I do just want to say, looking at the ~320$ a month figure. Growing up in the 90s-00s my mom would spend an average of about 100$ a week on groceries to feed herself and two kids. That was over 20 years ago, that’s barely enough to cover half a month now.

God this was a tough read. Side Note, I see a lot of people accusing “Robert” in the article of diddling his kid in the replies and I think that’s kind of missing the point of the article a bit though I will admit Robert comes across as a bit unglued in the narrative of the article.

Also just as someone who was involved in online Atheism circles around the 2010s we had a lot of that type of material and we didn’t really meaningfully move the needle particularly in terms of deconstructing religiosity.

This was the most fascinating exchange to me. Coates asks whether a liberal going to Evangelical churches and selectively editing exchanges to mock Christians would be "doing politics the right way."

Klein says it would if it were done completely differently.

I will say while I have joked a bit about Kirk’s death I do think under ideal circumstances most of us wouldn’t even know who Kirk was. He wouldn’t be a famous person, he wouldn’t be receiving dark money, he should be like a prominent figure in local politics as a crank.

I will say if you look at the historical record there’s been a bunch of high profile cases of police departments being unable to adequately respond in the moment to a situation to stop it then using their own failure as a post hoc justification for funding. (e.g. the 1997 North Hollywood shootout)

I really hate how much Dems love to treat language like it’s a magic spell and if they learn to say the correct incantations they’ll never have to worry about actually doing anything material to actually woo voters. Why actually offer solutions and fix problems when I can mesmerize you with a spell.

Listening to the section talking about the lockdowns and the lack of enforcement and I remembered that there was actually an extremely bad movie that came out during the pandemic called Songbird (produced by Michael Bay) that basically imagines a permanent lockdown dystopia.

I know you guys offhandedly made a joke about how this type of rhetoric isn’t used by PETA but what’s extremely funny is that one of the more prominent “watchdog” orgs, White Coat Waste, was literally cofounded by a anti-abortion lobbyists and a former high ranking PETA guy.

Genuinely the interview here is insane, such a short interview too which makes the questions they choose to ask even worse since they’re all so asinine. Especially the question about Trump’s stated Gaza plans, I’m sure they’re thrilled to be kicked out of their home for Atlantic City 2.0

I did watch about 3/4s of this, I did find the rant from her towards Tee Franklin wild because like most of what she brings up and frames as an outrageous "Can you believe she did X, Y, and Z?!" is incredibly milquetoast shit other popular and well-regarded comic creators have done.

Okay so to follow up on my Gundam comments earlier I just watched the latest GQuuuuuuX episode and Nyaan is very scary, she awakens her newtype abilities and is immediately just using her teammate as a shield and aiming to kill.

I have said this before in other places but one of my big bones of contention with the LLMs is that I feel they’re basically trying to do too many things at once and as a result kind of suck at all of them.

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I will say I do genuinely find the discussions around art from the AI evangelists to be extremely interesting in the sense that it kind of highlights how the medium of “art” is kind of flattened in some discussions. Yeah cool ChatGPT can doodle a cat in a hat but it can’t say make a sculpture of it.