Semi_Hemi_Demigod

Semi_Hemi_Demigod, 10 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

FYI: Their citation for a “mass amnesty” is an opinion piece: telegraph.co.uk/…/biden-immigration-border-secret…

If you think he’s being even-handed, he starts it like this:

But when it comes to immigration, Mr. Biden has flagrantly abused executive power, governing contrary to the will of the people, and has sought to hide the details of his lawless, open-borders agenda from the public.

This is about the 320,000 people granted parole because they aren’t deemed national security threats. The author of the editorial himself says they flew into airports, so this isn’t about people coming across the border.

What Biden is actually doing is clearing out the backlog of people who should have been granted parole because they’ve overstayed their visas, which is the most common reason people are in violation of immigration controls.

This is just some dumbass mad because the government works and other people exist.

ETA: Nations are dumb and we’d all be richer if we stopped believing in them.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod, 10 days ago

I hate nation-states as much as the next guy but this is pretty obviously not cool

Semi_Hemi_Demigod, 10 days ago

Yep! It was the topic of yesterday’s show. He’s trying to circumvent Modi’s censorship by putting videos on weird domains

Semi_Hemi_Demigod, 10 days ago

I really don’t care. Do you?

Semi_Hemi_Demigod, 10 days ago

I’m extremely bullish on Edison Motors diesel-electric hybrid truck conversions

Semi_Hemi_Demigod, 10 days ago

Are they all crossovers or trucks with a massive touchscreen and spyware?

Semi_Hemi_Demigod, 10 days ago

I do the same thing at diners but with a hot roast beef sandwich. Did you toast the bread? Is the gravy creamy and delicious? Is the roast beef heated on the griddle before serving? It’s the brown M&Ms of diner food.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod, 10 days ago

I like a good buffalo chicken pizza with red onions, slathered in blue cheese

Semi_Hemi_Demigod, 10 days ago

[Alex Jones] also listed his living expenses at about $69,000 for April alone

Goddamn, dude. Stop ordering DoorDash.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod, 10 days ago

Can I have three jobs at once?

Semi_Hemi_Demigod, 10 days ago

The great thing about working from home is I can do something else while I’m in meetings.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod, 10 days ago

Presidents are above the law while they’re in office.

Every time I learn a new thing about our government it looks even more fucked up and unworkable. I know those guys were on laudenum and cocaine and drunk off their asses when they wrote the Constitution but goddamn were they fucked up.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod, 10 days ago

I can’t envision a federated service dying. Even if it’s me pedaling a bike to run a raspberry pi hosting an instance that’s just me posting it’ll exist.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod, 11 days ago

Half of all philosophy professors graduated in the bottom 50% of their class. Pretty shocking.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod, 10 days ago

Obligatory Babylon 5 comment.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod, 10 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

I would love to see what a memelord like yourself could do with the fertile ground that is SG1 memes.

We’d love to have you over at chevron7

Semi_Hemi_Demigod, 10 days ago

People used to listen to entire albums over and over again, each time getting new perspective on the music. And people re-read their favorite novels over and over again.

I think that’s what we’re doing with TV. We know what joke is coming, so we can watch other things in the background that we didn’t catch the first time.

At least that’s what I’ll tell myself on my fifth rewatch of SG1.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod, 10 days ago

“What are you gonna do? Bleed on me?”

Semi_Hemi_Demigod, 10 days ago

Imagine if instead of building their own bespoke systems, grocery stores (and other places) created an open source software foundation and worked together to produce the software they needed.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod, 10 days ago

Please stop treating politics like a cultural, intellect, personal identity battlefield when engaging in this topic.

That sort of coverage doesn’t sell ad space.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod, 10 days ago

I was in high school during the boom and my career plan was:

1. Go work for a startup doing computer stuff
2. Get stock options
3. Retire before 30 when it goes public

The landscape after graduating college was… different.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod, 11 days ago

So like every other election: A couple thousand people in some county in PA or MI you’ve never heard of will decide the presidency, regardless of what most people want.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod, 11 days ago

Tens of thousands?! That’s a landslide!

Semi_Hemi_Demigod, 10 days ago

it was saved in .txt files for some reason, that was the weird part.

“Well it was text what else was I supposed to use?” - that idiot, probably