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He’s gonna do that shit anyway. The rule of law is dead.

Yup!

My company charged the government billions of dollars for a camera that takes hours to take one photo.

I worked at a pet store in college. There was a really chill baby king snake there that I’d hang out with when I was working the cash register. He’d loop around my neck and just hang out like a little snake necklace for hours. Scared the shit out of a few customers who thought he was a piece of jewelry until he moved 😅

This would 100% work on me. I would love it if a guy took me to see a bowerbird. Or if he was a bowerbird.

I think you’d be surprised how many people here share your interests. You may not be able to scroll through an album of other people’s projects relevant to your hobby right now, but I bet you can post to a more general community with a very specific question (or show off your own project) and get a good amount of engagement and feedback, maybe even with broader perspective than you might get in a subreddit with an established “meta” for your hobby.

I’d like to see us really embrace the improv mantra of “yes, and”. Agreement is great, but add something before you go. Upvote and comment.

Yeah, I’m happy for AI to take this particular horrifying job from us. Chances are it will be overtuned (too strict), but if there’s a reasonable appeals process I could see it saving a lot of people the trauma of having to regularly view the worst humanity has to offer without major drawbacks.

It’s not a paywall, but it does require you to input your email address.

It’s always had a “libertarian” streak when it comes to business deregulation, but otherwise yeah pretty blue.

Sometimes asking them to explain the joke will be enough to get them feeling embarrassed. If there’s multiple guys throwing this shit around that tactic could easily backfire, though.

Article about hat pins being used as weapons.

I think the federal government should play a really big role in preserving rights and freedoms. Preventing individual states from becoming little tyrannies is important! The feds are also useful for big interstate projects - public health, highways, climate protection. It helps prevent states from fucking each other over.

The issues that are truly local in scale do exist, but the world is shrinking. Is law enforcement local? Mostly. Economics? Kinda. It’s easy to see how our interconnectedness is leading to bigger federal scope.

There’s only a few things I can confidently say aren’t at all in the federal government’s wheelhouse. They shouldn’t be restricting our individual rights, overriding state level protections. Dictating what is a valid marriage, restricting speech, outlawing abortion or gender transition, etc. They could PROTECT those rights, but taking them away should be a state-by-state decision.

Just my opinion if we want a federation of states that preserves freedoms instead of a cluster of warring fiefdoms.

Hat pins about to come back into fashion.

That was awesome, thanks for sharing!

Bigass subwoofer, blast Smack My Bitch Up, feel your soul exit your body.

Making people doubt the election’s integrity and fear potential violence for voting is probably the goal.

Tacky