I pray that one day we'll get far enough for our paths to diverge and the differences between anarchy and communism will become critically important, but for the time being we're headed in the same direction and have the same enemies. That makes us allies.
On the one hand, we have actual evidence that reflecting the real variety and diversity of the world is good for your bottom line. On the other hand, "go woke, go broke" rhymes, so it's hard to say which side has the more convincing argument, really.
Haitian woman, 31, dies alone at Pittsburgh bus stop days after ICE released her to the streets far from home to perish. Rest in power, Daphy Michel: migrantinsider.com/p/the-loneso...
I say this as someone who, just a decade ago, was still naive enough to believe that the situation was "complicated." But Michael Brooks nailed it years ago, a few months before his tragic death: there's nothing complicated about this, and there never has been. youtu.be/7ebPj_FqM5Q?...
It's not like the Nakba was a secret. Israel may have hid a lot of the records, allowing there to be this debate over how bad it was or the details of it, which Zionists used to try to defend it, but the evidence has always been there for anyone willing to look.
...a people who could make nationalism work, it would be the Jews. That even Jewish nationalism ends in fascism, tyranny, and genocide should show us that there are no exceptions. This is what nationalism means, always and everywhere, even for the best of us.
And to be clear, with their long, bitter history of experience with the very worst that nationalism can lead to and a strong, millennia-old religious, ethical, and philosophical tradition rooted in rigorous inquiry and its application to the pursuit of justice, if there was ever going to be...
...the foundational role that terrorist groups like Irgun in the formation of the IDF and the Likud Party. Menachem Begin was there at the state's founding, and he was very much cut from the same genocidal cloth as Bibi. It's always been there for anyone willing to look at it.
Israel's been moving further and further right throughout its entire history, from the Faustian bargain its secular socialist founders made with conservative rabbis, giving them unprecedented political power on the expectation that they would die out and secularism would continue to increase, to...
I am also an over-40, and you're right that this is what we were told, and a lot of us bought it, but it was never true, and a lot of us knew it. Netanyahu didn't come out of nowhere. The genocidal core of Zionism has been there since its inception, just like every other nationalist project.
I think if I were asked to give advice on what's the most important component to a game's success? Like, what can literally you do, to make your game better?
"Polish."
Polish includes testing. So when I say "Polish" I mean, among other things, "LOTS of testing."
But I also mean....
But hey, it's a small price to pay to stop the ... number of counts of voter fraud across the entire country since I was born that I can count on both hands, right? Disenfranchising millions per year to stop ones of cases of fraud per decade makes sense somehow, I'm sure.
Anyone who tells you that this is a trifling concern that will not inhibit anyone from exercising the rights owed to them as citizens is either a liar or has lived a life so blessedly free of any disruption or hardship as to be wholly disconnected from reality.
Got a Real ID today, because I have a job that will give me the time to go do such things in the byzantine hours when the Real ID office is open and available, as well as the resources to collect all of the documentation necessary, make the trip there and back, and pay the $70 processing fee.
"My little horror movie review was introduced to prove a conception of antifa that — like many of the monsters we scream at in horror flicks — isn’t quite real," @reproutopia.bsky.social writes.
A tumblr post from orteil42 (cookie clicker dev) that says: am i losing the drive to create things for an increasingly alien and hostile world whose mounting taste for fascism feels like a cold metal vise around my skull or am i just lazy and unmedicated and looking for excuses
Sorry for the lack of activity it’s literally just this
If people in positions of influence put rational consideration of evidence over rationalizing their prejudices, the world would be a far kinder place.
"I was skeptical. Instantly dismissive, actually. Money for everyone, even rich people? It made my skin crawl." This author went from hater to advocate after seeing that "in almost every study, one of the benefits that accrues is, quite literally, a future."
The evidence is clear if you look at it.
I don’t half-ass shit like that punk, Stanley Kubrick.
Real talk: Progressives have completely failed to adequately address the significant impacts of Long COVID, and this has left an opening for the far right to exploit vulnerable patients and deceitfully blame vaccines for all chronic illnesses.
It staggers me how fast the vast majority of people - including medical professionals - have normalised infection with a virus that can cause cognitive dysfunction / anosmia. SARS-2 is definitively not 'just another respiratory virus', yet society is just shoehorning it in there.
"Podcast" does not mean "bad lighting and the microphone is in the shot"! "Podcast" means "not dependent on any commercial entity for distribution or content approval or monetization". That's a big fucking deal. It's radical! www.anildash.com/2024/02/05/w...
Sorry I didn’t know you could say something as outrageous as “where are the student protests now” when you crushed and derided the students for protesting and fighting to prevent catastrophic, apocalyptic violence against civilians, because they knew what this would unleash. They were so brave.
Not a surprise. Per a new study from Careerminds, two out of three employers that reduced headcount “because of AI” are already rehiring laid-off staff.
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…that b/c none of them actually study ancient history. They want to get a hit in against Christianity, and look, I totally get and respect the motivation. There’s clearly never been a greater force for evil in human history than Christianity, I am very much not a fan, but this is just bad history.
…evidence in the ancient world usually is. That Jesus existed — nothing else about the man, just that — is one of the better-attested facts we have of the ancient world. If we accepted the mythicist’s standards, almost everything from before 1750 would fall away. The mythicists don’t understand…
Whether or not Jesus existed is of secondary concern to me. My primary concern is ancient history. The Jesus mythicists are not taken seriously by ancient historians because the mythicists project modern standards of documentary evidence into the past with zero understanding of how sparse our…
…but a historian needs to be able to practice history as a discipline even when there is no archaeological evidence. Most of the things that ancient historians study do not have archaeological evidence. We’re usually dealing with historical sources, and that requires understanding those sources.
Because the question is, “what is the proper standard for evaluating the historicity of a figure in ancient history?” and archaeology and history are two different disciplines, with two different standards for how evidence is considered and evaluated. It’s great when one illuminates the other…
…in the centuries that follow. This isn’t historical inquiry, this is anachronistic projection. Within their first century context, these are painfully typical documents.
