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there's never gonna be a fancy tech solution that immediately lets you know who is a good person and who is a bad person and if you believe someone somewhere has figured this out you're probably being taken advantage of
October 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
there's never gonna be a fancy tech solution that immediately lets you know who is a good person and who is a bad person and if you believe someone somewhere has figured this out you're probably being taken advantage of
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i DEEPLY hate the term. it's patronizing, it's a stupid euphemism, it plays into the transphobic notion that cis people are humoring us, it's epistemological oppression to avoid saying the word trans, 90% of the shit cis people do isn't called "gender affirming", etc
it's fucking trans healthcare.
it's fucking trans healthcare.
high key i hate the term "gender affirming care"
September 26, 2025 at 3:09 AM
i DEEPLY hate the term. it's patronizing, it's a stupid euphemism, it plays into the transphobic notion that cis people are humoring us, it's epistemological oppression to avoid saying the word trans, 90% of the shit cis people do isn't called "gender affirming", etc
it's fucking trans healthcare.
it's fucking trans healthcare.
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Deutsche Bank: “growth is not coming from AI itself but from building the factories to generate AI capacity.”
This is the same as saying:
"Growth is not coming from the mines (which have nothing in them), but from selling the picks and shovels to the miners."
This is the same as saying:
"Growth is not coming from the mines (which have nothing in them), but from selling the picks and shovels to the miners."
September 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Deutsche Bank: “growth is not coming from AI itself but from building the factories to generate AI capacity.”
This is the same as saying:
"Growth is not coming from the mines (which have nothing in them), but from selling the picks and shovels to the miners."
This is the same as saying:
"Growth is not coming from the mines (which have nothing in them), but from selling the picks and shovels to the miners."
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"SCPs that got hoovered up and regurgitated by chatbots end up giving tech executives schizophrenia" is perhaps fittingly a very SCP thing to happen
July 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
"SCPs that got hoovered up and regurgitated by chatbots end up giving tech executives schizophrenia" is perhaps fittingly a very SCP thing to happen
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16 minutes is too long to just say "You can't" and "Stop trying, go get laid somewhere else nerd"
September 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
16 minutes is too long to just say "You can't" and "Stop trying, go get laid somewhere else nerd"
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The same bs they're spewing about autism and tylenol is the same bs they're spewing about trans people's healthcare. It's the exact same playbook and the fact that the media can see through one and not the other is a damning indictment of how complicit they are in the attack on trans lives.
September 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The same bs they're spewing about autism and tylenol is the same bs they're spewing about trans people's healthcare. It's the exact same playbook and the fact that the media can see through one and not the other is a damning indictment of how complicit they are in the attack on trans lives.
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I think more people should challenge the fact this weirdo views women as currency and fears trans women will dilute the market
What it sounds like when philosophers who are also anti-trans activists submit an amicus brief to a US court where they argue for banning trans girls and women from women's sports.
September 23, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I think more people should challenge the fact this weirdo views women as currency and fears trans women will dilute the market
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any man who says a trans woman is biologically male should do a little "try it at home" experiment and suppress their testosterone and dose estrogen for several years. then let us know how biologically male they feel by the end of it. should be interesting
September 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM
any man who says a trans woman is biologically male should do a little "try it at home" experiment and suppress their testosterone and dose estrogen for several years. then let us know how biologically male they feel by the end of it. should be interesting
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this mindset exists because a significant amount of people, especially americans, believe mind control literally exists and fiction is the most mind-controliest form of mind control. alleged "progressives" have found a way to secularize the concept of demonic possession
this message appears if you search for hypnosis on pornhub
very normal response by society to the very real and very important threat of adult actors pretending to have sorcery make them sleepy
it’s the dumbest micro-censorship in our society today
very normal response by society to the very real and very important threat of adult actors pretending to have sorcery make them sleepy
it’s the dumbest micro-censorship in our society today
September 20, 2025 at 6:30 AM
this mindset exists because a significant amount of people, especially americans, believe mind control literally exists and fiction is the most mind-controliest form of mind control. alleged "progressives" have found a way to secularize the concept of demonic possession
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the thing about “steelmanning” is that most of the time you are in fact seeing the strongest version of an opposing argument. even if its utterly inane. in the real world “strength” is measured by how capable the argument is of being repeated by different people without explicit coordination
September 17, 2025 at 6:33 AM
the thing about “steelmanning” is that most of the time you are in fact seeing the strongest version of an opposing argument. even if its utterly inane. in the real world “strength” is measured by how capable the argument is of being repeated by different people without explicit coordination
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Suppose you tried to solve math problems by rolling dice to get the answer
Sometimes, the dice will give the correct answer. Other times, not.
If you were to insist that the wrong answers were the *dice* malfunctioning, people would rightly mock the shit out of you.
Sometimes, the dice will give the correct answer. Other times, not.
If you were to insist that the wrong answers were the *dice* malfunctioning, people would rightly mock the shit out of you.
September 15, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Suppose you tried to solve math problems by rolling dice to get the answer
Sometimes, the dice will give the correct answer. Other times, not.
If you were to insist that the wrong answers were the *dice* malfunctioning, people would rightly mock the shit out of you.
Sometimes, the dice will give the correct answer. Other times, not.
If you were to insist that the wrong answers were the *dice* malfunctioning, people would rightly mock the shit out of you.
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issuing a moratorium on trans women naming themselves luna. current lunas are grandfathered in but no more until we figure out what is going on
September 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
issuing a moratorium on trans women naming themselves luna. current lunas are grandfathered in but no more until we figure out what is going on
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Why do you say this as if you agree there actually exists a minority that is, as the QT'd article claims, 'disfigured' by transition. Do you realise how you sound?
"Ya sure detransitioners are mutilated and disfigured--but look, they don't matter! Uno percent!!!"
"Ya sure detransitioners are mutilated and disfigured--but look, they don't matter! Uno percent!!!"
9 Sep 25 -- Detransitions among trans kids run about 1%, and many of those are due to social/familial rejection. But WSJ editorial page flogs one of the few we know of and ignores the tens of thousands helped by affirming care. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Opinion | The CDC Can Help Those Disfigured by ‘Gender-Affirming Care’
Chloe Cole was subjected to hormones and a double mastectomy. Her injuries need to be acknowledged.
www.wsj.com
September 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Why do you say this as if you agree there actually exists a minority that is, as the QT'd article claims, 'disfigured' by transition. Do you realise how you sound?
"Ya sure detransitioners are mutilated and disfigured--but look, they don't matter! Uno percent!!!"
"Ya sure detransitioners are mutilated and disfigured--but look, they don't matter! Uno percent!!!"
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Calling it "treats" when ppl most hurt by price increases are the ones already unable to afford stuff? But it also underestimates how much the social contract such as it is built on being able to buy things you need when you need them and the collapse of that is extremely dangerous for the regime
September 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Calling it "treats" when ppl most hurt by price increases are the ones already unable to afford stuff? But it also underestimates how much the social contract such as it is built on being able to buy things you need when you need them and the collapse of that is extremely dangerous for the regime
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The "treats-based economy" discourse is minimizing and kinda reactionary imo, but cheap, readily available goods is one of the only social benefits USians have access to and taking it away cuz a guy got obsessed with a 19th century nationalist economic policy is a fitting end to the social peace
September 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The "treats-based economy" discourse is minimizing and kinda reactionary imo, but cheap, readily available goods is one of the only social benefits USians have access to and taking it away cuz a guy got obsessed with a 19th century nationalist economic policy is a fitting end to the social peace
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The stuff Jeffrey Epstein’s friends felt comfortable saying and drawing in grotesque detail with their names attached knowing they would not face consequences is the kind of thing I think of when I think about rape culture and how sexual violence against girls and young women is actually glorified
September 9, 2025 at 3:22 AM
The stuff Jeffrey Epstein’s friends felt comfortable saying and drawing in grotesque detail with their names attached knowing they would not face consequences is the kind of thing I think of when I think about rape culture and how sexual violence against girls and young women is actually glorified
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This wouldn't just ban federal funds from directly funding gender-affirming care, it would be an effective ban on ANY facility that receives ANY federal funding for ANY reason from providing gender-affirming care.
It's a de-facto ban.
Call your congressmen.
It's a de-facto ban.
Call your congressmen.
NEWS: House Appropriations Committee Republicans released their spending bill for Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies. The legislation would prohibit taxpayer dollars for any type of gender-affirming care for transgender people. This would include programs like Medicaid
September 8, 2025 at 8:58 PM
This wouldn't just ban federal funds from directly funding gender-affirming care, it would be an effective ban on ANY facility that receives ANY federal funding for ANY reason from providing gender-affirming care.
It's a de-facto ban.
Call your congressmen.
It's a de-facto ban.
Call your congressmen.
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Reminds me of when I was having so much trouble with my mic, I figure it was just me being incapable of learning/making it work & considered stopping making videos entirely
Turns out the mic was broken & would never sound right. Poor tools do make it hard to make things even by the best artists
Turns out the mic was broken & would never sound right. Poor tools do make it hard to make things even by the best artists
September 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Reminds me of when I was having so much trouble with my mic, I figure it was just me being incapable of learning/making it work & considered stopping making videos entirely
Turns out the mic was broken & would never sound right. Poor tools do make it hard to make things even by the best artists
Turns out the mic was broken & would never sound right. Poor tools do make it hard to make things even by the best artists
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if the Biden Irrelevancy had one clear lesson it's that you can't retake democracy from those who would destroy it and then spend years slow-rolling the arrests of those responsible while failing to explicitly change the rules to keep them from power
Something I wonder about for real is what comes after this, whenever that is. Because it can't be this again, right? Like if this is what the presidency is now then we can't ever have another president
September 4, 2025 at 4:12 AM
if the Biden Irrelevancy had one clear lesson it's that you can't retake democracy from those who would destroy it and then spend years slow-rolling the arrests of those responsible while failing to explicitly change the rules to keep them from power
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My working model is that gender relations were never not-broken, there just wasn’t a way (partly) out of the ongoing atrocity of patriarchy until relatively recently. It was the peace of a well-run prison, and egalitarian gender relations are still struggling to be born.
September 3, 2025 at 5:31 AM
My working model is that gender relations were never not-broken, there just wasn’t a way (partly) out of the ongoing atrocity of patriarchy until relatively recently. It was the peace of a well-run prison, and egalitarian gender relations are still struggling to be born.
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Tip for the GMs, writers, and worldbuilders out there;
Shut the fuck up.
That's the tip.
Sometimes, filling in the detail or having an answer ready to provide is worse.
Sometimes, you're better off just leaving unanswered, and letting your reader or players fill in the blanks.
#TTRPG
Shut the fuck up.
That's the tip.
Sometimes, filling in the detail or having an answer ready to provide is worse.
Sometimes, you're better off just leaving unanswered, and letting your reader or players fill in the blanks.
#TTRPG
September 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Tip for the GMs, writers, and worldbuilders out there;
Shut the fuck up.
That's the tip.
Sometimes, filling in the detail or having an answer ready to provide is worse.
Sometimes, you're better off just leaving unanswered, and letting your reader or players fill in the blanks.
#TTRPG
Shut the fuck up.
That's the tip.
Sometimes, filling in the detail or having an answer ready to provide is worse.
Sometimes, you're better off just leaving unanswered, and letting your reader or players fill in the blanks.
#TTRPG
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I feel like there should be at least some concerted attempt by professionals to explain how something like this could possibly happen, rather than the eye rolling and quiet “what the fuck”s we’re currently getting
September 1, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I feel like there should be at least some concerted attempt by professionals to explain how something like this could possibly happen, rather than the eye rolling and quiet “what the fuck”s we’re currently getting