My ex-girlfriend was American and half-Jewish (on her father’s side), thoroughly non-religious and very liberal. But after high school she spent a summer in Israel on kibbutz and somehow it made her completely insane on the subject of the Palestinians. She talked about how they needed to be exterminated and that Israel was completely right in what they were doing (and this was the '90s). If I tried to argue with her she insisted that I couldn’t understand since I’d never been to Israel. It was like talking to someone possessed by a demon.

our judges don’t use gavels

Good protection against Banksy …

I remember all the people on reddit in 2020 who were loudly insisting that Garland was just biding his time and making sure that the case against Trump was ironclad before moving against him. I’d say lol but it’s obviously not funny.

The only thing that should be reduced is the length of the rope.

I was out on my bike ride yesterday and one of the places I stop is next to a flagpole. The fucking flag was at half-mast for this asshole, just preposterous.

Why not? They’re the good kind.

It just means the wine is left-handed.

I’m always disgusted at the prices food trucks charge vs. the quality of food they shit out.

Food truck food prices are indeed insane, but it’s even crazier how much the food trucks themselves cost to own and operate. It takes years of hard work running them before they even come close to paying for themselves.

Employee make line go down. AI make line go up.

“Yo dog, I heard you like freedom so I gave you freedom from your freedom!”

I kinda wish Elon was a Chinese agent and Trump was really a Russian agent.

Instead of them both being Saudi agents? JK these guys have many owners.

When I was a kid I had no understanding of the genius of the band name “The Dead Kennedys”.

tRump

Ah, this I like. Lately I’m finding it difficult to bother pressing the shift key when I type his name. It just seems to show a tiny modicum of respect and I don’t want that.

“Fuck you, Microsoft.” -Everyone, at all times

Eh, that game where you had two gorillas standing on buildings lobbing exploding bananas at each other was pretty cool.

In my first professional programming job writing custom software for clients in 1995, one of our standard sales pitches to clients was the idea that a GUI-based application would do away with the need for command prompts. This was always met with applause and great rejoicing. It’s kind of remarkable that command prompts are still going strong thirty years later. I’m sure nobody would appreciate having this phenomenon compared to the Amish so I won’t do it. But I think it’s pretty cool that the Amish are still around doing their thing.

RELEASE THE EINSTEIN FILES

Fun facts: “killer bees” are also known as “africanized bees”. In the 1970s there was great alarm in the US about the spread of africanized bee strains because they’re so much more aggressive than European bees. There was even a terrible horror movie about it, but this particular catastrophe never materialized. I had a friend in graduate school in the '90s who was part of a team of scientists investigating the problem. It turns out that if you raise an africanized queen in a temperate climate, the bees she produces are no more aggressive than European bees; likewise, a European queen raised in a hot, tropical climate produces bees just as hyper-aggressive as typical africanized bees. So the entire thing was just bee racism all along. Bracism?

Of course global heating is going to make this a bigger problem everywhere, but fortunately we’ll be fucked a lot worse by all the other problems this is going to produce.

Well this story is the bee’s needs!

Anybody know the legalese for “because they’re lying buckets of shit”?

No, this came out after the election was settled. There was a woman that maintained a website covering all these details called BlackBoxVoting or something like that (long gone now).