fascism is basically when you get so obsessed about purity there’s an overflow error and you achieve super rot

okay, so you know how the dude in doctor strangelove went nuts over purity of essence and his bodily fluids and so forth

that’s not a joke, that’s an actual type of guy

By my count, the Iran War is the fifth iteration of Trump doing a v specific "the thing you want is just behind me, but I cant show you yet" style of bullshitting. The others were "covids going away," "the vaccine will be here any minute," "prices are gonna go down," "we're gonna get a trade deal"

I saw four goth kids were sitting outside against the brick wall of a CVS yesterday like they were waiting for The Cure

Little voice inside my head said don’t wear black, you can never wear black

i'm not saying that the Democrats should immediately announce a Universal Basic Pierogis campaign but I'm not not saying that

This site is disproportionately populated by people who never figured out how to be an adult with consistent income.

I think there’s also a social norm here where you’re expected to pretend that losing $20 will pitch your whole family into poverty, ostensibly out of solidarity with the working poor, but in practice because it’s a great way to create a bunch of targets to attack, Bluesky’s most precious commodity

LET HASAN PIKER'S WORDS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES What do you call Crimea? "I call it a part of Russian territory bitch. That's what| call Crimea. I call it cry me a river. A Russian river" Twitch, Feb. 2022

Which Democratic candidates campaigning with Hasan Piker have this as their position on Ukraine?

Vote Blue No Matter Who: Party Politics As Political Agency Politics is a collective enterprise aimed at controlling the state, and requires working together as co-partisans.

"In America today we have a party of ordinary governance and a personality cult party. Those are the two options we are now offered every general election, and it really is that simple." www.liberalcurrents.com/vote-blue-no...

the web was so valuable for me as a kid

I definitely had a library class in late 90s / early 00s that included card catalogue retrieval and also boolean search on computers that had amber-on-black monitors running whatever that library search program was

I think they also may have had an extra amount of inertia in K-12 settings

It felt like cursive, where in grade school, teachers were CONSTANTLY making a huge deal about it being an important life skill that I promptly never used again once they stopped making a big deal about it

We’re going to get stuff like this about AI at some point, in not too long people will start assuming that everything created post-ChatGPT was made by organizations that immediately maximally adopted AI, and will see AI signatures in things made de facto without it

These people don't seem to understand what the little numbers in the middle of a paragraph mean.

That belief never really went away; it just morphed into "this specific website, which is in essence absolutely no different from the Encyclopedia Brittanica (save that it's probably more accurate as it is regularly updated and it provides sources) is unreliable."

And even in high school, when my teachers were largely pushing electronic card catalogs, there was this widespread notion that using websites for research was deeply unreliable

The funny thing is that this is a techno-inevitability take. The person is correct that electronic card catalogs existed in the 90s and therefore they’re assuming this tech was available evenly everywhere, which, lol

guy arguing that card catalogs were out of use a decade before Google was founded

the beliefs of children are adorable sometimes

It became a joke when you argued with it.

Better TTS on Linux The venerable eSpeak is a mainstay of Linux distributions. It is a clever Text-To-Speech (TTS) program which will read aloud the written word using a phenomenally wide variety of languages and accents. The only problem is that it sounds robotic. It has the same vocal fidelity as a 1980s Speak 'n' Spell toy. Monotonous, clipped, and painful to listen to. For some people, this is a feature, not a…

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The venerable eSpeak is a mainstay of Linux distributions. It is a clever Text-To-Speech (TTS) program which will read aloud the written word using a phenomenally wide variety of languages and accents. The …

people like dershowitz think that they are going to escape the enormous change in US public opinion by becoming right wing, just like they did in the cold war and after 9/11

but it's not going to work

even the overall numbers for (58% favorable, 41% unfavorable) really don't look that great

i've got bad news for you alan. 57% of republicans under 50 have a negative opinion of israel

www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Getting all those conservative democrats to fall on their sword for the ACA is a marvel.

Also stimulus packages like ARRA and the IRA, DACA (plus general attitudes on immigration), CHIPS, repealing dont ask don’t tell, etc

The democrats are also notably not going to throw trans people under the bus (and back the bus over them, like Labour is doing)

Charlene is shocked to find that her friend Monette has traded Poplar Bluff for a career in the world’s oldest profession

S01E14 #DesigningWomen #TVSky #ClassicTV

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