God damn that’s badass

This sounds like a bit

My preference if I had to rank it would honestly be Claudia, Jill, Trump, Harris in that order

The cricket revolution sounds pretty badass to me

Very nice to imagine so many Americans working together to construct a particular thing, over such a long period of time, that is then destroyed by a Russian missile. It’s a small comfort but I think of their collective impotence, watching from the horizon

This reads to me as peacocking for the Dem base. Meaningless in every other sense

Hopefully he succumbs to a stroke or some sort of degenerative disease. Would be really nice for him to struggle with basic things, for several years

There’s no chance honestly

With respect to the absolute mayhem destruction in western NC from Helene that will take months/years to recover from, it does seem like Florida got out much better than what it was made out to be throughout this week. Which makes me concerned with the discourse around this storm — every news outlet, reel, TikTok, meteorologist, local politician etc was describing this storm in a way that you would assume the devastation would be even worse than Katrina. Absolutely catastrophic. Tampa wiped off the map. It’s obviously important to take it seriously and I’m glad they did, it got a lot of people to evacuate. But it also painted a picture of near rapture proportions.

That didn’t turn out to be the case. There was damage and lives lost of course, from a storm fueled by climate change, which is the real story sad and lesson to be taken. But I fear millions of people will see that contrast from this storm and as a result not take future ones very seriously, because they’ll see it as clickbait hype rather than serious warning. Idk what alternative there is, we always need to be taking these storms seriously before they strike (with one very big reason being the actual material government response afterwards will not). But the news and social media industries are for-profit, so there is a baked-in incentive to overly hype future storms for the sake of clicks and views. Weird place to be