the IRA is an unfortunate example of the failure of the non-bigoted theory of popularism
it was a good law that poured piles of money into infrastructure (in rural areas!) and they got zero credit for it from the people who complain about those sorts of things, because the complaining is the point
So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right
every single employee being jailed is the moderate position
I have watched this approximately 47 times and laughed out loud 47 times
"You can't prove that AI doesn't have consciousness" is like "You can't prove that the pyramids weren't built by aliens" or "You can't prove those hoofprints in the prairies weren't left by zebras." I don't have to prove the default assumption. You have to prove the extraordinary exception.
I hate that entire groups are being prevented from existing in mainstream art because of roughly 200 shrill lunatics who can't be normal about anything.
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A small white cat with tabby patches lying on a bed making biscuits on a persons leg.
A small white cat with a brown tabby patch on his head looking up at you from his soft bed. He’s holding his catnip turtle.
A small white cat with a brown tabby patch on his head and a brown tabby tail lying in his soft bed.
A small white cat with a brown tabby patch on his head sleeping on a bed. You can see his pink and brown tie beans.
Hey Baton Rouge and New Orleans folks, I think we’re ready to start looking for a home for Patches. He’s a sweet little guy, neutered, got his rabies and FeLV shots, and he’s a big fan of inside life. He’s FIV+, but I think he can be integrated with FIV- cats with training and supervision.
Quote of the Week: “In a sane culture we wouldn't praise people for baselessly calling the cops on strangers.” - @enbrown.bsky.social reason.com/2026/03/02/c...
If you want to stop Newsom, build up his negatives with Black voters *now.* Emphasize how he keeps hanging out with racists and inviting them to talk on his show. Ask how Black people have fared in his California and how he’s responded to racism against us. What was he doing in 2014? 2016? 2020?
I can't wait to take unused Le Creuset sets out of billionaire's houses when folks finally decide to eat the rich.
The thing about deliverism is you have to (1) loudly promise to deliver a thing (2) that people want (3) then actually deliver it and (4) publicly take credit for it when it delivers. You really can't avoid doing 1 and 4
"Articles 51 and 54 outlaw indiscriminate attacks on civilian populations, and destruction of food sources, water, or other materials needed for survival."
The US never ratified the Geneva convention amendment that specifically makes destroying water supplies and desalinization plants a war crime.
helps quite a bit if I'm being honest
Hegseth needs to stand trial after this as a war criminal. Between this attack and the girls' school, there's no ambiguity. He is responsible for mass murder and must be held accountable.
"Iran is a big country, filled with many Iranians." -> things our media apparently does not know
this one is a deeper cut but Ted Lasso S2 onwards.On principle I will not give any more time to a show that does Led Tasso. This was an abomination. You are a writer. Prove it.
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Look at this recall from February 20th, of 3 million pounds of Ajinomoto Yakitori Chicken with Japanese-Style Fried Rice and Trader Joe's Chicken Fried Rice due to broken glass.
The relentless consolidation of food production amplifies such contamination.
what is the case for thinking that the duration of the conflict will be up to Trump?
Experts have begun to question the AI startup’s path forward amid surging financial needs and no profit plan.
Atomic Empire
“Where can i find a good man”
They blew up an elementary school Tom
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
When my grandmother shot the Nazi in her living room the local undertaker just tipped him into someone else's casket real quick and no one spoke of it until after the war
Apparently the collaborator was broadly unpopular in the village
When men's workload is automated, it's genius; when women's workload is automated it's a character flaw and morally questionable.
in the store just now and there was a couple looking at those prepped toddler meals and he was saying “everything’s better if you just cook from scratch” and she goes “they don’t look bad and they’d save me so much time” and he just kept repeating “it’s better if you cook”
I did not commit a crime
A year long investigation into the Hyperloop found …
“The truth was far simpler, far dumber, and far more prescient: Musk and his lieutenants truly had no idea what they were doing.”
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this was the IRA, which every senate democrat voted for and every senate republican voted against
Part of the disconnect is of course that techbros insist that a total revolution in the way that software is made is taking place, but anyone who uses software can observe that software continues to suck more than ever before
so they just target bombs at children as a matter of policy now huh
