You're smarter than this. The pie may be bigger but the slices have become so much smaller. If the pie were divided better, people would be less susceptible to fascist BS.
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You're smarter than this. The pie may be bigger but the slices have become so much smaller. If the pie were divided better, people would be less susceptible to fascist BS.
Sam Altman belongs in prison.
Bluesky is perfect because its just us weirdos and shitposters and like Facebook and X quarantined the Libposters and Nazis and aaaaa I love it here
I feel bad for people who signed up to honestly serve in that farce, but the only good thing Space Command has produced is the silly mockumentary series with Steve Carell.
I'm not even a Chicagoan but y'all have fed me so much over the years I've developed a taste for it. Now I drink the bloody paint thinner for fun (and to enjoy Malort face on anyone new I can 'share' it with)
Space Command shouldn't exist. It's a silly branch of the military and I refuse to treat it seriously, because it was created by a silly little man to feed his own ego. We have a space branch of the government. It's called NASA. Who cares that he's moving his vanity project? Just end it.
They were both poisoned. Fortunately, I've spent the last few years building up an immunity to Malort.
Look, look, if we just apply it 2% better this time that should win us the game...
And yes, I say diversity picked, because her actual accomplishments are ...not impressive. She ladder climbed fast! Whoo! That's...not a big deal. Lots of people do that. Gimme a Nina Turner whose a gadfly to the powerful, but consistently right over Kamala any day.
I kept my mouth shut with Kamala, even though it was obvious she was a soulless corporate suit. It was obvious when she ran for Senate, and extremely obvious when she lost so badly in 2020's primary she didn't even make it to the nominating contests. And then Biden diversity picked her
Fuckin' this. There's 2.5 years till start of the primaries. IMMENSE time to find a better candidate. Newsom can fuck off to the French Laundry forever
The difference here : The primary is in 2.5 years away. If people insist on nominating Newsom after a major contingent going 'If this happens, no, we won't vote' for literal years? It's on them. The consequences were illuminated in bright red scarlet letters. I refuse to support 1 more useless pol
Nah Miller's the False Prophet, Trump def gets the antichrist bit
Hell I still have ~30 year old data cause all its done is bounce drive to drive over the years
Server storage wasn't cheap, but like...for most of these all it would have taken is some small amount of space on a hard drive left somewhere. Like, FFT was a single CD game, and even then your average hard drive could fit a couple dozen of those installs.
So we just add him as a line item to the bill to kick out Elon, voila~
'Remigrate Elon' would honestly be a winning policy plank for the Democratic party. 'Kick him out of America forever' would be an even better one. Thiel, sadly, too few people know about even those he's worse.
Reality is my kind were surviving before we were legally recognized. We'll survive regardless of whether pretty corporates want to parade us around in Rainbow Cosplay. But I'm tired of surviving. I want to /thrive/, and Newsom is 100% a pathway to failure if that is the goal.
I'm a transwoman. I don't give a fuck about my legal protections, because that's just shit on paper. I care about rent, groceries, all the shit that's gotten steadily more unaffordable under Newsom while he parties (Remember the French Laundry during COVID?)
I swallowed the bullshit that was Hillary, Biden, Kamala, and watched them lose, fail, and lose, all due to entirely stupid self-owns. I am done playing nice with that wing of the party. It is to be beaten into submission or driven out.
See, you're drinking the Kool-Aid already if you think talking to Charlie fuckin' Kirk will work. There is no making peace with the Manosphere. There is no 'breaking in' to it. This is a bloody war of ideology. I commend him for bringing a knife to a gun fight. I don't trust him for a moment.
I'm not saying he's bad for being a millionaire. I'm saying, as a millionaire, he has the resources to do research. You expect a pro sports team to be more professional than a high school outfit.
I think Mamdani has potential. We'll find out when he wins. AOC definitely has potential. But yea - the real movers and shakers may not yet be on the stage. The crisis is getting bad enough, though, that history teaches us new leadership will emerge to face it.
And now we all have to suffer for it.
Again, agree! You're right on the money here. We have Trump again /because/ Biden, Newsom, Pelosi, Harris - that whole contingent - kept doing shit like supporting a Genocidal Maniac. So kids didn't vote out of despair. You deserve to be angry at the leaders who failed us. Because they did.
I agree, I loathe Kirk too. But Newsom has no excuse. He's the Governor of the biggest state. He's a millionaire. He can afford to research his guests. So either he was lazy - and platformed a Nazi - or intentionally platformed a Nazi. Neither is acceptable for a man who wants to be President
Then I believe your heart is in the right place. Do you like sports at all? It's like drafting in football. Newsom may look good but he's not a good team player, he'll throw the game trying to do trick passes instead of securing steady drives.
Or women, or Enbys, the point is I want leaders like Teddy, FDR, and Johnson - here to wield power /for/ the American people, rather than for the rich. I'm not worried about litigating 2028 yet because that's years away. I'm here to make sure next time we have a real leader bearing the torch.
There's more than 2 sides. We need the right leaders on the left. Newsom is not one of them. Trump won because Kamala wouldn't address Palestine. Nor would Biden. They just continued giving Israel bombs. Those politicians? We need to eject then from the Democratic party. Bring back men like FDR!
Because the thing is, Newsom is not a leader. He is someone who moves where the polls move. Right now, throwing down with Trump is popular, so he is. If he thought being nice to Trump would make him President? He'd do it. He already did it with Charlie Kirk. That's why I don't trust him.
There are better politicians, is my point. AOC; Zohran Mamdani; if you want a governor to really rally around? JB Pritzker in Illinois or Tim Walz in Minnesota. I support them because they have a record of results. Newsom just says nice things, and the Bay grows more unaffordable every year.
I work in tech. Upper caste Hindus absolutely discriminate against lower caste ones. Super common problem.
The moment he begins acting human, rather than a soulless suit, I will be open to reconsidering my stance. I currently see no evidence of that.
You're right. I'm using him as a tool because he's a politician. That's literally his job, a job he signed up for. Fail to serve the voters, get fired. Newsom will trick you just as Clinton & Biden both did. He serves the rich, not the people. He just makes it look prettier in the process.
Newsom is a bad candidate. You like him right now because he's doing what you like. The moment he has power he'll go right back to putting corporations first. Just look at the rate increases under CPUC, or the vetoing of anti-caste discrimination bills. He's no hero. He's a tool. One we use & drop
Nothing, because Zohran is good and the other 2 are soulless corporate shills.
Newsom is a tool to be used and discarded the moment he outlives his usefulness, just as he wants to do to all us inconvenient queer folk. Yea, 100% sucks
Oh! Also follownig on this account - its my more political one compared to my geek one :)
Chiming in to add this is my more political account, hence the double follow, our earlier talk is my geeky fandom account :)
What a wonderful bit of news to wake up to! One less horrible person to worry about hurting us.
You didn't have me saying that publicly at the time because I was not interested in self sabotage. I was busy urging people to vote for her despite my long existing misgivings, because the alternative was so much worse. Her loss was self-inflicted. She fucked upon both Palestine & voter anger, hard
Yea its super fun! I moved to the tech capital of the world for tech, and then oopseveryone thinks GenAI can do everything (it cannot!!!!)
Yea, in the last 3 years I've been employed < half the time. The only roles are shitty temp contractor roles.
And you know maybe there was a chance with her we'd have stopped giving Israel bombs by now
I at once think Harris was an awful candidate, and still instantly voted for her because if I thought she was D-tier, Trump was F----------------------------- (Add another 5000 minuses) tier. Kamala would do nothing about corporate enshittification but at least I wouldn't be afraid for my life
On the other hand several of these early people went crazy (One of them attacked people with a sword and got his butt kicked) so who is to say which is better :D
This reminds me of how in the Pony fandom, the earlier fanfics were often so much more daring - because the vast majority of the world lay unrevealed. As more terrain filled in, stories homogenized over time. Still good, but less ambitious.
Happy cake day!! Beautiful art
Today is my birthday (turning 29), which is the only time all year that I ask for a repost 🌿 I hope you get lost in fantasy worlds as much as I do 🔮
Itch taking a stand won't fix it; that said, the huge # of people angry over this might actually matter. But yea, a minnow won't win against a great white. You need a minnow alliance to have a hope.
Teams is a terrible piece of software, so good on Mercedes for killing their brand I guess
You'd think ostensibly educated people would actually have learned about the 1930s. And the hundred other times people have tried appeasing a demagogue. And yet...
That said, I will admit Trump's complete fuckup on the Epstein files might own him, though you still do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to Pelosi or Schumer, who both suck at their jobs of serving the American people.
Winning doesn't require a single shot. But it does require courage and leadership, because yes, some of us will get killed doing this, because we face literal fucking fascism. That's what this moment is. That's the sort of things it is likely going to take.
5-10% of this country is all it would take to completely paralyze the economy, and all it would take is them literally walking together on main streets in commercial centers, thus preventing businesses from operating normally. As soon as the money is interfered with, things will change.
You're the one saying 'Civil War'; I specifically said 'Civil Disobedience'. The courts are already bogged down. They cannot /process/ millions of Americans willing to get arrested repeatedly via simply say, standing in the streets in the thousands in every city, and thus blocking traffic.
No, it's more that we expect them to be doing things like being out there getting in the way of ICE. Civil Disobedience. Calling on their constituents to do the same. Rising to this moment. And, with a few notable exceptions, they are miserably failing at this.
I'd love it if some places are actually getting that good! Being US-based, I'm extremely skeptical ours is anywhere approaching that point.
Also because like, Google buys something for 1 bil, gets both the news hype 'yay us!' and the competitor gone, and when inevitably they shut it down in 5-10 years nobody notices. So you ask what they /got/ for that purchase and uh ???? Coders, I guess???
You even have a convenient False Prophet in Trump/Vance!
And also because now everyone wants unicorns, so 'We can go from 100k ARR to 10 mil ARR in 5 years, at which point we can make a sustainable profit of 2 mil/year indefinitely' should be you know, a no brainer investment! It's free recurring revenue. But it won't sell to Google for 1 bil, so oh well
I'd argue a lot of it is monopolization; it's hard to compete when all the giant firms are selling shit to each other in sweetheart deals, so your costs for goods/services are innately higher. And also fewer customers to try selling to, because they all consolidated.
So like, idk how purposeful it /is/, but I think there is an unintentional theme of 'You need both the friendly people and the paranoid jerk, because sometimes the jerk's paranoia is what keeps you all from getting eaten by a space mosquito so you can keep helping the jerk learn what happiness is'
One thing I do think is important though is without someone who is that Bitter Prepared Cynic, the PresAux team is dead many times over. They are right, I love them all, but they /do/ need to learn that the universe doesn't care and will kill you anyways. Except Gurathin. He gets it.
But, because it's a Linux box, if you try to simply install Windows shit, gasp, it often breaks horribly! If you have an emulator (masking) you can run it, but often non ideally. If it's written for Linux (ND-friendly methods), gasp, suddenly things start working!
I would love this, but diagnostic criteria aint anywhere near there yet, because science is still seeing it as a pathology rather than an operating system; we need to reframe being ND as being like a Linux box instead of a Windows PC; they both are still computers, but work differently.
Agree!!!
I'm not fully sure how intentional that was, and more a 'These people meet it but are too smart, they cant be THAT'. ...Which mind you, is still Nazi logic. But I don't know enough to know the extent of it and all.
These are the worst people alive and all I wonder is WHEN enough of us get fed up to decide that the people ruining the entire planet for more dollars have forfeited the social contract, and...act accordingly.
Sure - a ton of things play a role! But like, a major glaring factor regardless of gender identity is the classic 'You are too capable / not autistic enough'; hell, Aspergers was invented to sort out 'useful' autists by the Nazis.
So much so, yes!
Totally get that, and - yea. I think so many people would be better helped, though part of that would be new educational frameworks; so much of the neurodivergent social issues are born from /never being taught/, not really. You gotta teach social skills as intensely as you teach math or history.
That said - I aint a doctor, this is the sorta thing, kinda like being trans, you really need to figure out for you. Gettin an official diagnosis is just a stigmatic label; the real use I've found in laying claim to the Autism/Neurodivergent identity is finally being free to learn what works for me
The big difference between diagnosed and not boils down to 'Were you able to develop coping strategies that you could implement that outwardly made you seem normal', because even if they exhaust the hell out of you and eat 90% of your focus, well, you seem neurotypical to your average doc now
That's textbook sensory issues right there. And just, like - generally speaking what I've found is nearly everyone I follow for being Smart and Decent People has turned out to be some flavor of neurodivergent. Now? I think what we call autism is just symptomatic expression of somethin way bigger.
Haha, why, because Ed is right? :D
Basically I admit to having had too much faith in the ability of my fellow humanity to recognize something would cause brainrot if they uncritically believed in it. I should have realized people are fuckin' idiots
The funny thing is like, I want to agree, but until psychosis started occurring it never occurred to me it would be an issue, because like, why would you ever trust a chatbot? The LLMs were the first to have a glimmer to them, but the moment hallucinations happened that should have been it.
All they had to do was tell Sherman to keep killin'
SmarterChild, that is an ancient deep cut
Further - I couldn't enlist if I wanted to. I'm trans, this administration actively wants me dead; together with undocumented people, we're the first wave of targets for MAGA Fascism. I have inherent skin in this game simply by existing. Trying to tell me I don't get the stakes here is silly.
The more members that stand up, and publicly say 'I believe this to be an unlawful order, I refuse to comply, I accept the consequences of my refusal', the faster this all can end, with less harm happening. Just because it's hard doesn't mean it isn't right.
No, I did. I just did that wrestling nearly 10 years ago when the orange fascist first somehow began winning primaries, and then over the year 14 months as he showed everyone who he was. Someone may be wrestling now. Good! That's progress. Doesn't change there's only one ethical move here : Refuse.
I'm entirely aware my side 'failed'. I have plenty of thoughts on that. CiC is still a domestic enemy, so~ Literally this is the shit that makes history lines. Fascism falls when enough people say no. Decisions here matter. But continue to preach complacency I guess
Sometimes that's all it takes, too, a good emotional I BELIEVE IN GOOD
Yes? And I also did not join the military because I explicitly refuse to be a part of something like this. I've been fighting this shit for 10 years my dude
The military is a higher standard. It's volunteer. They take a literal oath here. 'Throwing themselves bodily in front of a fascist machine' is...literally the job they signed up to do. Furthermore, in obeying orders, they are actively aiding and abetting fascism. The comparison holds no water.
And oligarchs come in all shapes, colors, creeds, and ages, even if the under-18 ones are usually just waiting to inherit and some of them will break free and become decent people instead of mutating into a fully grown oligarch.
The only real generational difference is some kids who would have become book nerds did not, and I do think that's a tragedy but yea. Blaming them for failings that were caused by adults failing them is dumb. Besides, we're all in this against the real enemy : The oligarchs.
I've learned it depends on who I meet. Though really my generational worry is reading/knowledge, because AI and Tiktok are hurting that and I do fully believe it's important to struggle to develop and train your brain, and making things too easy inhibits that. But like...that's true of all adults
Can't emphasize how much cooler Elon seemed when he listened to his PR team whose job was 'Make him seem like Tony Stark' All it took was one tweet about pedophiles in Asia to shatter that forever.
They're more hated now BECAUSE just as they aren't insulated from us, so we aren't insulated from them. 20 years ago I only ever heard about what rich people were up to through the press & their PR teams. So their stupid shit got filtered out. On Twitter? We all can see they're nothing special
This is the kind of epic behavior that earns a follow <3
Well, then again, hate DOES age you in a non attractive way
Getting kicked out for insulting Bari Weiss is a badge of honor they can wear forever. Also what the hell she's only like 2 years older than me but looks 20 years older
What a beautiful self-own. I have been doing some reading on this just now and fuckin LOL
I too want to know!!!
I oppose the hell out of them, but I extend them one tiny shred of respect in at least being honest monsters instead of pretending they're good people.
But those rich assholes are still the ones who though they could control the racism engine, so it's their fault for fueling it up and unleashing it on the rest of us; I give them no pass for their naivete; if anything, they are more despicable. The racists are assholes, but they believe in something