@ProudToBeFromTN @NESpower Props for log-scaling the linemen per 1k outages. Makes it a much more fair and accurate representation while also conveying the scale of the differences.
@rhartman I came to Stephenson via snow crash but Anathem hooked me. I gotta give Neal some stick for the influence he’s had on some of the worst capitalists currently going but dammit, the books are pretty damn good.
My contribution to spooky season: I’m 100% convinced I’m going to be the one that fixes her and I am so obviously wrong that everyone pulls a muscle laughing at me when I say it:
We need more voices from national outlets covering us less like charity cases because we talk with a drawl and more like people trying to survive in a corrupt system that serves an agenda no one but the top 1% of this country wants.
Man, as a leftist in the South, the lack of sympathy from the left around the climate disasters we’ve faced in the last month has been fucking deafening.
Like they think we’re lazy. But we’re actually gerrymandered, over-policed, under-educated by design and frequently censored. I mean, look at how many FL reps refused to authorize FEMA aid on political grounds.
@briebriejoy It’s such a bummer that the health insurance industry has done such a great job at obscuring the idea of M4A because if you asked people if they wanted it, it would be so overwhelmingly popular.
@rhartman It did what all the big crossover comic arcs do: bring the hype to enormous levels and then reset everything so the publisher can retool it for the next generation which is inevitably unsatisfying from a narrative standpoint.
@xoxogossipgita Even before hearing the music in writing though, it seems like they’re missing some degree of faculty with the skill of reading. It’s a chore that has to be dispensed with in order to wiki-fy and scrapbook one’s thoughts rather than a hobby unto itself.
@MachinePix I love France and the French people. But a glider designed to crash headfirst into an obstacle and then fecklessly, mechanically embrace it is the most French-ass French thing since the last Olympics. It should have a lit cigarette dangling from the cockpit.
@xoxogossipgita Always wondered why Durmstrang sounded familiar. She literally just swapped the beginnings of Sturm (und) Drang and smushed them together. And it’s still not even the worst part of the map.