rubber_chicken [he/him]

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Cake day: February 9th, 2025

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  • The grocery stores in question are known as rock-bottom in both ways – they’re expensive as shit and the quality sucks. My NYC apartment sent an email blast out to everyone telling us how the lint trap in the dryer works and how you can’t just let the shit build up there forever. Gristedes is the grocery chain of choice for the audience that needed to receive that memo.



  • Trump’s rehabilitation in the US media is about to get underway.

    All of the bigotry will be swept under the “abrasive” rug. The idiocy under “not detail-oriented.” The fascism under “an admirer of strongmen.” With the watered-down critiques out of the way, they’ll trot out “but he Got Things Done,” which will be granted while things are very much still happening. There will be calls for the DNC to run nobody in 2028 out of respect for the troops.




  • Oh good. I just had one of these, too. I’m in Japan and wanted coffee. After a few blocks not seeing any dedicated coffee places, I decided a convenience store would suffice. They have the coffee gadgettron 9000 with no coffee cups in sight. I figured the machine would supply the cup as well, or if not, at least sense that there wasn’t a cup in place before it started pissing its own pants with coffee. Neither was the case. After failing to find a pause/cancel button, I summoned my inner skeleton and just walked out.







  • Even if that happens, it’s not the win one might think it is. The capitalist economy serves capital, not CEOs. CEOs are just the best-paid servants of capital. They, especially founders, get a lot of capital themselves but conflating the two is an error and, in our era, largely a consequence of the rise of tech. A generation or so in, we’re seeing that the incredibly rich CEOs can step down without pausing the harm their companies cause. Nadella owns 0.01% of Microsoft. That’s $339 million, so not paltry by any means unless you’re comparing it to Gates’ or even Ballmer’s stakes. Still, we haven’t seen Microsoft shift into non-shittiness and won’t see that under a pivot to AICEOs that survive on electricity and newsfeeds alone. The problem will still be capitalism, even if it doesn’t have a head to cut off.