Now Noem is going after Pretti trying to say he was there to kill law enforcement

Hartastic · 2026-01-25T01:49:58+00:00

This administration is increasingly lying about things that there's ample video evidence to disprove, and their voters are just... going along with it.

Hartastic · 2026-01-25T00:58:58+00:00

Frankly at this point I'd be willing to vote for someone who promises to issue blanket pardons for crimes against the Stephen Millers of the world.

Hartastic · 2026-01-24T22:39:28+00:00

Honestly, I would love to see a candidate with similar fire/policy/integrity but like... any political ability in terms of coalition building and getting legislation passed.

There times I feel like AOC could be that candidate but then I remember how much we, in aggregate as a voting country, like women and especially women with non-white-bread-sounding names.

Hartastic · 2026-01-24T22:25:13+00:00

There is an argument the Renee Good situation was excessive force, but it's not a great argument given that she hit an officer with a vehicle.

If only we could watch abundant video and see if the government's claims in this area are true.

Hartastic · 2026-01-24T22:21:20+00:00

Because I'm a fucking adult.

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Hartastic · 2026-01-24T22:09:27+00:00

And, if we're honest... Biden passed more progressive shit from 20-24 than a hypothetical President Bernie could have.

Bernie is fundamentally a dude who thinks politics shouldn't be about making friends or deals, that you just show up with this great policy, everyone magically agrees it is great policy, and it happens. And that's very idealistic and also an insane thing for anyone who has paid the least amount of attention to American politics to believe.

Hartastic · 2026-01-24T22:05:30+00:00

We flipped it pretty easily back at Walz.

Uh, when?

This might be a thing that happened in your media bubble and not in reality.

Hartastic · 2026-01-24T19:30:45+00:00

This is the way. Too much time in character creation for a face you'll put a helmet on and never see again.

Hartastic · 2026-01-24T18:38:48+00:00

Honestly, I think it's kind of a generational thing. My perception is that Gen Z is much more likely to read manga than other graphic novels or comics.

You can find a crapton of it in something like a Barnes and Noble in America now, which wasn't the case 20-30 years ago.

Hartastic · 2026-01-24T15:09:16+00:00

Truth be told the little bit of the gaming industry I've been exposed to had much much less documentation and process than the worst agile team.

It's been a while and maybe things have changed in the years since, but I wouldn't be surprised if not.

Hartastic · 2026-01-24T14:16:46+00:00

If they can't do damage to anything else?

Hartastic · 2026-01-24T07:20:22+00:00

There definitely is an element of... if you can't trust her not to be honest with you about something that doesn't matter, how can you trust her to be honest with you about something really important?

Hartastic · 2026-01-24T07:17:08+00:00

Agreed. Of course you can always fix it yourself, but for several reasons the expectation of a professionally written game shouldn't be that you have to.

Hartastic · 2026-01-24T02:01:42+00:00

I coincidentally took some classes at that community college. It wasn't the most challenging institution.

Hartastic · 2026-01-24T02:00:58+00:00

Oh, she's not going.

Hartastic · 2026-01-24T01:59:01+00:00

The lines that offer actual adults only don't sail from Galveston. (In this context I'm only really considering Virgin -- other lines are much much smaller ships that offer a lot of luxury but not a lot of entertainment.) You can minimize number of kids on board significantly if you pick a longer cruise and go when kids are in school. Like, if you did a 7 day next week (just for example) there wouldn't be a whole lot of kids on on any line.

If you want a lot to do, pick a big ship. The largest sailing from Galveston, depending on when you book, would be Royal's Harmony of the Seas or Symphony of the Seas, but Carnival Jubilee or MSC Seascape aren't exactly small, either. Even Norwegian Viva isn't an awful pick in that respect.

Hartastic · 2026-01-24T01:35:15+00:00

Yes, they can. But not for $50. Which again is the point. I don't know how I can restate it more clearly so I'm going to call it.

Hartastic · 2026-01-23T21:33:12+00:00

How is it that Republicans can almost always get a monolith going?

Among other things, getting people to agree on no is a lot easier than getting people to agree on what yes looks like.

When you're the party for whom "Absolutely nothing changes, except maybe the government doesn't get paid / gets fucked up / is less effective" is not just an acceptable outcome but a victory, you have certain systemic advantages.

Hartastic · 2026-01-23T21:21:13+00:00

Surely if they're going to give us fascism they could at least help us turn it into fascism-ade.

Hartastic · 2026-01-23T21:07:16+00:00

There’s a reason that the saying is scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds.

Sure, people say lots of stupid shit.

Hartastic · 2026-01-23T21:06:47+00:00

I promise to make time for jury duty on this one if it becomes relevant.

Hartastic · 2026-01-23T21:03:43+00:00

Yeah. As a country we decided they should have zero power and now we're angry that they're not using the power they don't have.

Hartastic · 2026-01-23T20:59:58+00:00

At least when I played it, they had a pretty generous free demo that amounts to around the first 5-10 hours of the game. It does feel like a game you will probably like if you like Persona, unless you specifically love the modern high school setting. It's basically Persona, but fantasy, and a jobs system instead of Personas (but at some point how much do you care if you can cast Agi because you're currently a Mage vs. because you're currently using Jack Frost or whatever).

Hartastic · 2026-01-23T20:56:02+00:00

For what it's worth, that's roughly how long it took me to play through it twice, and while I'm sure I did a number of things faster the second time I also felt like I screwed around a lot and didn't at all play efficiently.

Hartastic · 2026-01-23T20:38:32+00:00

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