given education polarization and MAGA's reliance on low propensity voters, something like the SAVE Act would almost certainly backfire on republicans (i'm reasonably sure senate republicans understand this too)

American politics is a seesaw driven by the biggest dipshits you’ve ever met it’s just this comic over and over and over again, forever

Bovino advanced all the way to within eyesight of Paisley Park, but his supply lines were stretched too thin and ultimately his frozen troops were encircled by Will Stancil and wine moms with whistles

yeah no fucking shit maybe 7 year development cycles are fucking stupid and unnecessary and don't even produce measurably better games than shorter ones

The climatologist told me climate change will get us. The epidemiologist told me Covid will get us. The computer scientist told me artificial intelligence will get us. The historian told me fascism will get us. When I look at how bad we’ve let things become I don’t get us.

Bring it on.

there is no fav precious enough that I would keep these pedophilic Nazis in power just to protect burn EVERYONE in the files EVERYONE

never get involved in a land war in Minnesota

Johnson keeps saying "trained activists" like he's saying "convicted murderers." This is essential to the right's project: if the left gets its shit together, that means its democratic participation is inherently illegitimate. I wrote about this here: paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-rights...

weird yokai thing for a monthly prompt, last month, 𝓬𝓸𝔃𝔂~ maybe the spirit of a cat that loved the family kotatsu ends up haunting it or something

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse

I know that there is just so much going on in every direction, but it does really feel like we've reached a point of class divide where the people making Big Money Decisions are an alien species who can't imagine what the rest of us are thinking at any point.

That Super Bowl Ring ad backfired spectacularly.

a better look at these

I changed the audio

Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold

my takeaways reading about a bunch of horrific shit in history is that the things you want are: -to have hiding spaces -to not let the state disarm you (small arms genuinely matter even when artillery exists) -to maintain access the means of communication -to build diplomatic ties with outsiders

build these. i'm not joking. the more I read history the more I read how often hiding spaces save lives.

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

the rollout of the mRNA vaccines was one of the greatest public health triumphs in history and the end result has been the all-around triumph of the antivax movement and I will never get over it

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

once more.

genuinely with him on this one, the eagerness to fedjacket a guy who has made right-wingers more angry than you've ever managed because he's using different tactics is playing kid games with adult consequences

When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means

The Wall Street Journal just illustrated the core argument of my book: a system rigged to reward capital over labor is one in which even full-time work no longer secures the most basic material needs. This is the economic order that produces the "working homeless." www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

SLUGGO’S NO DRAB GAB TUESDAY

It's so cool how a bunch of kids realized there was a genocide in the middle east in 2023 and now suddenly every major company and government is tripping over their own dicks to turn the world into an Orwllian surveillance state so that never happens again.

It could be really bad for Discord if Californians contact the office of the Attorney General to report the potential violations of CCPA and CALOPPA citing the recent breach from a few months back where 1.5tb of user data and millions of IDs were leaked, but who can say for sure?

starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import

hit 'em where it hurts!! 🥰✨

if i know discord for anything is that they can and will pussy out if people bully them enough for something. get fucking loud about this

Oh my god, so many people are canceling Nitro that it's having issues processing it, cook 'em hard bois.

I really wish we had a well funded, power critical fourth estate interested in investigating the source of this clearly coordinated effort by payment processors. Like, we keep seeing the impact of it, but I really want to know the "who" and the "why" beyond nebulous surveillance/puritanism forces.

Previously

"None of Discord's competitors are as feature complete as Discord is!" Have you stopped for a second and considered why? Because the only way to get a truly "everything" app is to eventually need a massive amount of funding, either from stocks or VC funding. Maybe we don't need persistent-

Well, good thing we didn’t silo off a bunch of important game knowledge in individual discords instead of forums or wikis or gamefaqs for some reason

Every business right now thinks its such an essential part of your life that you'd give them anything to keep using it and brother I am here to tell you I don't need a chat app that bad

> platform starts requiring personal information from all users > "all information deleted directly after verification" > information that supposedly no longer exists magically leaked in a data breach

i dont think one thing should replace discord, i think like three things at minimum should replace discord. it being an All-in-One app has ruined so many parts of online.

I don't think something actionable has to happen *now*, but I wanna start a discussion about how we handle a fully enshittified Discord (ads, telemetry, further monetization). Because this is the best Discord will be for the rest of its lifespan. short thread🧵

LMAO only took a month. Good thing they didn't have a data breach of people's IDs last year :/ Don't really have a suggestion for a new platform but please stop giving Discord your money

I mean this as hard as I can: cancel your fucking nitro. it is LITERALLY the only thing that they fucking listen to.

11 years ago, the Seahawks lost the Super Bowl on an insane goal line interception that opened a vortex to the McDonald’s Nazi hell we’ve lived in since. Tonight, with the Patriots defeat, we usher in the age of Woke 2

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

I’m Analilia Mejia and I approve this message.

We can build a world where being in a gambling ad is just as cringe as being in a crypto ad was a few super bowls ago. NFT, crypto, sports betting, polymarket. It's all the same grift, and everyone associated with it deserves unending mockery at the very least.