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If you were actually mistreated by federal agents multiple legal hurdles stand between you and compensation, but if you were fake mistreated you can just, like, ask the Trump admin for money. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
honestly we should just blow the brains out of any Russian we would otherwise PNG and dump their corpses into the ocean
i mean, the thing is that Lightning Crashes is histrionic and omnipresent and, like, that's sort of what this band _is_, right?
the video is very good evidence for the thesis that he was right to shave his head
like, "1/3 of people selected for additional screening for heart failure actually had it" is an insane success rate.
this is the best song ever made about how intense a bonding experience hiding a body with your friends is www.youtube.com/watch?v=28mn...
this seems like a base rate problem?
i think it's the Appalachian thing, but it's so fascinatingly weird to see a guy singing about white-guy buddhism in the same devotional mode you might see at a snake-handling church
i think it's the Appalachian thing, but it's so fascinatingly weird to see a guy singing about white-guy buddhism in the same devotional mode you might see at a snake-handling church
listened to Throwing Copper in the car today due to an "albums i owned in the 2000s" series and realized that Ed Kowalczyk is not doing an Eddie Vedder thing -- he legitimately has a pretty strong Appalachian accent
the thing about Zohran is he is really fucking good at politics and everyone on the Dem side behaving like he’s a liability has lost their minds I don’t care how you define It, he has It
fact check: this isn't the banner, this is his disembodied spirit floating around DC a la enter the void
like, if you have ever seen them twist their arm until their elbows are outward and their hand is pushed as close to the wrist as possible, my sister does that when it's really bad
calf pain, wrists and fingers folding under involuntarily into claw position, arm twisting, muscle cramps, sometimes side-foot walking or a scissoring gait
What pisses me off about Nate Silver and other reactionary centrists is that it is possible to face endless torrents of scorn online without abandoning liberal principles. At a certain point, you have to choose to be an adult. It's either that or curdle into a hateful moron.
The succession plan of so many of the current old guard democrats is “YOLO, won’t be my problem, lol.”
There seems to be a cycle of Dems soaking up frustration about the system -- when the system works well enough for such frustration to be salient -- and then Republicans crashing the system. Which leads to Dems building it back up again and rise/repeat
the purpose of this is to destroy Harvard
Chuck Schumer does not do succession planning in any way that matters, Nancy Pelosi had to be forced into it by an intraparty coup, Obama deliberately eschewed it
while Bernie should have retired in 2024, something that separates him and to a lesser but still noteworthy extent Warren from the rest of their old colleagues is he clearly sees it as a priority to build up a bench of successors to his brand of politics
an avatar of Republican faux moderation getting unseated by an avatar of left-wing rage would own so hard honestly
The balance between allowing genuinely weird behavior and allowing the Andy Rubin's of the world to sexually blackmail their employees into BDSM is a challenge (not that boring corporations are good at preventing sexual harassment and abuse)
What’s funny about takes like this is that when democrats do something like this (see, Biden dismantling the drone program) the same people making this point either don’t give them credit for doing it, lie and say it’s still on going or fetishize process.
no one reads politico except the 50k or so people in the country with the most influence on politics
thank you, Brazil, for having Bolsonaro give Trump the disease which has sent him to the hospital every two months for the past three years
its funny how Corbyn is who centrists said Bernie was, and Starmer is who leftists said Biden was
i'm not!
i like meg a lot! but her backstory is fascinating!
let's uh not talk about the gay-for-pay (VC edition) stuff which occurs in Silicon Valley because this is uh not entirely uncoercive.
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so, like, i "have" it but don't get symptomatic except after heavy exertion, in which case my calves lock up and it's really hard to pull myself out of tiptoe gait.
it's autosomal dominant with reduced penetrance, which means that not everyone with the gene is symptomatic, but everyone who has it has a break in the pipeline which makes dopamine, often around the tetrahydrobiopterin cofactor.
oh so you're a hospice nurse?
Se o Trump morrer e o Bolsonaro for condenado na mesma semana, eu acho que é o fim da temporada.
no. they obviously have a pro right wing slant but also the journalism is legit. I think a lot of people just don't want to admit that Dem leadership is more right wing than the party is.
why is donald trump tweeting about how he can see his mother in the corner of the room telling him it's almost time to come home??? and why is it "so bright in here, brighter than i thought it would be" in the White House?
the image is great. the "this is AI" thing sucks.
jean-christophe lilot.
jean-something lilot. worked for the G+ backend team and got promoted faster than anyone other than David Fiala, whom we bought an old "I have root @ Google" t-shirt because he kept finding exploits which could potentially give him root.
not always! c.f., Justine Tunney, or purple@, or Batman (they/them plural), or mmitchell, any number of other people.
oh lol you worked with shit... i forget his name. last name was Lilot, I think?
this is entirely normative behavior under a different set of norms than usual
i think "there should be no jobs which routinely involve the use of force against civilians and if any job of that sort exists, additional duties should be added to it until no one for whom that is an attraction wants to do it."
picture cut to hide the tick the size of a beach ball attached to his spine
looking so good, king! keep it up!
also they were all diagnosed as autistic and then un-diagnosed.
like everyone in my family with the gene for dopa-responsive dystonia was reading before the age of three and also almost failed out of high school
i kind of believe the torsional dystonia thing because other dystonias have very distinctive and not always entirely negative neuropsychiatric side effects. it is not particularly common at all, though.
man this fucking sucks
read politico to find out that Schumer is whipping to pass Trump's CR without modification --> read centrists screaming that that would never happen --> Schumer whips to pass the CR without modification --> read centrists explaining why that was the right thing to do
one of the most infuriating things about this site is centrists insisting that no one listen to Politico, where centrists go to complain about the left and explain why they are planning yet another unconditional surrender to fascism
just absolute dogshit for a brain
I think I personally could generally make the right judgment calls for my social groups about weirdos vs. abusive, if I were to be made the Hobbesian sovereign of all my social circles, for the small cost of also allowing me to forbid all behaviors that are “annoying to me personally”
i don't think the guy who always wore a Victorian suit to work is there anymore either
oh yeah lol we probably should have turned off his dogfood access when he went to Facebook
"propensity to interpret strange behavior as nonthreatening" is a character trait whose utility varies with the amount of strange behavior which is nonthreatening
i honestly think that tolerance to weirdos and tolerance to abuse are positively correlated
there were tequila shots at my first Social weekly event. it was a Thursday at 4 PM!
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i don't mean asshole behavior -- although that also declined -- but things like "guy who absolutely will not work from his desk for reasons which are never expressed" or "person with a link with nine paragraphs on how to interact with them" or "guy gets in a fight with a senior director on listserv"
i think that it was probably a bad sign when the amount of shockingly weird behavior i saw at Google declined to almost zero
It has the funniest kind of audience capture, which is basically "we're out of good shocking thumbnails, so now the takes are 'so woke you're now a Dennis Miller Republican.'" It's too bad, I liked it when it was people who were like, "I'm not sure lettuce wraps should be legal."
there is not a living politician i have more contempt for than Nancy Mace, who tried to get her ass kicked on January 6th so she could lead an anti-Trump Republican faction
[measured, even tone] sure.
there is a distillation effect where only people who are happy with the government claim to be Republicans
Yeah it's not exactly subtle what's going on here
The shrill insistence that we, the Americans whose tax dollars pay these freaks' salaries, are not only not allowed to know who is carrying guns on our supposed behalf, but that we are a danger to society for asking -- this is one of MAGA's most disgusting claims. Unmask every ICE gunman.
I come with another child to be named, every one at the Office of Vital Records groans at my shit
if you're Reformed you skip the names, put your finger on the page, and pick the first four words which prohibit you from doing something
trump employing these late authoritarian tactics when his approval is in the high thirties and he has not ensured the loyalty of the security state. like he’s trying to maximize the regime’s instability
I mean… we are one of the most successful at multiculturalism. Integration is really fucking hard and if not new entirely, really counter to some of the bedrock assumptions around which our institutions are built.
"not having an attachment to performances of autocracy; giving the appearance of being constrained by law," "lacking incubators for antigovernment sentiment outside of the direct control of the central government"
"being a party-state, not a personalist autocracy," "being sufficiently unconstrained by laissez-faire ideology that it can reward its supporters directly," "willingness to use the public sector as a tool rather than destroying it," "having a plausible succession mechanism if Orban died."
The kindest thing I can say to the doomposters is: I hope you’ll never get a chance to see how much braver the average American is than you.
rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides
The Kant Car
montreal is spiritually part of NYC
trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa
“When the xenomorph isn’t onscreen reviewers should be asking ‘where’s the xenomorph?’”
he'll send ICE to intimidate us. if i see an ICE agent at my polling place i'm going to walk right past him.
(the diaspora can vote.)
and they all consume media from Hungary, meaning that they almost all vote Fidesz!
"being the only country in which speaks Hungarian, meaning that you fully control all media on your language by being an autocrat in charge of Hungary," "being in power for twelve years," "having a heavily centralized country with few devolved powers."
like, "ability to rewrite the constitution whenever he wants," "free migration in the EU allowing him to brain drain away his entire opposition," "enormous subsidies from the EU which he can dole out to supporters every election season," "a huge electoral majority,"
like, when we are talking about Hungary, i can name like fifteen advantages orban has over trump off the top of my head
as a pdf-reader, when you pass a certain level of nerdy in any topic on the internet the primary thing you end up being is "a group of people who reads and comments on PDFs" so i can see how this originated. i end up reading very different PDFs from official pdf twitter though i think
i very honestly cannot figure out why this is not the main reason. morality is negotiable. you may not like that, but it is, everyone makes compromises. self interest is always and forever
The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.
Chris Van Hollen is interesting because he makes a center-left case for Palestine. He argues for Palestinian rights not on leftist but on liberal grounds. It is highly philosophically coherent to do that, and yet few politicians do.
"did not include an author from Chengdu (population 21m)" is about 1/3 worse than "did not include an author from Palestine (population 14m)"
to be fair to libsoftiktok, she probably did not get that from her
the word she blacked out to describe who will shut down the internet is "kikes"
voting rights act
First multiracial, democratically elected president being Richard Nixon in this country is so fucking cursed
wisconsin was not a democracy by any measure during the 2010s.
also by the numbers, the United States has only had twenty-four free and fair legislative elections. they began in 1966 and ended in 2012.