RLBartlett

I signed up for Nebraska!!

Can anyone else help fill in the holes on the sheet?

No takers yet. Please consider donating to food bank organizations and local food banks if you can, even if you only have a little extra, even just $5. If you have enough to eat and just a couple dollars to spare, please help feed the less fortunate. Everyone has to eat.

Toxic positivity is exhausting. A lot of my friends have "uwu the horrors persist but we still need a little treat" energy that I appreciate though

I can’t stress this enough: you cannot understand politics without reading this paragraph about why there’s no such thing as a 1/3rd pound hamburger

"Following the jewel heist at The Louvre, Weiss suggested they interview Dan Brown."

Irresponsible journalism. Times of London contacted the wrong man for an interview, published it incorrectly, then accused the interviewee of being an impersonator

The interviewee stated he has already been recieving hatemail for having the same name, but now he has been publicly accused of lying

Here is a wiki page that might help you with understanding: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiar...

Food Bank Donations for eBooks With the government shutdown, thousands of Americans as government employees have no source of income right now, and millions are about to lose their SNAP benefits for November. This is a cruel game b...

If you are an author and you're offering a free eBook in exchange for a donation to a foodbank, please reach out to me to have yourself added.

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I think the fact it's harder and harder to opt out of having a fucking mediocre insensate program write for you is the most infuriating thing. It helps that like her I write longhand drafts, but having to disable things in Word or just ignore them is becoming annoying AF.

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

Speaking as a dude who has a yearly family reunion, "aunt" and "uncle" fill a role, what the fuck are you supposed to call all those other older people you're vaguely related to, do you think there's someone running around with an org chart saying who's a second cousin thrice removed or something

Thank you for teaching me the equivalent of asking a science teacher about magnets or asking a historian about primary sources.

While backing up family photos of my father in law - who died earlier this month - my husband's @dropbox.com account was disabled.

They claim the baby pictures he backed up are 'inappropriate material' aka violation of their tos.

1000s of family pics and all 3 of the novels he's written, gone.

Canada spends less per person on disability benefits than the US, has minimal RGI housing and has no SNAP program.
Poor disabled Canadians are kept in destitution 50% below the poverty line and pay market price for all their needs.
Direct Aid saves lives.
Solidarity with our cousins to the south.

Also obviously in the US the celebrities are the ones being deified which is weird and dangerous because they are not necessarily smarter or better than the rest of us.

People in the lower middle class are unable to save money for emergencies now and are at risk to be impoverished. The social safety net here is being deconstructed.

Not talking about the middle class in politics is making it disappear and causing more economic disparity.

The US uses the PEW research center to calculate average income. Middle class are people within a certain range of average. Journalists have been reporting on how the middle class is shrinking because more people in the US are becoming either impoverished or extremely wealthy.

The New York Post is owned by Lachlan Murdoch, solely because his daddy bought it and passed it on to him.

And it's backing Andrew Cuomo, a meathead whose whole career in politics stems from his daddy being good at it.

But *Mamdani* is the nepo baby, because his mom was a filmmaker? Sure.

I actually love that. The zebra was giving him a heads up.

I also like the headcannon that Doof is transmasc

I have a very bad feeling about this...

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im sorry you cant have food but we gave all our money to one guy who “invented” 2 day shipping and another thats promising robot butlers so you can see how our hands are tied

My mom got me into Trek when I was a kid and most Trek fans I know/ encounter are women. And the lead of my Star Trek show was a woman, as was the captain of the ship. So shut the fuck up.

That’s $500 million lost per day

A lot of that has to do with all the changes they had to make to the plot to reduce it to a 90 minute movie for Netflix producers. I'm hoping they plan to incorporate those ideas in the sequel but it would have probably solved a lot of its issues with the entire script.

viscous nuisance @slimefiend thinking abt the time i went to a planetarium and somebody booed when they showed earth

I think about this all the time

I will always remember a comment from someone who said her friend preferred “pregnant people,” because she’d been a pregnant teen, and she was very much not a woman then. Sure, you could say “pregnant women, girls, nonbinary people, trans men, and gender nonconforming people,” but why ? Be concise.

Did an OpenAI cofounder just pop the AI bubble? 'The models are not there' | Fortune Andrej Karpathy’s timeline for AGI is much slower than the consensus among Silicon Valley types.

Despite rapid advances in large language models (LLMs) over the past three years, founding member of OpenAI Andrej Karpathy argued AGI remains at least a decade away, and warned that many companies are exaggerating AI’s agentic capabilities. trib.al/aHujXnO

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak