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A DOGE kid gets beat up in DC and it’s DefCon1; hundreds of bullets into federal buildings with officer killed in Atlanta and it’s crickets; violent mob attacks Capitol wounding dozens of officers and it’s pardons for all.

Because remember, to the Moral Crusaders, being a good person or bad person is ontologically innate, not a result of actions.

Add in racism, and they quickly conclude that Black people equals crime, and any lack of laws actually being broken is just a technicality or loophole to them, a trick.

She said, as her own spiritual life is blooming to cope with the fear that she isn't going to survive America's descent into (even more) open (than usual) fascism

See also: the explosion of religious fundamentalism in post-civil war America. Or Rome's inability to erase nascent Christianity, for that matter. Mysticism thrives when people lose hope in the material world

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The push to entrench AI in businesses, the government, schools, etc is a desperate tactic to get as many systems as possible dependent on the technology so when it inevitably break down the business model will shift charging for repair and maintenance because it will be “too big to fail.”

bragging about being a giant pussy is integral to the conservative mindset

Scams And Bribery Are Becoming the Foundation of Our Economy It's bad and you should be alarmed.

The mainstreaming of crypto, the funneling of retirement money into scam assets, the disinterest in concealing direct bribery to our government leaders--these things are symptoms of a newly manic, predatory approach that will cause incredible economic damage.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/scams-and-...

The #1 thing that blows my mind about how most people use LLMs: they believe if they ask the LLM a question about how it works or how accurate it is, the LLM will truthfully answer them.

I have seen SO many seemingly-smart people do this.

I just realised I actually know myself significantly better than I used to. It just feels like less because the truth is way more confusing than the things I thought I knew

There seems to be a tipping point where someone devotes themselves to becoming a subject matter expert on one topic that they don't have the time or interest to round out their picture of the universe. I used to see this in my professors when I was in college.

Oh, they definitely weren't going to listen to us, and McBride's probably very silly for thinking she can sign the devil's bargain and have some kind of protection as one of the good ones

candidate 1: i will kill you and your family

candidate 2: i will only kill half of your family, and maybe not you

candidate 3: I won't kill anybody, what the hell, that's so fucked up

Too many of you: Candidate 3 will just take votes from candidate 2, who we must elect to save democracy

decades of ableist cyberpunk warning us that prosthetics that assist mobility and perception would drive people to cyberpsychosis but instead it's just people with smartphones going insane because they were affirmed by robot texts a little too much into fully detaching from reality

Each time Altman or one of the other fashy sex pest billionaire dipshits sew another digital hypeman to the centipede, what comes out is even more wildly meaningless *absolute fucking nonsense*

It literally can't help but be, that's what it *means* to output the statistically most similar text.

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Ender's Game and Full Metal Jacket are both older but influential works about the military breaking down a recruit's personality for utilitarian reasons

The full moon always brings the debate fetishists out

My HRT provider would not stop bugging me about letting him prescribe minoxidil for my hairline until I reminded him of Persis Khambatta in Star Trek: The Motion Picture

I outlasted the Science Fiction Book Club. I'll outlast them all!

We're all here for the blink of an eye, but what we do has ripple effects in the lives of those around us. That includes you. You're worth it.

What I'm turned on by veers so sharply between several distinct and discernibly different modes that I'm starting to wonder. Even my kinks change.

If there's a term for someone who experiences fluidity in their sexual orientation, I wish I knew it, so I could find others like me and compare notes

So were a lot of the gay rights advocates who lobbied, wined, and dined him. Gay advocates like John Aravosis were mortified that trans people (especially trans women) were associated with the movement, and blogged that we were holding respectable gay men like him back in the fight for rights

My most evil playthrough might be my SWTOR Bounty Hunter who always carried out a contract to the letter, no more, no less. A light side playthrough of that class story requires you to be the most unreliable POS ever, constantly letting targets go and then lying to employers to collect the rewards

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LOST BOYS

David flew so Spike could soar:

NewWire tweets: "Americans set to pay more for cars, coffee, adn clothing as average U.S. tariff rate jumps to high not seen since Great Depression — WaPo"

this is crazy bc some of you need new clothes

That the party is run by people for whom 1992 might as well have been yesterday is a neat encapsulation of what needs to change

This changes everything!

Really striking how Mamdani’s campaign is rooted in joy and a deep love for New York City while Cuomo and Adams are running on how much the city sucks

Everything I needed to know about spanking, I learned when my parents stopped because they couldn't get me to cry anymore

Just dance. If you dont know what to do just do the npc dance animations from vampire the masquerade bloodlines.