Why does Thiel have to take his self-hatred out on the rest of us?
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Why does Thiel have to take his self-hatred out on the rest of us?
May I join you? I'll bring books.
somewhere in iowa, an erstwhile senate challenger is sadly folding up their "IMPORTANCE OF BEATING ERNST" campaign shirts
I love that the 2 responses to this, in roughly equal proportion, are: - what this describes isn't actually sabotage - it is good that people are sabotaging AI and they should actually be doing it even harder
we would probably have more kids in my family if it were possible to buy a 3BR condo or townhouse in my city for less than a million bucks. also we paid $50k to have two kids in daycare last year
Hey, thanks for the pertinent example!
Still canāt do a pull up and I hate group exercise
I will say no one who I might have respected ever yelled at me in the old place. Here Iāve been attacked a couple of times by party line Dems for having criticisms of Democrats in leadership. Itās pretty annoying and itās not going to win hearts and minds.
I ran into David on the street recently and he told me how great you are so maybe thatās something?
Democratic cities to be redeveloped as golf courses
A classic episode!
Would make a great Monk setting too.
Also a pretty fair guess that someone who talks about "the West" and any threats to it is a big racist.
Find the River
Wishing all the parents out there good luck on their new class WhatsApp chats
That was an excellent book - still very relevant.
Iām not surprised it has blown up. They are advertising the heck out of it.
Children with brain cancer
Thatās two reported ChatGPT suicides in one week, plus the grandpa who died trying to meet Metaās chatbot which had arranged an in-person meeting All going really well
This is important.
From a Constitutional standpoint, Vance's claim is *far more radical* than, say, expanding SCOTUS, gun control, or a wealth tax. Under Art I Ā§ 8, coining/borrowing money has always been up to Congress, not POTUS, and Congress set up the Fed to run the way it does. Vance wants all of that scrapped.
Another community mourns due to Americaās gun crisis. Kids deserve safety not fear. We need leaders who will act. Leaders who will pass common-sense gun laws, protect our schools, and put people over politics. The leaders who got us here wonāt get us out. Change canāt wait.
Definitely a DILF
Iām gonna just say it straight out, the women of my personal experience have not been MAGAized by either marriage or especially motherhood; the opposite, if anything
the ft in it's clickbait era
okay but putting aligning the text so it sits on the lines doesn't have to be a spectrum this is not the extra headache i need
It pays less.
What are the other four?
I think we should start talking about all gun crime, but especially school shootings, as Trumps murders.
Thank you! I get attacked on here from D dems who think we should t be critical of how the party does business. Or fails to do it.
āYou gotta be a human about thisā is spot on.
#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/
All together now: DUMP RFK Jr.
Can someone explain wtf a mitochondrial challenge is? Are they fighting with the other organelles?
YouTube is a cesspit.
Does he see kids who are worried about being shot at school?
I kinda canāt wait
There was an Elizabeth Gilbert thing?
The guy barely cared when someone shot at him!
It was nice when the grandparents could send birthday and holiday gifts.
"Democrats at least understand that the internet exists now" is the quote of the week.
Less than none.
an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isnāt universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening
The fun thing about being middle aged is that sometimes when I put my night guard in I make pouty faces at myself to imagine what Iād look like with lip filler and then I stick out my tongue at the asshole in the mirror.
Were they paid by Big Credit Monitoring?
Pretty sure they do think voting is woke, and would like to prevent people from doing it
Yes! Give blood! I can't because they throw my blood away. Why? Occasionally it tests false positive for Hep C. I do not have Hep C. It's very confusing and I wish I could give blood.
This government is so embarrassing.
Donald Trump is waging a fascist takeover of the United States. Democrats are responding the only way they know how: by heeding the advice of the wonks who helped get them into this situation ā and whose advice is to avoid discussing what Trump is doing. More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Would that we had a Supreme Court willing to tell him no.
I have been wondering whether you're allowed to just burn shit. Like, do you have to use the BBQ grates or something? (And yes, I realize this isn't the point.)
These people continue to be so, so, so very weird.
Why not both?
If you saw the clip, watch the whole 12 minutes. This is it. Electedsāeveryone around Pritzker is knowingly putting themselves at riskāmeeting the moment. Itās not glib, itās not a meme, itās clear-eyed, brave, & necessary. www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...
Itās hard to overstate how big a deal this is - for the economy (ours and globally), for the rule of law, and for the proper and efficient function of government. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
1997: First U.S. Open appearance (17 years old) 2025: 25th U.S. Open appearance (45 years old) VENUS WILLIAMS.
More likely. I'm in a real spiral about America today. I wish Newsom was less ... himself.
After this, he was arrested by the US Secret Service.
This is what you do if you want the Democratic nomination for president (and thatās healthy). Democrats should compete over who looks like they will most vigorously undo Trumpās policies and most effectively defeat J.D. Vance.
Iāve been posting this periodically for months, and Iāll say it again. Itās imperative to stock up on N95, KN95, or KF94 masks, especially if you are in a group that is vulnerable to severe COVID19.
Pritzker deserves so much credit for his fight against Trump. And bonus, he doesnāt throw other minority groups off the bus for supposed gains. bsky.app/profile/govp...
Does that signal a grudging respect for Pritzker? He seems to be doing a good job.
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Didn't go past 6th grade. I also still remember the version of the pledge in In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson.
This poor man and his familyāit is sickening what the government is doing to them.
Yes! We did nuclear war drills. We had horrible smog. People smoked indoors everywhere, even on planes. Did the Berlin Wall come down? Yeah. That was good.
I really hate that the best idea Democrats have to fight for Democracy is to redraw districts in order to... subvert Democracy.
This is not making us safer.
New ways to waste taxpayer $$ every day
new analysis from the new yorker tries to estimate how much trump has made during his time in politics: $3.4 billion
never been to a cracker barrel no idea what this is all about
Gov. Pritzker: "There is no emergency that warrants the President of the U.S. federalizing the Illinois National Guard." "Trump is attempting to manufacture a crisis, politicize Americans who serve in uniform, and continue abusing his power to distract from the pain he is causing working families."
We are not journalists or political commentators. We can't predict the future either. But we are informed and are careful scholars. I know no other historians (and I know a lot, across the nation and abroad) who are MAGA or open Trump supporters. We don't deal in lies so it makes it impossible.
Believe me when I say that often the sources show the opposite of what I wish they did. But it is my job to say, "this is the history. It is not an analog. It may not map onto the present in the way you wish."
The coverage of the 2024 election, only nine months on, looks even more obscene & deeply unserious in retrospect than it did to so many of us at the time.
I understand.
No oneās asking us to run around and introduce ourselves like, hi, Iām Jessica and Iām cis.ā Itās very contextual.
I do think that if we were less obsessed as a culture with othering trans people right now, youād probably hear the word cis a lot less, because it is mostly used in a context where folks are talking about people who are trans.
Iām biased toward assuming most of these conversations are in good faith and itās kind of self-defeating.
Did you mean others should not get to determine what they should be called? This is a little confusing.
I think awareness and comfort with these terms can depend a lot on your community and experience. My point was just that itās not so hard to learn to use new-to-you words.
basically we picked the perfect time to invent a meme generator that runs on potable water
Cool cool cool cool cool
Place of serious business vs. showy throne room
Long as I can keep my Zoloft
Ugh
Just here to say my 5-year-old can use ācisgenderā accurately and finds it totally normal.
Growing up fat in the 90s/2000s was hell. This show was 10000000% a part of that -- I was literally told by a bully that I should audition for it lmao
Oh, this is most definitely a brag.
Media: pretend itās normal
Except, of course, in San Francisco, where we are freezing.
The layout of this document is atrocious and is filled with extraneous spaces.
We have friends who moved away earlier in the year because they were afraid that seeking gender affirming care for their child would be criminalized. So yes, thatās the scheme.
This is fucking terrifying. Genuinely truly terrifying. Whatās their scheme? To prosecute parents? Doctors? To take peopleās treatments away? Absolutely no way this can end well.
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Recommendations?
The numbers are in. The new maps republicans just passed in Texas reduce Hispanic Texans to one-third of a white person and Black Texans to one-fifth of a white person.
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