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“Mild criticism of Democrats”
“Don’t criticize them now before the election, we need unity”
Democrats lose because of the thing you criticized them that needed fixing
“Democrats lost because you criticized them and didn’t vote hard enough”
“Can I criticize now? Election is over”
“No!! Too soon”
“Don’t criticize them now before the election, we need unity”
Democrats lose because of the thing you criticized them that needed fixing
“Democrats lost because you criticized them and didn’t vote hard enough”
“Can I criticize now? Election is over”
“No!! Too soon”
December 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
“Mild criticism of Democrats”
“Don’t criticize them now before the election, we need unity”
Democrats lose because of the thing you criticized them that needed fixing
“Democrats lost because you criticized them and didn’t vote hard enough”
“Can I criticize now? Election is over”
“No!! Too soon”
“Don’t criticize them now before the election, we need unity”
Democrats lose because of the thing you criticized them that needed fixing
“Democrats lost because you criticized them and didn’t vote hard enough”
“Can I criticize now? Election is over”
“No!! Too soon”
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They fail to realize that STEM is useless without the humanities.
What good is hard science when society is so backwards and ignorant that they think vaccines are poison and chatbots are alive? What is the point of math if it's just used to measure peoples skulls?
What good is hard science when society is so backwards and ignorant that they think vaccines are poison and chatbots are alive? What is the point of math if it's just used to measure peoples skulls?
December 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
They fail to realize that STEM is useless without the humanities.
What good is hard science when society is so backwards and ignorant that they think vaccines are poison and chatbots are alive? What is the point of math if it's just used to measure peoples skulls?
What good is hard science when society is so backwards and ignorant that they think vaccines are poison and chatbots are alive? What is the point of math if it's just used to measure peoples skulls?
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As everyone has noted, the humanities are worthless, AND ALSO if the LLM companies have to pay market value for writers’ work they’ll all go bankrupt.
December 26, 2025 at 6:11 AM
As everyone has noted, the humanities are worthless, AND ALSO if the LLM companies have to pay market value for writers’ work they’ll all go bankrupt.
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I work in comms for UK public services, and they track the average ‘reading age’ of the population, make sure important messaging is understood .
It has fallen from around 12-13 since I started back in 2008 to around 9-10. Surprised if similar wasn’t found in US.
Living in a post-literate society.
It has fallen from around 12-13 since I started back in 2008 to around 9-10. Surprised if similar wasn’t found in US.
Living in a post-literate society.
December 26, 2025 at 6:56 AM
I work in comms for UK public services, and they track the average ‘reading age’ of the population, make sure important messaging is understood .
It has fallen from around 12-13 since I started back in 2008 to around 9-10. Surprised if similar wasn’t found in US.
Living in a post-literate society.
It has fallen from around 12-13 since I started back in 2008 to around 9-10. Surprised if similar wasn’t found in US.
Living in a post-literate society.
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Anyway. They spent the last decade telling us STEM degrees were the future and the Humanities were worthless then they spent hundreds of billions of dollars to build a glitchy Humanities robot.
December 26, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Anyway. They spent the last decade telling us STEM degrees were the future and the Humanities were worthless then they spent hundreds of billions of dollars to build a glitchy Humanities robot.
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It'd be cheaper to send them to Cuba for the same amount of time because Internet isn't so much of a thing there, lol. Or most electronics, for that matter.
Are your kids glued to their screens? For just under $8,000, your teenager can live in a college dorm for four weeks with no tech access.
The first week is rough, but eventually the kids relearn how to spend time offline, said the camp’s executive director.
The first week is rough, but eventually the kids relearn how to spend time offline, said the camp’s executive director.
Frazzled parents turn to screen-time coaches, $8,000 detox camps to rein in kids’ tech
Parents trying to raise their kids in a tech-saturated world are getting overwhelmed with the amount of work and fighting it takes to protect kids, which can be a full-time job.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
It'd be cheaper to send them to Cuba for the same amount of time because Internet isn't so much of a thing there, lol. Or most electronics, for that matter.
Normally, I'd write this off as a conspiracy theory, but there's already rumors that there are Israeli military veterans working for ICE. Also, I've known for many years that most immigrants from the former USSR despise non-white immigrants and many are openly racist and cheer on police brutality.
I believe they already have. Many ICE Agents are likely Russians working alongside deputized Proud Boys, J6ers, and other Terrorists.
December 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Normally, I'd write this off as a conspiracy theory, but there's already rumors that there are Israeli military veterans working for ICE. Also, I've known for many years that most immigrants from the former USSR despise non-white immigrants and many are openly racist and cheer on police brutality.
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The Little Rock Police Department earned lots of Arkansas Times headlines this year, usually for bad reasons. We wrote about their misdeeds often enough that we’ve put a list together looking back at the police department in 2025.
Pepper-spraying kids, surveilling Little Rockers and shirking transparency: A review of the LRPD in 2025 - Arkansas Times
We wrote about the LRPD's misdeeds often enough that we’ve put a list together looking back at the police department in 2025.
arktimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The Little Rock Police Department earned lots of Arkansas Times headlines this year, usually for bad reasons. We wrote about their misdeeds often enough that we’ve put a list together looking back at the police department in 2025.
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US Automakers Will Fall Further & Further Behind Chinese on Electrification
cleantechnica.com/2025/12/23/u...
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US Automakers Will Fall Further & Further Behind Chinese on Electrification - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. And Europeans, too, for that matter. An op-ed was recently published in the Wall Street Journal with the title “Can U.S. Auto...
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December 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
US Automakers Will Fall Further & Further Behind Chinese on Electrification
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cleantechnica.com/2025/12/23/u...
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Fun fact about Nigeria: they recently shut down a lot of car battery recycling outfits to conduct tests.
Tests to study the large amount of lead being let off by these companies, poisoning the local populations.
These companies? US automakers that refuse to start certification programs.
Tests to study the large amount of lead being let off by these companies, poisoning the local populations.
These companies? US automakers that refuse to start certification programs.
December 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Fun fact about Nigeria: they recently shut down a lot of car battery recycling outfits to conduct tests.
Tests to study the large amount of lead being let off by these companies, poisoning the local populations.
These companies? US automakers that refuse to start certification programs.
Tests to study the large amount of lead being let off by these companies, poisoning the local populations.
These companies? US automakers that refuse to start certification programs.
Israel has initiated relations with Muslim-majority countries for the most cynical of reasons throughout the last century. There is always something corrupt behind it.
With Iran pre-1979, it was about oil. With Azerbaijan, also oil. Morocco, arms sales and a population to make aliyah.
With Iran pre-1979, it was about oil. With Azerbaijan, also oil. Morocco, arms sales and a population to make aliyah.
Israel has just recognised the Republic of Somaliland as an independant State, Benjamin Netanyahu signed the decree himself.
I don't know anything about Somaliland but I can tell you this has turned me firmly against it.
I don't know anything about Somaliland but I can tell you this has turned me firmly against it.
December 26, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Israel has initiated relations with Muslim-majority countries for the most cynical of reasons throughout the last century. There is always something corrupt behind it.
With Iran pre-1979, it was about oil. With Azerbaijan, also oil. Morocco, arms sales and a population to make aliyah.
With Iran pre-1979, it was about oil. With Azerbaijan, also oil. Morocco, arms sales and a population to make aliyah.
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If you’re planning to buy a laptop, buy one right now! Due to surging CPU and memory prices, OEMs are reportedly considering raising prices on premium laptops by as much as 30%.
December 25, 2025 at 10:57 PM
If you’re planning to buy a laptop, buy one right now! Due to surging CPU and memory prices, OEMs are reportedly considering raising prices on premium laptops by as much as 30%.
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frogs should have been kissing us this whole time
Powerful Anti-Cancer Drug Discovered Inside Japanese Tree Frog
Scientists have discovered a promising new approach to fighting cancer in the gut bacteria of a Japanese tree frog, with one strain completely shrinking tumors in mice, with no severe side effects.
www.sciencealert.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:36 AM
frogs should have been kissing us this whole time
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Institutional powers don't wanna admit it but owning a home should happen before having a kid
They have stripped mined the financial realities to such a point all these years that it is now just have a kid and hopefully own the car you have to sleep in
They have stripped mined the financial realities to such a point all these years that it is now just have a kid and hopefully own the car you have to sleep in
December 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Institutional powers don't wanna admit it but owning a home should happen before having a kid
They have stripped mined the financial realities to such a point all these years that it is now just have a kid and hopefully own the car you have to sleep in
They have stripped mined the financial realities to such a point all these years that it is now just have a kid and hopefully own the car you have to sleep in
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You don't get to take credit for things just because of the generation you belong to.
Which is what people mean 99% of the time when they say "I marched for civil rights" when criticized for current stances. But even if they did, so what? Genocide is still bad.
Which is what people mean 99% of the time when they say "I marched for civil rights" when criticized for current stances. But even if they did, so what? Genocide is still bad.
December 26, 2025 at 7:26 AM
You don't get to take credit for things just because of the generation you belong to.
Which is what people mean 99% of the time when they say "I marched for civil rights" when criticized for current stances. But even if they did, so what? Genocide is still bad.
Which is what people mean 99% of the time when they say "I marched for civil rights" when criticized for current stances. But even if they did, so what? Genocide is still bad.
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An obvious lie, but the question is why Israeli accounts suddenly want to spread lies about this specific issue?
They seem to be panicking over how Conservative Christians are turning against Israel's genocide, its treatment of Christians - and how it drags the US into wars.
x.com/raz_sauber_/...
They seem to be panicking over how Conservative Christians are turning against Israel's genocide, its treatment of Christians - and how it drags the US into wars.
x.com/raz_sauber_/...
x.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
An obvious lie, but the question is why Israeli accounts suddenly want to spread lies about this specific issue?
They seem to be panicking over how Conservative Christians are turning against Israel's genocide, its treatment of Christians - and how it drags the US into wars.
x.com/raz_sauber_/...
They seem to be panicking over how Conservative Christians are turning against Israel's genocide, its treatment of Christians - and how it drags the US into wars.
x.com/raz_sauber_/...
Nigeria is so complex a country that a black US diplomat was explicitly told by local officials there his skin color still did not endear him to them some decades ago.
The ethnic diversity is comparable to Congo and the country was widely feared to become a failed state since independence.
The ethnic diversity is comparable to Congo and the country was widely feared to become a failed state since independence.
Top Nigerian officials said that U.S. attacks in the country could mark the opening salvo in a campaign against militant groups. But security analysts warned that Trump administration officials are stepping into a conflict that they may not fully understand.
With airstrike in Nigeria, Trump inserts U.S. into long-running turmoil
While Trump has said he acted to protect Christians, analysts report that violence, particularly by Islamist militants, has targeted both Christians and Muslims.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 26, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Nigeria is so complex a country that a black US diplomat was explicitly told by local officials there his skin color still did not endear him to them some decades ago.
The ethnic diversity is comparable to Congo and the country was widely feared to become a failed state since independence.
The ethnic diversity is comparable to Congo and the country was widely feared to become a failed state since independence.
Clark County is so redneck and designed to be the anti-Portland that entire towns there feel copy-pasted from places I've known in the south (Clemson, Toccoa, etc.)
Plus, a family that lives there has a hit on me. A member who lives all the way in California told them to SWAT me if they see me.
Plus, a family that lives there has a hit on me. A member who lives all the way in California told them to SWAT me if they see me.
Clark County Sheriff's Office has a contract with ICE to imprison people they arrest in Portland.
December 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Clark County is so redneck and designed to be the anti-Portland that entire towns there feel copy-pasted from places I've known in the south (Clemson, Toccoa, etc.)
Plus, a family that lives there has a hit on me. A member who lives all the way in California told them to SWAT me if they see me.
Plus, a family that lives there has a hit on me. A member who lives all the way in California told them to SWAT me if they see me.
Even if it turns out he's lying, idiots like JD Vance devalue college degrees and the entire higher education system of the United States when they say things like this.
As it's been, it was already a travesty that Bush Jr and Ted Cruz are Ivy League graduates.
As it's been, it was already a travesty that Bush Jr and Ted Cruz are Ivy League graduates.
JD VANCE THINKS BRITAIN & FRANCE ARE AMERICAS LIKELY ENEMIES.
The world is getting bizarrely screwed with this kind of bull being spewed out.
The world is getting bizarrely screwed with this kind of bull being spewed out.
December 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Even if it turns out he's lying, idiots like JD Vance devalue college degrees and the entire higher education system of the United States when they say things like this.
As it's been, it was already a travesty that Bush Jr and Ted Cruz are Ivy League graduates.
As it's been, it was already a travesty that Bush Jr and Ted Cruz are Ivy League graduates.
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vance is a genuine lunatic
JD VANCE THINKS BRITAIN & FRANCE ARE AMERICAS LIKELY ENEMIES.
The world is getting bizarrely screwed with this kind of bull being spewed out.
The world is getting bizarrely screwed with this kind of bull being spewed out.
December 26, 2025 at 9:39 PM
vance is a genuine lunatic
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December 26, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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I wrote this in 2020 and it's so frustrating to see the trope come back.
(It really did seem to wake for a few years.)
thecounter.org/trump-rust-b...
(It really did seem to wake for a few years.)
thecounter.org/trump-rust-b...
December 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I wrote this in 2020 and it's so frustrating to see the trope come back.
(It really did seem to wake for a few years.)
thecounter.org/trump-rust-b...
(It really did seem to wake for a few years.)
thecounter.org/trump-rust-b...
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This story treats an entire region as a cultural and political monolith. Unless I missed something, everyone quoted or depicted is a white conservative, other than a couple of Democratic politicians.
Truly jarring and another example of political journalism as bad travel writing.
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Truly jarring and another example of political journalism as bad travel writing.
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They Wanted a Conservative State. They Might Get a Democratic Representative Instead.
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
This story treats an entire region as a cultural and political monolith. Unless I missed something, everyone quoted or depicted is a white conservative, other than a couple of Democratic politicians.
Truly jarring and another example of political journalism as bad travel writing.
Gift link:
Truly jarring and another example of political journalism as bad travel writing.
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