Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

@w7voa Please quote the correction, as it was given unprompted at the time and clearly what he meant to say.

@lin11c @ianjames It's always been the case. Public property has always been exploitable by private capital in the US. The prevailing view is to find it uncontroversial and even virtuous.

@lin11c @ianjames Well, they sell public oil, public gas, public trees... we really are pathetic about letting corporations sell us our own property. We even subsidize them for "developing" it.

Norway's got the right idea. Pity it'll never happenhere.

August 7th:
Feast day of Dometius of Persia and Donatus of Arezzo; in deference to vulgar practice now merged and observed as the feast of Dominos of Pizza. To those still groaning under the yoke of bitter servitude: if you're not delivered in 30 minutes, you're free.

The great thing about being a grownup AND having an air fryer is you can have egg & chips for breakfast every morning if you want.

@davidallengreen
You're a slacker, Tannen! A slacker!

(BTW, did you know the depiction of Biff Tannen in the alternate 1980s in Back To The Future II was based on Trump?)

@jon
(I've never understood why he couldn't, using the same amount of chemical knowledge, have made rocket boosters for the DeLorean instead. Could have skipped the whole locomotive part.)

@jon

What about Doc Brown's staged-acceleration presto fire logs?

@mckra1g @kajord @futurebird
Yet still the NYT is going to run articles about how Trump is more relatable to the ordinary working man. They can't not do it. It's a sickness they get every four years.

@w7voa
"Liberty for me, not for thee"; the battle cry of every libertarian.

@bruces In an infinite universe, why is the Queen always a 20 year old white human female who looks like she was chosen by Game of Thrones' casting director?

@davidallengreen

Facebook uses the Philippines to trial its social engineering algorithms, Russia and China use the UK for the same purpose. What works there, they deploy everywhere.

The disinfo theme of the moment seems to be that selecting a candidate without a primary is unconstitutional. Needless to say, none of these people can point to anything the Constitution about how a political party chooses its candidate.

@BashStKid Ha, I'd meant that to be a reply to @elizatech

I just have this image of the stands suddenly spelling out FREE TIBET or similar on global television

@APBBlue @w7voa The "personal" eye-plucking shows an artisanal touch. Too many maniacs subcontract that sort of thing out these days.

@rubenbolling Looks fantastic.
I just made the mistake of trying to read an issue of the "new" MAD magazine. Don't. Just don't. It reprints classic material, which is all available elsewhere, willy-nilly without any overarching editorial theme, alongside depressingly terrible new material.

@bruces The expression "what could go wrong?" might have been coined for this