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Really? I wasn't even aware such things existed. What have they launched so far?

How'd that work out, by the way? I got some old mini-desktops a while back with the thought that at least one of them could become a makeshift DVR, but I haven't looked into how to actually set one up nowadays. Now that Windows Media Center Edition is no longer a thing and all.

Ah yes. Nothing improves PR like taking the things people like and holding them hostage.

Yeah, if politicians had to avoid ever being seen with other politicians who any of their constituents or fellow party members had issues with, no two politicians would ever be in a room together.

Also, the cap on the number of representatives might have been motivated by the concern that they were going to run out of room in the House chamber. If they're planning to add over a hundred more all at once, they'd better be prepared to start offering a remote-work option.

Honestly, given that the House was meant to represent the people at large, ideally we should do away with Congressional districts entirely and have all of its members be elected by all voters. But there's not really any good way to do that. You can't expect every single voter to pick a couple...

There have been a number of freak chemical incidents just this past week. The latest one to hit the news is in Florida (because of course it is):

Honestly I'm starting to think that destroying the internet wouldn't be the worst thing we could do, at this point.

Oh, OK, the article was being kind of ambiguous about that. It called it "a phrase widely acknowledged for its antisemitic connotation", which made it sound like it's a phrase only an antisemite would say, not something they'd be accused of doing. This is why passive voice sucks.

I sure wish we could send her back in time to when a comment like that would get her super-canceled by her party. Hell, most of 'em probably wouldn't survive long at this point.

That's... not irony. That is, in fact, the exact opposite of irony.

I don't think that's the official explanation in the Disney version, though, since at the end he's seen returning from a time-travel trip to the 20th century. I think they just want us to assume, probably even before that point, that he's done that from time to time.

"Inadvertently." Sure. Wouldn't have been the first time someone there torched as much as they could on the way out.

I mean, I can think of some people who would benefit both themselves and their followers by only being allowed to tweet a few times a day... (and that's not counting the even larger number of people who would do themselves and the world an even bigger favor by reducing that number to zero)

"flanked by huge boxes of gas stoves" certainly had my mind going in a different direction at first.

It's not there for me either; must be an admin-only feature.

I have some tragic news, which is already several days old. Two of the three people behind the channel Schaffrillas Productions (which I'm now kind of ashamed to admit I didn't even realize was more than one person in the first place) died in a car crash last week, and the third was also in the...

It'll never happen. The system cannot tolerate more than two active parties. What'll probably happen is that we'll see a handful (probably the same ones who kept voting against McCarthy) break off and try to run independently, lose, and become a quickly-forgotten footnote in history. Everyone...

Is there a way to do this other than editing the first post, thus flagging it with a "This post was edited on [date]" message? And if not, can there be?

Just got word that the Biden administration announced it's ending their state of emergency in May, meaning no more free vaccines or testing kits, among other things. Despite, you know, everyone still needing annual boosters for the rest of their lives. But enough about this shithole country...