he’s responsible for protecting it.

Different Arkane teams in different countries made Prey and Dishonored.

Prey was Arkane Austin, which was forced to make Redfall as a Live Service game to pump up the value of the companybefore being sold to Microsoft, leading over 70% of the Prey team to leave during the development.

Redfall flopped because Arkane Austin wasn’t a Live Service developer and they had zero interest in the game, and Microsoft closed the studio.

I have a very stubborn brain that will usually do the opposite of what I want.

My method is to try and turn on a movie or something I really have to pay attention to. I’ll start struggling to stay awake to keep track, and that will knock me out.

DMCA is interpreted very widely.

It criminalizes circumventing anything that could be used to protect copywritten information. So they just add copywritten stuff where it isn’t needed to criminalize anything they don’t want you to do. It’s why washing machines now have proprietary software and circuit boards instead of mechanical switches and why printer ink cartridges have chips on board.