The major weakness of progressives is our tendency to be perfectionists. We’ll doubt ourselves and our proposals because they aren’t airtight, they always leave someone or something out, which always outrages a subgroup to the point of refusing to support the whole idea. This is what sank Kamala Harris - either she was complicit in Gaza genocide, or she was presumed guilty of sending innocent people to prison as a prosecutor, or she didn’t show enough support for trans people, or whatever. Too many people found a reason to turn their backs on her and shirk responsibility for the outcome - it was The Party’s fault for not providing them with a good enough option to click on.

Conservatives are MUCH more willing to allow even major imperfections in their ideas and candidates because they value the overall group goal more.

Michael Moore’s description was spot on…

Liberals:

What should we do for dinner?
Well, we could go out.
Do you want to go out?
I guess, if you do.
Okay, where should we go?
I don’t know, where do you want to go?

Conservatives: Get in the car, we’re goin’ to the Sizzler!

It’s not that they’re hoarding scarce healthcare resources so they’re available for the wealthy. They could provide care for everyone, but then the system wouldn’t run at the desired profit level.

Saved this advice for future reference - thank you!

For at least tens of millions it’s not so much class consciousness, more like class cluelessness - somehow they think they have something in common with a guy like Trump. They don’t grasp that they’re expendable peasants he doesn’t give two shits about. Even when he buses them out to his rallies and strands them, they still don’t get a clue.

I don’t think I can outrun concrete that starts falling at the exact moment I start running. What I think is that the odds are low that the timing will be so perfect, and also that the odds of getting crushed under a desk are so much greater running would definitely have given my higher odds of survival in the specific situation I outlined.

In related news, researchers finally found somebody who knows what getting stabbed with an ice pick actually feels like.

Police investigators are on the scene dusting for regurgitant.

“Le chateau” is French for “the chateau.”

The click was the release of a spring-loaded plunger that pushed air through an ultrasonic whistle. The whistle was what controlled the TV or stereo.

As a teenager I accidentally discovered clinking a handful of coins would also do it.

Yeah it’s so weird that more than 30 countries have managed to implement public healthcare without assassinating CEOs. Mind boggling.

Like I said, middle of the parking lot - I’m talking at least 100 ft away from a building that was maybe 30 ft tall.

You’ll never be a middle-aged accountant in the 80s either, just fyi.

Burma Shave

In other news you can’t shit in the street anymore either.

Some kid I knew had a weird little matchbox-size box with something like a nail sticking out of it, which he called a permanent match. He would pull out the nail and it would be on fire - he might have struck it on the side of the box, I forget. Presumably the nail was coated with some flammable substance from the box. Seemed like the simplest thing in the world - no mechanics like a lighter. I don’t know why those didn’t catch on but I’ve never seen another one.

Code is my preference, having spent a whole career as a software dev - I do a lot of messing around with Arduino and ESP. But I remember back in the 70s when a college prof let me play with a bunch of chips he had acquired but didn’t have a curriculum put together yet. He let me do a little demo for one of his classes, which was pretty cool. I explained how binary numbers worked, how to step through a counter by pressing a button a bunch of times, read out the count on leds, use the number as an address to a memory chip and other things. He mentioned that the next new thing was going to be a “microprocessor” - a whole computer on a single chip - imagine that! If my school had had an electronics program I would switched my major on the spot, based solely on how fun it was.

Something tells me I would be too busy shitting my wetsuit to do much thinking lol.

Yeah, mention grapefruit and some people think of a nice breakfast, others think of getting squirted in the eye.

Yeah but neither of us long for the days of film. We like the zero cost per shot so you can take 20 shots hoping a few turn out.