Even if there was even a remote possibility Mitch McConnell would allow Trump to be impeached, it wouldn't be done by November. The Democrats might try again anyway if Trump gets reelected, but I doubt they bother otherwise.

Police work is less dangerous than you think it is relative to other jobs, and encouraging cops' action movie fantasies to the contrary might have something to do with their itchy trigger fingers.

Besides which, the article itself says they're not going without law enforcement, just that they're replacing the police department with a ' “community-led” public safety program'. Most likely they're overstating a reform that's going to move their policing more in line with saner countries in the hopes that protesters will think they've gotten a bigger concession than they have and be satisfied.

On the other hand. while I didn't go out for this round because the nearest city to me has been very calm and mostly just black protestors saying "hey, we don't want to be murdered", at every protest I've been to since Charlottesville we've had things like church ladies bringing red-and-black cupcakes to the anarchists and aged WWII vets needing to be convinced that the black bloc kids could handle 4chan nazis and they don't need to break a hip helping. I'm not willing to predict a left turn in US politics, especially after the Democratic primary had the most depressing outcome possible, but I don't think a hard turn to the right is likely either.

While I acknowledge that America punishes optimism, I don't think a "red and black scare" is going to happen. I mean, even the NYT is calling bullshit. The FBI is uninterested enough that Christopher Wray had to make himself a wingnut punching bag shooting down Ted Cruz back when that was his obsession.

Back when it was twttr you interacted with it by sending a text message to its shortcode and it relayed it. Also displaying the messages publicly on the web seemed like a privacy issue to techcrunch of all things. They really caught on by pushing it at sxsw for keeping up with other people there.

As for the Ruby thing, I didn't follow it that closely. _why coined the term tumblelog for a blog consisting of really short posts, links and images. Microblogging was the term that stuck, but tumblelog gave tumblr its name. Because _why was excited about the format and he had his weird cult of personality going the Ruby community got excited about it too. Twitter started out as a Rails application, so a lot of its early users where Ruby guys, for the same reason there were a lot of lispers on reddit early on.

Rushing to reopen despite the danger to old people, then screwing the national guard despite the military being the only sizable, not-aged GOP-leaning population left. Did a bunch of accelerationists get hired as Republican strategists when I wasn't looking?

Or have had experience with a nice, social, engaging office, but needed to concentrate and were hindered by people stopping by for a chat.

It's like every black metal album cover came to life, except kinda cute.

... not that it mattered.

This is either intentional theatre, or a very crazy person.

Not crazy, he just likes his bath salts.

Are you sure ffmpeg was finished before your deleted its input? It sounds like it was just taking longer than you expected.

If that's not it, I don't know. The script doesn't look obviously wrong to me, but you're complicating this more than you need to, and simplifying is often an easier way to fix bugs than figuring out why the complicated thing isn't working. For looping over files in the current directory you want for and a glob:

    for d in */
    do
        ...
    done

will loop over just the subdirectories of the current directory. */ only matches directories, so you don't need the test.

Using a subshell to reset the current working directory is going around the world. pushd/popd are what you want. Try

    for d in */
    do
        pushd "$d"
        ffmpeg -f concat -i mylist.txt -threads 35 -c copy concat.avi
        popd
    done

Since you're not doing set -e you don't need to worry about ffmpeg failing and leaving you in the last directory the script was working on when it failed.

My local optimum is between not feeling constrained by lack of money and not having the stress of pretending to enjoy competition or give a shit about business. That was high five figures, when I didn't need to check my bank account before buying a book/hardware/whatever and still ended the month with a larger savings account than I started with. Anything offering a higher salary since has looked like more trouble than it's worth.

Kinda figured it was a bridge too far to post here

... really?

Syria's Democratic Union Party are anarchists.

... because chatbots are cute toys that become frustrating when you try to use them in real applications, and always will be?

But read the comments. Fox News can post things like this to pretend they aren't just the propaganda arm of the GOP occasionally because the troglodytes will just shrug and the cheering comes from people they're never going to reach anyway.

Three years ago my first thought would have been "that has to be a typo."

I found a few posts that were obviously scraped from other sites and had some words replaced by synonyms (probably according to wordnet), e.g. this one includes the original byline linking to the author's posts on buzzfeed, where the original and more coherent article is the first listed. So they're plagiarizing clickbait and it reads strangely because they're making a half-assed attempt to hide it. As to why, I have no idea, I read through the source for a couple of pages and there's nothing shady in it. My best guess is it's an experiment, and once they're satisfied they can reliably game google they'll do something with it.

The prospect of university is quite scary as well. I haven't had to seriously academically apply myself since about 2016 and part of me wonders if I'm up for it. I really should be, other people can do it so why not me, right?

Don't worry about it. As an undergraduate the baseline is the guys who haven't sobered up from the night before and spent every lecture playing video games on their laptop. You should put in much more effort than them if you're not just there for the sheepskin, but if you do it's really unlikely that you'll do badly in your classes.

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1108919967150456832

The Old Left was marxists and labor unions, as opposed to the New Left of hippies who cared about everything except capitalism. Dianne Feinstein is what happened when the New Left got comfortable.

The house is on fire!

Stop shouting, it alienates people.

"Too much"? Sign me up for Animal Crossing and call me a filthy casual, man!

Are these elections held under state laws?

Yes. Some states, mostly in the south, used to need federal approval to make changes, because they had a history of preventing black people from voting, but that was undone in 2013. Take a guess what happened next.

Man it took me way too long to figure out that by "probe" you meant like Voyager.

A newspaperman tells the story that before Bill left, he met Bill smoking an expensive cigar. How, asked the news reporter, can you, a leader of the proletariat, smoke a rich man’s cigar? “Nothing, answered Bill, is too good for the proletariat.”

https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/garrett/1939/02/haywood.htm

(The problem may be that I'm not really interested in dating at all. If that's the truth, it's not a problem, really -- just something I need to realize about myself and accept.)

Welcome to the dark side! We have cats.

When you tell thenewestgreen that of course they can be President when they grow up, in this country anyone can be President, you will have ample evidence.

The Parts and Burlesque Revue

There was a bar in my city that used to have a dada talent show thing. There was a girl who did a... dance? routine involving a metal codpiece, a die grinder, and Punish Your Machine. Her stage name was OSHA Violator. I would go to the Parts and Burlesque Revue, but I would be very disappointed if it wasn't in the same vein.

Taking it as given that Trump's cabinet are going to abuse their positions to enrich themselves, that's such a bizarrely unambitious way to do it. Like getting a job running a hedge fund then setting up a three card monte table in the lobby.