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imprison all of the pardoned people illegally and pardon the people who jail them, you gotta hit them with the reverse calvinball

They should make a database of everyone who gets mad at a post like this and permanently strip them of their driver’s license

One would be good and the other would be bad because one cause is good and the other is bad. We are not in the realm of procedural justice concerns anymore, liberalism is not obligated to be neutral on the question of its own existence.

Here are three ways you can help as a consumer: 1. Eat less meat, especially beef/lamb. 2. Waste less food, especially beef/lamb. 3. Eat even less beef/lamb. Don't feed them to your pets either.

Important to note that a case as prominent as this would take years to wend its way through the courts, meaning any final decision (or possibly even any initial merits decision) wouldn’t occur until years after Trump left office. So in the interim it’s primarily a harassment/intimidation tactic.

an equilibrium where ~everyone can direct ~♾️ compute to do ~anything is a world where anything to do with networked computers with any aspect of scarcity or adversariality basically doesn't work. it also has perilous consequences for anything relying on authentication or human-centered engagement.

Shit be expensive but America is not poor and we can afford to have nice things

People are going to clown on this but we need to remember that planning for local context is important: a city with Los Angeles, California’s semi-arid Mediterranean climate only gets sunshine ~300 days a year; so it’s important to make sure you can never ever find shade in the middle of the day.

i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.

"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!

trump being like "i prefer to think of AI as 'superior intelligence' is the best proof yet that he's totally lost whatever political instincts he had

The baseline level of Dumb Guy Pretending To Be Even Dumber in our culture is incredibly high at the moment, but this is an all-time performance in that category. Hall of Fame work in any era.

I understand that you have tons of people screaming that if they just repeat that the elites are bad and the rich are taking from the poor that the conservative rurals are just going to eventually wake up and realize they want socialism, but that isn't actually a thing that will happen

I think it's more comforting for some people to think of OBL as some evil genius or tragic victim of imperialism rather than a bog standard delusional ideologically extremist billionaire failson who thought he could accellerationism his way to a theocratic utopia

If you tell me this is necessary to win in Texas you are wrong. It alienates supporters who become less likely to talk positively to friends and family about your campaign, even if they still hold their nose and vote for you.

democrats, literally the only thing you should be talking about for the next 3 days is donald trump lying about being a 9/11 hero. i dont care if the question is about the economy or gas prices or about how sexually attractive you are, you steer that answer to trump lying about being a 9/11 hero

America is a rich country that can afford to have a good welfare state.

do any of you know what words mean or do you think "backfire" is when the expected and intended result occurs?

Again by analogizing it to seatbelts you are *not engaging* with the actual substance of the argument which centers around: A) helmet mandates provably deter cycling B) safety in numbers provably makes cycling safer therefore helmet mandates make cycling more dangerous bsky.app/profile/conn...

I find the discourse around "wokeness" to be dishonest and tedious, but this is what I wrote about it a couple of years ago and I think it remains correct: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Horse race election coverage is really dumb, why people do it

The origin of the housing crisis isn't a lack of investor desire to build housing (even affordable housing, thanks to LIHTC and so forth), its your neighbor jan, who believes it will cause noise pollution (people living their lives), and your neighbor Tim, who believes [vile racism] working together

Unfortunately it seems these environmentalists forgot to consider the most important habitat. Some subspecies of influencer simply require a vast territory to properly align their Wallet Chakra with the Earth's vibrations What about HER habitat needs? Why is nobody thinking about this???

it’s not “tax relief” when the working class writ large doesn’t pay into the system, it’s disenfranchisement

It’s certifiable at this point that dense housing growth is - Good for the environment - Good for diversity - Good for business - Good for affordability If you continue giving environmental appeals to housing and refuse upzones you are going against the environment, diversity and equity

the reason we dont have medicare for all is bc corporations need employer based healthcare to keep you chained to your desk in a job you hate that doesnt pay you what youre worth

Blusky soccer take quality is not great folks

Limit the number of cars in your city, save lives. The relationship is direct & incontrovertible.

I do think that lots of people fail to realize that Zohran didn’t win because he magically got a ton of communist non-voters to the polls. rather, he worked hard to assemble a coalition of the left, normie liberals, apathetic cynics and progressive young people

Still wild that the media covers Epstein like a True Crime curio that the President is sometimes asked to comment on and not the biggest scandal in Presidential history

It's true that ICE neo-nazis putting out job listings for other neo-nazis is a leading cause of neo-nazis seeking to join ICE.

one of the least-discussed things that happened in the 2020s is that the GOP sacrificed hundreds of thousands of their own voters' lives during the Delta wave in an attempt to restart the pandemic in order to hurt Biden and the Dems.

It really is inexcusable that the NYT maintains a "free speech on campus" reporter who DOESN'T COVER OFFICIAL, POLITICALLY-MOTIVATED CENSORSHIP OF SPEECH ON CAMPUS. At some point you're actively deceiving the public, no?

The only acceptable posture is unrelenting hostility to Trump and his army of federal thugs and if you haven’t figured out that out by now, get out of the way for the people that have.

it's almost as if there's an international right-wing conspiracy to foist illiberalism on an unsuspecting public

is trump healing jeffery epstein with his hand

its endlessly wild how people claim to want fight and how imaginary centrists can't be trusted and then fall behind candidates who propose holding Trump voter's dicks for them while they pee and gently rubbing the poor dear's backs.

Now do you see it? How the economic justice stuff is almost always adopted because it’s the most conflict averse, generic, broadly unobjectionable critique you can make? How it’s been corrosive that the left and the center are often in a weird sort of concord that this is the avenue to attack Trump?

The basic reality is that over the last 4 decades the Republican Party has become increasingly nativist and is now in thrall to a band of lunatics who are actively working toward a white ethnostate. That is due to dynamics on the American right, not because the AP started saying "undocumented."

The way to stay safe on or near an ebike is to stay away from people driving cars, who kill nearly 40k people annually in the US, and well over 1 million people worldwide.

The almost half a point they made by accident here is that this isn’t an LLM problem so much as way too many people thinking that a dataset being big negates the data being trash and clearly not reflecting the underlying reality at all.