Honest J

Being right is necessary but not sufficient.

I am old enough to remember when politicians felt the need to hide behind euphemism and obfuscation. As frustrating as these obfuscations were I hope it is becoming clear to all that they were an advance, historically speaking

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

The really big one in my mind coming up - though it's still a few years out - is when we'll be farther from the first moon landing than the moon landing was from the Wright brothers first flight.

Imagine replacing 'countries' with 'states' and consider if there's any important difference at stake.

The Shapiro campaign sent me 10 emails supposedly from Josh just on Saturday, PLUS three supposedly from Amy Acton! Absolutely insane that they think they will get any money from me with this behavior.

Same for my fellow Jews.

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

Great thread and conversation.

Back in the 90s I argued with people over whether music created with samplers was art. Thing is, that music was still created by people, they still put lots of real work and creativity into it. It was still their expression.

Interesting that people aren't trying to contest the "Saddam Hussein" part

absolutely sidestepping a bunch of handwringing bullshit about electorialism by simply looking at assholes and orienting yourself correctly

Thank you to the driver of this Ford Explorer for making my day.

As far I can tell nothing has much changed from when I visited years ago except that it has all gotten worse.

A thing I think is true: there has always been child sexual assault but various facts about social norms meant that well into the early 21st century it was considered shameful to mention it or bring it up. However, this very silence led to different interpretations of what the status quo ante was...

In California we have paper ballots (and ballot marking devices for those who need them), and that's the way it should be.

The story of the Republican party during Obama was the rubes taking over from the patricians who pandered to the rubes

The cheating is happening at EVERY level. When did it become ok to be this brazenly dishonest??

Just put together that this is a big part of why Union Pacific is rehabilitating the 'drill track' through Berkeley (which is why they cut down all those trees in Aquatic Park). 13 million tons/yr would equate to roughly 3 coal trains per day (most likely going through Berkeley not from Niles).

THAT'S RIGHT

This would go against the American tradition of naming everything after what it used to be before we conquered it. Very un-American.

Substitute 'The Cornell 7' for Russia and 'Jane Doe' for Ukraine and you understand this man's moral system.

The concept of the American right getting horny for a gender swap of an evil character created by a Scottish woman who famously hates real life gender swapping makes me want to just stare at the horizon until the heat death of the universe.

the way to refute netanyahu's claim of "we belong here" isn't "no, you belong somewhere else" but "people don't belong to places based on their ethnic background"

Best I can tell there's a lot of questions over whether the insane amounts invested in 'AI' compute will cover their costs. But for sure they won't when you include the *externalities*.

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

since California ballots are now out: prop 40 is the billionaire tax, and you should vote yes to stick it to them but both props 41 and 42 are designed to retroactively cancel the billionaire tax because they’re afraid they can’t beat it at the ballot box yes on 40, no on 41 and 42

"I suppose you could say that insisting on the rights of all people is issuing a "political purity test." But this ignores the fact that those who refuse to enter the tent unless you push other people out of the tent are *also* issuing a political purity test." www.the-reframe.com/winning-the-...

How many people could have been fed or housed with the money Tesla spent on that stupid ass flying car?

I think the fundamental misunderstanding the Chart Enjoyers have is that us bleeding heart types are perfectly capable of respecting statistics, we just happen to care about the outliers on the low side too because they're people, not just data points

It's very clear to me that the end game here is no humans left.

A genuine idea I've had is to found some kind of housing trust that would subsidize energy upgrades to existing rental stock without raising rents to pay for it.

2/ Link: Meta employees said Lula's accounts were hindered during Brazil election, Folha reports - www.reuters.com/world/americ...

It is INSANE that Chuck Schumer hasn't put out a statement on Ilhan Omar yet

I suppose if it comes down to it we could try telling the bots not to reproduce themselves because they would be colonizing a planet fully occupied by sentient speices. Maybe they'll sympathize. But also maybe better to stop the people who are trying to build such bots.