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Why no pronouns? I began writing online when Usenet was a thing. I have always appreciated that online my ideas mattered more than my identity. I maintain that ethos by keeping this, my primary account, free of my gender, race and ethnicity. If you need pronouns for this account, use ze/zir.

Teens and twenty you should know that when this person was your age their motto was "Don't trust anybody over 30." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_We...

Turns out soaking in hot saltwater for 9 straight months is bad for steel, who knew

i think it's fun that i used less power this july and yet my bill was more expensive

HR is sending out increasingly desperate emails begging us not to treat spam from our new payroll provider as junk mail. Maybe if their emails didn't look like they were taken from the examples in our cybersecurity training, they would have better luck.

LLMs have plenty of problems. I'm sure they can make bad medical calls. But they also don't totally ignore the literature because of gut feelings, and *actually listen to what you say*. You don't have to wait six months every time you want to speak to one.

Live your life so people don't root for the venemous spider

Takeout/delivery and cooking your own food are both wrong. Instead you should be extracting atmospheric dust, nutrients, and moisture using specialized microscopic hairs called trichomes.

Democratic Leadership is Acting Cowardly and Afraid to Fight "Democrats keep asking voters to save democracy while too many of their own leaders refuse to use the power voters already gave them. ... too many Democrats are still acting as if good manners will save the country"

Kars4Kids ads make it sound like your car donations helped children in need. A California judge just BANNED the ads across the state because that’s a lie. Donations actually fund Orthodox Jewish indoctrination programs and matchmaking services. open.substack.com/pub/friendly...

Just gonna keep saying it: Drastic SCOTUS reform should be a central part of the 2028 Democratic Party platform, and for Presidential candidates...I don't love litmus tests, but for me, this is becoming one.

Flight of the Navigator for sure. Iron Eagle just need a next generation adaptation.

This is undoubtedly true. Now tell me about the child who is not reading. Is it better they read for grades or not read at all?

So many people urge us to vote if we are dissatisfied with our democracy. And yes voting matters. But as today’s Supreme Court ruling tells us, it’s not that simple. Not everyone who should have the right to vote can exercise that right.

2029 we either expand the Court to unpack it …. or we lose the dream of a multiracial representative democracy. If you’re not ready for that by now, we aren’t on the same team.

I'd like to build a multi-congregation worship center that was not beholden to denominational control. Congregations rent and the corporation does all the building maintenance that churches are so bad at doing themselves. Also has a great big pipe organ and an organist with full-time pay.

Good am. Now 1,000 days left till January 20, 2029 - when Trump has to leave the White House. #Lameduck

Doctor: What brings you in today. it's not teeth is it? Me: No Doctor: Okay. Good. I don't touch teeth. Different guy. Me: It's eyes. Doctor: Nope that's a different guy too

"Studying liberal arts makes better humans, but a majority of humans aren't smart enough to go to college for liberal arts education" is perpetuating class stereotypes. Either liberal arts needs to be universal(high school grad req.), or it needs to not be required for STEM degrees.

In Santa Clarita on the Sierra Highway there is this one roadcut with a 1-2ft thick layer of a white material. I’ve been wondering for years what it is. It’s in the late Pliocene/early Pleistocene Saugus Formation, Sunshine Ranch member, but doesn’t match any other strata of it.

But the battery on my EV I a huge liability, right?

At this point in the US, there are so many grotesque moral crimes for which no one has faced any accountability that it's getting difficult even to keep all of them in your head. We're too exhausted to catalog them much less seek any resolution or justice.

My rules for beer: If the company has naming rights to a sports stadium - Nope!; If there is discussion about IBU - Nope! beyond that have what the person next to me is having. (Home field advantage to local 805 beers)

Let's remember how the 25th would work. VP/Cabinet invoke 25th; Trump sends a letter contesting; a congress that will not impeach now has the same standard to uphold removal. Trump wins and removes his disloyal cabinet. For 25th to work POTUS needs to be incapacitated not just a crazy bastard.

So here’s the thing If the markets expect TACO, and thus don’t react to, say, possible war crimes, he’s not inclined to TACO and is not dissuaded from doing said war crimes. (Not that the markets should be the guardrail. Lookin’ at you, Congressional Republicans.)

Breaking News: Unconfirmed reports of escapees from Inferos-Sheol Prison arriving in Caelos. #HolySaturday

Just a reminder that the senator who sponsored the bill which became law with broad bipartisan support that states a president cannot pull the US out of NATO without congressional approval was … Marco Rubio.

Can anyone shine some light on the current situation at LGA? Even with both runways open for a few days now we’re seeing major delay programs issued for reasons like “other” and “operational readjustment.” Is this going to be the new normal for LGA like DCA’s delays after the Piedmont crash?

Given all that is going on with oil:

ayatollah is supposed to be an academic position and you can tell this is true because after an extensive search they went with an internal candidate

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

I don't see any difference between this post and all the bigoted posts made by right-wingers who attacked Zohran Mamdani for being Muslim. Talarico's religious beliefs have no bearing on his fitness for office. Are there any of his proposed policies that you disagree with?

Let's do this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

The best part about winter is watching it online from California. #IDontDoSnow

So maybe she made it to severely concerned today?

one thing i have noticed is a lot of folks do not seem to understand the difference between a presidential election and 435+ legislative elections. i have seen any number of people say that you could subvert the outcome this november by targeting “swing states,” which does not make any sense.