My recommendation is don’t buy a plasma in 2025. I feel the same way about smart TVs, but you can just, like, not connect your TV to the Internet. That’s what I do. It works fine.

I used to own a really high-end plasma and held off on replacing it until high-end 4K OLED screens became more affordable, but I swapped it out about seven years ago and haven’t missed it.

I was playing the original Castlevania on it just the other day. Game mode, RetroUSB AVS, and an 8bitdo N30 wireless controller, and the lag is only like 10-12 ms. I can play Battletoads just fine with this setup.

They received a donation to fund the troops, which paid for a whopping 5 hours of military salaries. The donation was $130 million and the daily cost of military personnel (not including veterans’ benefits) is about $600 million.

He said he liked the term because the GOP was saying “Obama cares”

I wouldn’t quite say just another. She’s cozying up to Japan’s version of MAGA, and she’s another cult member, like Abe, which the government was trying to stamp out for a time. But generally you’re right.

The new Japanese PM is an ultraconservative nationalist who is cozying up to Japan’s version of MAGA. It’s like Javier Milei in Argentina nominating him. They’re on the same page.

The new Japanese PM is an ultraconservative nationalist who is cozying up to Japan’s version of MAGA. It’s like Javier Milei in Argentina nominating him. They’re on the same page.

Not grappling hard enough, evidently

Thermite and a long magnesium fuse should do the job.

Unwarranted hostility is his whole deal

Democrats don’t seem to understand this and just want to throw money at our systemic problems. I’m in favor of some form of wealth redistribution in the form of UBI, but so much of our system can only be fixed by controlling costs, and that needs to come first. Rent is one, health care another.

Japan has private insurance, but all procedures have a standard, fixed cost associated with them. As a result, their costs are low because the system has no room for middlemen and the enormous waste and economic inefficiency they create.

Democrats have (mostly) united to force the issue with the ACA subsidies. But they want to continue making enormous payments to prop up a broken system that is structurally incapable of controlling costs. The shutdown fight may be the right move in the short term, provided when people go to enroll they experience sticker shock and learn that Republicans are striving to double their premiums), but it can’t be the long-term solution.

If you pay everyone, it will just be slurped up by the rent-seekers and middlemen our system is built around.

“Those who support terrorism and undermine American national security will not be allowed to work or visit this country.”

Reason #46 to stop using social media. You can just assume fascists are watching and reporting on everything you like or post under your own name that’s more controversial than kittens and puppies.

I’m glad she was able to escape. This is just bizarre. Why her of all people?

“I’ve got you right where I want you: with a knee in my back and a gun to my head! Just wait… juuuust you wait…”

No vision for the future, no reflection or accountability for 2024, just repeating all the same mistakes she made before in her ego-driven quest for self-aggrandizement. Her platform is still, still “I’m not the other guy.” Given her categorical inability to listen to people telling her exactly what went wrong, she shouldn’t be anywhere near power ever again.

Trump may be the catalyst, but he couldn’t do anything alone. He has hundreds of MAGA federal officials and tens of millions of Americans propping him up, as well as benefiting from a spineless (with one notable recent exception) Democratic Party that willingly became the face of a broken status quo.

I look forward to never having to think about Cuomo (and Adams) again after this election.

If you live in NYC, take a moment to set a reminder for yourself to vote on Tuesday November 4 if you can’t make it to an early voting polling location, which are open starting today.

I don’t know. I think he would be shocked and aghast at the brazenness… at first… but then get over it and support him, despite disliking him personally, just as virtually every other person in his party ultimately did.

My guy, the Republican Party is MAGA. There’s nothing to go back to. It has been irreversibly transformed.

I’ll set aside other comments I want to make. But it’s important to realize that point.

They’re reassigning some field office managers.

“They are under constant threat; people are ground down; it’s a culture of fear,” said Claire Trickler-McNulty, a former senior ICE official in the Biden administration. “There has been so much shuffling of deck chairs — I can’t imagine anyone even having the ability to take on real challenges.”

“It’s a toxic job environment, but I get to brutalize immigrants, and that makes it all worth it.” — ICE agent, probably

Here are some numbers:

The Department of Homeland Security says that it has deported more than 400,000 people since Mr. Trump took office, and that it expects to deport 600,000 in total by the end of Mr. Trump’s first year in office.

Still, those numbers are slightly misleading. The Trump administration counts people who are turned back at the border and other ports of entry as “deportations,” even though they have never lived inside the United States.

Since the summer, the agency has typically arrested more than 1,000 people a day.

More than 60,000 migrants are currently in ICE custody, according to agency data, a dramatic increase. ICE received extra funding to ramp up detention and hold more than 100,000 migrants.

And a reminder that it’s not just ICE, but also CBP.

As ICE arrest numbers have lagged, Border Patrol officials have taken on a larger role in immigration enforcement, in sweeps at big-box stores and in a sprawling operation at an apartment complex in Chicago. ICE efforts, by contrast, typically focus on a single subject at a time.