I think old age has hit me… I do this, windows down (though not too loud) and more than happy to make eye contact with people while I sing along. I’ve taken to smiling, thumbs upping good driving behavior, etc, since I feel everyone around me is miserable in 2025.

Y’all, this works like a class system. James is your magic user, Jim is an all round fighter, Jimmy is your rogue, Jamie your cleric, and Jimbo is your barbarian. Luckily, they can change classes depending on the situation, so it’s not set in stone.

Seeing CA propositions get rigged with misinformation and tricky language suggests to me that direct democracy might also not work without proper safeguards.

I found success just saying Alexa wasn’t working and a bunch of stuff uses it. Not even that far from correct, at least?

She’s a pretty popular figure on the left and might actually get a lot better turnout than Beto (although certainly less with racist white “moderates” but their turnout for Dems has been lackluster). Texas has been purple, but you wouldn’t know it given all the voter suppression and gerrymandering.

Rare occasion where the headline is… pretty much it, at least as far as this article goes.

Sure, we could point out that the east wing is for events and it’s the first lady’s office (which obviously matters very little to MAGA) but NYT doesn’t spend nearly enough time emphasizing that this is illegal, like most of the shit he does this past year.

They’re probably trying to wreck as much stuff as possible before a judge, once again, puts a stop on it (only for an appeals court to shrug and say it’s too late and allow it).

My guess is they couldn’t tell. A reasonably good photoshopper can make an image like this.

Edit, should add that a photoshopper would also do better with it since they’d use a real 20 and wouldn’t have the text messed up.

So funny I read this post right after my 3yo dishes l ate all her broccoli, her brothers broccoli, and seconds on… broccoli. Didn’t finish her rice, though.

I think she might actually like fruits and veggies?

That said, I think a good trick is to style the performative foods as Japanese bento style because kids are kinda easily swayed by look and feel of food, so if it’s cute or cool they are more likely to eat it. We’re planning on doing that anyway, mostly cause my wife was raised in Japan where that was common.

Another thing to keep in mind is parents are often the role models, so liking or disliking things will matter. If you hate fruits and veggies, they’ll notice.

This would be a good thing in the timeline where governments actually gave a shit and we had universal basic income for everyone. No human should have to slave away for 8+ hours a day just to survive when most work can be automated.

I thought that too until today, it’s never clear until a quarter of the Internet is down randomly.

Same, Canvas is perhaps the most used Learning Management System in the US and they apparently are entirely hosted on AWS East. The real kicker is I had my students midterm due date literally today for two classes. I’ve been swamped with panic emails (and I made clear my due dates aren’t even that important when there isn’t a national outage lol).

My head canon is someone wished for a miracle due date extension somewhere in the country and they monkey’s pawed AWS into non existence.

A while ago. Only upside is they say they don’t keep your prompts or train models, but I have my doubts.

Having used the 5 before to get to San Diego for a same day passport, I can confirm it’s a major artery and closing it down was actually kind of a risky move for Newsom since there’re not a ton of great options to get south directly (and I cannot overstate how upset car brained people get over closures).

Hell, some might still be upset even if they 100% would have suffered shrapnel injuries; it’s a good thing Newsom isn’t a complete sociopath and actually can make an unpopular call for people’s safety.

Weirdly, that ends up being more your bank’s problem than yours since they almost always comp you for credit card theft.

You’re not wrong, of course, just… society gets along just fine being stupid and irresponsible, lol.

Yes, exactly my point, the march is suppressed by the authoritarian government. 7 million is a lot when it probably could have been twice that if everyone was able to come out who disagreed with how things are going.

Worth noting that it’s in spite of threats of violence and getting disappeared. There’s bound to be some people who didn’t attend because of immigration status or worry over job loss.

Also a way more appropriate time for a traditional bachelor party.

Would it be better to just say, do you like it or don’t like it? Cause I like a little quirky and no, a single post from a stranger doesn’t make us all into world renowned psychoanalysts.

Ah yes, those are sometimes pedestrian speed challenges and reward those willing to dash across at sometimes unmarked times!

Oh that makes sense, the codes probably open source. Those goons probably have minimal experience actually developing an app from scratch.