Oh my god the music choice

This was such a confusing sentence to me until I found the quote tweet, because “riot” and “stella” are the I/O and video chips, respectively, from the old Atari 2600 gaming systems.

Yep, this strip lives in absolute infamy.

There are four reactors approved for building (two each at Comanche Peak and STNP), but no one is getting off their ass to actually build them…

Look, the Rio Grande makes it at least
*most* of the way to the Gulf of Mexico most of the time.

I was operating from memory of corporate comms in the 20-teens, but here’s a support question contemporary with that email talking specifically about blue calibri being the default for responses in Outlook:

forums.slipstick.com/threads/9607...

That’s literally the default font / color combo for several versions of Outlook, and it appears again at the very top. Mark was simply using multiple email clients.

This seems awfully complex for a base that largely consists of the sentiment “you had us at brown people.”

I love that this era had clear auteurs that you could recognize across different artists. This track is such classic Moroder. I mean, the lyrics are clearly Sparks’s style, but the music… just listen to this and then Together in Electric Dreams back-to-back.

*and* it’s $230. 😁

AFAIK, sexual behavior with a minor is one of the very few crimes that have no statue of limitations in many jurisdictions, and I suspect this tweet would be pretty compelling to a jury. Dude might be confessing to prosecutable felonies in public, which is *usually* something you don't do.

In case it's lost on anyone, the smallest unit of currency produced by the US mint when it began operations had a value substantially greater than a modern quarter. To get back to that quanta, we would need to eliminate the penny, nickel, and dime -- and even then, we'd have greater granularity.

Like, sure, I’m hand-coding 6502 assembly in 7th grade, but I can’t figure out how to move one matchstick to make your diagram have three squares, so I’m clearly not that smart.

AFAICT, this is the direct descendant of MENSA in the 1980s convincing America that intelligence correlates with the ability to solve cocktail-napkin riddles AND NOTHING ELSE.

…destroyed their own DEI program in some kind of attempt to comply in advance.

Here's a citation showing Blount's impeachment as a US Senator from Tennessee, FWIW.

???

Cruz was born abroad to a US citizen mother. His presidency would be a catastrophe, but the law does not protect us from it. harvardlawreview.org/forum/vol-12...

Yes, they can. William S. Blount, a US Senator from Tennessee was impeached under Article I, Section 2 of the US constitution -- the same section used to impeach presidents and federal judges.