I think it’s possible for people to be heroic at a personal or familial level and still be participating in something heinous at larger levels. Sorta like being the guy that brings donuts for everyone at work. But you work on the Death Star.
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I think it’s possible for people to be heroic at a personal or familial level and still be participating in something heinous at larger levels. Sorta like being the guy that brings donuts for everyone at work. But you work on the Death Star.
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
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Oh, I get it. He wants to take jobs in blue states and move them to red states.
The president is economically punishing blue states because he wants to force them to get rid of mail in voting. Or that might just be a pretense 🤷🏽♂️ Either way… It’s a coup by economic blackmail.
“Don’t worry” said the flim flam man “We’re all going to be richer than we ever dreamed of and it’s hardly going to cost you a thing!”
"What no one prepared us for, though, was that the logic that we followed—we want the business to succeed; we need our jobs to make money—didn’t apply to ownership." thebaffler.com/latest/a-fai...
A rich person’s superpower is just caring about money more than what anyone else thinks of them.
It's not even a complicated trick! Or a new one: If there's one moment that made it definite Tesla had become a meme stock, it was when its valuation – which was supposedly largely based on all the AI tech Tesla would produce – was untouched when Elon moved all of that to xAI instead.
This doesn’t reflect reality. What it does reflect though is an effort to build consensus around a narrative. Why? To devalue the voices on Bluesky.
What if, when you tap a little heart and make it red, someone somewhere gets a little dopamine hit?
I imagine my quests more like this.
What? Are we not supposed to talk about how we’re all addicted to the approval of maybe a dozen people we’ve likely never met?
From now on I think when people ask me what I do I’ll just say that I’m on a quest.
I’m torn when people I like come back from social media breaks. Part of me wants to be happy. Part of me wants to yell.. “You were free!!”
His job is to provide govt support to energy projects. But just for fossil fuels and cars.
More irony. His argument is that these projects would never be viable without massive govt support.
We can’t trust ancient technologies like windmills because they might be unreliable but we can integrate AI systems into governmental payment and data systems even though it occasionally acts like the joker on an ayahuasca trip.
It's not even the murder capital of the US...
A 4D chess move would be to award Trump his coveted Nobel prize, but give it to him for Operation Warp Speed and for the Covid vaccine.
I am a little suprised at how quickly we acquiesced to "cutting down on crime maybe a little but in no significant measurable sense, is worth martial law"
Congrats on your regime propaganda, ABC News.
Who knows? I’ll let others figure that out. I’m just tossing out snarky comments from the cheap seats.
If my last name was Early I’d be tempted to run for president just because of all the free advertising.
I don’t want to live in Russia II 🙁
I challenge anyone to come up with a “oh yeah, that makes sense” argument for why anyone needs to throw anything out the window of the Whitehouse.
“Circle the wagons!! We gotta protect this nebulous concept of western civilization that people use as a stand-in for whiteness!! Er… I mean… Protect the women and children! And… my companies. Protect those too!”🤪
Because if you don’t want someone trying to overstay their welcome you have to punish those who try.
If a Dem president had capriciously put in place tariffs that drove up prices such that stores no longer wanted to price their items, there would be signs in every aisle blaming the high prices on the president. But they like Trump so 🤫
Roughly 344 billion spent on AI research equates to about 478,000 teacher salaries for a year.
The volume of boosterism that we see for a new technology is directly related to how much has been invested and how badly daddy needs snake eyes. At this point they’re just shoving AI products into everything and hope that something pays off for them. I hope they lose their shirts.
The irony is that they will have to argue that their work is valuable because of the unique skill and effort involved.
I watched the Lewis video and it reminded me of a scary episode a while back when my mom experienced schizophrenia due to hypothyroidism. It was eventually diagnosed and treated by it was a scary experience for her.
I have a problem with people using the term “creator” in the news punditry space, rather than “punditry”, “journalist”, etc. It sends the (quite possibly true) message that the average person only cares about the content, and not the message behind it.
Milli Vanilli got shamed for lip syncing to prerecorded tracks performed by others. Seems so quaint. youtu.be/UvPXmkYMHFg?...
Right, everything always seems to have an economic perspective. Art has no intrinsic value beyond the money and fame it can bring you. It’s just a means to an end and that’s what that line says to me.
This is "the one big trick" that the right has mastered. They present their movement as just "the authentic voice of the volk outraged by Democratic overreach," when really what they're doing is just old fashioned political mobilization. Organize a passle of pissed off people & call it a movement.
People literally bled & died fighting against corporate interests, robber barons, corrupt local & state politicians, cops & hired killers, & the federal government & US military for better working conditions for the rest of us so reflect on that today for just a bit while you're doing whatever else.
I keep thinking… “If it wasn’t for an economic system that incentivizes the worst profit seeking behaviors in people, we could have a productive discussion about…” Whatever.
lol wow, that’s quite the drop
Your opinion union.
The problem is that you don’t always know which decisions are significant and important and which ones are not.
It’s so inconvenient to their anti-vax arguments that Trump was the President in 2020 that they just pretend that he wasn’t.
Reality show. You gather up a bunch of people to be locked up in a mockup of the Whitehouse. Each week they draw a name of someone in the Trump admin and for that week they have to act out what they think is happening in the WH based solely on fox news coverage. Filmed with hidden cams.
“The constitution doesn’t say I can’t!” (Continues carving up a sacrificial staff member on the resolute desk.)
Props to the band at the St Michael’s day festival for playing Turn Up the Radio by Autograph.
Caught in candy.
Something’s not really true until you can find at least one YouTube video saying so in exactly the same way and there are zero people declaring the first video to be “total bullshit!”
Isn’t it weird that one day someone was like… “Hey, the word ‘elf’ rhymes with ‘shelf’” And now they probably have like a billion dollars and one of their grandkids will be a senator.
Assorted cold viruses included in the school supplies.
Opening the current Civ save game file… “Sheesh, why are they building so many damn pharmacies and data centers? They’re wasting a ton of resources not upgrading their trade routes! America has adopted fascism?”
The first rule of fight country is: We do not talk about gun violence … and the second rule of fight country is.. We do not talk about gun violence.
“I have a headache.”
When I’m president I will glue googly eyes on all of the official Trump portraits and declare that his name must always appear in comic sans.
“Why are you putting up statues of losers?” I dare that MF or any of his cult to try to erect any statues of that preening middle manager of a cult leader.
The annoying thing about living at the end of history is that we all gotta just keep on living.
Trying to imagine a children’s book about the most reasonable people in the world and their most reasonable king who has appointed himself the voice of the people.
“The people of my kingdom are the most reasonable. They chose me as their leader. Never formally. It just seemed reasonable, since I was already giving voice to the concerns of the volk anyways.”
It’s like tug-o-war or maybe one of those meters where it’s red on one side marked “devil” and green on the other side marked “god” and whenever we all pray really hard with clenched foreheads and outstretched arms the little needle moves towards the green.
Ladies and gentlemen et al. Matt Y. The self appointed spokesperson for “reasonable people.” Can I do that? Can I just speak for all “reasonable people?” I happen to know how they think. How? Well, I happen to be their king. A very reasonable king. And there is abundance!
No company is ever like “We make shittier versions of stuff that good!” But that’s like a fundamental business model for so many companies.
Who among us will bring together the flavors of banana and jalapeño?
Its notepad.
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Careerism makes cowardice the only choice
I deliberately listen to the soundtrack to 28 Years Later when I go into town to make sure I'm living correctly in a world collapsing around me.
My first day in office. I’m signing an executive order. “This big beautiful magnificent executive order raises tariffs to 200% on any shit Republicans buy. Guns Bibles Everything at Hobby Lobby Ford F-150s Anything camo Yachts And we’re gonna use the money to fund universal healthcare.”
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Only in America is this a gym teacher.
“Got my copy of Prince’s Purple Rain at the Cracker Barrel gift shop.”
“Hey kids, Rusty here is a National Guard Reservist and he is going to be your substitute teacher until Ms. Little gets back from maternity leave. Would it help if he took off the helmet and put his gun in the office?”
The movies and TV did a poor job preparing us for life under emerging fascism. The clouds didn’t darken, nothing is sepia tinted. People still smile. It’s not all scowls and yelling and noisy trucks kicking up dirt.
Something’s happening with the main characters.
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Wait. I can help people write shitty opinion columns. I can do that.
Throw them in a trash can and sit it out on the curb.
A nation of delivery drivers and police.
Am I supposed to be upset about gas prices today?
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The ice cream of a future that never was.
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I want a crane hat!
I think a lot about the autism researchers in the 60s who blamed autism on “refrigerator moms,” mothers who were supposedly distant & cold to their kids. How many of those moms were just autistic themselves, in a time when women weren’t diagnosed with autism, pilloried for their communication style?
“And that’s how we became the…”
The ten yr old girl is really into it.
Juggernaut. These songs took over for like two weeks. We’ve seen the movie twice now.
Try explaining that to the people back home!
The words “National” and “Socialism” just keep creeping closer together.
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Imagine working for years on something, waiting for the right moment to release it to the world and then getting completely swamped by some cultural juggernaut.
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
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"I don't want to hurt you, stop fighting back, you're hurting yourself" is literally the language of an abuser. One of the most banally horrifying things about this administration is that there is no subtext, no dog whistles, no need for interpretive work. It's all just explicit racism and cruelty.
Stupid sexy Flanders...
Fookin’ genius…!!! 🤪
“Ladies and gentlemen…. … Radioactive Shrimp.”
A “scorcher” is quite likely exactly how the old gentleman at the general store would describe today.