The safety has gone from safer than driving to… still safer than driving. I’m much more worried about long lines and having flights cancelled, but work said I have to be in CA next week and I don’t have time to drive.

I don’t have patience to work a phone tree like my life depends on it so if they cancel my flight I’ll probably just go back home and tell them it’s the shutdown’s fault.

I don’t use the terminal often (outside my job where I’m using git commands or launching code) but when I use it it’s generally for things that are almost impossible with gui. Troubleshooting network issues or boot issues or searching for files. Fuck, sometimes I can’t even get to a folder I know is on my computer without a terminal.

And of course I have to fly across the country next week for business. Perfect timing. Oh well. This is the pain the country needs to feel—the consequence of supporting Trump. I’m off to have the week someone else voted for.

All I could think of…

Well
Trump is a bitch, he’s a big fat bitch
He’s the biggest bitch in the whole wide world
He’s a stupid bitch, if there ever was a bitch
He’s a bitch to all the boys and girls

Imagine the ketchup all over the new marble and gold…

Google is full of SOE slop. I think I prefer AI slop.

I’ve never seen anyone shoplifting food.

And I never will.

Unless you can force them to fall apart, the difference is somewhat academic.

It rarely comes up, but when it does I make a point to address them by their chosen name (like a worker with a name tag that matches their gender expression). I usually avoid pronouns when I can and use they/them when I can’t—better to avoid gendering them at all than misgender.

That’s it. Other than that, I give them a little more grace than my default because someone else probably went out of their way to give them shit that day.

It fell apart due to the internal pressure of trying to keep together pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions while barreling toward a civil war over that very issue. It was destroyed from the inside, which backs up my point.

The reality is the parties cannot be displaced or remade from the outside. They must be seized from within through primaries.

That’s not really simple at all. Amending the constitution with both sides so divided is not just impossible, but likely to see Republicans gaining more ground than Democrats.

I hope in the future, we will adopt better laws binding both sides. Political gerrymandering divides us into extremes and ensures a lot of voters—in many cases, such as Texas, a majority—disagree with their leaders without any means of effective redress. It’s unhealthy for the nation long term.

But for the time being, you have to fight with the tools you have in order to give the future the chance to do the right thing.

Agree with this. Samsung has great hardware but I hate their software. I switched from them to iOS. Only thing I really hate in iOS is swipe typing and fucking awful autocorrect. Everything else is better than Samsung. They might also have a better camera but it’s hard to keep up with all the leapfrog.

Trump, he’s had it with these people, because he knows they’re playing politics

There it is. The dumbest thing I’ve ever read. Politicians in Congress are “playing politics” with politicians in the White House. Which is what they were all fucking elected to do.

Gross misconduct has no specific definition or limits. A company is free to decide that union activity constitutes gross misconduct, so this isn’t a denial. It’s just a way of saying “admitting that would get us sued.”

That’s been the whole Internet for a good chunk of my life. This feels more comfortable to me than slick corporate sites.

Well they heard they got appointed to do what’s right and they said, “challenge accepted,” but they misunderstood which “right.”

Maybe… but if they divorce does that mean she can be compelled to testify against him in eventual criminal proceedings? That might be a road he can’t go down.

No one should ever marry a woman with the poor taste to marry JD Vance—including JD Vance!