The cruelty is the point.

If the law requires you to out a trans person, you “don’t see gender.”

khmer doge

Might as well repost this thread. Might as well make a habit of reposting it every time I think of it.

The people yearn for trains! Give the people more and better trains!

Stoppe callinge them "A.I. data centers" and starte callinge them "slop hellmouths"

this is the only standard by which i am measuring people, moving forward: proximity to Gundam candidacy. i will NOT be following ANY established canon, and gundam folks may not force this issue or i swear to fuck I'll use candidate for goddess instead

This is why “I’ll just live in a blue city in a red state” doesn’t work. Municipalities have no constitutional powers.

Anyone else not believed in our elections’ free and fair status since 2000? (To be clear, I do not think voter fraud is the problem.)

Barnes and Noble is fucked. Big readers are out.

"the R slur is coming back" not within slapping distance of me it's not

Back before most of those were an issue, I used to say "You don't have to be an engineer to see a problem with a combustion engine that works off of orphaned kittens, and shouldn't need to be one to criticize it." Oh, I miss the days when that felt like hyperbole.

look trump can have his government sign any docs he wants; either the next democratic government throws all the corrupt motherfuckers in jail and seizes all their assets, or it's pointless anyway.

If you're mad at this (and you should be): Tomorrow at 1pm 120 Schermerhorn in BK Rally to demand accountability from the absolute ghouls in our courts.

but yeah it's wild the AI masterminds went with "ok listen up you woke dipshits, we're stealing all your work and eliminating all your jobs, now get on board for the big win!" as a marketing strategy and didn't expect to get pelted with rotten fruit

really funny for a "christian" government to prevent me from acting like Jesus Christ himself - hanging out with sex workers, providing healthcare, telling the rich they're going to hell

GOOD

If Black people don’t have equal representation, it’s not democracy.

everybody is like, "I experienced my dark night of the soul," but you almost never hear someone say, "I was in the Temptation of St. Anthony phase of my therapeutic journey."

New article on all the media outlets now partnered with OpenAI. For writers with integrity, who don't want their work vacuumed up by evil AI companies, the list of publishing options is getting shorter and shorter. Read it below ... www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/the-guardi...

The body is not an accessory to be discarded. (Modifications are fine, of course.) Human consciousness is embodied consciousness. If you want to be a brain in a jar or upload yourself, I humbly submit that you need to work towards a healthier relationship with your body instead.[1/2]

Imagine a whistle-stop rural economic revitalization policy. Invest in rail improvement and expansion as part of a strategy to connect towns and smaller cities that anchor their regions to the rest of the country. From flyover to stop-in.

There’s a book called “Dude, You’re a F*g” [* mine] about how the specter of the “f*g” is used to police masculinity in teenage boys. I think the specter of the trans woman is used similarly for cis girls/women, which is a wedge FARTs/“TERFs” exploit.

Get out of the library you have no idea what we do.

People don’t become billionaires because they want money, but because they want power. And we have to pay attention to that in predicting/explaining their actions.

This is horrific.

We can never trust this form of governance again. I wonder what that will look like when the current regime ends.

It remains bananas amazing that U Tennessee offers its summer language courses (incl. intensive 4-days-a-week Syriac w/ George Kiraz!) through the Marco Institute for free to UT students, staff, faculty, *and alumni*— and for only $500 for non-affiliates. marco.utk.edu/summerlangua...

There's a real separation between the financial economy, with stocks and bonds and money, and the real resources economy, where there's bricks and food and medicine. The former is supposed to facilitate the latter, but somehow it's become flipped around and the results are increasingly absurd.

When radioactivity was discovered, there was a rush to market for all sorts of radioactive consumer goods. There were water jugs made out of uranium glass, for example. I think about that a lot these days whenever I see AI products being marketed to consumers.

It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."

every mushroom foraging guidebook: This is Woodland Pot Roast, a tasty little mushroom that adds a delightful flavour to soups and stews. Note that it is often mistaken for Satan’s Fistula, a mushroom that erases the last 9 generations of your family from God’s ledgers.

Ag secretary confirming 1 in 4 US farmers has no fertilizer secured, American Farm Bureau survey says up to 70% can’t afford enough fertilizer for the season under the spiked costs Honestly shocked this isn’t bigger news. 25% of farms are just not planting at all this season. Farm bankruptcy up 46%

Sweet summer child…

The words below seem obvious to state, but it is currently a matter of local government policy that terrorizing the homeless will, in fact, bring the tourists back... Our latest: www.patreon.com/posts/terror... #avlgov #avlnews

absolutely, and it's because we lack statehood. I realize, for obvious reasons, that most people view D.C. statehood in terms of 2 (almost certainly) Democratic senate seats, but the lack of self-governance is a real problem. Imagine if Congress had a de facto line item veto over your state budget.

Plumbing disruptors AND herpetology disruptors move fast and snake things.

Happy "Hitler Killed Himself in a Bunker Day" to those who celebrate.

Vis-a-vis Callais: Chat, are we cooked?

My last Taco Bell run.

And now racial gerrymandering is legal. 👎🏻

It’s funny how the people who say that owning a house is an exhausting money pit and advise you to keep renting are never planning to sell their houses and go back to renting.

Extremely good point about how asymmetric the basic approach to our built environment is

I’m chalant af and the world will never change that. Caring about everything is a strength; only in a toxic culture is it seen as a weakness.

Clausewitz wrote that war is politics by other means. I contend that politics is war by other means, *and that is the point.* The political process exists to mitigate violence as the way problems get solved, just like the law. This is why we need to ensure it WORKS.

Oooooh shit…

If you can't tell the difference between a conspiracy theory and evidence-based critical thinking, step out for a while and just observe. Do some studying.

I would suggest that the people in charge start doing non-conspiratorial things if they want people to believe non-conspiratorial versions of events.