I think gaslighting Gilligan is what the Skipper did in that one episode of the TV show.

Brazil has far more in common with The Trial than it does with either of those two movies.

If your evangelical mother views Catholics as “real” Christians that would be the real wild bit.

It’s only genocide if it comes from the genocide region of Palestine. Otherwise it’s just sparkling ethnic cleansing.

I work under a system of global exploitation every day. It’s just a difference of degrees how bad one job is vs another.

The Jungle

Very cool.

Progressive is generous.

Isn’t person-to-person transmission incredibly rare? The R value is significantly below 1 for humans. Lots of factory farms will probably have issues, but other countries have had similar outbreaks of H5N1 among livestock and have always had limited human cases.

God I wish I could be a political op-ed writer or consultant or something.

The easiest fucking job in the world.

Portland, OR has RCV for city positions and there was a lot of hand-wringing about how a significant portion of the electorate didn’t fill out the ranked choice part of the ballot because they found it too confusing.

My response was that if people are going to self-select as too stupid to handle the simple task of ranked choice voting, then I do not have a problem with them not voting.

I’m a bit of a flag nerd and I had someone ask me what my favorite flag is recently.

They were delighted when I first described and then showed them a picture of the flag of Zheleznogorsk.

very very funny

Possibly? I’ve never had much success. Even finding them in print is tough.

There’s a really good French/Belgian comic series for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Cités_obscures

The most credulous rubes.

Can’t wait for butt rock to be back at the top of the charts.

SKILLET IS BACK, BAYBEEE

I don’t know a ton about it, but it seems like Obama put some mechanism in place that basically offsets the rising cost of insuring buildings that flood repeatedly onto everyone else in the program, so premiums seem to have very little connection with the actual number of times your house has flooded.

Dems are definitely gonna run the most Washington insider political animal they can in 2028.

I’m thinking Gruesome Gavin.