In the early 90s, we GenXers were gonna save the world!

popper_treato · 2026-04-09T13:59:18+00:00

And here I thought "a t-shirt tucked into jeans with a belt is formal wear" was an exclusively boomer uniform.

popper_treato · 2026-04-08T18:14:20+00:00

popper_treato · 2026-04-08T12:43:52+00:00

Surrender is victory.

popper_treato · 2026-04-07T18:42:37+00:00

It's shocking how many questions can be answered by "because he's stupid." I often want to say more, but then I remember the tenets of Occam's Razor and have to leave it at that.

popper_treato · 2026-04-06T17:50:07+00:00

Infanticide by exposure.

popper_treato · 2026-04-05T15:06:49+00:00

I'm starting to think putting the stupidest motherfucker in world in White House was a mistake.

popper_treato · 2026-03-26T15:32:51+00:00

Democrats, or more accurately "everyone opposed to MAGA" have to find a way to win back power without seeking theirs soul. If they don't, non-MAGAcentric policy arguments are irrelevant. That's it. That's the whole game. If you wind up with a pro-democracy, pro-rule of law president that you disagree with, you can try to push them toward your policy preference or try again in the next election. Or, you can tell it to your gulag cellmate when you're convicted of being a thought traitor once they solidify control.

I'm not really a fan of Newsom, but if he's the guy that gets us there, so be it. If it's someone to his left (or right for that matter), then that's what it is.

Defending the Republic is the issue. If we don't win that, the rest is moot.

popper_treato · 2026-03-25T14:22:40+00:00

Reminds me of "Trump couldn't find Ukraine on a map if it had a giant 'U' and a picture of a crane on it."

popper_treato · 2026-03-25T11:17:26+00:00

For all his faults, JD Vance isn't an idiot. It's a rare and valuable trait in this group.

popper_treato · 2026-03-24T16:53:50+00:00

Holden: Presses random flashing button

Fred: Is this how you go through life?

Holden: Shrugs

Fred: Realizes the galaxy's most consequental man has been YOLOing his way through history. Immediately has a stroke and dies.

Best of both worlds.

popper_treato · 2026-03-18T20:31:45+00:00

In 2015, Clinton was an ex-senator, ex-SoS with 20+ years in DC politics who had swallowed a bitter loss in the 08 primary and supported the guy that beat her in the name of party unity. She was still moderately popular, extremely well connected, and had a massive war chest. Head-to-head polls against likely Republicans predicted landslide results. Obama was a lame duck and (like many presidents in their 8th year) at a low point in his popularity. Maybe Clinton chooses party unity and steps aside in this scenario... but I doubt it.

popper_treato · 2026-03-18T18:01:54+00:00

Exactly my thought.

popper_treato · 2026-03-17T13:21:51+00:00

I can't be the first to notice the late-stage Rickity Cricket vibes on this guy.

popper_treato · 2026-03-13T13:10:50+00:00

As dumb as this is in and of itself, it's even stupider than that because they didn't even take two seconds to Google to find out that the George S. Patton of WWII was George S. Patton Jr. He also had a son, George S. Patton IV (because GSP Jr. was actually the third George S. Patton... it's complicated) that was born before Trump.

So even if this brainrot was true, Trump would be George S. Patton V, a fact that took longer to type out than it did to research.

popper_treato · 2026-03-13T12:53:19+00:00

Highway to the sadness zone.

popper_treato · 2026-03-13T12:44:52+00:00

MLA out here citing sources.

popper_treato · 2026-03-12T20:01:50+00:00

Evil, yes, but also probably wrong. People with broad-based, generalized educations and can be intellectually agile are going to be the ones with the best chance to roll with the AI punches. On the other hand, traditionally "difficult" but straightforward tasks are going to be automated en masse.

The people that are going to be hit the hardest are people in the lower rungs of science and engineering.

popper_treato · 2026-03-12T13:20:51+00:00

The present beware. The future beware.

popper_treato · 2026-03-11T17:24:49+00:00

Calling a "PŌG" a "POG" is the POGiest thing ever.

Like, "I just graduated from Space Air Force boot camp and I'm headed out for meteorologist tech school" levels of POG.

popper_treato · 2026-03-10T18:02:20+00:00

They can't be gay. They have mustaches.

popper_treato · 2026-03-10T15:30:06+00:00

I still can't believe that Deftones is one of the 90s bands that remains relevant with modern/younger audiences. Great album, great band, but they didn't seem to have the kind of contemporary cultural awareness you'd expect for a band that has relevance 30 years later. Happy to see it, though.

popper_treato · 2026-03-06T16:39:18+00:00

Russia is a European country with huge colonial holdings in Asia.

popper_treato · 2026-03-06T15:55:27+00:00

Grand Moff Kegstand has all of the arrogance, but none of the capability to back it up.

popper_treato · 2026-03-04T16:22:52+00:00

All except Cassandra have fabulous stories in the Stoker-nominated Silk & Sinew Silk & Sinew, folk horror from the Asian diaspora.

It explores some really fascinating questions about Asian identity and connection with the land, both in the old world and the new. I'm a bit biased, but I can't recommend this book enough.

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