Obviously it would be very bad if a fully autonomous drone decided to stalk and kill a senior citizen or an aid vehicle…but I mean, also, 100% manually piloted drones are doing those things every day, right now. We should really be addressing both of these problems!

the really offensive thing to me here is that BLS statisticians collect almost all this data at great effort, little remuneration, and no public recognition, and if you email them as a random citizen they will explain it all, for free

This one is amazing too

45K+ bodies a year. In my city we have 3x as many fatalities from reckless driving than homicides. 1. There exists dumb traffic cameras which just take a picture of the plate & the offense and are not networked to other system. 2. Most PDs aren't even using flock cameras for traffic violations.

there are a lot of things about our current cultural moment that are extremely depressing but the extent to which the right tried to canonize charlie kirk and managed only to turn him into a meme (derogatory) is genuinely encouraging

Exclusive leaked Marvel Doomsday footage of Paul Rudd (Ant-Man) using Cerebro in X-Mansion to track down the other missing superheroes

Consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress (2025-2026): SpaceX — $589,000 Home Depot — $536,500 Charter (Spectrum) — $407,000 UPS — $353,500 Chevron — $352,500 Walmart — $308,000 Valero — $297,500 New York Life — $295,500 Altria (Marlboro) — $279,000 Aflac — $278,000 (1/3)

when you're on minimum specs, not recommended specs

You can always tell when a canadian wades into US politics because they're all like "there's a god damn Hawkins Cheezie in the white house!"

Accusations of bias actually have specific content that can be assessed. The left attack the BBC for justifying a genocide, the right attack it for having too many black people on screen. These aren't equivalent extremes that cancel each other out leaving only the enlightened centre.

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CENTCOM told me the Middle East keeps eating his patriot missiles so i asked how many patriot missiles they have and they said they just go to Whiskey Pete and get new patriots afterwards so i said it sounds like he's feeding patriot missiles to the Middle East and then INDOPACOM started crying

Before sports betting was legalized everywhere, I was neutral about it, thinking that it was a personal choice. Now that it exists everywhere I have been radicalized against it like a 19th century suffragette

Thinking about how so many people I know said Don’t Look Up was so stupid and over the top and ridiculous but my environmental scientist brother was like “Nope, that’s exactly how it feels”

One of the worst examples of landlord gray I've ever seen. This fun apartment building had every bit of character destroyed by a trend-chasing landlord. It looks like someone applied a black and white filter.

I hate that the millennial victims of boomer and genx landlords painting everything gray are being used to describe the problem.

I said long ago that ICE specifically looks for guys with a history of domestic violence/violence against kids to hire because the administration knows they're asking them to ignore all the laws in the name of hurting and torturing people and that requires a piece of trash to have the stomach for it

When we have fires in the US, Canada sent help. When Canada has fires, Trump threatens them with tariffs. What an asshole.

No fuck off we're not calling this "Millennial grey" this shit was dictated completely by boomer retiree house flippers we absolutely had NO say in this

Tillis prodded a rape survivor to go public with allegations against Hegseth, promising her that it would sink the nomination of a dangerous man to a powerful position. She did, at significant risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote in favor of Hegseth. He has always been a coward.

*hacker voice* I’m in

If you call Beira's Place, the rape shelter JK Rowling set up specifically so she could deny help to rape victims she suspects of being trans, your call is not confidential and may be listened to by JK Rowling, who may tweet to her audience of millions to ridicule you and express contempt for you.

The Luddites loved technology. They owned looms at home and would ‘mod’ them to count threads. Their battle was against worker exploitation. The degradation of their rights, safety and wages. They were against a handful of rich businessmen owning the means of production. Sound familiar?

I wish this "speed cameras are cash grabs" trope would die. We have recent studied in the U.S. showing that after an initial surge in ticketing, fines decline as behavior changes and people speed less.

Raffi you’re so right

When ever I see people speak in reverence to "farmers" as if they were this noble rural working class we need to support for progressive reasons it's how I know they have zero clue how farming works or how much of a force of regressive politics the rural landowner capitalists are.

Republicans want to turn the USA into Russia so so very badly. They want a fashy alt-right culture war focused conspiracy brained population, a military that can't win wars, an imploding economy, and an uneducated population with serious brain drain. And of course bottomless corruption.

everybody knows “curtains for Zoosha” as a foundational getting-old tweet but I believe “peeble streamer on doop” is a concept worthy of wider recognition

Fuck every Canadian still doing business and traveling to the USA. Have a single ounce of self respect and solidarity for once in your miserable selfish lives.

Graham Platner's collapse is an indictment of what Twitter has done to people's brains, and a major W for this platform and the general idea of "not spending time in Elon Musk's sandbox" slate.com/technology/2...

I have no mouth and I must ice-cream

My most cancelable take is that those little delivery robot things are kinda cute and neat.

Really crazy to learn that JK Rowling once worked at Amnesty International as a bilingual researcher but she was fired because she was too busy writing books during work hours instead of documenting war crimes in French speaking Africa.

Anti-trans groups are really going with “Trans people are a Jewish conspiracy to undermine the family.” It’s straight out of classical fascism.

Patreon doesn't have the ability for you to delete chats, and I got sick of seeing some I didn't want to see from years ago so I ended up nuking my whole account over it. Just a dogshit website and a dogshit company.

There is no compelling urban planning reason to concentrate apartment buildings on loud, polluted, dangerous main streets. This is solely a political strategy by planners trying to avoid NIMBY backlash to proposed apartments. This political strategy DOES NOT WORK. Homeowners oppose housing anyway!

"Corridor zoning" amounts to jamming low-income residents into big, bland apartment buildings alongside stroads, where they can serve as a buffer, absorbing all the noise & air pollution cars produce, protecting the precious single-family homes that dominate everywhere around them. It's abominable.

Shaming and stigmatization is goated when enforcing basic social norms is the vibe. These glasses are by and for perverts

JK Rowling has used her wealth to stoke the fires of a worldwide pogrom against trans people to where she's silenced a Holocaust scholar after JK engaged in Holocaust denial & now done the same to Amnesty International for their warning about trans eradication, but keep buying your Harry Potter crap

What folks don't get about these groups is just how powerful, well-connected, and legally literate they really are. The research Abigail cited here, we took to no less than 20 press outlets before putting it out online, and most of them folded under legal threats, killing the stories dead.

Wild that vacancy rates going up really does drive down prices exactly like YIMBYs said would happen.

We should never take these people seriously when they talk about "free speech on campus," ever again.

The guy burning his hand on the barrel is a fun grace note.

Turns out "car brain" is a very real thing. Tire microplastics are a massive problem and something super heavy electric cars do not solve. The solution is land use reform, transit, bikes, and an aggressive existential war on cars and vehicle weight. futurism.com/health-medic...

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

This winking trans Miata was the star of the pride parade for me