I’m voting PSL in a swing state. I have a bunch of friends in safe dem states and when they get mad at me for this I ask them why they’re voting for the dems there if it doesn’t even matter, are they just in it for the love of the game (genocide)?

A bunch of them have offered to do the vote swap thing with me but I’m thinking not. To the extent electoral politics matters and voting is a feedback loop on politicians (very limited), biden won’t be rewarded with my vote.

To the western brainpan Chinese characters are actually magical, everything written in them becomes imbued with totemic truth power. This explains the tattoos.

ok so what I’m reading is that you’re one of those people who moved to the right and instead of accepting this about yourself you’ve decided the entirety of society changed instead

social and technological progress will stop if we don’t get to make jokes about trans people

probably one of the dumber things I’ve ever read

holy shit this might actually be the funniest fucking thing to happen all year

look at this comment chain https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/186s1kc/at_least_one_dead_as_us_osprey_aircraft_crashes/kbp9dr0/?context=3

A lot of coverage of inflation (and also GDP growth) intentionally muddles & conflates change in rate of change (second derivative) vs. change in value (first derivative) vs. actual value (zeroeth/no derivative, actual thing being measured). Pundits basically pick one of these three values at random to support whatever position they’re hawking and nobody bothers to think about what the difference is.

Lost count of how many people I’ve seen say something like “if inflation is down now why is everything still so expensive?”

I can’t expect media people to know wtf they’re talking about on many topics, but you’d think they’d at least be literate on other parts of the media???

indistinguishable from me padding my quarterly review key deliverables summary

“through various actions”

“(action) to advance (good thing)”

“improved (thing)”

“took action to”

“strengthened”

“helped”

also bragging about standing up for Israel lmfao

You have to understand this question isn’t about the actual question. 90% of a debate is won by who gets to frame the issue. The other 10% is just tactical wrangling within whatever narrow frame was established, heavily favoring whoever chose the frame. This question is about framing the issue. Just don’t accept it. Don’t accept the framing. Don’t even waste a minute responding to it in any way whatsoever.

there are tech workers out there who unironically believe that viewing ads is a moral imperative. I want to say “nothing human is alien to me” but these fuckers are just unbelievable

the libertarian has been forced to realize that his freedom is contingent on other people’s positive actions!