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You shouldn’t be charged more based on who you are ACTION: Let's ban surveillance pricing!

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hailey @hailey.at if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that

i think it’s actually completely okay to say an algorithm is not a real person

Trump Jr. dismisses crypto conflicts of interest, says dad’s not checking blockchain ledgers Donald Trump Jr. and Zach Witkoff dismissed concerns regarding the project's political ties as "complete nonsense," at a major crypto event in Singapore.

We can either believe this, or we can pass legislation that tackles these real and serious conflicts of interest.

I'm opting for the legislation.

you ever wake up just feeling devastatingly sad? haha me neither, no, uh, that was weird idk why i asked. so nice weather huh

Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. You will know them by their fruits.

—Matthew 7

I would love for a single democrat to reckon with the fact that conservatives are not in fact motivated by reasonable concerns. They are — just as they were with ‘concerns’ over blacks and gays and numerous other minorities over the last five decades — motivated by bigotry.

Remember: If it turns out he’s a leftist, that indicates a pervasive problem of violence on the left. If it turns out he’s a groyper, that means nothing whatsoever and he will disappear from the news cycle immediately.

Charlie Kirk was a white supremacist who pushed the racist Great Replacement Theory. Kirk was vociferously anti-LGBTQ. Kirk's final words were to besmirch Black people.

Stop this revisionism. People who say bad things don't deserve to be murdered, but they also don't deserve to be praised either.

I've made a note!

Yeah, I think we're on the same page. And Vermont sounds lovely - we have family in PA and I hope to visit more of that region in the future.

I haven't studied the list, mostly because "Blues support Reds" isn't an argument I find helpful anyway. I just meant to say that in that argument, Vermont alone isn't exactly a big player - it has a low population and GDP is a gross measurement, not a per capita measurement.

Vermont has like eight people in it.

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This is an absolutely deranged thing to say about a proponent of political violence and unfettered gun access who died from getting shot.

if u do not have anything nice to say well sometimes u are not wrong

Higher Ed Has a Bigger Problem Than Trump Universities should see the president’s interventions as a wake-up call, not the root of their troubles. By E. Thomas Finan

Universities can begin to assuage this skepticism by committing to addressing America’s biggest problems, starting with polarization. American colleges must become a venue for the frank but charitable exchange of ideas. College is not simply a debating society, yet many schools risk stifling dialogue, even if unintentionally. A recent study of University of Michigan and Northwestern University students by the psychology researchers Kevin Waldman and Forest Romm found that 72 percent reported self-censoring their political beliefs. Perhaps more troubling, 82 percent had turned in work that misrepresented their beliefs “to align with a professor’s expectations.” Such pervasive self-censorship not only undercuts universities’ academic mission—it also validates the widespread suspicion that campuses replicate bias instead of challenging it.

Students being progressive is not a bigger problem than a sustained assault by an authoritarian president, please get a grip
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.

I see
and I hear
and I speak no evil;
I carry
no malice
within my breast;
yet quite without
wishing
a man to the Devil
one may be
permitted
to hope for the best.

-“An Ethical Grook” by Piet Hein

When someone started tampering with Tylenol bottles in 1982 the company recalled $100 million worth of bottles immediately even though they clearly weren't at fault

We are a really big country, with lots of regional chains.

So pleased my college dropped their “Crusaders” team name. Unfortunately my high school hasn’t (yet - hope remains).

"The govt is being run by 20 year old nazi dead eyed sociopaths" is a thing that makes you sound like a lunatic to normies but is 100% true

oh god this is 100% correct, I didn't even realize, they violently pushed this guy into the driveway to use his presence there to justify the tear gas/crowd dispersal, and beat the shit out of him for obstructing the driveway. christ

Oh hey who wants a retelling of Sherlock Holmes where Holmes is an abrasive female scholar and Watson is a traumatized sentient spaceship who ekes out a living by making space tea?
Nebula Award Winning book right here, and on sale!

The problem isn't that transphobic parents are being ignored, it's that they're *lying about basic facts.* This is the dynamic on nearly every issue of public interest, from guns to climate change to economics.

"The bigots are lying again" is a fucking great message for democrats and it's true.

orange cat lying on floor with square lights reflected on his flank that resembles lit windows

live action catbus looking pretty sweet

Someone on here said that videogames offer a fantasy of predictable rewards for one's work, which in real life might not be rewarded at all. I think about it a lot!

[putting dishes in the dishwasher] get lost, suckers

[now that the dishes are clean] oh no, they’re back

Yes, you’re right here. The impulse to draw someone you care about away from something you believe harms them and others - that’s a good impulse! It’s honorable and brave to try! But evangelicals aren’t living in the same reality as the rest of us, and I don’t know what can be done about that.