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I enjoy spreadsheets a normal amount. Any pronouns are fine; you cannot misgender me in a way that matters.
This bit especially. It's incredible, actually, that we can sledgehammer our brains into working better. It also sucks that a sledgehammer is the most precise option we have.
medication helps but for many things medical treatment is an extremely blunt sledgehammer when you really want a scalpel. OK, but the scalpel isn't here. you have to live your life anyway
November 21, 2025 at 4:03 AM
This bit especially. It's incredible, actually, that we can sledgehammer our brains into working better. It also sucks that a sledgehammer is the most precise option we have.
So you’re saying that the US government is responsible for the failure of every coup in modern history, but also that a coup *against* the US government wouldn’t be doomed to fail?
November 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
So you’re saying that the US government is responsible for the failure of every coup in modern history, but also that a coup *against* the US government wouldn’t be doomed to fail?
That’s called “a coup.” The most common outcome of a coup is that it fails, everyone involved gets executed, and the central government - Trump, in this case - brutally cracks down on the opposition.
November 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
That’s called “a coup.” The most common outcome of a coup is that it fails, everyone involved gets executed, and the central government - Trump, in this case - brutally cracks down on the opposition.
We lost the fucking election. All of the good options stopped existing in November 2024. Like it or not, we’re fighting a defensive war against a more powerful opponent until, at a minimum, the midterms next year.
November 20, 2025 at 6:42 PM
We lost the fucking election. All of the good options stopped existing in November 2024. Like it or not, we’re fighting a defensive war against a more powerful opponent until, at a minimum, the midterms next year.
Find a way for 214 to be greater than 219 and for 47 to be greater than 53.
November 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Find a way for 214 to be greater than 219 and for 47 to be greater than 53.
(You’re correct that one of the greatest failures of the Biden administration was not aggressively pursuing consequences for crimes committed during Trump’s first term. There was a window of opportunity, but that window has closed, and it won’t open again until 2028.)
November 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM
(You’re correct that one of the greatest failures of the Biden administration was not aggressively pursuing consequences for crimes committed during Trump’s first term. There was a window of opportunity, but that window has closed, and it won’t open again until 2028.)
*Who* arrests them? Random members of Congress don’t have any more ability to arrest someone than you or I do. The police are subject to a chain of command that’s controlled by the federal government, which is controlled by Republicans, so they won’t do it.
November 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
*Who* arrests them? Random members of Congress don’t have any more ability to arrest someone than you or I do. The police are subject to a chain of command that’s controlled by the federal government, which is controlled by Republicans, so they won’t do it.
“Tradeoffs? In *my* policy choices? I simply wouldn’t have any of them.”
November 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
“Tradeoffs? In *my* policy choices? I simply wouldn’t have any of them.”
I'm being very loose with my language here. A better way of putting it would be that in my ideal world, cars would be a niche transportation mode, not one that most people would use and not one that infrastructure would be designed around.
November 20, 2025 at 5:28 AM
I'm being very loose with my language here. A better way of putting it would be that in my ideal world, cars would be a niche transportation mode, not one that most people would use and not one that infrastructure would be designed around.
now. I'd prefer it if we could get rid of cars entirely, but clearly that's not going to happen. if computers can get to the point where they fuck up less often than human drivers, then yes, we should *really* want computers to drive cars, even if they cause a non-zero number of deaths.
November 20, 2025 at 5:22 AM
now. I'd prefer it if we could get rid of cars entirely, but clearly that's not going to happen. if computers can get to the point where they fuck up less often than human drivers, then yes, we should *really* want computers to drive cars, even if they cause a non-zero number of deaths.
I am the most unreliable component of my car. if I die in a car crash, it will almost certainly be either because I fucked up or because another driver fucked up. if I die walking to work, it will also be because a driver fucked up.
November 20, 2025 at 5:20 AM
I am the most unreliable component of my car. if I die in a car crash, it will almost certainly be either because I fucked up or because another driver fucked up. if I die walking to work, it will also be because a driver fucked up.
there are somewhere around 100 traffic deaths in the US every day. over 40k every year. the only way that your car company isn't involved in at least one of them sooner or later is if your car company doesn't make any cars.
November 20, 2025 at 5:17 AM
there are somewhere around 100 traffic deaths in the US every day. over 40k every year. the only way that your car company isn't involved in at least one of them sooner or later is if your car company doesn't make any cars.
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME I JUST FUCKED UP MY BACK AGAIN TOO
November 19, 2025 at 11:22 AM
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME I JUST FUCKED UP MY BACK AGAIN TOO
Who could have arrested somebody? With what power? That’s absolutely not something that the minority party in both chambers of Congress has the power to do.
November 19, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Who could have arrested somebody? With what power? That’s absolutely not something that the minority party in both chambers of Congress has the power to do.
Even so, McBride and other Democrats have been using what power they do have as members of the minority party to protect us. They're the reason that a Medicare ban on gender-affirming care didn't get passed earlier this year.
Sources tell me that Tammy Baldwin and Sarah McBride worked behind the scenes to get this provision out and to keep Dems together if it had come to a vote.
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News: The most recent GOP reconciliation bill no longer has the provision to ban Medicaid from being used on gender-affirming care
The parliamentarian had disqualified the provision, but Republicans had left it on the text — it now has been removed
The parliamentarian had disqualified the provision, but Republicans had left it on the text — it now has been removed
November 19, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Even so, McBride and other Democrats have been using what power they do have as members of the minority party to protect us. They're the reason that a Medicare ban on gender-affirming care didn't get passed earlier this year.
The fundamental problem at the federal level is that 219 > 214 and 53 > 47, and there's nothing anyone can do about that until the 2026 elections.
November 19, 2025 at 5:43 AM
The fundamental problem at the federal level is that 219 > 214 and 53 > 47, and there's nothing anyone can do about that until the 2026 elections.
The map of state-level legal protections for trans rights is nearly identical to the map of state-level Democratic trifectas. Wherever Democrats have majorities, trans rights are protected.
November 19, 2025 at 5:31 AM
The map of state-level legal protections for trans rights is nearly identical to the map of state-level Democratic trifectas. Wherever Democrats have majorities, trans rights are protected.
You'd think this would prepare me for learning guitar/bass.
It did not. I haven't been able to transfer the skill over at all.
It did not. I haven't been able to transfer the skill over at all.
November 19, 2025 at 4:34 AM
You'd think this would prepare me for learning guitar/bass.
It did not. I haven't been able to transfer the skill over at all.
It did not. I haven't been able to transfer the skill over at all.
Oh hey, that sounds like my experience. I was never an especially good pianist (and haven't touched a piano in ages now), but once I learned a song, I could pretty much effortlessly play it in any key. I never understood why people were impressed by this.
November 19, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Oh hey, that sounds like my experience. I was never an especially good pianist (and haven't touched a piano in ages now), but once I learned a song, I could pretty much effortlessly play it in any key. I never understood why people were impressed by this.
Cuellar was first elected in 2005. He has been in office for longer than 88% of current Representatives.
November 19, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Cuellar was first elected in 2005. He has been in office for longer than 88% of current Representatives.
That can't be right. Wikipedia says he's been in office since 2005, and I remember he very nearly got knocked out in the primaries a couple years back by Jessica Cisneros.
November 19, 2025 at 4:13 AM
That can't be right. Wikipedia says he's been in office since 2005, and I remember he very nearly got knocked out in the primaries a couple years back by Jessica Cisneros.
(See also: why it bugs me so much when people say Democrats are moving to the right. That's objectively untrue. The Blue Dogs were one of the most powerful caucuses a decade and a half ago. Now they're virtually extinct.)
November 19, 2025 at 4:10 AM
(See also: why it bugs me so much when people say Democrats are moving to the right. That's objectively untrue. The Blue Dogs were one of the most powerful caucuses a decade and a half ago. Now they're virtually extinct.)