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I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

Welcome to clown world. The carnies have badges and they all shoot each other.

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

definitely think the US gov't should stay shut down long enough that a bunch of foot soldiers miss a paycheck or three. history has shown that when empires do this it only leads to very normal and stable things

It's so dang good, from era before they pigeonholed Bruce Willis into just action roles.

I think the most frustrating thing about AI is that there’s no more public bathrooms so homeless people need to pee in the streets and children go hungry every day but we have, as a society, 100s of billions of dollars to endlessly dump into the brain rot generator.

Fun fact, this show was co-created by notorious asshole Ryan Murphy who Indya Moore just called out for being dead fucking silent on trans people since the end of POSE, and especially following Janet Mock publicly speaking about how trans women of color were not properly paid for that show

you can say your purpose is the protocol and that can be true, but it's also true that once you run a social media site you are a social media company. you can no longer brush off bad moderation with "just roll your own" after you attract millions of people to your app. that's absurd.

"why is this dipshit in our feed??"

oh, Link's modlists aren't here anymore

Trans people built this goddamn userbase you ungrateful bastards.

Raid of church leader’s Florida mansion reveals 57 forced laborers, feds say The victims, called “armor bearers” by the church, are threatened with damnation if they fail to meet their quotas, federal officials say.

"David Taylor, 53, and Michelle Brannon, 56, are accused of running a forced labor and money laundering scheme through their church"

Slaves. They had slaves.

LGBTQ people ain't doing this shot. Trans people ain't doing this shit. Immigrants ain't doing this shit.

and yet...

The rage I feel could vaporize diamond.

I can not write what I am thinking because it would get me a knock at the door.

oh cool so these guys are being called away from their actual livelihoods to go get booed by washingtonians and chicagoans and portlanders etc for free lol

The shameful part is that Palestinians were always telling the world what's happening & were always getting killed by Zionists. But those deaths were not enough. It took a full blown genocide for most westerners to come around...and even now some people have the audacity to say "it's complicated"

It was always "never again" only for them. Otherwise they wouldn't have started raping and pillaging entire Palestinian villages 80 years ago

The Proud Boys and III%ers have seemingly vanished because ICE hired them all. The terrorists are in control of the federal government and have access to its resources.

We have politicians getting assassinated, judge's houses being burned down with their family inside, and storm troopers invading cities that the president has deemed political enemies to brutalize, beat, traffick and enslave residents.

We're already in a civil war.

The fascists who are destroying our lives and the fabric of society are the minority. We have the numbers.

We should [redacted]

Oh they’re just continuing to scramble to find a justification.

Lying about Link’s alt text is a particular kind of evil I’ll say

If this is the alleged post, you can check the alt text for yourself

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Well, yeah, we're suing ICE.

This wasn't really a hard decision. As little faith as we have in institutions, we recognize the value of drawing visible lines in the sand. We drew ours personally a while ago, but better late than never.

May every protester be freed and may this occupation end.

stock up on canned goods, y'all

I'd like too add to this incredibly correct list identifying AI issues that it is also a massive bubble that (according to a Deutsche Bank report released last week) is propping up the entire American economy and when it bursts it will nuke most of the job market and make millions of us homeless.

Your reminder that credit scores in the US date to 1989. For much of their existence, race and gender were factors.

They were invented bc it had been made illegal to discriminate by race and gender in the US, so financial institutions wanted a facially neutral way to accomplish the same thing.

90% of the Florida reefs have died thanks to climate change in the last 30 years. Entire ecosystems are being wiped out and the ecosystems they're connected to are now dying.

That is cascading ecological collapse. We are facing an ecological apocalypse that will kill us all unless we [redacted]

Just in case I used too many big words: AI companies are speeding up climate change which will kill 99% of life on Earth, including us!

The Golden Rule applies, and AI tech CEOs have shown us how they wish to be treated. It would be rude to ignore their wishes.

AI must be destroyed if humanity is to survive. I'm not even joking.

If you use AI, you need to understand that you are supporting accelerating climate change, which will lead to cascading ecological collapse.

Fascism/capitalism will end the anthropocene because its adherents literally believe that line-go-up is more important than a life supporting planet.

but they LOVE rakes!

It's grimly hilarious that for more than a century the US has been told the options are Socialism or Barbarism, and the American response has been "Well, we certainly don't want to be Socialist!"

The Socialist held out their hand and said, "Socialism or barbarism?" and the Liberal said, "bet" and began supporting the policies of the Fascist while sabotaging the Socialist because slave camps, extra judicial murder, and the total stripping of freedoms are obviously better than equality, right?