They didn’t even bother to ask for an AUMF, impeachment

Every Christian response to the problem of evil except the one in Job (god is so massively bigger than you that you might as well treat him as a force of nature) is the least compelling argument imaginable to the point that I feel like the people saying it don't even believe it

Tbh I feel like a significant driver of a decline in social trust is the mere existence of professionalized PR. It instantly turns any interaction between an institution and the public into an adversarial one because PR's job is to construct a sentence that maximizes utility for the institution

Guy who writes today's date as "post. Kal. Jan I Mamdani"

A lot of people are saying he'd have made it if not for the corruption and like he was still normal machine mayor levels of corrupt according to publically available info by 2023 and it was already pretty clear at this point that he was cooked

been kind of a funny thing seeing some reaction to this being "what's he talking about, republicans don't know how to speak with civility and decorum" just - zoop - right over the head

Does anyone else feel like there's a deep level on which they simply don't *get* nationalism? Like whenever I hear nationalist arguments or complaints, I keep waiting for the part where they explain why whatever they're talking about is supposed to be a bad (or good) thing, and...

Genuinely do not understand and have not seen any reason why people endlessly obsess over the water consumption of AI. Water bills in cities are mostly not paying for the actual water, it's purification, distribution, etc. There's plenty of water, it's being heavily misused

This poll clearly either had a bad sample or got a lot of people trolling them. If you want to take it seriously you should also take seriously that 25% of Republicans think Italians have dual loyalty

Generally positive sign: saw a lot of California flags on houses in LA city. Imo we should do more to cultivate a Californian identity

After possibly the worst economic response in American history, Hoover retained about ⅔ of his votes from 1928 which was a Republican blowout. It is unsurprising and irrelevant that these folks exist In general people need to get over the fact that there are some diehard Republican partisans

Guy who thinks Keynesianism refers to car centric development

Going to the horses and asking them whether they think the big bang theory is good

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The non nimby is winning this by 30 with 15% turnout (low turnout generally favors nimbys)

Ok I know everyone is talking about the political implications or whatever but,,,, did Southeast Colorado not already have drinking water?

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I think a lot of people hear "class grades should be based on in person exams" and imagine that you put something like "10% homework 40% midterm 50% final" on the syllabus rather than just putting "40% homework 25% midterm 35% final" and then just giving ~everyone full points on homework

Someone got mad at me for my hypocrisy in saying that we should have younger candidates and also TR style fighters because "TR was old"

I did an entire undergraduate degree not even that long ago (2015-2019), in computer science, where the majority of classes basically operated like this (homeworks were generally graded on effort)

This would be a much more compelling argument if people did, in fact, know themselves. Which they don't! Intuition is fake, nobody is immune from having some mental health issues occasionally

I feel like people are transposing a lot of their (correct) takes on "white working class were tricked into voting for trump against their interests" being stupid onto the hispanic working class, where they apply much less well. For one, we never saw a massive snapback among the wwc

Real "oh my god, she admit it" moment here. Trump is treated as an uninteresting figure without agency so we can dump endless criticism on liberals for how they react to his "natural disaster." He "doesn't participate in moral frameworks" lmfao

It's so funny how this is just the right's obsession with plastic surgery beauty being turned inward on men but they need to pretend that it's racism in order for them to not feel like women about it

Positive portrayals of autism coded assholes in media basically never include the part where they care a lot about fairness and justice over social norms, because usually the characters are just wish fulfillment for neurotypical assholes who wish they could get away with it by being smart

> "on top of the world cdp, florida" > looks inside > elevation: 23m

If we win, expect a lot of nostalgia for car culture the way there's a lot of nostalgia for the cigarette

I put it in a similar category as cultural appropriation, in that it's often a red flag for a scam, but it isn't necessarily bad in and of itself

I am but only specifically about the 3 different integration tricks I have never used in my job as a person who does math every day

Like 80% of the specific harms done by LLMs at the moment are extremely low hanging fruit to fix via two specific regulations (1) Banning the sexual harassment bots and making it civilly tortious for individuals to do harassment (2) Banning commercially distributed LLMs from having a "personality"

Jumpscared by this license plate for a car that this brokenwood (murder mystery) episode from 2016 revolved around

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Imagine getting trapped in the La Brea tar pits. Total skill issue, couldn't be me

I know I'm a broken record on this but one apolitical cultural reform we absolutely need is pushing the hell back on "get that bag" culture. Stop praising content creators for better natively integrating their advertising! Stop giving content creators a pass for advertising scams!

Would change my pfp to (a crop of) this but I think with the displayname people might uh make some assumptions about my politics

In general I hear this a lot and I think it is a common take because of the frustration of having to reword to fit a word count but if you can't be clear to person X in 300 characters or a thread you're not going to be clear to person X in 5000 characters,

The thing about three cueing is that, like, while training humans on how to read via masked language modeling is viscerally stupid sounding, it's striking how articles about it do not contain sentences like "A study in X district (N=2000) found that three cueing underperformed phonics by Y%"

The thing that confuses this is that an extremely common grift nowadays is "be extremely full of shit in a space where you get some resource for views". Like there's perpetual motion grifters who aren't selling anything, they live off YouTube AdSense on their videos

[guy standing up image] I think followers of evangelicalism are probably similarly likely to be sincere as members of other religions

Imo table stakes for not being called a whiny child when you criticize k12 schooling is acknowledging at least one area where school made you learn a thing you found annoying at the time but later found useful — for me this was writing

one of my friends (also LA-BOS transplant but she's assimilated) makes fun of me for describing snow flurries as "ice hitting your face" because apparently it's supposed to be a "whimsical experience" but, literally, it is, ice hitting your face. v unpleasant

Eh, there's a reason we make students do math on paper instead of letting them use Wolfram for say Calc 1. Sorry, you should learn to read and write even if it's unpleasant.

Normal people: oh it says 3 followed by 35 so it's 3:35 Analogheads, well the short hand is near 4 but before it, so that's 3 something, and the minute hand is at 7, 7*5=35, so it's 3:35

I think basically the issue is that on online platforms, the main group of older liberals you interact with are the weirdos who are in the Democratic Leadership Fandom. I think this is an overrepresentation ofc, but thats the group being discussed

I genuinely find this argument baffling. All these resource extraction industries have basically been automated, I do not see why the remaining rural folks should get credit for owning the land containing resources

Imo what happened was Cuomo was strong for incumbency/name rec/machine reasons and everything about his campaign (red baiting, trying to make the election about Israel, "experience") backfired

The practical reality about "capitalism creates innovation" is that it creates innovative ways to extract value, in some time periods there's new technologies that allow that to be win/win, in others, it's just financial engineering that helps corporations scam customers