Cate Blanchett is the GOAT.

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In a subby gimp plaything kind of way.

He employs scientists. He’s just a billionaire pretending to have skills because he owns the people that do.

Sound familiar?

That’s very cynical but not entirely wrong.

No. But other people’s suffering has never mattered to him.

If only there was a news source that could have told people about this before the election. Maybe a paper booklet, with news in it. We can call it a news-paper.

And an AI clone of Ronald Reagan, just to be sure.

If only they had compromised more and reached across the aisle harder. That will surely fix it next time.

Why can’t this fucking rag criticize Trump policies before the election?

Oh that’s explicit? I remember her being very lesbian-coded, but I wasn’t aware it was actual text instead of subtext.

It was the nineties, we navigated a lot on coding and subtext for these things back then.

I’m getting Ariane 5 tbh.

BioWare games have always been legendarily woke. Are the chuds just turning on the computer now for the first time?

I can find no indication of “consummation” or other terms that’ that seems to necessarily imply sexual activity other than a reference to birth control.

Anyway, immigration proceedings are stressful and heartless. I definitely recommend making sure you know your rights and the process. I know money is tight, but if you can find an immigration lawyer that has experience with the immigration process of LGBTQ+ and other “non-traditional” couples that would definitely be a very very big boost to your chances.

I don’t know if “we don’t have sex” is going to count as a strike against you in a U.S. immigration hearing, but the lawyer definitely should.

What definitely counts as a strike against you is lying, and they are really good at finding out, so I don’t recommend you pretend your physical relationship is different than it is.

That really depends on where you are going and where you are coming from.

In general, if you are going to a place that recognizes your union (civil or not, heterosexual or not), have paperwork to back it up, and have been sharing your life as partners for a while (ie shared financial responsibilities etc), you should not have any more trouble than non-ace couples.

Believe it or not, outside of weird sexually perverted cults like the Roman Catholic Church, having sex is not a requirement for marriage.

Poppy mania had gone too far in the early 2000s. Now it’s just completely bonkers out of control madness.

I’m an iPhone guy, but pixels are by far my favorite Android devices. Made with care, customizable, mostly crap-free.

Egg-posting at its finest.

Don’t worry, you’ll figure it out.

Listen, Intel is fucked. It’s fucked right now, and getting bought out by someone else isn’t magically going to unfuck it. Saving the company is going to take money and effort.

We can also just let it go up in flames. No skin off my back.

Let’s start with what we’re not doing. We’re not handing out money to private investors in the old “socializing losses privatizing profits” bullshit we’ve been doing since the nineties.

So, if there’s a compelling national security reason to keep the company alive, we, the state buy it. Then we, the state, run it. We run it in a way that benefits our interests as owners and customers.

Maybe a few years down the line we can find a way to sell it (or our share in it) in a way that satisfies our national security requirements and makes us a load of money. This is not unheard of, see the acquisition and subsequent sale of ABN AMRO by the kingdom of the Netherlands.

Maybe split it up, write off some parts, sell some others, keep others.

Or we strip maybe it’s IP, and license it out to contractors to get the shit we need.

We can do whatever. We own it.

You can actually host your own data now. There are still centralized parts, but they have been getting progressively fewer. ATproto is fundamentally a sane way to do stuff. Choosing to grow the network and the tech stack at the same time is an interesting decision, but it seems to be working.

Anyway, what keeps me on blue sky is not the tech, it’s the fact that it’s a thoroughly nice place to hang out. The nuclear block works wonders against jerks, and the focus on accessibility is very very nice.