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Homercles

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  1. Shit, I feel MORE confident when I see a black person in a position of responsibility/authority…because you know their ass had to not only meet the requirements, but also overcome bullshit at every crucial point in their career while being careful to not piss off the bigots.
  2. I too keep a lectern made from recycled Popov handles in my IKEA showroom office.
  3. What’s she gonna do? Like Kirk even let her learn how to drive.
  4. Party of personal responsibility…”Kirk was an angel spreading his heavenly message on all of us, you haters ignore Jesus” Party of Free Speech…”we are going to impeach, fire or otherwise harass anyone who even quotes him” Party of law and order…”we gutted the FBI and put it under the watchful lazy eye of some meme personality such that monkeys that were fucking a football decided to stop and laugh”
  5. “It’s always your own peoples, sometimes it’s your own peoples”
  6. Yeah I have so many ‘favorites’ to chose from… “Black women do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.” Or maybe “Gun control, like vaccines and masks, is focused on making people feel ‘safe’ by taking freedoms away from others.” Or how he doesn’t believe in retirement, or his hypothetical 10yo daughter would carry the rapists baby, or he doesn’t trust black pilots, or comparing trans folks to wearing blackface, maybe how democrats women want to die alone. Edit: Actually after that I think I’ll stop wrestling with the pig and settle for only getting my shoes dirty
  7. Incredulity is the embodiment of Skinner saying “am I so out of touch? No it’s the children who are wrong”. I’m stealing the idea of asking people what their favorite Kirk quote is…Incredulity can go first
  8. …as there’s a drive to deep left field by Castellanos
  9. Any Project 2025 scholars here? Wouldn’t surprise me if somewhere in those 700 pages is a “operative assassinate right wing political commentator as excuse to do xyz awful thing” plan
  10. I’m not so much worried about tanks, perversely given I live in a red state…I’m more concerned about redneck vigilantes throwing Trump flags, guns, and a gallon of Military Special going door to door for purity tests. Austin is surrounded by rural communities filled with right wingers who certainly have plenty of guns, time and motivation on their side. My neighborhood up here in Cedar Park is heavily Indian and N Asian folks…my kids love doing stuff like Holi and Diwali + we are good friends with a bunch of them…and I could see potential for trouble. See that MAGA? It’s called caring for others…empathy may be too big of a word for you…beside yourself or your carbon copies on Truth Social.
  11. Fucking flags spend more time at half mast than full lately, it feels like. Country definitely headed in the ‘right’ direction…
  12. Two more feet and I can fit it in the fridge
  13. Yeah that’ll show China! Surely their lost revenue from Texas will keep them from funding the armada assigned to taking Taiwan…
  14. Anyone remember the If Google Were A Guy skit, one of the earliest ones where the Guy had two piles of paperwork…”I’ve got one that says it does and four hundred thousand that says it doesn’t” and the woman says “Thank you” grabbing the single result. Just like TikTok it’s all a symptom of tiny attention spans seeking the easy answer that puts the blame on someone else…right up the alley of stupid people who want a catchers mitt with eyes telling them vaccines, dyes, pasteurized milk and clean water are the cause of their woes. So now our kids get to grow up surrounded by walking bags of Covid, flu, mumps, measles, rubella, etc…fucking kills me
  15. Just wait until copilot is embedded into the OS and can’t be turned off…keep waiting for Apple to do the same on iOS. It’s not enough that they install 100+ cookies and max out my phone’s cpu with ads just to read an article, the entire OS needs to be a data vacuum that captures every interaction I have with it while constantly pushing their paid services as notifications. When that bubble does pop I’ll be interested to see what happens with all these monster data centers…anyone remember all that excess dark fiber from the .com bust? Except here the heavy money is invested in rapidly outdated racks of GPUs, though I’m sure the rest of the compute fabric depreciates more slowly. Opportunity for some enterprising person, like Switch did in Vegas. Of course none of the trechbro dickheads or obstinate c-suite types will likely ever admit it, but seems obvious to me that Transformer won’t scale itself to sentience. Plenty of folks find it useful (or fall in love with it), but they’re not going to be operating at massive losses forever so the usual flow of hooking people before raising prices may not work for trillion dollar chat bots. My guess is we see it go the way of Grok, highly valuable as a means to steal your data while spreading disinformation sold to the highest bidder…sorta like Plaintir. Gotta justify those capital outlays somehow
  16. Until you point out any logical gaps, hypocrisy or cruelty inherent in their ‘side’
  17. I’m sure the odds are stacked in Bubba’s favor. After all his Walmart AR is covered with accessories worth more than the rifle, he’s stockpiled an arsenal of Chinese ammo and ‘knows the terrain’. Those tabbed SF guys have only put ten thousand rounds through their match grade weapons, practically live outside as a career and are specialized in leading an unfamiliar army against you.
  18. So…vetoing the THC was just a ruse to call a special session for gerrymandering?
  19. See also Generation, Baby Boomer.
  20. Or Google/Nest will sell you the Flood and Underwater Containment Kit - Universal, better known as the FUCK-U. It’ll happily monitor your water levels while collecting information to sell to your insurance company, will sporadically blare out ads for Pixel, and suddenly stop working in 3 years when Google decides to terminate the cloud service that operates it.
  21. This ^ These are the same out of touch, overly compensated, good ole boys who are using GenAI as an excuse to RIF/offshore FTE, cut benefits, steal your data, heavy hand RTO to sweatshop offices, lobby reduced regulation for shit like asbestos, and beat the tech workforce into submission. This dude in particular was seemingly a professional snake oil salesman with a list of shattered startups trailing him and a few anecdotal comments saying he’s an ass to work for. He’s the poster child for rich egomaniacs who are completely out of touch with the world 99% live in and are currently riding the oligarchy wave of ‘fuck you, I’m rich and I’m right and I’m untouchable…do as I say or spend six months looking for a job’ enabled by our current Pay To Play government…see Bezos, Musk, Zuck during the inauguration. Same reason diversity initiatives vanished. I just wish it’d been that smarmy fuck Jamie Dimon who’d been busted.
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