actually wait what do you even do at a bar where masks are required, considering that the primary activities at a bar are putting things in your mouth and speaking at close quarters
yeah man i do think that you are a hysterical bully when you think that going from 'masks seven nights a week' to 'masks six nights a week' is unreasonable
yeah man i do think that you are a hysterical bully when you think that going from 'masks seven nights a week' to 'masks six nights a week' is unreasonable
okay. i'm going to do some posts leftists like: iranian crude is actually fantastic. they produce everything within the medium-light to medium-heavy band which is useful for producing everything from gasoline to bunker fuel. in addition the sulfur fraction is kind of low.
nitter.net is down. xcancel.com may go soon, too. all the respect to the folks at nitter for their services so far, but to be honest, X completely locking itself out of the web is probably a net positive for us all in the long term
paying off the debt under clinton would have absolutely annihilated the economy, if for no other reason than that we were preparing to do our monetary policy directly via mortgate-backed securities
also, the public salience of trans girls playing sports is incredibly low. the public salience of say, data centers, is incredibly high. strange that a “popularist” cannot see this. almost as if “popularism” is a way to smuggle ones preferences in to politics as somehow objective.
It's very important that we defend the right of race scientists to hold academic sinecures, or else we open the door to attacks on the freedom of academic disciplines like gender studies and African-American history, which have already been banned.
It’s so bizarre when you encounter this in the wild with Normies too, like, they’ll genuinely truly believe that Trump could not have materially made their lives worse, and so they don’t understand, like genuinely are incapable of understanding, what is currently happening 
The median American voter, voted for it be 2019 again and for Trump to make them rich, under the very mistaken belief that Worse Things Aren't Possible, and quite literally everyone is paying for it
For over a year, Canada has worked intensively and in good faith with the United States to negotiate a new comprehensive trade deal. We have been pragmatic, patient, and persistent. Our goal has always been to get the best deal for Canadians, never a deal at any price or on any time frame.
i can halfway understand it. we are going to have to do incredibly radical constitutional hardball to make it so jim crow isn't constitutionally mandatory, but i have previously endorsed shooting people (c.f., the civil war) to stop a racialized caste system and i haven't changed my mind about that.
i do not mean that we should be shooting people. that should be avoided at all cost. but the thing is that my commitment to that position is such that i would endorse shooting people over it if it came to that and it were strategicaly sound to do it. it is not often strategically sound at all.
i am a liberal. i am willing to live with capitalism. i do not care one way or another. but if socialists care are the only ones willing to say out loud that they will do what is necessary, if elected, to instantiate my values, then i suppose i am a socialist. if you do my thing i will do yours.
there have been less than two dozen national general strikes of more than a week, globally, most have been in relatively small countries, and only only two (Russia, 1905; Iran, 1978-9) were in countries a tenth the size of the US.
Even when LLMs write well, the lack of variety in style is crippling. Reading the same prose in your instructions & social media & advertisements & software & PowerPoint eventually makes one queasy.
Prompting & temperature only gets you so far. Real variation is needed (and under-researched)
really enjoyed the NY Times profile of the latest submissive blonde whose energy will be fed to the golden throne that keeps our decaying pedophile emperor alive
the fact that john ossoff can kick off a two-day media cycle by saying that the president is uninterested in doing his job and is sleeping through meetings and traveling around with a young blonde, suggests that not enough of these guys are speaking plainly and effectively about these assholes
people don't hate data centers because they think data centers use too much water. they think data centers use too much water because they hate data centers.
hello adolf hitler, i didn't know that torturing and extrajudicially murdering a libertarian communist and feminist activist - leading to the legitimisation of reactionary forces that later fed into fascism - for opposing a government and burning some fucking newspapers, is based!! (٥↼_↼)
It’s nice that a number of Republican electeds are standing up for America’s long-term alliances. But there’s only one way they can possibly save U.S. power and security: impeach and convict Trump, Vance, and the entire cabinet. If they do it soon they’ll even still hold the presidency.
Trump says he'll impose a 10% tariff (rising to 25% in June) on Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland, because they've sent people to Greenland, until the US can buy Greenland.
Trump says he'll impose a 10% tariff (rising to 25% in June) on Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland, because they've sent people to Greenland, until the US can buy Greenland.
amazing developments from centrists "if a different centrist was elected instead of Franz von Papen then Hitler wouldn't have killed millions of people and invaded several countries"
banger!
neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now
the early communists at least were trying to build utopia, and were willing to build the gulag if it was necessary to get there. these days sometimes it seems like internet communists are trying to build the gulag, and are willing to refer to utopia sometimes if it lets them get there.
nobody defended these things as they were happening! Stalin treated them as shameful. he lied and denied them. even the show trials pretended to have evidence.
tankieism is a worse ideology than the actual ideology which murdered all those people because at least the murder was hypocritical
like i dunno i think it's hard to look at the communist history of murderous terror and think "yes that part of communist history specifically i think is good and want to emulate"
"you should get killed for disagreeing with Stalin" was something modern Stalinists believe but not something Stalin himself ever claimed. it was true but no one was allowed to say it was.
Worth remembering that way back when we had that first Signal chat leak that at no point did anyone say "the president said X." Instead we got Miller saying "my sense is the president wants ___"
I have the utmost respect for Senator Kaine and Senator Warner but we do not need “coaching” on redistricting coming from a cuck chair in the corner. How about you all stay focused on the fascist in the White House and let us handle redistricting in Virginia. 10-1
I have the utmost respect for Senator Kaine and Senator Warner but we do not need “coaching” on redistricting coming from a cuck chair in the corner. How about you all stay focused on the fascist in the White House and let us handle redistricting in Virginia. 10-1