American Spectator, so probably H.L. Mencken wrote that.

He also wrote this: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”

Thanks, and continue being awesome. And superb!

What the hell did I just waste 30 seconds of my life on?

It’s a great big universe
And we’re all really puny
We’re just tiny little specks
About the size of Mickey Rooney
It’s big and black and inky
And we are small and dinky
It’s a big universe, and we’re not!

What hysterical was that I was listening to the BBC World Service hourly cast (5 minute summary) and they mentioned everything BUT the colonialism aspect.

On my phone. If you hit reader mode while the page is loading, usually you can read it. And if not, shortcut to archive.is

Congrats to them!

Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge is set to make history by becoming the first openly lesbian cabinet minister to take parental leave when her wife gives birth in the coming weeks

Freeman Dyson popularized and expanded the concept of the Dyson sphere. (Technically it was in a sci-fi story first)

Buckminster Fuller based a lot of building concepts around spheres.

And if you understand this joke, time to schedule your colonoscopy

“I love to be unhappy
I live to be a pain
When days are full of sunshine
I’m lookin’ for the rain” - Gilda Radner

“nearly identical on foreign policy”

Um, not even close. Unfortunately they range from “fine with it” to “actively support genocide” with Israel, but they’re not even in the same realm. See Ukraine and NATO for 2 counterexamples, and authoritarians have entered the chat.

And the entirety of Brute Force. “Engage Brute Force Attack”. Shellcode, userspace, deadlock… such a fantastic album.

J.D., is that you?

“I don’t think I’m going to do it”. Don Trump on wearing a mask. April 3, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000007070943/trump-mask-coronavirus.html

As a “casual”, what happened? Full price on top of pay-to-win? Something else?

Since I got downvoted on this - among other things, Patreon is removing the “per post” subscription model. One of the people I follow sent: “This is the second time in as many years that Patreon has screwed up my business”

It’s also PATREON fucking up. I’ve got a couple people i follow that are moving to Ghost as a hedge.

Posted. Thanks!

Oh! I’d missed that.

There’s also [email protected], but that one may be dead.