Well it didn’t stop there, from FSIS

The raw pork, beef, and goat items were produced on various dates prior to September 22, 2026. The products were vacuum-sealed and packed into cardboard boxes for shipment; individual consumer packages may not bear this labeling, as retail stores may have applied their own stickers with pricing and safe handling instructions. The following products, distributed in bulk under the A&D Foods label, are subject to recall

The part that would be of concern to your average consumer is this bit

individual consumer packages may not bear this labeling, as retail stores may have applied their own stickers with pricing and safe handling instructions.

So if that Georgia Distributor, you know, distributes it to a grocery store and they repack it, you won’t be able to tell.

I tried it out for a few hobby side projects as someone that doesn’t do much JavaScript development.

It delivered on the dev experience. I didn’t have to learn how to plug a bunch of random tools together because bun had a lot of the basic stuff just bundled in.

Task runner, test runner, typescript, etc.

I think if I spent more time doing JavaScript development work it wouldn’t have really mattered, that project bootstrapping is a one time cost and if you know how to do it it’s cheap enough. As someone that spends most of their time writing other languages though it was nicer than figuring out how to get a bunch of tools to play nice with each other.

Amazon has always been about breaking rules and hurting others to help themselves.

According to Bezos:

“We found a loophole. Their systems were programmed in such a way that you didn’t have to receive ten books, you only had to order ten books. So we found an obscure book about lichens that they had in their system but was out of stock. We began ordering the one book we wanted and nine copies of the lichen book. They would ship out the book we needed and a note that said, ‘Sorry, but we’re out of the lichen book.’”

They took advantage of brick and mortar booksellers in the beginning, eagerly taking advantage of their good will.

The world is currently run by sociopaths. I don’t say that as some fun little insult, the owner class is full of people that look at society and think “how can I find a loophole. How can I take advantage of someone’s good will when they can’t find an obscure book on lichen to help me. Maybe if I make them feel bad I can get one over on them.”

I got a new microwave with some annoying child lock feature. We have no children. I looked in the manual and there was a way to turn it off, it was some weird combination of holding buttons down but it worked just fine and my brand new (as of last year) microwave will happily let me open it with time remaining.

But it worked exactly one time for Bill Clinton. I mean we’ve tried it a dozen times since then to failure, but I’ve got a really good feeling about this next one.

You see it’s quite simple really, we can get Liz Cheney and, hmm, who else is popular with the right these days, maybe that up and comer Fetterman. Yea, have our candidate “pivot to the center” and pull in some “Biden Republicans”

Maybe during the primaries we can knee cap the most popular candidate with the most energetic base. We can run non stop scare mongering about them in friendly media outlets, talk about “electability,” and hey, if push comes to shove we can let the voting public know they’d be throwing their votes away because our chosen third way candidate is already way ahead because of pledged super delegates.

Then we can focus group the hell out of the messaging until it’s a completely bland melange of effectively nothing but empty platitudes guaranteed not to upset anyone. Some vague nod to things maybe getting better but make sure to steer clear of any Republican third rails, and if they make new third rails out of proposed legislation, tack hard away from it, avoid controversy as much as possible. They say the green new deal is socialism, we agree and say only fringe lunatics in the party want that and we are much happier with a public private partnership that can ensure healthy profits and a healthy planet. Sounds great, I mean the private corporations are already calling the shots so after taking all those bribes cough I mean campaign contributions, they will want to see a healthy return.

Yep certainly this time we will be able to cozy up to big money donors, pivot to the middle, spend most of our time courting Republican voters who routinely refer to us as baby eating demons (we are one well polished message away from swaying those votes, I can feel it) and the base will have to turn out anyways. If they sit on their hands we could get a super duper trump, and so we will put that gun to their heads and say “you have to vote blue no matter who” and then bitch and moan about how the stupid voters are just too damn stupid to see the brilliant and absolutely flawless strategy of our clintonian triangulation.

Boy it would sure be embarrassing if this stupid talking point was readily disputed by easily accessible, rigorous, peer reviewed studies based in actual facts

Graduated from Ohio public schools in the early 2000s.

The thing that stuck out to me was how different the tracks were. I was in the AP / honors track and learned a lot, I was friends with plenty of people in the standard track and it seemed like their curriculum was pretty awful.

I don’t recall students switching between the tracks either, I was with the same cohort of ~90 people and the other couple hundred students were left in the standard track. Pretty wild to use “how well did you understand prealgebra in 7th grade” to determine what quality of education you would get for the next half decade.

Overall though I think I was lucky, it was a poor public school where I never saw a levy pass (school levies are special taxes Ohio uses to fund their schools) but I had the good fortune of having dedicated and passionate teachers. From my chemistry teacher that taught us the value of the Socratic method to the retired semi-pro bowler turned calculus teacher whose infectious enthusiasm for calculus made me pursue a degree in mathematics.

I graduated though before one of the worst policy changes in recent history, the no child left behind policy (ironically my first job out of university was working on NCLB grant management software for the Ohio Department of Education). Possibly a well meaning policy, but it exacerbated teaching to the test and no child left behind just became “every child gets passed to the next grade no matter how poorly they are doing.” Replacing holding children back so they could develop and hopefully function at the appropriate grade level even if it took another year to shoving them through and leaving them constantly struggling with class work they can’t comprehend has been a massive, self-inflicted loss for the education system.

My favorite is when services will put a caption like “[speaking spanish]” over top of the English subtitles that are in a film for a Spanish speaking character.

The film maker put the subtitles in there so if you can’t speak Spanish you can understand what the character is saying and then you can’t read it because Amazon decided to helpfully inform you they are speaking.

The problem with norms are that they are not enforceable and trump and maga showed that you can have all the power if you just don’t follow them.

We can’t pretend like we can go back to a world where good actors will voluntarily follow norms. What is needed is laws with teeth and more importantly punishment for powerful people that break those laws.

The Dems showed during the Biden administration that after 4 years of breaking the law in broad daylight they weren’t going to hold anyone in trumps administration accountable. I don’t hold out a bunch of hope that the same party leadership which continues to signal a business as usual stance is really going to change the next time around.

Agreed which is why the only words out of your mouth to a cop should be “I want a lawyer”

Miranda rights only apply if the police are asking you incriminating questions.

If you are being arrested and questioned theres actually never any advantage of demanding to be read your rights, I see a lot of people demanding the police read them their rights.

When the police read you your rights it protects the police not you.

If you are questioned and incriminate yourself there are two possibilities. They did not read you your Miranda rights, in which case almost any lawyer in the country can get that incriminating statement thrown out because you weren’t read your rights. The did read you your Miranda rights, in which case you are fucked, you were informed you didn’t have to answer but incriminated yourself anyways.

It is never in your interest to demand they read you your rights and you should never really be upset if they don’t. Either they don’t have to or they just fucked up to your benefit.

Talk to people.

It sucks, but that’s the actual answer. You talk to the people that could be potential romantic partners. And you actually take an interest in them as a person and if they take an interest in you too, romance sometimes happens.

The hardest part is that if you are lonely and want a romantic partner, it can be hard to follow. Some people, myself included, are introverts that would prefer not to talk to lots of people. Sometimes the goal of obtaining a partner incorrectly becomes primary (either because you are lonesome, or because you think it’s the next step in your life, etc). It is very difficult to talk to someone and take a genuine interest in them and open up about yourself enough for them to take an interest in you when your focus is on obtaining a partner because people can sense that.

Talk to people, genuinely talk and listen and care about them (or realize you aren’t compatible). It sounds simple but it is really quite difficult. If you want to find people to talk to, engage in the world in things you like where potential romantic partners might also show up.

And if it feels weird, talk to more people, but more than talk listen to them. Not sure what to talk about? Ask them about themselves, people love to talk about themselves. Practice more and more talking to people, all kinds of people. Join groups that meet in person and talk to people. Get good at talking to people and the more you talk the more interesting experiences you have and the more interesting experiences you have the more interesting a partner you become and one day one of those people you are talking to is going to feel important and then you tell them that.

And it might work, it might not, they might not feel the same, you might have a couple awkward conversations that go no where. But we are social creatures, we want to talk and connect and be heard, we want to sit together and spend time together and eat together and share in one another.

My life changed for the better the day I realized I was the only one stopping me from experiencing this.

When he said he was going to give a long rambling speech on the 4th of July in dangerous heat… I held my breath hoping

Is there something about being an evil fuck that makes you live forever. Steve Irwin dies tragically young, grandpa Hitler over here can scream in a sauna about how evil immigrants are for 2 hours with no ill effect.

I think trump actually gives a playbook.

I despise the man, but he had a pretty simple plan.

1. Identify with people’s struggle
2. Tell them the cause
3. Do something about it

And that’s kinda all voters want, someone to tell them that they aren’t crazy when they feel like shit is fucked up and then fix it.

The Republican Party intentionally gets step 2 wrong. Not out of incompetence but because the actual causes of our problems are often the people bankrolling them, so it’s better to find some kind of scape goat. This is why they are so focused on doing the dumbest shit imaginable, because they have to purposefully misidentify the causes of problems.

The Democratic Party is also largely owned by the same donors, they just bafflingly fuck up every step. Neoliberal technocrats love to “um actually” step 1 and try to convince people that they aren’t actually struggling. Step 2 they mostly identify real problems but then aren’t going to be allowed to solve them because their donors get very rich off those problems existing. So they fuck up step 2 in a different way, the democrats are more than capable of telling you that global warming is real and caused by humans, but if we focus on that you might want to move on to step 3 and do something to stop it and the donors won’t like that, so let’s put some other issue the donors dont care about front and center instead. And if they ever get around to step 3, you get the ACA (aka Obamacare). A heritage foundation plan that entrenches the power of the healthcare and insurance industries perpetually locking us into a failed system with one or two genuinely good things, like outlawing denials based on pre-existing conditions, to make it palatable to the voters.

Both major parties are captured by the donor class, it’s not even a secret, every member of congress will tell you they spend more time “dialing for dollars” aka calling up rich people and begging for money (that we are supposed to believe is completely no strings attached, wink) than anything else. At the end of the day both parties work for those people. They pass laws and tax codes to benefit the wealthy.

The only way out is for a political movement to run trumps playbook but actually do all 3 steps correctly. Mamdani is maybe closest to showing this as a viable path to power, I think he is probably the best contemporary example of someone executing it well.

Out here in rural Ohio I’ve noticed a lot of the trump signs slowly fade away. Replaced by either “NO DATA CENTER” signs or signs supporting other republicans or some general idea of America (one house proudly flew a trump flag and fight fight fight bunting up until the Iran war, they took the bunting down and replaced the trump flag with a black flag that just says 1776 on it)

There are still some signs up, still some flags up, and I doubt the people that took theirs down have actually had a change of heart politically and more just don’t want to look foolish as diesel hit $5 and they couldn’t afford to run the machines they needed to plant.

It’s sad really. Americans are getting fucked everyday by the wealthy elites in this nation, trump tells them “hey you are getting fucked and I can make it better” and at no point do they stop and go “hmm, we are getting fucked, but he’s the kind of guy that does the fucking, could he maybe be tricking us?” And instead are so hungry for someone to have their interest at heart they will buy into the cult. He gives them some weird things to be angry about, immigrants, woke people, whatever his boogeyman of the week is, and hurts those people. The cult sees it as finally someone fighting for them because they failed to identify the actual cause of their problems.

I think the “NO DATA CENTER” signs are maybe the most interesting development. If only they could put together that it isnt immigrants or trans athletes building these data centers. It’s wealthy fucks who will never be satisfied, more than willing to spoil your water, jack up your electric bill, and blast your homes with constant humming and buzzing, all ao they can have a little bit more. One would hope they could look around and realize that this ongoing class war that they are badly losing is the cause, but I suspect their hate mongers will find a way to blame minorities and queers again. The data center owner isnt to blame, no it’ll be woke scientist lying to you that data centers are poisoning your drinking water because they are nefarious communists who hate our way of life, just ignore that cancer you keep getting and hate them.

Let me preface this with the fact that I like Bethesda games, fallout, Skyrim, starfield, I enjoy them all.

Does anyone else feel like they are all kinda the same game.

• elder scrolls: medieval Bethesda game
• fallout: apocalypse Bethesda game
• starfield: space Bethesda game

They share like 90% of the game mechanics.

I could see cutting back on these if they were all radically different, but they all few so similar to me, almost interchangeable.

But I’m sure not innovating and pumping out cash grab sequel after cash grab sequel will work, that works really well right? In a few years we can all read the “how Bethesda got beat by {scrappy upstart that actually provided interesting new games}” articles that try to piece together the mystery.

Command economies using 1940s technology aren’t particularly good.

Back in the 70s the Cybersyn project was largely successful until the CIA deposed Allende to put Pinochet into power.

Fox News and AM Radio talk shows can directly tie their existence to the republicans wanting to control media after watergate.

The goal was to make it so that in the future we would treat watergate like a 12-hour story and unshackle the executive to fulfill their ghoulish dreams.

It’s upsetting looking around at everything that sucks ass and realize it’s not some terrible mistake. Every part of this system from our predatory health insurance, weak to non existent unions, inability to hold reasonable discussions are all designed. Designed by the worst fucking people who spent decades carefully executing them so that a handful of people could be rich and powerful oligarchs.

And it worked. It’s not some danger on the horizon, it’s not some horrible outcome we narrowly avoided, it’s just life, day after soul crushing day.

ABC News owned by Disney is here to tell you that the real lesson here is to elect people that would be more sympathetic to the billionaires that own Disney.

If you are thinking that because a bunch of DSA candidates won that the electorate is swinging left, we are here to tell you different!

Who do you trust, this new network run by billionaires specifically so they can control the narrative and assemble a more favorable environment for billionaires or silly old reality.

So remember kids, anytime anyone left of Nixon wins, they won in spite of their insane policies in some wild fluke. Every blue dog Fetterman scented milquetoast lackey who is willing to bend the knee for the house of the mouse, they won due to their pragmatic centrism.

I’m in the fortunate position that I could tell my chronically ill spouse to just not work.

Took them literally years to work through the guilt of not working, the capitalist conditioning of work being your source of value was so strong.

Of all the things I’ve accomplished in my life, knowing that my beautiful, creative, loving spouse gets to spend their days not being crushed by the capitalist machine is my most cherished.