I’m so tired of hearing about this woman.

Previous First Ladies have become champions for some cause (whether it’s a cause I agree with or not – looking at you Nancy), but Melania is MiA until she’s hawking a book, and now she’s all over my feeds.

Just kindly fuck off to obscurity until your sugar daddy gives you the payout for being his side piece. Nobody cares.

Oh no. Now we’ll never hear from FlyingSquid again. RIP, fiend, we’ll mis

Pence rummaged in the law’s panty drawers looking for a loophole, and when he couldn’t find one, he called Dan Quayle to ask if there was any way at all he could violate his duty and support trump. Only after Quayle told him no multiple times did he finally, begrudgingly decide he had to certify it.

Let’s not give Pence more credit than he deserves.

It shouldn’t be a hard sell, either, because the president specifically doesn’t have any official duties surrounding the election. This would defeat the entire purpose.

The vice president doesn’t either, as was made clear by that conversation between Pence and Dan Quayle:

Over and over, Pence asked if there was anything he could do.

"‘Mike, you have no flexibility on this. None. Zero. Forget it. Put it away,’ Quayle told him.

"Pence pressed again.

"‘You don’t know the position I’m in,’ he said, according to the authors.

“‘I do know the position you’re in,’ Quayle responded. ‘I also know what the law is. You listen to the parliamentarian. That’s all you do. You have no power.’”

source: How Dan Quayle saved democracy. Yes, really.

Yearly reminder to test your carbon monoxide detector.

Ha, called it.

Calling it now:

Since there’s not enough time left for him to recover from this brutal ego bruise, I predict he’ll only do rallies from now on, or appearances on far-right media, because he’ll retreat to his snowglobe for reassurance for a while. He’ll avoid addressing Kamala directly, but he’ll ramp up his own network and rile up his mob. His team will struggle to rein him in, and some appearances might be cancelled.

Yeah, I live in The Land of the Free™ (to be a complete arsehole).

Thx for getting it. :)

Ooooh. Welcome blast from the past. That sound…

It’s a bit weird the first time it really hits you.

My moment was when we were a bit early for a holiday dinner and my mom was trying to prepare a turkey, but was having trouble stuffing it because it hadn’t thawed completely. She made a comment about the legs being a bit stiff and hard to spread, and my father said ‘Give it a margarita.’ (my mom’s favourite drink).

Money hoarders. They need a coordinated intervention.

Those aren’t ‘apps’ to him – they’re pictures he presses on his phone that let him do something.

My theory: he was recently in a conversation with someone about an app he doesn’t use, and they had to explain the concept to him. They probably complimented him when he seemed to understand enough, since he’s surrounded exclusively by sycophants, so in his mind he’s proud to be smarter than most people about this.

We’ve seen this exact scenario play out before. He’s so predictable.

It’s important to understand the prevalence of coincidence and incompetence. Humans are exceptional at pattern-finding – too good, really. In order to think critically, we need to recognise our own tendency to find patterns where none exist.

And this a very common mindset, because most societies (some more than others) take children’s* innate curiosity and pound it flat for the sake of efficiency by way of standardisation. It really is a shame, since we waste a lot of potential as a species this way.

e: a word

We do, though.

Just to make sure my understanding was accurate, I asked Gemini to critique my explanation:

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Unless it’s lying to me about itself, I was able to explain the basics of it in two relatively simple sentences. Of course that doesn’t cover everything, but Gemini thinks that’s a pretty good overview. After expanding on each point in its reply, it said this:

I think a lot of the confusion over these models stems from hype and marketing that makes them out to be more than what they are.

Have you seen Forrest Valkai’s new video?

Eric Hovind made a laughably awful Night at the Museum rip-off at the creation museum, and Forrest tears it apart.

45 minutes at 350F seems like it will burn these tiny filets to a crisp, but I’ll try. I do love a mayo and garlic sauce.

I’m pretty vocally atheist, but I watch debunking content, and part of that is anti-Flerf and anti-fascist stuff, so maybe the algorithm picked up on that.

It’s so fracking adorable, I could eat it up. Any recipes?

Wait – is this how we prevent our socks committing suicide in the dryer?

Alex Jones screeching