What happened here. Will we be okay

"Did you do it?" [Thanos snap away DEI powerpoint presentations meetings with HR] "Yes." "What did it cost you?" "One of the most basic pillars of our entire global economic system."

Kyle Fletcher being injured is extremely depressing to me, which is a fact that will have any meaning to like seven of you

hospital and municipal IT are going to get fucking wrecked whenever someone releases Mythos-class models to the wild and I hope someone in a position to do something about that is on top of it

The kind of opportunities that follow an appearance on @librarypizza.bsky.social

It's fun how ten or twenty percent of people on here come to every conversation with an ethos of "I am insane and aggressive, there is no reason to ever discuss anything with me, and I never shut up"

The self and the cyberself in quiet introspection

And she has since been deported. Link here: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

imagining a world where we did not crack ourselves in the dick with a hammer every 40 seconds

I love working in graduate medical education, where all of the most important web-based platforms barely work and finding the login page takes like ten minutes of dedicated research I have two AAMC tabs open at all times because if I ever lose them I won't be able to find my way back in

my kingdom for an anti-establishment democratic party movement that manages to go more than five minutes before making moon eyes at the nazis

The end of an era.

I love that I have no real idea the extent to which we are at war with Iran right now.

So is there an ongoing effort to keep this game at 666 reviews on Steam or did I happen to encounter it at the exact right moment? I assume a little bit of both?

One of the most important rules of dooming is you are never allowed to compare anything to anything else (unless it's comparing the US to Hungary, which of course reveals all things about our future)

An intriguing claim

This is the conclusion of the most beautiful, life-affirming story I have encountered today (one of my least favorite days in this life so far)

Still, and anyway: This has to stop. This can't go on. He is literally torturing all of us, and terrorizing and murdering many.

A war powers resolution will not be enough. Yes. We need to assert congressional authority and stop this illegal war in Iran. But, Trump is clearly an unstable warmonger at odds with the will of the people. Removal is the top priority. No more war criminal in the White House.

Stop absolving the American people of responsibility for their decision to hand the world's worst person control of history's most powerful military and a nuclear arsenal and then not even pay attention to what he does with it, challenge level: apparently impossible, even for thirty goddamn seconds

Congress cannot wait until Trump’s deadline to find out if he was merely bluffing about committing a genocide in Iran. The statement itself is impeachable. The threat to do war crimes is impeachable. That’s the best case. The worst is he follows through. He must be stopped. He must be removed.

I really hope they do find their way to a "TACO" or a ceasfire or what the fuck ever but it is intolerable and unforgivable that he and every strcture that enables him have put the Iranian people, their neighbors, and us in the position of dreading his promised genocide. It has to stop.

Thune should immediately call the Senate back into session. Trump’s unhinged threats to commit massive war crimes against Iranian civilian targets show an increasing mental and moral instability we can’t ignore.

This is a serious organization calling for the removal of the president. It is an important step. (It also underscores the degree to which J Street has supplanted AIPAC and the ADL as the most important, legitimate, moral Jewish advocacy entity in Washington.)

Trump just threatened to wipe out an entire civilization. We cannot let war make us lose sight of our humanity. We cannot forget that Iranian children are children of God too. We cannot allow war crimes to be committed in our name. Congress must act now.

Donald Trump is deranged. He must be impeached and removed from office. Republicans who don’t stop him will have blood on their hands, and anyone who carries out an order to bomb civilian targets will be complicit in war crimes and will be held accountable.

does any body want to talk about whether or not things are sandwiches

I didn't make this, but it needs a reposting.

Weird that people are focusing on the plausibility and likelihood of nukes when he has a bunch of conventional "kill millions" buttons he explicitly intends to use. Nukes have such conceptual gravity right now because they are the last taboo it's possible to imagine anyone enforcing against him.

Really it's a good time to be sick, because the thought of actively living my life today is sickening. Unfortunately I do need to march myself downstairs and do some classic "work from home" to keep some plates at the hospital pleasantly spinning. And any second now, I'll find the will to do that.

we're gonna get ten years of outrage from this one or is that reserved for bad sandwiches

I wish I believed there were decent people in the Republican party who would risk their personal comfort to prevent him from killing millions, or, in the event he is bluffing, end his terrorizing of the Iranian people and his own citizens. Because Republicans have to be the ones to do it.

I literally am sick (for the fourth day running, ugh), but also, and separately, I feel sick.

Trying to sort out whether we're better off with or without smartphones is silly even by the standards of this sort of thought exercise, because the world where this technology can't exist is *incredibly* different from ours; in a world where it can, it will.

I think discussions of how people can get "un-cancelled" are a bit disingenuous to have on social media in particular because the real answer is that on here they can't do anything. That's not really a problem, it's a structural fact. But your local community can forgive a lot—probably too much.

WALTER CRONKITE (gravely):

finally

There are many reasons this is stupid and impotent, but my personal favorite is that Congress making laws of any kind is not really the current problem. It's the president breaking the laws that needs to be dealt with, my beautiful cowards!

There are many reasons this is stupid and impotent, but my personal favorite is that Congress making laws of any kind is not really the current problem. It's the president breaking the laws that needs to be dealt with, my beautiful cowards!

Third day of being sick. Not ideal as an experience tbh

It would be going too far to suggest that the doomers write this fanfiction because they're hoping Trump will see and use their ideas to consolidate power, but honestly, at this point, that might be nobler than the more likely explanations (these people are addicted to attention).

To be clear, my goal isn't to serve as ombudsman but to cultivate public contempt for the NYT such that they are forced to adjust their practices or rendered culturally and economically irrelevant. (Big goal, but Rome didn't burn in a day!)

What is Mike doing

I would like it not to be like this here anymore tbh

About two weeks ago someone asked me if I had read Malcolm Gladwell, I answered with my honest understanding of the consensus on Gladwell's work, and he proceeded to tell me the entirely harmless bit of small talk about a Malcolm Gladwell podcast he likes, which was of course why he'd asked.

I did not know about this aspect

Yes Could have saved myself years of deeply obnoxious arguments with people who do not pay attention by just knowing and remembering this

Building tons of housing wouldn't fix everything, but we might all be pretty surprised by how close it would get