If your solution to some problem relies on “If everyone would just…” then you do not have a solution. Everyone is not going to just. At not time in the history of the universe has everyone just, and they’re not going to start now.
So many people telling me to put down my phone and touch grass. And yet nobody implementing an API for grass that will let me touch it using an app on my phone. Missed opportunity there.
Oh shit I just realized I can post the "Gaussian Blur Wizard That Gaussian Blurs You" here
his friend "Motion Blur Mage That Motion Blurs You"
Their long suffering associate, the "Sharpen Cleric that Sharpens you (badly)"
Nooo!!! What have you all unleashed upon us!?!
dont forget the chromatic abberation warlock that chromatically abberates you
may I add Mystic Mosiac who turns your quality waaaaaaay down
What did he do to deserve this
punished by the council
It’s not a punishment. It’s a test. Now you must Undo five times in a row to be judged worthy.
Would you say skluug is a “classic sort of guy”?
I have said this before
I have never said this but I would say it of my own volition
I would say this if specifically asked to
I would not say this even under duress
Where was “This is so obvious that it does not even need saying”?
The entire dashboard gets booped tonight.
Mutuals? Booped.
People I can’t remember why I followed and who I never interact with? Booped.
Complete strangers in a reblog chain? Booped.
Every one of you, booped all to heck.
Donald Trump has claimed that the election gave him an “unprecedented and powerful mandate.” It didn’t, of course. Nevada and Arizona have still not been called, but assuming he picks up both of them (as seems likely), that will give him 312 electoral votes. That would put him ahead of Biden’s 2020 result and his own 2016 result, but well behind Obama and Clinton. Among the 20 elections since 1948, Trump’s 312 votes would rank 12th.
And assuming he holds his popular vote majority of 50.6% to 47.9% (as does not seem likely, since there are still a lot of California votes to count), that gives him a 2.7% popular vote margin. That doesn’t beat Biden in 2020, and again it’s well below Obama and Clinton. Among the 20 elections since 1948, Trump’s 2.7% popular vote margin would rank 14th.
So not only is that not unprecedented or powerful, it’s actually sub-par for elections since World War II. Every president always claims a mandate, and sure, Trump has one in the sense that any successful candidate gets the mandate “be president, administer the executive branch,” but not much more than that.
If there is a mandate for anything, it’s “keep inflation low,” because apparently Americans hate inflation so much that they will vote for just about anybody rather than an incumbent during a time of inflation, even if wages have been going up along with prices. So, whether that makes sense or not, the American people are clear on this: don’t cause any inflation.
The thing is, though, one of his big campaign promises is to impose tariffs on all imports, which will drive up prices, and another one is to deport millions of workers, which will also drive up prices. This is exactly contrary to the “no inflation” mandate. I don’t see any way he can keep his promises and also avoid inflation. In fact the mandate that voters appear to have given Trump is “don’t be Biden, but don’t be Trump either.” And I think he’s going to have a hard time pulling that off.
thinking about how there's still a non-zero chance of kamala harris becoming the 47th US president
ideal punchline to this whole saga is joe biden passing away quietly on christmas morning and giving harris a tenure clocking in well below william henry harrison's
> Trump dies after choking on a turkey bone during Thanksgiving dinner
> Vance is like ok it’s me then
> but as usual he’s really cringey and weird about it
> electors are like mmm i dunno man
> 50 of them defect and vote for Kamala
> she wins
The creepy old house beat vampire, psycho killer, and ghost, while graveyard defeated black cat, mummy, and skeleton. Now it’s time to find out which is the spookiest of all.
The poll is not about these specific pictures. They’re just for illustration. Please imagine the spookiest creepy old house and graveyard that you can.
a woman being feminine is right-wing coded which is masculine coded. a woman being masculine is left-wing coded which is feminine coded. this disproves the existence of women
Classically, yes, women are impossible. But in quantum field feminism, women are modeled as a complex-valued excitation of the gender field which can resolve to any degree of femininity or masculinity.
I'm gonna be honest. I would simply not bet against Elon Musk. It's fine not to like him! He can be unlikable. But I don't think there's an interpretation of base reality that's like.
'Elon Musk is bad at getting things done, accomplishing his goals, etc. The guy's a loser.'
It makes you look really stupid when you say things like this. On account of how obviously wrong you are.
I got so annoyed at Mike Duncan's jab at Elon in the new Mars Revolution podcast season where (spoilers for early in the first episode I guess)
That’s true, but on the other hand he set himself the goal of buying Twitter, and then he set himself the goal of not buying Twitter. So he’s only doing 50% there.
discoursedrome
Indulge me in one last remark about skepticism, before I revisit reality.
When I was a little kid, there was some sort of quiz or test in school where they asked us a classic brain-teaser: a scenario is presented in which an experimental chemist claims to have invented a true universal solvent, and you are asked how you know they must be lying.
The intended response, of course, is that it would be impossible to contain a universal solvent, since it would dissolve its container. I gave them that answer, because it’s what they wanted to hear, and what I wanted was a pat on the head, but even at the time I knew it was wrong. Setting aside objections involving forces or states of matter, which I couldn’t have told you much about at that age, the issue is simply that a universal solvent may be slow-acting, and it may reach saturation, and so you might indeed be able to store such a thing in glassware as long as you changed it periodically, and as long as you didn’t mind it eventually becoming “full”, forcing you to either make more or precipitate out some of the solute. Thus it could well exist, and it’s the speed and efficiency of its action, rather than its ultimate effect, that would determine how useful it was to a chemist.
Between those who don’t need to be told and those who can’t, there are a few people who might find this example illustrative.
