Pretty much. I had really good horse meat sashimi in Japan and it tasted pretty much identical to elk or deer. It was tasty, but not something I’d feel like going out of my way for.

They actually changed it slightly because the original name, “Program for Evolutionary Dynamics and Operations”, was a bit too on the nose.

As someone in that group, there’s a huge difference between doing well on paper and actually doing well. My peers and I are worried about losing our jobs, and there’s a likelihood we won’t be seeing a significant portion of our paychecks due to the economic hits from the tariffs. Sure, my net worth is technically higher since last year, but that doesn’t mean much when you’re 30 years from retirement. I can’t just infinite money glitch my 401k by taking out loans like billionaires can with their net worth.

I realize that I’m a lot better off than most, but I only bring this up to point out that even people who aren’t poor are also feeling plenty of negative economic pressure as well.

Living in the US, it certainly feels like the GOP is a hostile foreign invader holding us all hostage.

I like the theory that they are literally possessed by demons and it actively rots them at an accelerated rate.

This is something that hit me like a ton of bricks after living abroad for a bit. It definitely made me think a lot about how much more pleasant things are when people are at least marginally considerate of others, and just how little some people seem to do it in the US.

Zap carry ftw

Have y’all ever listened to or seen anything about Hegseth? He’s prattled on about this “warrior ethos” shit endlessly and was literally too stupid and incompetent for Fox fucking News. This is exactly the kind of stupid shit he’d pull.

Until it’s politically valuable to do so.

It’s pretty at this point he does. At one point I was very confused by the “emptying out mental asylums” talk, but after hearing him say something along the lines of “And you have the immigrants coming here from asylums, they’re literally sending us insane people”, it’s pretty clear at this point he absolutely thinks “asylum” means “mental institution”.

Unironically, this was exactly how the announcement at my old company went. Literally, someone getting paid millions of dollars a year basically saying “Yeah we made this decision on vibes alone”

The issue is legitimately that they’re all a bunch of massively racist fucks and were told for over a decade how the world saw us as a laughing stock (because we had a black man as president), despite being ridiculously popular on the world stage, and so they think just by having a rich white asshole suddenly we’re respected again, even though he’s truly the biggest laughing stock ever.

Sony has OLED TVs now, likely using the exact same panels in the equivalent LG TV. One huge plus of Sony TVs is they run Android and so installing custom patched apps is pretty easy.

I’m certainly not holding my breath, but it wouldn’t be a bad hail-Mary play for them

Honestly, knowing the dire straights the NRA has been in the past 10 years or so, it wouldn’t be a bad time to try and rebrand. Right wingers aren’t nearly as big fans of them anymore after they’ve rolled over on basically every gun rights case that’s come up, so I’m kinda hoping this is an actual attempt at doing something.

Also, a small wet/dry vac!

I love when people see deer here in North America. You’d think they’re seeing a unicorn, when it’s just some plain ol’ mule deer.

Honestly, I have hope that things won’t get that bad. Realistically, Trump could have easily already had his own Sturmabteilung outright murdering opposition members and doing far worse. Things are bad, but given the effectively unlimited power he’s got right now, they’ve been weirdly reserved with how they’ve used it. They certainly posture and bluster like they’re ready to do so, but have generally only done so in a largely performative way.

The difference is the Wehrmacht didn’t have hundreds of ICBMs, nuclear subs, aircraft carriers, and the ability to land an entire military base anywhere in the world in a week’s time.

New Years? I’m taking a week off work and my family is gonna have to call a search party to find me I’m gonna party so hard.