I had to go find that onion post. Most of it is funny stuff about wanting prices to be higher for no particular reason, but this got me at the end:

"I figure anyone who sells oil knows better than I do what to do with my money. As my grandmother used to say, the higher the gas price, the closer to God.”

The absurdity is still there, yeah, but it's just too close to reality. I'm an old white guy born in the Trumpian Farmlands of Pennsyltucky, and it shook me a bit. That first line especially... They wouldn't say it out loud because they have to maintain the iamverybadass facade, but they live to be a cog in the machine, to serve the higher life form that will be their salvation. It's almost like their god, their cult leader, and their president can be the same person. And that's before we address the part where they chose one of the worst humans possible.

Unfortunately if there is any difference between these two takes it's that the real-life person says the quiet part out loud.

It's really great to see one of our politicians answer questions as if they were actually a public servant concerned with the good of the country. I mean, obviously.

But it's equally tragic how unique it is for a politician to answer like that, and how many people in her own party (in addition to 99% of Republicans) will assume it is BS political talking points to suggest that somebody is serving a high profile political position for any reason other than blind personal ambition.

I have a simple 5-step plan I've used to do this.

1. Get old and have a family that always has needs
2. Get a shitton of pets too that always have needs
3. Go look at the shower plumbing I need to fix
4. Go look at my car hovering on jack stands as I wait for parts to come in for the brakes
5. I think there's an old overdue bill sitting somewhere too--

Heyyy today seems like the perfect time to go do that yard work that it's been too cold for!

"Huge rich company responsible for hosting like half of the fucking internet spent the last year pushing code to global-scale production without so much as a review by a senior engineer."

That's how I read that headline.

about a meter

Speaking metric already? This one has promising submissve qualities for you euro tops.

He is such a ridiculous asswipe that it seems like he’s doing it on purpose to help distract from other billionaires falling in line or random horrible shit the administration is doing.

I doubt it’s an act, and I suspect he’s really just that much of an asswipe, but damn.

¿Por Qué No Los Dos?

When it was the day of the general election and we were guaranteed to either get mainstream Democrat or Trump 2.0: The Revenge Tour, I could not morally justify any vote that didn’t minimize the chances of Trump winning.

But in the present day, and in the time leading up to the election, god damn the Democrats feel so worthless. Their party probably needs to be completely rebuilt even before the much much worse Republican party. You can’t have the Nice Conservative Party vs the Mean Conservative Party when the latter has gone off the deep end.

But also in the present day, it may already be too late. So keep on writing stern letters, insider trading, and raking in the fundraising while your desperate constituents still have some money and willingness to do something!

It’s a beautiful image, but it is still undercut by being unrealistic.

There’s no way Trump’s arms could physically hold him up like that.

Using Linux in America be like

Here in the land of the free and the home of the brave, we don’t have time to worry about the fall of democracy when the fall of ratings is on the line!

Did I have bad policies?

No. It is the Swifties who are wrong!

For somebody who has loved taking government money, he sure is a bit “fuck you, got mine” about others getting government money.