Preaching to the choir here, but the US has never led on this. Paris was a joke before the ink on the signatures even dried. The bedrock of our economy is fossil fuels and unless someone’s willing to do some percussive maintenance on our ruli- I mean, our economy, we’re stuck.

It kinda amazes me how thoroughly the dems were able to get away with selling the IRA as a climate investment, and, now that Bad Cop is back in charge, they get to pin the failures of the US to genuinely decarbonize on him.

Biden leaving the Oval Office for the last time to Hurt by Johnny Cash.

Guess we doin scorched earth now

Damn Americans really are #1 at “here’s the dark side of that thing you thought was a good idea”

Yeah, I guess I’m just struggling with the hypocrisy of a society that respects the sanctity of our choices when asking us how we want to dispose of our remains but makes broad exceptions for that sanctity when it comes to the other or the marginalized and to see broad social support for those exceptions in things like the indifference to Palestinian suffering and the defeat of the initiative to outlaw prison slavery in California. Being encouraged to remember the goal of doing the most good with what we have and that we can’t make the changes we need on a foundation of misanthropy has helped.

A great reminder. Thank you.

To condense my thoughts on the matter, I’m wondering about what it means to be an organ donor in a society that seems radically (and perhaps increasingly) out of step with your personal values. Is it enough to know we’re providing a benefit to a few individuals or should we consider what it means to have your tissues continuing on in the world after your death?

I’ve been having a great time with it. All the little animated cut scenes are hilarious.

Sometimes the soup that pilots your corporeal form sloshes around in a weird way and the “fight or flight” switch gets bumped on by accident. Only there’s nothing to fight and nothing to run away from so the switch just gets stuck. Hope it gets unstuck soon!

I’m playing Dave the Diver and commenting on here as a way of procrastinating on cleaning the bathroom and going for a run.

He moves on to explaining how the West is assuming that China = Japan 30 years ago, with inaccurate similarities drawn between their economic situations

Hilariously, @plinky just posted a Paul Krugman piece with this exact take.

During his first term, Trump eventually stopped raising tariffs after signing what he called a “historic trade deal” in which China agreed to buy $200 billion in American goods. How much of that total did China actually buy? None.

Apparently they posted on Twitter advertising unpaid positions at DOGE and said they’d only review the “top 1%” of applicants.

Department of Education - 0%

Aaaaand that’s how we got here

It’s a reference to a genre of tweet that was floating around back when the blockade started. After the US announced that it was deploying a carrier group to the area, some very confident idiots posted “[Ansarallah] is about to find out why Americans don’t have free healthcare.” And they sure did, but probably not in the manner the posters intended.

At this point it’s more like making sure he uses his accrued vacation time

Maybe tomorrow, Cornpop!

“It’s called a patina”

We just had to pool our psychic energy to get Kamala over the finish line and then the ceasefire would get accomplished! Our bad vibes ruined everything, everything!

Yeah, it’s literally the smallest possible bone and it was still completely blown off. I wonder if the decision to release it now is part of whatever internecine conflict is currently brewing in the wake of the election.

Ghousical chairs