I really need folks to stop acting like disability is full of people “scamming” the system.

The average person has no idea how hard it is to qualify. How dehumanizing the process can be. How much you have to sacrifice & give up.

It’s designed to make you quit.

How fast you’ll go from seeing friends 3-5 times a week to almost never will shock you. Enjoy it while it’s easy. And be sure to be proactive about this as you age— send happy birthday texts, nudge people to get coffee etc because it gets lonely very quickly!

it’s not a net loss. it’s the cost of a service.

I don’t have a net loss with hulu. it costs something and I pay it.

In the 1950s, polling on interracial marriage was at 4% approval in the United States. Loving v. Virginia is 1967. We hit an above 50% approval rating for the first time in the 1990s. In 2021, 94% of Americans approved of interracial marriage.

I feel like capitalism being the driving force for the development of AI is like trying to grow a fruit tree from poisoned soil.

if you use ai to speak for me from beyond the grave i will haunt your ass for all eternity that is my solemn vow

It's darkly funny how little attention the masked secret police receive. Last year it seemed that the chattering class would never shut up about masked undergraduates. Perhaps they saw the encampments as more of a threat to their interests than the jackboots?

um hey if you liked rollerdrome but left a negative review because they shut the studio

thanks for your support! it means a lot!

but also, if you want more r7 quality games -

PLEASE CHANGE YOUR REVIEW TO POSITIVE

publishers see bad reviews and that's a dealbreaker? peeps can't get funded :(

im beginning to think its a bad idea for america to antagonize its allies while at the same time completely isolating us from the rest of the world both economically and militarily for no real reason and with no stated goal

now? like, just now? they're just racist now recently?

Your honor, that is the face of an innocent man!

eight leatherbound books all titled "FERNS" volumes 1 through 8

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

you need some schemes bro. bro it’s time to start plotting. you need some machinations. some mackies bro

its so funny how economists will be like noooo its not fair china keeps reinvesting its wealth back into its economies instead of giving it all to like 20 guys, thats cheating 😭

A list of bad-news headlines wrapped up with an Atlantic article headlined “Why are young people everywhere so unhappy?”

I don’t know man, what could it possibly be?

Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.

an under discussed aspect of the “birth rate decline panic” is that young people keep voting for politicians and agendas that never win in america and feel like the world is doomed, while older generations keep reiterating that doom cycle and forcing agendas on younger generations that fuck us

I have a lot to say about the resurgent young men / masculinity discourse but for now will confine myself to:

I wish I knew how to convince teenage boys/young men is how little of the world actually requires or even invites the hypermisogynist "tough guy" aesthetic

this is legitimately evil

Video game prices are increasing

Here’s what you do…

• Play indies and AA games.

• Wait for a deep sale

• Emulate for free

• Focus on your backlog instead.

Don’t let the companies control you.

You are the boss with this 💵, it’s your tool. Use it wisely.

Polygon was a great constant to have over the years, they did a lot of quality work and held themselves to a really high standard. Very frustrating to see sharp people with solid, institutional knowledge get tossed out like this.

one thing that became especially clear to me while working at the cemetery is that the moment people stopped being able to remember polio and smallpox and getting e.coli from unregulated slaughterhouses within their lifetime, they immediately started disregarding the seriousness of them

I think people mostly just don't like the phrase "all art I political" because they think of politics in a very specific electoral way and not as a broad label for the conditions that shape our perspective, which funnily enough is very political

Class Warfare is when top 1% uses the media to instruct you that a slight tax increase on the top 1% is Class Warfare.

How come “shrinking government” always involves taking away school lunches and building 3,000 more prisons.

degrowth should probably start with mark zuckerberg’s $300,000,000 yacht and not like your cousin’s adderall

the disproportionate accumulation of wealth by a select few intensifies economic inequality and reinforces class domination. Even if wages or salaries experience moderate increases.

personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

So you’re saying we could solve all the financial problems of 379 million of us and impact just 19 households. What an interesting fact. Fun little bit of trivia.

A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here