I think one reason data center outrage is so pronounced is people spent decades recycling and composting and otherwise scrimping to offset energy use and protect clean water, and the second we hit an inflection point for cheap electricity the banking industry said we’re taking all of it, fuck you

I have eaten the diarrhea lettuce that was in the crisper and which you were probably saving for tacos forgive me it was delicious hang on gotta run

i can't believe this is real. we've outpaced 30 Rock's fake shows. we are in unknown territory.

I'm getting really sick of seeing rapists just get to promote rape on TV and in the government day in and day out with no consequences or truly any reaction at all at this point

Trump’s speech lying about elections and pushing old conspiracy theories that are weak by even conspiracy theory standards shows how: By democracy standards, the US is in bad shape. We’ve fallen so far. By consolidated authoritarianism standards, things don’t look so bad. This guy doesn’t have it.

Taking cues from the Manosphere and MAHA, Pete Hegseth plans to screen US Armed Forces for testosterone and offer hormone therapy for men with a T "deficiency." I spoke to an endocrinologist at Johns Hopkins, and you'll be shocked—shocked!—to hear that she thinks this is incredibly stupid:

all of these people live in a comfortable room-temperature fog of steakhouse dinners, galas held in their honor, and important decisions prechewed for them and fed to them by adoring but interchangable young people selected to be as inoffensive to them as possible by their chiefs of staff.

there is no reason that AIPAC would want to buy an end to the shutdown, but unconditional support for Israel as it plunges off a right-wing cliff and chronic Senate brain in the face of fascism are both kinds of toxic nostalgia which powerful, elderly morons wrap around themselves like warm blankets

Lakers fan nailed a half-court hook shot for $75k and LeBron tackled him out of pure excitement. Less than 1% of pros can make that shot.

These are two, fully grown, adult men but the guy in yellow looks like a 7-year old being tickled because LeBron is so huge.

wowwww, who could've seen this comingggggg

New York has become the first US state to enforce a data center moratorium, as governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order today to pause construction for one year.

Maybe that's a failure of the American public to stay maximally informed on civics but also it just might be that all this shit is a lot to keep track of and is actually deliberately *designed* to be confusing in order to let special interests and power brokers operate outside of accountability?

this was a deliberate, coordinated effort across different media in 2024 to portray Biden's platform as "Open Borders," Biden's actual platform (increased border security + DACA/limited asylum) as Trump's and Trump's actual platform (indiscriminate deportation) as out of bounds.

this goes back to at least Ronald Reagan in 1980, who explicitly positioned himself to older voters as the true inheritor and protector of FDR's still-popular-at-the-time New Deal Liberalism when his actual position was to radically dismantle it.

2004 was when I read an article about how voters liked Kerry’s policy positions **much** more than GWB’s policy positions, but they thought, incorrectly, that GWB had those positions.

low info voters are constantly being convinced that Republicans have more moderate policies (and Democrats more left wing policies) than they actually do and the mainstream media is a huge accomplice in this effort.

it’s hard to explain how much shit like this has radicalized people. like i’m a white middle-aged broad who’s always been liberal but i’ve gone full-on “abolish ICE/reform scotus/the next dem candidate must commit to mass prosecutions” and you will not sway me from that position.

It's ugly and rotten-hearted to speak ill of the dead if they were a powerful politician who pushed constantly for war and misery. It's perfectly fine to speak ill of the dead if they were some nobody immigrant who was near a cop.

It's extremely annoying how this wound up being both a huge regressive tax on actual Americans and a huge deficit financed election year stimulus for corporations simultaneously

I miss when SNK was owned by that Chinese meat packing company or whatever it was

The best story ICE could make up, after 12 hours, is that ICE agents shot someone in the head because they believed the person they shot, who was not accused of any crime, was a different person also not accused of any crime, and so "public safety" required killing them on the spot.

One of the best improvements Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance made to the series was adding the Stagger Endurance mechanic, allowing you to put giant bosses into hitstun with aggressive play and potentially even combo them to death. KH3 iterated on and improved this mechanic, hopefully 4 does too.

ICE is a menace to democracy and its murderous conduct should be soberly considered. But we should also recognize that these people are weak and sad and ought to be made fun of. Read more: www.theverge.com/policy/96430...

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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for the Nintendo Switch 2 will include an optional side story from the start, featuring my original character Zane. He's a wise cracking red headed Link but way cooler, and he doesn't wield the Hylian Shield or Master Sword, but the Fire Shield and Flame Sword.

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Lamentation (flipped, detail), by Gerard David, 1515-23, 📸 by Roberto Schmidt

Al Sayed and the uncommitted movement still said to vote for Harris after getting totally shit on and ignored. Democrats still bitch that it cost them the election but have nothing to say about stuff like these fucking assholes.

We need a War on White Collar Crime

feels like a real landmark of impunity that major corporations are making federal crimes part of the interview process

“what if AI was gray goo, but this is Actually Good(TM)?”

Suddenly, all the sanewashing of Trump and breathless coverage of Biden's age and Hillary's emails doesn't seem like it was a good idea.

Israeli Jewish supremacist settlers armed with US made rifles detained a sitting US Congressman in the occupied West Bank and held him hostage for more than an hour before being forced to release him.

"Over the last couple of years, I’ve been focused on making a positive impact on how the future unfolds, especially in tech, AI, and which areas of the body outside the neck can cause you to bleed out with the right shot."

Interesting choice by NYT to publish an op-ed bemoaning America’s projected population decline by a guy who’s massively racist against immigrants and compares IVF to “Nazi eugenics.” The “pronatalists” only want more of a very specific kind of person in this country. It gives the game away.

Explosive diarrhea outbreak due to a parasite found on produce. Advice for now? Don’t buy produce…unless you can cook it. www.usatoday.com/story/graphi...

So if we don’t allow Athletes to bet on games that they have the ability to influence… Why do we allow Congress to invest in companies they regulate?

This post went viral recently on IG/FB because it was blowing Gen Z minds that this is how jobs used to work. And this is precisely how we were able to have such helpful store weirdos: Being a vacuum cleaner weirdo at Sears was a legit lifelong career!