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I heard something like 1 in 20 Californians are currently contagious the other day, and I am guessing Oregon and Washington have similar stats. Everywhere is a hotspot
I expected the tyranny and the blustering and the mockery of everything they’ve ever claimed America was supposed to stand for what I didn’t expect was the depth and speed of the capitulation at every level
When the feds are investigating a "crime" that occurred at a protest and they gather up all the names people so helpfully gave a nonprofit and start asking questions, what do you think happens then, Ike. Wouldn't you rather not have your name on that list? Wouldn't you rather just go to the protest?
Do. Not. RSVP. To. A. Protest. It. Is. Not. Brunch.
Major media is under the control of the ultra-rich. Some of them overtly complicit, some under threat.
I don't mean to pile on you. I understand the feeling. Things are really bad.
From 2018. verfassungsblog.de/the-authorit...
Would you call an enemy attack that destroys half the town "not the same" as that enemy obliterating the town? It's the same thing, rushing back with more allies, more money, and more effective technology. Like the larger second wave of a tsunami.
ya know when you want to laugh and just cain't
Cars cross through our cities, towns, and neighborhoods without end, but motorists get angry and impatient when people need to cross their streets. Motor-normality has skewed the way people view our built environment, creating arrogance of flow for cars, and dangerous barriers for people.
Buddy. No.
Contrive as many interruptions to your work as you can: when changing the material on which you are working, as you would on a lathe or punch, take needless time to do it.
This has nothing to do with his personal beliefs. He's just a propagandist.
If you work in this space, you need to be prepared for this. You should already be talking to counsel. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...
as many of us have tried to say, in many ways, the anti-trans bias of a publication like the NYT isn't just a problem for trans people ... it's a problem for *journalism* ... for the public, who deserve reliable, quality information ... especially during scary times, with fast-breaking stories ...
I just keep thinking about how if South Korea locked up a group of American engineers for arbitrary reasons the American media would treat it like the Iranian hostage crisis
Conservatives can't be taken seriously on the question of what counts as art ever again unless they confront this squarely. Decades of blather about how the left destroyed the arts because they don't care about talent and effort – all abandoned immediately for the instant gratification of AI slop.
There were more than 120 domestic terrorist attacks, in which there were 11 murders, in the United States during the “relative calm” of the 1980s and 1990s. They just all happened to be at abortion clinics, so I guess those don’t count.
That would require them to be acting in good faith to begin with.
Ah.
How long before the shooter is a poor widdle misled baby whose heart was in the right place
It isn't a gaming "issue," it's gaming memes/catchphrases that are easy for motivated LE and media to twist into some kind of transanTEEfa code words.
Now is a great time to review your digital footprint, assess what risks your digital presence might pose to your loved ones, and practice information hygiene. crimethinc.com/2020/08/26/d...
While you weren't looking, *seventeen* House Democrats just voted to strip basic rights from trans members of the military and helped the GOP pass their far-right version of the NDAA, similar to what we reported on. This is the most Dems voting for anti-trans legislation in Congress this year.
Brett should be pulled over, every night, on suspicion of driving while drunk.
Area man who dropped out of college and worked at his dad’s business before becoming premier and only showing up for work 50% of the time stands on the lawn of the home he inherited from his mom to tell young people that if they can’t find a job it’s because they’re not looking hard enough.
So PSE (Puget Sound Energy) sent me a survey. Q: What could PSE do to improve its corporate citizenship? My answer: Become a publicly-owned utility. What would your answer be?
america is such a young country.
Omg, I feel like I've just been transported back to high school.
The solution to this supposed problem cannot be to suspend civil rights for a select population. Efficiency is not "always" a good idea. Summary executions of protesters crossing the street would be an "efficient" means to clear up traffic disruption.
So yes.
Are you actually having trouble thinking?
Are you saying that only whiteness should guarantee your rights under the Constitution?
Why? 4 decades of Mitch McConnell.
And most non-white people are not "illegals." What the fuck is wrong with you.
"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
Do you have a link? I can't find it on the site.
To spell some shit out unambiguously: fascism requires domestic abuse to propagate itself. Demands it. There is no way to humanely teach your children that might makes right. There is no way to gently love a spouse you think is your genetic intellectual inferior. These are inextricably linked.
Journal publishers *are* bundling your papers up in "data licensing agreements" for big tech companies to use for AI model training. Our publisher, T&F, got £75m from Microsoft for that last year alone.
Did you know that bad Supreme Court decisions are actually about dissents? About the failed attempts to reform the court eight years or whatever instead of what we should do now? About how Republican justices are stupid, as if the boot on your neck needs a higher IQ?
Just sitting back, eating some popcorn, watching people attempt to make the Supreme Court’s decision that racial profiling is ok for the purpose of ethnic cleansing about something else that makes them feel more comfortable.
Al Jazeera has done a lot of great reporting on these scam centres (more like forced labour camps), here's one of their most recent videos www.aljazeera.com/video/true-c...
The problem is not that our laws don’t let people “decide to die with dignity.” The problem is that we’ve let everyone convince us that being bedridden, confused, and/or incontinent means you don’t have dignity.
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The whole point of forcing you to use it is that when you do the unpaid labor, their product gets better.
No use for YOU. The people exploiting your labor and intellectual property know that the technology will improve *because* you are now floundering in the sewage of its early output. Users desiring access to its internal workings are an unprofitable marginal market.
the Hague needs a big "put unwanted war criminals here, no questions asked" drop box, like fire stations sometimes have for unwanted infants
This is all wrapped up. I spoke to the on-site coordinator. Rivian left early because the crowd control was too much of a hassle. They weren’t told it was going to be Bicycle Weekend by any of the permitting agencies at the city.
I think that's his granddaughter
First, AI pushers mine your content, and then they mine your labor. What's a little exploitation and human suffering between capitalist and human being? Once the glitches are worked out, they can own *everything*.
So the thinking behind pushing AI into everything + your breakfast cereal is that the more people who train your specific technology, the better it becomes? The first corp to nail down that field has a corner on the market?
Traffic engineering is such a pseudoscience. The Ballard Bridge traffic study just assumed traffic would exceed capacity by 20% in 2040, which they call "crunch flow," and then worked backwards to a 1.2% annual increase.
I'm about to start a campaign against ALL politicians and ANYONE running for ANY kind of office and their LACK OF FUCKING ALT TEXT. Do you actually care about your constituents? Yes? Then use alt text. CC your videos. Come the FUCK ON.
A big problem in liberal circles is that liberals don't think they represent any real voters regardless of how many people vote for them
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Aaaaahahahahaha there it is! Sorry, I got my first hit of 'feckless' off a chin-stroking leftist this morning.
lmao
Q: If the US government self-authorizes killing of people on behalf of its national security based on drug trafficking, why can’t any other entity take the same action based on the effects of US economic policies? A: They certainly can.
It's a bit much to be doing this without alt-text, too. What even is the point?
Microsoft Word to begin saving people's documents in the cloud *by default* Reminder that LibreOffice is free and a good drop-in replacement for Microsoft Office software: www.libreoffice.org www.theverge.com/news/767522/...
The first post borrows a lot from German-Jewish philologist Victor Klemperer’s analysis of “the language of the Third Reich,” something he saw grow and spread firsthand. totalpropaganda.net/2025/07/28/w...
I went and started a blog about language and the far right. It’s called Total Propaganda. It’s a plain Wordpress blog, but you can subscribe like a newsletter and pretend this is 2025. Best of all, it is and shall remain AI-free. totalpropaganda.net
The degree that the Republican Party has been compromised by the Russian Federation is the great under-reported story of our time. Nothing like this has ever happened.
I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️ "Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"
We have policies/laws/regulations to ensure that our food and water are clean and safe. Why not for air, too? Typical amounts taken in per day: food = 4 lb water = 3 lb air = 30 lb
reading up on open office studies and one guy talks about how everyone keeps to themselves in order to maintain some semblance of personal space and privacy, and so everyone ends up talking less in person so it's functionally the same sort of shared space as public transit or a urinal i guess
I will probably never have an experience like this again in my lifetime, so I will always treasure my summer with this family of burrowing owls. 💕🪶
sometimes it feels like the english flag is just a swastika with the ends filed off
Oh boy, you do not want to know.
This should be a bigger story. A government official had the YouTube channel of a private citizen shut down bc he didn’t like what that citizen was saying. This administration’s version of free speech is a joke.
I wonder how much of the popularity of videos that are basically "robot or smirking vidder reads reddit to you" comes down to Reading Recovery.
They should hire her back just so they can fire her again for utterly failing to grasp the basics of the law
A reminder that everything we call “bike infrastructure” or “pedestrian infrastructure” is really just CAR infrastructure. Only needed because CARS.
Wouldn't it be nice if forests were also occasionally allowed to regenerate in places that are easy and legal for logging?
How many of those 77000 acres are already exempt from logging because they're in riparian buffers?
But it is their responsibility to make sure their customers' mail gets where it's going, and fair to refuse to offer a service they don't think they can stand behind.
We came of age into it, without our elders.
Or, hear me out, you could make real laws that don't ever make people "illegal"
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Oh, yes it is disinfo. But also it is a thing. That's why there's a registry and a settlement fund. The disinfo makes it very hard for people with actual problems to talk about it.
Wait, vaccine injured = that's why they have long covid, or that they're vaccine injured at all?
So mother earth isn't *really* watching??? 🤯
Chances are there are several groups helping vulnerable immigrants in your area. I can guarantee you will feel better about yourself and the situation in general if you begin volunteering to help them. You are not helpless. Evil is not inevitable. And it is deeply satisfying to stymy its plans.
Weirdly, there are a slew of other conceivable reasons to resent and distrust "AI" as it manifests, but stick with "eggheads in labs doing things we don't understand."
Everyone happy about the sandwich guy not getting indicted has to agree to not try to duck jury duty the next time their name comes up. It's one of the few ways you as a random citizen can say "no, this is not justice" in our system. (Do not tell the court you know about jury nullification)
I can't find it but I thought there was already a news cycle about an augmented glasses product that were helping people with vision impairment until the private company decided to pull support for the tech (like they always do) and left all the users blind. Did this not already happen?
if we made immigration work how people think it works that would be the biggest liberalization of immigration in American history
Suuuuuuure, we'll have elections in 2028. Between all the candidates that can raise any money.
Yes.
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Okay. You know what, even before I engaged for some reason with a random comment, I didn't disagree with this. I just didn't think it fully accounts for the mass shooting phenomenon in the US. But taking the NRA into account, I guess you can lay it at their feet.
Especially if you ever voted for a republican
Sure does. But it also wasn't due to decades of blah blah blah. You'll need to make a better argument.
Fuck is wrong with you?
Who did Columbine?
For folks not in DC: - There are full-on police checkpoints most nights - Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC - National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter - Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl - Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE