I love it when the title of a paper also serves as a TL;DR
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I love it when the title of a paper also serves as a TL;DR
yeahhhhh those are load-bearing and this will kill some people and immiserate more
I see you have studied the classics
I really, really hate living in a future that basically vindicates the Star Wars Prequels and yet here we are.
Still can’t beat Dersh’s version, though
“Oh shit, how did I wind up getting on the plane to Pedophile Island, I was sure I was headed to, uh… Ephebeophile Island?”
Okay but you see, by the transitive property,
hey, sometimes it's Greece!
Fucking SPLITTERS
I’m surprised they didn’t send Stephen Miller out there with cymbals to disrupt it
This is the way
Soon, something will be born. ULTRASOUND: a 3D sci-fi horror point&click • Use an ultrasound to diagnose and do surgery on a gruesome infection spreading aboard a space freighter • Craft meds/tools to fix ship systems before you collide with a star • Embrace cosmic flesh No AI. #indiegame
I am calm. I am breathing deeply through my nose. I am counting to ten. I… WHAT, ARE YOU AFRAID YOUR DOG WILL INFODUMP TO YOU ABOUT THE FUCKING BALL?!?
And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when there’s an emergency in Texas
In 2005, scientists developed an inflatable speculum intended to decrease pain during pelvic exams but doctors didn’t want to learn a new device. Discomfort in gynecological & femme-coded medical care is a feature, not a bug. And the speculum’s origins are, of course, in the slave trade.
why did the NYT print - repeatedly - that Harvard was about to settle for some gargantuan sum? Will they run a retraction on those stories? Discipline the reporters who reported inaccurate information to their readers? Out the sources who lied to them?
really kind of amazing how early on Looney Tunes realized the problem Florida was going to be
Every day, my mother carefully boiled milk, bc otherwise we'd be exposed to tuberculosis, massive GI issues, and other pathogen-borne disease. When we came to the US, you could just drink milk cold! straight from the bottle! with no gross coat to skim! Welcome to communist-era Poland, y'all.
Taking notes from a prominent and aggressively active fascist is one hellava choice. A deliberate choice.
if there's one thing that's genuinely pushed me to the left more than anything, it's basic self-preservation
Dwarf fortress is particularly handy because you can pause it indefinitely and save at a moment’s notice, like a VHS tape
I started playing Discworld MUD in about 1997, took like a 15-year hiatus and just recently came back. Still feels similar, everyone’s still really friendly!
At least when I govern the dwarves, I know I’m doing the best I can to keep them from getting gored by wild boars
Uhhhhh well I am playing more Dwarf Fortress and Discworld MUD
holy shit dude using a fake deployment for wildland fire crews from a fire that’s only 13% contained during peak western US fire season to detain multiple firefighters and remove the crews from the fire is a scale of evil & dangerous I can’t fully communicate to people not from wildfire regions
To be fair, Adams probably would have, dude was an absolute schmuck
When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine," That's... usually not the case! In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using. We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that? youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
It should go without saying - but won't - that "massive amounts of drugs" is not, without a lot more, a recognized justification for the use of lethal force under international law.
Sun's out, guns out! Let's blast that thing out of the sky.
I have never agreed with Jefferson once We have fought on like 75 different fronts But when all is said and all is done Jefferson has beliefs; Burr has none
Real “Jefferson has beliefs/Burr has none” days these days
Because none of them have read the book, they just remember that there’s a horror movie with a monster
once again tapping the sign
surrounded by circle upon circle of consternations and affrights
The Schmitt speech today is beyond reprehensible, but it’s also just such a weird moment in American politics where people like Schmitt have to reconstruct an alternate history where *they* are “Heritage Americans”. Bro you are German and Catholic the founding fathers did not want you on the team
oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop
Why wait for the courts? If you look at a map of the naval base, you can see it would only take about a hundred cops to say "you have no authority here" and prevent their movement.
If it’s under Title 32 authority, the Texas guard remains under state control. That would mean that one state is deploying armed forces into the territory of a non-consenting state. And that’d clearly be a violation of the principle that states are co-equal, territorially limited sovereigns.
Oh DANG, I love these
Must have been a hell of a cleaning
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
It's remarkable that rhetoric that with any other society would be perceved as language of civil war is now just treated as just one of those routine things in US politics
“Film things you see happening…Be loud for America” is quite the rallying cry.
Nothing will stab you in the heart quite like a review of the goals you set for yourself in September of 2024, when you briefly thought that maybe you would not be spending the next year watching your country slide into fascism and authoritarianism.
Sign of the insane times we live in, the fact that the governor of Illinois has a mole inside the federal government is nbd.
I cannot express enough how much work, time, sweat, sacrifice, blood, and tears went into securing home rule for the people of the district and how jarring it is to see that achievement offered up lightly by the choices of a mayoral administration which clearly doesn’t value it in such a proud place
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
They’re trying to learn how she got that ring
Reasons I, a journalist, recommend that you, probably not a journalist, make sure you've got your phone set to record surreptitiously if you are in a one-party state: there is a situation nearby in which some power was being flexed. Guess who just got a recording of that interaction in their inbox?
Just another day
This is the rare Democrat who actually gets what's happening. No memes, no emulation, no compromise or common ground. He sees a fascist and calls it what it is.
it's giving sale at hobby lobby
Tying up loose ends
We have to dismantle the entire public health system because of “learning loss” from COVID restrictions they said.
Oh shit
this looks like someone tried to make loss from stock photos
🤡
Not sure he’s figured it out yet, actually
It can get worse
Yes, delaying it an additional 15 minutes
the sunglasses keep falling off
If GDScript ever gets async the release title needs to be "Awaiting for Godot"
BREAKING: Judge Breyer rules that President Trump's deployment of the military to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act, says Trump is using military as a "national police force with the president as its chief." Injunction granted. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Well, not *running* running, let’s be honest
He’s running
Um...as the old saying goes, when you want to convince people you aren't being Weekend At Bernie's, you open your press conference with serious unexplained technical glitches.
Who will review contracts to help The Stonewall Jackson Center for Scaling and Accelerating Innovation Excellence buy UAS from 9 years ago for Replicator?
Aside from how Obama is remembered, it's striking that Obamacare is basically the last serious presidential legislative agenda that wasn't just trying to contort an annual budget bill to fit in everything you can crowbar into it.
Honestly, no notes
If there are any bones in the bacon, petite or otherwise, something’s gone wrong.
This orphaned reply to a long-lost post deserves to be read and remembered.
Starting the countdown for Graham Linehan to try and pass off a stalking arrest as political imprisonment.
I genuinely wonder if it's because the chicken pox vaccins went on the schedule during the uptick in anti-vaccination that they like didn't talk about it. But we went from 4 million cases a year to a 150k cases a year. Each year 100ish kids avoid dying becase of it
RT if you agree
2:05 PM EST: a visibly nervous Kevin Kline steps up to the podium in the Rose Garden wearing a blue suit and a red hat.
Everything's coming up Transgender
*sigh* and also whether you let autocorrect “fix” the spelling, jfc
It does depend on which Knoepfler you’re talking about
tired: vaccines give dogs autism wired: every single dog has autism bsky.app/profile/pasa...
Good god, lemon
I’m gonna teach you guys a really useful phrase: “My bad, I don’t know what I was thinking. Deleting this.”
I need y’all to understand this is what the Yglesias crowd wants to turn our country into even as they have clear evidence that it doesn’t work from this very dumbass.
Come see the violence inherent in the system!
Or the Hay-Adams balcony?
Slash Mastodon, for the young’uns
Congratulations, you’ve reinvented IRC
Not with that attitude
In some states, as a trans man who passes for male, I'm legally banned from using a men's restroom but practically banned from using a women's. My choice is between breaking the law and being arrested for breaking it. Few Democrats are talking about how much trans people have lost, and how quickly.
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fortunately Emanuel’s constituency is like ten people. Unfortunately those ten people are all media executives.
yeah “giving a shit about real problems that are actually occurring” being made into a political liability is just an extraordinarily grim development. you’re incentivized to avoid trying to actually address real things because there’s no upside at all politically.
The Washington Post is currently burying coverage of a top-20 mass protest in American history under eight opinion pieces and 10 stories, including "We ranked 5,700 holidays. Which one’s most popular on your birthday?" and "This California city plans to spend nearly $400,000 to get rid of its geese"
I believe we call that DELEGATING, thank you
Worse than nothing! It is a negative thing, a vacuum that repulses
What a low, despicable person Starmer has shown himself to be, and for nothing.
Anyway, wb
Haha no
3. State officials are moving to erase rainbow crosswalks across Florida, but the Pulse site has become a flashpoint of resistance. Protesters have returned again and again to chalk the rainbow colors back in, while state police have dispatched round-the-clock patrols to monitor the intersection.