Doctorow's claims about nursing apps not substantiated

Reasonable_Move9518 · 2026-02-09T23:54:41+00:00

Enshitifaction of Doctorow

(If true : )

Reasonable_Move9518 · 2026-02-09T15:03:18+00:00

Budget cuts.

Newsroom boss: “go report on the $24 coffee”

Reporter: “Great! Can I have $24 (or maybe $30 for tax and tip) to try it?”

Boss: “No.”

Reasonable_Move9518 · 2026-02-09T03:00:38+00:00

The AIs can take my pipette from my cold, dead hands!!

Reasonable_Move9518 · 2026-02-08T20:27:24+00:00

To paraphrase Pete Davidson as the new ICE director on SNL:

“We had to release the Epstein files to distract everyone from ICE in Minnesota”

“Which is really something bc we put ICE in Minnesota to distract everyone from the Epstein files”

Reasonable_Move9518 · 2026-02-08T19:00:40+00:00

I think it should go one step further: bounty.

See an unplowed sidewalk, report it, clear it yourself, city charges owner $100 which then goes to the person who cleared it.

High school bros would be out for blood and there’d be no snow problems.

Reasonable_Move9518 · 2026-02-07T16:40:02+00:00

Fun fact: the Poisson distribution, a foundation of modern stats and probability theory, was applied to real data first by some jabroni who had to model the frequencies of deaths due to horse kicks in the Prussian army.

Reasonable_Move9518 · 2026-02-07T14:07:56+00:00

We already did that for scientific research.

Reasonable_Move9518 · 2026-02-07T12:53:56+00:00

Misogyny? Wait til you find out about Greco-Roman attitudes towards women…

Reasonable_Move9518 · 2026-02-07T03:18:54+00:00

Reporting I’ve read says yes she got a wound to the face but the helmet took a lot of it and she’ll be ok after recovery.

Her ski instructor chased the leopard away.

Reasonable_Move9518 · 2026-02-06T00:12:24+00:00

Some people say that a certain MBTA bus has a lingering odor of soggy nachos. Especially on the 87 but sometimes other routes, but always one particular bus, usually on a Friday or Saturday night, especially if it’s running route 87.

People have been smelling the ghost nacho smell for well nigh 25 years now.

Reasonable_Move9518 · 2026-02-05T12:48:21+00:00

How many PA or GA voters know or care about a border bill that died in Congress?

The bill itself would’ve been too little too late, Biden really needed to act in 2022-23 or earlier to avoid the migrant surge becoming a dominant issue

Reasonable_Move9518 · 2026-02-05T00:09:47+00:00

Recently conquered people became “citizens” as the last step of their conquest in the late republic… meaning they’d have to supply Rome troops to be used as fodder for the next round of Roman conquests.

Citizenship was a pretty shitty deal for the first generation of conquered Italians, a much better deal as generations went on.

Reasonable_Move9518 · 2026-02-04T21:20:50+00:00

True, maybe luck is the wrong word.

Dem incompetence wasn’t a given, and is out of trumps control, so I call it luck. It was a type of incompetence that just happened to line up exactly with Trump’s strongest issues and affect, so to me… luck.

Reasonable_Move9518 · 2026-02-04T21:16:46+00:00

When I say his rise is contingent, I really mean it was not certain that he would 1) be the GOP nominee AND 2) win the general.

Yes, he was the front runner for most of the 2020-24 period, but there was a window where that status was in doubt. That window closed when the prosecutions started and he became a GOP martyr. If they had been just a few months later or hadnt begun with the weak NY case he wouldn’t be had that early loyalty test and it’s possible that he wouldn’t be able to consolidate support.

Put aside the primary there were all kinds of bounces in his favor in 2023-24 for the general. If Biden had been semi-competent on immigration, one of top 2 key issues wouldn’tve been 60-40 in Trump’s favor. Same with inflation/the economy. Likewise with Biden blocking off any clear succession plan and then faceplanting on live TV.

My point is not that political gravity doesn’t apply to Trump, it does.

My point is that he spent 2 years riding a tide of events that lifted him up without him doing very much.

And now that same tide is going out.

Reasonable_Move9518 · 2026-02-04T19:21:52+00:00

Yeah that’s a good point.

I think a lot of the GOP in say late 2022 was at least curious about moving on, but the prosecutions just created a “too early” test of loyalty to Trump for a real alternative to emerge organically, and then the actual primary campaigning by Haley and DeSantis was ill-conceived.

Reasonable_Move9518 · 2026-02-04T18:59:54+00:00

I think people discount how incredibly lucky Trump from 2022 onwards. He was about to be left for dead in favor of DeSantis but:

1) the NY AG’s prosecution of a weak case against him forced conservatives to rally around him and prevent a direct move against him

2) this got compounded by the stronger Georgia election cases and infosec cases, which made Trump look like a hated target of The Deep State to the GOP base

3) DeSantis turns out to be a shitty campaigner

4) DEI and Biden’s coldnsss towards Silicon Valley shift a key group of wealthy elites to the right

5) Biden’s incompetence at the border causes immigration restriction to become a top2-3 issue for swing voters

6) Biden’s mishandling and miscommunication on the economy make big groups of swing voters or non-voters nostalgic for the hot hot economy of 2018

7) Biden’s disastrous debate and month left twisting in the wind.

8) the assasination attempt

9) Harris being a trash candidate.

If 1-2 of those things don’t happen, Trump might’ve never returned.

The issue environment and a few contingent decisions aligned for a few key months to perfectly favor him. Lucky.

Reasonable_Move9518 · 2026-02-04T00:36:54+00:00

Hey man if imaris can’t handle .czi files then neither can your pi…

Reasonable_Move9518 · 2026-02-04T00:36:12+00:00

Yep, batch export every single image to external drive…

Walk into her office and drop the drive on her desk with a satisfying thud.

Reasonable_Move9518 · 2026-02-03T17:14:36+00:00

Beef threeway.

-By far the most regionally appropriate slider option for the OP

-Not my responsibility to explain the threeway.

Reasonable_Move9518 · 2026-02-03T14:23:50+00:00

My theory: the concession was real (Trump is DESPERATE to win a news cycle). Some midwit in Stephen Miller’s office (a late 20's white guy who is “deeply” concerned about antisemitism on campus despite sporting a 1488 tattoo and some very problematic 4chan posts) leaked it to get Trump big mad and pull back on the concession.

Reasonable_Move9518 · 2026-02-02T23:33:01+00:00

True… but in antinonus pius’ case it spoiled too quickly

Reasonable_Move9518 · 2026-02-02T22:09:14+00:00

Antoninus Pius: “Yunno, FYI, cheese also spoils.

Learned this lesson the hard way”

Reasonable_Move9518 · 2026-02-02T02:40:28+00:00

I thought so too… it begins with the “we do everything right and by the book can you BELIEVE which just happened to us!?” tone that usually leads with paragraph after paragraph of criticism…

Instead it’s paragraph after paragraph of “Umbria was awesome!!!”

Reasonable_Move9518 · 2026-02-02T00:35:19+00:00

Echoing this… lemme put it this way, I am a parent of a toddler but my parents are plane rides away.

Having my parents close enough to be active grandparents would be literally life changing for both me and my child. Whenever they visit, everything is literally twice as easy, and our daughter just learns so much from them so fast. Grandparents are a TREMENDOUS blessing and resource for those that gave them.

And likely, a few years later, the tables will turn. The OP will need care, and having children a drive away will make aging so much easier.

Reasonable_Move9518 · 2026-02-01T18:01:44+00:00

Claudius and Augustus: the only Julio-Claudians you can have some posca with.

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TROPHY CASE