If you file your taxes in California, they ask if you want to donate all or part of your return to pay for testing them. And I'm like, that's the least appropriate place to ask me for that.

Andy Weir thinking older seasons of Star Trek never talked about politics or social commentary reminds me of when Paul Ryan said one of his favorite bands was Rage Against the Machine

Straight people DO NOT want to admit that’s what their anti social media bills are really about: keeping queers isolated.

I don't fear losing or not getting a software job to AI. It's gonna screw up and someone will have to fix it. Frankly it's hilarious.

Holy crap. I love J. Remy Green's writing. This is on the same level, or better than the Mike Godwin Wikipedia/FBI letter, or the "Some asshole is signing your name to stupid letters" letter.

I'll ask another theological question like I sometimes do. Is it required for Christians to believe in original sin? Is it part of some creed or something, or is it just a thing that's there?

I'm not sure this country has any spiritual soul left. I'd love to be wrong, but I don't see good things happening.

I have a rule that if I'm going to be driving a car, I'm responsible for the car keys. If someone else is driving me to someplace and I'm driving them back, in the same car, I'm taking my own car key, they take theirs.

Dowsing rod.

One under-appreciated part of this: note the bit below about “and their dependents.”

Under the Trump admin’s new policy, dependent children of visa applicants are not allowed to have their social media set to private during the entire visa process. They MUST make their social media public.

the elder scrolls morrowind is a story about the importance of touching grass. the betrayal by the tribunal wouldve never happened if the guy was named Outdooril Nerevar

For years I've thought that "Golden State Roundheads" is a funny joke, but I figure y'all are the only group of people likely to get it.

For years I've thought that "Golden State Roundheads" is a funny joke, but I figure y'all are the only group of people likely to get it.

I'm not a fan of "invasive species" in this context either. But in Star Trek, trilithium resin isn't stated to be harmful to anything other than humanoids. Would using land mines be an attack against the national environment? People can't live there, but everything else is fine.

Reprisals in kind to war crimes have always been allowed subject to certain conditions, namely not targeting civilians, happening after a warning, and happening under competent authority.

The first criterion is the only one that's questionable.

Reprisals are technically allowed if civilians aren't targeted. And I'd say that we don't know how much actual danger the civilians on those planets were in. Benefit of the doubt, they may have been in little or no danger.

The White House’s new anti-media website includes denunciations of:

-ABC, which bribed the president
-CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans
-WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor

Fools.

Mass surveillance needs to go

This is your reminder not to give anything to the controlling, homophobic, transphobic, and abusive Salvation Army.

the bbc changed their article from saying 'trans woman' to saying 'biological male who identifies as a woman'.

even if you don't care about trans ppl it should alarm you just how captured the bbc has become.

they will no longer even say 'trans woman'. that's not normal and shows massive bias.

The Hard-Left Shooters Leading a Gun Culture Revolution Earlier this year, I attended a shooting competition for queer, often trans, very online misfits. Then Charlie Kirk was killed.

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reminder to parents of trans children:

breaking the rules to save your child years of suffering and possibly their life is your moral duty, get them on the correct hormones no matter what and don't bother with "doing things the right way"

A tumblr post from telltaletypist: "one particularly sinister way that cop shows use propaganda is portraying defense lawyers as sleazy, opportunistic scumbags for committing the heinous sin of making sure their clients' rights aren't trampled over. cop shows are designed to make you hate your own rights and perpetuate the disgusting idea that only the guilty would try to defend themselves."

Fun fact: this is explicitly why Dick Wolf created Law & Order: he violently hates defense attorneys and felt tere weren't enough shows about how defendants and their lawyers are scum

(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)

I'm VERY VERY VERY grateful to be in the bracket where an ambulance call isn't a concern for me. Someone in my family got billed $5000 for a 1 mile ride, but was able to argue it down to zero. I'm not in the bracket where I don't have to worry about medevac though.

Every single last fucking thing the gun nuts predicted would happen under Clinton or Obama is now happening under Trump, and they don't give a shit because the bunting on the President's podium is red instead of blue.

WSJ: “.. If the AI market blows up, the blast radius would be wide, hitting not only Wall Street firms, but also pensions, mutual and exchange-traded funds and individual investors, because of how debt is often sliced and resold across the financial landscape.”

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