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Even after admitting all of the lies were lies, nothing will happen unless McCarthy fails to win the speakership. Then he either loses a primary or the general in two years because he's a fraud.

and here I thought you had three thumbs this whole time

merry christmas!

I tend to speculate (obviously from a position of privilege) that companies following through their threats to automate would force the UBI issue. If they honestly think they can provide the same level of service or better, then the business should be able to test the water if the powers that be are also willing to figure out how to restructure the economy. Though obviously I'm being extremely theoretical because it's super messy. Like building a new McD's that's automated is different than reworking an old McD's and laying off the staff. I think an automation tax is the theoretical remedy to that.

the warm weather worked, but the rain/snow started already before the temps dipped below freezing (in about an hour) so all horizontal surfaces gonna go right from wet to freezing rip

Temperatures are supposed to upswing out of freezing, like 38 today and 50 tomorrow, just enough to get the remaining ice off my driveway. Then we get another storm over the weekend.

One (hopefully) last bump in the 2022 election narrative. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/nyregion/george-santos-ny-republicans.html George Santos (R), elected to an open swing seat on Long Island, is apparently just a massive fraud and none of his biography checks out. Neither the DCCC nor the local or national media picked up on this until now, despite this being the second time the guy's run for this seat. The million dollar question though is what will happen? Will he be forced out? He is a pro-McCarthy vote and McCarthy doesn't have enough votes for speaker yet, so my guess is McCarthy will protect Santos to guarantee his vote.

this is what you get for kissing toilets

lol I missed this follow-up

lol Twitter Support deleted the policy change tweet because it blew up so hard

Don't they get fired every episode?

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The mastodon social account was also banned, and apparently direct links to it are also banned.

On ASMB, your ability to delete a post was tethered to whether it was anchored by a direct reply, but the IPB software doesn't categorize posts that way. Because the software doesn't distinguish that, or between posts and threads generally, if an OP deleted their OP it would delete the entire thread. So it's turned off by default for everyone. Some (likely older) non-volunteer custom ranks have the ability to hide their posts, but that's best explained as a horribly tedious cleanup/conforming job that's as far down the list as possible.

stranger coincidences have happened Is Scott Kelly from Neurosis also an astronaut? And does he have an identical twin brother who is an astronaut too who is also a US Senator from Arizona?

Yeah, I've read that basically she checked off every box for Putin to illustrate the "excesses" of what he claims is the West's decline, so prosecuting her in particular sent the most potent message. I'ma try to find where I read that but it's probably been a month, because you literally just paraphrased it.

oh man this visualization is trippy

Nah it's pure electoral gamesmanship. No one's cutting her a check and saying "you must do this thing." I've seen a lot of commentary from people who knew her in AZ pre-Senate and they consistently said she was always personal ambition over everything else. She cozied up to pharma and whomever supports her quest to protect the status quo because she thought she needed to carve an ultra-moderate path to be successful and after two years of digging through bedrock in the wrong direction for nothing, she's calculating that her most realistic path to personal success is to just dam the river.