The worst part is, after a short while, you actually cross this sort of threshold where you enjoy it and begin to look forward to it, and then you start to notice it is helping your mental as well as your physical health.

Just atrocious. It's almost like we were evolved for this.

Across social, economic, and political spectra, you can always tell the good guys from the bad guys by their stance on access to knowledge.

You can't reference eating someone for dinner and omit one of the best attacks of the whole night.

"Why don’t you tell the 800,000 Polish Americans right here in Pennsylvania how quickly you would give up for the sake of favor and what you think is a friendship with what is known to be a dictator, who would eat you for lunch."

Fuck yeah. Kamala was all of us that night. The pity and scorn that she injected into that line was just simply perfect.

We as a country need to mentally prepare ourselves to owe an absolutely massssssssssive debt of gratitude to The Women.

I am so profoundly ashamed to be an American right now.

I am feeling a lot of personal satisfaction that I had no idea this was happening and had to read about it on Lemmy.

Only dimly related, but since I'm in this 2%, I can't help reflecting that in the 11 months since joining Lemmy, I have:

• Canceled all of my streaming subscriptions

• Built a massive Plex Server

• Rekindled my love of Unix building said server

• Began pirating movies, TV, music, and software like a fucking syphilitic pegleg

• Began experiencing Star Trek TNG for the first time, pirated, on my Plex Server, running Linux

• Bought a steam deck and began experimenting with Arch

Don't ever let anyone tell you your feed doesn't influence you, no matter how media literate you are.

(At the time of the layoffs, Electrek reported that Musk got rid of the entire team because its Tinucci did not lay off enough workers on her own.)

This single anecdote tells you just about everything you need to know about how Elon Musk approaches any kind of interpersonal interaction. His emotional IQ is non-existent.

I relate to this on such a deep level. I really dread using any toilet that doesn't have a bidet now. I can't figure out why they aren't everywhere . It has to be better for the environment.

Thank you, Summer Boismier, for standing up for what is right and being a true patriot.

No, and I kind of hate these recent memes for that reason. His joke was a lot more subtle and could as easily be about the fact that the original meme caught on because these guys are so weird, but it wasn't an outright accusation, and this meme has "couch fucker" in actual quotes, like he actually said that. It would be moronic of Walz to outright call Vance a couch fucker and now there is this meme floating around making it look like he did.

I hate to be a downer but this is toxic.

Edit: to the point where I would seriously question the true intent of the meme.

I can't stop thinking about how ingenius the couch joke is. The reference is obvious if you know the meme but oblique enough to maintain plausible deniability, but it doesn't matter because guess what, Republicans can't even complain about this without giving further airtime to the ridiculous meme itself. It is a serrated takedown.

"Then he will say to those on his left, `Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.' 44 "They also will answer, `Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?' 45 "He will reply, `I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.' 46 "Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life."

-Some Socialist Groomer Theater Kid

I'd bet any amount of money that most of not all of this bill's co-sponsors profess (at least surrounding election time) to a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and a striving to be more Christlike. And all of them seemingly impervious to cognitive dissonance.

Fuck goddammit this is the worst thing for people with imposter syndrome to see. This is fucking insidious. Hilarious but insidious.

My favorite part of the article is where the libertarians called Lincoln a tyrant who was rightly assassinated.

Very cool and normal.

My ancestors can get fucked. It's time to start living for your descendants.

we guard against the pressures that exist for unsafe care or unnecessary care.

If he is going to be that far up his own ass, I hope he is at least checking for polyps.

I enjoyed this for what it is: therapeutic fan fiction.

Moving on, we should not underestimate:

• How absolutely craven most republican lawmakers are

• How well, for better or worse, Trump communicates to boomers who we already know are active at the ballot box

• how deeply bought in the Christian right/Christian nationalists are

Campaign math doesn't work like it did. Just because Trump is dismantling seemingly durable elements of the GOP establishment, that doesn't mean he's dismantling his capability to win.

Vote like it's the last election ever. I'll leave the rest unsaid.

I genuinely thought he'd have been caught by now. This is wild.

When your kids are grown, the very idea that they want to hang out with you is an immense source of pride.