When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it.

Anyway: fund basic research.

Fun fact: Women's sports are segregated not to protect women, but to protect *men* from losing *to* a woman.

Don't believe me? Look up Jackie Mitchell. Struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Then suddenly women were unfit to play baseball.

Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics.

The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.

did we watch the same debate?

it's soooo close to getting the man of action artstyle right, im hoping it looks better actually in-game

friendly fire by the onion

I do find it funny how many people basically mean “woman in position of power” when they complain about HR.

Chicago Sun-Times headline: "Gov. Pritzker bans state workers from using insider information on prediction market apps like Kalshi."

The Trump administration is full of cheaters.

We won't allow it in Illinois state government.

Trump knows that everyone understands what "Low IQ person" means when he says it but the press isn't willing to write it. He knows they will always cover for him and he loves that he can get away with it. He's used so many old timey racist terms he hopes no one knows but he also does this

i think it is cool that the president of the united states routinely slurs black people as biological inferior

ask yourself what working with the right to fight Zionism entails

well it's true that he's always wanted to bomb Iran

i dont even have a reaction image for this one

Largest union in the US is the teacher's union (NEA). Second largest union is SEIU, which is what most nurses are organized under. Teamsters is 4th, and UAW is 5th -- combined, they still have fewer numbers than SEIU.

These people should be imprisoned for crimes against humanity based on their climate-related actions alone

while teamsters and UAW get a lot of attention i feel like people miss out that the average working class person in the US today is (1) a woman and (2) working a service job

when conservatives say they hate billionaires they mean jews and i am begging unity larpers to understand that

unplanned illegal wars shouldn't have relief

And to make this even more plain:

They mean white voters should be able to overrule everyone else.

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

I have the utmost respect for Senator Kaine and Senator Warner but we do not need “coaching” on redistricting coming from a cuck chair in the corner. How about you all stay focused on the fascist in the White House and let us handle redistricting in Virginia. 10-1

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

that's cheating

Critics of new bill say Ohio women would be banned from sports bras, bikinis in public 'The peak of fear mongering.'

Media needs to stop with "critics say" and just quote the actual language of the bill.

HB 249 creates a new category of "seminudity" which can be used to arrest women who aren't nude, but are wearing clothing — leggings, t-shirts without bras — that religious groups feel is too provocative.

transcript courtesy of explainxkcd.com [Cueball is typing on a computer.] Voice outside frame: Are you coming to bed? Cueball: I can't. This is important. Voice: What? Cueball: Someone is WRONG on the Internet.

you are in greater company than you could ever know
xkcd.com/386/

love the person calling this splitting hairs as if 62 million and 1000 are a rounding error apart

my favorite thing is going back to the page a few weeks later seeing that the edit is still there

it's at least cosmically funny how some folks in the admin were clearly setting up to blame israel for this debacle and then trump is like "oh nonono i made the decision to do this all by myself"

gru made them good

Mussolini became dictator in the 20s and Hitler had his Beerhall Putsch