The Castle Doctrine basically says that if someone tries to violate your 4th Amendment rights, then you get to exercise your 2nd Amendment rights.

America needed a real leader and elected a clown. Ukraine elected a comedian and got a real leader.

#starwars Han & Leia's romance proves that women also use negging to flirt.

I have an idea. Let's start a fundraiser to buy scoped hunting rifles for all the Epstein victims and then just kick back and see what happens.

Sorry, but this right here is all the justification I would need to destroy your civilization. The fuck. No. Just no.

#starwars Simple explanation for why DS2 was so much larger than DS1: The Empire used up all their kyber on DS1, so DS2 had to compensate via more power generators, and that made it fat.

Corporations have been pushing dependency onto consumers for so long that they've accidentally created a counter movement based on self-reliance. Jailbreaking, GitHub, buying CDs & DVDs, AI on your home PC, backyard gardens, open source, cycling to work, soap making - all come from the same point.

The missing ingredient is anyone stepping up to run independently on the campaign promise of actually throwing all the criminals in our government into prison forever.

Whenever a new article uses the words "nearly," "almost" or "many" you should always check the fine print for the actual numbers. "Survey" - how many people and where? "Polls" - see above. "Study" - by who? "Scientists say" - find the link to the original article and read it instead.

Globalization actually began locally with the invention of railways. This allowed cities & regions within a single nation to specialize, importing & exporting en masse within that nation. So globalization is really just a continuation of that economic revolution via oceans and ships across borders.

The thing that I really can't understand about the whole Epstein thing is this: What kind of sane adult male would want to spend even one minute in the infinitely annoying & utterly insufferable company of a teenage girl?

The cat mine is a biological area denial device. When activated, any passing feet will be attacked by claws. Fortunately, the cat mine does not move from its spot.

We can't even get a cool dictator. America should at least be able to get a dictator with a chin, abs and a cape, dammit. A dictator who holds a sword in the air while giving speeches. A truly megalomaniacal madman who throws money at superweapons. Instead all we got was Emperor Flabious the 1st.

The US medical system is a testament to just how long some people can survive without any of the help that they so desperately need.

One thing I don't get... if Luigi really got that close, he didn't even need a gun. Piano wire would have worked just as well and doesn't leave fingerprints.

Once you start noticing the bots accounts, you never stop. I'd say at least 20% of the accounts in my "discovery" feed are bots. I came here because I was told it was nothing like Twitter. Guess that was a lie.

Slop existed long before AI. Bigots & fascists existed long before MAGA. Banks have been causing economic catastrophies for centuries. Russia was run by psychopaths long before Putin. They're just fungal blooms born of much older, deeper problems than no one wants to address - or even admit.

Between Neuralink and VR, one day tech oligarchs will be able to control members of the government via direct interface instead of lobbying. They'll just plug right into their chosen meat puppets and wear them around like the empty skinsuits that they already are. Efficient! 🤑🎮🤖

Watching a bulldog trying to climb stairs with their little vestigial limbs is like watching a Slinky video in reverse. Pretty comical, is what I'm saying.

I remember the good old days when psychos, serial killers & sex creeps masqueraded by looked like normal people. These days, though, every time one pops up in the news, I take one glance and I'm like "Yeah, OBVIOUSLY, duh." 🙄

Trump puts his name on the Kennedy Center and a month later it's out of business. At least he's consistent.

#fallout Dear Amazon, Get George Clooney to play Paladin Danse. Thanks.

#television As someone old enough to have watched "Hogan's Heroes" let me debunk the Internet myth that "I see nothing" was a Holocaust reference. It wasn't. It was Schultz covering his own ass from the local Gestapo agent. The joke was that Schultz was more afraid of him than the Allies.

At this point in history, anybody on the Left-wing who is still engaging in identity politics is effectively a Right-wing asset because all they're doing is deliberately creating division at a time when unity is desperately needed.

The worldview of a bully is based entirely on dominance & submission. Equality doesn't exist to them. This is why they cannot be negotiated with, as they see it as submission and they can't handle that. This is why there are only two options with bullies - punch them or distance yourself from them.

In WW2, the Nazis had stockpiles of chemical weapons but they never used them in combat. Even as Berlin was falling, the most absolutely evil man of the 20th century decided that would be going to far. Remember that the next time you see police using tear gas being used on unarmed civilians.

Wait until they find out that the Anti-AI movement is just a social experiment to prove how easily some people can be manipulated by bots.

youtu.be/VPpQ7g1D-NU?... I heard some people were throwing rocks at ICE. I'll just leave this here.

All media algorithms suffer from a sort of "orbital decay" where their weights are based entirely on positive feedback loops with zero entropy, thus their decisions about what you like only ever move in one direction. Eventually they all end up just showing you the same twelve things forever.

Fun Trivia: According to US intelligence, there were between 150-250 American POWs held at Nagasaki when it was nuked by America. This was known well in advance of the bombing.

I wonder... if I just started muting every account that does nothing but repost shit from Twitter, how long would it be before BlueSky's algorithm caught on fire?

Tampa, 90s. Bunch of us at Denny's. One girl, Lily, goes to leave. Feels someone grab her ass, swats his hand. Ten seconds later the grabber and all the other blue uniforms are all beating her in front of everyone. Took her a long time to die. Today we have phone cameras. That's all that's changed.

Imagine an America where laws applied to rich people.

Over the years I have blocked so many clickbait channels on YouTube that it no longer has any idea what to recommend... because everything is clickbait now, I guess.

Bragging that you're voting to not increase ICE funding is like bragging that you're not throwing gasoline onto a person who's on fire. There are two possibilities for midterm elections: 1) Republicans win and Democratic leaders do nothing. 2) Democrats win and Democratic leaders do nothing.

In the 1880s, Americans went to war with white nationalists. When it was over, our leaders said to forgive. In the 1940s, Americans went to war with white nationalists. When it was over, our leaders said to forgive. In the 2020s, Americans are at war white nationalists and we are done forgiving.

www.rawstory.com/raw-investig... Well, that's a few fewer ICE agents bothering people, at least.

#movies Hugh Jackman has the best name in Hollywood, because that's exactly what he is: A huge jacked man.

One thing that made Andor such a great show is that it was only two seasons in length. They had a story and a plan and they stuck to it. Far too many good series turn to shit by overstaying their welcome. They run out of ideas yet keep churning along because money. It's a terrible way to go.

Any nation still willing to lend money to the US is clearly suffering from sunk cost fallacy.

Kiska is the name of an island. Back in WW2, the Allies invaded the island. Over 100 men died during this attack despite the island being unoccupied. The Japanese had abandoned the place long before the Americans even arrived.

I wonder how much of ICE funding is going directly to various white supremacist groups to stockpile weapons? After all, Reichmarshal Miller isn't going to trust enforcement of martial law entirely to the military just yet. He needs his true loyalists front & center.

#AI The real AI revolution will be when people realize that it has become cheaper and easier to just run this stuff themselves on their own upgraded home/office PCs than to pay for increasingly enshittified cloud services with ever increasing restrictions attached to them.

Five minutes browsing indie games is proof that the vast majority of slop is still human generated.