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The amount of blackmail various people have on Trump must be staggering

This passage could also be a pretty good example of how some stories are retroactively prophetically allegorical rather than literal though. Did the tree story start getting told before or after the Temple was destroyed? We don’t _really_ know.

I have too many obligations to be able to quit my job, so who am I to say somebody else should, out of principle?

Here's somebody who did, fully aware of the cost, and who is paying it now. Give it a listen.

(The DOJ lawyer in the second segment, Julie T Le, has since been fired)

“‘I think dads are mostly a waste of time or space’ for the first few months of a child’s life”: skill issue, dude. Absolute, lit-in-marquee-lights skill issue.

When Americans were asked to temporarily sacrifice going to their barbers so we could keep the morgues from overflowing, people with guns stormed the Michigan capitol.

There were multiple big cults around people w/ big ideas. It was like Silicon Valley for wild ideas! & arguably, the most influential & biggest cults got destroyed, early Christians may have won out in part because they were more under the radar/didn’t link their ideas up to any political project

Reminder that the Pentagon press corps is a bunch of online ideological cronies like Laura Loomer and Matt Gaetz. Now, they won't even allow neutral photographers.
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Ed Martin Clowns Himself Into Bonus Ethics Charges It’s Not the Crime, It’s the Clowning Then-acting D.C. U.S. Attorney Ed...

Ed Martin already had plenty of trouble on his hands, all of his own making, when the DC bar disciplinary counsel last year began looking into his extortionist threat against Georgetown. But good ol’ Ed managed to make things a whole lot worse for himself.
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“AI is not the enemy” says the weird video trying to appeal to your human emotions using an AI avatar that you are supposed to believe is a real person who is upset that you are in any way skeptical of the very real life things that the industry she is a mascot for is doing

A cartoon by Ron Cobb (1975), showing a shadow of US B-52 bomber above cratered landscape. Two people who look like Vietnamese peasants look up; one says “they’re having problems with their economy again.”

This is from 1975.

Of course, you are not even strictly necessary either: you could just have an AI agent play your part as well. Then it’d be a full loop: lots and lots of money and technology devoted to creating and consuming and promoting content. The economic value of this is 0, plus costs

The thing is, even the conception of this piece from the NYTimes is just content. You interact with content, the content tries to get you engaged enough to do that, & in response, you get content back, then you post about it, generating more promotional content. You are the only human being here

They can’t grow up, because they are owned and run by a bunch of nepo babies who force their birth-given “genius” on the reporters and culture of the paper, from top to bottom. Nothing is going to change until they divest themselves from that system of unearned privilege

You mean he didn’t cover terrorism in a jokey, fun way? Instead he did serious, sober condemnations and official channel things? Do you guys ever, like, listen to yourselves and think about the things you are saying aside from your general editorial stance against him?

If a dominatrix orders you to wear painfully uncomfortable latex shoes in public, where kids can see, I think at that point you should consider whether the relationship is abusive

These two reasons, plus the fact that mines make it even more dangerous: bsky.app/profile/prch...

It’s pathetic that he can’t tell you the answer to that. As I’ve explained, the answer is pretty obvious.

The guy Trump pardoned, in exchange for backing his crypto scheme.

“I’m just this guy, you know?”

If you’re going to wear the latex shoes your Donmy mommy ordered you to in public, I think you need to consider the effect this has on children that might be exposed to your private perversion, tbh

Per WaPo: A new statue of President Trump and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has popped up again on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

Well, that’s it then

we see a lot of news stories about AI data centers ruining cities, noise, pollution, etc, so i'd really like to see some positive stories about AI, like someone burning down a data center, or a data center falling into a sinkhole. something that brings us together to laugh

Futurama 0212 The Deep South-Wrong Kind Of Mermaid YouTube video by Michael Bradley

The fool, no one can ever write a better love scene with a mermaid than Futurama

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Maybe making your life worse IS the reason.

Schatz: We don’t know for sure, but the likely bombing of an elementary school with one of our Tomahawk missiles is not a one-off mistake. It is the result of a change in policy so that the United States has way looser rules of engagement — way more tolerance for civilian harm.

plenty of us have to play the cuckold for our stupid shitty vapid bosses from time to time because capitalism extracts a moral cost to establish and maintain class striations, but to be outside of such a situation looking in—to see the grotesque, depraved obeisance within the halls of power

oof.

my job sucks but I still have dignity