Udit Thakur ('oo-d-ih-th,' or Uday is fine too)
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The growing popular distaste for liberalism today is not a mindless aesthetic judgement.
It is a rationale response to the fact of liberalism’s present powerlessness.
If liberals don’t like that, they need to start fighting for people, instead of lecturing them.
It is a rationale response to the fact of liberalism’s present powerlessness.
If liberals don’t like that, they need to start fighting for people, instead of lecturing them.
There’s been a kind of…fashion of late to view anti-Trump libs as lame and cringe and just annoying, aesthetically. I remember this exact same aesthetic judgment in the run-up to the Iraq war. The earnest libs were right then and they’re right now.
February 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
The growing popular distaste for liberalism today is not a mindless aesthetic judgement.
It is a rationale response to the fact of liberalism’s present powerlessness.
If liberals don’t like that, they need to start fighting for people, instead of lecturing them.
It is a rationale response to the fact of liberalism’s present powerlessness.
If liberals don’t like that, they need to start fighting for people, instead of lecturing them.
If you find it easier to blame voters for the state of the country, and not the people in higher positions of power in our society, you’re not a truth-teller.
You’re scared, and deferential to authority: a pliant subject.
If that idea upsets you, it should.
So what are you going to do about it?
You’re scared, and deferential to authority: a pliant subject.
If that idea upsets you, it should.
So what are you going to do about it?
January 25, 2025 at 10:21 AM
If you find it easier to blame voters for the state of the country, and not the people in higher positions of power in our society, you’re not a truth-teller.
You’re scared, and deferential to authority: a pliant subject.
If that idea upsets you, it should.
So what are you going to do about it?
You’re scared, and deferential to authority: a pliant subject.
If that idea upsets you, it should.
So what are you going to do about it?
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Not to get all "parenthood changes your whole perspective," but I do think becoming a dad has made me even less tolerant of Bluesky's doomer brigade. I'm completely uninterested in having depressive strangers lecture me about how my daughter's future is written and there's nothing we can do.
January 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Not to get all "parenthood changes your whole perspective," but I do think becoming a dad has made me even less tolerant of Bluesky's doomer brigade. I'm completely uninterested in having depressive strangers lecture me about how my daughter's future is written and there's nothing we can do.
If your actions are consistently out of step with your words, people will stop believing what you say, and they’ll be right to do so.
January 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
If your actions are consistently out of step with your words, people will stop believing what you say, and they’ll be right to do so.
I don’t think the real threat to the administrative state comes from the judiciary, but from the fact that too few members of the public care deeply for it.
April 8, 2024 at 5:22 AM
I don’t think the real threat to the administrative state comes from the judiciary, but from the fact that too few members of the public care deeply for it.
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Once again reminding everyone that it's just as common for places to become economically depressed as a result of reactionary governance as it is for them to become reactionary in response to economic depression:
It's the year 2024 and West Virginia just passed a law that will allow the teaching of religious alternatives to science (meaning creationism) in public schools. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-... by Amanda Townley of the National Center for Science Education in Scientific American
New Law Allowing Religion into Science Classrooms Is Dangerous for Everyone
It is imperative that we protect science education from “intelligent design” and other alternative “theories”
www.scientificamerican.com
April 4, 2024 at 1:14 AM
Once again reminding everyone that it's just as common for places to become economically depressed as a result of reactionary governance as it is for them to become reactionary in response to economic depression:
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Reposted by Udit Thakur ('oo-d-ih-th,' or Uday is fine too)
yes
I think the reviving of union power has them scared shitless and AI is a near religious belief that computers will save them from unions
March 30, 2024 at 4:08 PM
yes
Bluesky is living up to the hype so far
February 19, 2024 at 2:52 AM
Bluesky is living up to the hype so far
Warrior is the shit.
Long live Bruce Lee.
Long live Bruce Lee.
February 19, 2024 at 2:37 AM
Warrior is the shit.
Long live Bruce Lee.
Long live Bruce Lee.
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This is one of the primary goals of "AI" these days: to create an empty chair that takes the blame for corporate misconduct.
We didn't discriminate, the AI told us who to hire. We didn't wrongfully reject the health insurance claim, the AI told us to. And on and on.
We didn't discriminate, the AI told us who to hire. We didn't wrongfully reject the health insurance claim, the AI told us to. And on and on.
Love this story: Air Canada's chatbot gives false advice on booking a bereavement ticket, guy gets screwed, then Air Canada then argues its chatbot is a SEPARATE LEGAL ENTITY FROM THEM THAT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ITS OWN ACTIONS. lol wut
anyway they lost the case hardcore
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
anyway they lost the case hardcore
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
February 16, 2024 at 6:02 PM
This is one of the primary goals of "AI" these days: to create an empty chair that takes the blame for corporate misconduct.
We didn't discriminate, the AI told us who to hire. We didn't wrongfully reject the health insurance claim, the AI told us to. And on and on.
We didn't discriminate, the AI told us who to hire. We didn't wrongfully reject the health insurance claim, the AI told us to. And on and on.
I had something like the same feeling after I watched Vikings Valhalla, and thought about what it was like to sail on a boat from Greenland to Norway … in the 11th century.
It must have been a divine experience (in so many sense of the term).
It must have been a divine experience (in so many sense of the term).
Somewhat obsessed bc I’m here but can’t stop thinking about the fact that 1500 years ago some group of people sailed 3000 miles from the Marquesas Islands to Hawaii with only the stars to guide them. It has to be literally one of the most remarkable things any humans have ever done anywhere ever
December 28, 2023 at 3:55 AM
I had something like the same feeling after I watched Vikings Valhalla, and thought about what it was like to sail on a boat from Greenland to Norway … in the 11th century.
It must have been a divine experience (in so many sense of the term).
It must have been a divine experience (in so many sense of the term).
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A teen's death in a Wisconsin sawmill highlights the growing number of children and teens around the U.S. working in hazardous jobs meant for adults
Teen's death in Wisconsin sawmill highlights "21st century problem" across the U.S.
The number of children employed illegally in the U.S. is soaring, Labor Department figures show. Sometimes that work kills them.
t.co
December 26, 2023 at 11:35 PM
A teen's death in a Wisconsin sawmill highlights the growing number of children and teens around the U.S. working in hazardous jobs meant for adults