Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"5 degrees to the left of center in good times, 5 degrees to the right of center if it affects them personally" 081
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I think it could even have been more frightening without that. Maybe that's just a different book but the best case scenario after any nuclear exchange between USA and DPRK might still be apocalyptic 110
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Just finished Nuclear War and it mostly seems well researched but she also quotes a North Korean defector who was on Joe Rogan's podcast. I've seen clips from that interview and can't imagine accepting it as a factual account 140
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Every time I listen to this song I can hear Justin singing along 011
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026If candidates take shit positions that will get them yelled at that's on the candidates not the voters, they need to learn and do better if they really care about defeating Republicans 040
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026If that were true then we wouldn't be arguing but there's Dems publicly supporting the shit in red so here we are 230
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Stop attacking Dem voters. If you tie every candidate together like this all you will accomplish is lower turnout 050
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Candidates should have listened to the voters, then maybe they would have won 030
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Trans rights are human rights. Politicians should support them because it's the right thing to do. 220
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 13/09/2026People always criticize political candidates for their views while they are campaigning for office. What's the mystery? 110
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Agreeing with right wing framing of an issue is how you keep the culture war going and lose. Gay marriage was a wedge issue until Dem politicians started saying that the right wing was wrong 0100
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Hell yeah. They attempt to replicate Keanu's performance by selecting an audience member to play his character and having them read the lines off of cue cards 130
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Ignoring something is not the same as not being able to detect something 030
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Haven't read it yet but I assume Betteridges law of headlines applies here. Any headline that ends with a question mark can be answered with "no" 000
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I wouldn't have a moral objection to doing so. I've been a manager at other jobs and quit when the bosses wanted me to do something I thought was wrong. That kind of situation seems less likely here and that's one of the ways that a unionized workplace is better for managers as well as union members 010
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Hard not to pick Billy Woods - History Will Absolve Me or the original art for The Coup - Party Music but here's Shrines by Armand Hammer 110
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Sure block me I guess. I'm not loving the random insults as to my character and intelligence and repeating slogans I already know about how much this capitalist system sucks isn't exactly consciousness raising. No posting is activism. Not mine, not his, and not yours 000
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I think it's complete bullshit and I'm a little surprised you don't 010
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026What is this shit? I like my union and I like hearing people support unions. 000
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Some rich people manage to still have correct opinions on some things, that doesn't mean that they're pretending to be poor. Wealth isn't a proxy for morality in either direction 310
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026How is this cosplay? He's making statements that are true. They don't become less true because he's wealthy 110
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Nonsense. I work at a union hotel and this is some of my coworkers first job. People move to other jobs or get promoted to management so you can advance in seniority fairly quickly. 2 years here and I'm already 2nd in seniority in my department. Union dues are simply withheld from our paychecks. 131
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I wasn't upset that Liz Cheney endorsed Harris, I was angry that Harris campaigned with Cheney. I don't think Tucker is going to get invited to appear on stage with El-Sayed so I don't see any reason to be mad about it 000
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Sure but that's not the problem with him. Maga never cared about hypocrisy anyway 000
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Who's pretending? I'm not saying don't campaign against him if he's the nominee, I'm saying that it can only hurt him to keep saying that he's a loser and that no one except Thiel wants him to be president 010
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 29/08/2026It's an attack line, and a good one. It would be foolish not to use it 100
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 29/08/2026If someone were working to help him win the primary by discouraging attacks on him that would be foolish. Calling him an unelectable loser is staying on message and I don't see any problem with that 100
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 26/08/2026For me it's got to be Pete Seeger How Can I Keep From Singing "When tyrants tremble weak with fear, And hear their death knell ringing. When friends rejoice both far and near, How can I keep from singing?" 010
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I'm going to insist on this rule change the next time someone asks if I want to play for money 050
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Yeah, I was yelling at the screen the whole time 010
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 23/08/2026We all already had access to creativity. You can just say "Pope in a puffy coat" and I can picture that in my head. If you can describe it to a computer then you can just say it to other people instead. Describing a little fictional scenario briefly is a very popular form of post, no ai necessary 1440
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Casseroles don't have a crust. Chicago pizza is a pie 210
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026It's fair game to point out that this thought experiment looks like it might be relevant to debates about LLMs but actually is not 1130
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026LLMs are a completely different category of thing than C3-PO. The fact that one can imagine a consciousness embodied in machinery has no relevance to the current debate over ai generated art or writing 010
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 18/08/2026You say it's well documented as if the issue was decided. The article says there are studies on both sides and that it's still being debated 110
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 15/08/2026They run those ads no matter what. Doesn't matter what the slogan is. Doesn't even matter if the candidate supports any policy that could possibly be misconstrued that way. The ad still gets run. The important thing is to be willing to explain what you mean to the people who are willing to listen 130
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 11/08/2026"I'm thugged out, I just sleep on the floor With the rats and the roaches, keeping it raw" 110
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Sometimes a sentence describes how the world is and sometimes it describes how the world should be. Saying what you think should be the case isn't useless 100
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 11/08/2026It does not imply that. "You shouldn't have to ask someone to unlock the soap" does not imply that the soap is unlocked and you don't have to ask, it asserts that it would be better if the soap were unlocked 210
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I've heard that as well but never was able to find any details on the recipes, would love to taste them. The flavor of weed definitely can work in some dishes 000
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Yeah, happy pizza is super gross. Usually just grind some up, seeds, stems, and all, then dump it on top. Tastes like shit and doesn't really get you high. Better to ask for the happy on the side 130
Herbert Herbington @sarsi.bsky.social · 09/08/2026It's a sport where people get fouled sometimes. It's very common across different sports for fans to celebrate a foul committed against the other team, especially when no one really gets hurt. Fandom is often uncouth. In this case the headline says the player got called on the foul and ejected 000
