The 12th Amendment explicitly forbids this:

no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States

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Cernovich is a right wing grifter who pivoted from red pill / pickup artist / manosphere / GamerGate to trying to ride Trump’s coattails during his first term. He’s the same vintage as Milo Yianappolis and whatever that Return of Kings douche’s name was.

Authoritarian regimes select for loyalty over competence. Nazi Germany was a complete shit show and all the leaders were dangerously incompetent (with the possible exception of Goebbels).

It ends with a chop and the protagonist cashes out and walks away. Not exciting from a poker perspective but the protagonist develops as a person between the last bet and the reveal.

My wife decided the climax of her book would be a poker game and I was like “If you do this, DO NOT use the royal flush takes all trope. It is a tired cliché.”

She did something a little different and I’m very pleased with how she subverted that trope.

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Some friends moved to Canada from abroad and their first Christmas here, we did every Christmas tradition we could think of with them, even ones we didn’t normally partake in ourselves. Introducing them to Christmas really brought back the joy of it for me.

As someone whose first “real” programming language was C, I recommend against writing anything new in C.

There are plenty of C projects you could consider contributing to as a way to learn the language (and if you want a long and prosperous career, knowing C can only help you) but language design has come a long way since the 70s and something like Golang or Zig or Rust would get you many of the advantages of C with many fewer pitfalls.

I remember reading a comment a long time ago that Tron: Legacy is a 125 minute Daft Punk music video and I find it hard to disagree.

This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire but it’s an anti-Semitic dog whistle coined by neo-Nazi Kevin Alfred Strom.

Not excusing his behaviour in any way but he suffered a traumatic brain injury that gave him impulse control problems. That’s been well known for decades. He should’ve had a full time handler or something.

That’s Jean Valjean’s prisoner number from Les Miserables. He was imprisoned for stealing bread.

I uninstalled Duolingo the day they started offering to restore your streak for money.

I live about 100km from my hometown. It’s where I was born and I lived there on and off for about half my life but I no longer think of it as home.

Zelda and Chill

Doomsday preppers

There are two kinds of people who own a pressure canner - people who enjoy making preserves and fucking crazy people.

Tame compared to some of the other stories here but the Motel 6 across from Disney World in Florida when I was visiting for a high school trip. I noticed that the soles of my feet were all black and assumed it was because I’d been walking around in the parking lot in bare feet. Turns out it was actually the carpet in the room. I wore my shoes in the room for the rest of my stay.

Windwaker had a ton of content cut. The ice island and fire island were both supposed to be full dungeons. Both of those incomplete dungeons later ended up being used in Twilight Princess.

The tower of the gods was supposed to be longer.