Cool. Going to keep going hard for cirrhosis.

This is about nothing more than artificial scarcity that is now fucked, and rich dudes aren’t happy.

This is what monopoly sounds like when it’s dying. I frankly prefer Simon & Garfunkel.

Yeah, but have you seen how many steps it takes in Factorio to have usable aluminum?

I mean, that’s a very valid point. She still wears it eight years after the divorce because her “neck felt wrong without it.”

I need de beers to stay sane right now.

“You’re Celestial to me, but I couldn’t wait any longer.”

You just know there are going to be proposals with 5090s.

I went with a 1kg collar last time, so I’m likely a terrible person to ask. Wasn’t my intent, but it turns out that much steel is really heavy.

What a time to be alive … diamond prices are crashing while GPUs keep getting more expensive.

If you want to experience it again, I found the video. This is “I Have a Dream” level shit. And it impresses me that she refers to recent events, because this was either a while in the making or she was just in the flow zone writers can get into when inspired.

Frankly, if these were the Christian teachings being followed, we’d have a wildly different society. She stood there for 15 minutes and did the only thing a reasonable person does with a pulpit: speak truth to power with compassion.

I promise this will turn out to be remembered if we still have books after the world burns.

No man is an island.

He’s so fun at them, too!

It’s rather absurd that people get surprised when religious leaders are compassionate. But that’s the world we live in!

I’m not saying you’re unwelcome at all, and I see where you’re coming from. You just danced at the edge of an ad hominem instead of taking them at face value. I’m a sarcastic fuck but tone it down here because A) I’m a mod and B) I fled here to escape the sort of shit on other platforms that feel like this petty quibble.

The only rule on this instance is to Bee Nice. You were not doing so, and I wanted to provide a gentle nudge. Just be a bit more thoughtful that you’re talking to another human; some are not native English speakers, which can cause misunderstandings. I’m not sure if that’s the case here, but I’d like you to consider that possibility in any interaction.

Hanlon was right.

I’m sorry to hear that. Which is so often said vapidly, but I mean it. I also thought we were past this bullshit, but people love a strongman who can point ANYWHERE else to blame their problems on other people in their class or below instead of their keepers.

I was running my college newsroom for the 2000 election. I called up an editorial cartoonist at 2 a.m., having already blown deadline by two hours (it would be four by the time we got the flats to the printer), to provide the main art for A1. It remains the only time I have run an editorial cartoon out front.

As these things go, the art I requested was of Gore holding up a paper with a hed of “Bush Wins” (because we were upstyle back in the Dewey/Truman days). Then went with a dek of “Florida holds the Keys” … we finally put the paper to bed at 4 a.m., went out to a 24-hour diner, as was customary, and when we got back to the U-District, the major papers were out.

USA Today (McNews) went with “Florida holds the key,” completely missing how to use that reference. That was the morning I decided to drop out of college and fix this shit. Oh, the irony that I’d later work in automation for Gannett against their wishes (you can’t tell my team that they suddenly need to produce 33% more pages per hour and expect me to not start coding).

Now that I’ve vomited irrelevant verbal diarrhea, the answer is we never had a chance. The system doesn’t like people enjoying their lives, it’s just rent-seeking.

Friendly reminder that part of the ethos of Beehaw is assuming good faith. I don’t see in that response what you’re accusing them of. These are tough times, but giving up our humanity and ability to connect with each other only worsens the problem.

Saying that’s part of the problem is akin to saying the asteroid was part of the problem for dinosaurs. All you’re really missing is the gutting of critical thinking in public education under Reagan.

They really are. I chose this one because the writing was sharp, and I didn’t really want to spam y’all on what was already a rough day.

But for anyone who doesn’t regularly read Rolling Stone (I didn’t until the Post shat the bed), the political coverage is incisive and pushing the left edge of the Overton window, which is precisely where you want your journalism.