Emily

I'm doing my part!

They see trans people as expendable. They would rather ensure that 100 trans people can't transition so long as there is a possibility that 1 person might mistakenly transition. In no other field of medicine is that even remotely ethical to suggest or do.

Not enough violence is being done to people who wrong others. They have forgotten what can happen to them.

Also, like, their perspective is everywhere. It's all over the media, I've heard it my whole life, and they won't shut up about it. I know why they don't think climate change is real: it snowed this winter. It's everywhere, and it's stupid. It's not a challenge to understand their view.

When South Korea successfully stopped a coup, arrested the former president, and prosecuted him, it sent a very strong message to everyone else:

"You can trust that 4 years from now, you won't have to worry about him returning and fucking everything up."

The US under Biden did the exact opposite.

Oh, that's fair, we will both be getting blorbos soon, surely.

You just got 4 chapters in a row! You're drowning in blorbos! When will my blorbos have a chance, huh?

windows is malware

I think that "many people whom your base needs to win in November will refuse to vote for this candidate" is a relevant thing to discuss when deciding who the nominee should be

We're overdue for a true, left-wing rehaul of national politics in this country. We tried the neoliberal way for the last 30+ years, it led to millions of disaffected voters, mass wealth inequality, and fascism. Let's try something else.

Yeah, that's sort of the point, actually. The goal is to signal this early, so that powers that be don't put us in that position.

The AI bros (who clearly don't understand AI) in the comments are hilarious. "ask stupid questions, get stupid answers". LLMs have no concept of how intelligent a question is, and they certainly were not designed to deliberately give stupid responses if they deem your question too stupid. 1/?

A spiky shape in green on a black background

A blobby shape in green on a black background

Roses are red
I bet you'll agree
Which one is bouba
And which is kiki

It's a good book! Why wouldn't you like it?

And it was a great way to derive external self-worth from teachers and parents, because I definitely couldn't generate any internal sense of inherent self-worth!

"I feel really hopeful about progress and the needle of progress tilting forward gradually"

>1 second glimpsing at the Twitter Torment Nexus

"i don't think there's a world where we can share a civilized society with some of these bloodthirsty true evil creatures"

Paint my corpse in brownface, hollow out my chest cavity and load it with remote-detonated explosives, also, get a lawn chair,

Oh come on, it's not like anyone wants her to be around right now. You'd rather she be actively gaining support for another disappointing run for president? Because that's what she'd be doing right now if she was in the news.

Minneapolis is justified in any form of self defense it chooses to employ. I hope it's fast and terrifying.

Iconic.

Also there's something wrong with you.

1950-1980: "wow! Haha! The new deal is great!"
1981: Ronald Reagan

There's a lot of people here saying that material reality is the primary driver of *waves hands* all of this, and I'm sorry but I actually really don't think material reality is what puts so much hate in the hearts of straight middle class white dudes

If he wants to declare martial law, he will. It won't be based on reality. I don't know why some people continue to say: "be peaceful or he'll invoke martial law." Are you all living in this country in 2026???? Haven't you seen them make things up out of whole cloth???? Are you 10 years old?

Really good comment on the Faye/Jane parallel, I hadn't noticed that, or put words to the themes of identity creation/denial. Anyway, if you're curious about how to read Rachel, me too, I have no idea. Good luck. And yes, Frankie rules.

I mean, I think the more reasonable answer is a) they don't care to make it good, they want to pump it out asap. But also b) if you say your game is 50GB, that implies an amount of content that 12GB doesn't. It's advertising, not anticompetitive.

"Illusion of free choice" meme with "over-acheiver firstborn daughter" on one side and "gifted kid son" on the other, both leading to "burnt out mentally ill lesbian"

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Also, good Beth thoughts. Beth is great.