So many long games are being played now, it’s like everything is laying groundwork for something else. Would be nice for laws to just do what they do.

Corporate legislation, making America Great as always.

Probably would have helped if it didn’t look cobbled together out of sheet metal for a low-budget post-apocalypse movie. I picture Humungus standing up in it chasing Mel Gibson.

Me too.

I can’t wait for 2028.

Some see planning ahead as dull, some see it as an Adventure!

Never heard of the scream test in 40 years of software dev, but I like it.

If suing companies for not advertising on your platform made any sense, porn sites could sue almost the whole economy.

Yeah it’s weird that people always ask this question in terms of military service.

Change “military” to “national” and I do, with appropriate exemptions for disabilities. There’s usually something a person can do for public service, even if it’s keeping a dying patient company.

We’ll definitely jump when it gets hot enough, the question is if we’ll jump before the logistics and mechanics of solving the problem take longer than it takes the world to become uninhabitable.

Thinking about slow-moving effects, I have a theory that exposure to fiction is one reason people feel inadequate and depressed. For most of human history our idea of what it meant to be normal came from real people around us. We didn’t know any fictional characters except for a handful of stories told around the fire. After radio was invented we got to know a lot more fictional characters, a lot faster and more intimately than we get to know most real people. Then television made it more vivid because we could see them. We think of many of these unreal people as our friends. Some of them have more impact on us than real people do. It’s a lot easier to feel boring and inadequate than it was when we didn’t feel like we knew people whose lives are so much more dramatic and interesting than ours. I think this is a large part of why it feels like failure to have an unremarkable job or date average people. It’s a very slow-moving social change nobody would have seen coming.

Black Americans for Trump is definitely a mind-numbing concept. We’re living in strange times.

In other news, Chinese restaurants will serve only burgers, fries and shakes, and will be called Freedom restaurants.

Is she prengenate?

This actually seems plausible, and would be consistent with his second term outdoing his first as a rolling satire of itself. Just to spite him the next President should replace the White boxes with fabulous Pastel boxes in decorator colors! Queer Eye for the Blue Sky! That should be on the agenda for Day One.

Cool, I had a Win98 one memorized for years but it’s gone now.

And of course there’s…

Back in the 80s I knew Wang Chung.

Unscrambling mixed-up words. I can usually do 5-letter ones on sight, 6-letters might take a minute, or at least a few seconds. Recently while watching Young Sheldon I was surprised to see a closeup of a Jumble that Meemaw was working on - which I’m still not sure was real because one of the words was POINT, which can also be PINTO. The Jumble people are usually careful to avoid words with multiple solutions, because certain letters in each word become the source for a longer final jumble, so having them unambiguously in the correct positions matters.

I immediately sought a second opinion, but the earliest appointment was two months from now.