Okay Socrates

It's like a bizarro version of the survival bias meme.
We see so many stupid evil people fail that we assume they all fail, when the truth is that malevolent incompetence is one major reason for reaching that level

'Serious misconduct' allegations: New Genevieve Bell controversy prompts call for ANU Council spill | Region Canberra Revelations that former ANU vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell has been suspended from her role as distinguished professor over allegations of serious…

We need to #spillandfillANUCouncil.

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Pisces: Your eyes go black and birds fall out of the sky as you smile for the first time in centuries. All is transpiring according to prophecy.

Grungewerx?

Let them cook meme

That's unfortunate

I have a perfect idea for fixing and funding this app simultaneously: make each reply cost $1, to be refunded when it is liked by the OP.

Nearly 30 years ago The Simpsons accidentally created the most millennial character ever

“Let those who have weapons lay them down. Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace. Not a peace pursued by force, but through dialogue. Not with the desire to dominate the other, but to encounter them.” — Pope Leo XIV

gambling should be broadly legal but you should have to place all bets in person, it shouldn’t even be possible over the phone. if you want to bet on missile strikes, you should have to look another person in the face and say it out loud while a line of people behind you gets audibly angry at you

The unbearable lightness of being Roland of Gilead

You can't do clip shows on streaming platforms, but you CAN do them on social media

In the Mad Max setting, the rest of the world, and possibly the rest of Australia, were functioning as normal.

A bunch of petrol hoarding maniacs simply got trapped in the desert while towing their old cars around trying to fill them, and events proceeded from there.

In the Mad Max setting, the rest of the world, and possibly the rest of Australia, were functioning as normal.

A bunch of petrol hoarding maniacs simply got trapped in the desert while towing their old cars around trying to fill them, and events proceeded from there.

If they think they'll lose that quickly, it might be better not to send troops at all.

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content “In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

ok but imagine if they said your demise was timely

Preferential voting and third parties also means the outcomes of close elections are genuinely uncertain until all the votes are counted, so there's rarely upsets.

An RPG community in Iraq takes their first steps outside D&D Rascal talks to 3 Iraqi players about the good stuff.

“People sometimes feel embarrassed of acting in Arabic, so they try to act in English. I'm trying to encourage them to roleplay in Arabic, but sometimes [even] I feel a little bit shy."

Members of an Iraqi tabletop club discuss growing, teaching, and the oddities of RPG cultural barriers.

They'd string you up as a Cassandra otherwise

Real democracy has never been tried

Genocidal

Pisces: Into each life a little rain must fall. You should dress like the Gorton's Fisherman for a while.

HDMI, HDMI, HDMI, HDeeeEEEMaiiii

The Dow that can reach 50,000 is not the eternal Dow

Man bites court

Tell the kids the war profiteers took their jobs

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.