My Uncle Tommy was a hemophiliac. He should have died before he was two. But I watched medical technology catch up with him, year by year, getting better. He spent his entire life being given only another three years to live, yet he made it to fifty. Medical progress is the real deal, buddies.

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

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The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

Everyone, but especially journalists, needs to be very careful about saying someone is "in the Epstein Files" just because they come up in a text search. I mean, Janis Joplin is in the Epstein Files, but that doesn't make her guilty of sex trafficking. Epstein got a newsletter from a music shop.

I always wondered how the oldest magics could be the most powerful in fantasy books. In computers, the beta version is always the buggiest; why would the first draft of a spell be the best? Only now, after watching AI and subscription services foul up once-great problems, do I understand

Age verification? I played Commander back when it was called Elder Dragon Highlander and it was being playtested in Alaska.

This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"

and, I can’t believe I have to say that: queer kids need online community, because they are far more likely to be isolated, get bullied and harassed in real life, so isolating them even more is -not protecting them-. this is also -the point of age verification-.

Let’s be honest Dr Ian Malcolm would be taking this pretty hard

The White House just sent a "Don't Panic" email. That'll do it

Today me and three of my friends watched curling. We knew next to nothing about curling. Half an hour later we're all like "Italy needs to hurry hard on those stones in the button because America has the hammer!"

Yeah I’m looking for my dog (girlfriend who has a restraining order against me and she has a dog) and here’s the picture of the dog (she walks this dog and I can use it to figure out her schedule) thanks for sending all footage my way

The strongest argument I've heard against building a city on Mars/the moon is that it would be infinitely easier to build a city at the bottom of the ocean, yet nobody wants to do that because it's so much work for so little reward.

I never noticed this either.

Fearful, I Googled "What was Jimmy Carter's stance on gay marriage?" Thankfully, our greatest ex-President, though a religious man, had this to say: "I think Jesus would encourage any love affair if it was honest and sincere and was not damaging to anyone else." Go Jimmy.

I know so many trans folk who'd KILL to be ignorant about politics, just dopily shuffling their way through the world without ever having to scan a headline

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

People get their news via social media these days. Newspapers always have a comics section, because if there's not something good to look forward to, people stop showing up to learn about the bad. So post your art &don't feel bad about it. We're the cheese wrapped around these hard to swallow pills.

If you could slash turnout to pre-Trump levels Democrats would probably win every national election in a blowout. That's an uncomfortable fact for various reasons but important to recognize

If you knew who Dick Cheney was, you were in a class of high-info voters who Kamala won

One of my coworkers found a plugin (NOT OURS) that functioned by the Javascript sending a raw SQL request to an endpoint that the server trustingly queries.

I need Millennials to understand that every single time this guy effortlessly pulls off a move that feels like the IRL version of a movie where Tom Hanks plays an authentically well-liked politician is your version of why your parents loved Bill Clinton in 1992.

very weird “I am Spartacus” thing happening right now with the worst people on earth

There are lots of folks here who are VERY certain there's NO WAY that Trump can interfere with 435+ separate elections. The state laws will stop him. I mean, like, I really want them to get right... but that all presumes anyone in power cares about law, which they absolutely have not thus far.

HOW COME NONE OF YOU TOLD ME HOW GOOD RUN THE JEWELS WERE Look, I'm a fifty-year-old man, you gotta tip me off to this stuff, I'm not gonna find it naturally

I am rapidly reaching the "I know I signed up for this weather but for fuck's sake can I please just not have to scrape frost off the windshield for ONE DAY" stage of Cleveland winter

Bad People who are fat or bald or have small dicks did not make those things bad, and pointing out that they have those things as an insult not only hurts more people than the one Bad Person, it also sabotages your cause because it makes it look like *that's* the thing you don't like. We know this.

feel like we've got a Surf Dracula where it's ten episodes discussing kid Leatherface's love of gasoline engines and five minutes of chainsaw action for the finale.

And even if they *were* correct, which as noted here they aren't, most of 'em got REAL QUIET QUICK when the guys they were voting for turned out to be the guys hoping to bang helpless teenagers. It was never about stopping pedophilia, it was about fantasizing how bad liberals were.

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

They wanted to destroy society because the existence of a high functioning society threatens their ability to enslave and rape children

There was an author I had specifically muted because I really didn't want to hear what they were up to. I started hearing updates about them again; turns out I'd accidentally made that author's name a temporary mute. Time to make that permanent.

Ah, yes, an extremely normal thing to do to a known billionaire sex trafficker who you were not close with, sending him pictures of your diabetes medication

Honestly, watching both sides try to spin the data on Melania is ridiculous. A documentary pulling in $7 million on its first weekend is extremely, extremely good... for a documentary. But an opening weekend of $7 million for a movie that cost $75 million? That's extremely, extremely bad.

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

Every Platinum trophy-chaser's dilemma: Should I waste hours of my life slogging through this repetitive gameplay that I've mastered, or should I just watch the end boss and cutscenes and call it a day?

I was hoping to really love the Persona 3 DLC Episode Aigis - The Answer, but unfortunately it's a millimeter-thick layer of story crushed under hours of repetitive dungeons. Even on "story" mode it's just an incredible waste of time.

This person gave me some advice I still carry around usefully in my head to this day and I would recommend her writing mentorship services mightily.

So an odd thing here is that if you say "an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume" your point is to communicate "it is not really Batman" but the problem is that the real Batman, within the fiction of the comic book "Batman", is also, literally, an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

24 hours later: Trump has two journalists arrested

It's so weird; having lived adjacent to New York during much of the Giuliana reign, the guy did lots of shady stuff but did actually do legit things like turning Times Square from a sketchy porno hub into a legitimate tourist destination. He could have been lauded if he'd kept his mouth shut.

Starting to viscerally understand why the civil rights movement waited for someone as utterly blameless as Rosa Parks to get arrested before launching her into the headlines

Oh she’s BROKE broke

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Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.

A 55-year-old, twice divorced, unemployed loser, a drunk with several DUIs, and pulling government disability despite being an anti-handout rightwinger, with a social media profile full of far-right excrement. This pathetic asshole is right out of central casting.