Don't be antisemitic.

I’m sorry a WHAT?

I don't think the US has had a Congressionally declared war in decades, so if this is your standard...

The right hates actual experts but they invariably replace them with their own, worse experts, not actual critical thinking and individual thought.

If MAHA was just telling people to stop eating cheeseburgers and fritos for dinner every night, I'd be so on board with the "eat real food" thing.

If you post a Youtube video that presents itself as a review of something, and it turns out it's sponsored by the product in question, Youtube should take your video down even if you disclose that it is sponsored in the video itself.

There are two kinds of people; "people who get mad at Tourette's sufferers for their ticks" and "adults"

here's the basic fucking reality about energy that some of you are apparently somehow still unable to grasp: we have to migrate fully, with no exceptions, to renewables and nuclear because the alternative is to continue fairly rapidly destroying the ecosystem we need to survive as a species

Trump just realized his earthly immunity doesn’t apply to heaven

In fairness, everyone under 25 also barely votes.

TL;DR: Adding housing actually cuts costs for those who need it most. 📉 Didn't think we needed it, but still grateful for the solid data (again).

If someone says something happens "all the time", but gets defensive when you ask for an example, they are probably full of shit.

Sounds rough! I avoid this ever happening to me with One Weird Trick

People really need to understand that the claim "most people in America aren't poor" is not a claim that "nobody is poor" or "poor people can go fuck themselves".

I'm now at the point where the AI doomers annoy me more than the people overhyping it. They are downright unhinged.

Objectively, if you're willing to use a platform that has a CSAM machine, knowing that you're use of the platform adds value to it and encourages others to use the platform, you're at least not willing to consider it disqualifying if it makes your job easier. Sorry if the truth hurts.

I don't think leftists cost anyone anything cuz they are politically insignificant in the US, but it would also be fair to point out that you can't cater to them without alienating everyone else cuz they are fringe lunatics.

Lmao just saw a caption “microdosing hell by staying informed and educated” and truer words have never been spoken.

I guess someone really did "firebomb the Walmart"

I dunno who is writing this season of America but the allegories are a bit too on the nose now

Prediction: The LP will run a candidate, they will lose but get 30% of the vote, and they will consider this proof of their viability as a party and not just proof that they can only compete when they lack competition at all.

If Frederick Douglass, a former slave, can see the essential good of America, so can you.

This is "Alex Jones but leftish" and is equally nonsense.

Libertarians get memed on for a lot of real flaws, but the idea that there is a significant contingent of libertarians that are pro-pedophilia or that this is a policy goal for the Libertarian Party is just nonsense. If you disagree, show me a platform or candidate saying otherwise.

This doesn't end until actual arrests, trials, etc. start happening. They've learned that a court order can just be ignored because nobody will enforce them.

Everyone is (rightfully) dunking on this piece, but the reality is does have nuance. Many libertarians did indeed warn people about Trump, but the movement was coopted by MAGA both within the party and in general. Long-timers have horror stories to tell about this.

I think crypto is dumb and nobody should buy it, but it's also dumb to see an asset have a downturn and conclude from that alone that "it's over". 1 BTC is still worth over $60k. It's not dead, even if it should be.

If you want to know where you will end up if you follow this reasoning to its logical conclusion, look at MAGA.

The mistake is assuming that the things they think are based on rational analysis and not what generates clicks and views on their content.

People are reacting negatively to this, not because it is false, but because they are inferring a subtext of "poor people don't matter".

The "there will be no midterm elections" doomers need to explain why, as we wait for midterms, we keep having elections where Republicans are getting trounced.

While you can't do this, you CAN boycott companies that are complicit. For example, NVidia.

This is your regular reminder that the data broker industry must be destroyed.

As someone who has been aware of this for like a decade now, and was slandered as a "Nazi" for saying it because right-wing grifters were *also* saying it, it's a bit heartening to see the problem legitimately reckoned with and acknowledged instead of being gaslit about it being "made up"

I think some people let MAGA's inconsistency derange them. Like they expect if they scream "hypocrisy" loud enough, they will hear it and something will happen. They know. They don't believe in moral universality. They don't care.

"Abolish ICE" is the moderate option.

I love this game but it does have flaws, even in its current iteration. Its strengths are *very* strong though.

People do not, in fact, deserve collective punishment for things they have no direct control over. I thought it was shitty when people did it to Russians and it's shitty to do it to Americans.

"Aleppo" sure seems like a quaint reason to disqualify a candidate, huh?

It's funny to see "facts don't care about your feelings" people embrace fascism since, at its core, fascism is very much about feelings instead of facts.

Rent control is a terrible policy, so why would you lean on an argument as bad as this to attack it when you could just cite almost any economist ever instead?

Earl Jam

To the new Blueskyers on here. We keep the place decent by blocking trolls and hatemongers immediately instead of engaging. Please don't give them any air.

This is fucking stupid

Since people are almost certainly not reading the article, they aren't using AI to generate content for Wikipedia; they are selling the rights to scrape Wikipedia to train AI. Seems like a win to me. LLMs get a knowledgebase to use for training, and the money helps fund the knowledgebase itself.

I'm never going to forget that we have an entire Congress that could end all of this any time they want and just won't.

This is what baffled me. They got MORE amped up on anti-woke fear when it was in recession. It pretty much destroys any claim that they were responding to some kind of legitimate grievance.

He's not wrong, FWIW. Doesn't mean I sympathize with the guy, but he's not wrong. You can absolutely be fired for yelling insults at people at work.

Libertarians have that infuriating quality of believing they are smarter than everyone else while being dumber than everyone else.

I know he was a scumbag later in his life, but I did really love Dilbert, including (maybe especially) the quirky weird short-lived animated series. I spend enough time hating MAGA for being MAGA. I think today I'm just going to honor the good part of his legacy that left a positive mark on me.