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Part of it is possibly dumber than that, due to the whole 6-7 meme

A lot people who think themselves consequentialists are actually deontologists, and vice versa, which is why these conversations are so painful

One thing I love about Reddit is that in my subreddits I’ve been exposed to none of this

I would melt it down to makes fillings for multiple orphans but I guess giving one orphan something decorative is good too

To the extent this is true it should never become accepted wisdom or be spoken aloud by dem politicians, they still need to act like people are persuadable

Would be amazing if the left had the power to sway national elections in the way some people think they do

Tried to put some numbers to this a year ago and yes the left is very small and has little influence (in my mind, unfortunately). People who spend a lot of time perseverating on how the left are wreckers do so because they get satisfaction from that narrative.

No Democratic nominee since Gore (and that was only with an exceptionally razor-thin margin) has lost enough votes on their left flank to account for the margin of defeat. Which makes it both an empty threat and pointless to blame or argue with such people.

‘Let’s hypothetically pretend one of the worst candidates wins the nomination and then force people to say whether they vote for him’

How about let’s not

How much is that, $47, $57?

Some variation of this seems true and it’s why protestations that Biden’s economic policies were the best in generations, but he didn’t get credit, are uncompelling. Yes they were good, but were happening against a backdrop of societal turmoil and we can’t separate the two as some would want.

In The State of the Art when trying to decide whether to bring Earth into the Culture the answer is quickly ‘lol, no’ and more time is spent on whether to leave the planet be or just blow it up. Not quite dark forest theory: we’re simply too stupid for advanced civs to bother contacting.

True and if we accept this as our starting point what has the most likelihood of breaking through is histrionics and dems are allergic to that type of communication

When there are things you don’t like in the sky:

Right conspiracists: chemtrails:: Left conspiracists: tall buildings

We do this every four years and every four years people who should know better act like they were born yesterday and don’t know what’s going on

People break road rules in ways that make driving more dangerous and mostly we accept that so I don’t know why doing the same in a way that makes it safer requires special condemnation

Right on red is particularly dangerous to peds and cyclists so a growing number of people won’t ever do it

Recently learned that my teens use Reddit as a complete replacement for google search

Peter • @notalawyer.bsky.social • 2h a seafood aversion is also outrageous Larry Juana @dylpickles626.bsky.so... I know one person with a legitimate reason to have a seafood aversion (He was duct taped to a chair and force fed anchovies until he threw up as a child) but for everyone else it's fucking bogus. 6:22 PM • Feb 12, 2026

POV you’re riffing on bluesky

I do this to my VP at work, it’s my passive aggressive way of communicating that her email should have been a teams message

Do the twitter talking heads go on threads to give lectures like ‘the thing Threads needs to understand…’ the way they do with this place?

Incredible how much attention Bluesky gets in the discourse when Threads is right there being much bigger and exponentially more cuckoo

Interesting! All of the other sliding sports I’m like, wow they’re going fast, but this one is like, they’re going to fly off the track and kill themselves

Is it just going head first that makes this seem so much more chaotic than luge or is there something else going on

Part of a broader problem where so many dems seem to not believe that we can’t shape public opinion, that we can only respond to those with the power to do so

Colorectal cancer kills more young people with cancer than any other type and rates are rising so broad access to Cologuard would be a good first step

Genuinely think watts should revise and rerelease it because it’s a great concept but pretty terribly written

Why are we getting all of these lectures on the proper AI stance all of a sudden? Like do these people realize that what leftists on a niche micro blogging site think isn’t influential in driving AI policy/consensus in any way shape or form

One reason we should encourage kids to explore this early is because having even a small amount of resolution of identity frees up space for them to go out and fully engage in the world as adults. Being forced into an open-ended identity limbo is a huge mental/emotional tax on the human experience.

And without having the typical noticeable surgery face. Hate this lady but she should drop her routine