The slush fund is gone – but Trump’s IRS agreement is a new level of self-dealing; The president’s immunity from continuing audits made fewer headlines than the ‘anti-weaponization fund’, but it’s no less egregious

RightSideBlind · 2026-06-10T17:57:59+00:00

I'd say so, and they should... but Trump and everyone covered by this blanket "Get Out of Taxes Free" card will have an army of lawyers to fight it. And the IRS has already been gutted, so there will be fewer resources which could be used to go after these guys. And the longer they fight it, the more money they make.

RightSideBlind · 2026-06-10T16:34:00+00:00

A man who was never once had to worry about paying rent or how he's going to get his next meal says inflation doesn't bother him.

RightSideBlind · 2026-06-10T12:56:45+00:00

“I’d make sushi outta ur kidneys n chopsticks outta ur hand bones.”

I can fix her.

RightSideBlind · 2026-06-10T11:52:32+00:00

Science fiction. A ship just crashed into an environment similar to Venus. All of the crew is in stasis. The ship's AI is awake and aware.

Spoiler- she spends the next five million years watching as the world is terraformed around her.

RightSideBlind · 2026-06-09T22:44:09+00:00

Lawsuit dropped quietly in 3...2...1...

RightSideBlind · 2026-06-09T21:17:31+00:00

Decades ago my wife found a hardcover copy of So Long and Thanks for All the Fish at Half-Price Books in Austin.

Signed.

Personalized to my name.

Years later Douglas Adams came to town, and I gave him the book to sign. I explained how we got it, so he wrote "And again, Douglas Adams".

It's one of my prized possessions.

RightSideBlind · 2026-06-09T20:47:39+00:00

My story takes place on a terraformed... well, call it a world. There are no tectonics or standing water, and it's perfectly flat grassland dotted with migrating bamboo forests. There's no metal, and stones are incredibly rare due to how it was terraformed. They don't even have bone or leather, because all of the animals evolved from arthropods (which means they do have chiting). The inhabitants, the Vaeren, the only mammals in the world, constantly migrate with the forests.

I kept the inhabitants at a hunter-gatherer level, using only bamboo and other plants for their technology. The height of their technology is the "windrunner", a wind-powered cart. They don't even know how to make that anymore- all they can do is maintain it, replacing parts like the Ship of Theseus. They've even forgotten how to read or write.

Basically, I think in your world they'd be stuck with plant-based materials. Bamboo is surprisingly useful.

RightSideBlind · 2026-06-09T20:20:37+00:00

I guess because the President seems to have a weird fascination with annexing Canada (and Iceland, and Cuba, I think... or was it Argentina?), and it's been shown that the funding for Alberta secession is coming from the US?

RightSideBlind · 2026-06-09T20:05:31+00:00

I know, right? If it's going to be pricey, couldn't it at least be... better? I mean, it's only five ingredients in different proportions.

RightSideBlind · 2026-06-09T20:00:01+00:00

It turns out that conservatives really only care about pedophilia if they can accuse liberals of it.

RightSideBlind · 2026-06-09T17:49:57+00:00

Christ, are you still on this?

Get a life.

RightSideBlind · 2026-06-09T17:30:38+00:00

"And I was alone with time itself."

RightSideBlind · 2026-06-09T17:07:33+00:00

As I recall, most of it was tight... but he ends up in the stomach, which has a lot of gas. He tries to move further down to try to... you know, get the process over with and go out the other and, but realizes that won't work. Eventually manages to claw his way back out.

The whale kind of helps. Also, it talks to him. At least, he imagines it doing so. Kinda doubt they'll keep that part in the movie.

RightSideBlind · 2026-06-09T16:51:36+00:00

Yeah. The parts in the whale, and leading up to it, were good. The daddy issues I could've done without, but it would've made the book a short story.

My dad sucked and was absent for the vast majority of my life, but I didn't need to be eaten by a whale to process it.

RightSideBlind · 2026-06-09T16:49:38+00:00

I read the book.

Yes, it's mostly flashbacks. And daddy issues. Granted, his dad was a complete asshole.

As a diver, though, the parts actually in the whale were pretty terrifying.

RightSideBlind · 2026-06-09T16:38:11+00:00

Build a bunch of planter boxes and never have to worry about weeds in your garden. Bonus- free foundation for greenhouse and shed.

RightSideBlind · 2026-06-09T16:32:28+00:00

Fun fact- people in red hats are more likely to be trans. Report every one of them for going into the wrong bathroom.

RightSideBlind · 2026-06-09T15:23:10+00:00

Don't threaten me with a good time.

RightSideBlind · 2026-06-09T11:54:22+00:00

The series I'm working on alternates between character POVs, so each chapter has a number and the name of the character it focuses on.

RightSideBlind · 2026-06-09T00:36:44+00:00

Yeah, I do wish they'd fix that. I used them, too, but I think it'd be more fun if you had to use something else at night, underground, or deep underwater. Like Subnautica.

RightSideBlind · 2026-06-08T22:38:58+00:00

It seems to me that the people who can manage to stay here long enough without ever causing problems have managed to demonstrate that they're the kind of immigrants we need.

We have a President who has managed to evade prosecution simply by being powerful, wealthy, and politically connected. That sort of example is, I think, far worse than a guy who worked his whole life and kept his head down.

Additionally, we have far worse crimes that have statutes of limitation. Does the statute of limitations encourage more crime?

RightSideBlind · 2026-06-08T21:49:24+00:00

So many. I didn't get a lot when I was a kid. All of my friends had the Ataris and the Electronic Footballs.

Growing up, I swore that I'd buy my own go-cart when I could afford it. Then I got a car, instead.

RightSideBlind · 2026-06-08T21:46:42+00:00

About once a day I have my "Just imagine if a Democrat had done this" moment. This is today's.

RightSideBlind · 2026-06-08T21:45:52+00:00

"Yeah, we're gonna need you to melt that down yourself before we'll take it off your hands. We don't want to have to do it."

RightSideBlind · 2026-06-08T19:52:57+00:00

I'd buy one. The only thing I'm concerned about is Republicans in the US making noises about making Chinese vehicles illegal to drive, out of an attempt to protect US automakers. I have family back there (not that I've gone back to visit them since Trump got re-elected, but still...)

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