dylanmorgan

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dylanmorgan ,

A friend of mine left town and put her house on the market. It started at $550K and the last I looked she had cut it to $400K in a month and a half.

dylanmorgan ,

I really wish this didn’t need to be clarified every few days. Thanks, zionists and white supremacists!

dylanmorgan ,

Is there a non-infowalled version? WaPo asks for email even on a gifted article.

dylanmorgan ,

It’s always a “laugh to keep myself from screaming” moment when I hear some free market ghoul quote Adam Smith as though Smith would support anything those monsters believe in.

dylanmorgan ,

Yet another reason to avoid this absolutely unnecessary spectacle.

dylanmorgan ,

The “THIS IS A DEEPFAKE VOICE” label really helps human brains tell that it’s a deepfake voice.

dylanmorgan ,

Skip the psych exam. Restore the “public servant” aspect.

  1. All assets are sold and the cash is placed in a trust that earns 1% interest. When you leave office you get your money back.

  2. 24/7 audio and video coverage of your life as long as you are in office. The toilet is not filmed unless someone goes in with you. Other than that, your life is an open book.

  3. After you leave office, you can teach classes as long as your compensation is no more than the lowest-paid professor at the school that employs you. You can write books. Or you can enjoy your pension. No corporate jobs or partner positions at fancy law firms.

dylanmorgan ,

Depends on a number of factors. A ton of companies have moved to web based tools for a big chunk of their workforce. If those web apps are more or less standards-compliant you could pull it off with minimal retraining.

dylanmorgan ,

I want to be a mouse rabble rouser building mouse-scale guillotines.

dylanmorgan ,

My hot take is that a public life should mean a much reduced expectation of privacy. If you want to make decisions that affect millions (or billions) of people, those people should be able to see and hear everything you do outside of the most intimate necessities of life. E.G. you can poop without someone watching, but not much else. Don’t like it? Quit.

dylanmorgan ,

Biden should appoint Cornel West and Bernie Sanders as two of the additional 4 justices.

dylanmorgan ,

I like swapping them out but I wouldn’t do it all at once and I’d implement term limits that put them outside of a two-term president’s reach. I like 13 year Supreme Court terms because it’s a prime number and it would keep any one president from naming more than one or two justices.

The Curious Case Of The Underselling Arena Tours ( www.stereogum.com )

“Who can afford to go to multiple shows?” says the anonymous tour manager. “Two tickets to a show, you’re talking probably about $200 with fees and everything. You go to a meal around the show, you’re talking at least $100 or $200 for a nice dinner. Then you got parking and babysitters, then you add the VIP stuff to...

dylanmorgan ,

This reads a lot like nuance trolling. The “mystery” seems extremely one-dimensional: most fans aren’t “pay a ridiculous amount to see a band from a half-mile away” fans.

dylanmorgan ,

I’d work on forestation, planting permaculture food forests.

dylanmorgan ,

Outside of Florida, cholera and syphilis are more popular than DeSantis.

dylanmorgan ,

I have a friend who’s gotten into hermit crab rescue with his wife, and if you’re only expending the effort shown on this chart, congratulations you’re an abusive pet owner.

dylanmorgan ,

Neither are dragons.

dylanmorgan ,

Thomas Paine was pretty legit. Abolitionist (and I think a believer in racial equality) and not shy about saying so.

dylanmorgan ,

That was my exact thought. I wonder how long they’d been doing this prior to October 7.

dylanmorgan ,

I suspected as much. This kind of thing doesn’t materialize from nowhere.

dylanmorgan ,

I love the “you’d have to plant trees everywhere therefore it’s not possible” logic. As if silviculture/silvipasture were not possible. As if we couldn’t take vacant properties and plant there.

dylanmorgan ,

Did he actually defend that subreddit or is it more of a general “this happened and he didn’t do anything about it until he had no choice?”

dylanmorgan ,

The problem is that a fuckton of the web is SEO poisoned, so even a better search engine will find garbage because for a lot of subjects garbage is all that’s available.

The best chef in the world can’t turn shit into anything you want to eat.

dylanmorgan ,

A lot of content sites have altered how they write articles to be in line with google SEO to drive traffic. In doing this, the content that can be found by any search engine is now of lower quality.

dylanmorgan ,

I don’t like the headline. Musk is scum, but the Internet is responsible for this. If Google’s loony “internet on balloons” project had scaled up, it’s just as likely these Amazon tribes would be using that service to turn into porn-and-social-media addicts.

dylanmorgan ,

Or, you know, a school. You know, where there are children? Maybe children who have physical limitations who have been called gimps?

Oh well, who cares about the educational environment and getting kids exposed to FOSS options instead of commercial software?

dylanmorgan ,

Pretty much everyone who’s discussed it agrees The Godfather (film) blows the Puzo novel it adapted away.

Runner up is Adaptation, an adaptation of the novel The Orchid Thief that expands its scope significantly.

dylanmorgan ,

I think the only reason that some people say they like it is because of the association with, you know, a new car.

dylanmorgan ,

Agree on compost. When they mulch the landscaping around my office, it’s oddly pleasant.

dylanmorgan ,

Overall I agree but I’ve been much too close to some people who haven’t bathed in a while and that is an unpleasant smell.

dylanmorgan ,

Oh jeez, next we’re going to hear about how underrated Huey Lewis is.

Just axe murder me and get it over with.

Private Equity–Backed Firm Bowlero Is Ruining Bowling ( jacobin.com )

For the most part, Bowlero doesn’t build its own centers. Instead, it purchases existing ones and makes them over in the Bowlero style: dim lights, loud music, expensive cocktails. At Bowleros, bowling isn’t bowling. It’s “upscale entertainment.”...

dylanmorgan ,

“Private Equity Firm [NAME] is Ruining [INDUSTRY]” is going to be an accurate headline every time we see it.

dylanmorgan ,

It was always private equity. It’s amazing how effective owning the press is when you want to blame something nebulous like a generation of people rather than admitting to just squeezing every drop of money out of companies you took over.

dylanmorgan ,

I think there are different valid perspectives on what the terms mean, and the server side vs AJAX split pretty tightly correlates to the rise of social media as we currently understand it because the technology enables that use of the internet.

dylanmorgan ,

Boy it would be a tragedy if 30-50 feral hogs trampled Ken Paxton into a paste.

dylanmorgan ,

Woz might also be the only person who did not become a markedly worse person when he became a billionaire.

dylanmorgan ,

This agency that has zero foreign assets or any function beyond analyzing raw intelligence gathered by other agencies? They were going to fix an election?

Did you read the article? Ham-handedly manipulating foreign elections is clearly stated as within the jurisdiction of the CIA.

dylanmorgan ,

She said it in 2006, when she was a senator, not the Secretary of State. So I’d argue she absolutely did not mean “we” as “the state department.” She likely meant “we” as “the United States Government.” Either way, at the time she would not have been in a position to tell anyone to rig the election, being a democratic senator with a republican in the White House.

dylanmorgan ,

You stated that the INR would have rigged an election. That is just as false as saying the FBI rigged a foreign election, that’s not what those agencies do.

Does the US fuck with the domestic affairs of other nations? Of course. Does the INR play a role in that behavior? Sure. Does that role include rigging elections? Absolutely not. They might suggest it, but the CIA would most likely do the dirt, the same way the CIA may be involved with armed insurrectionists but it’s going to be spec ops operators doing the training.

dylanmorgan ,

Help someone who’s out of the loop: who the fuck is Scott Alexander?

dylanmorgan ,

Text for the noose knot is just a repeat of the overhand knot. No bowline or clove hitch also means this is of less use.

dylanmorgan ,

Played it on my Mac SE/30. Lots of fun even if I was pretty bad at it.

dylanmorgan ,

One issue with this analysis is that Apple TV+ is in a very different game than any other streamers. Apple gives you a year of ATV+ with any purchase of new hardware, and bundles it with the Apple One service that includes Apple Music and additional iCloud storage. I’d be willing to bet that (at least internally) Apple executives talk about ATV+ as a loss leader. They’d rather lose a billion dollars a year using the service to drive hardware sales than give up the service.

dylanmorgan ,

Isn’t there a journalism rule about not having a headline be a question with a yes or no answer? Seems like there should be.

dylanmorgan ,

Both major freezes in the last 5 years in Texas.

dylanmorgan ,

I’ve found Thai eggplant at 99 Ranch stores.

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