People will struggle to reconcile the idea that I do too many things with my claim that I don't really want to do things. But I'm not allowed to tell them that I do those things because they aren't doing it themselves. "Do your job so I don't have to" is unprofessional and mean, sadly.

Meanwhile, those with money and power will always push the idea that the real threat to your family's future is those other poor people who look or act just a little too different from you. Exploitation isn't just financial, but political too.

The greatest present danger to humanity, is individuals with too much money. At some point, those living under that threat will have to act while they still can.

The only thing I noticed Mandani do was stand up and by his stated progressive economic and social values. Maybe other politicians can try that, for a change.

What would it take to get the RSF to stop killing people? And what would it take to get the United Arab Emirates to stop pushing the conflict? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Controversial opinion: spend less money killing people, and spend more money feeding people.

I have a conservative cousin who dislikes liberals and think they are all moochers. He lives at home with his parents and doesn't have a job.

Where do vampires wash themselves? A bloodbath.

Just imagine if Liverpool had spent that £125 million on defensive reinforcements and a challenger for an aging Salah rather than buying a luxury striker.

Patriarchy in tech is so exhausting, even as a man. No matter how hard you try to explain it to people, they still "reason" their way to sexism. I know women are angry. They would be even more so if they more often saw the horrible reasoning behind it.

I'm so scared for Jamaica. 😢 The country was starting to do so much better. This will be devastating.

What a beautiful Premier League table. I love Arsenal being 6 points clear of City and United, and Liverpool out of sight.

Yawns are one of the most contagious social behaviors. I yawned because a guy on TV yawned. Then I told my son, and he yawned.

At some point Trump will decide that since Congress "isn't working", he'll just govern everything by himself.

Test running for 2026, when they'll have armed agents outside polling places in Democratic areas, making sure they "vote right"

I'll always defend a person's right to burn the flag as freedom of speech, but I'll never be cool with it as a form of protest.

The irony is that he also gets really mad when famous people mock him for being cringe.

Trump is the first President to actively embrace being cringe.

The genocide continues.

A troll with a Trump 2028 avatar almost tricked me into debating with him. Instead, I just blocked him. I'm growing as a person, and I'm proud of myself for that.

I saw a hijab store right beside a lingerie store. The kind of civil society I want is one where that's not a meaningful issue at all.

When I was younger, I enjoyed engaging in prolonged arguments with people that I had strong moral disagreements with on fundamental issues. Now, I don't have the energy to donate to them anymore. Just block them, and instead spend your time enjoying the good people around here.

I wonder who broke the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Such a mystery.

It's forever interesting to me who gets to be viewed as innocent and child-like. Men in their 30s talking about their love for Hitler and wanting to put people in gas chambers are referred to as "kids"...

The reason I'm not particularly worried about AI in the knowledge economy is that the problem is still fundamentally thinking rather than tooling.

Beyond the societal damage, the cost of this can't be justified. 10+ heavily armed agents deployed to capture one lowly undocumented person, then add all the additional costs to certain and deport them, and all against the community's wishes. Ideology over logic.

"5 more years!" Screams Charles Murray, as has been his slogan for at least the last 30 years.

If you were to accuse mainstream Republicans of being openly aligned with people holding these sorts of views, they would definitely say you're being unfair. The issue is these guys let their words get leaked, rather than keeping it private as expected.

It's great that Israel and Hamas have both released some of their hostages. There isn't likely to be justice throug all of this, but for the sake of innocent civilians, I hope the ceasefire can become something more long-lasting.

It still amazes me how many people assume that diversity means unqualified, and yet can't see what that says about their mode of thinking.

I told my 16 year old the post-doc idea I had for creating AI driven intelligent traffic systems. He just improved it, and created a simulation demo...in a few hours. This boy is so much smarter than me, and I couldn't be more proud of the man he will be.

When the history books are written about this era, ICE will be described in very much similar language as the Gestapo.

There are people who just go to a farm to look at pumpkins and take pictures. I have no idea how that became a tradition.

This is a shocking thing to say. So the UN, International genocide scholars, and even Jewish/Israeli genocide scholars....are all wanting to just commit another Holocaust according to Noah.

First they came for trans people, immigrants, Hispanics, African-Americans... I wonder who is next.

The idea that "political is bad" is worth challenging. A lot of good things are done for political reasons.

No individual should have a billion dollars.

One negative to being really good at what you do, is that some people end up thinking what you do is easy.

A lot of people were wrongly convinced that because people weren't saying the racism out loud in front of them that it wasn't happening much. All that while black folks kept telling them of the burden of managing against all the racism that wasn't hidden from them.

An interesting thing that came out the Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates interview: It's true that for a lot of black folks, this really is still the best of times for us in the West. Racists are louder today than 20 years ago, but I still believe they are fewer.

That Ta-Nehisi Coates interview with Ezra Klein is even more impactful when you watch it. Ezra does seem a bit lost in the current political climate. Hopefully he's guided in a good direction by his friends. youtu.be/UaeoDlLNnok?...

Brilliant result for Arsenal today. It's too often the case where we dominate games but struggle to put the ball into the net enough.

In the modern era, intelligence has replaced the soul as a false one-dimensional metric of moral worth. We talk about the level of someone’s IQ much like we once talked about the “quality” of someone’s soul. Seen in this light, Trump’s racist rhetoric is nothing new.

It's weird that the people doing fascist things believe that being called fascist is a threat to their lives.

I don't know if people notice the pattern of how often Trump refers to his black opponents as "low IQ".

You'd think this would be one place the Supreme Court would tell Trump he's going too far, but no sane person would bet on that with the Roberts court.

Turning the fascism up another couple levels. Once they get away with shooting Americans on American soil, there aren't many lines left to cross.

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

People like Curtis Yarvin, who is an intellectual inspiration for many powerful people on the center/right, are just openly advising on how to do the Confederacy better this time.

James Comey is one of the people most responsible for the rise of fascism in America. He should always be made to remember that, whether or not he's eventually imprisoned by the fascists he got elected.