I’m listening to Pole Position a racing romance by Rebecca Carrey. It’s fine, I don’t know if it’s because I’m listening instead of reading it, but it’s dragging.

After this is done, I’ll probably listen to Ready Player One.

Honestly, that’s anodyne compared to things he said before his first election, after his first election, after losing his second election, before winning a second term, and after winning his second term. And yet…

You can go into the settings and manually disable (nearly?) all the features that are removed in the paid version without paying anything. That’s what I did. They aren’t paywalling the ability disable the features.

It doesn’t matter to me whether someone uses Brave or not, but the headline is misleading, though pedantically accurate.

At least the ones who had a chance of making it through the primary.

Not ownership of WoW, but all the US programs and maybe UK/Canada are exclusive to Paramount+ at least as a first run, barring any recent changes I don’t know about.

I’ve been a Drag Race fan from the beginning, but I stopped watching any of the programming since the Paramount/Skydance merger. With the next merger I’m going to have to VPN into Canada or 🏴‍☠️ the next season of Heated Rivalry.

Definitely. I find I’m on Reddit more often since I started using PieFed. It’s not just the additional amount of engagement, but I’m using hyper-local and the more specialized book based reddits that don’t seem to exist on the Fediverse. I don’t have the bandwidth to create and promote communities I find missing.

So tempted to dump my index funds for the short term, but that’s just me throwing a dart against a wall.

Something something better for the economy something something bring down our debt something something prosperity something something taxes have never been this high. In other words them inhaling the fumes of short memory and tall tales.

And nearly a million have died from the gutting of USAID and additional domestically after cuts to food and medical assistance…and the stupidity at HHS.

Something something DEI something something.

I mean he literally whipped it out in front of journalists and diplomats as a ritualistic display. Let’s not gloss over the shitty aspects of former presidents just to compare them to this president full of shitty aspects.

https://people.com/lyndon-b-johnson-nsfw-president-11830816

Things I learned from Red White and Royal Blue.

I started One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston and I think I’m going to take it slowly. I’ll probably start It Rhymes With Takei by George Takei for my book club this week.

I’m listening to Andrew Sean Greer’s Less as a reread. I finished rereading Red White & Royal Blue to rebuild my heart after tearfully devouring TJ Klune’s apocalypse road trip short novel, We Burned So Bright.

I don’t understand why they’re saying the government will provide a high Universal Basic Income when they refuse to pay a fair share of taxes from their wealth or businesses and the the party of fiscal responsibility (/s) is exploding the debt as they do every time they’re in power. Are they thinking a UBI and a Value Added Tax? The numbers will not add up.

I was hoping to find out that he was 8 inches tall and I was disappointed. /hj

Not quite an LLM, but I asked Siri the answer to 24*6, without thinking. When I saw the answer I realized if I actually took a moment using some critical thinking I would have easily gotten it. In short, I believe it.

White moderates and centrists believed the myth. A lot of the same ones who thought that abortions after n weeks should be illegal. A much larger portion of the electorate were truly swing voters back then and would be willing to split their ticket. While talk radio brainwashing was underway, it hadn’t reach cable news until 96. It’s why California elected republicans Pete Wilson. Politics have really changed in the past 30 to 40 years.

Outside of specific shitty Bill Clinton reasons, the problem is enough of the electorate bought into the lazy welfare queen myth and the Democrats got the presidency because they were third-waying it (and Perot and Gulf War I). Bootstrap fever was high in the nineties.

Cocoanuts by the Marx Bros.

I watch The Thin Man every couple of years.