My neighbor has two green lights on the outside of their house. I wonder if that’s why... though they’ve also had the green lights for a couple of years now. And they also have a very dim purple one that I’m pretty sure is one of those blacklight bulbs. And other houses in my neighborhood have their outdoor lights in…

I’m gonna say what you’re looking at here is American politics in a nutshell.

Right. My team at work has discussions about “do we want to do this [insert task] over slack or email” every time doing [insert task] in person in a meeting room would be inconvenient. There’s pros and cons to both. Slack is very good for what it does, but a glorified IRC client isn’t going to replace email, now or…

A couple of days ago, Mr Butterfield was claiming in an interview that slack would ‘kill email’ within a couple of years. I find the guy pretty amusing.

They do sell drinks, but they’re usually so goddamn weak they may as well not contain any alcohol- not the kind that you could get substantially drunk from unless you really, really tried. That might depend on the specific location though.

Look at the quote though:

That sounds.... actually more honest and democratic than the US presidential election. And a hell of a lot less unpleasant as well.

The solution to this problem is “vote for a 3rd party candidate.” If all third party candidates combined consistently get .2% of the votes in every election, then third party candidates as a whole don’t have a worthwhile chance. If the total percentage of votes going to third party candidates hit 20% of the vote in an…

Yup. All we need to do to fix the illegal immigration problem is: deregulate everything, keep the minimum wage uselessly low or non-existant, drive unemployment up, and continue encouraging violent crime, police brutality, and corruption of every sort on every level imaginable. People only immigrate from Mexico to the…

This is really cool and all but also, who the fuck names their pro-gay religious organization “The Christian Closet?” Were they not thinking very hard?

Yep. Remember that thing in colorado where they gave free IUDs to 30,000 women, and (surprise!) the teen pregnancy rate dropped like a rock, the abortion rate dropped like a rock, and it saved the state LITERALLY HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS on medicaid and other welfare programs, without even counting up any of…

It’s definitely got some potential for abuse and coercion. I’d feel better if some third party investigated the program to make sure that there’s none of that going on.

Yup. What’s the exact opposite of ‘dodging a bullet?’

There’s a thing in my family where the ultra-conservative racist family is pretty well balanced out by the ultra-gay, communist, labor activist sister. Everyone involved has long since learned that any discussion of politics will result in a typhoon-grade shitstorm. These days at family gatherings, one side will make…

“Well I really really wanna do some heroin, but it’s illegal! I’m a good citizen who never breaks the law, so I guess I wont.” said no one, ever.

Filled with freshly-washed women’s underwear. I hope the revolution will be televised, because it’s gonna be hilarious.

I so dearly wish that California cities would just institute scaled water prices instead of a flat rate. Like the first 5000 gallons or so per month cost o.1 cents/gallon or so, the next 5000 gallons cost 0.2 cents/gallon. The 5000 gallons after that cost 0.4 cents/gallon, and so on and so forth, multiplying by 2 at…

Security Theater is pretty much ‘working to make people believe that they’re safe,’ rather than, and often at the expense of actually working to make people safe. For example: that thing where the TSA has spent hundreds of millions- maybe even billions- of dollars on scanning equipment and personnel, violated many…

“No frivolousness,” huh?

No, not at all. I ‘m just a regular civilian who gets more and more angry every time I think back on my stint in the public education system, for an impressive variety of reasons. This flock of bullshit is pretty high on the list.