I mean, I got chicken pox when I was in kindergarten and more than three decades later I still remember how much I suffered with that. Shingles is like chicken pox 2: electric boogaloo and getting a vaccine to avoid that is a total slam dunk.

God looked into the book of life and said "Your name is not written here" And he said "That's okay God Your name's not in my book of life either."

I don’t want to vote for a Democrat who promises to get Trump’s voters to vote for them. I want a Democrat who wants to put Trump in prison

I'm marking a column in Excel with "Yes" "Maybe?? {+ optional reason}" or "No - {reason}" and Excel keeps insisting that it can predict what I'm going to do next. AI is such a disaster, and it's getting worse. "Niybe"??!!

At a minimum, please wear a well-fitting mask in airports and on planes, and in healthcare settings. If people did this, COVID transmission would fall demonstrably. It’s not that hard, and it’s not all or nothing. It’s also not just a cold—it’s an organ-damaging virus.

It would be awesome if we could stop re-inventing every awful thing from the past, unlearning every brutal lesson, dismantling every hard-won solution

Somehow worse than the apartment I looked at next to college my freshman year that had a clause in the lease: "if you are considering suicide, talk to us first."

somebody on here suggested awhile back that a pretty compelling 2028 Democrat campaign promise would be "on day one I will deploy a WPA-scale army of forensic accountants across every square inch of the federal government" and I think about that every day

This human centipede of generative AI funding has gotten to the point where it is impossible to not fail, spectacularly. It's mathematically guaranteed to fail, explosively. A bailout would be about the same as a bandaid on a sucking chest wound.

I don’t want to hear about norms, I don’t want to hear about looking forward not back, I don’t want to hear about “bipartisanship” I want the filibuster gone, the court packed, new states, and a top to bottom cleaning of the federal government that ends with a lot of people in jail

Frankly, I think authors should hurry to get their claims in before the bankruptcy talk starts.

authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now

The "He's a hebephile not a pedophile" argument is giving immense "The A in AR-15 stands for ArmaLite, nor Assault!" energy. Both are a distinction without a difference resulting in irreparable harm to children while the MAGA enablers think they've made a point.

I want to very gently say something, and I hope nobody will be mad: If somebody on the internet says something that is NOT about politics and NOT about how terrible everything is, it’s a kindness not to reflexively make a comment (in jest or not) that brings it back to those things.

I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

Glad none of them are mine, and also happy to donate to any primary challengers.

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

Let them fail, do universal bailouts to every American instead.

Sir, about the bread and circuses strategy, we've been getting a lot of questions about the bread, and also the circuses

I found the best boots at the thrift store today. My child pointed out that I have nowhere to wear them and she's totally right, but I bought them anyway because I knew I'd regret it for years if I didn't. For $14 I'll figure out the logistics later.

I feel like Bluesky making an announcement about changes to the product on a blog post instead of via Bluesky posts is a really telling statement about how frivolous they consider the product itself. To not even summarize the post in the thread seems wild to me.

That’s a fantastic comparison, because the reason they added lead to gasoline was just to increase convenience a tiny bit, and they’ve poisoned the world in the process. The good news is: Impossible as it may seem, we banned it worldwide and its bad effects are now mostly gone. Makes you think.

I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering

Halloween decorations have gone too far.

On my way to London for a business trip and it looks like I'll have a decent amount of downtime during the day. Any recommendations for shops/ restaurants/ small tourist things for me to do?

Look, I do actually WANT to talk to my computer, but I DON'T want AI in the mix so much more that I'll end up turning off all of these features immediately.

They are gonna push this narrative so hard when the time comes that they realize it's human rights trial time, and I need America to be serious for once in their life

Related point: in college I tutored PreMed students in Gen Chem and let's just say it gave me a HEALTHY distrust that doctors know what they're doing.

I'm sorry, there is just no way it's only Monday night (and not even very late at that). It must really be Wednesday or Thursday already, I'm not tolerating any of these shenanigans.

Why is Google Slides so bad?! I keep going, "Oh, I'll just do this simple thing I've been able to do in PPT for 20 years" and... NOPE.

My flight to Boston is delayed a bit but somehow now lands earlier than it did before? Here's hoping it's enough to get me on the ground before the storm grounds all planes in/out of Logan...

To close a Wells Fargo A/C, you must have a zero balance and no pending transactions. You can call customer service at 1-800-869-3557, visit a branch with valid ID, or by mail a completed Account Closure Request form if you are outside the U.S. Wells Fargo does not allow account closures online.

Companies should realize that while C-Suite Execs and finance bros think the tide has turned to the far right — it hasn’t. Going conservative will absolutely cost you money. Entertainment especially 👀

One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people.

Also important to note: that Ford's pardon of Nixon was allowed to stand is part of the road that brought us the weapons of mass destruction lies that brought us to birtherism to the Tea Party to Trump--twice. Without lasting consequences, white supremacists and Christofascists will never stop.

Everyone needs to take a good hard look at the demographics of everyone writing think pieces and theses and breathless social media posts about how our current situation couldn’t have been predicted in full. Because the demographics are glaring.

I don't pretend to know much about law but I felt warm fuzzies reading this.

It's really interesting watching myself lose every last f*** and how my dwindling supply gets deployed.

this business model should be flatly illegal taking on a bunch of debt to buy a company and then burning the company to the ground to service that debt while paying yourselves huge fees is a purely destructive practice that has never once had a positive outcome ban it completely

This is EXCELLENT. 1) this is spot-on analysis of the problem & a great immediate 1st thing a city can do to improve outcome. 2) as a 2 min clip? He's giving history, hope & change. Speaking to women, to Jewish & Black NYers, saying "abortion." & also naming eugenics in feminism. 100/10 no notes.

"Who would have predicted this?" - Black women did. - Trans people did. - The *entire* disability community did. - The anarchists did. - Post-Evangelicals did. "Well why didn't I hear them." You did. But you disregarded us as "extremists" and "alarmists". And you are still calling us that.

I know doomers want to say it's all impossible and nothing changes ever, but this administration is making complicity increasingly expensive and embarrassing. They are offering nothing in return, either. Disney learned that and the NYT is very obviously learning, too.

So fucking tired of all the ways we're getting screwed.

if I can give a piece of "theory of change" advice: never never never make a purchasing decision to stay away from a brand for ethical reasons *without letting them know that's what you've done*. they don't have a way to know otherwise. spend 5 minutes and send an email to the company.

Interesting that they want to limit the first amendment rather than the second, despite knowing exactly which one took away Kirk's rights (and life).

Here’s what we can do to let ABC and Disney know we’re sick of them kowtowing to the fascist Trump Administration.

This is such an important thread, especially anyone who would call themselves an ally.

"as soon as I got to my vehicle..." Said no real person ever. FFS, their LLM couldn't even say "car" properly.