if you've ever wondered this (it's weird, right?) the answer is that they exist BECAUSE cities and things like protests are scary and confusing for a horse and a scared horse will sometimes rear or kick and if that kick injures or kills a protestor the police can say "he scared my horsy 😢"

Ok step one is to make them look less delicious

the AI is not your friend or companion, it's an offputting modern version of AIM SmarterChild and every time I have briefly attempted to use it I am overwhelmed by a sense of wrongness. and these people want to marry it

i'm sorry but if you fall for this I think less of you. I know everyone wants to give people grace and say "anyone could fall into this!" but that's not true and we all know it

i do not fucking claim graham platner as maine’s zohran mamdani holy shit

This was Path of Exile2's global chat after Kirk's neck Just Did That. Some guy tried to eulogize him and that's how a bunch found out and they started cheering and hooting for hours

it’s on jooble dude just log in to bebee

if you keep things you don't want or need because you think you're saving it from the landfill, you're not. it'll get there eventually. your house is just a way point.

surely we can do a 30-year trillion-dollar geo-engineering project that will probably destroy half of north america's natural ecosystems to save the central valley alfalfa harvest from ruin

There's a serious learned helplessness tech shaggers always demonstrate. No need to panic about all of the threats to human existence because tech will sort it out. Musk is taking us to Mars donchya know?

Drug enforcement makes drugs less safe

Invading Iran is a really bad idea

"Why don't we just go around the Strait of Hormuz"

Companies that get sued a lot get lawsuit insurance. Meta has fucked around so much that a judge has released their insurers from an obligation to defend them against lawsuits where Meta deliberately engaged in behavior that caused harm. Which is pretty much all of them.

2031 History student: so was any of the Biden Saga canon? Or was it all just filler? Teacher: As a large language model, I am not permitted to answer that question.

rural hospital closures are rural economy killers

florida voted with a comfortable majority to give ex-felons their voting rights, the government instituted an unconstitutional poll tax over it, and the federal government response, by a democrat, was: ignoring it. great work, assholes!

florida really fucks me up in that it's utterly awash in right wingers rigging shit, so many of its problems are due to this, we've known this for years, and instead of ever doing anything about it, it's just fist shaking at voters. turning over rocks in FL after obama won should've been a priority

Insurgency is when you fire off sophisticated ballistic missiles but Islamically

it would be crazy if it happens while you're on a plane because some of the passengers would start crying and like have no where to go for hours while everyone else is really happy and laughing and going nuts

most of the time you don’t want true randomness and/or simulation in a game. you think you do but you’re wrong and will get mad at us if you get it.

This too is hobbyless behavior

That our current economic systems are fundamentally incompatible with a sustainable and healthy climate, and that we need rapid changes to the status quo in order to prevent many many more millions of deaths due to drought, heat, and other forms of extreme weather this century

regardless of rfk jr.'s recent losing streak, the damage he's done/is still doing is severe and long-lasting

Genuinely when interacting with a western Russian historian you have to prod a bit to sus out if they're the normal kind or the 'Russians have a skull shape that makes them uniquely evil, let me tell you about the perfidious Lenin who was worse than Hitler' kind.

Britain and America actually have a cottage industry of 'Russian historians' who say things that have been largely dismissed as incorrect in their field since the end of the Cold War, but they follow a pro-capitalist political line and know that you probably haven't done the reading.

You may find public-facing work in the west about our geopolitical rivals often happens to find historians who say things that may in fact be very unpopular views in their own field, but line up with common misconceptions about those countries.

Historians are as subject to class interest and political loyalties as anyone and 'a historian said x' sadly means very little on its own, you need to look at wider trends in the scholarship to figure out what we actually know about any somewhat controversial issue.

We’ve gone from “the groups” must be cut out to actually the “coasts” can be ignored and everyday they’re hurtling faster and faster towards “well who else could the minorities vote for” as an explicit argument in this push for white reconciliation.

NEIGHBOR [peering out window]: looks like WaPo is interviewing that unfuckable tent guy

i think you should support trans women on the basis that discrimination against us hurts us. when things are done to hurt us we feel it. we feel pain. we are real people. we want to be treated fairly right now, not in the future, but now, because it hurts now.

Madness!! American Truckbrain is a public health emergency

Called it. Easiest call ever. Goodwin’s putting all his chips on portraying the Greater Manchester Police as part of an Islamo-Gauchismo conspiracy

An absolutely deranged conspiracy theory, here. Get ready to hear it over and over again, both at full xenomorph-blood strength and as a watered down but still highly corrosive version.

bar cards should be rigged to explode if the holder ever writes something like this

Keep your kids out of the fucking military.

Afghanistan/Iraq War flashback

Peter the Great skeets

the shower cleaner i got says 'Daily Shower Cleaner' on the bottle. settle down. i did not sign up for that. check yourself, shower cleaner bottle

for anyone who is tl;dr: this white house app is shady as all fuck and can track your location, pull all your user data, and let a random guy mess with the web pages you browse

This isn't like Idiocracy at all, actually. Starting to think a lot of you didn't even watch the movie.

Trans rights, ending ICE, and freeing Palestine all got huge cheers at my local No Kings protest. These are mainstream positions for the Democratic electorate. The party needs to fucking catch up.

me: if a bathtub DID have a tummy, where would it be? iggy: maybe in da ZOO he's got me there

i thought when my kids learned to ask "why" they'd ask like, good questions, leading to enlightening talks. one of them just asked me why the bathtub doesn't have a tummy

don’t forget the cooperative farms, Jesse!

i hear all the time in Oklahoma City "we have to build radical unions that prefigure the democratic structures we need to operate society, and occupy the factories not as a negotiating tactic but for its own sake of economic control"

look electoralism might work with Mamdani in New York, but if you want real Americans from Wichita, Omaha, and Green Bay, we need to embrace anarcho-syndicalism. i get if you elites don't like it but we have to be pragmatic