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also, one tends to wonder how many solar panels you could buy with what it cost to produce the OpenAI Sora sloptok thing

i think if the democrats had dug in their heels and said "this is the epstein shutdown. trump is starving the country because he doesn't want the epstein files to come out" they probably could have ended him. so it was very kind of them to not do that

Elon Musk: With Optimus, we might be able to stop putting people in prison. “If somebody's committed a crime, we might be able to provide a more humane form of containment of future crime. You now get a free Optimus, and it's just going to follow you around and stop you from doing crime. Other than that, you get to do anything; it's just going to stop you from committing crime. That's really it. You don't have to put people in prisons and stuff. It's pretty wild to think of all the possibilities, but I think it's clearly the future.” Tesla Shareholder Meeting, November 6,

in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said

fellas is it normal for a funding bill to waive the sovereign immunity of the united states government in the context of when senators are targets of federal investigation

anyway if dems think I'm gonna forget this shit in 5 months, they're wrong. if they think I'm gonna forget it in 5 years, they're wrong. they have fully convinced me that purging the party of these inept losers in the senate is more important than retaking the senate in the next election cycle

I am kind of sitting here mouth agape as I realize that the thing that really got eight Democrats to cave was a provision which provides backdoor criminal and civil immunity to them personally by making it functionally impossible to ever investigate the Senate

at this point, I kinda don’t know what else the Dems could do to tell anyone to the left of Biden to fuck off any harder than they already have and yet you still clamor to reform these people who hate your fucking guts and would be happy if you died

Incredible that the two things he works hardest on is starving children and blocking the Epstein files

THE SUPREME COURT AGREES YOUR CHILDREN SHOULD STARVE on billboards nationwide

"Why am I feeling so shitty lately? It doesn't make any sense."

Dude. You have seasonal affective disorder. It's November. This happens every fucking year.

Can both of you go outside

Just one of many struck by Poe’s law.

What the hell is “techist”

Won’t those people think of the poor sports broadcasting corporations

lot of iberals pleading that Obama Deported The Right Way (citation fucking needed there), but as always with these things, it's best to look at them in terms of continuity and escalation. What Trump is doing now, as baldly as he's doing it, is a continuation of already-existing perogatives

remember what we're fighting for: the ability for corporations to rape our land and people with zero consequence

“When they rob us of art and emotion, that leads us towards the aesthetics of fascism. In this film, all the sets are real, the decor is human-sized, there are painstakingly created miniatures... It’s there to remind us that art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go fuck itself!”

Max Dubler @maxdubler • 2/8/25 That old saw about how "good times make weak men" is true in the sense that stable times with material abundance create reactionaries who want to destroy the systems that protect them because they're too sheltered and stupid to understand that things can get meaningfully worse. Jason C & @jasonc_nc・2/8/25 I don't think a lot of people appreciate how much of their overall lifestyle and relative certainty is backstopped by a steady, boring stability of systems they don't understand or even realize exist. Q 24 L. 1.8K 15K Ill 399K 贝 ① Max Dubler @maxdubler True decadence looks like people who are three generations removed from the cultural memory of polio refusing to vaccinate their children against deadly communicable diseases because they don't like needles and don't think there will be any consequences, not queer dance parties.

one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it

I literally saw somebody comparing the White House demolition to 9/11 with the office “they’re the same picture” meme

Like holy shit I cannot imagine living in the mind of the average lib where cheeto man destroying building is just as bad as terrorist group killing thousands of innocents

Apocalypse World: Burned Over is kinder and much angrier The end of the world isn’t what it used to be. It might be better.

"The time for a softer, gentler Apocalypse World was gone."

Apocalypse World: Burned Over represents the complicated ways that both the Bakers and reality have changed since the original RPG's release.

the day that society at large understands that testosterone and estrogen are necessary hormones in your body regardless of your sex, and that hormone supplementation is a health question rather than a loaded emotional question, will be one of the greatest days in human history.

A map of the Lower 48 (plus a little bit of Mexico and Canada) with large rivers shown in blue. Text reads The Only Thin Blue Lines I respect are my local rivers and estuaries.

I guess I just don't understand like... if you don't consider being a nazi or transphobe dealbreakers in an elected official then what do you actually stand for

That’s called burying the lead

Destroying a historic building to make room for a lavish, gaudy ballroom is the same thing as US-military-induced radicalization creating a terror group which killed thousands of innocent people? What? No.

Weirdly it's always the leftists that have to be nice and make room for everyone. I've had plenty of No Kings supporters get mad at me for saying flag burning is a right and exercising it is not wrong and tell me I'm not "with them", but they're never told to stop purity testing

if i was camping and somebody came into my tent and started telling me that trans people don't deserve rights I'd toss their ass out into a ditch. what's the matter with you

mfs be like "you can't be purity testing we need a big tent" and the "purity test" is minorities objecting people who are trying to toss them out of the tent

the aws outage should be evidence that running half the internet on a single company's servers is a terrible idea but i fear nothing will change