@joe
I think we all know by now that it won't be. The modern GOP will only end in one of two ways: in-fighting or guillotines.

@HamonWry
Nah man the nation is a failure but the experiment was still a success; negative results are useful results too, and we've provided a trove of data on what to avoid.

@markwyner
Yep, and when I see it I immediately close the tab.
I appreciate that isn't always an option of course, just saying: fuck that shit all day everyday.

@stux
Yeah, "don't worry about things you can't control" should really be "don't spend your energy worrying about things that are BEYOND control," like supernovas or blackholes, not "when the going gets tough, abandon ship".

@medley56 @skeletor
I was implicitly assuming the bath is full, as the joke was about combining bathing/showering with sleeping.

@mighty_orbot @MissInformation
Aluminum is a pretty good conductor, so it mostly just passes the current along, enough so that air cooling is sufficient.
Concrete is resistive, so it heats up when the current is forced through.
That said it very much is the ladder melting there, just from the bottom up due to the hot ground below it. Additionally, the resistivity of metals increases with heat, so now the molten aluminum is probably also heating up directly.

@skeletor
Note to self: do not actually sleep in the bath, this is danger zone

@jk
Real talk tho a lot of people young and old don't know that it comes from cathode-ray tubes.

@venite
Mixed answer: fine but annoying, neither inherently welcome nor unwelcome. Unsolicited advice is IMO just an unfortunate side-effect of human empathy; we all want to provide help to others far, far more than we want to receive help from others.
(also mixed answer: gender fluid)

@dansup
Lack of algorithm is one of the blockbuster features of the Fedi, please don't recapitulate the enshittification of the web.

@mcc
By extrapolation, we can infer that "Mrs." signifies he/her, and "Mssr." signifies she/her (accusative)/him(dative)

@alice
Additionally to all of this, what kind of milquetoast stick in the mud asshole uses "guys" when "meatbags" is an option?

@Moss
(and don't tell me you don't see it)

@Moss
Bargain pareidolia, now two for one!

@Moss
aka terminal (in the sense of "at the end") transdactylopathy

I'm about as strategic a voter as they come ... in general elections. If it's down to two evils, I'm there, every single time, first in line to vote for the lesser one.

But I will scream until my dying day that primaries just aren't for that. Primaries are about preference. They're for picking the one you like best. That's why I love giant primaries with a dozen candidates and ranked choice voting. It's my favorite kind of democracy. It's both effective and sincerely fun for me.

So if you're in New York City, a city I love but don't vote in, please vote your preference, not what someone else tells you is smart or strategic. Vote your values and don't believe them when they say you have to compromise. Not yet. And please, please, don't rank Cuomo.

#uspol #nyc

@piku @lizardbill
Yep! Old English, wer (male person) + wulf . Female equivalent would be a wifwulf. "Woman," incidentally, derives from wifman, a [female person]-person.

@weirdestate
Lol, wallpaper would almost be normal-adjacent, but that's some damned wrought iron vine work over the light fixture. Observe the left-hand anchor points.

@corbden
Or, to be extremely succinct about the issue:
The greatest trick white culture ever pulled was convincing the world it didn't exist.

@corbden
(as a minor analogy, consider the case of vanilla: it has been adopted a the "default" flavor, equivalent to "plain" or "nothing", but if you step back a bit that's absolutely insane: vanilla is a very intense and complex flavor. We're just so used to it, and to being told that it's the default, that we've accepted stark madness as "obvious")