It’s existential in the sense that trans people’s existence is being threatened. As in, the US is headed down the same path as the Nazis, with trans people about to be rounded up into concentration camps and mass-murdered.

The blood libel has been going on for a while now. The registrations have already started. Pink triangles and pogroms are the next step.

(I’m saying this as a cis-het white male, BTW. Even I can see the writing on the wall.)

Pretty sure Trump has been chauffeured all his life. He doesn’t give enough of a shit about his car to appoint it to anything.

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What pretentious asshole came up with that bit of jargon?

They think they’re going to win, and so far there’s been precious little to indicate otherwise.

<impoverished Georgia Power ratepayer noises>

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At least the AI-related videos of his I’ve seen were about running models locally, and for relatively legitimate use cases (training text-to-speech voices and commanding Home Assistant), so it could be worse.

Never KYS for something that’s somebody else’s fault.

It’s not his fault that the political landscape shifted on him making his activities now illegal, but the charges aren’t bogus.

In addition to the other reasons others have pointed out why your position is bullshit, imagine actually defending an ex-post-facto law.

Wonderful Christmastime 11 hours

No, but seriously, it’s really hard for me to pick a single favorite song (or even worse, single best version of a particular song). I do tend to gravitate to the upbeat/rock kinda ones, though: “Need a Little Christmas”, “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”, " Carol of the Bells," “Sleigh Ride” – stuff like that.

I will say I recently discovered this song, which I was enjoying during November specifically:

Tom Cardy - Not Quite Almost Christmas Time

As are “committed by a family member” and “unrelated to politics,” for that matter.

WTF? Joining NATO is the security guarantee! It should be 1000% crystal obvious to everybody by now that anything less is inadequate.

The premise makes no fucking sense, aside from being a reflection of negotiating with irrational morons.

Not just software, online updates. Even things that were computerized used to have a lot more QA effort put into them when fixing a bug meant having to physically ship a new product revision, or at least a new disk.

I like your atomic modern tree skirt.

I’d been wanting to do it for years, but I was never willing to shell out the $$$ for a smart trainer until now. I guess $400 was the price that was finally cheap enough for me to stomach.

Never mind the tri-fold part; it’s ridiculous that anybody is stupid enough to buy Samsung’s DRM’d shit.

I joined Zwift today! I already did utility cycling, but it’s mostly using an e-bike so doesn’t provide all that much exercise. I think the gamification will help me stay motivated enough to actually do rides for fitness.

Advent of Code

One year I hope to remember that’s a thing that exists when it isn’t already several days into the month.

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(Whoops, I got him mixed up with Brad Pitt, apparently. I guess you could say he was a figment of my imagination.)

What is Fight Club?