Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 23hI feel like being a wide receiver on that team would be almost as dispiriting as being on the other team. 000
Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I’m gonna guess that there winds up being a big delta where hobby projects and other things that (rightly, or wrongly in the case of some of these apps) have relatively high risk tolerance get more “productive” and things that do not… do not. 000
Reposted by MidwesternBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This is the vice president's guy, no? This should be every headline, it should lead every newscast and EVERY REPUBLICAN SHOULD BE ASKED ABOUT IT. 201732529
Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 07/10/2026You understand that bringing in the actual lead partway through is a bad way to run a time-sensitive high stakes project, right? 200
Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 07/10/2026You understand that bringing in the actual lead partway through is a bad way to run a time-sensitive high stakes project, right? 100
Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 07/10/2026There’s no indication that the delay was helpful to the process, and it compressed the timeline which made the sort of delaying tactics that Trump successfully used considerably easier. 200
Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Granted all of the above, seems like Garland did Smith and all of us no favors to wait till late 2022 to even appoint him? 110
Reposted by MidwesternScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The Bari Weiss-ification of CBS News continues. Dennis Hastert was convicted of the sexual abuse of high school students under his supervision as a high school wrestling coach. Banking rules violations were his transfers of hush money payments which he misdescribed and which allowed 10398150
Reposted by MidwesternMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Again, <only Republicans> ever get to talk like this. If a single municipal level Democrat ever did, it would be a national outrage &spark a wave of “civility” discourse, & op-eds about how Dems must Respect Real Folkz & talk across difference. Democracy is incompatible with this double standard. 582242581
Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Something something a reasonable person would understand that he intends to stiff them? 010
Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 03/10/2026If you see this, post a not quite Star Trek.static.klipy.comBobbiechrisjen The ExpanseAlt: A meeting in a conference room in The Expanse 000
Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 02/10/2026“Would taking significant casualties militarily intervening in Yemen destabilize the Pakistani government” is a question I have never asked before and don’t know the answer to. But an interesting thought to encounter! 110
Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Get ready to hear all the exciting new lore about Leia’s late life second marriage to Wedge Antilles or something. 190
Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Or they noticed that the news media strangely almost never talks about a recession being inevitable and imminent like it did for most of Biden’s term 131
Reposted by Midwesterngeoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 22/09/2026lol years and years of attempts to rehabilitate george w bush as an old guard pre-trump republican and he goes, "no, this obeisantly anti-constitutional republican senate majority should remain in control for the duration of the trump presidency" 819241
Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 20/09/2026My basket above is more of an “cost of entry into archetypical U.S. middle class life” index than consumer prices generally. 140
Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Absolutely. Every metric is a set of choices - this basket is no more a real absolute truth than the CPI basket is. 140
Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This is far beside the point because the guy did specifically ask about bread, but I feel like a basket of “car/college/healthcare/house”would actually get at what he’s after better… super quick and dirty i get real median wages down 25-33% vs 1996 using that metric. (Vs +20%-ish via CPI) 270
Reposted by Midwestern"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It remains true that if the Russians went home tomorrow, the drone strikes would stop, no Ukrainian would follow them over the border and the war would be over. They can just *go home* and be at peace. The war persists because Putin wants it to. 437353
Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 19/09/2026At this rate we’ll get there but not in a way that reflects well on the media. 001
Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Unless streaming services aren’t included in CPI, I guess? 000
Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Serious question, it not still inflation regardless of the why? I don’t follow why one reason for price increase wouldn’t count. 110
Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Half impressed, half disappointed, both feelings moderating given additional details. 000
Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I think the saudis said part of their pipeline capacity will be back online earlier than anticipated, and since obviously there is no potential for future disruption, Mr. Market is excited about it the way he used to get for Trump’s proclamations about the end of the war. 000
Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I regret to have realized that aella personally would almost certainly be a more effective custodian of our national security than the current president 1190
Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026On the bright side, maybe the AI scammers will render the enslaving people to do scams business model uneconomical? 020
Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026You know I thought I had read this but apparently what I actually read was some portion of Harry Potter and the Natural 20 and thank goodness 000
Reposted by MidwesternKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Will Republicans be asked to disavow their Republican colleague's extreme statements and the death threats from an attendee at the Republican convention? Hard to say, as there's no direct connection between them like Democratic candidates have with that Twitch streamer 12636147
Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I imagine it's broadly like this www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/0...penny-arcade.comHigh Employee Turnover - Penny ArcadeVideogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary. 0210
Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Phi is the most visibly neurotic model I’ve interacted with but obviously nowhere near frontier 031
Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 06/09/2026That’s not a clean a story as I would like it to be, but certainly their track record is good compared to any other form of government, to evoke the classic dark joke. 020
Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 06/09/2026China, Cuba, and Vietnam are the beneficiaries of survivorship bias. 110
Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Ostensibly communist technocracies do tend to go floridly insane though, is the thing. 130
Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 06/09/2026It’s remarkable that we’re 18 years into the App Store and there is exactly one iOS original that I would put on any kind of top game list. 010
Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I have seen it reported that this bill is so vague that Trump could use it to impose sanctions on Ukraine and do nothing about Russia and still be within the letter of the text. 050
Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I guess if making mail voting non-viable is the point… 000
Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 03/09/2026If I could have 2010-era pro software on modern hardware with nothing added but support for making good use of multiple cores and support for current file formats, and maybe one other feature per app (for example, Photoshop CS5 gets the remove tool), I would be as happy as a clam. 130
Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I mean, if the naval blockade stays in place, Iran probably won’t care what he declares… 0230
Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 02/09/2026It's only a backfire if letting more wealthy people get away with tax evasion and fraud wasn't the intended result. 000
Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Tbh I think Johnny C might do it if Trump told him to. 1150
Midwestern @midwestern.bsky.social · 02/09/2026It’s perfectly reasonable to blame Regan for starting lots of bad trends in the U.S. that impact the country very negatively today, why not Thatcher? 020
