So if you don't have a better strategy, then it just sounds like you're just offering aggrievement. And Aggrievement Addiction is part of what got us here in the first place.
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So if you don't have a better strategy, then it just sounds like you're just offering aggrievement. And Aggrievement Addiction is part of what got us here in the first place.
Tell me you have a better strategy then. Seriously. I don't care so much where the idea comes from if it actually sounds like it could work. Now is *very much* a time to stand on principle. But you have to know which principles matter, and which are just pearl clutching.
And thatβs how you know that todayβs βDemocratic Partyβ has devolved so far, that theyβve passed 2012 Republicans on their right. π
Distracted driving is *always* a bad idea. But doing it on a undivided highway with *oncoming traffic* on one side and *DITCH* on the other seems particularly stupid. And *dangerous* to all that oncoming traffic too. People like her are why undivided highways give me the willies.
Hi. I live in the U.S. Just remember: it can *always* get worse.
*Why* is Reform doing that, do you suppose? Do you think maybe *that* should be the headline? No! Don't go with the kayfabe. Don't tell me the fake reason. Tell me the *actual* reason. I know you know.
Oh I see. Dragon*Con. Cool!
Trump has consistently indicated that he believes that him being the president means he can do anything that he wants. We disagree with him of course. But ultimately: Trump has power to the extent that he has followers and fools who don't understand the stakes.
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Can you imagine how long the lineβs gonna be to take a piss on that grave
#TrumpIsAGhostNow pass it on!
How did we lose our grip on a combined, consensus reality? Was it the #1 Internet? Or was it #2 algorithmic manipulation of peoples' news feeds via over-consolidation and subsequent enshtification of tech companies? Seriously-- I am not sure which. Although I'm betting it's more #2 than #1.
If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you donβt fool me
I don't like the guy. But I like his suggested strategy.
I don't believe he is an angel. But I *do* believe his interests temporarily align with... ours? Basically the one thing we have in common is: we don't want people as dumb as Trump and his cronies running things.
i have a headache that refuses to end
That explains a lot.
Yeah the OP is correct about every single thing except for the part that, that guy was not a "founder". He was just a guy that works there. There are lines of dialog in the movie that indirectly make clear: Dyson doesn't have IP rights to the chip. *The Company* does.
Fucking hell we had an actual Son Of Sam Altman situation. Horrifying. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...
"I recognize an insanity bubble, and I recognize hubris."
It really does seem like it should be obvious. A glorified chatbot does *not* have wisdom. It just has mathematically determined "vibes".
Thereβs an enormous amount of stuff in this book Iβd like to highlight, but start with: βWhat emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.β
"We should like *nationalize* wrestling or something."
Although I guess it is important to highlight that a judge was able to act because Trunp and co violated some first nations land, and the folks whose land it was took issue with that. (As is their right.)
I suspect it's also closing because it was a terrible idea. It's also basically a war crime or something. But it is also, also really, really dumb just like everything else Trump and his followers try to do.
Mayor Brandon of Chicago responds to a question from a reporter if pushing back will make things harder? βCan you imagine if my ancestors would have had the same rationale? Letβs not fight against the Confederacy. Letβs just try to get along, and maybe one day theyβll give us our freedom?β
In WW II it was called "appeasement". And it is as terrible a strategy then for dealing with a fascist, a bully, as it is now. If you give in to them they just ask for more. And more. And then still more.
The plaintiffs are asserting products liability, negligence, wrongful death, and finally theyβre asserting a violation of California Unfair Competition Law The UCL theory is GPT 4o violated Cal. criminal code by deliberately aiding & encouraging suicide, was practicing unlicensed psychotherapy,
You're telling me, a random person on the Internet, who/what I can and can't blame!? That's not how this works. not even remotely.
I agree.
the people who made this thing should be treated like dealers who mix fent into drugs.
another truly grand jury
Which blockchain? There isn't actually just *one*. *Each* cryptocurrency is its own chain. It makes me wonder if this guy knows that or not.
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Yeah, basically. At least at the state and federal level that seems to be how it works. It seems like their interests are far away and different from regular peoples'. So they can't represent our interests even if they wanted to.
I'm a democratic party politician. I have no eyes, nor ears, nor sense of touch. I am suspended in a sort of neutral goo into which strategists whisper things like "pivot to tariffs." their whispers react with the goo to produce various stenches that I interpret as policy positions
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Bandcamp has made a very bad decision which will hurt musicians. BC is requiring all artists and labels to use Stripe payment processor that has closed accounts due to their policy of no sensitive content sold with their system but worse, their policy is to equal LGBT content with sensitive content.
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Crystal and Sawyer dig into what's on their minds as Missourians including health care cuts, Sen. Hawley's phony behavior, and costs going up for their families. #Medicaid #Medicare #SocialSecurity #MOSen #MOLeg #Missouri
Point out that ICE raids also aren't allowed and yet...? Point out that Bibi is massively corrupt?
Most Americans genuinely believe there's some grand overarching force that stops illegal things from happening. That's the truth. We think there's a Boss who says "I won't allow this" and are genuinely surprised when an illegal or unfair thing happens anyway.
The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel youtu.be/QwpanShgOp4
I like easy games.
My firsts: A Commodore 128 with bootleg software that my dad bought from a friend. It was usually in 64 mode and I was playing games. An 80286. (Huge downgrade games-wise, but I learned some DOS) Then a 486 in my room that I played Doom2 on. A lot.
Yeah. I know. Another fun one is "obstruction of justice". Oh yes it's "fun" when they use it on someone who we all collectively agree kinda deserves it. But more often than not it, along with resisting, is a catch all used when they can't be bothered to think up something substantive.
this is exactly right. it's the same stupid bet every republican has made since 2015.
Ok. So uh... if people need lessons on voting, how come we haven't already been covering it in school?
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Citizen is stupid anyway because it's like "Man Assaulted by 14 people in Volunteer Park" The actual event was "Area Transphobe Walled Off From Trans Pride By Peaceful Queers Who Should've Kicked His Ass But Didn't"
John Roberts, my man. He was always going to keep testing you. You laid down a marker, and he passed right on by. Your move.
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"This place is an extrajudicial black site operating under no legal framework ... that we know of."
I think it was before. Actually it probably happened as soon as Elmo was introduced.
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They are Nazis. And the @nytimes.com is probably being a Nazi sympathizer. At first glance, this might seem unusual. But then we come to understand: it was ever thus. The @nytimes.com made up "objectivity". The NYT has only ever had StatusQuo-itivity and as SQ shifts Nazi so does the NYT. Sad.
Come to think of it, I bet they even have fake eugenics pseudoscience to back that up. Bigots who go as far as genocide always do.
I know there is already plenty of proof that the Israelis are doing a genocide... but still this is *even more* proof the Israelis are doing a genocide. The Israelis do not "see" journalists who are Palestinian as journalists. Instead, the Israelis see that as *just* another Palestinian subhuman.
When will The People Rise Up Again? You KNOW You NEED TO GO! ACT!
The people who are trying to replace human workers and undermine their labor rights are not going to usher in universal basic income. They refuse to pay for labor. They are definitely *not* going to pay for no labor. These are people who do not give a shit about us plebes.
Democrats should be doing press conferences every day with people hurt by Trump and his policies. Scientists, struggling people, the disabled, etc. Also with WWII veterans and Holocaust survivors who remember fascism. They should be telling peopleβs stories to humanize the damage.
If Gavin is so open minded, then why doesn't he learn how being trans works from actual trans people? But nah-- Gavin is "open minded" in that Two Dude-Bros One Podcast kind of way. #sigh
The "T" in LGBT has been there the *whole* time. If you, Gavin, and others didn't pay any attention to it this whole time, that's on you. It is only now that it's been turned into a political issue by the right that you say these things. Fuck Newsom.
Congress decided this Crossfit Playspace for unemployable bigots was more important to fund than AIDS cures, solar energy investment, and Medicaid combined. #neverforget
This is not sexual assault. This is trans panic. This woman now has to register as a sex offender because she lied to a man about her genitals, even though her genitals were in no way involved in the situation.
Idk how the law feels about it. But the way I feel about it is: as long as you're really, really sure they're a nazi, carve away! It would be really nice if we could just know who they are *forever*. Far too many Nazis were allowed to trickle back into regular society. Far too many.
General strike is the most peaceful (and it won't be) way through this. We have to take their power away. The alternative will be unthinkable.
Spell out messages with burning trash cans...
Did you check to see if the crime rate is as high as citizens think it is? Or did you just.. not consider that point?
Folks, I'm going to say this once. You can freely and openly condemn Netanyahu and his cartel of war criminals and neofascists without being labelled "anti-Semitic". Don't let them tar you with that particular brush. That's the last refuge of these scoundrels, and it's not working any longer.
Wow. Did Denmark feel left out of being called evil? More eugenics again. Always eugenics. It's almost as if eugenics was a poisonous ideology rather than any kind of legit science.
I know thereβs an impulse to write off red states but what is needed for turning this around is the exact opposite: the coordinated strengthening and support for the liberal/progressive/pro-democracy leaders within those states, like what weβve seen re: the redistricting fight.
Co-signed.
I need Democratic online types to understand that because of this, Newsom is dead to me. Dead. I'd sooner vote for an actual corpse. There is no hope, none, that he'll win me over, *because he has established he is a bad person*. There's no coming back from this. Take my advice and move the fuck on.
DC police are now harrasssing people on metro bus stops. This is Fascism.
That is most high level politicians most of the time regardless of party. *That* is what got us to *here* is people like Newsom. I like Newsom's anti-Trump stuff. But I cannot abide/excuse Newsom's anti-trans bullshit. Unfortunately a lot of so-called democrats are going to genuflect for Newsom.
Texas Republicans are forcing a vote on their rigged election maps. If they knew they could win the election β they wouldnβt be stealing 5 congressional seats. This is a blatant, racist power grab.
It's not true, actually. Gavin Newsom does not support trans peoples' continued existence.
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Trans rights are human rights, Gavin.
Governor Abbott just said heβs got βbullets in his beltβ that heβs ready to use against Texas Democrats. As a prosecutor, Iβve had criminals threaten my life. I never thought Iβd see the day that the Governor of Texas threatens my life. Governor Abbott, retract your statement.
Look I hate to bring this up, but Abbott started it. I wouldn't be *that* worried about Abbot in an actual gun fight--I doubt he has much maneuverability. He's going to struggle to be able to find and stay in cover. So maybe Abbott should not be proposing life-or-death contests in the first place
Having children has a regret rate of 7%. A tattoo? Regret rate of 16.2%. Breast implants for cis women have a regret rate of up to 9%. Bariatric surgery has a regret rate of 19.5%. Regret after trans surgeries is less than 1%. Will he be running on a platform of no breast augmentation till 30?
hey the know your enemy episode i was on is unlocked from behind the paywall!! in honor of dobson's death open.spotify.com/episode/05dp...
Seriously, I don't care if he's posting bangers, trolling MAGA and Trump on Twitter. My right to exist (along with the rights of all my transgender kin) is non-negotiable. Fuck off Gavin, you elitist shithead politician. This is why my support for the Democrat party is waning, so many like him...
Pam Bondi swore this would never happen.
π₯ STEWART: βThis is the lie they tell you β that all this money flowing towards corporate interests is actually for YOUR benefitβ¦. That government intervention for corporations is our βFREE MARKETβ, but government intervention for workers is βSOCIALISMβ.
This isnβt education, itβs indoctrination. The Trump administration gutted PBS and NPR not to save money, but to control the narrative. In their place, PragerU is moving into more classrooms. Already in Florida, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Idaho schools.
PragerU shouldn't be in *any* classrooms. *Ever*. It's not real education. It's just straight up propagandistic right wing indoctrination.
I can't repost this a billion times. sad
re "democracy built on exclusion of any group ... is not democracy at all": I agree. This does point to an inherent flaw though-- democracy often implies the conecpt of citizenship. And the whole point of citizenship *seems to be* to create a class of people whose rights don't matter to the gov'ment
is ignored or neglected. If democracy requires sacrificing the weakest, it is a loss before it is a victory. The truth is simple and clear: either we all survive, or none of us do
Hi, I'm Andrew Cuomo. I'm sorry I groped your mom and killed your grandma, but if you give me a fifteenth chance, I promise to throw you out of your apartment.