Unfortunately, the notion that “Republicans ain’t shit” is wrong. They *ARE* shit, but they have the money, power, and influence to be that way and get away with it, too. The fact that Trump was impeached twice, that people followed his lies into an insurrection, that they’re fighting (even attacking) law enforcement…

I still have it installed, and I won’t ever uninstall it. I have hope that a ‘solution’ to playing it again will arise (in whatever form said ‘solution’ takes).

Late-stage capitalism at work — whatever it takes to increase profits. The numbers must go up. At this point, the entire world is a sick reflection of “The beatings will continue until moral improve” shtick.

Anyone else notice that wherever the GOP gets blocked by the majority expressing *THEIR* democratic rights, they immediately set about stripping that power from the majority?

Soooo...so one of these, in other words:

Acting as if America had so fundamentally changed in the last century that this isn’t still more or less the norm in nearly every city and town in America.

And if polio bounces back in a big way, you can *EXCLUSIVELY* thank all the anti-vax assholes who worked tirelessly, night and day, fighting to create generations of future paralyzed, dead, and crippled children and adults.

Even if everything else about it was just ‘okay,’ I’d still watch it for Tatiana. I might be (probably am) biased, but she impressed the hell out of me with Orphan Black. With what I’ve seen in the promos, I’m sure she’ll give another great performance regardless. But then you add in everybody else in the show with her…

If the attempts were genuine and sincere, there’s some truth to being ‘better late than never.’ But token, halfhearted (if even that much) gestures? No. In fact, it feels worse than nothing at all. If you don’t really take an issue seriously, how can ‘acknowledging’ that issue in a dismissive or minimal manner not…

Being ‘prepared’ does not indicate the direction or intention of said preparedness. Because being ‘prepared’ to aid in making it a complete cluster**** like they did with the previous midterms and the last two presidential elections is still being ‘prepared.’

They’ll never admit it, but causing harm is half the joy they get from inflicting these draconian, regressive laws on the population, so it’s not accidental or an unavoidable consequence. It’s intentional.

Really, it should be “...has been deciding Texas’ energy fate all along.” Because that’s how Texas energy has been run from the beginning — by shadowy oil and gas interests that are unaccountable and unanswerable to anyone. And that’s both by design and the intention, to *BE* unaccountable and unanswerable, to be…

Social parasite ‘reinvents’ an old way to be a social parasite....

Lasik likely has similar ‘lifetime warranty’ issues, with higher incidences of cataracts and earlier onset of those issues. And while you *can* replace lenses with synthetic ones, they’re nowhere near as good as natural ones can be, and the surgery often results in an increase (sometimes significantly so) in scar…

Well, clearly the proper metric to determining a game’s ‘true value’ is to switch to debug mode and check the poly count being pushed onto the screen multiplied by the FPS. All those lame, old 2d games with their psuedo-2d graphics using polygons, pushing a few dozen polygons a time and running at 30fps? Worthless.…

I’m sure it does. All the f***ing time. Because that’s just how a sizable enough proportion of the population think about themselves and how things are ‘supposed to be’ that everyone else just keeps getting screwed over by them at every turn. In the world these people have built, if you’re not willing and happy to…

Once again illustrating that the issues with law enforcement in the US are both institutional and systemic.

It reminds me of a joke:

As long as I can remember, hustle culture has been a way of life. If you’ve got your eyes on a big raise or a corner office, doing the most is what gets you to the top and keeps you there.

The backbone of conservatism is a system of laws that apply others and not to themselves, of protections that apply to themselves and not to others. What the rest of us ‘regular folks’ call HYPOCRISY.