the title of the text does mean "the kinslayings of the children of tantalus" to be fair like they're not even trying to pretend that's not the part of the story they're interested in

a warthog is a thog specialized for use in war

ublock origin is not enough i need advertisers to feel physical pain

(TV police commissioner voice) you know, dick richards, when you suggested to me that we should unlawfully detain and break into the house of that guy who's an obvious stand-in for the writer of this episodes' political enemies, i had half the mind to fire you right then and there on the spot. but after you managed to find 10 petabytes of child porn on his computer (obtained via a hacking montage made by people who probably think the thinking part of the computer is the same part as the bit with all the pixels) and a handwritten note saying "i'm a stupid evil idiot and my beliefs are wrong" taped to his fridge, well, what can i say. maybe a little violation of civil rights is just what we need to clean up this city. here's your badge back, son. now get out there and keep doing what you do best

I know it's not great from, like, a Being Functional Or Secure standpoint, but aesthetically I kind of love how websites for banks and universities and government agencies and such just sort of accrete layer upon layer of technologies without ever taking the lower layers out of the stack, and if you need to do something sufficiently obscure eventually you'll break through to some Web 1.0-looking form with a "Last Modified" footer whose timestamp isn't part of this millennium.

everyone rightfully complains about how the r word is back in vogue now but I think the people talking about how using ChatGPT makes you a small brained lazy degenerate are getting off way too easy

I truly believe if you don't understand why a person ought to feel at best humiliated for joining the US military, you are ill-equipped to talk about any political matters outside of the country and most matters within as well

men need to STOP starting podcasts and START forming barbershop quartets. NOW.