I get why people are excited about Waymos. I really do. But, I think we can also look back at the effects of a century of enthusiasm for cars and say, “Going all in for cars hasn’t worked out well at all.” And from that, try to see what the next century holds, and try to do better *now*.

every social media company is bad but Meta really is uniquely evil

The fact that 38 years later nobody has a clue who was behind the stunt is the kind of opsec all hackers should aspire to.

i don't know why we wouldn't just have a big meal on thursday and take friday off, every week

Before WWII, the language of science was German. Scientific papers were published in German. International conferences happened in German. After the Nazis gutted research and exiled scientists fled to the USA, that language became English. Anyway, just thinking about learning Mandarin for no reason

The science is actually that good outcomes for patients should be the number one priority and fuck anyone who says otherwise

Guess I need to update my list. Everyone should have enough to eat, health care, a roof over their head, and should never freeze to death.

*FINAL MUSTER* CULT OF THE DEAD COW is saddened to report that longtime cDc Ninja Strike Force member, Delchi, has passed over the great rainbow teleconference bridge. He can now be found amongst the most blessed celestial engineers, venerating the great DemonSeed Elite, k-rad be his name. **

Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year. That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare. Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

“We had to give the dictator what he wanted so that we could protect a super-majority requirement in the world’s least representative legislative body” is a wildly anti-democratic statement. Neither the US senate nor the Democratic Party has proven itself capable of preventing tyranny.

*whispers*: social media isn't isolating us, exponentially increasing productivity demands and wholly eliminated boundaries between work and private life are isolating us.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Heritage is just cartoonishly evil. Just the worst scum on the face of the planet.

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

Meta annually earns $16 billion (with a "b") on ads built to defraud people. It's so bad that Meta itself admits that its advertising tools and platforms have made it a pillar of the global scam economy. Reporting by Reuters. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

you shouldn’t talk to a journalist about how people in need of abortions access them when abortions are outlawed, and this is no different. shutting the fuck up is free.

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No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong, it is right. No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness, it is a strength. No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited, it is unlimited.

Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it

is it good for the economy if the 2 kinds of jobs are the kind that make you miserable and tired enough to spend 35 dollars to get a burrito delivered to your front door and the kind where you fetch the burrito and get 2 of the 35 dollars

working at a MSSP company this is what we see every day. users don't get compromised downloading a malicious PDF or looking at a web page they get compromised by falling for a phish or having their password leaked and then getting push bombed with MFA requests for days on end

Also worth noting that the amount of money spent on the additional police presence is definitely many times more than it would cost to just feed the hungry people republicans are stealing food from.

My perhaps controversial assessment is that when you share the propaganda of your enemies to call it out or to mock it… you’re still spreading their propaganda and maybe doing exactly what they hope you’ll do.

They literally ruin everything they touch

What is "I had a bunch of veggies and I didn't know what to do with them", Alex

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It's not that every individual driver is a murderous asshole (I'm not!). It's that car dependency as a whole is dangerous. It's that cars are deadly when they hit people. It's that our society prioritizes drivers above all else. It's about a system that is dangerous for anyone not in a car.

I "enjoy" this disconnect between tech titans claiming that AI will have us all eating pastries and working two days a week and the reality of firing people en masse while simultaneously supporting fascists who oppose universal basic income and are actively destroying the social safety net

Lowkey sometimes what's considered malware is kinda subjective

so many people tweeting "how are 40 million Americans on food stamps" the supplemental poverty rate is ~12% and there are ~350 million people here, do the math why does nobody google even the most basic facts about reality man

I've had to explain to way too many Americans that LA isn't unwalkable because it's too big, it's too big because it's unwalkable. Half the city is parking lots or roads to get to parking lots. Rest is zoned for single family homes. The only problem that's unique to the US is hyperindividualism.

this one is good too

The carceral state is generally brutal and evil in the way it treats the human beings it cages, but it’s fine to point out when there are bursts of unusually concentrated or vigorous evil and use it to get people to care.

The way we avoid having to do all of this again in 8 or 12 or 16 or 24 years is by imprinting a generational memory of, "oh, the last time they did that, all of the top guys - I mean, the ones who survived - went to prison for the rest of their lives, and had their property seized."

Online censorship is one of the many levers of state power right-wingers have been pulling to try and snuff out queer and trans existence. But instead of fighting back, some Democrats are helping them at the controls. Read the full #OpEd from @fightforthefuture.org

Periodic reminder that we live in a bona fide age of wonders and we can save it from all these dumb fucks trying to uproot it.

I love that this is literally just we realized we weren't connecting with Black people so we tried talking to more Black people and Black people like us much better now

On a visceral level, demolishing the East Wing is utterly sickening. The symbolism alone is far too on-point. Not to mention the entire operation is illegal. On a human level, zip-tying kids and breaking families apart, or murdering boaters without a shred of evidence, is worse. But it all sucks.

He's not as cool as Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho and that's just one more disappointment

Apropos of nothing, Amazon is building nuclear reactors.

The Democrats need to get a hell of a lot of cameras on the White House and plaster the photos everywhere. It's not just the brazen symbol of a megalomaniac destroying national heritage; it's happening during a government shutdown when ordinary people aren't getting paid. Make every American see it.

billionaires should not be allowed to exist because the downside of "one of them loses their mind" is simply too dangerous for a functional society also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind

Yeah, I think that's lost on a LOT of people under the age of, like, 30-ish. Doc Brown's time machine was a DeLorean because DeLoreans were stupid garbage. It was a lemon he probably got for $500. Using it was just another thing made him look insane. 80s audiences would have understood that.

Protesters aren't the rioters. The cops are.

Diversity of tactics.

QotD: "I put some fun things in there, I call them Easter eggs but my team called them IOCs"

The President is announcing more extrajudicial killings today. A reminder that the administration has provided no limiting principles and these killings are completely untethered from the law (there was no "armed attack," there's no "armed conflict," and these aren't "unlawful combatants").

Quick question: If the Republicans are right, and someone is paying millions and millions of us to protest, and has done it hundreds of other times, and they STILL can't figure out who's funding us, aren't they way too stupid to hold office?