Chris

Yes, but voters are still morally culpable for their decision

We need to call it what it is: a president using government coercion to silence voices he doesn't agree with is authoritarianism, plain and simple.

It's the Orbán playbook, the Putin playbook, and now the Trump playbook. And it should alarm every American.

So much of the crisis is the fact that liberals are unwilling to describe what's happening, because they're scared to say that their opponents are lying, are operating in bad faith, want evil or harmful policy, and don't share our basic goals about what society should look like

counterpoint: these exact same losers say the exact same thing every time anybody talks back or puts a girl in a video game or whatever so i don't think the liberal urge to performatively flinch at the canned backlash is a useful reflex in 2025

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

Feel like its a bad sign about the health of the republic that Pritzker has to talk about TX Dems like they’re the Polish government-in-exile in London

I went on Easter to my parent's non-denominational church and I didn't remember the music being so bad when I was a kid. Was it always like that?

basically, the sign is saying gender is personal, not immutable and not binary!

on top: private means the variable (Gender) can only be written to by other code with access, and string is the variable type that means it stores text

on bottom: public can be written to by any code, const (constant) means it's immutable once assigned, and bool is short for boolean (true or false)

That’s my point. If tech companies want to create hardware that needs their services to function, they need to commit to supporting it for a specified period of time on the box instead of pulling the rug when they feel like it. There’s no research you could do to find out when Google would sunset it

They told users at the time of purchase when they would be doing this?

If there has to be a sunset, then they should explicitly define it

unless they communicated the finite life span upfront, then they should support it as long as they are in business.

"Abolish" is not a strong enough word for ICE.

The level of fucking delusion you have to have to support trump on the terms that most of his voters support him makes it hard for me to understand how they can function in day to day life

the thing about “democrats should take popular cultural positions” is that what constitutes popular is a function of an interaction between the public and elites. if a faction of elites start screaming about a vulnerable minority and another faction says they have a point, this shapes the public.

It’s so funny that Firefox caters to privacy concerned users, but that also means their users are so skittish that a minor ToS change means everyone wants to leave them.

If I ordered something from a Canadian retailer before the tariffs, do I get a bill from US customs when it ships? How does that work?

Of course, who knows if Apple will follow Google. Tim Cook seems to be trying to play both sides

If you have iOS Apple Maps is just as good if not better. It’s improved significantly from back when it first launched

☑️ From New York.
☑️ Known primarily by three letter initial.
☑️ Populist credentials.
☑️ Also appealing to liberal institutionalists.
☑️ Opposed to domestic fascism.
☑️ Opposed to imperial powers doing wars of conquest in Europe.
🔜 Assumes national power after massive recession.

Defending community meetings feels like defending caucuses for nominating presidential candidates. I thought everyone saw how undemocratic they are. I don't understand the argument for them compared to regular voting.

orange man bad

It's insane how evil Republicans are. Like, I knew they were before. But somehow it still manages to surprise me.

The algorithm is good, but TikTok was littered with ads. TikTok Shop made it worse too because people were incentivized to post videos for their random product

they should shut down every social media site and force us all to get a life tbh

The take I am most certain of that gets me in the most trouble is just "The reason homes are so expensive is because there are not enough of them, so we really really really need to build more of them."

"I would pay $20 a month if I could tell people to kill themselves on here"

I feel like this really distills their vibe into one single post

This is still possible in Firefox, but it's not the default