getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 13/10/2026(And if you've read your Stancil, you know it's crucial to avoid *boilerplate* if you want to organize attention around an issue; boilerplate makes people tune out, signals that it's 'business as usual.' The anger is helpful but it's still kinda vague, non-urgent, nonspecific.) 000
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Even if he doesn't want to name specific names, he could say "We will find the leaders who authorized this raid and prosecute them, specifically, based on violations of 18 USC 241 and 242, with the intent of putting them in federal prison for the maximum sentence of 10 years" or something. 100
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 13/10/2026You know the difference between "Fine a company" vs. "Put the CEO in jail"? That's active here. Does accountability mean Ohmar filing a lawsuit and collecting millions of dollars? Firings? Pay cuts for DoJ officials? Who knows. 110
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 13/10/2026It's angrier than normal (laudatory) but still sadly vague and non-actionable. Stuff like: "Raises questions" -> No it doesn't, it answers questions "Deliver accountability" from DhS and DoJ -> google says these departments have 360K total employees. What sort of accountability, and for who? 110
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"Me and my tribe are being physically attacked at our home" is one of the most emotionally galvanizing experiences a human being can have. 010
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026And I feel like they actually stuck the landing on this part just by making the villain so magnificently unhinged that their inexplicable behavior throughout the series doesn't seem like a plot hole anymore, they're just actually fuckin' crazy 110
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Vague finale spoilers: I did enjoy the final battle since the main villain is basically enigmatic throughout the whole show and their actions don't make a ton of sense (mostly because it was obviously written after the pilot aired) so you get most of their characterization from how they fight... 111
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I wouldn't say I actually recommend *watching* the show; the character arcs are basically what you'd expect if you volunteer at a shelter for rescue puppies, and you could just do that instead. 110
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Yeah, that might've been funny the first time you saw it when you were 12 years old but it doesn't really land anymore. The only upside is the author's under no pretensions that they're somehow doing Great Art instead of a goofy anime project. 110
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026HH sorta reminds me of Murder Drones in that it was a fun way to spend a few hours when I was tired, but the overall plot/premise is clearly half-baked and you won't be doing yourself or anyone else a favor by thinking too much about it. 120
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026HH's best character moments are also done in the animation; like how Vox in the finale goes through narcissistic mortification in realtime, with his powers collapsing when he *notices* his ratings have collapsed (even though they'd clearly been going down for a while) 110
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I've never done it before but I always figured out starting the morning with an iced coffee would be really energizing. You know how icewater feels going down right as you stagger out of bed, barely able to walk? Imagine that, but with caffeine. 030
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Yeah, their real 'crime' was to walk into a mexican standoff and start shooting everyone else all at once. Everyone would have fought them for other reasons eventually, of course, but they were first in line mainly just because they cut to the front of the line. 061
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Maybe "Neutral in the culture war" just means the far right didn't try to get her canceled or turn her into a flashpoint for controversy? 71744
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026You gotta be a little more specific when you post stuff like this, I spent 20 minutes reading up on a Free French general trying to figure out what your problem with him was 040
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Non-historian take, but isn't this kind of odd since the Great Leap Forward also just killed 15-55M people on accident, and nobody afaik suggests it was an intentional genocide? "Accidental Holodomor" wouldn't even be the biggest entry in the category! 010
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 06/08/2026>First game >BILLS y'all are too real 020
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I mean we got one in *Alabama* but that was a special election versus an actual child molester so who knows 000
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 01/08/2026A lot of this stuff is *never* litigated by ordinary people, but it's important that we enforce the laws even when it's inconvenient. 140
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 01/08/2026For example, if a wage worker is turned down for a job because of the color of their skin, they need to go get another job tomorrow, not spend 3 years in legal battles & appeals. A well-funded NGO *can* support that campaign (on the worker's behalf) until the company has to change its hiring policy 150
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I think OP's point is that's something these institutions are uniquely suited for, compared to ordinary individuals. There's no way it's economically or emotionally viable for normal people to go through with it, but it's still good & important to win and prove the point. 170
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 20/07/2026On board until the Breyer's order, you gotta know your ice cream better than that. 010
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Depending on the laptop you can upgrade the RAM with aftermarket SODIMM sticks but yeah the rest of those are SOL 000
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 09/07/2026RAM is pretty easy & safe to get secondhand at least. So it's better than GPUs. 100
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 09/07/2026For Platner? Even if he *weren't* a scandal-laden candidate, this behavior feels like an invitation for paparazzi types to devour him like a pack of wild jackals. Dude was never gonna make it with that attitude! 181
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Like, "Find out the bad news is breaking on Thursday night; Friday's headline will be about the opposition candidate's previously-unreported extramarital affair, and if that doesn't happen, Saturday's tabloids will feature photos of the newspaper editor with his own mistress" 121
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Did LBJ, or Boss Daley, have sputtering meltdowns when people accused them of something scandalous? Maybe; I only know them by rep, but it's hard to imagine such skilled operators not having a better contingency response. 151
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 09/07/2026One thing that's struck me about Platner is he Doesn't Have The Juice in that he's actually not very effective at being an asshole. He keeps getting caught out and going down in flames; not exactly live on TV, but close enough. 151
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Even if you find one who does use melee it's probably *sissy* melee like a weeb monomolecular blade. Never a power maul shaped like an angry skull. 010
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026It's because Tau are sissies who don't use chainswords 110
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 03/07/2026@pushtheneedle.bsky.social OK dude I love you you but what is going on with your life that you're out here liking replyguy posts from 2024 arguments with Will Stancil at 5:30 PM on a Thursday? Like, how did you even *find* this post? 100
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 27/06/2026The position that 'elites should never be held accountable or made to face consequences for anything' turns out to have broad, bipartisan support among elites. 1230
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 19/06/2026"Space is boring" is just a bizarre take IMO. Have you *never* accidentally spent a whole evening on Wikipedia after opening the page on neutron stars? 000
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 18/06/2026this is the part that got me 1130811
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 16/06/2026I think the main counterargument is the PLA might actually budget enough infantry, something nobody else has tried so far. 000
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 03/06/2026You can get a tour of the King County vote-processing system if you're in the area during an election. It's well worth it; very impressive, very robust system for all-mail balloting. 020
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 03/06/2026That sounds like a fever dream. Are you sure you actually watched this? Is it possible you just took acid and hallucinated it all? 000
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Not 100% sure but it's related to how you can't buy one of these in America. MSRP $12000. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_...en.wikipedia.orgToyota Hilux Champ - Wikipedia 280
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Trump is clearly taking much better care of his health and seeing his doctors far more often! Why did Joe Biden skip so many clearly-regular appointments? Was he having doctors come over to the White House at night and in secret so the press wouldn't find out? We need answers! 4150
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Sell the card secondhand and give your kid 20 dollars in a candy store 100
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 24/05/2026The real sleeper market is gonna be fresh fruit delivery. No more of this "Picked 3-6 weeks ago so it wouldn't go bad between packing, shipping, warehousing, transit, storage, unpacking, display" bullshit. Log on to the orchard app and order tree-ripe peaches to your drone nest for tomorrow morning. 010
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 24/05/2026There's simply no way for it to be good when it's done with cars. I'm holding out for inexpensive delivery drones in the future, though. 110
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 24/05/2026I feel like a lot of the anger in Doordash Discourse from all sides is that it'd actually be great if this were cheap and good and we'd all love to get burrito taxis on a regular basis, so the fact that it's somehow $40 and your food will be cold is just a huge bummer. 110
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 20/05/2026I think it's similar to what a lot of commentators say about the U.S. military; that we hyperfixate on our (genuinely excellent) tactical abilities, but don't have the strategic/political depth and vision needed to translate even really amazing victories into desired endpoints. 000
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 13/05/2026(Amusingly, white men also regularly have this hang-up about Asian women) 010
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Could check up on whether the pattern is replicated in other countries (like, do Hindu ultranationalists in India have the same thing going on vis-a-vis Muslim men?) or whether it's really a distinctly American phenomenon. My guess is it's semi-universal. 350
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 13/05/2026I wonder if it's actually kind of normal? "Strange people from a strange land are coming into our home, and they'll take all our food, and they'll take all our women, and our tribe will go extinct" is a caveman fear so old it's probably embedded directly into our genes. 140
getastandingdesk.bsky.social @getastandingdesk.bsky.social · 10/05/2026(If your military score is high enough Harby just gets shot down en route and you get a spectacle shot of pieces of him burning up through the atmosphere) Also I think the Collector General part might not be relevant. It's been 20 years or something, I don't remember so well. 010