I think it's a race between AI, paying too much for TikTok and then killing off advertising on it, and being bombed by Iran.

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Once you see it, you can't unsee it

I'll help find the KitKats when Nestlé admit, and pay reparations for, being responsible for the deaths of nearly 11 million babies

"We estimate that Nestlé’s entry into LMIC formula markets caused … approximately 10.9 million infant deaths between 1960 and 2015."

www.nber.org/system/files...

We start off teaching algebra, without calling it that, then we teach multiplication and division, and by the time we start calling it algebra it looks scary.

The reason you're an outlier is that you post good.

Proud to be the former!

I understand that some parents are good people.

It would be nice if more were

That looks like a nice side dish to have with my Kosher™️ double bacon cheeseburger!

, because of woke

Rats taught to drive tiny cars to lower their stress levels Researchers taught rats to drive tiny "ratmobiles" in exchange for food, which helped the rats relax.

Somewhere up in heaven, Richard Scarry is like “fuck yeah, told you so”: www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

You say "no reason" but there is at least one: it looks funny on TikTok

I hear you, friend.

One of the worst parts about being unemployed is I can't just throw money at helping my friends and protect those I love.

I have referred to Wes Streeting as a bastard because whilst, for the most part, he has very few morals or principles the ones he feels comfortable displaying are all terrible, like his transphobia.

Zero. The amount of risk is zero.

We are generations away from creating autonomous, sentient machines. We will likely never have the ability to do so, given how little we understand about the nature of consciousness and the limitations of our technology.

Why is a science magazine indulging this?

For that matter you shouldn't be sending death threats to Rowling because, as odious as she is, it's still a crime. She should absolutely face judgment for her bigotry but wealth is, alas, both a great insulator from consequences and a way to better invoke the power of the state against her enemies.

Black and white picture of OCP officer Alex Murphy

Good Friday. Time to remember a man who died and returned days later to save us all.

Remember when RoboCop shot that dude in the dick?

We must be talking at cross-purposes.

There is no "intuition" necessary to understand that any system that puts some people above others has, as part of it, some people above others and, therefore, there is inequality between those at the top and those at the bottom.

Indeed. Political theory tells us that some systems are inherently unfair, and that they intrinsically cause harm to those that are, through happenstance, at the bottom of the hierarchy.

No, from political theory.

You laugh but this is what peak gamer looks like!

My point is that "best record" is a meaningless metric, whatever it might mean.

It shouldn't even be considered!

America goes to war and all these weirdo accounts with a hate-boner for good people come out the woodwork to be weird on main

Did I miss something?

You snooze you miss the chance.

Some would say "lose" but, honestly, snoozing is pretty good.

Most of us aren't arguing for a certain type of world because it's more likely to be "successful", whatever that means, but because it is fairer and a more equitable one.

You might think BlueSky is the hot, new social media site but recently I was told to "touch grass". The user didn't know that I'm allergic to grass pollen and so this was literally a death threat!

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I'm not actually allergic but the other person didn't know that so when I was told to log off I …

So you're a top?

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So you're coming out as trans?
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I wonder if it's because the US has reneged on a previous deal, or because the US and Israel bomb wherever Iran leaders/officials gather, or because what the US is asking for is completely unacceptable.

Or maybe it's multiple of those!