@corlin of course! I'll leave you to bask in the majestic splendor of the Emperor's New Clothes.

I'm 50. I've just watched Bladerunner for the first time.

Utter horse shit.

People say that Trump was a great president because they invent post hoc rationales to explain what seems incoherent. 5d chess etc.

I assume it's the same approach that leads people to label Bladerunner a classic.

@Bliss her need for a magnetic mattress was cited by her as one of the reasons why she shouldn't be sentenced to prison.

The wheels of justice turn so slowly that it's easy to assume they're broken, especially when so many of the most egregious offenders against our democracy seem teflon-coated.

Take heart though. Tina Peters is in jail right now. She'll be there for years to come and I don't think she'll have access to her magnetic mattress.

I know the saying goes, "the only thing to fear is fear itself", but I've lately begun to realize that ignorance and hatred should really join that list of things to fear.

I think the Trump era has primed me for a gritty Perffect Strangers prequel that cover Cousin Balki's flight to America to avoid his war crimes.

It's not just me noticing this is it? Trump's different in the past few weeks. He seems like a backyard inflatable toy that's been holed by wear and tear of having all that hot air being run through him and all those bullshit lies bouncing on him for a decade. But he's deflating now and his only response is to increase the rate of hot air being pumped through himself. But it's no use. He's just not holding air or credibility any longer.

That sound you can hear is a choir of tightening sphincters belonging to the board of Citizens Property Insurance Corporation.

They're the Florida-government-owned, not-for-profit insurer-of-last-resort for property.

They're the ones about to see huge claims as increasingly frequent and extreme events caused by climate change start to bite economically for many who deny climate change is real.

https://bbc.com/news/articles/czd13mezz7mo

@LnzyHou I mean, I'm struggling to see how else this blunder might have happened.

My mind is mulling over the conversation in some gaudy club room in Mar a Lago where they developed their election strategy:

"So Sir, in any strategy like this it's important to realize your place in the Hater/Hatee dynamic and to bring the electorate to hate the hatee also."

"Don't patronize me, ok? My uncle was at MIT. I'm against Haiti. I get it. Now get me Pat Robertson's playbook from the shelf up there. I'm a very stable genius!"

Found this at the back of the drawer.
Ten years on, and post-Brexit Scotland must be wondering what might have been and what yet may still be.

It's coming yet, for a' that 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
#Scotland #indyref

Currently imagining that his end will look like the end credits of the Benny Hill Show only Trump will be being chased by all the factions of nutters who've finally realized that he was never for them.

Dear armed nuts of America, please stop trying to avoid electoral defeat of your favored party to Kamala by removing Trump from the top of the ticket yourself. How about we let democracy play out in the name of We the People?

Post debate, it occurs to me that persuadable republican voters and independents might reflect on the way that Kamala repeatedly baited Trump into distractions and blunders.

They might reflect that Trump repeatedly fell for them like a dopey dalmatian chasing after a bone.

They might reflect on that and wonder which of the candidates on stage they'd like to send to negotiate our nation's interests on the global stage - the woman in control, or the man she's able to control so easily.

@TrueBloodNet The REP24_WTA contract is worth $1 if Trump wins the popular vote, $0 otherwise.

The latest value of the contract in cents can be read as the probability of the outcome. So the market thinks there's only a 26% chance Trump will win the popular vote.

Electoral college is another matter.

Mmwahahahaha

Look at the price of the REP24_WTA contract following that debate. That's 26 cents on the dollar.

https://iemweb.biz.uiowa.edu/iem_market_info/2024-u-s-presidential-winner-takes-all-market/

I asked ChatGPT about the future of labor, consumption, and the market in a world where human labor has been priced-out by AI and robots.

It gave a pretty good answer.... https://chatgpt.com/share/32abcc8c-7b20-4e04-830f-0cd65bdb3727