I wish people would have left earlier as well, but it’s not just sunk cost fallacy. Network effects are a rational reason to stay, and that’s the issue. If he has a community, he loses the community. I get it.

That’s why I wish celebrities would coordinate and all leave at once - it’s far more likely their network will follow them in that case, both hurting X more and helping themselves more, and accelerating people leaving as the network effects disappear on X.

The physics metaphor applies pretty directly here: They need to create momentum to counteract inertia.

Yes, kissing the ring for sure. I knew Zuck was gone as soon as he called Trump “badass” and that he “couldn’t vote for a democrat” after the first assassination attempt.

Dude stood there and by his luck the bullet missed. This wasn’t some courageous action, this was “standing there until the secret service tackled me.” What exactly was “badass” about it?

How many more are going to come out of the clown car? This is quite a performance.

This is the best “metaphor” I could come up with as well. The voters are abuser enablers who trapped us in a house with our abuser. They don’t see his abuse because they tune it out and don’t pay attention. If you raise the abuse to them, their response is, “Stop being so dramatic, he’s good for you.”

But the thing is, the fact that he’s actually a real narcissistic sociopath who feeds on our attention is not just apt for the metaphor - there is actually no metaphor. He’s simply, actually in an abusive, non-consensual relationship with half the country. And his voters are simply, actually delusional enablers.

They’re voting for Trump because they’ve vaguely heard he’s a good businessman (From who? Who possibly could be the source of this reputation?). It’s just voting based on the general feeling of hearing the words “good businessman” and “better for the economy” alongside Trump.

The logic is more like, “I like leopards, I like to eat, and I like my face. I know who I’m voting for.”

Yeah, honestly…“altered” in a headline is itself biased, when “corrected” is entirely plausible. The transcriber had no idea if Biden meant to have an apostrophe there.

Also, maybe spend the final week of what could be our final democratic election covering something of importance, AP.

Cannon: Bias? That’s absurd. That’s an absurd reason to get in the way of my Supreme Court appointment.

Yeah, I saw this when it happened and gosh, so surprising.

Hey, there’s a TikTok viral trend on this amazing new way to get money: steal the money. Banks hate this one trick! (It’s fraud. The trick is just plain criminal fraud.)

Spoiler alert: both of their passwords were “trump”.

Yeah, if you hold up your hand to cover the lower-half of his face, it’s a different expression entirely.

I’m not sure how this story is blaming Black Americans though. This seems like it’s providing information that would be important to Black Americans if they are considering voting for Trump.

Election Integrity Community: It’s Not Doubleplus Ungood!

On Monday, he debuted another effort: X added a purported “Election Integrity Community”—a feed where users of the site can add instances “of voter fraud or irregularities you see while voting in the 2024 election.” America PAC—the political action committee Musk founded and reportedly sent $75 million—is behind the move. By Tuesday afternoon, the “Election Integrity Community” had 10,000 members.

The crowdsourced space appears meant to replace X’s actual team of people employed to ensure election integrity, which Musk said he disbanded last year. But the channel has already been filled with misinformation.

Wow, it was a genuine election integrity team they’ve doublespeaked into a targeted election conspiracy accelerator. Real “deputize the criminals” energy.

Yup…Windows 12? The evil monkey’s paw demon is like, “I’ll give you that wish for free.”

You can bypass the requirements since yeah, they were always artificial. I believe Rufus has an option when creating Win11 install USBs to remove the TPM and other requirements.

But then again, it’s nice, because all I need to make sure Microsoft doesn’t secretly update my Win10 machine in the night to Win11 is to turn off the TPM in the BIOS.

“America” is just another way Trump refers to himself in the third person.

Hmm, it appears if we squeeze tighter, more blood will come out. Surely there is no natural limit to this principle.

Are you Taliban and want someone dead, but frustrated with your fundamentalist movement’s pesky adherence to the rule of law? Upset at the heretic you can’t quite get proof of? Overbearing parents trying to arrange another marriage?

With new Taliban Ban on Images of Living Things®, you are back in the driver’s seat. Just take a picture of your target. After it’s done, the authorities will be practically begging you to murder that person to prevent the inevitable consequences, including the collapse of society and the rending of the fabric of space-time.

But what device do you use to stream? That’s the dilemma I’m in, streaming sticks and devices are all so spammy.

This is really unprovable, but my theory is that this is also another result of late-stage capitalistic exhaustion. While young people still want to be ethical and moral and safe, there’s a lot of moment-to-moment existential rebellion with so many layers of rules, norms and expectations.

It’s similar to the rise of “treat” habits - if there’s no realistic possibility of the American dream and house and white picket fence and kids for an average worker’s salary, you have a moment of probably irresponsible spending that feels life affirming, to shake off the feeling of being in a Matrix pod that’s sucking out your life force in the most efficient manner possible.

Hence, no condom! Or something.