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Everyone hate-sharing that Arash Azizi "I'm so socialist I don't think companies should be able to fire employees who shout slurs at people" article, stop.
Discuss it if you want. But don't feed it clicks
Discuss it if you want. But don't feed it clicks
December 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Everyone hate-sharing that Arash Azizi "I'm so socialist I don't think companies should be able to fire employees who shout slurs at people" article, stop.
Discuss it if you want. But don't feed it clicks
Discuss it if you want. But don't feed it clicks
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have you considered that I could be both a liar AND dumb?
December 12, 2025 at 2:32 AM
have you considered that I could be both a liar AND dumb?
Mark is mad that he will have to compete for appointments and poor people won't just die already
Are you ok with rich people having access to the most expensive doctors and hospitals and you don't because the gov won't pay for it or they opted out of the Universal care program ?
Do you think it's right for doctors and nurses to only work for what they think is a living wage ?
Do you think it's right for doctors and nurses to only work for what they think is a living wage ?
December 12, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Mark is mad that he will have to compete for appointments and poor people won't just die already
seriously, this guy is an idiot
For all Universal HC/Single Payer/M4A advocates.
What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ?
Who in the USA gov runs the program?
R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?
What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ?
Who in the USA gov runs the program?
R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?
December 12, 2025 at 12:46 AM
seriously, this guy is an idiot
The first time Charlie managed to be a magnum
look, i'm on the record arguing the global wine glut could be a net positive for the us trade in the long term thanks to how it is lowering start-up costs and other barriers to entry for a new generation of winemaker-entrepreneurs. [stephen a smith voice] HOWEVER
December 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The first time Charlie managed to be a magnum
Don't turn around, oh
Der pencil guy's in town, oh
Der pencil guy's in town, oh
Kommissar is pleased to announce generous allocation of two pencils per child. Thank the kommisar for his bounty!
Trump: "You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need 1 or 2. They don't need that many. You always need steel. You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice. So we're doing things right."
December 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Don't turn around, oh
Der pencil guy's in town, oh
Der pencil guy's in town, oh
Folks, the trillions they hope to save is from people dying
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Folks, the trillions they hope to save is from people dying
I generally hate doom posting, but the one bit I'll indulge in - I think this entire thing ends with the feds murdering Abrego Garcia
Judge Xinis grants habeas for Abrego Garcia, ordering him released from ICE custody immediately.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Memorandum Opinion – #110 in Abrego Garcia v. Noem (D. Maryland, 8:25-cv-02780) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM OPINION. Signed by Judge Paula Xinis on 12/11/2025. (kns, Deputy Clerk) (Entered: 12/11/2025)
storage.courtlistener.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I generally hate doom posting, but the one bit I'll indulge in - I think this entire thing ends with the feds murdering Abrego Garcia
A lot of people in the replies are bringing up correlation/causation, but that's missing the point. The question is about rates *changing*, not levels
FOX: Are data centers jacking up rates on everyday Americans?
BURGUM: 100% false
FOX: Why?
BURGUM: The highest electric prices in this country are Hawaii and Maine, and there are no data centers there
BURGUM: 100% false
FOX: Why?
BURGUM: The highest electric prices in this country are Hawaii and Maine, and there are no data centers there
December 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
A lot of people in the replies are bringing up correlation/causation, but that's missing the point. The question is about rates *changing*, not levels
Does not finishing a movie count? Walked out of Very Bad Things
Never mind movies you’ve watched multiple times, name a movie you’ve watched once and would never watch again.
December 11, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Does not finishing a movie count? Walked out of Very Bad Things
I prefer to read this as a recent rule change
I’ve worked in public libraries for 20 years, today was the first time we’ve had to tell someone they couldn’t bring their chainsaw in the library.
December 11, 2025 at 6:05 AM
I prefer to read this as a recent rule change
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Mark Cuban supports the use of tools that are known to make use of CSAM material in their training (all AI models have scraped this stuff).
Why is abuse of children not a red line for Mark?
Why is abuse of children not a red line for Mark?
Then ask the same questions to the other free AI models. Ask them to review the output of the other.
December 11, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Mark Cuban supports the use of tools that are known to make use of CSAM material in their training (all AI models have scraped this stuff).
Why is abuse of children not a red line for Mark?
Why is abuse of children not a red line for Mark?
sometimes I wonder about the things Ken has done
Usually you've got to buy somebody at least two Amstel Lights to get them to eat your ass out like this.
Lutnick on the $1 million Trump Gold Card: "It's a gift to the United States of America to help America be great again under Donald Trump."
December 11, 2025 at 4:06 AM
sometimes I wonder about the things Ken has done
Sorry, but this is something an idiot who doesn't have to accomplish any real work says. Being a billionaire is bad for you.
Then ask the same questions to the other free AI models. Ask them to review the output of the other.
December 11, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Sorry, but this is something an idiot who doesn't have to accomplish any real work says. Being a billionaire is bad for you.
This list requires that government actors violate the law
According to a new court filing, the Trump administration has a six-page list of banned words that Head Start locations are forbidden from using when describing their programs.
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵
December 11, 2025 at 3:24 AM
This list requires that government actors violate the law
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This article was just lying to you. California builds 25,000 ADUs per year because of state preemption. There are tens of thousands of homes built with state ministerial streamlining. There are now *hundreds of thousands* of homes that would not otherwise exist because of state preemption.
Statewide zoning reform isn’t producing the wins everyone expected. For example, state law can declare that small backyard cottages are legal. But unless cities can review them, permit them, and builders can finance them, legalization will remain largely symbolic.
December 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
This article was just lying to you. California builds 25,000 ADUs per year because of state preemption. There are tens of thousands of homes built with state ministerial streamlining. There are now *hundreds of thousands* of homes that would not otherwise exist because of state preemption.
We can all grant that Sam Altman is dumber than an elementary school dropout, right?
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 10, 2025 at 1:13 AM
We can all grant that Sam Altman is dumber than an elementary school dropout, right?
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The Trump admin gave states an ultimatum: Cooperate with the immigration crackdown, or lose your federal funding.
Oregon and 19 other states fought back — and won.
Then officials logged in to the grant website to accept the money, only to find the button to do so was disabled: propub.li/4a4Bsk5
Oregon and 19 other states fought back — and won.
Then officials logged in to the grant website to accept the money, only to find the button to do so was disabled: propub.li/4a4Bsk5
December 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The Trump admin gave states an ultimatum: Cooperate with the immigration crackdown, or lose your federal funding.
Oregon and 19 other states fought back — and won.
Then officials logged in to the grant website to accept the money, only to find the button to do so was disabled: propub.li/4a4Bsk5
Oregon and 19 other states fought back — and won.
Then officials logged in to the grant website to accept the money, only to find the button to do so was disabled: propub.li/4a4Bsk5
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it is similar to the trick conservatives are trying to pull with the birthright citizenship clause. take something whose meaning is absolutely clear from just a plain reading of the text and transmogrify it into something that says its opposite through obfuscation and esoterica
December 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
it is similar to the trick conservatives are trying to pull with the birthright citizenship clause. take something whose meaning is absolutely clear from just a plain reading of the text and transmogrify it into something that says its opposite through obfuscation and esoterica
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actual Bluesky challenge: post your favorite work of art from fifty years before you were born
La Voix des airs-Magritte
La Voix des airs-Magritte
December 9, 2025 at 7:06 AM
actual Bluesky challenge: post your favorite work of art from fifty years before you were born
La Voix des airs-Magritte
La Voix des airs-Magritte
I love when a guy is like “of course I’d try to have cops shoot you”
December 9, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I love when a guy is like “of course I’d try to have cops shoot you”
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Okay here's a weird little con law brain teaser
I talk from time to time about this idea of a "Church of Good," that's stripped of any theological component
Could... could the government properly create and support such a thing, consistent with the Establishment Clause (as properly understood)?
I talk from time to time about this idea of a "Church of Good," that's stripped of any theological component
Could... could the government properly create and support such a thing, consistent with the Establishment Clause (as properly understood)?
I really, unironically think that developing something kind of like the Catholic Church parish system except there's no theology attached to it could be really good for our society!!
December 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Okay here's a weird little con law brain teaser
I talk from time to time about this idea of a "Church of Good," that's stripped of any theological component
Could... could the government properly create and support such a thing, consistent with the Establishment Clause (as properly understood)?
I talk from time to time about this idea of a "Church of Good," that's stripped of any theological component
Could... could the government properly create and support such a thing, consistent with the Establishment Clause (as properly understood)?
