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No one of consequence. Maybe listen if I'm talking about structural engineering but you can safely ignore anything else.

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Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · Oct 8

American cars are too complicated now. When will Detroit again make a car I could steal one piece at a time over several years?

Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 16h

Government employees are generally temperamentally conservative with high savings rates I'll bet.
Except for one group

Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 17h

Man if he wants to fund my development of a device that can pick up a variety of wet shapes that are extremely breakable placed haphazardly I'm more than happy to talk

Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 22h

That's the bad news, but the other bad news is everyone else is also becoming this bad so it's not that bad relatively now

Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 22h

You know an organization is about to suddenly die is when they start getting rid of the people who do the thing worth money. Overhead roles are important, but make the thing people buy!

Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 22h

USAJOBS is limiting everything to a 2 page cv in order to be more merit based which is at least just dumb and not that evil as far as changes go for these guys

Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 1d

Standing for eternity in front of Andrew Ryan holding a putter while he yells at me to kill him

Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 2d

Mine was the city just dropping off a note to say they're raising my taxes but also they're pretty sure I'm underwater on the mortgage. So yeah, the previous valuation was way off!

Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe I'm revealing I'm trad, but... That's not the song we stand for and standing for other songs cheapens the act of standing for the national anthem.
Also the nation anthem should be John Brown's Body

Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 2d

Just got the new valuation last week for the house I bought 7 months ago, man I hope it's wrong...

Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 2d

Bob Cratchit was PMC

Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not drawing it but a Venn diagram with 2 sets, 1 is "people who understand Venn diagrams" the other is "people who want to make a Venn diagram joke"
Whoever made this is in only the latter.

Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 2d

And my cousin knows a guy who thought he was an orange after he took acid, and if you flash your lights at a car without it's headlights on gangbangers will shoot you

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 2d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 2d

It is true that we shouldn't regard your choice to have children as morally superior to someone else's choice not to.
But also the result of their non child actions will be regarded as less valuable than the result of having a child, since, y'know, it's a person.
This is hard to reconcile

Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 2d

Wild to me that Republicans felt the need to invent their own Moriarty, then named it after antifascists, the people who were heroically opposed to the Nazis.
You made this up! Name them after something bad!

Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 2d

That is the monstrous part, if he ate them he would just be a ccokie-vorous animal

Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 2d

I think a lens that foregrounds kids and deemphasizes parents is good. Kids are people. They cannot work. Therefore society should support them.

Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 2d

They also sometimes venerate Catholic saints as recent as Oscar Romero!

Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, multiple pastors is ok.
There are elections for head pastor, but I think it's for life? Long terms at least.

Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 2d

Video going around today reminds me of when I read the homily St Oscar Romero delivered that ended with "[at this moment the fatal shot struck archbishop Romero, and he fell mortally wounded]"
The guy didn't die, but probably not great for the regime to remind us of beloved martyrs

Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 2d

This feels really close to the argument that Trump can't be bought because he's rich.

Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 2d

Man I hope you aren't talking about me

Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 2d

No man, try it. I've got a photogenic and mawkishly wholesome pregnant wife you'll be stealing from and USAA will be more than happy to float me the mortgage until you are forced to pay up. Do it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Mike Johnson: "Federal workers, it's my understanding that the law is that they would be paid. There is some other legal analysis floating around. I haven't yet had time to dig in and read that."

Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 3d

I'm reminded of the line that Dems voted to double funding for ICE, so the only risk I see of doing it this way is people looking for an excuse to hate you use it out of context.
But they'll find something

Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 3d

Small planes are called Dr killers because thats the only people who spend the money on personal aviation.

Marv @guiltysmith.bsky.social · 3d

And all for what? Just so some people don't die one of the most horrific deaths I can contemplate?