You can win the presidency with as little as 22% of the popular vote. https://youtu.be/7wC42HgLA4k

I made these non binding, voluntary promises before AI 🥺

He still has more than Harris. I’m not thrilled about any of this, I just don’t see any sort of significance of being under 50% when we already don’t use the popular vote for anything meaningful. If it drops below Harris’s, then that’s worth talking about.

I’m not making any arguments, I’m pointing out that wrestling specifically was involved in the plot of Idiocracy.

In case people forgot, President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho was a porn superstar and, relevantly, five-time Ultimate Smackdown wrestling champion.

Fork me, baby 🫦

He still won the popular vote.

I remember a movie called Caffeine from when I was a kid and one of the characters had a nervous bladder. One of his friends kept telling him it might be prostate cancer (while he was trying to pee) and it only made him more frustrated and nervous.

Later in the movie, someone is being mean to him and he just snaps and lies saying, “You know what? I’ve got cancer! So back off!”

A ton of Mastodon instances don’t seem to allow NSFW content.

Twitter slams 60 minutes over factual statements!

That’s fair, I was just making sure I read you right. 💜

Yep. Tariff will make prices high for things we don’t even currently manufacture. If we do see anything getting manufactured in 4 years time and prices go down he’ll say he did it.

Well, you usually had to pay extra back then!

I was asking because the usual stereotype is than many younger programmers are transfemme.

This comment made my eyes roll out of my head.

There are probably more AFAB coders at my work than those who identify as female.

Did you get this backwards?

I think the times we befriend loners and it’s goes positively are easier to forget than the times we go out of our way to try to include someone only to find out that they’re toxic to be around.

Damn, wish the racists at my high school had no friends.

I’m copying this from a comment I made on a thread about ghosting people.

I ghosted someone I knew on Discord. They were exceptionally clingy. Like message me four times a day, every day, without me messaging in between. Message me the second I get online. It was so annoying. Constantly asking me if I was mad at them after I didn’t answer them immediately. Even after I told them I wasn’t mad and not to think I am if I don’t answer. I told them so many times that the only thing that was annoying me was them thinking I was annoyed when I don’t answer immediately. Just so so pouty all the time. I couldn’t handle it.

I took a break from Discord for other reasons and when I came back I just ignored them. I couldn’t handle it anymore.

From the way other people talked to them on servers and things they said, I get the feeling this is a common pattern with them. They start to make some friends, then get super clingy and sobby if you don’t answer them right away and people get frustrated and stop talking to them. Which sucks, but, I’d told them so so so many times exactly what they were doing that was annoying me and they never stopped. It’s so infuriating for someone to just be so sad about something and for you to try and tell them in no uncertain terms “I’m not mad at you, but when you think I am mad because I don’t answer right away it makes me annoyed. Just stop that. That’s all I’m upset about.”

Maybe they’ll drop the fake requirements from 11 so people can actually upgrade to 11 from 10.