Carl

honestly I’m impressed you’re managing to pin Murdoch’s rags existing as somehow being the left‘s fault

It’s also not going to work, like it didn’t with Mamdani

The organized attacks on Labour have worked because Labour cows to the attacks and changes their policy platform in response to them, rather than standing up for basic values.

Sometimes I see people in electric wheelchairs using bike lanes and I think it’s another great argument for building more bike lanes

If pedestrians got more sidewalk space I would care less, but we're already shoved off to narrow paths to make more space for cars

He would just start agreeing with the GOP that Bailey’s are domestic terrorists

Don’t get me wrong, I think the DSA needs a new cohort of FP thinkers but the funny part is… so does basically the entire literal dem establishment lol. Any criticism you may have of the IC, of which *many* are legitimate, falls a lot flatter these days when you look at what the dems have said/done!

If a Republican were able to pick who was the minority leader they would have chosen Chuck Schumer

got in an argument with this khaki wearing guy who had his pristine f150 parked all the way across a sidewalk (?) and in the course of the argument i asked ‘do you do a lot of backcountry driving in that thing’ and it upset him so bad he had to lock himself in his truck lmao

Damn NPR morphing into Trump state media too

NPR editorializing straight up news stories to soften the face of fascism is very bad too

When you have a rules-based order where you carve out exceptions to our values, eventually the exceptions become the rules.

European Parliament Votes Overwhelmingly For "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women" The resolution, though nonbinding, is a significant shot at those who seek to erode transgender rights on the continent.

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women."

Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration.

It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

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And yes, a cow’s brain is obviously capable of conciousness, and we have strong evidence capable of far more than we give them credit for. Because it has a brain and isn’t an algorithm

No, because a toddler is a human, living thing, not an algorithm.

Pretending an algorithm can have consciousness serves no one except the person who stands to make money off the algorithm

I think you're doing armchair philosophy in service of tech billionaires

And what is believing that a collection of code (again, written by humans, doing what humans TOLD it to do, which is all computer programming is) is capable of self-awareness in the same way a human is?

lmfao I'm not even religious! I just understand that humanity and the way we interact with the world and one another is far more complex than a computer algorithm, written by a people, can ever be. This is a glorified chatbot that might have some niche uses but it is not capable of consciousness

Yes, the human brain is infinitely superior to an algorithm, JFC people

Kids frantically pushing aside the new Pokemon and Mandalorian LEGO sets in Target to purchase the ANE MÆRSK container vessel

it's backwards. obama and biden conceded the republican framework of border obsession, sliding right and setting off a near-inevitable push to where we are today. once again the democrats triangulated themselves into becoming republicans, allowing republicans to publicly embrace explicit fascism.

It's actually very bad this guy either thinks or is pretending to think there are a plurality of elected Republicans that care about democracy

My "Legitimate Law Enforcement Agency" t-shirt has people asking questions answered by the t-shirt

I really need to write about why the two American "parties" are not, in fact, parties

So many people -- today, both communists and neoliberals -- get lost in the sauce because they don't understand that the Democratic Party is a left-of-center ballot line with a donation apparatus strapped on

I have two primary vehicles. One is an automobile, the other an e-bike.

Automobiles kill approximately 100 people a day in the US. E-bikes, fewer than 10 a year.

Guess which one has a speed limiter on it?

Hot take but a lot of opposition to “e-bikes” is just opposition to bikes in general. E-bikes are not quieter than acoustic bikes, when any bike is noisy it’s almost always noisy brakes or chain which apply to both types of bikes

I think it’s best to understand Axios as a PR laundering firm for dark money groups

I love it when someone reads something and makes up a different thing to get mad at. What the heck are you talking about?

Next time I’m climbing the hill into my neighborhood with two kids and groceries I’ll be sure to apologize for cheating