Halldór Auðar Svansson

It was not that long ago that straight-up nazi talk like this would have been a career ender, but this is how you win GOP primaries these days.

Pauly Walnuts very seriously telling someone that “it’s called Broad daylight because women light up the world”

international women’s day

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”

— 1984, George Orwell

I used to patrol the Mojave like you but then I wished for nuclear winter.

So their heroes include Walter White and Les Grossman. That tracks.

Lúpína ætti að heita úlfajurt.

Day 4 of Operation Le Epic Bacon Chungus

The dorkiness of evil

Stefnan þarna er algjör útvistun. Þetta er afraksturinn af því.

A screenshot of a post from Matt Walsh on X: I can’t take the gaslighting, guys. I really can’t. Conservatives are now running around saying ‘Iran has been waging war on us for 47 years.’ Okay then why didn’t any of you call for an attack on Iran at any point until now? Why didn’t you make a case for Trump “ending the war, not starting it” until precisely the moment when Trump did it? You and I both know that you are latching onto a talking point you never used until 45 seconds ago,

One of the worst evils of this stupid war is that it's making Matt Walsh look good.

After mentioning four dead US servicemen Trump starts talking about his ballroom.

In a competitive field, this may be one of the most offensive things he has ever done.

From the Wikipedia article on Monty Python and the Holy Grail. According to Gilliam, the Pythons turned to rock bands like Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin for financing because no studio would fund the film, and the rock stars saw it as "a good tax write-off" because the top rate of UK income tax was "as high as 90%" at the time. Idle and Gilliam had previously mentioned that Elton John also contributed to the financing of the film. A 2021 tweet by Eric Idle revealed that the entire original budget of £175,350 (about $410,000 in 1974) was provided by eight investors: Led Zeppelin (£31,500), Pink Floyd (£21,000), Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson (£6300), Holy Grail's co-producer Michael White (£78,750), Heartaches (a cricket team founded by lyricist Tim Rice) (£5,250), and three record companies: Island Records (£21,000), Chrysalis Records (£6,300), and Charisma Records (£5,250), the record label that had released Python's early comedy albums.

Tax the rich.

Seriously, this is literally the reason to have punishingly high top bracket income tax rates. It's to encourage money to circulate.

These musicians weren't try to game the system, they were acting rationally within it. They were incentivized to take this sort of risk.

The regime in fact hasn't changed. The USA is being run by delusional narcissistic morons.

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

Ég er ekki mikill gervigreindarhatari en eitt sem fer í mínar fínustu er þegar fólk lætur svona tól búa til texta með myndum. Það er mjög erfitt að fá það út villulaust, miklu auðveldara að nota bara eitthvað annað tól til að setja textann yfir.

The people who think Trump is going to bring freedom, human rights, and democracy to Iran with his bombings should talk to the people who thought that about Venezuela. Trump doesn’t care about any of that stuff.

He's a deranged narcissist who greatly enjoys and revels in violence in all its forms. Or course he has no plan. At least some oil can be squeezed out of Venezuela but this time around I'm fully convinced he's doing it just because he gets a kick out of being able to have stuff bombed.

Davíð Oddsson var merkilegur maður með langa sögu en nú er ég aðallega að hugsa um hvernig hún endaði. Að hann hafi verið ritstjóri á Morgunblaðinu bókstaflega til dauðadags, langt framyfir eftirlaunaaldur. Eitthvað tragískt við að hann hafi aldrei náð að slaka af eða verið bara skikkaður til þess.

Skiptu út Smjörva fyrir Bertolli: „Aurarnir vega þyngra“ - Vísir Framkvæmdastjóri Bændasamtakanna segir það skjóta skökku við að Landspítalinn hafi skipt Smjörva út fyrir Bertolli á kaffistofum og mötuneytum spítalans. Dýraverndarlögfræðingur telur ákvörðunina rétt...

Þetta er alveg frábært mál. Algjörlega dæmigert fyrir nútíma fjölmiðlun. Innkaup spítala á smjöri eru orðin að allsherjar menningarstríði sem endalaust er hægt að hafa skoðanir á - og svo er hægt að flytja fréttir af þeim skoðunum.

In a just world, every bad faith git with a platform who called Trump an anti-war president would be driving DoorDash for the next ten years. It was always such transparently false bullshit.

A social media post from Donald J. Trump on Truth Social, posted 9 minutes ago. The text reads: "Iran tried to interfere in 2020, 2024 elections to stop Trump, and now faces renewed war with United States:" followed by a link to justthenews.com. Below is a link preview showing the article headline "Iran tried to interfere in 2020, 2024 elections to stop Trump, and now faces possible war with U.S." accompanied by a photo from what appears to be an Iranian protest or rally, showing demonstrators holding anti-Trump signs and posters with Persian text.

I am going to need every single person who said that misinformation was a moral panic to feel enough shame and regret that they leave public intellectual life.

You can just say things.

Líka - hvert er þá erindi Páls? Hann vill bara að kerfið virki og það þurfi ekki að taka pólitískar ákvarðanir. Til hvers þarf þá hann? Þarf starfsfólk borgarinnar ekki bara að lesa þessa grein og taka hana til sín?

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Þetta er mjög fyndin grein. Hann er að lýsa þarna því athæfi Kjartans Magnússonar að dæla svona praktískum tillögum inn á hverjum fundi. Þetta er ekkert hluti af dagskrá þessa ráðs eða dæmigert fyrir það hvernig það starfar.

The modern mind is not able to comprehend how the Roman Empire was able to administer an territory all the way from Egypt to Hadrian's Wall without making use of Jira Sprint Planning.