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i looked it up, these things cost $2.5 million a piece. so many ways to analogize military waste, but that's approximately the amount of money one would need to retire and live off investments. assuming no one's torching global markets or something

thanks for that Patti. i might have led with "there was no reason to go to war, we have gained absolutely nothing," and then added the other stuff

i hate this country so fucking much

we remain firmly on track for 'republican president leaves the country an omnishambles, next democratic president is punished for not cleaning it up fast enough'

i think the real underlying logic is "BE NORMAL" for definitions of normal that will never be examined

their adversaries have committed multiple war crimes upfront in a war of naked aggression. anyone with a working theory of mind can figure they won't let that go unpunished

kif, show them the FIFA Medal of Honor i won!

you start by making exceptions based on your bigoted intuition. then when it becomes clear that you can't make a rule to include all and only real women, you cast a thought terminating cliche like "sex is real"

love that they've settled on not just the vanishingly rare trans kid surgeries, but that this mostly apocryphal surgery is "mutilation." just call me an insect, mike, we all know you'll get there soon enough

particularly fun example given that esketamine doesn't seem to work as well for depression as racemic ketamine, but it's the only one approved for depression

i am so tired of people saying eg Viagra (for cis men) is gender affirming care. erectile dysfunction and dysphoria are very different! cis breast implants help with dysmorphia, not dysphoria! i get the impulse to analogize but it trivializes the stakes for me

i'm just glad someone is working on the catastrophic public safety threat caused by my tits

did you know many women produce estrogen in their bodies off label

through an uptick in spear phishing, not a protocol breach

like it costs nothing to do nothing to a trans person. it's so fucking free and easy to let trans people go about our lives.

we are being positioned as an incredible evil but WHAT are we doing, materially? nothing

the issue is that by existing we refute the entire cisheteropatriarchal framework.

i always hated going to church. i never really believed, though i tried. once i was on my own it was a big relief to just stop. over time i realized my parents' "faith" had legitimized abuse and saddled me with pointless shame

Call of Doofus: Postmodern Warfare

Turns out reading theory was an inordinate waste of theory and reading effort

the cause of the loneliness epidemic? ordering things that are offered for sale to us

2022

that last part is really _really_ funny. like the rest of it is bullshit but if there are any late night shows left you know they have a snoozle reel ready to go

productivity growth has been 2.7 times faster than wage growth since 1979. but with the power of AI, productivity will grow as fast as you're willing to believe, and you can drastically cut payrolls!

pro tip for AI enthusiasts who want people to stop being mean to them: maybe stop talking about how it's going to take everybody's jobs all the time

(and if you really do believe that, then 1. consider how that'll come off to the people whose jobs will be lost and 2. become a UBI stan)

apparently terf scientists have discovered that 90% of the population hates me. this constitutes a moral high ground and i will hold my piss forevermore

i do hope the next permanent CEO can find the same level of contempt that we've grown accustomed to

Lawrence Jones, an employee of a propaganda machine, warns Democrats not to feed Iranian propaganda by commenting on reality. Americans hate wars in the Middle East and increased fuel prices. Also what was Fox doing when Biden was president? Creating anti-American propaganda.

It should have been obvious to MAGA that the "no more foreign wars" slogan was always going to be an empty promise as long as Trump had folks like Lindsey Graham in his inner circle.

if you're trans, spare yourself from clicking this. the comments are atrocious

cannot overstate my contempt for the wannabe badasses cheering all this on

would you like to sign up for a membership? it's financially advantageous today but we're hoping you forget about it before the renewal fees

hey anthropic, if your so-called principles didn't stop this from happening, maybe pull the plug on this fucking business