Mr. Green had to be escorted out of the room by security much like we would expect to be necessary with a spoiled brat teenager. No had to about it. It was a choice by Speaker Johnson. When MTG and Boebert

We maybe got 7 or 8 inches in the western burbs. Hard to tell with all the drifting we had. Probably a foot and a half on the hood of our car this morning, barely an inch on the back deck. We just moved

Thank you so much for all your help with our big move!

It’s a myth that it’s an ancient Chinese curse, but “May you live in interesting times” is hitting us with a vengeance.

I’m amazed at how many normies think the 2026 election might let Dems regain the House as a check on Trumpism. That’s waaaaaayyyyy too long to wait. Impeachment or the 25th Amendment need to be short-term

“Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually

While packing today in preparation for moving to a new house, I realized that I may never again in my life have to buy a pair of socks.

Demonstratable? I’ve seen a lot of bluster and assertions from Elon, but no actual evidence of audits having been done. Frankly letting Luigi have at the investors in the Fed is the righteous solution

Cutting taxes to the 1% is not high up on my list of priorities.

I suppose everybody has their price, but I’d need a bribe of a lot more than 5k to sell my soul to demons.

People love this shot from the movie Die Hard that show price of gas costing under 80 cents in 1988. I can’t remember the name of the episode but there’s a Twilight Zone where a guy tells the attendant

The affected proposal that I care most about is HBD stabilizer. Well, that and a few core developers like @howo

Downvoting is your prerogative.

Was it Abu Dhabi or the entire UAE doing the buying? The UAE is weird in that it’s made up of seven Emirates but only two of them (Abu Dhabi and Dubai) have significant hydrocarbon reserves. The other

“If they’d been thugs, he’d have known he was in for a kicking. But they were suits, which suggested a more vicious outcome.” — Mick Herron, Standing By The Wall, page 138.

I don’t mind doing laundry but if I ever become a gazillionaire I’m hiring someone to fold my fitted sheets.

I think I saw a different tweet. Pretty sure that in the one I saw, DeepSeek flat out refused. A lot of people seem to be asking it similar questions. Here’s one I ran across today:

Hive on uusi universaali kieli.

Somebody on Twitter posted a screenshot of Deepseek refusing to discuss Tiananmen Square. But if it really is open source, somebody’s bound to modify that part of its coding.

It helps that I’m doing a Damp January rather than a Dry one. 🍺