every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

Sometimes conversations I have with leftists get downright eschatological; like the solutions to current crises will emerge spontaneously once a moment of social transcendence occurs. Yeah man, capitalism won't save us, but we should *also* change the things that are in immediate reach.

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

lmao I graded some papers like this (long time ago now) and at the end of the semester I told everyone "you know I can see in the metadata when a file was created, right?" a girl who'd been doing moderately well in the course fully dropped her drink in shock. idc guys, I'm not a cop. Done is done.

LA: we will fight you. Chicago: we will fight you. PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

In 2009, NATO put an archive of internal security posters online. They’re great!

See, I *know* I'm a delicate little baby who cries when someone is angry with me. So I understand that this means I am unsuited for leadership roles. (I didn't used to be, but a series of angersink jobs ablated the coating off that part of my brain, and apparently it doesn't just grow back. Oops.)

Man, Melinoë's love life is diabolical. Two different flavors of toxic yuri situationship, two sad wet cats, and 3/4s of her options are fully one another's siblings. Absolute nightmare blunt rotation.

give greta thunberg a gundam

its truly remarkable, you have to really take the measure of it and it's almost hard to comprehend it, but the president of the united states is having texas invade illinois and oregon just to make twitter content

cosmic horror, Walking on Sunshine

my soybean allergy is about to become even more difficult to manage isn't it 😑

It's good and cool to bully Newsom into doing his job. After that remind your local rep to also do their job and overturn anything he vetoes. It's his last term, there's not much retaliating he can do.

In my defense I had undiagnosed brain problems, and if I didn't *immediately* lock in on something the television turned from 'distraction box' into 'terrible noise machine', so it never really became a habit? I idly re-read things a lot, but I get distracted away from TV pretty fast.

"Who would have predicted this?" - Black women did. - Trans people did. - The *entire* disability community did. - The anarchists did. - Post-Evangelicals did. "Well why didn't I hear them." You did. But you disregarded us as "extremists" and "alarmists". And you are still calling us that.

I have some pretty insecure feelings about quitting my tech job, but at least now I don't have to hide in the bathroom & scream into my jacket a couple of times a day.

agrivoltaics is like the number one subject my partner and I discuss on road trips through the central valley

Happy Rosh Hashanah y'all.

CHOTINER: So your son is 14, is that right? IKARI: It's complex, Isaac. If— CHOTINER: And the “robot” he pilots, that’s actually the child of an alien you keep crucified in the basement, which is possessed by the spirit of his dead mother? IKARI: Look, let me answer the question. CHOTINER: Sure.

I know all the Internet knows how to do is make fun of things but, I guarantee you this is coming on tuesday

lmao the vibes in their tour bus right now must be immaculate. yeah chaya, the interstellar demon dads who released Krosstika like....20 fucking years ago are def quaking in their boots.

Having millions of people who categorically do not understand the concept of "it's a bit" suddenly exposed to GWAR is pretty magical

I think a generation of students heard "don't cite Wikipedia as a source" and internalized "Wikipedia is unreliable" rather than "encyclopedias are secondary sources, go cite the actual primary source".

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

Disney adults canceling subscriptions, vacations, etc really are making the Harry Potter adults that threw a fit over a $60 video game look like huge bitches

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

LIARS will tell you today's the only day you can listen to Earth, Wind & Fire's September, but it's not true. You can listen to this banger any time you want, nobody can stop you.

I would love for a single democrat to reckon with the fact that conservatives are not in fact motivated by reasonable concerns. They are — just as they were with ‘concerns’ over blacks and gays and numerous other minorities over the last five decades — motivated by bigotry.

there's lots of (good, necessary) dunking on these, but all I have ever wanted from wearable technology is zoom for text. I've had bad eyesight since I was a kid & will probably need bifocals soon. glasses with a tiny zoom so I don't squint at shit all the time? small actual improvement to my life.

the whole point of popularism is that you have to pick policies that are actually popular, like being pro-choice!

On the one hand, I didn't want to lose my schizophrenic uncle or conspiracy-brained father to covid, but I guess I'm glad they didn't get the chance to flame out in the psychosis machine instead. Grim.

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

This is a freedom I *used* to have in a pretty red state. I needed to have an adult associated with my library card, but my mom didn't have refusal rights over what I checked out. A librarian might tsk and say that they didn't think it was appropriate for me, but they couldn't *stop* me.

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the cringest possible reason to invent to justify your disgusting politics, holy shit. "I have to be fash now because someone online thought I was annoying." what a pathetic baby. what tissue-paper thin skin.

MAHA vs the U.S. corn lobby is going to be a real Let Them Fight situation

lmao. "I'm very witty", and "Once you use ChatGPT, you don't want to think for yourself anymore" are not mutually compatible sentiments. Everyone I know who uses AI is so defensive about how it's good actually and then will just let slip that they enjoy not having to think as hard.

It's time to do that thing you've been wanting to do

hilariously, you could reasonably use grated pear in a korean barbecue sauce, but unless he's also hiding a stick blender and starch behind the soy sauce bottle, this recipe fragment isn't going to produce a texture that's good on a sandwich. Something you'd learn by actually reading a recipe.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

what I'm learning from the fact that every one of these decisions has a "huge merger waiting to be approved" factor is that we should no longer allow mergers sorry, you can't buy any other companies anymore, too dangerous to civil society only antitrust breakups allowed

it's relieving to know that I'm not losing my mind about john fucking yoo being more critical of our gleefully criminal administration than the actual elected opposition party. it's simply that my nervous system is rapidly dissolving because I couldn't stop myself from touching a bat.

if you must be online may i point out that project gutenberg is still around and still has basically every book written before 1910 for free

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

causing a massive international incident to meet a quota a miserable rage goblin pulled out of his ass

Let's all to take a deep breath & understand that we have reached the phase in fascism where if they want to declare you a criminal, you are a criminal. You can not magically avoid it, or do exactly the right thing to stay off the list. Fascism must always have enemies, and one day you will be one.

This whole situation is obviously horrible, but I'm kinda entranced by the approaching wave of international outrage. I think, despite everything, there's a part of my brain that still really wants rule of law to prevail. I know, I know. It's been subverted on every level by cowards and liars. But.

if you were going to tailor-make a shooter in a lab to confound and inspire conspiratorial thoughts in the most people you could hardly do better than Tyler Robinson. Conservative background, involved in meme culture, but also progressive angry at Kirk in vague terms for pushing "hate"