
The event topped out, by my count, at 18 pro-billionaire attendees, who hoisted signs with slogans such as Tip Your Landlord and Property Rights Are Human Rights.
More words in that sentence than there were attendees.


Well, that explains why corporate is so intent on them. They’re creating the perfect little KPI-driven stooge.
Heck, now I’d like to see a study on KPIs (as a concept) as a reality distortion lens. It would seem like they have inadvertantly created a way to calculate a reality alignment index for a given KPI. Is it reasonable to conclude that using KPIs to measure performance is, in itself, unethical behavior?
To go a bit further: Is there a correlation between the number of KPIs and the likelihood of creating scenarios in which the only desirable outcome lies outside reality? That is, how many KPIs does it take to get sufficient competition between priorities that it effectively requires hallucinating a solution to achieve a sufficiently aligned result?
My favorite part about that pencil grip is that no one who tries to catalog the ways you can hold a pencil seems to understand it.
I used this one in the 3rd grade or so as a way to weird out my teacher who was a pencil stickler and would correct our grip constantly. And to give my poor middle finger callous a break during all the standardized tests.
I can empathize. I went back to work a month ago now. It was/is hard to be unavailable.
Luckily, I work from home in a fairly independent role and my wife is still on leave, so we’re still largely co-parenting. We could afford to have me stay at home, but we’re saying that the extra I make above the truly wild cost of daycare will go to his education, financial security, and cultural enrichment.
We’re also telling ourselves that daycare will be a positive/important social experience for him because we have a small friend group locally and family is halfway across the US.
Hah, is fine. No I didn’t feel “cool.” I’m just the kind of weirdo that was obsessed with guns from a technical point of view as a kid. Think of me more as the kid just slightly on the spectrum who collected data on everything firearm related and then wrote mods for games like rogue spear that tried to adhere to the data. I didn’t shoot more than a .22 rifle or 16 and 12 gauge shotguns until my 20s. This was one of the factoids I still have floating around up there.
Now in my 40s, I still haven’t owned a gun personally, but have been to the range many times with friends (I buy more ammo than I shoot and drinks after). Heck, a few weeks ago I got to put a hundred rounds or so through a friend’s suppressed FN P90 (a very surreal experience), a very nice .223, and pistols in 4 calibers (.22 and 9mm with suppressors, .45, and .357).
.40 S&W and 10mm auto are both 10mm rounds!


Have you tried the heroic launcher for your GOG games? It’s trivial to connect your account and download/install the games (and select the compatibility layer of your choice). There an option to add the games to steam too.
I got you:

WEC might be a happier fandom for you. Definitely more exciting racing too. Though hopefully 2026 changes improve things over at the circus.
Well, even translation issues aside, we can have at least protestant, Catholic, and Jewish bibles.
And beyond the regular version, we’ll also need large print, pocket-sized, and kids editions with pictures. And a novelty podium sized edition too, and the “study” version with the footnotes, concordance, maps, introductions, etc.
Oh, did you want the red letter edition where everything Jesus actually says is in red?
And did you want hard or soft side? Leather? Which color? Or maybe a 365-day devotional edition.

It’s not self-defense if you intentionally put yourself in harm’s way.
I heard an expert talking about the situation this morning and he explained that putting yourself in front of a vehicle is universally considered a bad tactic.
He may be “experienced,” but not with good tactics.
Apologies, 6yr full service warranty, 12yr system warranty.
Apologies: 6yr full service warranty, 12yr system warranty.
This is the debate we had when redoing our kitchen. It hurt me to add $8k to the bill (the difference) just for the fridge, but it really is genuinely a different experience. At least it came with a 6 year manufacturer warranty too.
The drawers glide smoothly on real hinges with a soft close, the shelves are individually lit and glass, what plastic there is is thicker and smoother. Everything is easy to adjust or remove for cleaning. It even has a cartridge that removes ethylene gas and produce stays noticeably much fresher.
And as a bonus, I got to support a union manufacturer in the US (subzero).


Final fantasy 7 for pc was also 4 cds in 1998.
I scratched one of them and had to beg a friend to lend me their disc so I could get through the story.
Definitely going on my list of “memes you can hear” … Or at least we olds can.
The best Valentine there has ever bean.