Yuck. That woman is super creepy, and from your description it sounds like she’s trying to groom and exploit you.

You did nothing wrong, she did. She’s exhibiting pretty classic manipulative behavior, and you were 100% right to block her.

No need to feel guilty, but the fact that you do just shows that you’re more human than that creepster.

Heh logs.

You fixed my crappy morning, much appreciated.

Yeah, for real. Let’s hope the Majestic Imperious High Court deigns to grace us with any explanation. They love their emergency docket…

Good on her for standing her ground. I’m a huge fan of her work and loved seeing her in Star Wars, but nobody should work for less than their worth. She’s not an A-list star, and actors like her may have a huge following, but that doesn’t mean they’re necessarily rich beyond measure. This actually exposes a pretty serious problem in entertainment. People have families and bills, and even being a famous actor doesn’t mean you’re dripping in diamonds—despite most of the general public assuming that’s the case.

Fuck off, war criminal.

He has spent decades deliberately undermining—through murder, rape, and starvation—the possibility of a Palestinian state, and says there can’t be a Palestinian state. Sure, makes sense.

He has also spent decades propping up Hamas so he has a hateable enemy to fight, and says his one goal of this genocide is to eliminate Hamas. Sure, makes sense.

Yeah she’s my favorite, I love her comedy style. But in general, Roy, Amber, and Michael have excellent chemistry. Highly recommend people check it out if they haven’t seen it.

It’s not a news show, it’s a comedy show on a news network, so this impartiality discussion is just silly.

Notably, there is no guarantee that the Obamacare subsidies will be extended — and no commitment from Republican House leaders to even hold a vote at all on the subsidies.

Then what the fuck was the point? That was Democrats one demand. Either finish what you start or don’t start at all, you cowards.

That’s not how slurs work. That word is a slur, even if your intention isn’t explicitly bigoted. But in the content of your comment, you’re still using it exactly the way a bigot would use it as a slur.

That’s a wild take.

I think you have it the wrong way around: the movies are for everyone, the comics are for the super fans. Not much more to it than that, but getting this worked up about a fictional universe is not healthy.

Also, watch your slurs, most people don’t like ableism around these parts.

I really appreciate it when colleagues check in right before a meeting via chat just to make sure at least one person has something they actually need to talk about. If not, we skip it and go back to our work. Some teams do this as a habit, others meet anyway just to shoot the shit if there’s nothing work-related to discuss. My team is the former, thankfully.

Bringing AI into redistricting would be a nightmare. AI is not objective, it’s trained on biased datasets and that bias is reinforced by the bias of whomever created it or wants to shape it to their will.

We already know how to do nonpartisan redistricting, and many states (including CA) already have a nonpartisan committee in charge of it. But since elections are managed by state and local governments, and explicitly not the federal government, it would take something like a constitutional amendment to make it required nationwide. That’s also why states like CA will temporarily use different maps this cycle (if all goes well tomorrow), because CA being fair and TX cheating doesn’t help the nation as a whole reflect its actual population. Might as well force the fairness by cheating like them. It’s a shitty stopgap, but they’ve left us no choice.

I really wanted him to show up to add another absurdity to his legacy, but mostly to see how KBJ would write about the hilariously unsubtle intimidation tactic in her dissent.

Holy shit, that’s wild. And makes me feel a little better.

But TBH I’ve been having similar problems for years, though it’s noticeably worse right now for sure.

Oh geez this hits hard. Very few words on my iPhone show up exactly how I type them. Sometimes, out of frustration, I’ll type a word, see what incorrect letter it thinks I pressed, go back and deliberately type out the word one letter at a time, and it usually still picks the wrong letter or autocorrects to the wrong word. I swear the original iPhone keyboard was better in 2009 than my iPhone 16 Pro in 2025. I hate typing on my iPhone.

The words in the above paragraph that I had to manually edit or type more than once: show, frustration, incorrect, usually, swear, keyboard, in.

I’m a Jew, and I’ve been speaking out against the occupation and genocide in Palestine since the beginning, and for decades before this current war.

Your bigoted generalizations only expose your insecurities. If you really believe this, then you haven’t met very many people who aren’t exactly like you. Or you’re simply incapable of empathy. Either way, this bullshit isn’t helpful.

This describes my boomer parents with scary accuracy. So fucking true.

Yeah, the text of the proposition makes it explicitly temporary. Here’s the language on the ballot:

Requires temporary use of new congressional district maps through 2030. Directs independent Citizens Redistricting Commission to resume enacting congressional district maps in 2031. Establishes policy supporting nonpartisan redistricting commissions nationwide.

I sent in my ballot over the weekend. All my fellow Californians please vote, it takes 30 seconds and a quick walk to the nearest mailbox. And please vote Yes, most of the No campaign is disingenuous and based on misinformation.

Yes = temporarily switching to a map that favors Democrats, as a counterweight to Republicans already doing the same thing in other states. It’s temporary, the nonpartisan redistricting committee isn’t going anywhere.

No = closing your eyes, plugging your ears, and pretending like everything is normal and that we aren’t in an existential crisis.

That’s kind of how I feel about all the guest hosts, they’re awesome at the opening segments, but not great interviewers. Ronnie Chieng’s interviews need the most work and Jordan Klepper’s are pretty solid, but they all need improvement. Nobody comes close to Jon Stewart’s interview skills. In terms of raw natural talent, I’m super impressed by Josh Johnson. I think with some more practice he’d be perfect.

I really like the rotating hosts though, I think they should stick with that.

Of course we need mass protest, it’s critical for building solidarity and sending messages to those in currently power, but by itself it doesn’t solve the problems. Sites like the one mentioned in the article are kind of a bandaid, sure, but when real peoples’ lives are on the line, and a bandaid donated by the community could save their life, why would you dismiss it out of hand like that? Seems pretty crass to me. Bigger systemic solutions are way better, obviously, but when the current power structure is incapable of providing those solutions, local communities need to come up with their own.

An effective political movement needs protest to expose the problems and bring people on board, and then the movement needs to be get involved in local and national politics by running for office or working to elect people who share the values of those protesting, to convert that solidarity into political power. More than 7 million people turned out to protest last time. What, specifically, would be different about your full massive protest? How would you organize it differently to be more effective than the no kings protests? And would your new mass protest solve the practical problems the orgs in the article are working to solve on the ground right now?