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So you can be arrested for reading… that?
I know America is well on its way on the march into shit, but the Brits aren’t too far behind us. And I know the French and the Germans are holding off fascism by dint of razor thin margins and low chicanery. It’s kind of discouraging, too, that when they brought back the ‘30s it was such a dull, cheap, banal version of the ‘30s. Could we maybe have the cool art deco aesthetics? At least the stormtroopers could be wearing Hugo Boss…

2026-07-19 04:00:55 GMT

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At least the married women don’t have to describe their physical appearance.

2026-07-02 16:18:10 GMT

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That’s how they know you haven’t died yet. It’s like the deep thoughts and prayers after school shootings. Dead children don’t vote either.

2026-05-20 16:42:26 GMT

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“It’s a sacrifice… I’m willing to make!”
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2026-04-06 16:08:03 GMT

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If you don’t mind, I’m going to add this to my, “shapes to try modeling in Blender,” file. I’d rescale it, as gustodon suggests, so that the door is human-sized.

2026-03-21 17:54:16 GMT

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The good thing about avoiding hero worship is: it doesn’t matter to the point if it later turns out that this person did something shitty. This thing Bill Cosby said is funny(or it isn’t, but the thing is contained in those words). “Joss Whedon is awesome,” was always fraught. People who suck can sometimes say things that don’t. Maybe vice versa…

2026-03-21 17:42:06 GMT

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Enforcers having the freedom to choose their level of enforcement was central to the power of racism even in the days of wide-open segregation. Literacy requirements? They just didn’t test white people. The war on drugs? No mention of race, but look at the arrests and charges. Who gets singled out to have their voting rights examined? Not people with pink skin who have trouble with direct sunshine.

2026-03-08 04:37:07 GMT

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It works for me, ‘cause I’m a strange isolated little island. It feels all homey, like I belong.

2026-03-04 01:35:57 GMT

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In the event that I survive, I will walk the wasteland and one by one crush the heads of the winners of this wager.

2026-02-20 23:33:51 GMT

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This came up in my feed with absolutely no context, and for just a moment I was afraid I was back on Instagram.

2026-02-13 19:51:35 GMT

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Thing I honestly believe, thing I know, really, these guys didn’t put in that whole bit about forfeiture of full bonus(pre-tax) if fired(for ANY REASON) before five years by accident. They have the full intention of firing these rubes before they vest, it’s why they need to hire more rubes. They may be “kind” and not demand the full $50k. You know to mollify them, but working for these people is like riding a scorpion. They WILL sting you. It’s in their nature.

2026-02-01 08:41:30 GMT

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At this point “economist” is a hard red flag.

2026-01-07 17:50:47 GMT

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The really shouldn’t be saying, “NATO stops.” They should be saying, “the U.S. stops being a part of NATO, and becomes a target of NATO.”

2026-01-05 23:38:49 GMT

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“Shay ka-VO-lo!”
I am incapable of saying that without hand gestures and a fake Italian accent. Perfect!

2025-12-10 17:02:34 GMT

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That’s what people like that do.
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2025-12-09 03:22:19 GMT

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If Peter Thiel has his way, most of us will have less security with less privacy.
Freedom can not survive without democracy. Except for the lords.
The question of WHY the libertarians fail to make inroads with women and the poor is studiously unexamined. The flaw lies not with those groups, but with libertarianism.

2025-12-05 03:24:10 GMT

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When you’re done fucking over all the workers, who do you sell your shit to? That’s the fundamental question of economics that economists in the service of the rich refuse to ask.

2025-11-28 23:33:08 GMT

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I’m assuming this is some kind of Canadian Onion thing, but who knows?

2025-11-24 17:20:40 GMT

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I want to address Thom Tillis, “There are a lot of positive things that we’re doing here, that the administration is doing.” What positive things, Thom? Be specific, Thom.
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2025-11-06 08:15:54 GMT

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Fuck peace and reconciliation, we need truth and consequences.

2025-10-30 18:59:49 GMT

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Hatred for trans people and women is killing men. The FO isn’t always for the ones who FA, but when it hits them it is hilarious.

2025-10-26 20:59:44 GMT

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Pretty. In a sort of desolate-ish way.

2025-10-14 01:19:53 GMT

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“We WILL replace you!” I love that.
“Fascists! We will replace you with black folks.”
“We will replace you with hispanic folks.”
“We will replace you with Arab folks.”
“We will replace you with Jewish folks.”
“We will replace you with gay folks.”
“We will replace you with transgender folks.”
“We will replace you with white folks who aren’t assholes.”
“We will replace you with nice people of any color from any place.”
“And you will not be missed.”

2025-09-28 22:25:45 GMT

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I used to live in McMinnville, though I spent most of my time in Arcata. Even if I put much effort into hair care, I rather doubt the businesses that were running when I left in 1985 are still active. Strangely distressing thought, but it was like 40 years ago…

2025-09-23 16:25:28 GMT

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As an added bonus, the character of the dictator-president has a crude fart joke for a name. Buzz Windrip vs Trump.
On the other hand, while no stable genius, he’s more erudite and accomplished than what is in office right now, and is somewhat less of a physical coward. None of this being remotely high praise.

2025-09-13 19:05:47 GMT

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Pigs. Pigs are always the same.
They always have the resources to beat up and arrest people protesting whatever the oligarchy favors: austerity, genocide, autocracy, environmental degradation, human degradation; but they don’t have the resources to protect anybody from rightwing thugs. Ever.

2025-09-07 19:48:46 GMT

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Making Jeanine Drunko angry is its own reward.

2025-08-21 18:30:16 GMT

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I’m guessing the relative size of LLMs vs PCFGs lies in having to manually build the PCFG. You can build the underlying framework of an LLM and then have it grow by digesting huge masses of data automagically. You have to pay coders to build that gigantic mass of grammars, the LLM can grow without human intervention, and you can even steal the data. It’s practically free other than power and computronium!

2025-07-10 04:25:56 GMT

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Sometime in the 25th century the way it’s going.

2025-06-29 16:04:27 GMT

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Even if we accept that people are going to set off fireworks on special occasions, does it have to start a week early? Does it have to happen at 3 in the morning? Does it have to continue for at least a week after? Do we need drunks DIYing pyrotechnics? I’m not sure whether the answer is no or hell no, but it’s one of those.

2025-06-10 16:07:43 GMT

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Just like Gaza. Fascists aren’t imaginative.

2025-06-09 00:41:55 GMT

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Like Trump needs an excuse to break the law and engage in repression.

2025-05-25 04:44:55 GMT

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Minority?

2025-05-18 16:15:07 GMT

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Proof once again that multiple private companies are able to make mutually-compatible devices to meet specifications. Non-interoperable, non-repairable equipment designed for obsolescence is intentional. And it would be fraud if the laws weren’t written at the behest of the frauds.

2025-05-12 23:01:32 GMT

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Any Republican who ever complained about Biden, “abandoning our Afghan allies,” can fuck off all the way to hell.

2024-12-21 02:13:28 GMT

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Whatever shall we do with this glut of surplus billionaires?
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2024-12-16 22:14:45 GMT

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Every time the hard left tells us the horseshoe effect is a myth, they turn around and find some excuse to buddy up with the hard right. I’m sure somebody out there can feign surprise better than me.😐

2024-12-16 01:55:24 GMT

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Mother of dogs! Is that real?

2024-12-16 01:33:26 GMT

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Irrigating crops with expensively manufactured artificially flavored and colored salt water is arguably dumber than drinking unpasteurized animal milk(“like you sucked it straight outta the teat!”), but it is incredibly optimistic to assume that a society built on such a foundation of lunacy could survive through five centuries. TBF, I think the idea was a gradual decline and not that we’d be pinning the gauge on bottomless stupidity right off the starting block.

2024-12-16 00:55:05 GMT

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You say that like ever-increasing population is a good thing. But how can we address the injustice of unfairly distributed educational opportunities without driving further overpopulation?