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December 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
If there was any justice in the world, the Trump era would be the absolute death knell for white supremacist ideas. We just watched a white-guy coalition form around the worst and dumbest man in America and then do the worst and dumbest governing in a long long time.
December 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
If there was any justice in the world, the Trump era would be the absolute death knell for white supremacist ideas. We just watched a white-guy coalition form around the worst and dumbest man in America and then do the worst and dumbest governing in a long long time.
I had the perfect woman, gorgeous, brilliant, always let me be the hat in monopoly.
God, are you punishing me because my hair is better than yours?
She once made Rahm Emanuel cry in an airport lounge.
God, are you punishing me because my hair is better than yours?
She once made Rahm Emanuel cry in an airport lounge.
December 10, 2025 at 6:40 AM
I had the perfect woman, gorgeous, brilliant, always let me be the hat in monopoly.
God, are you punishing me because my hair is better than yours?
She once made Rahm Emanuel cry in an airport lounge.
God, are you punishing me because my hair is better than yours?
She once made Rahm Emanuel cry in an airport lounge.
Shingrix vaccine treatment against shingles seems to be a way to reduce dementia risk. (Chickenpox/shingles is herpes zoster on this reference)
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC....
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC....
December 9, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Shingrix vaccine treatment against shingles seems to be a way to reduce dementia risk. (Chickenpox/shingles is herpes zoster on this reference)
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC....
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC....
Lady at the thrift shop checkout was excited I was buying "The Lobster" (DVD) and it wasn't until ages later that I thought how cool it would have been to say 'So, we'd have that in common.'
December 9, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Lady at the thrift shop checkout was excited I was buying "The Lobster" (DVD) and it wasn't until ages later that I thought how cool it would have been to say 'So, we'd have that in common.'
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you know how i know im a 44yo dad? how much i laughed at this shit
December 6, 2025 at 3:31 AM
you know how i know im a 44yo dad? how much i laughed at this shit
This is true because of who we are, because robots aren't cheap and risking one to check whether that's a group of militants or a local wedding would be a hassle. But a hypothetical ethics-first military could reduce its mistakes a lot. Bombs that don't explode if a train on the bridge surprises it.
fwiw I think lethal robot infantry, if/when we get there, will be uniquely bad because it’s much easier to make them do things human soldiers won’t do consistently
December 5, 2025 at 11:59 PM
This is true because of who we are, because robots aren't cheap and risking one to check whether that's a group of militants or a local wedding would be a hassle. But a hypothetical ethics-first military could reduce its mistakes a lot. Bombs that don't explode if a train on the bridge surprises it.
I dunno if this is possible but I'm accidentally clicking advertisements on websites like Facebook or gumtree about 100% more than a month ago. Have they lowered the threshold on what counts as a click.
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
I dunno if this is possible but I'm accidentally clicking advertisements on websites like Facebook or gumtree about 100% more than a month ago. Have they lowered the threshold on what counts as a click.
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There are so many people living lives of quiet dignity despite horrific medical news or poverty or tragedy where every day they still wake up and try to be good people in the world even as the world pushes against them and it makes me even angrier at the absolute shitheads that rule over things
December 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
There are so many people living lives of quiet dignity despite horrific medical news or poverty or tragedy where every day they still wake up and try to be good people in the world even as the world pushes against them and it makes me even angrier at the absolute shitheads that rule over things
I feel like the grimdark of the far future (which I have to admit I don't know well) faces some serious competition for the grimdarkness of the Russian army's system - any amount of abuse as long as the right number of young men are getting turned into corpses at the front.
December 5, 2025 at 6:16 AM
I feel like the grimdark of the far future (which I have to admit I don't know well) faces some serious competition for the grimdarkness of the Russian army's system - any amount of abuse as long as the right number of young men are getting turned into corpses at the front.
When people try to say something was a 'righteous' strike instead of a legal, or justifiable or permitted, they are invoking the right to mete out or participate in a special thing, Divine violence. I guess it's christofascist, and the ideology is doing the work of covering up their conscience.
December 5, 2025 at 2:01 AM
When people try to say something was a 'righteous' strike instead of a legal, or justifiable or permitted, they are invoking the right to mete out or participate in a special thing, Divine violence. I guess it's christofascist, and the ideology is doing the work of covering up their conscience.
Ragebaity. He's saying 'if you wanted to prove, instead of just claim, that these boat strikes are hitting actual enemy combatants of an actual terror group with actual intent of harming the US, Palantir is a way to get that evidence.' I doubt it. Also doubt he'd sign up to falsify the claims
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.
gizmodo.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Ragebaity. He's saying 'if you wanted to prove, instead of just claim, that these boat strikes are hitting actual enemy combatants of an actual terror group with actual intent of harming the US, Palantir is a way to get that evidence.' I doubt it. Also doubt he'd sign up to falsify the claims
Yes! I was not hallucinating! If I had $500 I would be tempted, just to find out whether customers are allowed to request any specifics - titles, content, theme, accounts, shop etc or if that would being exactly the big, needy baby this person apparently hates.
December 2, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Yes! I was not hallucinating! If I had $500 I would be tempted, just to find out whether customers are allowed to request any specifics - titles, content, theme, accounts, shop etc or if that would being exactly the big, needy baby this person apparently hates.
I think Marx had thought about it when he defined exchange value as arising from 'socially necessary labour time.' The whole world of work is contingent and I just can't see the social relations and markets that define wealth now retaining that meaning if they try to scrape the society off them.
December 2, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I think Marx had thought about it when he defined exchange value as arising from 'socially necessary labour time.' The whole world of work is contingent and I just can't see the social relations and markets that define wealth now retaining that meaning if they try to scrape the society off them.
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I'm a little worried that the media frenzy around the second strike on the shipwrecked is masking the more important fact that every single strike is illegal
Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) says Pete Hegseth should "resign immediately" if it's true he gave a directive to “kill everybody” in a strike on boats in the Caribbean, including a second strike to kill survivors of the first strike.
“If the reports are true, Pete Hegseth likely committed a war crime."
“If the reports are true, Pete Hegseth likely committed a war crime."
December 1, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I'm a little worried that the media frenzy around the second strike on the shipwrecked is masking the more important fact that every single strike is illegal
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JSOC and SEAL Team 6 have spent a decade-plus orchestrating drone strikes on land, including when Bradley was the Team 6 commander overseeing Somalia/Yemen strikes—and reattacks to kill survivors, who in a land context are not as categorically hors de combat as at sea, were routine during them:
December 1, 2025 at 7:51 PM
JSOC and SEAL Team 6 have spent a decade-plus orchestrating drone strikes on land, including when Bradley was the Team 6 commander overseeing Somalia/Yemen strikes—and reattacks to kill survivors, who in a land context are not as categorically hors de combat as at sea, were routine during them:
Ron Burgundy explaining the horrors of being blind is one of those bits that just delights me every time.
December 1, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Ron Burgundy explaining the horrors of being blind is one of those bits that just delights me every time.
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It is *lunacy* for the ostensibly liberal opposition party to say we shouldn't limit any individual's wealth and power after watching a cadre of fascist billionaires systematically destroy this country. That's probably the single most important thing we *must* do!
November 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
It is *lunacy* for the ostensibly liberal opposition party to say we shouldn't limit any individual's wealth and power after watching a cadre of fascist billionaires systematically destroy this country. That's probably the single most important thing we *must* do!
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Got a long drive coming up?
Why not listen to our recent 2-hour episode about how to invent a vaccine, why it took 90 years after Jenner's discovery to make the 2nd vaccine, and how we owe the measles vaccine to a chance career change.
Plus: scientific rivalries, live demos, and secret notebooks.
Why not listen to our recent 2-hour episode about how to invent a vaccine, why it took 90 years after Jenner's discovery to make the 2nd vaccine, and how we owe the measles vaccine to a chance career change.
Plus: scientific rivalries, live demos, and secret notebooks.
Imagine you lived in the 18th century.
Smallpox kills 1 in 3 cases. Yet you can’t culture pathogens, don’t know germ theory, and have no idea what a virus is. How would you invent a vaccine?
In a new episode of HARD DRUGS, we trace the history of vaccines!
Smallpox kills 1 in 3 cases. Yet you can’t culture pathogens, don’t know germ theory, and have no idea what a virus is. How would you invent a vaccine?
In a new episode of HARD DRUGS, we trace the history of vaccines!
The history of vaccines
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November 29, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Got a long drive coming up?
Why not listen to our recent 2-hour episode about how to invent a vaccine, why it took 90 years after Jenner's discovery to make the 2nd vaccine, and how we owe the measles vaccine to a chance career change.
Plus: scientific rivalries, live demos, and secret notebooks.
Why not listen to our recent 2-hour episode about how to invent a vaccine, why it took 90 years after Jenner's discovery to make the 2nd vaccine, and how we owe the measles vaccine to a chance career change.
Plus: scientific rivalries, live demos, and secret notebooks.
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Can you imagine if the Times and Post and CNN reacted to every time DHS explicitly endorsed neo-Nazism with the same kind of screaming headlines that they did every time Biden stumbled over a world leader’s name?
November 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Can you imagine if the Times and Post and CNN reacted to every time DHS explicitly endorsed neo-Nazism with the same kind of screaming headlines that they did every time Biden stumbled over a world leader’s name?
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Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
hsph.harvard.edu
November 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
In S14 E2 of Bobs Burgers Louise calls Rudy "Rudesind", suggesting that in addition to 'The Thing' and 'Caligula', she's aware of the librarians assistant from the Book of the New Sun.
November 28, 2025 at 9:18 AM
In S14 E2 of Bobs Burgers Louise calls Rudy "Rudesind", suggesting that in addition to 'The Thing' and 'Caligula', she's aware of the librarians assistant from the Book of the New Sun.
I was thinking about whether I was depressed today and at one level definitely not, but I also don't know how people empty out their sadness tank. It's all still there, and presumably always will be. I have happiness and joys and routines and strength tanks that are pretty full too.
November 27, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I was thinking about whether I was depressed today and at one level definitely not, but I also don't know how people empty out their sadness tank. It's all still there, and presumably always will be. I have happiness and joys and routines and strength tanks that are pretty full too.
Got this little guy from AliExpress - clearly an alternative to the Akai mpk or little Arturias. Bluetooth and battery or USB connection. Got it working a vst in Sonar last night. Under $100 Australian. Cheap because the software support is not slick. Such a shame I'm not musical or good at things.
November 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Got this little guy from AliExpress - clearly an alternative to the Akai mpk or little Arturias. Bluetooth and battery or USB connection. Got it working a vst in Sonar last night. Under $100 Australian. Cheap because the software support is not slick. Such a shame I'm not musical or good at things.