Rufus is great! I worked with the maintainer to fix a bug in hardware they didn’t have and it was a very pleasant experience.

Except his “house key” is a bump key.

Your carton did a shrinkflation on you. And a regular inflation

Ok, so imagine that you’re a billionaire and a really smart dude (as claimed by so many people on the internet). And you get into government and appear on TV and want to look good. You might hire a publicist, a PR team, some speechwriters, hell how about a body language consultant. When you go on TV you’re going to project exactly the image you intend to. Anything less would be careless and stupid, right?

So yeah. This was a Nazi salute. And if you really want to argue that it wasn’t, that Musk doesn’t even know what a Nazi is, you gotta also accept that he’s grossly incompetent and should not be in government at all. Throw him out, we didn’t vote for him.

Oh, this makes the last comic make a lot more sense.

And a lot of other things make a lot less sense

I thought two of these guys were dead, canonically

What is even happening anymore?

It was lying right there

OOP was an oopsie.

There’s a significant emotional and mental difference between giving $100 to buy mosquito nets and directly helping resolve a topical conflict within a tribe you’re a part of. A lot of effort (on both sides) goes into bridging that gap.

So yes, absolutely do the good things you can at a distance. But also don’t be disappointed when that doesn’t make you feel better.

(And yes, I wasn’t very clear about that in my original point. Good job and thank you for making+helping me clarify)

Humanity is now cursed with knowing every bit of horror that happens all around the globe. 200 years ago you might only find out about atrocities months or years after they happened, if at all. It was much clearer then that there was literally nothing you could do about them. Nowadays if you want to throw your life away you can just buy a plane ticket to Ukraine. So now we’re being much more regularly faced with terrible things we’re not prepared to deal with happening somewhere.

And the truth is still that there is not really anything significant we can do. If it was happening in our backyard we might fight, but there’s only so many backyards and only so much room for foolishly selfless people to lay down their lives.

The weirdness you’re feeling is not a moral failing, but rather the strangeness of a world we’re not built for. As much as I and you might feel for any given fight or issue, the 99% of them are not our business, and it’s not morally expected of us to get involved. Lots of religions and moral frameworks and feelings say otherwise. Forget them.

When did the crypto bubble end? Bitcoin is at an all time high…

Because it’s buried in that Wikipedia article:

Not a paradox. Tolerance is better viewed as a social contract - it’s not owed to those who don’t practice it themselves.

If only it were so simple

21% of American adults are illiterate.

A significant fraction of America is illiterate. 21% or 1/5. Yeah.

No way he’s 62

Sensei because I don’t have one and that matches not having a partner.

Hug.

I’m just some random on the internet. Ask your wife or a friend. Get a hug. You’ll be ok. Maybe not great, but ok.

Let’s not idolize ourselves as homewrecker