I am browsing a bookstore and I just heard someone, having asked specifically for books by a specific author, and having had the clerk hand her a book and say "this is my favorite of hers," ask "So do I have to buy it or can I just rent it?" Madam, what you are looking for is called a library.

"Should trans people be allowed to exist in public?" asks Slate, who should all drop dead.

The Colorado river water system is collapsing, and a data center operator is suing to consume even more water. Unreal. www.kpbs.org/news/environ...

WHAT IS THE CHARGE? USING MICROBES TO TASTE MY SURROUNDINGS? MY SUCCULENT CHINESE SURROUNDINGS?

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However, the idea that they're a more important part of the caucus than the centrists is what the numbers seem to say and as for the centrists, hit dogs holler

Anything that makes James Carville crash out and declare that it's not his party anymore has to be a positive development

Every corp does this now and it's truly breathtaking to watch it happen over and over again.

i do think this is actually the perfect response insofar as it illustrates how these dorks actually just fantasize about getting to be the bullies in high school

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Schlossberg finished a distant third, 25 points behind Lasher and Bores. He was closer (20 points closer) to stunt candidate George Conway than to second place.

He said plainly that he’s acting on behalf of Trump. Seems like a clear cut case of the President instructing a Cabinet Secretary to interfere in an election, I.e. a crime.

We have infinite Bruce Campbells at home.

Grey DeLisle Didn't Become Emotional When Recording Her Lines For Azula Just So You Could Tell Me That AI Is "inevitable".

Sigourney Weaver didn't sink a half-court basketball shot over her shoulder in Alien Resurrection so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Viggo Mortensen didn't break his goddamn toe so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable"

that one actually does sound like the kind of thing AI would do

The AI dipshits only see art as a product, and not an experience. They don't care about the experience and thought of creation or the experience of understanding. It's just a series of words, images and sounds to pass through your skull to occupy some time before you die.

Stanley Kubrick didn't rebuild cameras to use lenses NASA developed for the dark side of the moon so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Jim Henson didn't crawl in a bubble & puppeteer Kermit in a swamp so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable"

Irina Ratushinskaya didn’t scratch her poems into a bar of soap with a matchstick, memorize them and wash away her forbidden work as a political prisoner in a Soviet labor camp for you to tell me AI is "inevitable"

Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

suboptimal to me that the richest man on the planet believes this

Armie Hammer has really fallen far huh

Please speak up. Record your objection. This is crucially important.

Thei made the worlde a machyne That doth runne on dreames And turneth them ynto wars -- Do not let them take yours.

I strongly suspect these do-something politicians drink coffee as tea is quite aristocratic

There is no Democratic Tea Party. There is an end to the Corporate/Clinton wing of the party, but this is Democrats coming home to core Democratic principles not some radical, racist morons being used by billionaires to screw themselves!

The Republican Tea Party was astroturfed through the Koch’s and a few other groups. What is happening with the Dems is organic outrage. Don’t conflate the two.

These “radicals” who have centerworld freaking out are running on policies the vast majority of Americans favor and on good governance. Wild, right? Furthermore, they represent a generational shift in the electorate that can’t be reversed by pundit FOMO.

ZOHRAN: *parachutes in to help wildly unpopular congressional Dems get more popular* 🦸🏻‍♂️ ESTABLISHMENT DEMS: “wHY iS He TRyiNg tO KiLL tHe PArTy?”

make zines and share zines until they are ubiquitous to the point that there is no stopping or criminalizing them

What's more likely, that a group of twisted phytoplankton enthusiasts dumped algae spores into the reflecting pool, then hacked up the paint with a box cutter? Or that a pool of shallow water in direct sun grew algae, and the hydrogen peroxide used to treat it ate away at the paint?

Me, finally connecting with my Irish ancestors: “Pope good.”

Something like that would have been nice from a certain departing Prime Minister

I am sure there will be some argument that we need to bail them out, but: 1) They employ a very small number of people directly 2) They are not part of any physical supply chain and 3) NONE OF IT IS REAL, it is all vaperware and hype.

I'm not part of the capitalism fandom myself but if you are gonna go do a capitalism, isn't "started a shitty business no wants so it died" just part of the rules? I mean that's what they keep telling me anyway.

This is what AI was supposed to be used for

This is so cool and I’m furious one of the coders behind the early breakthroughs joined DOGE and helped to ensure children died.

KOSA is getting another push, please call your reps today and tell them this is just a thinly veiled front for invasive data collection and won't make kids safer www.badinternetbills.com

Sure he didn’t know what genocide even meant, hahahah! Bye, bye asshole, Rashida Tlaib sends her regards!

Support genocidal annihilation and you get what you deserve 🤷

Uh . . . that's not a 'moderate'.

🪿 “Genocide committed by who???’

These “support Israel no matter what!” politicians are supremely out of touch with reality.

wtf is this “fallen victim to”??! How are you THIS UNSERIOUS?! They just tripped and fell?? Say it, you hack. Refused to call Israel a genocidal apartheid state.

The definition of genocide doesn’t change based on who is speaking. Stop your shit. And we shouldn’t be paying for any other country’s murders, healthcare or education. Talk about welfare queen! It’s bullshit.

She is reporting the news. These whiny crybully attempts to redefine what words mean is why candidates like Goldman are losing, you can't keep telling people to ignore their lying eyes