the great thing about America is that if you're stupid enough, people will pay you to be that
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the great thing about America is that if you're stupid enough, people will pay you to be that
shortened this (grim, awful) headline for you
![BREAKING: Florida will work to eliminate all child [vaccine mandates crossed out] in the state, officials say](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:quzcwmqdsnbosevdgj3bmtq2/bafkreiaynrjwka4m34rmbxiixwh2oqbpqltgvsv6q4zm6kl3dkavjkgvey@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Funny how he posted that in a tweet but not on his Bluesky.
Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.” Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.
"the left has a birthrate problem" is one of the most deranged things I've ever read
Slightly fancier website, but fits the "thing doer" nomenclature: www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk
Where are all the Atlantic/NYT articles about campus free speech now that it is actually being violated?
starmer is doing all the anti-immigrant and anti-trans "popularism" stuff the centrists are demanding US dems do and this is the predictable result:
Link the GoFundMe.
The perfect word to read in an Australian accent.
Innovation makes useful things smaller and smaller. Overconsumption makes things bigger and bigger (and more dangerous with bigger costs & consequences). Bigger vehicles and larger homes for fewer people is not progress. HT @fietsprofessor for graphic
Despite this coming from WorstPersonYouKnow.jpg University, I have to admit this is pretty good.
Lolol. This was already a ridiculous argument even before the conflict of interest was pointed out. "The moral high ground" and $15 will get you a six-pack of beer.
Blue Skyrim
Hate that I read this as Palantir.
CARNELL TATE MY BELOVED
Are vaccines safe? Let's ask this guy who sounds like a dying refrigerator compressor
So, not only is my kid's healthcare illegal for doctors to provide him in the state we live in, he can no longer be treated out of state and risks losing access to the evidence backed peer reviewed medication that has changed his life for the better because we are ruled by monsters and cowards
The one prosecutor who could not indict a ham sandwich.
Just you wait until AI is able to perform complex calculations like subtraction.
denmark rocks bc theyll notice that only 80% of their population is currently laying in the grass in a park with a six pack of 8% beer reading a book while on a 3 hour lunch break from work making $50/hr selling croissants at a cafe called GOBBO or FLUUZ and their government will spring into action
New gender neutral bathroom just dropped.
No one who isn't an irredeemable racist wants this statue back.
More like Worse Minneapolis.
It would be more respectable (though still reprehensible) to just own up to the fact that he's a bigot.
chili should look like this
You may not like to admit it, but this is what peak chili looks like.
More repressive behavior from OSU admin. As friends put it, they are so terrified of “Free Palestine” that they will ban all chalk. Imagine a multimillion dollars institution being scared of a simple act of expression. I’m disgusted. Not for the first time.
Yo Dawg, I heard you like war crimes, so we put some war crimes in your war crimes so you can crime whilst at war.
Vancouver is nice.
The city may never again have a Mayor as chaotic as Adams.
In examining regional planning organizations @urbaninstitute.bsky.social, we've found that their boards rarely reflect the populations they represent proportionally: www.urban.org/urban-wire/m... In new research, we show that this has consequences: boards vastly overrepresent homeowners & drivers ⏬
Given the history of Detroit/Ohio pro teams, I was expecting worse.
Fuck you, fascists.
For an Ohio State fan to remember this particular guy.
Too soon 💔
Everything about the situation with busing in Dayton is heartbreaking. We need public transit that’s robust, reliable and safe enough for everyone, including high school kids.
My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area. (15 in Manhattan btw)
Very true. Also, threads will always have inflated numbers due to its integration with Instagram. Some that actually use it, but I think I technically have an account that was created when I was prompted to open it and haven't opened it since.
OSU 10-2 regular season (pick 2 from U of M, Texas, Penn State - who knows re: playoffs/championship game), BGSU an entertaining 6-6.
The human population has a growth problem Population hit 8.2 billion monthly people, up from 6 Billion in 1999. Current growth is about ~1% in the last year. At the current pace, there will eventually be more bluesky users than people. The world risks becoming a ghost planet.
It is still so unsettling to see straight up racist/fascist talking points from official government accounts. Everyone involved in this admin needs significant prison time if we ever make our way out to the other side.
You know, the more I hear about Jeffery Epstein, the financier, the more critical I am becoming.
Touting all the free speech and academic freedom while pointing sniper rifles at protesters in the "free speech zone" and preemptively shutting down diversity programs before the law even required it.
What kind of "coding" is even needed to publish text via HTML?
Meet the Losers Who Still Want to Read and Think With Their Own Brains
Is there an alternative link? I haven't been able to download it successfully.
At least we in the US have the existence of Labour to reassure us that the Democrats aren't the only "center left" party that is completely cooked.
iPod ads used to play a serious role in music tastemaking.
Dude Person
Everything about this story is horrific: 1. The student never mentions Jews 2. The university is going to expel a student for criticizing a country over genocide 3. A Republican congressman is taking credit and implying the student is a Muslim terrorist 4. The U.S. Justice Department is involved
"I'm sorry" before sharing the "harsh truth" is such a tell.
Raising $150 billion via a regressive tax on everything you buy to pay for billionaire tax cuts and a secret police force to round up people they don't like.
New Albany: Springfield Intel Plant: Monorail www.nbc4i.com/intel-in-ohi...
Scrolling through the rest of his posts is further confirmation. A person can't be that offensively wrong by accident.
The hilarious part is that the made up guy doesn't even sound that bad.
I got this earlier this week where I repeatedly told it the order was damaged but then it kept saying to wait two days for the delivery (which I obviously already had) eventually transferring to a human in the chat after half an hour.
Columbia University has handed over its undergraduate admissions process to Donald Trump and his MAGA allies, who will now decide at their sole discretion whether the university has admitted enough white people. It's no longer an independent institution.
This dude really sucks.
Glad my graduate alma mater cut 60 degree programs in subjects that require people to think so that they could offer this. Looking forward to living in a world full of Prompt Engineers.
(2) declining-and-aging population is a problem for capitalism and for markets. But capitalism is not humanity! (3) push hard enough on the pronatalist arguments — particularly from the activists and funders — and you’ll find them sliding into white nationalism.
My basic critique of the “depopulation bomb” argument is: (1) this is fake. Birth rates aren’t falling because of some exogenous force. They’re falling because mass preferences have shifted. Forecasting that we have a crisis because those new preferences will stay locked in for centuries is silly.
My favorite example of how influential Black Sabbath/Ozzy was across every genre.
Ozzy Osbourne got to give himself a fitting send off in front of his hometown, supported by many of the most iconic bands of a genre he helped invent. Can’t really ask for a better finale. Absolute giant.
100% I have made the trip from Columbus to Louisville for a game, but I would go to so many more if there was a team based here.
Seconding Columbus! Or possibly Detroit.
I don't disagree that affordability is an issue (for all people regardless of familial status), just with the natalist framing re: birth rates that is used to support racist/sexist policies on immigration, education, Et al.
Getting really sick of ostensibly serious people running with the MAGA narrative that cites a "birth rate problem". This article, like all the others in this genre, makes no mention of immigration, the actual solution to the "state coffers" problem.
Drake/Trump like them young.
If NW Ohio can be known for anything, it is complete and total commitment to the bit.
The right wing obsession with "birth rates" will always be racist and sexist bullshit. There isn't a *correct* global population level, and we will be fine with fewer people if and when that comes to fruition. If global distribution of people is the concern, then encourage immigration.
TBH Ohio hates everyone.
My take is that phone calls and door knocking need to be phased out completely (outside of immediate family/friends). If someone wants to talk to me, I want the option to respond in my own time.
The year is 2025. Elmo is a Nazi. The president, also a Nazi, is being taken to task for his prolific history of child rape. The richest man in the world, also a Nazi, has released his chatbot which instructs people on how to break into people’s homes and rape them. The chatbot is also a Nazi.
Supreme Court says the president can’t abolish student debt, but he CAN abolish the Department of Education. This isn’t hypocrisy. It’s end times fascism—a fatalistic politics willing torch the government and incinerate the future to maintain hierarchy and subvert democracy.
Celebrating the holiday with best wishes to the billionaire class! ✂️ music.youtube.com/watch?v=a3t6...
ICE killed a farm worker who was just doing their job. Murdered.
And a business school.
Incredible, as in, you couldn't believe how poorly it went.
i think jd vance knows in his heart that the ohioans who fought in the civil war, a significant percentage of whom were proto-socialist german immigrants and veterans of the 1848 revolutions who volunteered to fight because of their hatred of slavery, would spit in his face if they were alive today
I don't think a reduction in driving is the only goal transit agencies have. It's hard to argue against free public services from an equity perspective.
The same logic could be used to argue against the concept of public libraries.
The Mamdani position is "yes, and...", so I don't get the criticism of free fares from this perspective. The fact that he supports better bus lane enforcement, pedestrianized streets, AND free fares implies he will direct the necessary resources to transit, also improving service.
Grok was injured in a chatbot-involved slurring.
I love that his explicit stance is that he was totally cool with funding pedos until they diverged from his fiscal policy preferences.
It really is disheartening to have land use decisions made by a handful of angry people with 6+ hours to spare.
Lol, then I'm sure he's totally in favor of letting BYD sell here for the competition.
Of all the ways to describe Rue St Catherine in downtown Montreal, ‘closed’ sure isn’t one of them!
This is how I feel about all sports with replay, but I feel like it is even more annoying in soccer since it kills post-goal excitement for the sake of marginally more accurate results.
You have committed a crime.
This is 💯 correct. The "politically neutral" expert opinion can be co-opted to push a narrative, and that's what a lot of these recent pieces seem like.
Seems pretty compelling to me! I really don't get the zero-sum mindset of self-funded transit improvements. We spend money on a lot of things that don't provide direct returns.
This and the OSU wrestling doc permanently raised my blood pressure.
I can't think of a person the "normie" Democratic base hates more than this chode.
Musk will be responsible for the deaths of 14,000,000 people. That’s a genocidal amount of death.
Not everyone wants a bad opinion embroidered on their chest.
