Also, the only correct answer to "it's always been like this" is "THEN WE'RE FUCKING OVERDUE TO FIX IT AREN'T WE?"

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Like all other IDW adjacent intellectuals, she sounds very smart if the most challenging media you've ever interacted with are police procedurals and opinion pages.

(Nothing against low or mid brow media per se, but much like fast food, it should not be your whole diet)

Oooooh, looking forward to those 130,000 years worth of notes!

Kurt Vonnegut's "Galapagos" is good, actually.

For a good time, mispel "Summon Monster".

a lot of these stories assume The Free Press is a business success. but is it? they generate a ton of subscription revenue but they spend so much that they needed to raise $15M last year. we can't see the financials, but there's a good chance that the operation is a money pit.

The purpose of government is not to maximize earnings to investors

Generations? Not sure we get to have those anymore

it just feels like.

@edzitron.com hell yeah

For all of @bishonentype.bsky.social 's national pride, I can't help but notice that the choice to end the episodes with a quote from the American "Newsroom", not the original Canadian one

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Not really: a materialist economic analysis of the movie shows us that the ass kicking is clearly triggered by a bubblegum shortage.

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.

Here we go!

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Calling BS. Only one of your school of communist child soldiers is Chinese.

And the best Luthor is, of course, Clancy Brown.

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...