It’s both.

Pro tip for those that have the itch: You can buy edible cookie dough made from sterilized components

It’s shocking how cheap some of these reps are

Maybe don’t train dogs to rape prisoners? Just a suggestion

I hate the framing of “we’re not allowed to terrorize people”. You are allowed by statute to enforce the law basically everywhere in the USA - sanctuary cities just don’t volunteer to help you do it because their job is enforcing their laws and protecting their communities, and helping you assholes makes that harder

Good to hear. I was disappointed that they were originally listed as playing

It shouldn’t be, but I bet being a billionaire and being able to do whatever you want leads to them thinking “hey, I can do this taboo thing”. Like the Most Dangerous Game stuff

You mean, my taxes are paying people in India for this shit

Seriously, it feels like people think Dems should be building an oubliette right now. The process of rooting out and punishing corruption/incompetence starts with investigations (if you don’t have absolute power) - so they’d better be damn ready to hit the ground running

Hell, I try not to even visit places where too many tourists visit

Extreme nationalism is generally bad for tourism and tourism is generally good for economies. Sad to see Japan slip this way, of course, but they’re not alone.

Glad to hear it - charges seemed ridiculous based on the video I saw

I won’t be able to read it until later - anything surprising in there?

Japan, for all it’s beauty, precision, and art, is extremely nationalistic - if not wholly racist. The sanae gov is as right wing as they’ve had in a while and it’s predictable that they’d want to drive foreigners out, but it is a bit sad

Let’s offload a whole country’s cognitive load and see what happens! Why not?

Before the gerrymandering fuckery, I daydreamed briefly of a veto-proof majority. It seems any plan to do anything will need R buy-in or wipe out, or extra time

I was so mad when he ran again. I had a distinct memory of him running as a “transition” president in 2019 - which my fool ass took to mean one term

I distinctly remember when they told Walz to stop calling out how weird the Elon/Vance/Trump crew all were. It was working and I couldn’t understand why stop. Some wormtongue consultant or PAC? It was baffling

I hope it’s written well enough that it includes “non affiliated PACs” that are coincidentally funded by foreign governments. AIPAC loves pretending it’s not AIPAC

But think about it from the business’s perspective!

• lower rent

• lower utilities

• distributed IT

• all employee work online/archivable by default

• happier/healthier employees

• access to global talent pool

• easier to replace employees with LLMs!

The rabid return to office push is what really convinced me that most businesses are not in the hands of people who are trying to Do their business the best. At minimum it’s extrovert CEOs, and feckless middle managers that didn’t want to adapt

It’s literally their only pathway to even breaking even on the >$1 trillion capex. The only way any of these valuations make sense is if it lets them fire a huge chunk of workers