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Respiration is a kind of stupid system when you think about it

They can only activate if you verbally doubt them.

Shaw!

Just tying to tee up favorable sounding soundbytes. The goal is for him to sound respectful, professional and transparent while being grilled by a shrieking liberal sjw antifa muslim communist atheist.

Personally I don't think it's really landing and it makes him sound evasive, but what do I know.

Trump tapped white nationalist Jeremy Carl for Assistant Secretary of State for International Orgs.

He called the Civil Rights Act an “anti-white weapon,” pushed the “great replacement,” called Juneteenth a “race hustle,” and compared J6 defendants to Black defendants in Jim Crow trials.
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It's on my list, I'll get to it when I get to it.

I was listening to older episodes of a video game podcast that really never touched on political stuff in the past, and it's weird hearing when the "Hey I'm kind of worried about real things that just happened haha" started to seep in.

I love Fight Club because it's an interesting exploration of how frustrated young men can be manipulated, that even relatively privileged people can feel repression under capitalism, and power is directly tied to the monopoly on violence.

And I also have to pry if it's someone's favorite movie.

Agent: These guys were all threatening us yesterday with hand guns.
...
Agent: *Hand* guns, like threatening to shoot us.

Reporter: You mean like with hand symbols?

A: Pulling them out, trying to engage us.

R: Pulling out literal guns?

A: No. Making... assuming we were going to do something.

People are saying op but to be honest this could just be a well-meaning but poorly thought out attempt to accommodate people who are sensitive to loud noises.

It is a bad idea and reduces effectiveness, but it probably is coming from a place of trying to care for someone.

The Disordered Cosmos From a star theoretical physicist, “a love letter to the wonderous universe we call home, and an urge to think critically about how we explore its dept...

I didn't know that people had stopped understanding that actually asshole physicists do solid scientific work all the time and have for centuries

Newton was a complete shithead

Anyway I wrote a book about how physicists have often displayed very bad values and it doesn't need to be that way

Loved this book. I read it when I was feeling down about my love of space being hijacked by capitalist tech bros and really needed a fresh perspective on scientific achievement to keep my interest alive.

Every strategy I've used to win a game is a strategy I've lost to before. It can be kinda fun to lose to someone experienced like that.

Naming someone is not doxxing. They aren’t undercover. They aren’t intelligence agents overseas. This is outrageous - we are supposed to be a free Republic and these people want an authoritarian police state. Lawsuits should be filed & ranking Dems in Congress should act.

Detention of 5-Year-Old by Federal Agents Incenses Minneapolis

"Liam, age 5, was the fourth child in the district to be detained by immigration agents in the past two weeks, school officials said.

"Two of them are high-schoolers.

"One is a 10-year-old girl who was apprehended on her way to school..."

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

"He drooled on himself, presumably a reference to earlier foreign policy blunders by then-President Obama"

"America is so big and [country America wants to mess with] is so small. They can't possibly win against us"

- American foreign policy for the last 70 years

There's an element of it being fairly acceptable entertainment for a kid.

Watching TV, playing games, even reading some books could open yourself up to criticism from adults. Newspaper comics were easily obtainable and adults were unlikely to scold you for it.

I'm also burnt out with the whole "Hey let's soften the messaging and then take action when we can" because the take action part never seems to come when we do that.

Wait I thought if protesters wanted to gain credibility they had to start flying more American flags at demonstrations and focusing on American issues

ICE agents pull up to a person walking down a sidewalk in Minnesota, and pepper spray them in the face. This is the fascist dictatorship we all warned you about.

I also like how it turns into a question on the efficacy of protests when you tell them you did, in fact, go into the streets in an attempt to fix it.

I'd watch it as a surrealist sci-fi buddy cop movie.

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people

really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

I'm not doomscrolling I'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom in there.

The “tornado” inside the tornado?🤔

Check out this inner vortex that twists and churns inside the main circulation! These can be VIOLENT🌪️
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