💯 there has never been a healthcare system (in Britain at least) that started from the premise that we should control our own bodies. Every change to the system over the last century has preserved doctors’ presumed right interfere in our decisions

I think he's deliberately not signing the other bills so that they'll automatically become law without his having to put his name on them. That way, when he runs for president, he can have plausible deniability to cater to conservatives when they discuss his legislative career. HE SUCKS.

My most bipartisan take is, fuck this guy

"im deeply upset about posts" of course you are, youre 35. "im going back to mastodon" hell yea homie youre 35.

i think demystification of the machine output/input interface is the number one most important thing that i almost never see taught when people are talking about getting into old computers. like the way you just put stuff in certain places in ram and it functions like a mechanical linkage

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We really hit on something with the 12 year old theory of governance because that’s really the entire political project. It’s being 12 years old and not even normal 12 year olds but real pieces of shit 12 year olds

tv tropes taught a whole generation of readers to mistake basic pattern recognition for gotcha criticism and a whole generation of writers to feel insecure every time they came up with an idea that happened to be in conversation with other ideas

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I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

newly released body cam footage seems to contradict initial reports that federal agents opened fire only after a woman, who had "hulked out" and "become huge," began using "hulk strength" to smash them. gotta admit, this one did feel a little fishy when i was reporting it as fact yesterday

This would single-handedly transform the lives of everyone I know in such profound ways it is difficult to fully articulate, but it would also let us actually make more and different and crazy things

Another one of those contradictions only Trump can resolve in the coalition is that while Gamergate is foundational to the development of conservative youth the actual GOP electeds all think playing video games makes you a gay nerd

Yeah not knowing isn't the issue, it's also the pride in that ignorance tbh

unpopular opinion apparently but american exceptionialism is not when an american doesn't know the names of every politician from other countries. terms mean things.

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CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him

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when I was defending itch I heard from a lot of - frankly to my shock - other queers who were like "it's a platform, platforms are the enemy" and until we're able to distinguish _as users_ the ways in which worker owned services aren't your enemy and deserve grace, we won't be seeing very many

Identifying public officials isn't "doxing." People have the right to know who is working for their government. Nor, for that matter, is it "radical left-wing terrorism." So it's frustrating to see platforms caving to these bad faith characterizations. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...

if you ask the average American to describe what they think a tougher immigration system should look like, they will describe something a degree of magnitude softer and more generous than the current reality. The lesson here is that people are both better and dumber than they appear.

Low-key non-binary trans women are the majority of my trans women friends and it's so funny how unaware so many non-trans women tend to be about its prevalence simply because they expect every non-binary trans woman to be a degendered toy for them to project onto and abuse.

i just keep thinking about it, right. why do i feel like it has to be done. why do i feel like *I* have to do it. can it be done. it's prerational and thus ought to be tested. but i can't come to answers. 'if i don't, then who will?' is the easiest one, but it hardly lands clean.

i do not care for the oldhead mecha fan contingent despite being a "post-godzilla otaku rot probably peaked in showa" poster.

I was told not to teach a class on the intellectual histories of Zionism and Anti-Zionism next year - not because they doubted I could teach it fairly, but because it would attract too many politicians scrutinizing the syllabus. A society where that is a valid fear is no longer fully democratic.

*strums guitar* friends, can I tell you about a man who only had 12 followers but never made a bad post?

People really act like they're gonna melt and scromit and be permanently spiritually stained if characters are shown to have a sexuality, be interested in sex, engage in sex at any level in media. Literally the most repressive and repressed shit in living memory.

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Gamers will say "they were besties"

commit exactly one heinous crime that haunts you for the rest of your days. never tell a soul. this will allow you to look brooding and mysterious when you sit alone at a bar table in the wee hours of the morning.

why do it, why must it be me who does it, and can it even do anything

Its not lost on me that the conservative bugaboo for years was federal troops marching in their states and cities and its the first thing Trump reached for once in power

based on my experience of observed behavior, the issue is not actually people being racist to AI chatbots, but people who are very clearly just excited they get to be racist to something. do I think everyone who says "clanker" or whatever is real life racist? no, obviously not!

at its core, a lot of these guys use AI as a woman who can be forced to love them, cannot say no to them, and that they have 100% control over. the problem isn't the specific words used or the specific target, it's what such behavior indicates about the user themselves

can anyone identify some mecha communities that are not toxic, not homophobic, public, and that i don't run

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[2/2] COROLLARY: You don't actually need to write a whole-ass graphic novel to achieve that narrative context. You do need to know what the story *is*, but once you do, you can literally just draw contextless snapshots that raise more questions than they answer and people will fill in the blanks.

the real fantasy of Power Rangers as a kid was the idea of having four friends who wanted to spend time with you

jane goodall releasing a video of her listing the people she dislikes and ending with a vague message of hope is so iconic. truly someone i aspire to model myself after

when agent smith calls neo mister anderson in the matrix he is invoking a deadname to signify his power as the state but when smith calls neo mister anderson in the sequels its literally just a pet name for his soulmate that no one else uses. the wachowskis are so huge brained

being the first member of the 4 heavenly kings the heroes beat is so embarrassing cause they're also always the one the others are like 'lol it was more a technicality he counted, thanks for killing him, I was gonna but ehhhhh'

understanding probability is one of those things that's actually more of a curse because sometimes you have to wrestle your brain into the position of "this is not a series of 50/50s. this is one. each action I take from this point on is a distinct moment, and history does not exist" to do things

I've been informed that according to samsara, if you die against a boss, you have to do a runback with a totally different build and it takes literal years with no guarantee you'll run into that boss again

it remains really funny that this site was spun up to be a crypto/rationalist platform and then old time weird twitter people and others started moving over here in spring 2023 and ever since management has been mad they're successful but not in the way they wanted

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