Small Government Right Wing: We must ban the Burqa and limit people's freedom of religion. Feminists: We love the Burqa and Islam. Me: Can we talk about circumcision instead?

I wish there was a generalised version of the -ness suffix. I want to be able to say “there are some things where we don't know if they're red or not” but without “they” and the best I can do is “there are some things whose redness is not known to us” but that doesn't work for red-or-notness.

What ever will we do without late night talking head #14? Probably watch whatever show he starts on a different network / online.

Starmer you vile twat. Why does he take the whip away from anyone with an ounce of decency?

Yall thinking what I'm thinking? This thing would absolutely make a fire robe for ceremonial occasions. Haters gonna call me heartless but they know I'm right.

Excellent summary of the infrastructure issues in the UK. youtu.be/83eQcOWWqj8

The issue with stuff like this is that you can hate your leader but agree with their policies. Most Israelis have no issue with the bombs being dropped on Gaza, and hate Netanyahu because of other things, or even because he isn't bombing Gaza enough.

The words “debut” and “debt” differ by one letter yet only have a one phoneme in common.

“I just traded an eye for an eye; why has the world gone blind?”

Why? www.thenational.scot/news/2523311...

Most people have the political awareness of a flea or other small insect. Almost everyone cares about other people and want what's best for them. Politics is disagreeing about what's best for people. It's often more difficult than you think to disentangle self-interest from altruism.

Ozempic owes the world a great debt after they've prolonged the life of Donald Trump in this way.

Liberals be like: "If only there was some annoying guy who told everyone that the right wing was racist, then they would stop supporting it."

He's really giving "JRPG final boss" vibes in this one.

i think it was deleuze or foucault who said that religious garments like the veil and hijab would each far outlive their respective religions as sexual fetishes and i don't think there's a better contemporary anecdote for this than the zoomers who take up the mantel of "trad life"

If I train an AI model on a single piece of media to produce an almost exact replica as output, have I effectively removed the copyright from that work? There is genuinely no coherent case for why AI companies shouldn't need to get permission to use copyrighted works in their training data.

I can't imagine looking at this and feeling anything other than nausea and despair. It's an ad for voluntarily surrendering your humanity in exchange for a low-intensity jerkoff machine.

We need to stop the flow of funds to the far right and level our political playing field before we become as corrupt as the US money circus. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

As someone who is against capital punishment, I condemn both the recent attack on Israeli diplomats and also the actions described below. If you view the events differently, I suggest you reflect on why that is.

Destroying the most basic low-level ecosystem on the planet in the name of getting more minerals? What could go wrong? I suppose at least it might cut down on our use of African slaves. A better solution would be to stop putting out new iPhones every year.

I hate the farming lobby so much. You can't just call a random benefit UBI and doing so discredits the actual concept of UBI.

Incredible. This planning reform nonsense seems to simply be a smoke screen to avoid the reality that we need more social housing.

"The Government [must recognise] the actions of Israel in Gaza as genocidal acts. We must suspend all arms exports to Israel, and ground the surveillance flights being carried out by the RAF over Gaza" @carladenyer.bsky.social‬ writes in the @metro.co.uk‬ 📷: Mohammed Ibrahim

Bubbling under the surface of many a Canadian is a seething hatred that just cannot be matched. It's a miracle that they've tricked everyone into thinking they're the "nice" country.

*giving speech at a funeral* I know yall are pretty sad rn, but can we take a moment to talk about the real sadness affecting Amerca…

Average slop hater: I can't stand these AI articles!!!!😡!!1🤬!!! Distinguished shit eater: mmmm, sweetcorn. 😋

"Hot" people are so made up. They don't actually look that much better than everyone else and people are just gaslit into saying they do.

The AI art guys genuinely don't get that art communicates something to the viewer. They think it's just pretty pictures. I always assumed they got it but had some kind of principled position, but I don't think they do.

It occurs to me that man of he "trapped with crazy people in space" stories can probably trace their lineage to Moby Dick.

It's certainly a lot easier to blame big government than the forces of private capital for our current building crisis. Perhaps reforms are needed to the system of planning permissions, but I doubt eviscerating it will have the imagined positive effect on housing.

Why do people love playing with chemicals so much? I swear everyone gets some weird spray and decides it would be a grand old time to drink it or do some other mad shit.

"Yeah, my country is evil, but it's all their fault." From the creators of social distancing, we now bring you: moral distancing.

A lot of liberals are freaking out because the new Pope is American, meanwhile righties are losing it because he supports the needy and vulnerable. Strange times.

POV: two government officials quietly offering you $21 trillion dollars.

Carl Sagan on sensible military spending and climate change.

I've finally figured out what pissed me off the most about this "ban music on busses" thing. These people don't even care about the music. They've just made up a rule that "music shouldn't be played on busses" and they're angry at people for breaking the rule even though they don't mind the music.

People obsessed with manners are always the first to infantilise those they disagree with. So many people expect to be respected, but are not willing to respect others.

I wish to cast the Lib Dems into the fire.

Liberals reading their 20th "Trump is stupid" post of the day.

No shoes, but the hat is fine. Nudists confuse me.

me and my bros at the Hetero Awesome Fest

Who would win?

Democrats admitting the election was rigged is the funniest shit.

NIMBYs want to increase the value of their land. If they rented land from the government at a market rate, they would want to lower their rent by lowering the cost of housing. We must increase public housing to align people's desires with the common good, or else they'll vote for bad city planning.

The value of a building is influenced by its surroundings. By creating a cheap crappy building in a good location, you can inflate your land's value, but it will lower the value of surrounding land. Construction must be centrally planned to avoid this.

"We all know that only foreigners play music on trains but the Lib Dems are complaining about it without mentioning race. They must be secretly racist and trying to hide it." - Sargon of Akkad People live in his world. Everything is about race to them. It scares me. youtu.be/kyCAoiNly9c?...

"There is no such thing as a trade deficit." I weep.