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[deep breath]
The predictive model was EVERYTHING THEY SAID.
IN PUBLIC.
FOR YEARS.
People whose imaginations begin and end with political theory, who see the lives of others as abstractions, had every chance to listen.
Instead, you kept talking because it didn’t impact you.
The predictive model was EVERYTHING THEY SAID.
IN PUBLIC.
FOR YEARS.
People whose imaginations begin and end with political theory, who see the lives of others as abstractions, had every chance to listen.
Instead, you kept talking because it didn’t impact you.
No predictive model could foresee this degree of national self-sabotage – an act of willful decline that transcends political theory.
June 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
[deep breath]
The predictive model was EVERYTHING THEY SAID.
IN PUBLIC.
FOR YEARS.
People whose imaginations begin and end with political theory, who see the lives of others as abstractions, had every chance to listen.
Instead, you kept talking because it didn’t impact you.
The predictive model was EVERYTHING THEY SAID.
IN PUBLIC.
FOR YEARS.
People whose imaginations begin and end with political theory, who see the lives of others as abstractions, had every chance to listen.
Instead, you kept talking because it didn’t impact you.
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Remember how it was never lower than yellow
May 12, 2024 at 8:50 PM
Remember how it was never lower than yellow
Now, I'm not a conspiracy theorist typically. But I will say that I find it interesting that RFK announced a brain worm right after polls determined that he was siphoning more votes away from Trump than from Biden, and Trump started putting him on blast.
May 9, 2024 at 1:29 AM
Now, I'm not a conspiracy theorist typically. But I will say that I find it interesting that RFK announced a brain worm right after polls determined that he was siphoning more votes away from Trump than from Biden, and Trump started putting him on blast.
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The thing about tough love that doesn’t make sense is that a much better parenting lesson than “life sucks and you’re alone asshole” is “form relationships with people who care about you so you can be mutually helpful”. All this life sucks shit isn’t actually a lesson it’s just parents being bitter
May 4, 2024 at 1:34 PM
The thing about tough love that doesn’t make sense is that a much better parenting lesson than “life sucks and you’re alone asshole” is “form relationships with people who care about you so you can be mutually helpful”. All this life sucks shit isn’t actually a lesson it’s just parents being bitter
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NYPD dep. commish says he “found a book on terrorism” at Columbia. From the Oxford UP website, the book answers the questions, “What is terrorism? Is it war? Is democracy especially vulnerable to terrorist attacks? What can we do to stop it?”
This is how you seed a genocide-justifying moral panic.
This is how you seed a genocide-justifying moral panic.
May 4, 2024 at 10:31 AM
NYPD dep. commish says he “found a book on terrorism” at Columbia. From the Oxford UP website, the book answers the questions, “What is terrorism? Is it war? Is democracy especially vulnerable to terrorist attacks? What can we do to stop it?”
This is how you seed a genocide-justifying moral panic.
This is how you seed a genocide-justifying moral panic.
As a sucker who has accumulated 6 at this point... Yes. Yes that is completely normal.
I’ve never had a cat before is it normal for her to completely rot my brain to the point that I’m always thinking about kissing her soft tiny head
May 2, 2024 at 1:29 AM
As a sucker who has accumulated 6 at this point... Yes. Yes that is completely normal.
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Apparently, I used the phrase "out of spoons" when talking to my mother.
Apparently, she wasn't aware of the metaphorical use.
I just got these in the mail.
Apparently, she wasn't aware of the metaphorical use.
I just got these in the mail.
April 29, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Apparently, I used the phrase "out of spoons" when talking to my mother.
Apparently, she wasn't aware of the metaphorical use.
I just got these in the mail.
Apparently, she wasn't aware of the metaphorical use.
I just got these in the mail.
Yes. It applies across so many different areas. Sometimes a video is more useful, like showing where something is in a video game. Other times, I need something in written form because it's drawn out and listening to someone read it is tedious from repetition.
Agreed. It’s such a pain in the ass to find basic information or documentation that’s not a video now.
I think there's also a kind of vicious cycle that's been happening, which I noticed when I was looking up how to do stuff in Minecraft for my kids -- you can't *find* anything that's not a video. Because of how video is incentivized, both makers and Google et al direct people to it
April 28, 2024 at 3:28 PM
Yes. It applies across so many different areas. Sometimes a video is more useful, like showing where something is in a video game. Other times, I need something in written form because it's drawn out and listening to someone read it is tedious from repetition.
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I probably should have better things to do.
April 27, 2024 at 6:00 PM
I probably should have better things to do.
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Forced patriotism, whether in Hong Kong or Louisiana, is no patriotism at all.
Forced patriotism, whether in Hong Kong or Louisiana, is no patriotism at all
The greatest respect that officials can show to our national symbols is to trust that they will be honored through choice.
thehill.com
April 23, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Forced patriotism, whether in Hong Kong or Louisiana, is no patriotism at all.
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People with ADHD who are properly medicated appear to have much lower substance abuse rates than people who aren’t medicated, per this study.
Which adds extra irony to the current DEA moral panic.
Which adds extra irony to the current DEA moral panic.
Stimulant ADHD medication and risk for substance abuse
There are persistent concerns of long-term effects of stimulant ADHD medication on the development of substance abuse.Using Swedish national registers, we studied all individuals born 1960–1998 and di...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
April 22, 2024 at 2:02 PM
People with ADHD who are properly medicated appear to have much lower substance abuse rates than people who aren’t medicated, per this study.
Which adds extra irony to the current DEA moral panic.
Which adds extra irony to the current DEA moral panic.
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We don’t have an alternative energy problem, we have a storage and transmission problem.
April 22, 2024 at 3:03 PM
We don’t have an alternative energy problem, we have a storage and transmission problem.
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Mark Kern got a harassment campaign going to get a Helldivers community manager fired and the studio responded by ignoring him completely, maybe America's top newspapers and elite schools could learn something from a little Swedish studio that made a game about shooting space bugs
April 20, 2024 at 12:59 AM
Mark Kern got a harassment campaign going to get a Helldivers community manager fired and the studio responded by ignoring him completely, maybe America's top newspapers and elite schools could learn something from a little Swedish studio that made a game about shooting space bugs
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imagine someone steals your car and the headline tomorrow is “local man finds car”
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav’s 2023 Compensation Rises 26.5% to Nearly $50 Million
David Zaslav, president and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, had a 2023 pay package worth $49.7 million, up 26.5% from the year prior.
variety.com
April 20, 2024 at 12:08 AM
imagine someone steals your car and the headline tomorrow is “local man finds car”
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these people would have made incredible stalinists
Reading this WaPo report about "anti-woke" home school curricula and calling Walt Whitman a "Dem" is bananas for so many reasons
April 15, 2024 at 12:10 PM
these people would have made incredible stalinists
I have the sad now
The punches just keep coming 💔
April 12, 2024 at 11:24 PM
I have the sad now
Probably could have had a better title for the article. It sounds like parents accused of actual crimes rather than just poverty are getting paid for it.
Great new pilot program to watch in DC. You learn a lot about our child welfare agencies when you discover they give money to foster parents for taking custody of kids removed from their original home because their parents were too poor.
Mothers accused of child neglect will get cash in D.C. poverty study
The study will test whether the cash payments alleviate the problems that contributed to the allegations of neglect.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 10, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Probably could have had a better title for the article. It sounds like parents accused of actual crimes rather than just poverty are getting paid for it.
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
A pastor at a private school in Georgia canceled Autism Awareness Week, calling it "demonic" and condemning "anything that teaches our children to have their identity in anything other than Christ" www.wptv.com/news/palm-be...
April 9, 2024 at 3:19 PM
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
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Once again, the reason groceries are expensive is because of price gouging.
That's the whole thing.
That's the whole thing.
April 4, 2024 at 3:18 PM
Once again, the reason groceries are expensive is because of price gouging.
That's the whole thing.
That's the whole thing.
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“HB 777 not only would fine libraries and librarians, but it would possibly require hard labor by those found guilty. Read that again: librarians would be sentenced to hard labor for daring to join their largest professional organization.”
bookriot.com/louisiana-hb...
bookriot.com/louisiana-hb...
Louisiana HB 777 Would Criminalize Librarians and Libraries Who Join the American Library Association
Louisiana Library workers or libraries who seek membership in the largest professional organization would be criminalized for doing so.
bookriot.com
April 4, 2024 at 12:12 PM
“HB 777 not only would fine libraries and librarians, but it would possibly require hard labor by those found guilty. Read that again: librarians would be sentenced to hard labor for daring to join their largest professional organization.”
bookriot.com/louisiana-hb...
bookriot.com/louisiana-hb...
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isn’t it wild what you can accomplish when you’re the…President of the United States
April 4, 2024 at 10:48 PM
isn’t it wild what you can accomplish when you’re the…President of the United States
I laughed way too hard at this. It hits just a little too close to home.
April is National Autism Acceptance Month, show me your favorite Wikipedia entry
April 5, 2024 at 12:34 AM
I laughed way too hard at this. It hits just a little too close to home.
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God. Fucking. Dammit.
If you start providing a service that people rely on and it becomes one of the backbone apps of the new internet, changing the deal mid-stream means torches and pitchforks.
None of these companies ever get that. None of them.
If you start providing a service that people rely on and it becomes one of the backbone apps of the new internet, changing the deal mid-stream means torches and pitchforks.
None of these companies ever get that. None of them.
Discord starts down the dangerous road of ads this week
Discord's first real foray into ads seems minimally intrusive.
arstechnica.com
April 1, 2024 at 8:01 PM
God. Fucking. Dammit.
If you start providing a service that people rely on and it becomes one of the backbone apps of the new internet, changing the deal mid-stream means torches and pitchforks.
None of these companies ever get that. None of them.
If you start providing a service that people rely on and it becomes one of the backbone apps of the new internet, changing the deal mid-stream means torches and pitchforks.
None of these companies ever get that. None of them.