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17.10.2025 00:40 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The mayor of New York shouldn't be commenting on Israel. That's the mayor of Israel's job.
16.10.2025 23:19 โ ๐ 277 ๐ 14 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 0there are so many trans women in my hema club lol
16.10.2025 21:34 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0its gonna be some mafia shit. breaking knees if they dont lower the prices type shit
16.10.2025 21:31 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0i reckon they dont have much self awareness. on account of owning the cybertruck and all
16.10.2025 21:29 โ ๐ 12 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0*Talking to a Wired reporter who is writing down what I say* I am the proud owner of a Cybertruck, it has an AI in it that I talk to for therapy, I am now divorced and yes it's because of the truck
16.10.2025 21:14 โ ๐ 1850 ๐ 245 ๐ฌ 48 ๐ 12Trial shows that ICE agents lied, concealed evidence in an illegal effort to convict the "libtard" who filmed them.
16.10.2025 20:22 โ ๐ 1959 ๐ 672 ๐ฌ 39 ๐ 44Alexandria Ocasio Cortez 80000 60000 40000 20000 0 Bernie Sanders 200000 Number of Donations 150000 100000 50000 Elizabeth Warren 60000 40000 20000 01 25 50 Donor Age 75
Hakeem Jeffries 40000 30000 20000 10000 Nancy Pelosi 100000 Number of Donations 75000 50000 25000 Suzan DelBene 2000 1500 1000 500 25 50 75 Donor Age
AOC has just officially become the top House fundraiser, beating out Hakeem Jeffries. Now lemme take a big sip of coffee as I look at the age distribution of donors to AOC vs Jeffries
16.10.2025 20:50 โ ๐ 7205 ๐ 1542 ๐ฌ 200 ๐ 126like the reasons why state capacity declines are legion, but the thing is that you kinda don't want to deliberately do it to yourself
Anyway when Margaret Thatcher was elected she deliberately began hacking at the state's capacity to govern like a slasher movie villain
I dont buy into "this one variable explains everything" but also this one variable kinda explains everything
16.10.2025 21:12 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0case studies for collapse of state capacity: The Western Roman Empire, Late Qing China, The breakup of the Soviet Union, The UK after Thatcher
16.10.2025 21:12 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Britain simply could not afford so much reckless spending on youth clubs
16.10.2025 21:03 โ ๐ 55 ๐ 16 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0[Spongebob narrator voice] One Day Later....
16.10.2025 21:07 โ ๐ 99 ๐ 17 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0there's a way you can import your archive, with the correct timestamps and everything
16.10.2025 20:03 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1I have gathered my thoughts and turned it into a fun blog about how IMDb is hell. I hope you like a long, under-explained list of movie ratings. aftermath.site/imdb-review-...
16.10.2025 18:43 โ ๐ 432 ๐ 78 ๐ฌ 39 ๐ 34an AI datacenter built in a town in Ohio doesn't affect the water usage in, idk, Rome, but it absolutely affects the Ohio town's residents
16.10.2025 17:08 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0like industrial manufacturing plants are built *where there is infrastructure built for industrial manufacturing*, whereas data centers are built where they can parasitise residential infrastructure, or further exploit dwindling groundwater reserves
16.10.2025 17:08 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0the problem with data center water usage is that they exist in physical places and place an outsized amount of stress on local infrastructure, or have been built in places that are already water scarce
16.10.2025 17:08 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 01. those are objects with actual utility
2. water is a localised issue, and equating globalised supply chains like smartphones or textiles to localised data centers is a category error
Ryan Horath @therealrthorat X.com But no one was blowing up Nazi Germany with suicide bombs or firing rockets into their territory. The difference here are the actual facts, a concept you seem unfamiliar with.
If you can guess what this guy is defending I'll give you a gold star
16.10.2025 16:46 โ ๐ 272 ๐ 29 ๐ฌ 22 ๐ 2in the annals of silicon valley startup pivots, "ok, fine, you can fuck the superintelligence" is one of the very funniest
16.10.2025 12:43 โ ๐ 922 ๐ 174 ๐ฌ 15 ๐ 5Then there's Russ Taylor. "It's just a vehicle. So it's ironic that it would even become a political statement."
(Editor's note: Taylor was plead guilty to conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding in the January 6 attack. He was later pardoned by Trump.)
www.wired.com/story/owning...
the way you draw the lighting
16.10.2025 14:10 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Iโve gone to two protests in Oceanside, just south of Camp Pendleton, this year.
The signs made by vets were often the most blunt, like this one from April:
am not sure at what point the rest of the world formally acknowledges the sheer level of heresy. and heresy not in the sense of 'christian doctrine' but 'heretic to any generic abrahamic religion'
16.10.2025 13:56 โ ๐ 126 ๐ 14 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 0i can understand why this is not done but ngl there is very little "christian" left about US christianity
16.10.2025 13:55 โ ๐ 274 ๐ 36 ๐ฌ 12 ๐ 1The short story is that there was a RW doxxing ring, they flew too close to the sun, got banned, Elon reinstated them personally, and now people are moving off platform. Also they are killing monetisation of accounts, and adding mandatory tags showing where a poster is posting from
16.10.2025 14:01 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Musk did something dumb on twitter again
16.10.2025 14:00 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0