They skipped the phase where all the doctors were replaced by NPs and PAs.

What we need to do is start a campaign talking about how he’s not smart enough or brave enough to try and revoke her citizenship.

Dude is easily manipulated.

If art is good, I’ll appreciate it even when the people funding it aren’t doing it for the love of art.

I mean… the movie kinda points that out, too. The exec straight-up changes his tune on the idea of a realistic Barbie when he’s told it will sell.

It does a pretty good job of pointing out all aspects of Barbie, good and bad. From female empowerment to consumerism to the objectification of women and the issues surrounding body shaming.

It even calls out the film itself for casting an unrealistically beautiful, successful woman to play Barbie.

They literally changed the rules on email storage while she was the Secretary of State, then crucified her for not migrating quickly enough.

In 20 years they still haven’t managed to get a fucking star on everyone’s driver’s licenses so they can ride in an airplane, but she didn’t migrate tech systems fast enough and she should be in prison I guess?

No, she’s against intentional, purposeful alteration of weather and climate.

Things like geo-engineering or regulation designed to reduce the impact of climate change fall under that category, while pollution for profit is just unintentional collateral damage that wouldn’t be impacted by her legislation.

This is a bill to arrest people trying to prevent climate change.

I can’t speak for the modeling regarding the amount of rain, but I’m was published in college for watershed analysis and now work in municipal development and review drainage plans.

When use LIDAR to update watershed maps and can estimate the amount of water rise that will occur at a specific location with a specific amount of rainfall. One thing that makes predictions in central Texas is the heavy development and vast difference in development standards.

Some municipalities are very strict, and only allow 15%-25% impervious cover, while others don’t care. And with tree coverage it’s hard to tell from serials if the ground is sod, mud, gravel, or concrete.

More importantly, many local jurisdictions don’t require rainwater detention, and counties typically don’t have the resources to inspect stuff installed without their knowledge outdlside of cities, so as development increases runoff into the watershed increases, as there’s less pervious cover and what cover remains is more quickly saturated. Also, the grading of land and removal of vegetation leads to less friction, speeding up runoff. If upstream water is flowing faster, then the water rises higher and faster.

They massively missed the amount of rainfall. They expected a fairly typical flood event, not 20 feet of water in an hour.

Believe it or not, we’re not living in the 1850s. There is no path to victory for a third party in our system. Not in 2026, and not in 10478. We live in a 2-party system.

New York just nominated a true progressive that pissed off the corporate Dems. If they can do it, so can the rest of us. We should be riding that momentum instead of working hard to get Republicans re-elected by telling people not to vote Democrat.

Trump’s first impeachment was about withholding military aid from Ukraine. Nothing came of that, and nothing will come of this. Republicans don’t care about the law.

Same thing happened to me recently. Super fun loop.

1. Have panic attack
2. Symptoms mimic heart attack
3. Panic more
4. Mimics heart attack harder
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until EKG, X-ray, and blood test come back clear, and doc gives benzos.

At least now I know it’s a panic attack so it doesn’t feed itself as aggressively.

The primary voters in New York City just selected a leftist. The establishment is passed, but he’s their nominee.

You know why Bernie didn’t get nominated? Because he lost the primaries. It wasn’t swung by superdelegates. They didn’t fix the vote. Yeah, they clearly preferred the corporate dems, but all the “interefering” they did was getting the party establishment (that had been selected through primaries) to push for their preferred candidate.

Trump wasn’t an establishment Republican until he won the primaries, and then the establishment who opposed him was primaried. He transformed the party in just a few years by getting his base to show up and vote in primaries.

The left needs to learn from that.

You change the party in the primaries. You choose which party wins in the general.

When your choice is between a shit sandwich and fascism, you eat the fucking sandwich.

When your main issue isn’t on the ballot, it doesn’t matter in the election.

The big deductions that hurt was removing deductions for items people bought for work. The idea is that the employer should be providing that stuff, but that’s not always realistic.

Without a doctor’s note, lots of businesses aren’t going to buy an employee an ergonomic chair because it costs 10 times as much as the Amazon special. They also aren’t going to buy you a wardrobe of business suits that you’ll only use for meetings. Being able to write that stuff off was huge for some of us.

I had to convince my side gig (teaching scuba and underwater photography) to change me from employee to contractor because I suddenly couldn’t write off my gear.

When the major party candidates include a literal fascist building concentration camps and sending people to torture prisons without due process and a wildly imperfect opposition party candidate, you for against the literal fascist.

People who chose not to vote for Harris because they weren’t “excited” to vote for her chose not to stand in the way of Trump, and they are responsible for him winning the election.

If you didn’t vote for Harris, you have blood on your hands and should be losing sleep over it.

You voted for Trump, and you have blood on your hands.

They took a “Death by a thousand cuts” approach to fascism, and we’re about 1200 cuts in.

In the general election, that’s what you should do. If establishment Dems don’t back their nominee, it doesn’t change how you should vote.

People who didn’t vote blue in 2024 actively chose a fascist regime. Anyone who doesn’t vote blue in all the upcoming elections (with a Fetterman exception, but he should be primaried) is endorsing the MAGA movement.