The culture around flags is very different in the U.S. than it is in many other countries. In the U.K. such flags are much more likely to be interpreted as evidence of nationalist sentiment.
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The culture around flags is very different in the U.S. than it is in many other countries. In the U.K. such flags are much more likely to be interpreted as evidence of nationalist sentiment.
I found it funny when that was such a controversy at the time cuz it kind of literally is true. Wires are generally tubes and that's more or less what the internet is.
The gap that causes the issue is the gap between "objective self-interest" and "perceived self-interest"
I'm one of those people. It's a struggle, cuz there's so much performative horseshit that deserves to be criticized but now if I do it, I'm basically sending out a big social signal that I am a christo-fascist psychopath and I very much am not.
Seeing that someone is ill or suffering is not a diagnosis.
MAGA is actually the best practical argument against post-modernism.
Apologies for being that guy but: simulacrum if it's singular.
I hate Trump with all my being, but I'm gonna need an explanation of how he's personally responsible for COVID-19 deaths.
I wonder which one of these terrible things the mod of this list thinks I am:
You're about to get reamed in the comments by people who think that ask amounts to "stop talking about or caring about racism and trans people"
I've literally walked around every major US city I've visited (and it's been quite a few) without incident. The U.S. is not some kind of crime cesspool.
I would definitely be trying to rely on my technical career background and English proficiency to get in rather than refugee status but even that's a crapshoot.
For all the (valid) criticism the U.S. gets for its restrictive immigration policies, not enough criticism is given to other countries that largely do the same.
The problem is people are addicted. They think they *need* it for some reason.
You have a point. I had no idea they were so lopsided.
Still wouldn't apply here.
Do you live in America? It's hard to imagine someone living here and never having heard of it.
I miss when "anti-woke" just meant you thought companies should not attempt to do "corrective racism" in their hiring practices or force employees through unscientific anti-bias training. Whatever the fuck it mutated into over the last few years is completely unhinged.
At this point, I think it's just complete emotional negative reaction to change in and of itself. I find the new logo kind of bland but who the fuck cares?
Yeah wasn't his point that sitting around and asking God to fix everything for us isn't going to work?
Now I wish I still lived in SA so I could do this too.
Basically anything that implies that society at large was designed top-down to benefit a group of people in particular is a conspiracy theory, because that's just not how societies work. There are obviously bad actors that have some power, but none with anywhere near the power to do *that*.
As much as these assholes keep saying and doing racist things, this is actually probably the more accurate explanation in this specific instance. It's a cultural cornerstone of fascism.
Texas is doing a great job of making me glad I left.
What a terrible mistake it was to tell people LLMs are AI.
Italy sadly did not follow their example
In fairness, it would be far from out of character for far leftists to spar with each other.
Check if your TV has an audio compression feature and turn it on. It's specifically for solving this annoying problem.
But why have a picture of a burger on the wall?
I use it instead of API documentation half the time these days.
Many people are willing to sacrifice others ad infinitum to avoid the blow to their ego of admitting they were wrong about Trump and MAGA.
*looks at stomach* I should start.
"consenting" is doing a lot of work in this sentence given the power differential between them and the context of the act.
Only way it could be better is if it said "You sound vaxxed"
Do it more. Half of us don't want him around either.
Mark my words; there will be multiple attempts to manipulate the midterm elections to ensure Republican victories, and they will all be marketed as efforts to stop voter fraud.
As someone who probably could be classified as a "centrist", I do kinda wish people would stop just blaming everything on centrists. People seem to just use it as a synonym for crypto-MAGA or people unwilling to take a stand against it.
How many innocent people spending the rest of their life in an El Salvador torture prison was Ross Ulbricht worth?
Wtf am I supposed to do if I have no fucking idea, lol
If you think liberals are the enemy, please block me.
Leftists coalition in bad faith. They do it for recruitment, not because they actually want to put aside differences to work toward a shared goal. This is unfortunate since we need the biggest possible anti-MAGA coalition right now, but communists are more interested in making more communists.
Imagine pressuring Islamic theocracies to actually be better on human rights instead of just turning a blind eye for economic reasons.
It was, but the British did abolish it before the U.S. did. At least if you mean federally and not just specific states.
ICE agents are welfare queens.
It's difficult to imagine a worse presidency or one whose awfulness was more predictable.
Annoyingly, all of the relevant images on this page are broken for me, so I can't see if it's actually the same image or just a similar one.
It's clearly doctored. The font doesn't even match on the captions.
"Something exists in some degree everywhere, therefore it exists in equal degree everywhere" is not valid reasoning.
I'm sure this exact kind of person would be offended by this, but NYC is not so special that people should have to prove their worth to live there in a way that they don't have to for other cities.
Fucking OUCH
By transplant to they mean "someone moved to a different city"?
Seen in the 50501 Discord. Leftists need to learn how to actually coalition behind a single goal rather than trying to turn every coalition effort into a recruitment effort. This is *extremely* Marxist-coded.
If someone says data that disproves their point of view is fake or rigged in some way, but offers nothing in the way of good evidence for that, they are probably just full of shit.
It's not a strawman if your standard is literally going to create a slope e.g. if your standard is "make barely legal illegal", then by definition you will be moving along a slope.
The further you are from reality, the more objectivity will appear to you as bias.
It really isn't, unfortunately.
Look the guy is a douche and mostly talking out of his ass, but surely you're only *pretending* to not know that he means those things will accelerate the production of food to score more points against him. At least I hope it's pretending.
Relevant: biblioklept.org/2013/06/06/o...
What no pussy does to a motherfucker
Trump is an idiot who doesn't know what he's doing, but the people whispering in his ear about tariffs do. Their goal isn't economic; it's isolationist. And they are willing to pay an economic price for it.
BREAK THE CONDITIONING!
It's not fun. Dizziness, nausea, maybe vomiting, heavy anxiety.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfmE...
Have you ever overindulged on edibles?
The problem IMO is dosage. Cuz once you're stoned, you're gonna want to eat an entire large pizza.
Someone better go back in time and tell John Stuart Mill that he was actually a leftist and not a liberal :P
I put my rice cooker through it cuz I love rice, it's so easy, and bags of rice cost almost nothing.
There's no fucking way the ingredients for a chicken, rice, and veggie bowl cost $60. You could probably make 12 such bowls with $60 of those ingredients.
If Trump pardons Ghislane Maxwell, I don't wanna hear about "groomers" from you MAGA fucks ever again.
If you haven't seen the new episode of South Park, you must, for the end if nothing else.
It's impressive that, with Webex, Cisco had made something *worse* than Teams.
I see people call for this a lot but nobody is ever specific. Which specific rules and norms are currently being respected that you believe no longer should be, and why?
I hope my neighbors like Black Sabbath cuz that's what they are going to hear tonight.
The thing that will eat your entire garden.
It's a shame they didn't include Diddy Kong in Donkey Kong Bananza, but it's understandable given all the sex crimes.
Why is there no movement to criminalize MLMs? It's widely recognized as a problem. Surely most people aren't OK with organizations operating like this. They aren't genuine actors within the market adding real value to people's lives.
A lot of problems won't be solved until we understand that fear can be an addiction and start addressing it as such.
Probably the most consistent thing among anti-vaxxers is knowing basically nothing about vaccines.
Minimum wage is not a viable or useful solution to poverty. This won't stop people from advocating for it. Similar to rent control in that regard.
I hate that the thing that might actually kill MAGA is this Epstein shit and not people actually giving a shit about fascism. It leaves us extremely open to someone else just slotting themselves in and resuming all this shit.
Being too stupid to know what you are voting for isn't the same as "not voting for it." That said, all of these people backtracking is just damage control. They know what they voted for. They just bought into a fantasy of how it would turn out.
Among all the other reasons it's bad to do it, deporting people for criticizing Israel is just bolstering the narrative of antisemites that "the Jews actually run the country"
A lot of people confuse their preferred authoritarianism with a lack of authoritarianism. As long as it's *other people* that suffer, it's fine, because I got what I want.
I never commented on Democratic party strategy. My point is that "voting for party" is something most people do in general rather than a specifically Republican thing, for better or for worse.
Nothing about what you said is specific to Texas at all, or even Republicans for that matter.
I wonder why states like this don't just have larger counties. Is there any point in having a county with a population of like 5000 people that is identical in almost every way to 5 neighboring counties?
If a product or service is only offered in exchange for information about you (name, email address, address, age, etc.), it is not free, even if the price in dollars is $0.
In fairness, you aren't collecting people's data (even if it's just their name and email address) because it's of no value to you. It's important for people to realize that paying with their data isn't the same as "free". That said, you obviously have the right to set whatever terms you want.
You might as well be pissing on Thomas Jefferson's grave with this shit.
One thing I've learned is that basically any "tech-adjacent" job is mostly inhabited by people who don't actually know tech. This is because the people that actually know tech are doing more lucrative jobs involving the tech directly.
The continued normalization of gambling as a benign activity is bad.
This is the first time I've ever felt shame on the 4th of July.
Gotta give humanity credit. We really excel at coming up with ways to fuck ourselves that are so novel we can't even predict them.
Ideologues in general are bad at coalitioning.
Price controls, city-owned grocery stores, and an absurdly high minimum wage are not "practical ways to address the cost of living". They are great ways to make things worse though.
When I hear liberals advocating for regime change via military intervention in Iran:
God I hope its way more than 90% lol
With surgical intervention, I am now kidney stone free. Recovery is just NO fun though.
Is there any case against using the words "whitelist" and "blacklist" that is more than just "I assume every use of the words 'white' and 'black' has a racial component"?