@matuzalem I hope someday LinkedIn merges with X so I can ignore them both at the same time.

@matuzalem That's the traditional Microsoft response to any network protocol they didn't kludge together themselves, isn't it?
Yes, I'm still mad about NETBEUI, and having to reboot to change anything about the IP stack. I mean, come on, man.

@ShaneArtBooks I love print books, but I prefer to read e-books. The convenience wins almost every time.

@mcfate From the guy who eight years ago said Trump would destroy the GOP if they nominated him -- "and we would deserve it" -- and five years ago called him "a fucking idiot."

To paraphrase the old song:
In my faith and loyalty
I ne'er shall fail nor falter,
And Trump my guiding star shall be
Until the times do alter.

He should quit politics, he could make a fortune as a contortionist.

@Rocker I'm guessing "maskin" means "machine"?

@corlin You and me both. I got thinking today about the Senate and the Supreme Court and how unlikely they are to improve in the foreseeable future.
I think we're seeing the sclerosis built into the constitution take its toll -- it's rooted in the Senate but metastasizes everywhere.

@LiberalLibrarian @DavidSalo Only as quickly as they could.
One could argue that "enslave these, not those" is a step up from "Kill them all, God will know his own."

@Tacitus_Kilgore Before we were born.

@DavidSalo @LiberalLibrarian The Church, as you may know, gave the conquerors a rubric: they could enslave peoples who had heard the Gospel but were not Christians (i.e., Africans), but they could not enslave nations that had never had a chance to hear the Gospel (i.e., Indians). Pretty often they enslaved Indians anyway, but that was the rule.
Christianity actually went from "love your neighbor" to "here's how to tell which of your neighbors you may enslave" in about 1500 years.

@Alfred What three items of clothing would indicate that the person wearing them was a crotchety old ma

@DavidSalo My two friends who've been going through it at roughly the same time as me (I probably caught it from one of them) all reported the same thing as me: feeling some minor respiratory symptoms, putting them down to allergies or colds, then came the bad news. In at least two cases, we served as transmission vectors while hoping for the best.

@DavidSalo I had that exact experience last weekend. Then tested positive the next day, when I actually felt a bit better.

@AskTheDevil I actually had a job like that -- not for long, fortunately -- and I had company, the security guard on duty. We both found it impossible to concentrate, knowing we could be interrupted any moment by a phone call or whatever. Vigilance is a task in itself, and you can't do much that's meaningful at the same time. Try it, you won't like it.

@matuzalem So how did MTG get re-elected in 2020 (and 2022)? Why didn't the machines flip her votes to her opponent?
Also, how in hell does Alex "Pustule" Jones still have a show?

@mcfate That's what they do. One of our kids did the cold/otitis cycle so much the pediatrician wanted to prescribe a constant prophylactic dose of amoxicillin for the winter. I said I'd rather get it prescribed as needed. She pointed out that we'd be dosing the kid with it all winter anyway, the only difference would be how many prescriptions she wrote.

@th3j35t3r I love the smell of desperation in the morning!