CIRCLE WITH A DOT

Up until this Iran adventure, trump has been provoking, attacking, threatening, and insulting our allies and weaklings: NATO, EU, Canada, Denmark, Congress, SCOTUS, Cuba, Venezuela, and guys like Marco Rubio.

But now, for the first time, trump has attacked a real enemy, Iran. A country that hates the USA, has no fucks left to give, is backed by others, and has a plurality of citizens willing to die in the fight against American tyranny.

trump is stumped. Iran can't be bullied like Rubio, won't play nice like Venezuela, and can't be intimidated like Congress.

The only question is how much money, how many lives, and how much good will will trump squander before he cuts and runs? That, and whether he will use nukes first.

Have a nice day.

It fuckin breaks my heart to see this. We got our hands on the URL "cooper.com" about a million years ago. I was so proud. My email address was alan@cooper.com. How cool is that?

Then we sold our little consulting company to a big organization. We just escaped with our skin.

Within 4 years not a trace was left of Cooper, a company we put 26 years into. Even the url was abandoned. ABANDONED! They didn't offer it back to me. They didn't even just squat on it to prevent others from taking it. Now it's yours for the low, low price of $1,500,000!

@Netraven "Notorious" is a degenerate form of "popular."

@Netraven I doubt it. letting someone have a few billion dollars is like drowning them in whipped cream: They become detached from reality and lose sight of everything. And thank you for inspiring my "Epstein Class" hot take.

"The practical consequences of an unexamined inner life at scale are not theoretical. The social media platforms built by people who believed behavioral data was a reliable substitute for understanding human psychology produced a decade of engagement metrics while user wellbeing declined and our entire social order decayed. The engineers who built these systems weren't malicious; they were optimizing for things they could measure, because they'd implicitly accepted the view that measurable outputs were a sufficient model of human flourishing. Goodhart's Law exacted its toll: the measure became the target, and the target was not what anyone would have chosen if they'd been forced to actually specify what they were aiming for."--JA Westenberg https://www.joanwestenberg.com/marc-andreessen-is-wrong-about-introspection/

If cars ruin everything and AI ruins everything maybe we SHOULD put AI in cars and they can ruin each other! It could happen...

Hey! Democratic Candidates! You keep sending me fundraising texts and I keep STOPing them. Here's why:

Of course you are not trump. I can assume that. It's nice that you are former whatever. It's not important. Yes, you are in a tight race. We all are.

What I want to hear from you is what you believe in. Are you committed to universal free healthcare? Ditto child, maternity, and elder care? Will you reform our government: abolish Electoral College; end filibuster; expand Supreme Court; Impeach/prosecute corrupt politicians; Rein in overreaching executives; Raise minimum wage; Support free public education at all levels; Fight the green fight? etc etc

Tell me what you believe, what you will fight for. Otherwise. Just. Stop.

IE: AOC, Sanders, Abugazaleh, and Mamdani.

@msbellows LOL

@msbellows I kinda imagine that Robert's fave concert tee would be for a white christian gospel boy group whose every song has anodyne lyrics praising tradwives and false piety. I just can't see him as a Zep fan. (although I like the "face Plant" play)