one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

For the love of all that is holy stop using AI to produce slop making fun of Trump. It’s lame as shit and only normalized a technology that’s economically, environmentally, and intellectually destructive. It’s using fascist tools and thinking you’re fighting fascism. Stop.

I have watched as so-called "compromise" positions on transgender people's rights have failed over and over--in statehouses, the Biden White House, and in liberal rhetoric. There is no middle ground acceptable to the politicians, activists, and billionaires obsessed with trans people and our lives.

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

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the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this

There is absolutely no excuse for any Democrat asked about trans athletes to ever respond with anything but “why are you wasting my time asking about FEWER THAN FIFTEEN CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY WHO WANT TO PLAY GAMES WITH THEIR FRIENDS. What is wrong with you?”

All the dire implications notwithstanding it is hilarious how evil this technology is. Billions of dollars spent on this greasy lying stupid thing that was literally built to replace people, and everyone that uses it gets weaker, lazier, dumber, and sadder for having done so. Well done all around.

Funny how the US has basically the government of Iran now: Supreme Leader who rules by decree, priestly council with token opposition that decides whether the decisions are okay or not on arcane scriptural grounds, and completely ceremonial legislature

mf tried to declare ceasefire Michael Scott style

Super weird that he picks Juneteenth to raise this concern. Probably unrelated.

it's giving

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“I asked chatGPT-“ ok, and I asked Tinsel, and she said you’re an uninspired, vapid dork who needs a computer to think for them.

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

Balanced budget talk, baby! Carney asked how he's going to do it. He says he'll slow program spending from 9% to 2% and run a small capital spending deficit to drive private investment. That sounds like an austerity plan.

While we're all anti-tariff these days, it would be nice if the BC government dropped their tariff on journalism that requires freedom of information requests.

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

i am fascinated by the outright refusal of people in the professional political commentary class to just consider the possibility that there is no plan and that trump really is a braying idiot with the more acute case of narcissistic personality disorder on record

I think people are overthinking this. Trump is greedy and vain, and acquiring Greenland would make him feel like a great president who enlarged America’s North American holdings

If the government’s position is that being trafficked to El Salvador by Donald Trump and Stephen Miller amounts to a final and irreversible deprivation of all rights, then it seems to me every federal court has a duty to permanently enjoin the practice as soon as it possibly can.

It’s very discouraging to watch our country slowly re-learn the lessons that led to the end of segregation, among them that people who think they’re racially superior are nearly universally incompetent fools unable to face up to their own deficiencies and putting them in charge is suicide

A friend of my compared gutting of federal agencies to a wrecking a car: if you remove 30% of the parts of the car, it does not go 30% slower. It stops working.

The anti-woke center blaming the anti-woke left for the rise of the anti-woke right while Black people are being targeted for expulsion from public life.

All people are proving when they do shit like that is that they view trans identities as conditional. You're not sending a message to Caitlyn Jenner; you're sending a message to every other trans person.

What happened was that non-accepting parents of trans youth began to feel social pressure to get the standard treatments for their gender dysphoric kids so they burned down the field so even accepting parents can't treat their kids now.

My first job was updating point of sale software for Y2K. Tiny company but they had 6 of us in a literal basement reviewing and updating thousands of lines of code. Nothing broke because they spent probably a years worth of revenue preventing it. That was one small niche software company.

America's free thinking genius boys are screaming and crying about what the correct level of racism is and no compromise is possible, one side has to lose here

What are we DOING here? We're just meant to sit and act like this insane plagiarism and climate threat that requires more money than anything has ever cost is worth it? Are we meant to pretend that ChatGPT is worth this aimless, meaningless destruction of capital and our environment? For what?

we have more than a month before inauguration so it would be really cool if everyone — press, posters, everyone — would stop reacting to shit trump says as if he has unilateral, unchecked power

every site needs a version of somethingawful's "we can just ban you" policy to use against bad actors who make a game of ruining the site while making sure to always stay 1% shy of violating the rules as-written

America threatens Canada with a 25% tariff on all exports, and Alberta's government responds by....defending America?

I truly don't understand how people keep falling for this. It has never once worked. I get the appeal of saying a magic spell and getting a free house. But it has never worked. Yet people still think it'll work for them.

When people realize this was always partially the business plot 2.0 not just a white power christian fascist overthrow of democracy it will make more sense.