Starris

Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 02:00 UTC

I hate that I'm liking this

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 23:23 UTC

Genuinely cannot tell if this is satire or a real quote

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 21:55 UTC

Biden should absolutely stand up to Netanyahu, and Schumer inviting him to Congress to give a speech is a national embarrassment, or perhaps would be if we were still capable of embarrassment

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 21:19 UTC

I am down on Harris as a politician, but I feel like I'm getting negatively polarized towards her by the lazy way a lot of pundits are just brushing right past her

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 20:40 UTC

You should consider talking to a therapist. I hope you make it past this period and come out the other side. Good luck.

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 20:38 UTC

Man I would vote for so much worse than Hochul. Santorum, Bachmann, Cruz, Marianne Williamson, the quickened ghost of Richard Nixon. Not because any of them should be anywhere near the presidency, but because Trump is THAT FUCKING BAD

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 20:33 UTC

And as you say that's not to say that Biden's policy is in any way *sufficient*, just that it's *really really bad* when someone with the moral center of Donald Trump is a major political candidate

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 20:32 UTC

110%. Thing is that if you're a single issue voter on Gaza, and Trump were saying "We should try and pull back on Israel", there would at least be an argument for an anti-Biden vote. But the closest thing Trump has to a Gaza policy is "Israel isn't killing enough Gazans fast enough"!

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 20:25 UTC

That's not to say there *aren't* gettable voters, but I don't trust the loudest voices on social media to be representative of gettable swing voters, and I think at least in 2020 Biden was the best unity candidate for the party.

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 20:23 UTC

The loudest voices on social media who proclaim they'd vote for X but not for Hillary/Biden have not seemed gettable, i.e. excoriating Biden for insufficient student debt relief when a partisan SC kneecapped it.

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 20:21 UTC

Well, the question is who you think are holdout voters, who you think would sway them, and what holdout voters you'd be losing by switching.

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 20:02 UTC

It is extremely not funny how much worse a Democratic nominee could be and I would still vote for them. Ideally we should be able to vote for the other guy if "our" guy crosses a line for us, but Trump is so bad on *every* level that ~nothing a D could do would make them as bad or worse

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 19:56 UTC

Same person was outraged when Dobbs came down... with Biden, for letting it happen

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 15:41 UTC

Is this your preference for the scenario where Biden drops out of the race, or your preference for the best path forward overall?

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 18:13 UTC

Also... is there a market for this? The stated goal is to reduce long term incarceration, which is not something John Q. Public has traditionally been excited about...

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 07, 2024 at 20:01 UTC

Is it possible to do black bar spoilers, so you can hide part of a skeet? Like, the kind where you highlight the text to see what it says?

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 01, 2024 at 21:48 UTC

I didn't get it until the end of the episode, and it floored me. I spent the whole episode being amused by the lady who can't see the problems outside the bubble she's in, and the denouement is that I couldn't see the problem outside the bubble I'm in

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] May 30, 2024 at 21:05 UTC

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] May 30, 2024 at 20:51 UTC

Thank you for your sacrifice

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] May 20, 2024 at 19:16 UTC

I'm so sorry for your loss. May his memory be a blessing. For what it's worth, knowing nothing about him other than what you put in this essay, I think he did a damn fine job of parenting and you were blessed to have each other.

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] May 20, 2024 at 18:50 UTC

The benefit, as you noted, is that they can get hired there if they don't have the experience to get hired by one of the big ones

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] May 19, 2024 at 02:04 UTC

Look, it's simple. You can represent each type of tokens as an N-by-M matrix, tracking quantity, +1/+1 counters, tapped/untapped, summoning sickness, temporary buffs, permanent buffs, phase status, etc. Obviously you'll need a different matrix for each type of token...

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] May 19, 2024 at 02:00 UTC

You can use dice on a single token to represent a quantity of tokens. But that runs into problems if you start giving your tokens +1/+1 counters...

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] May 18, 2024 at 17:36 UTC

I am increasingly convinced that some people want an American Dictator But Leftishly and see Biden's unwillingness to be that dictator as a failure to meet the moment

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 22:40 UTC

Fair enough. Thanks for your time

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 22:39 UTC

Okay. If the domain lapsed within those three years, do you know whether someone else could purchase it and use the domain for a non-commercial purpose clearly separable from the brand Twitter?

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 22:15 UTC

I don't know how copyright works - does Elon/X still own the "Twitter" brand? If he doesn't renew the domain, (would be stupid of him, but) could someone else purchase twitter dot com and start a microblogging service at that domain?

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 18:00 UTC

Like with the Kavanaugh hearings, where I get that Kavanaugh was pissed about 30 year old assault accusations being publicly litigated, but *even if they were entirely fabricated* his breakdown, rant against the Clintons, "what goes around comes around", were themselves disqualifying

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 00:54 UTC

Within the first five minutes of the episode I was ready for Jinkx Monsoon to play the Maestro as a recurring villain on the show for the next five seasons

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] May 16, 2024 at 16:28 UTC

Pity the Dilbert guy turned into the Pointy Haired Boss, old-school Dilbert would have a field day with this

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] May 16, 2024 at 05:33 UTC

Do you want your granddaughter to repeatedly invade your home and slaughter you? Because that's how you get your granddaughter to repeatedly invade your home and slaughter you.

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] May 15, 2024 at 18:20 UTC

I don't remember the exact numbers, but polling on support for the Iraq war in 2003 was something like 80%, and polling on "did you support the Iraq war in 2003" was high 20s/low 30s in 2008

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] May 12, 2024 at 19:40 UTC

This can't be real

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] May 03, 2024 at 19:50 UTC

"The International Criminal Court was unavailable for comment. 'We've received a number of allegations that a Mr. Percy of Swindon has committed multiple acts of sledging and mankading, and are preparing for formal diplomatic action as soon as we understand what those are', said a spokesperson."

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 21:13 UTC

Just as well, you might need a third side honestly

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 25, 2024 at 21:12 UTC

Does the text continue onto the back side?

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 24, 2024 at 19:45 UTC

My condolences for your loss. She will be missed

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 23, 2024 at 05:39 UTC

Bring back the G2-style slide out phones, except make it a slide out controller a la the PSP Go

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 22, 2024 at 22:07 UTC

The XKCD comic about how file formats proliferate, except it's all same people proliferating them

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 20, 2024 at 18:42 UTC

I'm sorry, do you mean to tell me that the ivory mines from the Fifth Elephant are real?

@rincewind.run

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 18, 2024 at 23:50 UTC

Isn't all adulting one day at a time adulting

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 15, 2024 at 01:55 UTC

Omori

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 08, 2024 at 22:44 UTC

Will there be a stream on it?

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 04, 2024 at 21:06 UTC

The thing about authenticity is that you can't purchase it.

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 04, 2024 at 15:44 UTC

Paul what happened to your TURBOness? Did you get hit by a blue shell?

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 27, 2024 at 16:34 UTC

I mean, Trump has him beat, but they're in the same bracket

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 26, 2024 at 19:12 UTC

You joke, but this guy would be better than Ronna. She'd paper over the howling nuttery and try to present a reasonable facade, he'd let it all out. If the point is to hire people to convey the ideals of the modern political parties, he's a more authentic spokesperson for the right.

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 26, 2024 at 18:54 UTC

This is entirely unrelated to the discussion, but I love your name

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 21, 2024 at 17:33 UTC

Didn't realize he was *that* Ken. Big fan of his steak house

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Starris @starris.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 19, 2024 at 20:06 UTC

“Villains!” I shrieked, “dissemble no more! I admit the deed! — tear up the planks! — here, here! — it is the beating of his hideous heart!”

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