SwampLizard

I guess everything makes sense if you see their goal as transitioning a relatively stable system is exploitation to several years of smashing and grabbing whatever they can, without caring what follows that

Kind of like how basic, accurate health data is important for anyone who wants to survive, and preserve their wealth-generating system in the cases of future pandemics. The GOP has negatively polarized itself against government functions so much that it’s now simply against functional government.

Dexerto @Dexerto Follow The world's oldest baby has been born from an embryo frozen in 1994 Thaddeus Daniel Pierce is over 30 years old despite being born July 26, 2025

this is the first baby legally able to buy liquor & weed

Due to a loophole in the law, it’s legal to fight this baby.

I saw an article about people using AI to grieve by generating fake versions of their loved ones, and it seems like that could very easily go very wrong. Brave new world out there

Also, putting fake quotes from an AI generated face is indistinguishable to me from photoshopping an image, even with a disclaimer, in order to make one’s “message stand out”—antithetical to photo/video journalism, just in principle.

Not going to tell people how to grieve, but if I were in Acosta’s shoes I’d advise them that I couldn’t think of a better what to put people off the message that I assume they’re trying to send

Things are so beyond the pale that I don’t have to worry there’s “another valid perspective” out there that I’m missing. These folks just want our politics to be something I’m fundamentally, morally opposed to. That’s it, it was never that complicated. Small comfort, but comfort nonetheless.

In 2017, I was consistently distressed with how people (e.g. Byron York) could see the truth so differently. This time around, it’s genuinely comforting to know that they don’t, they’re simply bad people regurgitating a bottomless pit of bullshit, freeing me of any obligation to listen to them.

The only people making fun of this are the ones who don’t know Panda Express was recently appointed director of Health and Human Services

Everything's on the table.

Republicans are using every method they can, whether it's cheating or breaking the law.

We've got to do everything we can to stand up and fight back — we're not sitting around and complaining from the sidelines when we have the ability to stop them.

ChatGPT is this good

2019 – 2024 – Repeated denials and discovery stonewalling Through years of communications with the police, the plaintiffs and the court through the investigation and later the discovery process for the lawsuit, Tesla never mentioned that it had all the data that explained how Autopilot saw the crash, which everyone was seeking, sitting on its servers for years. The facts are: Tesla had the data on its servers within minutes of the crash When the police sought the data, Tesla redirected them toward other data When the police sought Tesla’s help in extracting it from the computer, Tesla falsely claimed it was “corrupted” Tesla invented an “auto-delete” feature that didn’t exist to try explain why it couldn’t originally find the data in the computer When the plaintiffs asked for the data, Tesla said that it didn’t exist Tesla only admitted to the existence of the data once presented with forensic evidence that it was created and transfered to its servers.

This whole story is insane. Tesla apparently did everything it could to avoid providing the data it had about its Autopilot crash. This is just a snippet and there's a lot more. electrek.co/2025/08/04/t...

There is a moral case for using every avenue of obstruction available to you simply because you have to resist. That doesn't make it the "right strategy" or even guarantee it will have any effect. It could very well turn out to have been useless acting out. Life sucks sometimes.

A- self awareness, F everything else

Boyz II and a Half Men, is this anything

TIL Lil Xan is short for Xanthan Gum

I wouldn’t be sure whether this was a trad wife thing or a hostage situation, assuming there’s a difference

A picture of a golden retriever puppy looking bashfully up at the camera

“Me? A urinating vagrant? Detective, you have it all wrong”

INT. LIVINGROOM - NIGHT Il chew on a billowing cigar, crouching over the scene of the crime. The smoke goes up in a steady ribbon.] Me It's cool, but not cold. Been here 15, 20 minutes max. Puppy Any motive? Me The pee pads are out & unused. Whoever did this was sending a message. Puppy Despicable, sir. Me Most indubitably, pup. Say, who let you out of your crate? Where were you 20 minutes ago? [Puppy pulls a knife out of his jacket.]

TIL Lil Xan is short for Xanthan Gum

Everyone who said SCOTUS were hypocrites for not letting Biden cancel student loans, but letting Trump do basically everything, forgot that the main goal here is to sustain a christofascist police state against anyone right wingers consider “undesirable.” A lot makes sense in light of that.

Jewish people constituted 0.75% of the German population in 1933.

Aidyn Chronicles, sequel to the The Mc’Kynnleigh of Jaxsyn and Stormme, part of the Braxtynn Cycle in the Hudsynne Heighlee Extended Universe

The right wing (and other aspects of our culture) successfully sold the philosophy that a highly diverse, geographically enormous country was somehow being held back by seeing basic empathy and cooperation as virtues, as opposed to being the glue that makes social cohesion even feasible.

The left doesn’t need to appeal to males, so much as we need a cultural shift toward recognizing that the impulses valorized in the manosphere (righteous violence, virtuous indifference, vanity, sexual entitlement) need to be understood as the negative traits, weaknesses & personal failings they are

This needs to be refuted; being decent to others needs to be an attractive proposition, on both sides of the aisle. Democrats trying to meet republicans where they are will only accelerate the unraveling. The global right offers nothing stabilizing for societies or economies bigger than a tribe.

The right wing (and other aspects of our culture) successfully sold the philosophy that a highly diverse, geographically enormous country was somehow being held back by seeing basic empathy and cooperation as virtues, as opposed to being the glue that makes social cohesion even feasible.

The left doesn’t need to appeal to males, so much as we need a cultural shift toward recognizing that the impulses valorized in the manosphere (righteous violence, virtuous indifference, vanity, sexual entitlement) need to be understood as the negative traits, weaknesses & personal failings they are

If Trump were guilty he wouldn’t be acting exactly like a guilty guy, because that’s what a guilty guy would do