it’s weak propaganda

Chip Roy is running for AG in Texas. It’s less “weak propaganda” and more “a policy he would like to implement if elected to statewide office.” If I was a Muslim in Texas, I’d be keenly aware of what he was proposing.

I mean, you joke, but I’ve seen plenty of people say this with sincerity.

I advocate non-partisan politics.

Okay, but what if I’ve got a group of friends, we all agree on a course of action, and we plan to pursue our political interest collectively as a party? Should we just… not?

But in general conversation, I’m gonna heavily condemn the right, because cmon, gestures vaguely at everything.

I think the modern Republican Party has openly embraced fascist rhetoric in a country where liberals and conservatives alike have become all too accepting of fascist policy. The end result has been anti-fascists initially piling into liberal partisan organizations (particularly under Obama) only to discover them totally unresponsive to public pressure unless the person making demands was a mega-donor or corporate chief.

When you look at governors like Gavin Newsom openly flirting with Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon, while senators like Chuck Schumer continue to defend and even outright endorse genocide of colored populations from Algeria to The Philippines, its very hard to see where “the right” in this country ends and “real liberalism” begins.

Ah, I thought he meant the shooter was left-leaning.

I’m not gonna do the whole “both sides” shit when the world looks like this.

I think there is a real and genuinely positive inclination among people to look at the state of the world in horror and say “We have to all band together to do something about it”. But I also can’t help notice that some of the people in the room claiming “We’re here to help” are wearing Raytheon lanyards and Palantir branded backpacks and Crypto sweater vests and Israeli flag lapel pins.

Article suggests he spent a lot more time than that

One part practice, one part luck. Kirk was seated stock still had his attention fixed on his debate opponent, so this was probably an easier shot than the one that domed JFK, coming around a slow curve at Dealy Plaza.

It’s a really crazy relationship between Korean Evangelicals and Japanese Zaibatsu that produced the Abe (and now Takaichi) governments. Lots of money changing hands, lots of people being ground up in toxic and abusive socio-economic relationships, lots of scams of every variety. And they all feed into the miserable work-life balance that produces historically low rates of families forming and children being born.

It would be like an ex-Scientology guy wacking Tom Cruise or John Travolta.

Turned out to be left-leaning, ultimately.

Gun nut with a trans-baddie gf who decided to shoot up a school event out of a toxically masculine sense of righteous pride? How is that left-leaning?

Sometimes I think people work really hard to put this or that fringe figure somewhere on the Left/Right divide, when this guy was just armed, online, and easily ahem triggered. You could say the same thing about Luigi Mangione or Thomas Matthew Crooks. None of them fit neatly into a partisan bucket. The plurality of Americans don’t fit neatly.

Unlike with Charlie, this shot went over my head.

probably not the user using copilot to sum numbers

It’s a meme that hinges on the viewer not knowing Excel, not an actual user error in a business environment.

You’ve fallen for the myth of corporate efficiency.

he’s made thousands of dollars

Thousands, you say? Curious to know how much that comes out to at $/hr of effort, minus the costs of licensing and marketing.

Why not make an AI-generated girl using Google Gemini’s Nano Banana Pro

he was dismayed to find that none of the content was hitting. He turned to Gemini for advice.

Sam says he presented Gemini with a few possible options to help his model stand out, and the chatbot selected one in particular

This reads more like bait for wanna be scammers than a scam on its face. Just an ad for Gemini.

Cheap as fuck to buy one-off. Expensive as fuck to fully saturate the market.

My handful of run-ins with online advertising have only sold me more and more on Dead Internet Theory. You really need to unload your wallet if you want a meaningful online presence. Otherwise, you’re just pissing down the sewer.

Solar farms in desert areas contribute to China’s renewable energy capacity while also helping to stabilize the landscape. The shade provided by the solar panels reduces the harsh impact of the sun on the soil, creating more favorable conditions for vegetation to grow. In some instances, grass has started to grow beneath the panels, which aids in reducing soil erosion and supporting the local ecosystem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Green_Wall_(China)

He’s going to get nominated in a slim majority with John Fetterman’s endorsement.

A system’s purpose is what it does.

This system appears to be functioning exactly as intended.

Finally found a system that actually works as designed, ironically enough by not working as we all believed it did.

No raindrop is. The flood is a consequence of the land’s ability to drain water relative to the size of the deluge. Blaming individual raindrops is foolish.

DC is bumper-to-bumper guys heading to think tank jobs to lobby the defunding of health and education programs. We’ve been doing this Murray Rothbard’s heyday. It’s one of the various “third-rail” issues of politics that politicians keep getting bribed into grabbing.

Famously, folks who stockpile guns in their basement are the dominant political force in our society.

That’s why the Northern Colorado secessionist movement was such a success story.