Better off not giving Russians money during the Ukraine invasion anyways

Is Real?

Disappointing but not too surprising. Hong had great positions and I liked her direct style, personally, but it was clear that “traditional” Dems would either want a more normie personality or a slicker package. With the stakes in November, voters are anxious. I don’t know know anything about Crowley, hopefully he’s decent enough to win

It’s just a special type of connector plug that lets the wires slide through if you want to see the wires come out the front. I just used clear connectors to check the color ordering

I’ve done diy cat5 and the little cutter/stripper tool is invaluable. The wires are too fiddly otherwise. The plugs make automatic secure contact. The tool I used is like (https://www.homedepot.com/pep/Lukyamzn-RJ45-Crimp-Tool-Kit-Pass-Thru-Ethernet-Crimper-for-Cat5e-Cat6-Cat6a-and-Tester-PH00727B283/335459691) but didn’t have the testing capability and was probably cheaper

Nuanced take! It does suck that Dems take so much of its base for granted, but it really is all hands on deck for November. If we lose, I don’t see liberal democracy surviving

At that scale, it’s everywhere, state pension systems, life insurance, our 401ks, etc are all invested in these private credit companies. They’re going to use this to demand bailouts.

I wonder if we could collectively push the funds to divest from closed book financial companies

One of the weird things about ceos, in USA at least, is that one of their roles is to be the fall guy for the board if things go badly. If they screw up badly enough, it’s expected that they’ll find it hard to be hired as CEO elsewhere, which they use to justify outsize compensation plans. I’m not sure AI would fulfill that role, nor the schmoozing aspects

It’s weird to feel yourself slipping away

I haven’t. Looking into therapy

Please throw 200 million behind Stevens!

That low? I’ve seen numbers over a million for Russian military casualties. No wonder they call the invaders “orcs”

He’s been detested for decades now, I’m sure there’s a cohort of greyhair tech workers that’ve been waiting a long time for his downfall. Hopefully he’s leveraged so badly that when the bill comes due, he’ll have to give that shit up and leave us alone.

Also led by the biggest ahole of the three

If that lead keeps up, it’ll be a really hopeful sign that the power of money is waning. I think her campaign spend is something like 10x his.

Paxton beat Cornyn while spending 1/4 as much too, for what that’s worth

Dinner at French Laundry, and “no”

I think the state house passed the special election law, but didn’t change the constitution, which still says ‘appointment by governor’ - maybe for “state offices” though?

“broken window” economics as geopolitical ‘policy’

I’m sure glad that our money will go to more of these instead of food, healthcare, or shelter

Firstly, this is great news

But secondly, I can’t help but be reminded of Warhammer 40k where the emperor is kept alive by the sacrifice of thousands of lesser psykers…

A cynical view is that he does understand and is just shitposting and muddying the water around UBI