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Pete Buttigieg Doubles Down on Comments About the “Fairness” of Trans People in Sports “I think in order to bring people together on this, we also have to take everyone seriously."

Yeah, I'm never voting for Buttigieg even if he's the nominee. This is a bright line for me. You cave on trans issues and lend credence to bigots, it's over. I'm not letting the Dems go down the path of Labour.

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This feels like a Japanese counterpart to the Citroen Ami, another delightful tiny car.

Agree here too, I stopped using Amazon but my partner can only find some of her necessary supplements there and nowhere else (since Amazon has gobbled up so many smaller storefronts), so we minimize but we can't fully quit, and I'm OK with that.

Wholeheartedly agree.

The Windows 10 deprecation makes this a bit of a freebie. If you can tolerate Linux on a desktop or laptop, Windows 10 -> Linux seems like a reasonable transition. I'm going to try it in September and see how it goes.

In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen As a restaurant owner – I’m astounded at the rate of progress since microwaves were released a few short years ago. Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s m…

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it has been said over and over but it’s worth reiterating in the face of this horrifying decision: RFK is quite literally joining the war on cancer on the side of cancer

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”

Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.

Thats not to say there haven't been growing pains. When a great steak comes out of the microwave I get really excited. But more than half the steaks that come out of the microwave get sent back by the customer. To solve this problem I now run ten microwaves in parallel cooking ten steaks. One out of the ten steaks will most likely be good. The number of microwaves has required me to upgrade my restaurant's electrical system and I now have a small nuclear reactor installed in the parking lot.

AI is the new microwave.

Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate

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Mary Shelley doesn't get enough credit for not only anticipating the silver-spooned narcissist techbro who recklessly creates technology without thinking through the consequences, but also for knowing that said techbro would be an absolutely terrible father.

New post: This Electric Car BREAKTHROUGH Could Change How We Make Motors! https://www.transportevolved.com/2025/08/05/metal-free-motor-windings-more-powerful-lighter-and-lower-carbon/

So Long to Tech’s Dream Job

@greyoctagon.bsky.social and I spoke to @kateconger.com about the bottoms-up to top-down culture change at Google, and how executives are using the threat of job loss to force us to work on AI that they intend to use to replace our jobs.

(it's not ready yet! but that future is coming.)

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Opposition Party Decides to Oppose Today on TAP: Democrats are fighting in Washington and Austin, denying quick victories to authoritarians.

-Schumer wouldn't advance Trump noms without an end to illegal withholding of federal funds,so Senate Rs left town
-Trump couldn't do recess appointments because House Dems would force an Epstein vote if Rs returned to adjourn
-Texas Dems fled the state to deny Rs a quorum
Is our Democrats learning?

What's going on with Trump's economy?

- Inflation is up.
- People are worried about finding a job.
- Groceries are getting more expensive.

No matter how hard he tries, Trump can’t distract from his broken promise to lower costs on “Day One.”

ELIZABETH WARREN: What Zohran is saying is 'I want people to be able to afford to live in NYC'

FABER: But raising taxes in order to do it?

WARREN: Oh my goodness! Oh dear! Are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry?

I think really the story of the past ten years was people taking for granted 21st century liberalism was locked in and therefore you could just kinda be fashy for a laugh only to realize a moment too late Skinhead Steve wasn’t joking after all.

Miami Jury Finds Tesla Liable For Deadly Crash — Awards $329 Million In Damages - CleanTechnica A jury in Miami has awarded punitive damages on a wrongful death action against Tesla but the money may be the least of Tesla's worries.

Miami Jury Finds Tesla Liable For Deadly Crash — Awards $329 Million In Damages

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If I huff fumes and gaze into the void I can *create* meaning out of this.

- It *is* wild that "larp your culture for tourism $$" is an industry as old as original recipe Rome.

- It *is* fucked up that the gulf states seem to spend most of their money building ever-larger malls with slave labor.

me in college: why do I have to read so much fucking baudrillard. semiotics is a goofy discipline.

me now: *sigh* fine, fine, the simulacrum really is the truth which conceals that there is no truth. I GUESS.

ghost of baudrillard: hon hon hon now are you ready to talk about the hyperreal?

Guy just escaping plato's cave: Man, it sucks out here, there are hardly any shadows cast on walls. Being outdoors and looking at things directly is woman-coded now, all my bros prefer looking at the cave shadows of Real Countries.

You won’t regret being kind.

Even if no one notices.

Even if it’s hard.

You’ll still know you did the right thing.

When the cryptocurrency entrepreneur Eric Schiermeyer heard that President Trump was holding small group dinners with major donors, he saw opportunity. Mr. Schiermeyer reached out to a lobbyist with connections in Mr. Trump’s orbit, who arranged for him to attend a dinner with the president at his private Mar-a-Lago club on March 1 in exchange for donations to a pro-Trump PAC called MAGA Inc. totaling $1 million. The personal and corporate donations were among dozens of seven- and eight-figure contributions to MAGA Inc. from crypto and other interests revealed in a campaign finance filing on Thursday night that hinted at the access Mr. Trump accords those willing to pay. At the dinner, Mr. Schiermeyer, who had never given a federal political donation before, presented an idea for a cryptocurrency called “U.S.A. Token” that would be distributed to every citizen, according to interviews and a flier he distributed to attendees that sets out details of the proposal. He hoped it could be su

Cryptocurrency interests, which have benefited from the Trump administration’s dismantling of a yearslong government crackdown and from the Trump family’s financial interest in the industry, appear to have been the most generous industry, accounting for nearly $45 million in donations to MAGA Inc.An affiliate of the exchange Crypto.com gave $10 million, while the crypto services company Blockchain.com donated $5 million. The venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, who are heavily invested in crypto, gave $3 million each. Ondo Finance, which has a partnership with the Trump family’s crypto company, donated $2.1 million to MAGA Inc., on top of $1 million to Mr. Trump’s inauguration.

The scale of Trump's pay-for-access scheme outlined by the @nytimes.com is mindblowing. Crypto contributions resulting in business deals with the Trump family crypto businesses, oil companies buying influence and later reaping benefits from friendly policies, and a $1 million pardon.

Just one more minority group bro. Bro just one more. Just one more then we can win bro. Just sacrifice one more minority group bro. Then we'll totally win.

EVgo set to borrow up to a $300 million to build 1,500 new DC fast chargers EVgo has secured a massive, $225 million loan facility with five commercial banks in a bid to accelerate its expansion plans and add more than 1,500 new DC fast chargers to America’s EV charging landscape – and they have an option to borrow even more! more…

EVgo set to borrow up to a $300 million to build 1,500 new DC fast chargers

surely computer wouldn’t just make something up!

*putting finger to ear*

I am receiving some new information

cornell pending.

so much for the bold independent liberalism of the academe.

i was an academic track physicist in my first life. this stings.

*Sees 10,000th post about the male loneliness epidemic*
Oh, you mean how men tend to have more trouble maintaining emotional bonds with non-romantic partners, and it frequently leaves them socially disconnected? Yeah, that's a persistent soft-skills problem that I encounter a lot.

*opens link*
Ah.