Oh god, I wish that were true!

Figure out how to make sexual intercourse or masturbation physically pleasurable. Most people seem to get it naturally, but I can't crack the code.

I have this problem, as well. Distorted amplification, song lyrics, speech against loud background noise? Forget it. Oddly, I got a pair of Shokz bone-conducting headphones recently, and noticed that I have been understanding lyrics for the first time in songs that I've been listening to for 30+ years. (I should really listen to that song about how "Shareef don't like it; Fuck the passport, fuck the passport."

We also use "taking coals to Newcastle" here in the Midwestern U.S. (Something about being descended from former British colonies...) But I've heard plenty of riffs on that idea, like, "bringing corn to Iowa."

It's one of the earliest memes, from over 20 years ago. Google "rabbit with pancake on its head."

Little-known fact: These crabs sometimes camouflage themselves on top of the heads of rabbits.

This just sounds like a bad idea, a solution in search of a problem. Sure, sudo is a setuid binary, but it's a fairly simple program, and at some point, you have to trust the code. It's also a very fundamental piece of the system that you want to always work, even (especially!) when other things get borked. The brief description of run0 already has too many potential points of failure.

Where are the gas chambers I've heard so much about in the media? /s

This is your status quo, this is what lesser evils of the past have won you.

Thank you, this bears repeating. Voting for the lesser evil has consequences. These are them. The consequences are here. Blaming those of us who won't vote for genocide is like blaming the people who don't give a homeless beggar $20. Sure, that money could help the guy get a meal today, but he's in that situation due to decades of neoliberal policy. It's ridiculous to heap the culpability for all of that on the skinflint today.

If you want anything other than a farcical good cop/bad cop routine carried on until the country implodes, your strategy has thoroughly failed, repeatedly, for decades.

The historical pattern is that pendulum swings and the party in the White House changes after each President. So, there's a good chance of that implosion coming in 2028.

That's what they said back in '96 when I voted for Ralph Nader. Now we're on the precipice of American democracy falling to fascism, if not now, then very likely in 2028. That doesn't look to me anything like slowly getting better.

Some things have definitely improved in that time, e.g. the recognition of same-sex marriage, or the nascent resurgence of labor unions. Those things have been the result of slow, tough, hard work by the grassroots.

In that same time, though, the Democrats have been slowly helping to put the mechanisms of a fascist state in place, like the PATRIOT ACT, FISA, neutering the 4th Amendment, bolstering the Espionage Act, and setting up collaborative efforts between state police, Federal agencies, and the corporate sector to crush protest movements.

That said, the world is indeed shades of grey, and I voted for Biden in 2020 to stay fascism, if only for a little bit. It's better to vote for the right-wing candidate versus the fascist candidate. I want to vote for him again, but there are some lines that must never be crossed, and I can't in good conscience vote for a President enabling genocide. (The fact that both candidates do is madness.)

Maybe my calculus would be different if there were a reasonable chance that Democrats would do the things that are within their power to do to check the rise of fascism, but I have no confidence of that, as the track record shows otherwise.

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Fucking hell, the media can't even bring themselves to say the word "genocide." It's not even that they have to say it as if it is their judgement, it would just be reporting what the protestors allege is happening. I guess the trouble is that the media can't report the allegations of genocide because they're too on-the-nose to credibly refute.

Good for the WaPo, saying "alleged antisemitism". The Israel Lobby has cried antisemitism so often and for so many years to shut down any criticism of Israel that I just don't believe it now. It's just not a credible allegation, especially when the only violence against Jewish students has been by the police, at the behest of the universities.

Now if only they could bring themselves to utter the G word...

Democrats as a whole refuse to figure out what motivates Republican voters in order to speak in a way that might appeal to them. Why should it be a shock that Democrats as a whole refuse to figure out what motivates potential 3rd party, or disaffected, voters? Instead, they've been using the same browbeating tactic since Nader ran in '96.

One of the things that we need to change ASAP, in my opinion, is the "clear zone" along streets and highways. That standard was set decades ago, designed to keep drivers from hitting things with their primitive, metal death-traps. Nowadays, cars have lots of safety features, like crumple zones and airbags, and the driver will walk away with minor injuries after hitting a tree. The wide, clear, empty space that we still insist on gives people the perception that they can safely drive fast and look at their phone. There are no safety features on those cars for the people outside of them that they keep hitting, though, so let's make the drivers pay attention.

This headline rubs me the wrong way, since I accuse the media in general of having a conservative bias, or at least unconsciously presenting most stories using right-wing framing of the issues. This headline is a good case and point. They should have just said "Wisconsin justice," or simply Protasiewicz, as the issue doesn't have anything to do with her alleged political leanings, except in right-wing rhetoric.

Indeed, I have to go back to August in search on Google News to find a mention of a "conservative justice." AP News has published tons of articles about "liberal justices," or "liberals" on the Court. The articles that they have published about conservative justices just call them "justices." As if that's the default.

I mean, you could make the argument that the balance of the Court tipped in the last election, so the obsessive mention of "liberal" (especially by AP News) is highlighting the contrast. But lots of those news headlines I found were about Gableman, or Prosser, both of whom engaged in transparently partisan activities. Yet, they are just "former justices."

It's maddening.

It always had those dependencies, they're part of the base desktop system. It's just that the Chromium package from the unstable branch depends on packages from the unstable branch. The unstable versions got updated so they are no longer the same as the stable packages, and apt has to uninstall the stable versions of them to install the new unstable versions.

We have a historical site marker plaque on the spot where Elvis Presley jumped out of his limo to break up a fight and save a guy from an ass-kicking. Also, the official city bird is the plastic pink flamingo.

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Not possible. The Gemini protocol lacks anything like a POST method. The only way to provide user input to a Gemini server is through arguments encoded in the URL.

To recap: Everybody knew that they were itching to impeach President Biden on some trumped-up charge, because their fee-fees got hurt when what's-his-name got impeached for reasons that Democrats could at least intelligibly articulate. And then they chickened out, because they couldn't get anything out of the giant, Hunter Biden nothing-burger, and impeachment'd be a political loser so big that even they sensed it.

So now they've nailed Mayorkas as a Biden surrogate for, I guess, reasons? Everybody knows damn well that it's just a temper tantrum—the best charge that they can level is empty boilerplate, which is weird because they've hallucinated an entire migrant "invasion," one would think that a few specifics would be forthcoming. Maybe they've hit their quota on creative thought for the year?

Anyway, they couldn't nab the big dog, but at least now the so-called "centrists" have fuel for their what-about-ism, so— hooray?