I think the Democrat strategy this cycle is pretty much this on even a larger scale. The right wing says they’re timing trump’s trials to interfere with the election, but the thing is I think they’re right in the exact opposite way of what they expect.

Trump caught the US by surprise and now people are sick of him, so suddenly he and every other scumbag in his party are the best ammunition the dems could ask for. The dems want to keep them all around and actively give them more chances to be obnoxious in order to scare more voters toward voting blue while splitting the GOP’s votes.

Got it boss

(Quietly implements a modulo check but only for a range between the current endpoint of the if branches and the highest value I expect the product to ever encounter)

That’s a giratina

It’s all the same problem though, isnt it?

Same people squeezing the economy dry are the ones ultimately responsible for fucking up efforts to unfuck the climate.

Keeping lenses on multiple issues maintains clarity on what’s at the root of them.

“Middle of nowhere” is the accepted term for that region

METAGROSSSSSSSSSSSS

If you fell asleep at the beginning of a 4 hour drive where I live, and woke up at the end, odds are very very high that you wouldn’t be able to tell any difference in the surroundings.

Before all the apes nonsense, this was where people would learn what “fungible” means

Wish it were for something less depressing

Could you elaborate a bit on that? I’m not really sure how a business that “actually grows” would be functional ina fixed economy without becoming confusing graphs or entering some other major problem.

I imagine a realistic implementation would involve a system of progressive brackets and minimums/deductibles, modeled after the way income tax is. Ideally, things are modeled such that the tax is only full percents among those absurdly high brackets that can afford them

Constitutionality is another matter though, and yeah it seems like it would be awful hard to get that through the current court

Let’s be real, if we wanna talk about possessiveness, Anakin was R2’s bodyguard more than R2 was Anakin’s droid

Little astromech is in absolute control

You ask me, it’s like the great quarantine to try and slow down covid

The idealists were hoping to stamp it out entirely but the reality was that covid was everywhere, and would inevitably become part of life. Quarantining served to make sure hospitals weren’t overwhelmed (or rather, weren’t MORE overwhelmed) until a vaccine could be made to try and get things under control

In the same vein, it makes sense to me to try and stifle AI stuff hopefully long enough to push for UBI and other social safety nets, so that when the lid comes completely off pandora’s box, the damage to people’s lives is mitigated and the benefits from the tech can be enjoyed in better conscience

YO MAMA

YO MAMA

YO MAMA

All men know me, all have had me, but none can fit my belt around me.

What am I?

“Don’t you guys have phones?”

Biggest physical room I’ve witnessed a misread happen in

I’m hoping the push for a 32 hour week gains enough traction that we could actually feasibly negotiate a 9-day sprint (2 week period) as the “middle ground”, at least until the next wave of negotiations pushes further.

Gimme every other monday off, that way I’m always working toward either a long weekend or an early weekend

They’re pretty good, but the problem I always have with waffles is that the moisture on the underside of a waffle builds up/condenses onto the plate, which creates sogginess. I always prefer my waffles to be very crisp, so this sogginess undermines that and introduces that awkward “crunchy but also ew soft” factor that screws up later waffle sections. I can fix this a little by putting a paper towel under them on the plate, but this feels wasteful and sometimes draws confusion from friends or family who don’t seem to care about this issue.

By this merit, I usually find pancakes preferable since they completely cover the plate under them, leaving no air for moisture to condense from, and they’re porous enough to just absorb any such moisture without a meaningful change in consistency anyway.

Anybody else experience this? Got tips for waffle technique?

Thanks for the explanation. Also helps clarify why it’s taken so long for trials to begin - if every defendant can demand “trial within a few months or it’s free”, of course you’d spend years gathering evidence and perfecting your case beforehand, if you felt you could.