I don't disagree that I'm often preoccupied with incredibly stupid shit, but frankly, cultivating the capacity to find joy in incredibly stupid shit has much to recommend it.

DOGE is a ridiculous tool for giving Russians confidential data.

"The most daming claim in this statement IMO:
Within 15 minutes of DOGE accounts being created...
Attackers in Russia tried logging in using those new creds.
Correct usernames and passwords.
2 options here. The DOGE device was hacked. And I don't think I need to explain the 2nd." leftist preppers

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the dumbth of this administration knows so few bounds - During WWII the US deployed a Naval ship whose sole purpose was to make, store, and provide ice cream to troops actively deployed to heavy combat areas. Now you can't even have 9 ball stressed these days. maybe pre-trip anxiety? at least my time with my financial advisor went ok. still hanging tough despite stock wackiness, and years of being an ok worker bee and doing the whole 401k thing should put in an ok place

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Trump, DOGE, and the like like to pretend climate change isn't happening and the government shouldn't do anything to be of service to its people, so stuff like FEMA quietly removes access to New England coastal erosion hazard tool will be more and more common.

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been messing with ChatGPT "make photo into comic"ness. a lot of fun though annoying that robots are taking over the creative stuff.