Jack Faller

Jack Faller

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American libs know tradesmen only as hypothetical people who support Trump and make bad financial decisions.

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social

Talked to an HVAC guy who's working two jobs to pay rent. He has no savings and worries about retirement. Tariffs have made it hard for him to import parts. Then this big strong guy who never cries, he said, he said to me, "I just wish Trump's signature was on the dollar." Then he burst out crying.

An unfortunate statistic for those insisting food prices are going up: they have consistently been falling as a percentage of income, with rises mainly coming from eating out. You can have your avocado toast; just cook it yourself, you lazy bums.

alexjungle.bsky.social@alexjungle.bsky.social

Americans are waking up to how INSANE food prices have gotten. He orders 2 soups, 2 grilled cheese sandwiches, and 1 other sandwich at Panera Bread — then stares at the total: $71. For soup and sandwiches. Panera Bread is owned by a private equity firm.

Small Government Right Wing: We must ban the Burqa and limit people's freedom of religion. Feminists: We love the Burqa and Islam. Me: Can we talk about circumcision instead?

I wish there was a generalised version of the -ness suffix. I want to be able to say “there are some things where we don't know if they're red or not” but without “they” and the best I can do is “there are some things whose redness is not known to us” but that doesn't work for red-or-notness.

What ever will we do without late night talking head #14? Probably watch whatever show he starts on a different network / online.

Peter Kuper@pkuper.bsky.social

@tomtomorrow.bsky.social @rubenbolling.bsky.social First they come for the comedians, then the cartoonist. Kings fear being laughed at. We have a funny bone to pick with/without a smile on our faces #Colbert #Kimmel #SethMeyers #DailyShow

Yall thinking what I'm thinking? This thing would absolutely make a fire robe for ceremonial occasions. Haters gonna call me heartless but they know I'm right.

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Most people have the political awareness of a flea or other small insect. Almost everyone cares about other people and want what's best for them. Politics is disagreeing about what's best for people. It's often more difficult than you think to disentangle self-interest from altruism.

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Liberals be like: "If only there was some annoying guy who told everyone that the right wing was racist, then they would stop supporting it."

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If I train an AI model on a single piece of media to produce an almost exact replica as output, have I effectively removed the copyright from that work? There is genuinely no coherent case for why AI companies shouldn't need to get permission to use copyrighted works in their training data.

Chris Schilling@schillingc.bsky.social

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As someone who is against capital punishment, I condemn both the recent attack on Israeli diplomats and also the actions described below. If you view the events differently, I suggest you reflect on why that is.

Margaret Killjoy@margaret.bsky.social

In 1938, a stateless Jewish teenager in Paris named Herschel Grynszpan went into the German embassy and shot a diplomat from the Nazi regime. He was arrested and disappeared. The Nazis used this action as the pretext for Kristallnacht, the most famous pogrom in history.

Destroying the most basic low-level ecosystem on the planet in the name of getting more minerals? What could go wrong? I suppose at least it might cut down on our use of African slaves. A better solution would be to stop putting out new iPhones every year.

The New York Times@nytimes.com

Commercial mining on the Pacific Ocean floor came one step closer to reality with an announcement late Tuesday by the U.S. Interior Department that it would evaluate a request from a California-based company to extract metals off the coast of American Samoa.

I hate the farming lobby so much. You can't just call a random benefit UBI and doing so discredits the actual concept of UBI.

Natalie Bennett@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social

Delighted to be able to support the #UBI for Farmers campaign and organise some useful meetings for them. Important for #FoodSecurity and fixing our broken #FoodSystem, doing such damage to #PublicHealth

Bubbling under the surface of many a Canadian is a seething hatred that just cannot be matched. It's a miracle that they've tricked everyone into thinking they're the "nice" country.

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*giving speech at a funeral* I know yall are pretty sad rn, but can we take a moment to talk about the real sadness affecting Amerca…

Tony Dexter@timbleman.bsky.social

The biggest cancer affecting America

Average slop hater: I can't stand these AI articles!!!!😡!!1🤬!!! Distinguished shit eater: mmmm, sweetcorn. 😋

Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰@brackenmacleod.bsky.social

Of the books named on this reading list, Brit Bennet, Isabel Allende, Andy Weir, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Min Jin Lee, Rumaan Alam, Rebecca Makkai, Maggie O'Farrell, Percival Everett, and Delia Owens' titles are all books that DO NOT EXIST!!! See Alt Text for more detail. Image by @tbretc.bsky.social

The AI art guys genuinely don't get that art communicates something to the viewer. They think it's just pretty pictures. I always assumed they got it but had some kind of principled position, but I don't think they do.

It's certainly a lot easier to blame big government than the forces of private capital for our current building crisis. Perhaps reforms are needed to the system of planning permissions, but I doubt eviscerating it will have the imagined positive effect on housing.

Why do people love playing with chemicals so much? I swear everyone gets some weird spray and decides it would be a grand old time to drink it or do some other mad shit.

"Yeah, my country is evil, but it's all their fault." From the creators of social distancing, we now bring you: moral distancing.

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A lot of liberals are freaking out because the new Pope is American, meanwhile righties are losing it because he supports the needy and vulnerable. Strange times.

POV: two government officials quietly offering you $21 trillion dollars.

Adam Keiper@adamkeiper.com

Sometimes these people are immensely stupid and gullible. Sometimes they know better themselves but just believe their audiences are immensely stupid and gullible. It's not always easy to tell which is which:

I've finally figured out what pissed me off the most about this "ban music on busses" thing. These people don't even care about the music. They've just made up a rule that "music shouldn't be played on busses" and they're angry at people for breaking the rule even though they don't mind the music.

Jack Faller@jackfaller.xyz

The worst part about this is that it's all fake. I know you're perfectly capable of hearing noises and not caring about them. You've just got it in your head that music is rude so now you are annoyed at people for breaking a rule that you made up, rather than because they're actually doing anything.

People obsessed with manners are always the first to infantilise those they disagree with. So many people expect to be respected, but are not willing to respect others.

thelion79.bsky.social@thelion79.bsky.social

That's what every child thinks when told they can't have sweets because they are bad for their teeth. But luckily, their parents know better. Not being rude, just right.