I suppose that’s true in a “murder wouldn’t have to be illegal if people never murdered each other” sort of way.

TOOT TOOT IT’S THE TOBLERTRAM

Staying off social media might become a kind of self-reinforcing habit because the kind of random aggression you encounter routinely on the Internet is extremely not normal when you’re more calibrated for offline interactions

Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium.

Hey ladies: that Civil Rights Act that they’re trying to overturn also protects women from being discriminated against in employment because of sex. It outlaws, among other things, a “marriage bar”: refusing to hire married women or firing previously single women upon marriage.

yeah once again it's interesting to hear "experienced sane rational" foreign policy people talk about "america is rethinking XYZ." we're not talking about america, we're talking about literally one dying rapist

People fucking hate trump. I'm really fucking sad that it took another trip around hell, but watching voters touch the stove repeatedly will hopefully be a wake up call for them.

lol -8 with white folks

This would be so fucking funny. I absolutely need it to happen this way.

The Chinese think in centuries and that’s why we are in the late Ming era

After landing and dusting themselves off, I can only imagine the scene where 3 dudes went immediately after 1 of them.

On the bright side, Little Timmy probably thought that airshow was the coolest shit ever.

ZIRP is one of those concepts that once you learn what it was and *what it implied* you just can't unsee it no matter what. Almost like when you kill Rom in Bloodborne.

True broadly. It takes a lot longer to recover from having your life savings stolen than getting one of your teeth knocked out. I would say the main harms from even many violent crimes are still the dignitary ones. Peters stole rights won with blood. She should never breathe free air again.

This will be Claude in 2032

The act literally existed because partisan gerrymandering wasn't otherwise going to be checked. And now partisan gerrymandering is officially, openly unchecked! The New York Times's "The Upshot" could make a unicorn meat sandwich, if it had sliced bread and cooked unicorn meat.

It's one thing to reject the point - that's fair - but it really is amazing how half the responses this are children attempting savage dunks that don't seem to know what it is. An entire status economy built on social proof.

I can't say I'm having a great time, but it is sort of fascinating watching people try to build a red-brown electoral coalition around a new antisemitic consensus in real time.

again, staying completely silent on the actual merits of ai, the initial ai boosters basically campaigned on "this will eliminate your job, forever, and make me personally rich." it should not surprise *anyone* that this provoked a backlash.

🗃️ You’re mad that Nolan’s Odyssey includes people of color. I’m mad that Nolan’s Odyssey doesn’t include the insanely tacky rainbow of colors that were used to paint everything in Ancient Greece. We are not the same.

Westerners never stopped stereotyping Asians as the Borg.

people will really say "the Chinese think in centuries" as though Mao didn't do a bird genocide to increase grain production while forgetting that birds eat bugs and caused famines then 50 years later they did a one-child policy and accelerated their demographic collapse by a century for no reason

I think if you're a socialist supporting the model of a country that bans trade unions is bad actually.

unfurling a "white replacement" banner should get you permabanned from MLB stadiums

9 years was not an excessive punishment. Peters was a county official who used someone else’s security badge to let a fellow election denier access the whole county's voting data. That is an extreme breach of public trust for the purpose of undermining our democracy; harsh deterrence is vital.

she should have been tried for treason

Don't give Marky Mark any ideas he would totally do an Ali move.

The result of AI boosters getting booed at commencement will NOT be them getting a wake-up call about AI skepticism. They will just stop speaking at commencements. But that’s a small win!

& when you threaten "the dems" with not voting, you might have in mind party leadership primary voters hear you as threatening *them*

always worth remembering that there is a lot of a) at the ultrawealthy level, you just *don't know their names* because the anonymity is the point

We will just have Sir Ben Kingsley play every role. Problem solved.

The Religious Right is desperate these days to pretend that "Christian Nationalism" is (1) a recently-invented term and (2) a pejorative invented by their enemies, but neither of those claims is remotely true. Here's a short thread, but I'm sure other historians will have examples too.

There’s a universe where Little Marco gets Mar-A-Lago blown up somehow.

If you live in a blue state & struggle to understand what Democrats stand for, I suggest moving to Tennessee. Absence makes the heart grow fonder!

The two types of anime fan are “As a rightist, I adore Gayqueer McTransmarx, a character I believe embodies conservative values,“ and “As a leftist, I’m a big fan of Hitlerhito Tokyonazi’s ’Manchuria Deserved It’ franchise.”

I guess, but “Joe Biden was too spicy for me, so I’m going to plant the seeds of an actual communist uprising” sounds, uh… insane?

the overwhelming message the AI industry has sent to young people is “this will ruin any chance you have at a stable career”, of course college grads are booing it regardless of the reality of the claims, the way this technology has been sold is one of the greatest self-inflicted PR disasters ever

One other confounding factor: Being in a close competition with/losing to the dumbest people alive, because of the dumbest people alive (median voters), is something that would really get both Peter & Otto’s goats.

we're so fucking close to 27%

I get that heavy involvement in politics is for the dorks and the freaks. But I will never accept that as the way it should be. Because no engagement is how you end up in this position, following the herd. Letting a surface level message guide your decisions. You do yourself dirty that way.

I also wish they self-actualized Harley Quinn quite a bit less so there was still a sense of tragedy associated with her character rather than being DC Deadpool.

Solution: Have Wonder Woman as Harley’s post-breakup rebound

Yeah. It is really one of those things for how much BTAS just revolutionized Batman imho.

damn, AOC is out there doing @jamellebouie.net columns in her speeches now, that’s wild

Drake's career is exactly some shit that would happen to Jimmy Brooks if they just kept Degrassi going til then kids hit 40. Spinner been flabbergasted for a good decade.

The EVs are quite nice but China's per capita GDP is lower than Belarus and Antigua. It'll improve and it's curtains for the US when it does but if you could pick any country to be dropped in not knowing what your class status would be, you would not pick China.

The people who say, “Food is expensive, just garden” have perhaps not been to a garden store.