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Can Vance kill Trump with the same black magic he used on Pope Francis? We asked three MAHA moms at a Bob Evans in the north Cincinnati suburbs.
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Can Vance kill Trump with the same black magic he used on Pope Francis? We asked three MAHA moms at a Bob Evans in the north Cincinnati suburbs.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
Incredible how the fact that she basically faked her thesis so Robert Barro could attack women more and no one cared. It was also a thesis denying the brutal sexism in Asia in that time period. Just a fucking joke academic.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
Oster published her thesis and got into Brown and was one of the most famous economists in the world. The only issue? The entire thesis was completely wrong and she published it knowing it was wrong. After she got hired, she published a follow up paper of “lol jk” and got praised for that too.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
To get back at women, he pushed the thesis of a female PhD student with a “politically incorrect” take on women. That women was Emily Oster and her take was that girls weren’t being aborted for being women in Asia, it was just that women in Asia somehow started being vulnerable to a certain disease
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
Oster was thrust into stardom because Robert Barro (Josh’s dad) was FURIOUS about Larry Summers being forced out as Harvard’s president for saying that the smartest women were dumber than the smartest men. scholar.harvard.edu/files/barro/...
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
What’s cool is that no one who comments in the WSJ is under 45 so literally all of them lived through the Iraq War.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social)
A China invasion of Taiwan is much less likely and much less winnable because China is a superpower and Russia is a poor shithole.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social)
A decade ago when I started as a climate activist, Republicans and centrists constantly argued with me that what we in the US did didn’t matter as China was going to set the world on fire regardless. Being cursed with the ability to remember recent history sucks.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
Her perception in the US is so funny because she’s a climate scientist, but the only thing she’s doing are power grabs and anti cartel warfare.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
Just don't do anything, it's a cheat code.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
This is Merkelism taken to its most evil extreme.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
AMLO has essentially established a dictatorship in Mexico for his successor because they never try even slightly to solve any problems? COVID? Don't care. Economic stagnation? We're not going to do anything. And his and his successor's approval ratings are absurd.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
We definitely found a “better than feudalism” economic structure whenever they weren’t fucking with the sparrows.
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Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
My neural network: Please a fucking crumb of information of what the fuck I’m looking at. Me, porting an absurdly asset dense game to a tablet, crying: I’m so sorry, my dear.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social)
If you’ve ever wanted to see a dev basically torture DLSS to try to get any results, look at the grass here youtu.be/Yg6bcCw6jfo?...
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
Trying to explain to a conservative why RFK Jr is bad: "Imagine an educated black woman saying that Americans should exercise and eat vegetables."
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
Posting the "libs care about animals along with their families while conservatives only care about their families!" meme, but I actually don't care about my family at all and am willing to support the man endangering their lives.
Daniel Brody (@danielwbrody.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Trump and RFK Jr. have helped prevent Son of Erick’s cancer-stricken wife from getting a COVID vaccine, and are now preventing Sean Trende’s son from getting the help he needs with autism, and they both blame Democrats for trying to prevent COVID deaths when all the hospitals were full. Deranged.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
You’d think there would be any evidence of any benefit in the thousands of generations prior.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
Eugenics itself is obviously fucking stupid as all of our lives sucked up until 7 or fewer generations ago.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
The dumbest eugenics theory is “Europeans are more intelligent because cold weather kills off the less intelligent.” Okay so, do you think it being a little colder in Europe is harder than surviving the horrors common in Africa.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
“Zero cases by April”
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social)
The median elected Republican is Ron Johnson, who believes the Republican Party did 9/11. This is basically the level of intellectualism you have to assume.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
It feels impressively racist how most pundits and electeds don't just point out "hey dumbfuck, the George Floyd protests were outdoors, you fucking stupid or what."
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
What caused the party that nominated Donald Trump three times to turn to anti-vax quackery? Are you fucking stupid? There was no leap.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social)
I can't believe some Dem leadership is trying to emphasize with why Republicans "turned to" a guy who endorses mass shootings on the CDC. They're freaks, sorry!
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
We invented a podcast for faildaughters, it's a bold new step in gender equality.
Gluten-free Seitan (@davidjorgonson.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
The denialists were against *every* anti-Covid measure, even masks
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
I was there man, shut the fuck up and punch yourself in the dick.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
As someone who was prevented from going to elementary school or high school by my anti-vax mother in the 90s and 2000s, I have literally nothing but disdain for the people trying to rationalize this.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social)
"Closing the schools caused people to flock to RFK Jr." is genuinely the dumbest argument I have ever seen in my fucking life BECAUSE THE PEOPLE WHO LIKE RFK JR HATE PUBLIC SCHOOL AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s so simple.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social)
I think you should be legally forced to cut off at least one finger if you make a post as bad as Yarvin’s here.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
Being a spineless squish is actually pretty unattractive to voters.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social)
Me when I’m in a “no courage whatsoever” contest and my opponent is the current UK government.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
Have you seen the video where Scott humiliates himself so badly that the interviewer has to interrupt to ask him if he knows how anything works. www.reddit.com/r/ControlPro...
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social)
One thing that's very fun is that with zero inciting incident, Elon Musk killed millions of Africans with the approval of the entire GOP and literally no Dem has learned from this that there is no *reaction* here to what happened or didn't happen, the GOP just likes killing people.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
The guy mostly known for sexually harassing interns is going to be leader? I'm about as pessimistic about the Democratic Party as anyone, but he has no chance.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
Pay drug dealers for Republicans $200K for each Republican they they can get explicit evidence of buying cocaine etc.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social)
China going from this to mostly green energy in a little over 20 years (projected) is probably one of the greatest achievements in human history. Wish it was achieved by us instead!
Wario64 (@wario64.bsky.social) reposted
007 First Light - State of Play announced for September 3, 11 AM PT blog.playstation.com/2025/09/01/s... "over 30 minutes of gameplay featuring a playthrough of Bond’s first mission as an MI6 recruit."
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
They already have this with soccer.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah I use the period as at the end of a question as common internet slang to express that it's more of a rhetorical question.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
Why are you breaking out the thesaurus to explain your personal feelings, that's not what academic work is about.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
No, I mean you write like a college Sophomore instead of an academic publishing in a real journal.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
Why is your writing so bad and unprofessional.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social)
Trump absolutely needs to die from the flu after being talked out of a flu shot by RFK, this is the only thematically good ending.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
Physically, he was kind of like if Cam Newton couldn't throw a football.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
Elite running talent for QB, but his mechanics/arm strength were just too dogshit.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
He was drafted as an attention thing, Mel Kiper looked like he wanted to kill every member of the Broncos' Front Office when it happened, lol.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
Nah, almost everyone expected Tebow to fail in the NFL as he was too lazy to change his throwing mechanics (or couldn't change it because his arm was too weak). He was throwing ducks into massive windows in college and had little chance in the NFL.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
Just going to have to eat the political damage and purge police unions and their members and replace them with university graduates who are normal.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
Rudy got drunk with a sex worker and totaled his car.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
I think the pretty big thing is that the center pretty clearly *likes* abusive law enforcement that kills and rapes people and it's not clear what can be done politically on this when the center will sabotage everything.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
Getting struck by lightning twice in 30 seconds seems more plausible.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social)
This is a fucking hilarious statement, literally none of it is plausible compared to the very obvious alternative of driving drunk with a mistress/sex worker in the car.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, there’s some fascist who is claiming that sourdough bread is “woke” and “driving out white bread.”
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social)
Sourdough is clearly libertarian or health quack coded if you have to assign a political dimension. Just eat whichever bread you like though, who cares, you have infinite options.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
"I only want influence and attention for the power and money and self satisfaction it brings, not the responsibility!" Yeah, too fucking bad, you want mutually contradictory things.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social)
Saw some loser on YouTube shorts recommends doing a "the media wants the left and right to fight when we are more similar than different!" You have like 10 million subscribers, YOU ARE THE MEDIA
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
Borderlands 4 falls in the Pokemon/Ghost of Yotei group as well I guess. Metroid Prime 4 was announced 8 years and two months ago and is supposedly launching in the next four months and has no date and almost no information.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social)
The Ghost of Yotei and Pokemon ZA marketing relative to every other game releasing this year is so funny. Most games releasing this year: "I promise this is a video game. Will you see it? Ehh. When it is releasing? Good question." Yotei and ZA: "Time for trailer #9."
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, like, it sucks, but we should be requiring passports to vote right now, lol.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social)
While I understand attempting to sabotage candidates that are a threat t you, this is very close to the textbook "non credible threat in a two stage game with hidden information" example.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social)
I think if you want to invest in this, you are both the dumbest human alive and a moral black hole deserving of life in prison just for existing.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social)
My take on upcoming elections is in-between doomers and anti doomers in that I think there’s a 95% chance of largely normal elections in 2026 (or “normal” with national guard people at polling places) and a 5% chance the Supreme Court just allows Republican states to send all GOP reps.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_Fab...
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
Trying to get ChatGPT or Gemini to create new phrases and similes is like fucking a bowling ball.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social)
“AI can’t do certain technical aspect.” Either wrong now or wrong in near future “AI struggles horribly to generate novel output in its current form in areas where novelty is most important” largely true.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
Attempting to be the triangulating squish while also lacking charisma or having a background that that the uneducated masses love just seems like a bad mistake.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social)
It feels pointlessly risky for these major programs to even bother to recruit HS QBs instead of just poaching Junior or Senior QBs.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
He has six years of hype, but he’s never actually played a relevant game before and his first real one is against the defending champs on the road.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
But he is uhh, playing very fucking stupid for the preseason #1 pick.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social)
Can’t tell if Manning is nervous or just a dumbass. Not sure how much weight to apply to nerves vs dumbassness.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
WHAT WOULD THE WRITERS OF THIS BILL FEEL ABOUT A RACIST SOUTHERN STATE INTIMIDATING CITIZENS TO DISCOURAGE VOTING, HMMMMMM
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
Beyond the obvious text, the VRA was passed in the context of Jim Crow, when Southern States were using (among other things) state intimidation to discourage voting. The bill from Texas is literally just “intimidate people assisting voters” the bill.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social)
Legal theory rules because your job is just to be a very brain damaged historian until you find the exact assumptions you want.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
This was just way too much for one guy to bite off, even with the additional staff at the end. Needed to scope something way smaller.
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Mortal Kombat II has been delayed from October 24, 2025 to May 15, 2026. For more info: bit.ly/4lTkJT9
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
The discourse around Uber drivers and from Uber drivers is going to be straight up abysmal.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social)
The most interesting upcoming gender divide is how female dominated the Waymo ridership is going to be.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social)
Obviously. The question is whether John Roberts cares at all about these flatly unconstitutional actions or if he wants the US to be an autocracy.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
She’s mad at the Jews.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
This is also why they tell their voters not to take vaccines even though it will kill their voters: they want to kill their own voters.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
There is no irony or miscalculation, they want to deny education and medicine and mail and internet and electricity to their voters to be cruel and know their voters will take it.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social)
There’s a ton of people focused on irony or whatever, but the GOP has specifically pivoted to impoverishing and killing rural people because they like killing people and they know rural people will keep voting for them.
NY Times Pitchbot (@nytpitchbot.bsky.social) reposted
Opinion | AI is not as smart as toddlers yet. What if we got rid of child labor laws and had toddlers and AI work hand in hand?
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
You're probably going to stop shooting every once and a while to aim regardless.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
Outside of a mounted gun with tons of ammo being automatically fed in, what is the real difference in terrorism potential between a semi and full auto?
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
Also also 1. The practical difference between a semi and full auto is not very relevant. 2. We've all played video games, we know the difference, it just barely matters so we lump them together.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, this is how lawyers pretend the law works but it's obviously not how the law works at all.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
1. If it is speech, it's still fine to find OpenAI liable for indulging in psychosis. 2. If it's not speech, it's obviously fine to make them liable.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
OpenAI should pay out a few billion to all of its victims of GPT-4 and admit fault and bury GPT-4. We can get to the First Amendment when more explicit biased censorship demands are actually made.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
The question of whether a probabilistic sampling from the entire internet (with the probabilities manipulated company to company) is speech is extremely difficult and the idea that we even need to worry about it in this case is, to be frank, fucking stupid.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
other more explicit censorship? Are you kidding me? And this is already happening in general due to extralegal pressure put on these companies due to their need for US funding and the crushing of overseas regulations and competition.
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
However, the 2nd amendment is not treated as a dead letter! Exceptions to allow society to function are inherently allowed. Yes, we have to debate how far the exceptions can go. But implying that banning companies from having their LLMs indulge in self-destructive behavior will lead to
Samus is Here (@samusishere.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, it is. The 2nd amendment says that "the right to bear arms shall not be infringed" but there are tons of people banned from bearing arms and any arms that would be useful in killing the US military (the point of the 2nd amendment when crafted) are banned.