THAT book? One singular book? Now that's hilarious. A lineup down the block is more like it.

I'm afraid we would only be doing "somewhat better" without him. We have a very long way to go.

One would expect that it would be replaced by the constant anxious horror of our systematic destruction of the ecosystem that we rely on for survival. Trump remains a distracting blip in a landscape of existential threat, and that's the worst of the many forms of damage he's doing.

Pizza is a weapon of mass destruction, after all.

And it's written in "easy to understand" language, making it even more porous.

Missing here is that in New Trumplandia, the fabric must be made domestically, from cotton grown in fields and sheep shorn by Trumpians (formerly Americans). This ads $70 to the cost, which makes the retail price $460.

This price is (naturally) no problem for the ruling class, so it's all good.

I guess "Lights. Camera. Democracy-destroying propaganda!" didn't fit.

Completely agree. I moved out to the country years ago. All the radio stations are playing old country or dinosaur rock. I get that there's more people a decade older than me who got stuck in that era, but really are they out in stores spending big bucks, or is it people stuck in the 80's/90's?

I'm in my late 60's and I've had my goddamned fill of classic rock. I've also got enough New Order and Depeche mode at home already. Play me something written and recorded in the past five years and don't make it all Taylor Swift (nothing against her, but my wife is a Swiftie, I already get enough).

“Billy and the Cloneasaurus”? I'll watch that!

Speed tends to replace craft. I think to some extent this has long been the case as we moved from pen and paper to typewriter, to word processor, and now to algorithmically generated prose. Many still stop and finely hone their work (or of their dumb LLM), but over time the underlying art is lost.

"with the importers picking up the extra cost"

Not that I'm shipping a lot, and yeah less than before the tyrant-in-chief, but some customers understand that it's on them, not us.

Everybody is moving to UPS/FedEx/DHL to get to the US with the importers picking up the extra cost. Government postal services in many countries have just stopped shipping to the US. Time to find customers in the UK, Australia, Europe...

We live in interesting times.

I suppose it has a Solar Protection Factor, but with the lead time on projects like this does it have Downrange Kinetic Inertial Mapping?

And they plan to just POP it into space.

I guess that would be a Planetary Orbital Procedure.

She has to be sure you haven't been replaced by a similar-looking clone. I had one like that. It took a few hours before she was sure I was the real me.

It's just an error in choosing the right definition. AIs are fact checkers, where one fact hops over another fact until there are no facts left or all facts are obstructed.

Ironic that the linked profile wasn't one to a smaller, non-corporate social media network, like wandering.shop/@annaleen