Coastal elite: a Starbucks employee with a degree in philosophy who is semi-homeless and sleeps on their friend's sofa. Real American: a multimillionaire farm supply business owner with a degree in business.

The stupidest fucking person here, folks. 'It's hard to combat the dangerousness of that room full of people trying to murder you by being in other rooms and not going into that one.'

Democrat: here's proof your plan is evil Republican: aw shit you caught me Democrat: [votes for the evil plan]

He goes on to say 'It turns out, I hadn't realized it at the time, but I left my TiVo running on January 6th, and it was just right there in the speech he gave and then the news about what happened afterwards. I had no idea, he was just committing crimes in public like that.'

Wait, do we actually have to list 'no assassinations' when we're visiting someone? I sort of thought that was implicit under hospitality rules: I'm in your house, you shouldn't murder me. I guess I should start clarifying this before visiting people.uk

Ultimately, the real person standing there in a hot dog suit asking who could have done this are the friends we made along the way.

I don't know that I've talked about it here, but as someone with delayed sleep phase disorder, who had it in high school, I am an absolute fanatic about this and about how we will do absolutely nothing to fix it ever.

@ossoff.senate.gov and @warnock.senate.gov continuing to be absolute failures. Why reelect @ossoff.senate.gov when he's doing shit like this?

Repeating my helpful little mnemonic song from Twitter: If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed 👏👏 If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed 👏👏 If you can't get there without him And you don't know much about him If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed 👏👏

The most prominent Nazi in America (yknow outside of the fucking president) is doing an act. It’s kayfabe. A gay Mexican man has successfully taken over the Neo Nazi movement in America. And is competing for that title with a black woman. Incredible. America: land of possibilities

The editors continued their statement with, "Luckily, as professional editors in the field of journalism, we have literally no standards whatsoever to hold ourselves to, thus no reputational damage for working at this shitshow can be done to us, because the industry will not hold us accountable."

This is why I spent a lot of effort, and it was a lot of effort, to delete every single last post I'd ever made over there. They don't get my content, and deleting my content made things less usable for other people, breaking conversations and removing context. Everyone should do it.

There are only three phases of the MCU: 1. The start 2. Wong is introduced. 3. Madisynn is introduced.

It's very funny to watch people argue back and forth, when there's actually kind of an obvious thing, because it's actually both: Fascism starts where people are materially wealthy enough to do fascism, but are dissatisfied with something.

The real #leverage was the corporate executives we put in prison along the way.

turning a big dial taht says "Transphobia" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right

I just think it’s funny they told this reality TV bimbo he was secretary of transportation and his little pea brain immediately thought he was supposed to come up with travel advice

I'm glad the Bible explainer is here not only to explain that rule-breaking is okay because Jesus did it once, but to explain that Jesus did it on Sunday, which was surely the Sabbath. (No one check that.)

Yeah, the media really needs to call this out, don't let them hide behind 'European', the countries are not physically moving, they are exactly as European as before. Make the administration state exactly what the fuck it means by 'non-european'.

Yeah, I think a lot of people will miss the fact that eugenics isn't, strictly speaking, factually incorrect. Often it is done extremely poorly and wouldn't produce the results they want, but it could, in theory, work Humans, like all living things, are indeed subject to selective breeding.

It's kinda amazing to read this entire report and see the actual complaints, mostly because some of them are just incredibly idiotic: www.scribd.com/document/958... It's clearly trying to be at least a little even-handed and that makes parts hilariously stupid.

Allowing Trump to remain in office this long as an impeachable offense. And I mean that literally. I know people don't ever really talk about impeaching members of Congress, mostly because it's a thing done by Congress and people mostly think of impeachment is how to remove people from office.

So, I'm watching this all from a far, and I'm sitting here wondering who the fuck thinks political journalists had any 'public trust' before this point. You guys are fucking fascist enablers who gave us Trump. Yes, basically all of you.

There needs to be a term, like fridging, for describing things like what happens to Beverly Crusher in Star Trek Picard. Where a woman just...vanishes and keeps a pregnancy and child secret for literally no reason, sometimes for decades, just to serve as part of the plot of the father learning it.

I hope the court slaps this down, because you cannot say that something is against the terms of service, and then _help a user do that thing_, and then claim that they violated the terms of service doing the thing. That is pure nonsense.

It really is amazing how many Democratic politicians don't seem to understand what the word 'acceptable' means. They are, in fact, accepting Trump doing these things, his behavior is thus entirely acceptable to the US Congress.

For the record, a 'whistleblower' is someone who works for or with someone that they then inform on to the authorities of wrongdoing by that person in that industry. What industry, exactly, were Trump and Epstein in together that Trump then informed on?

Larry Summers is no longer on the board of OpenAI, which I guess could help reputationally, but it's a little too late for Larry to try to fix his reputation.

Fun fact: there's a Donald Trump board game where there's a card you can draw that trumps all the others, and has Donald Trump on it. That card is called: The Donald. Apparently someone is too dumb to know what a trump card is.

to have an affair with one longshot presidential candidate twice your age that you’re profiling may be regarded as a misfortune; to have two looks like carelessness

Trump's policies are inflicting so much harm even his allies can see it. Yet he's mostly doing exactly what he promised to. If they revolt over policy, they'll reveal they were fools to back him in the first place. They need a *moral* reason to abandon him. The Epstein files provide just that.

'Quietly urging' solves literally nothing. Why? Because the thing that stops people from being able to pose as ICE agents without identifying themselves as people expect ICE agents to do that. It literally doesn't matter if all ICE agents were to stop it today, if no one knew that.

Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely

Although many people are saying it, I do not believe our current president sucked off former president Bill Clinton on camera. I have not seen sufficient evidence that our current president gave the former president a blowie in a way that was memorialized in a photo. That's not something I believe.

Imagine how either stupid or deliberately manipulative you would have to be to phrase 'not running the story' as protecting Epstein instead of protecting Trump.

I actually think this is a fair point and it’s hard to know precisely what you’d publish out of these emails. It’s just maddening in comparison to the NYT’s willingness to absolutely obsess over scurrilous rumors about Biden dementia, Clinton email non-scandals, etc.

I will march into gunfire for the candidate that treats million dollar white collar finance criminals like ICE treats nannies.

See, I agree with this, but I assume elected Dems were just kind of stupid bipartisan brain ed had dumb priorities, and their priorities were just getting people health insurance. I didn't think that was the right priority, but it at least was a reasonable thing. Yeah, they didn't even want that.

They got cute and used Senators not up for re-election next year or ones that were retiring for the surrender vote. So here's the metric we use instead: If you aren't pushing for a new Democratic leader in the Senate *immediately,* you're out on your ass.

No one should vote for anyone who 'understands' why this happened. The entire fucking caucuses is in on this, it's a deliberate con where they have the Democrats who are not vulnerable fold. But listen to how the ones that voted 'no' talk. They're all in on it.

What the article doesn't mention is that he's actually conned the police into believing he ages backwards, and has solved several crimes for them.

as a computer scientist, i am BEGGING people to realize that there is no cognition inside of an LLM no reasoning, no thought process, no self-awareness I read a lot of arguments (for AND against) LLMs, and both sides seem to think there’s a consciousness or intentionality or even a moral alignment

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

It is becoming more and more clear that Marjorie Taylor Green is just an ignoramus, and I mean that in a good way, because other people in her party are vicious monsters who are fully aware of what they are doing. She's just kind of dumb, and knows nothing, but sometimes ends up sounding reasonable

Strangest fucking headline by Bloomberg here: Failure to hide evidence of crime threatens to expose criminals to billions in damages ...um, the thing that theatens them with penalties for doing a crime is doing the crime, not failing to cover it up.

It's fun how Trump causes us to ignore things that would be pretty big scandals in the past, like a Republican president endorsing a former Democratic governor, someone who ran in the Democratic primary, in a race for there is an actual Republican running.

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

Yet more things the media shouldn't let them get away with saying. It is basically completely insane to pretend that a government law that is going to be voted on in Congress should be kept secret before that. There's no reason to do that, except that people would be upset by it.

One of the stupidest fucking things about AI, besides the fact that the giant bubble that's about to destroy our economy, is the suggestion that it might be intelligent. And the fact we have to fight that suggestion. AI has literally none of the feedback loop that conscious thought requires.