You’d probably have to lie between them instead of just looking at a photo, to assess if it’s still possible.

Clearly they were put there with the intention of making it difficult/uncomfortable to lie down on the subway vent. If they were installed incompetently that doesn’t make them unhostile though, it just makes them ineffective for their obviously intended purpose.

Also the future is bleak in the poly-crisis.

Luigi didn’t do it. The notebook is fake. The gun is planted. Luigi was hanging out with me between the hours of 6 and 10 AM on the day of the murder.

They have their facts. We have ours.

That cliff committed an act of terrorism.

When Canada sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us.

They care much more about a CEO getting capped than riots. Riots don’t affect them or even have the potential to theoretically affect them.

Boycotts and strikes can work, but they’d have to be much bigger than what’s happened so far.

TBH I think it was always clear that he was going to be at least somewhat right-coded given that he was so competent with firearms.

I personally don’t care what he thinks about pronouns or whatever, unlike Rittenhouse or that subway guy he actually went after one of America’s true villains. The right wing violence in this country finally found a legitimate target.

Biden takes his pardons very seriously. He would never pardon someone who stands accused of serious crimes.

/s

To the extent that he wasn’t a criminal it’s only because our government is too corrupt to make his actions illegal.

He wanted to kill King James. Regicide is always based.

Rich people get heath care without regard to the cost.

Rich people get police investigation without regard to the cost.

I hear Manhattan is nice this time of year.

I once knew—socially—a guy who served as a roaming CEO for a private equity firm. Basically they’d buy a company, and bring him in, and he’d fire a bunch of people. He was a hatchet man.

He was a really friendly guy, witty, caring, fun to hang out with. Once we got on the subject of the diffulcuties of management and he told this story of an executive that he was trying to mentor, but who didn’t make the cut and he had to fire them. He seemed genuinely sad that he couldn’t make it work.

The thing is, this is a guy responsible for firing thousands or tens of thousands of people in his career. His whole job is basically to fire people. But he only thinks and ruminates about the one executive. That one bothers him, the thousands don’t even really register to him.

These people fundamentally do not see people 2+ levels below them as human, fundamentally. And to the extent that, in the abstract, they understand that the plebs at the bottom are not different than the people they know and care about, there is a wall in their minds that prevent them from linking their own actions to the tragedies that befall their victims. They will tell themselves that they were actually victims of circumstance, that the market determined their fate, and that there was nothing that could be done. Or it was their own fault.

So when it finally breaks through and they see the hate in the public’s eyes as we point our fingers at them and say “you did this” they are genuinely baffled.

As long as the shooter is at-large I can dream that this guy is next.

I dropped it here but didn’t get any traction, maybe because I didn’t describe it well enough:

https://midwest.social/post/20162538

The “all in” podcast is hosted by four goulish Silicon Valley VC assholes. The audience is mostly simps but it’s an entertaining listen just to see how out-of-touch and self-absorbed they are.

Healthcare CEO be like.

It was fun watching the “All In” podcast about this. Half of the regulars didn’t even show up so they had to get seat warmers. And then they dropped the most hilarious out-of-touch takes of course, and also demonstrated their inability to sympathize with anyone who’s been a victim of the death machine while sympathizing with the CEO “he had two kids” but you could also tell how visibly uncomfortable they were even talking about it. One guy even winched at one point. It was glorious.

Wow are Germans just learning about the killdozer? You guys are in for a treat.

PS: He made the thing too over-engineered and his rampage ended when it overheated. Relatable?

I hate TikTok but I hate even more that the ban seems to have been successful this time because of Israel. Lots of people (Romney, etc) have said that TikTok must be banned because it’s the reason why young people don’t support Israel’s genocide.

I don’t like CCP propaganda being fed to Americans, but let’s be real, CCP propaganda about Israel is way more honest than domestic American propaganda.

While I’m on the subject, Facebook, Google, etc, are pretty near equally as evil.

Stitches denied because snitching didn’t have pre-approval.