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An upside of AI videos is that they make it real easy to identify current event "commentators" who don't give a shit if what they share is true or not.

My religion is hanging out and crushing brewskis

It's wild that if the AI bubble bursts and knocks 50% off the Mag7's share price, that'd still put them at roughly a 2022-mid 2023 valuation. People thought these stocks were overvalued pre-COVID and now those valuations look miniscule. The ground has moved in a massive way.

Sometimes you play defense, and sometimes you get to play offense.

Everyone: please refrain from joke-speculating the dumbest possible future due to the risk of manifesting it.

Lol how is this real?!

The Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 3 scientists for key immune system discoveries They won for their work on peripheral immune tolerance, which is one way the body helps keep the immune system from getting out of whack and attacking your own tissues..

Seattle now has Back-to-Back Science World Championships

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There's a joke connecting selection pressures to the propagation of the branch of the convo I'm looking for, but it's like 1am where I'm at and I'm not smart enough to make it.

What are the chances you can compress those 10,000 words into a chunk or two of 300 characters?

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So I guess the optimistic take is that: the feeling of failure is independent of reality. The feeling is just nature. And a big part of my weird skill set that DOES let me navigate stuff is my ability to find genuine optimism in shitty systems like that.

But I also know that, no matter how fiercely my brain tries to talk me out of it, I cannot objectively deny that I have had anything other than a tremendous amount of success.

No matter how I'm doing on an absolute level, I always feel like I'm at the bottom of an equally deep hole of failure.

They got put in a lose-lose situation and badly miscalculated. They confused short term risk aversion for long term risk management.

Never cross a picket line except to be held in his warm green embrace

Please don't make me choose between supporting Unions and supporting Shrek.

You fucking people make me happy

It was a bummer but I think it's time to move one

I spent a long time trying to understand the other side and honestly engage with their POV, specifically around climate change. But if your POV stops at "the climate has always changed", then what is there to engage with?

The dunks on this its desperation for legitimacy and advocating for conservative DEI are correct, but there's also the problem that there aren't any insightful conservatives, outside of maybe niche subjects unrelated to conservatism.

🌎: "oh no I didn't want an Anthropocene to happen 😿"

Ok well then maybe a million years ago you should have made tigers 20% more aggressive or taught dolphins about the 2nd amendment.

Good. This planet deserves it for letting Humans become the hyper-keystone species.

Why would you put those words in that order and then show them to strangers?

The night is dark and full of terrors and it gives us something to do

If you compromise on "hard" symbolic votes like this, how can I trust your office not to compromise on hard meaningful votes? You're trading the trust of engaged voters to hedge potential losses among the unengaged. But that's strategically stupid! Those voters are unengaged. They don't care!

Why bother being in politics if you're just gonna let opinion polls decide your entire strategy? Why let non-politically engaged respondents dictate your policy positions? If you're terrified of the need to do some persuasion, quit fucking working in politics.

Like, you know who's been unpopular in polls for the past 10 years? Republicans. You know which party has realized the most extensive policy victories since FDR in that time span? It wasn't Democrats!

How on earth can you look at the past 10 years and conclude that anything other than blanket opposition is the optimal strategy? How would you say Democrat's strategy of tactical compromise like this has helped them realize policy goals in that time span?

This is a very specific type of juice that Bluesky is genuinely missing.

Donald Trump is a feebleminded, frail old bigot with no redeeming qualities, who is unsuited for any office, let alone the presidency. I am superior to him in every respect, as is every person I’ve ever met. Anyone who treats him as a model of virility or statesmanship ought to be laughed at.