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Lots of great retirement tips here, from buying secondhand to having google deposit more than a thousand dollars into your bank account every single day

A major problem in 21st century USA is people thinking of themselves as consumers first and workers second

mike evans: thanksgiving dud. stick to hot sauce pal!

sometimes i get REALLY sleepy - like ‘time to go to bed’ level sleepy

"writing code to solve a problem" used to have "understanding the problem" as a prerequisite. but vibecoding allows solution-shaped objects to be produced without any of the hard-won understanding. beware of solution-shaped objects.

my mom died a year too soon to meet my first kid. this concept can fuck off all the way to the fucking moon.

the northern lights are easily visible from my minneapolis parking garage. incredible!

Earnest post: there is increasingly direct evidence that Trump participated in child sex trafficking or at least knew about it. He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted. Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

My city!

until pretty recently normie meant "not very online" but people are using it to mean "totally disengaged with politics" which has been a confusing shift. our "not very online" normies are some of our most effective political actors!

in the history books i wonder who will be seen as the good guys and who the bad guys in these photos

among the weirder Democratic tics is that it's unfair for their voters to have object permanence

we're in big trouble and i don't know what to do

If Democrats cave on this, I will never, ever, ever, ever vote for them ever again. Ever.

anybody trying to point out that antifa isn't an organization is missing the point completely because that was done by design so that they can label anybody they deem politically inconvenient as antifa and have them deported to extralegal prisons or worse. it's well past time to stop complying.

Charlie Kirk sincerely believed that suffering through our outrageous levels of gun violence is a small price to pay for preserving the second amendment. I would like to congratulate him and his movement for living and achieving his principles to fullest possible extent.

I think more than anything else AI feels like a miracle to people with questionable literacy because it can read and write for you, and a lot of us who are highly literate underestimate how many of our society's leaders, esp in business, struggle with literacy.

genuinely surprising how the mainstream media treats fascism as just another side. I assumed that new fascist media orgs would rise up, and they are, but it's also CBS et. al. positioning themselves halfway to anything. No principles whatsoever; I thought there were some, somewhere in there.

spotted cory wong in stillwater

A Trump voter imprisons your neighbor it’s law and order. Kicks their gay kid out its religious conviction. Shoots you dead it’s self defense. Kidnaps you, it’s border security. Invades your town, it’s fighting crime. Tell them you don’t like them anymore, it was all just “political views.”

*john lennon voice*

Have to imagine it involves bringing home the 1998 or 2002 world cup

Their memorials are history. Ours are political. Because as always, there are two sexualities - straight, and political. Two genders - male, and political. Two religions - Christian, and political. Two races - white, and political.

we should eventually be allowed to have a president who doesn’t act like they have a tuba player following them around

If this happened at my workplace I would resign

donald trump is a pedophile

The first season of Andor was great because it was almost completely free from Star Wars cruft. The second season of Andor was not as great because it is obligated to wind its way toward Rogue One, which, while an ok standalone product, is inexorably tied into the greater stars wars web.

Sounds like ICE killed a guy and then held american citizens hostage at gunpoint until they agreed to destroy the evidence

Give a fish a man, teach him for a day. Feed a man to teach; fish becomes a lifetime.

if your senator doesn't talk like this, you need a new senator

Yes. They don't want well-educated fellow citizens who are equals inside a democratic society, they want servants and slaves who are disciplined into compliance, so they will accept abuse, rape and exploitation bsky.app/profile/quic...

Funny how the US has basically the government of Iran now: Supreme Leader who rules by decree, priestly council with token opposition that decides whether the decisions are okay or not on arcane scriptural grounds, and completely ceremonial legislature

i bet a lot of us are harboring some quiet fantasy where stephen miller gets his comeuppance, where trump is disgraced, where a wave of anti corruption and reform leads to consequences for these animals. but here's the thing. they will be lionized. our new reagan. you know that

hot weather. gonna be a great weekend to get the boys together, throw on some ski masks and throw anybody we don't like into an unmarked van. who's going to stop us?

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

died of shame just here on my couch

The takeaway from the Tucker Carlson Ted Cruz interview is that the American public has been so badly cheated for so long by the people pretending to be the political media that when anyone asks a basic follow up that an 8th grade schoolpaper reporter would it feels like cutting edge journalism

Once again the correct response to this is to immediately push for a huge amnesty bill. If farm, hotel, and restaurant workers are so vital to the country that even donald trump can admit it, they should all be getting green cards now

I support anti-fascist protesters, no qualifiers. They don't have to fit the right posture or strike the right pose. Their every statement and member don't need to achieve perfection. I support them if it gets ugly, which is different from hoping it does. I support them because they resist fascists.

The challenge for Dems is to figure out which parts of this poll best and adopt just those parts

Me when the US is undefeated in Grand Slams, a few months before being executed by an ICE guy with an IQ of 12

Here's an idea for reducing car dependence: mandate that all parking lots have to be free and provide parking regardless of whether the person is visiting your business. Guarantee you'll see parking lots turned into better uses of space

Only Scott Alexander can write thousands of words about how much time to spend parenting and conclude with "so i bought my way out of worrying about this lmao"