and i think the example of washington — whose peer, in this regard, is frederick douglass — is a reminder that artifice and performance are important parts of democratic society, and that the contempt for virtue signaling is corrosive. virtue is meant to be signaled!

it is so clear that the mental model of politics these guys has is of playing a video game

Here it is, your moment of zen.

I think what’s more likely is China is going to continue to scale up the flash memory and RAM fabrication that many in the west made fun of a decade ago and crater prices in like 3 years right as the American economy is a smoking crater, but in the meantime it’ll be very shitty for everyone.

units discourse is so boring. is a taco a sandwich but for gifted kids (derogatory).

This is the dumbest thing I've ever read. Of course it's the job of politicians to change public opinion.

The long and the short of it is: -gamers don’t know what they want -content creators have positioned themselves as the “voice of the gamer” -it’s established that negative content consistently drives engagement -“everything sucks” has become the prevailing attitude cultivated by these personalities

if you played sonic the hedgehog and put down the controller, sonic would look at you and tap his foot impatiently. this was proof that sega genesis cartridges had souls. the decision was made to make the storage cases a lot larger than the cartridges so they would have room to move around in there

Go Hawks, fuck the Patriots for what they did to Raiden in MGS2

There are many different, often contradictory ideas people have about what makes a "fair" map. Overall party proportionality. Geographical compactness. Communities of interest. And the GOP supports exactly none of them because their position on the issue is pure partisan hypocrisy and nothing else.

Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)

Do you think other historical events that have been attributed to ineffable social forces were also just downstream of some dipshit banning hentai from his forums but evidence to that effect has since been lost

Human nature is to change, to adapt, to cooperate. Notably, not every culture historically become a warmongering heirchical predator-state. When trying to philosophize about the problem of evil, "human nature" clearly does not stand up to any scrutiny.

you ever spend a couple hours finding a therapist and then you show up and spill the whole deal and they go 'oh have you tried not being sad' and then you give them $300 and then you wait six months and then decide to spend a couple hours finding a therapist and then you show up and spill the whole

Bovino out is a great indicator. It’s a great start. But none of us can be appeased right now. It’s still abolish ICE. It’s still prosecute these fascists. It’s still destroy the whole apparatus that has been terrorizing and disappearing and murdering our neighbors.

I can’t get over how this was started over such stupid reasons Not just the fake “illegal Somalis are scamming the govt for billions” that started the atrocity at MPLS. The whole ideology Stephen Miller heard someone speak Spanish as a teen and made it his life’s work to harm minorities. 1/2

I remain absolutely furious that all this shit in Minneapolis started because a barely-literate homeschooled mormon made a video trying to run up in daycare centers trying to find people of Somalian descent doing fraud despite the ringleader (a white woman) being in jail since March. Demonic.

Me my whole life: Nothing is black and white. You have to consider nuance Now: We face a heinous, remorseless evil

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It's time. Perfect Tides: Station to Station is out on PC and Mac. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESUK...

American law enforcement‘s message is “treat us like we’re in the first picture or we’ll put you in the second picture”

Too late. The bitch died. Good riddance.

costco should be allowed to sell weed. i want the Kirkland Select Kush. a 300-count fish oil pill sized bottle of 5mg gummies would fix this country

new york city is Real America. los angeles is Real America. chicago is Real America. minneapolis is Real America. seattle, portland, detroit etc etc. sick of this framing that it's otherwise. shut the fuck up

everythiiing🎵 I have to saaay🗣️ would get me baaanned🎷 or on a liiist🎶

every seat in a movie theater should have an "I have to pee" button and if enough people press it they should be able to pause the movie

"well that's not very nice of you"

THE DAY CARES ARE LOCKED BECAUSE YOU MADE A GENERATION-LONG EFFORT TO MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE TO KILL THE CHILDREN INSIDE THEM YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING GHOULS

I can’t believe how stupid everything is

our entire society should be constructed so sustainably that everyone has room to be an artist

If SoulSov is one of those "maybe someday" games for you, if you've heard a lot about it and it looks cool and you've been meaning to get to it, this is your sign. The actual time investment is tragically short for the amount of good you get out of it and you owe it to yourself to experience it Now.

Despite threats, billionaires don't leave the largest population centers, because it's where there is the most money to be had from the collective value generated by human beings, and despite what they insist, they don't generate wealth; they collect it.

My daughter this morning: “ARE THEY BROTHER AND SISTER???” @magnoliapearl.bsky.social @gunnerkrigg.bsky.social

Your power bill has tripled and you can't afford new PC parts just to create this.

i beseech you to read 3rd voice web comic rice-boy.com/3rdvoice/

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

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Rubio's statement is that Times New Roman is more "patriotic" specifically *because* he believes it is less accessible. This regime is driven by eugenics as a core principle. Centering people like themselves, and reducing/excluding anyone who isn't, is a patriotic virtue for them.

Speaking from experience, as someone whose father died in childhood and whose mum died quite recently: you cannot escape loss. No technology can insulate you from the pain of grief. And nor SHOULD it - grief has been a vital, awful, tempering part of the human experience *since humans have existed*

This is what the Internet was supposed to feel like.

I am blocking 'breast is best' idiots. when women get paid leave, have health insurance not tied to their jobs, when daycare doesn't cost $2700++ we can have that conversation. please tell me how the woman who gives birth and is expected back at work 3 should breast feed. you ghouls

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Rand Paul tells me that he wants the full video of the Venezuelan boat strike released. “And I think if the public sees images of people clinging to boat debris and being blown up, I think that there is a chance that finally, the public will get interested enough in this to stop this.”

@bombsfall.bsky.social my 9yo daughter is obsessed with Night In Woods and wants to be BFFs with Mae