Ugh. That old, awful meme. All these years, I never quite understood what about it makes me cringe and wrench my gut so much... But maybe now I have the words: anyone who knowingly exploits the suffering of others ultimately has evil intent.

Sure. But for once, just this once, can we celebrate a win?

For being such an "America first" administration, they sure do spend a lot of money on immigrants...

False dichotomy. What next? All men are toxic because of their masculinity?

It takes strength to empower others. Men are strong when they empower others (including women). That's literally all that Talarico is saying. How is that incompatible with feminism?

Swamps and wetlands are very ecologically productive places.

They've drained the swamp an replaced it with a Superfund site.

You've just repeated the kind of rhetoric that gives rise to _anti-feminism; your definition of "feminism" is less about empowering women than it is about suppressing men, and I don't like it one bit.

We'll need ranked choice (or some other voting scheme other than First Past The Post). Otherwise it'll just end up the same as it always has.

Trains in North America.

We had them at one point, built the nation with them, then so summarily decided that the automobile was better, that we built all of our infrastructure assuming that nobody would ever not want a car to go everywhere, making it doubly hard to convince people that public transit doesn't have to suck.

It's also what happens when the entire world outsources manufacturing to one county: that country gets really really good at making stuff better than anybody else in the world.

Are we sure he wasn't just rigging the coin-toss in the most obvious way possible?

It's also gonna confuse people worried about AI slop...

Maybe build infrastructure that gets people off the road so you can get to work on time.

Last I checked a bike takes up less space than a car.

The / character isn't a part of the base64 encoding. In fact, only one part of the URL looks like base64. No plain base64 tool (whether via CLI, self-hosted, or otherwise) will be able to decode an entire URL like that. You'll first need to parse the URL to isolate the base64 part. This is literally solved with a single line of bash:

echo "https://link.sfchronicle.com/external/41488169.38548/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaG90ZG9nYmlsbHMuY29tL2hhbWJ1cmdlci1tb2xkcy9idXJnZXItZG9nLW1vbGQ_c2lkPTY4MTNkMTljYzM0ZWJjZTE4NDA1ZGVjYSZzcz1QJnN0X3JpZD1udWxsJnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9bmV3c2xldHRlciZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV90ZXJtPWJyaWVmaW5nJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1zZmNfYml0ZWN1cmlvdXM/6813d19cc34ebce18405decaB7ef84e41" | cut -d/ -f6 | base64 -d

See TIO for example.

edit: add TIO link

I understand the sentiment and don't generally disagree... But in most places around the world, Western honeybees (apis mellifera) are an introduced, agricultural livestock, like cattle, and don't really belong in the natural ecosystem. This is akin to farmers providing grain feed to their cows; they don't have to exclusively rely on pasture grass which didn't evolve to withstand hundreds of hungry herbivores mowing them to the ground every day. Also, honeybees are mediocre pollinators for most native plants. If native bees don't have to compete for resources with honeybees, that's a good thing for both the native bees and the plants that coevolved with them.

Let's just admit the answer to the question "does he associate with people who can do math?" is a resounding "no."

The Wheel. We should've graduated to antigravity by now, don't you think?

Acts 2:43-47 NASB2020 [43] Everyone kept feeling a sense of awe; and many wonders and signs were taking place through the apostles. [44] And all the believers were together and had all things in common; [45] and they would sell their property and possessions and share them with all, to the extent that anyone had need. [46] Day by day continuing with one mind in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they were taking their meals together with gladness and sincerity of heart, [47] praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number day by day those who were being saved.

https://bible.com/bible/2692/act.2.43-47.NASB2020

I guess I'm a dirty socialist for owning a Bible.

Or the courts will find some way to single out CA's map; like the fact that they even had a public referendum makes it illegal ... Maybe that's a bit cynical, but that's where I'm at these days.

This Pentagon has now indicated they're willing to abuse the "supply-chain risk" label for political reasons, casting doubt over all future, legitimate uses of the label.

That's a massive mistake and we're all far less safe because of it.

Reality eventually catches up to everybody, no matter how strong the cult; the Devil always overplays his hand.

The question is are we willing to buck up and start writing the rules for a game that beats whatever MAGA is playing? Or are we just going to whine cynically that everything is awful and there's no hope and we're all doomed?