I know I keep beating this drum, but 80% of this country's government based problems revolve around the fact we have infinite friction to create literally any social, transportation, or educational programs, and absolutely zero friction to just kill people.

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

Can’t wait for about ten, fifteen years from now when one of us says, “Boy I sure do miss those cool 87 degree April days.”

i can't help but think about 10 or 11 years ago when conservatives insisted that obama was uniquely anti-catholic because his administration thought that catholic-led orgs could just fill out a form if they didn't want to cover contraceptives in their health plans for employees.

There is a certain, defined point of wealth at which due to compound interest it becomes basically mathematically impossible to actually lose money. Mackenzie Scott is proof that this amount of wealth is far below $38 billion. Elon is worth $811 billion, 21x more. Bezos, $257 billion, ~7x more

"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."

NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty. "People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.” futurism.com/artificial-i...

3 white men in their 20s attempted to lynch 3 Black men for....fishing last Friday. The only reason it's an attempted murder charge is one of the Black men was armed and a better shot. It's not about the year someone was born, it's about the racism www.wcia.com/news/edgar-c...

It is pretty insane that the mass starvation, wars, and deaths caused by capitalists in the pursuit of servicing the desires of oligarchs and big businesses just don't count. Because reasons.

Yeah, Mackenzie Scott is a fascinating case. She is literally ignoring the SOPs of philanthropy in order to give away wealth as quickly and efficiently as possible and she’s still getting richer. At her level it is impossible not to make money. Tax billionaires, A LOT.

does anyone remember when i asked that one billionaire liberal donor complaining about attacks on media free speech why he doesn't buy a media company and he said it's against his core values? good times.

i really wish "children are people and people are not property" was not a radical opinion but unfortunately it's the central question up for debate with much of politics

James Dobson right after Sandy Hook: God allowed this massacre as punishment for homosexuality in America

econ 101 guy: capitalism isn't perfect but it's the only system that ever worked! without incentive there's no innovation! capitalists: we're deliberately ending human civilization to protect the fossil fuel industry. we also hope to ban the research and development of competing energy technologies

The Pope is soft on crime though.

What a horrifying story! If you need another reason to never ship at Target this is a GOOD one. Their machine learning chatbot might decide you should be arrested.

You know what's really embarrassing about this conflict? Iran has a 90 percent literacy rate while 50 per cent of the US reads at the 6th grade level or below. Iran sent Phds to the ceasefire talks. The US sent realtors.

The economic damage Trump has done was crafted purposely to create opportunities for self-enrichment for him and his allies. It generates its own currency which can be used to perpetuate his political power. What he dispenses he can take away.

Anyone still pushing her shit after how awful she was during the worst of the pandemic should be ashamed.

For many years people have avoided fucking corpses. Jeffrey Dahmer is taking a different approach.

As always, the "Paid Actor" accusation was a confession.

A UK Newspaper writes these details so well versed...

i will never forget how elon musk said absolutely nothing at all about the NASA artemis ii mission except one post making fun of that women who took the photo of the launch in the reflection of her glasses. he hates space

Can a plastic mail-order sex doll be a wiling adult participant in a relationship? Normal people say no but we spent 1600 words talking to Wayne, who lives in his mother’s shed outside of Indianapolis, to take the proposition very seriously, because we have grave perceptual and analytic deficits.

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only.

Most food consumed in the US is already produced here. We were a net ag exporter for 60 years & only since 2019 net importer, bc we like access to tropical products & off-season produce. Also, we waste ~40% of the food we produce, and use the majority of our corn & soy for animal feed and biofuels.

If leaders abuse the rule of law to make themselves immune to it, so that they can undermine the rights of others with impunity, by what moral or philosophical argument are they entitled to its protections, once they lose power? By what grace should they be sorted by law instead of by other means?

Sure, Dems can't get the 25th. But they could have gotten all up in the faces of those who can, on camera, demanding why they won't. That's exactly their job. But they didn't and won't, because they're all making money together.

Large Language Model Jesus is hilarious to me. If I wanted to mock the hollow, performative nature of religion for most people then this is exactly the kind of thing I'd have made up as a joke. Eat up that slop!

i dont think you should get untold riches for being terrible at your job, in fact i believe the opposite should happen

they're fat and comfortable with their door to door black car service and think you're fucking stupid

I noted at one point that the reason why you're sort of having to deal with people with names like Katie Tightpussy or nerdjpg with a kirby avatar or whoever being effective subject matter experts on stuff is that you have institutional breakdown which forced a bunch of posters to do it ourselves.

This is the Yad Vashem database entry for Jaacob Fish. My great grandfather, murdered with his entire family, except for a sole survivor, Haim Fish (his son, my grandfather), by the SS unit the insignia of which Platner tattooed on himself. F*ck each and every one of you who support Platner.

When we take back power, I do not want unity or healing, I want revenge. I also don't want a lecture on "but that's just like Trump, he wanted revenge." He was wrong, we are right. It's different. Get a moral compass. Revenge or sit down. Call it "justice" if you must, it's that too.

They literally have a task force to investigate anti-Christian beliefs in the federal government, while simultaneously threatening the most visible Christian leader in the world.

"You get in more trouble running a hooch still than you do manufacturing doomsday weapons. It's the most American thing I can imagine." www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/20...

it’s really striking how much we are now living in a normalized situation in which there’s the actual world and then there’s the narrative of the world that exists to allow the markets to keep functioning and these are not the same things even a little.

Ultimately what's awful about AI is it actively hurts our children, it makes people dull and incurious, it could crash the economy, and it's being sold as a magic trick to dummies to help keep overleveraged companies afloat. Haven't even mentioned the environmental damage yet

American decline is due, in large part, to the persistent efforts by rich people to ensure that their own progeny retain wealth and power no matter how stupid and lazy they are.

Count me among those who believe that we need to drive these fascists out of power, stooping to dirty tricks if necessary. Strip their assets, hound them out of public life, make them afraid to even express their beliefs in public. Drive them into exile before the only alternative is mass violence.

"Why don't Americans-" The ruling class of America has intentionally disempowered its citizens spread across 3,000+ miles of land and then funded the police force as an occupying army that happily murders anyone who opposes them and imprisons whoever is left as slave laborers. So phone calls it is

Love that Corgi 🤣🐶

So pro-life means jailing women who miscarry but shrugging when the deranged president says “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Do I have that right?

It's like that 30 Rock quote except, "Just say liberals, this is taking forever."

the vibe

The media told us, based on the amount of coverage they devoted to it, that the number one military-related issue of the 2024 campaign was whether Tim Walz retiring from the National Guard after 21 years was too soon or not.

You know what? I'll admit it. The credible threat by a madman to wipe out a nation of 90 million people for basically no reason (presumably using nuclear weapons) successfully distracted me. I am now distracted.

Good time to remember that rich people are okay with this in exchange for tax cuts