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"in the knowledge attacks would also kill their families" is putting it very mildly. The program was named "Where's Daddy", in reference to the children it would kill.

Can someone explain to me why @sfiscience.bsky.social has this guy as a trustee?

Can someone explain to me why @sfiscience.bsky.social has this guy as a trustee?

"Fact X carries the clear implication of Y. This is false and potentially libelous based on the mere fact of X." Truly amazing stuff.

yeah gotta get off 1Password, sorry

More from the author of this "left-wing case".

"and mass immigration"

Please have some sympathy for Yiannopoulos. Think how terrified he must be, being sent to a place where the murder rate is 80% lower.

Literally no one actually believes in this position. So I'm not sure why people always claim to. I guess it gives them some little thrill of superiority?

Benjamin Ryan might not be exhibit #1 for transphobia rotting your brain and soul, but he's probably up there.

The thing about people who say they believe due process is the only way to determine guilt and the truth of accusations is that, no, they do not believe that.

if I were an elected representative and my constituents were coming up and saying "our daughter can't go to college unless she gets an athletic scholarship" I would be like "this is why we need universal free college" not "we'll pretend to solve this by being cruel to trans people." crazy right

Wait, so not only do they not have AC in France but also right now it's basically impossible to buy a fan? Neat.

"Look how terrible the DSA is: I'm imagining them doing something bad."

"I’m saying that the new normal, where a popular consensus forms that we should all feel a certain way (e.g., that I should be fired), and then my coworkers reason backwards to dozens of rationales for that consensus, is mysterious and alarming."

Making myself very popular by doing a bunch of stuff that the people who like me hate and that the people who hate me like. No way this can fail.

Just to be clear how little I’m exaggerating, in 2016, the UK Government actually advised trans people against travelling to certain US states due to the implementation of bathroom bans. @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social is now implementing those same bans across the UK. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-u...

Truly appalled by taunting of Europeans. No comment on Palestinians being raped to death.

A lot of the difference in media coverage between Farage and Polanski is due to the media's owners thinking Farage will lower their taxes and Polanski will raise them. But it's also due to the fact that it's normal to be impossibly cruel and deeply corrupt but weird to be a hypotherapist.

Feel like I'm on crazy pills reading Gelman saying it's important to have "an air of moral seriousness" then decrying cynicism. Call me crazy but I think what's important is *actual moral seriousness* and prominent people who lack it but put on an air of moral seriousness is a driver of cynicism.

Man, people really should have stopped comparing this guy to Hitler...

People love to confuse the statements "person X was motivated by Y" with "Y justifies person X's actions" when they find it convenient to do so.

Parachute and hot air balloon among several options being considered by man who has just jumped out of airplane.

will never stop being incredible to me that the son of a lawyer (and grandson of an architect) who went to hotchkiss (hotchkiss!) gets graded on a curve cause he’s “working class”

If there's one thing that Donald Trump is famous for, it's reliably taking the best course of action.

It's so fucking convenient that they get to "fear for their lives" anytime they want to absolve themselves of anything and when we actually fear for our lives because of them and do anything a scared person would do it's justification for our death.

The thing is that Trump supporters probably find this really funny. The fact that Trump's actions are absurd is not actually a problem for them. The absurdity makes them even more satisfying.

Genuinely insanity-inducing that the richest man alive constantly posting Stormfront-but-with-more-head-injury horseshit isn’t national news.

Funny how people never ask what Biden and Harris expected.

The Bongjoonian Jihad.

Can you imagine future history books being like "Trump's approval rating dropped from 40% to 36% after it was revealed that he was a pedophile."

Central to the 2010s Legitimate Concerns discourse that paved the way for our current pre-fascist moment was the refusal to acknowledge that these "concerns" were based on demonstrable fictions, filtered through socially constructed prejudices. I.e. they were not, in fact, "legitimate".

Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.

The “canceled people” database listing victims of cancel culture, which includes oft-repeated cases such as Bret Weinstein (Evergreen State College) and James Damore (Google), has a little over 200 entries across 18 years. canceledpeople.org

One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.

Note that posting ten times more about children in Gaza than about Israeli children is actually wildly biased *in favor of Israelis*.