I had a female friend/coworker that had previously served in the Navy, on a carrier as a communications specialist. She told stories of endless harassment. She said ultimately some of the women crafted partnerships with other female sailors and convinced everyone they were lesbians in order to just survive the job. It meant they had to spend lots of time together and play the part. She also said they had to work the jealousy angle because nobody wanted to be attacked by an angry lesbian girlfriend.

The male sailors assumed a lot of the women were lesbians because of the masculine nature of the work, or, as she put it, because they couldn't believe the women weren't attracted to them. It turned out if you gave them a plausible explanation you could fake your way through it. Without a plausible explanation, they could become resentful and dangerous. I asked if claiming to be married and/or have kids would work, she said it wasn't as effective and you ultimately needed female allies anyway. She also said that actual lesbians would pretend to "date" hetero women in order to protect them. She kind of described it as leveraging the power of rumors.

I told her it sounded a lot like what happens in prison. She said in some ways, it was a prison.

"Climate change" is obsolete, now it's "climate crisis". I suppose after that it's climate collapse and then climate desolation.

There seems to be a long established pattern where Trump daydreams about irrefutable and overwhelming exoneration and then decides it should be true and tells everyone about it. Narcissists have a tendency to create shitstorms and then daydream about escapist fantasies to evade the consequences they always create for themselves.

This is such an incredibly stupid timeline. If somebody had told that insolent toddler that he looked like a badass in a black mask, hundreds of thousands of people would not have died.

There has never been an airport without military value. Because of this, they are often the first assets that are attacked or seized when besieging a city.

I don't recall Trump ever doing or saying anything without some element of egomaniacal pride, boasting, or grandstanding. He should get the opportunity to rot in a prison cell while endlessly showing up in court and being returned to said prison cell.

Terrible article. It even leads with a photo to mock the idea.

The benefits of painting a home's roof with any white paint are enough to justify making it the standard. The article doesn't even mention that the super white paint can reduce indoor temperature by 8 or more degrees. That's a lot of energy not needed to cool the home. Even more effective is placing a second white roof above the roof on posts to shield it from solar heat. It would make sense to make a secondary roof solar panel ready. It would also extend the lifespan of the original roof.

"The paint's properties are almost superheroic. It can make surfaces as much as eight degrees Fahrenheit cooler than ambient air temperatures at midday, and up to 19 degrees cooler at night, reducing temperatures inside buildings and decreasing air-conditioning needs by as much as 40 percent.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/12/climate/white-paint-climate-cooling.html

The article sounds like a hit job to ridicule a simple and effective idea.

Following that logic, it means she doesn't know any ethical people.

There needs to be a law that candidates cannot do their own election investigations or seize anything whatsoever or in any way tread upon the election process, it belongs to the people not the candidates. They can and will use established methods for challenging elections or suffer the consequences of becoming a felon.

"Uhh, I have a law degree. I can make big crime look legit."

"Mr. President, this could be insane and dangerous!"

"Nah. Hold my diet coke."

Weaponization is such a limp argument. Law enforcement is the citizenry's weapon against corruption and crime. Claiming it is political is rubbish. As the attorney general of Michigan stated as she investigates the fake electors scheme in her state, the most political thing she could possibly do is not investigate. There's nothing political about doing the job you were hired to do. There was no need to push for investigation by elected officials on the Left, it was all plainly corrupt to even the most ordinary objective citizen. If anything, the right made investigations inevitable by brazening acting like nothing wrong happened, bragging about it, and then lying about it all, with erratic and contrary lies.

... and if you refuse to become a soulless ghoul then you become the merchandise.

The Ping of the North

Apple has blind loyalty

I agree. However, I also think that vendor lock-in is the true culprit. The strange thing about Apple users is that they get locked into that platform and there is little escape, but instead of feeling resentful, they swell with pride instead. Apple user = proud capative.

Nahh, Governor Newsom will appoint an interim replacement.

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It's likely because you've hammered your dopamine receptors for so long, they can barely get a signal anymore.

This is exceptionally interesting considering the fact that Ukraine has made great use of western-supplied night vision against Russian forces. It seems logical that they would want to deny such an advantage to their enemies.

I recently discovered that the Firefox add-on, ublock origin, has in its chooseable block lists, under annoyances, a cookie notice blocker with lots of other annoyance blockers as well.

Just installed cachyOS yesterday. Read this today. The timing is solid.