The most sociopathic thing about all these careerist sociopaths is that they’re doing time for Donald fucking Trump. I’d be willing to do a little time for Civil Rights, labor unions, protesting war(s), etc. But I’ll be damned if I go to jail for a corrupt politician. And I’ll especially be damned if I get locked up for Donald Trump, the famous racist sex pervert who is allowed to do crimes for some reason.

My favorite drink is usually a crisp white wine like Pinot Grigio but I’ll order a Sazerac or Old Fashioned (or a specialty cocktail) at nice places. At a dive bar or music venue or whatever, I typically stick to gin and tonic or vodka soda, the main reasons being just that they’re simple for a busy bartender to make and also don’t make me as miserable the next day.

In 2003, The Onion had an “article” with no text that was just the headline “Taste Acquired” and a picture of empty beer cans.

At least it didn’t break in the middle of fighting a Lynel.

The funniest thing they could do now is make a really shitty Wario game using only generative A.I.

How the fuck is it even possible to sell a vehicle that sucks more than US car companies already proudly advertise here? They’re already like, “This truck gets 4 miles to the gallon and has a grill specially designed to plow through a bus stop. Also, you can’t fit an adult bike in the back. MSRP is $75,000.”

The future of humanity rests on everyone, regardless of nationality, being able to ask Midjourney to generate an image of an Ewok with big naturals.

Molto bene.

Can his 78 year-old diapered ass even throw a football with a teenager? He’s basically as bad off as Biden in my expert* opinion.

• I’ve met over five old people.

print “Fine. Fuck y’all.”

Now people get to argue about which parts of Turkey and Russia are in Europe. Kaliningrad is Asia but “Europe” borders Iran.

Ironically, New Orleans might be OK because we have elaborate flood control systems and have always dealt with flooding. Vulnerable places like the Netherlands and New Orleans are what we all assume will end up flooded. (And we will.)

But we’re built for it. A river delta floods sometimes anyway. I’m honestly more worried about places where snowmelt creates small streams now but in the future, will just create terrible floods every Spring and then draught immediately after.

To me, the scary part isn’t having water in the streets. It’s climate change. We had an issue recently where there wasn’t enough fresh water draining into the Mississippi to push the salt water back. It ultimately never reached NOLA but it reached plenty of people downriver. And because of a drought in the Midwest.

There’s an awesome Afrobeat collection called Nigeria: The Definitive Story of 1970’s Funky Lagos. I don’t know if it’s streaming but it’s a good next step.

This is a way more chill recommendation but I love Mayra Andrade from Cape Verde for music to relax to.

Hurricane Betsy — the second storm of the year — hit New Orleans on September 9, 1965. Katrina — the 11th storm — hit New Orleans August 29th, 2005. And now we apparently have Category 5 storms forming in late June/early July.

Every hurricane season (and hurricane) is different, obviously, and that’s one city’s experience but it makes me wonder if there will even be a distinct “hurricane season” in a few decades.

It would have to be game changing! Get it?!? “Game” changing?!? Ah, whatever.

Awful puns aside, it really would have to be a major step up in hardware. The Steam Deck is a platform developers (plus accessory makers and open source devs for emulators and stuff) seem to care about. Even modern AAA game devs will often try to make their games playable on it even if they have to compromise. (It may not be technically possible or economically feasible but devs seem to all want to support the Deck even if their bosses have other plans.)

At some point, it’ll be impossible for the Deck’s hardware to handle recent games and then we’ll all upgrade to something that sets a new baseline and strikes a better balance — whether Steam Deck 2 or a competitor. But my guess is that it’s going to be more about hardware generations than something Microsoft does. (Proton might be nearly perfect by the time Microsoft makes a decent controller interface and they seem to be focused on shoehorning AI into Notepad and Paint instead of doing useful things.)

And the brain worm died. Imagine having a brain so toxic, not even brain worms can enjoy a few bites, as a treat.

He doesn’t even have to assassinate 1 or 2. Thomas committed tax fraud on his RV deal and Alito probably did on his bribes. Joe Biden apparently has dictatorial powers over the IRS and DOJ. Start arresting people and when Trump supporters act up, use emergency powers to drone strike Mar-a-Lago. Those are all official acts.

I got it when it came out and had fun with it. It’s kind of short, at least for an adult, but that makes it accessible for kids. And they added some (free) content later. Controls were pretty good. A little hard to get used to at first but I played it on Steam Deck while traveling — so with a controller on a small screen — and I imagine there’d be no learning curve with a mouse and monitor.

Anyway, at the price it is there, it’s well worth it. You solve puzzles by building stuff but there’s usually plenty of extra pieces so you can make something fun/creative within the parameters of solving the puzzle.

Centrists putting fascists in power and then selling out the left to (temporarily) save their own asses is a tradition as old as fascism.

I use &c. so people can read Latin, Medieval Romance languages, et cetera.