It is subjective, to every person. It reinforces in-group biases. It encourages constant argument on social media, and it keeps this topic alive. The pros, though few, are hard to ignore - it takes no additional thought and is the closest to how English as a language naturally works.

So because I was reminded - the definitive answer to "Is a hot dog a sandwich?" is "by what taxonomy?" Categories matter, after all. Taxonomies exist for a reason. If you're not clear on defining your categories, then your mixed berry salad will consist of:

"Mr. President this is your prize, this one, please do not try to steal the World Cup Trophy too."

here's why being a tomboy is worse than hitler:

oh, being trans isn't your entire personality? here's how that offends me, personally, a thread:

its cool how we constantly have this endless discourse cycle because Me calling Myself a Boy makes You insecure

did you know that when youre confident in your identity and sense of self you can cause psychic damage to others just by having fun and existing

Fake Imerica Freat Again

For the British, the impulse for liberation in Palestine had to be snuffed out at all costs But the increasing brutality of British despotism simply fed an insurgency that by 1936 solidified into what westerners term a 3yr “Arab Revolt” and Palestinians call their very “First Intifada”, or uprising

4/ Even worse on these officials account, it seems if the third view is correct, that was a reason to kill the survivors. You read that right, and I am not exaggerating.⤵️ A shipwrecked person beckoning others to come rescue them is a basis for killing them.

3/ "But some lawmakers viewing the video rejected that interpretation. There were no other unknown aircraft or boats in visual range, and no other boats involved in drug trafficking could have rescued them." And even worse, if I am understanding this logic correctly, ...

2/ What Adm. Bradley and Gen. Caine told Congress raises credibility concerns. "The military officers briefing Congress on Thursday said the survivors could have been trying to beckon to other alleged drug traffickers in a plane or boat to come get them...." But ... get this ...

NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse. The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead. "Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender" Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue." 1/

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

It is a bribe, a golden bribe. #FuckFifa

The European Commission announced that X would be fined nearly $140 million, with the potential to face “periodic penalty payments” if the platform fails to make corrections.

It’s something I think more modern war films are getting right. It was my big gripe about Band of Brothers is all the 20 year olds played by 30 year olds. Masters of the Air got the casting more accurate to “wow everyone here is an actual child”

always terrifying to remember how much of the military is children.

Jesus

Hey anyone wanna explain to me why the fuck we are doing live fire exercises on our own guys

Breaking: The Supreme Court will hear whether the Trump administration's attempt to undermine birthright citizenship is unconstitutional. Here’s what to know about birthright citizenship, guaranteed by the 14th Amendment:

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Fucking hell art is so sick

This nails it. Mid dudes who can't make art - esp quitters & those too afraid - devalued/dismissed artists + creative people well before the AI's effluvia. AI-stans relish "real art is fake" misinfo b/c they hate reminders that others can make great art & aren't as dead-inside mediocre as they are.

Thank you, Federalist Society, for giving us a bench of jurists who believe that the emanations of 1789 have a greater claim to law than the laws passed by Congress and signed by the president.

amazon threatens this every year and every year they come to the conclusion that actually attempting this would cost them significantly more than what they currently pay, this is *always* an attempt to renegotiate their costs, but the post has not *always* been owned by AMZ’s largest shareholder

anyway, wake me up when bezos decides he’s okay with footing the true cost of road and airway infrastructure AMZ is absolutely critically dependent on

The same cheerleaders for outright drone attacks by our military for perceived threats will be outraged when some foreign actor uses the exact same logic to murder Americans.

There are literally thousands of articles about these topics and, to my knowledge, none have been written by Alex Karp or Palantir.

Found a new guy

Just had this thought; it's weird that #Pokémon, an incredibly social game franchise, has yet to have actual voice acting while #Metroid, the isolated in space series, does.

Routine Manteinance

it’s cool how there are like five companies that own everything now

Why does this evil genocidal company have access to NHS data? Why are UK police departments using them for "pre-crime" surveillance? It certainly does smell like a fascist police surveillance state looking to eliminate the weakest in society.

“The quality of products provided or available for purchase is usually extremely poor — so poor that they do not fulfill their intended function... People have to use six pads at a time to prevent leakage, but they have strict limits on how many they are allowed.”

no lubricant, no protection, all night, all day, from the kitchen floor to the toilet, from the dining table to the bedroom, from the bathroom sink to the shower, from the front door to the balcony, vertical, horizontal, quadratic, exponential, algebraic, gasping and screaming

iam going to Die Here, on t this Toilot . taco bell was a mistake. the Cheeto's probably even more so

🌍 Eurovision has TV, streaming and social media audience figures in the billions. It is watched the world over. 🚫 The UK taking part alongside Israel pink washes genocide. Russia was banned, so should Israel be.

Torture is a feature of life in thousands of US jails and prisons. It’s often blamed on “guards,” but someone had to design this contraption, build it, plan its use, and run it up the chain of command. Judges and lawyers had to create a legal regime where this stuff pervades for decades.

BERMAN: Would it be legal for police in Arkansas to kill suspected drug dealers on a boat in a lake? TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.

“You’re prompting me wrong.”

Irony is dead

The bar in Germany is subterranean. The heightened police surveillance and violent crack down in different German cities feels a lot like 1960s and the Nazi period.

the word layoffs doesn't even appear in this article It's just all analysts chirping away about synergies media coverage of itself and its endless consolidation doesn't think labor, consumers, or creatives are actually relevant to anything

the AT&T acquisition of Time Warner and DirecTV alone triggered a massive layoff wave of more than 50,000 (!) people. But each time the press covers a new chapter in Warner merger history that stuff is just completely memory holed. Why do you think that's done editorially, do you wager?