I do consider Michigan for this reason if I leave CA. Still good legislatively and at worst one can bounce for Illinois. Plus, well, climate insulated with the massive fresh water stocks.

Very much this! I live somewhere high CoL and keep debating moving, then remember how much it took to move here and it becomes a Catch-22 where it sucks no matter what choice I make!

I too wonder this now

Feels like Symboli Rudolf or Maruzensky match well here

It's a joke about Canadians being super polite. 'You should have sworn, oh you're Canadian, okay that makes sense why it is polite'

Feel like we need to apply it to CEOs of any company worth more than a billion dollars as well

Did you watch the Ring video

It really is...

To think so much of this started because of Cameron's arrogance.

Like I hate being in the US, but I'll take that over England, though ideally Canada or Ireland nowadays.

Yea, it's...horribly sclerotic, honestly. And then we have nonsense like England lately just being nearly as awful sa America

I was lucky/fortunate enough to have done this years ago in preparation for this moment. Hoped it wouldn't, but here we are.

I love so much about California, but the cost of living is killer.

They're right though? At the moment it's ruled by Nazis. We /may/ get a chance to vote these fascists out and then we need to demand Nuremberg 2.0

And I will not be watching because who cares what a serial liar and pedophile says?

Release the unredacted Epstein files.

I had it for the first time a couple years ago and was shocked at how delicious it was. So gooood, you're in for a treat

a reminder, again, that AltNPS is a grifter account run by people who have no affiliation with the National Park Service and indeed who never did have any affiliation with the National Park Service. They have no sources, they have no information, they are purely there to scam you.

That is my kind of super dorky reference, I am here for what you put down :D

Exactly this. It's one thing if someone is doing something like engaging in Holocaust denial, but who cares about being a bit too horny?

But then how will I get sucked down a giant hole of ETERNAL DISCOURSE

And sanity! It's meant to be squandered on social media ,right???

Great thread. And the moral of this story I think is this keeps happening until we gate social media with the only tool that works:

Registration Fees. Pay $20 for an account, get banned for being obnoxious, a ton of this becomes far easier to handle (because reg fees pay for paid moderation)

Oh wait, ADULT life. Okay fair, those extra 10 years matter a ton, haha

Fit into my entire life and I'm not even 40 yet >.<

That one I missed, but am trying to look it up right now.

Nuanced discussion is impossible, because the moment you question certain dogmas, you open yourself for dogpiling, and of course who wants to agree and invite the mob onto them?

I bite my tongue so much more around fellow queers because I know saying any kind of 'Grow up / get stronger' goes badly

I do think 'People' is a good qualifier. Most of what I see in the trans-on-trans dogpiling is usually transwomen infighting.

But one thing I see in the entire trans community is there is simply not a demand for people to grow up. We allow and reward people behaving like High School Mean Girls.

Granted I'm still somewhere in Season 2, I thiiink, it's been a bit and I need to get back to things :o

This thing isn't alive. It can't say anything. It's literally a fancy prediction engine. It 'apologized' because the math said that was the most likely respond to the prompt asking it to apologize.

Stop falling for a Cuckoo mimicking a human.

Actually that's an insult to the cuckoo.

Hey now, your IT guy is surprisingly good at cracking passwords.

Remember:

When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.

When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.

ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

For how everything it is, the manga is a surprisingly wholesome tale of a really weird Found Family.

Plenty of stuff to loathe him for, but I am referring to the pre-Twitter cave incident specifically; beforehand he was at least playacting at being a good person.

The pedophile thing was years before he bought Twitter.