Expecting us – with good reason based on history – to all thank them for their service. Fuck your service and fuck you.
Saving a life is brave. Being instructed to kill and saying no I will not do that is brave. But killing like this? It is the least human thing you can do.
A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.
My 7yo daughter’s best friends’ family fled the country a few weeks ago. Today she came home with a drawing of her and another friend blowing whistles at ICE agents.
“We’re blowing the whistles and so ICE will go away and our friends can come back,” she said.
I started sobbing uncontrollably.
"Killing the bad guy makes you just as bad as him"
No it saves lives you complete fucking rube
All the anti-war and anti-occupation protestors were right. All the far leftists were right. All the “woke scolds” and your friend who’s “too woke” were right. They were somehow even more right than they may have realized at the time. But really, it was always obvious they were right.
Every violent act of ICE/CBP agents has precedent in police violence. What we’re witnessing IS an extreme escalation but it is NOT an aberration. It is in historical continuity with settler colonialism, slave patrols, eugenics, police brutality. Cops kill over 1,000 people in the U.S. every year.
if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live
"Maduro was bad, but" shut the fuck up, you people will never learn.
Trump's America is just America without the pretense.
There’s a growing belief in the industry that home computers are redundant, and we should move to dumb terminals with memory and processing and AI assistance existing server-side.
It’s the Enclosure Movement for home computing.
Bread and circuses, but the bread is $12/loaf and moldy and the circus is AI slop that stops every 3 mins for an ad break.
Me when I'm bullshitting my way through an interview at OshKosh B'gosh.
One of the reasons they're having trouble concocting a Left Wing Terrorism epidemic is basically nobody in this country has ever met a left wing person. You might as well say we're being invaded by the smurfs
Tech companies invented an "AI" that speaks like corporate middlemanagers and came to the conclusion that it meant the AI was sentient instead of the correct conclusion that middlemanagers aren't
assassins dress like cops bc that’s who’s allowed to murder people in broad daylight
Experiment in Literary Investigation. Anne Applebaum. The U Archipe. That cover is indistinguishable from a parody.
The thing is people really want others to regret standing against a genocide and that’s never going to happen. You’ll never get moral absolution. You’ll either recognize your mistake or you’ll spend the rest of your life struggling with the cognitive dissonance of what you were willing to accept
They should add raytracing to Balatro
The richest man in the world being a Nazi and at the right hand of the fascist President is maybe the most potent lesson in the evils of capitalism and the lengths that the ruling class will go to hoard their wealth and keep their power.
misinformation is a very real issue, the problem was it was folded into a power-flattering pseudo epistemology where only grimy foreigners and YouTubers were capable of doing it when some of the biggest promoters of misinformation are the NYT and Atlantic. This bred cynicism and indifference.
Disco Elysium offers a tremendous variety of roleplaying choices & alternate solutions I will never see because they'd disappoint Kim Kitsuragi
for years scholars wondered how many toddlers you can run over with tanks before your country is considered "Bad" . probably about 4 million
LA fireworks *amazing* when the dodgers win
We found the weather machines.
"Why"is a dangerous question for the PMC – even pro journos. Answering it might reveal there are reasons for things, leading to the unthinkable thought that those things could be different.
That's how Sekiro works, kind of
"Expand public transit and make it free? And who's gonna pay for that?"
Me you fucking goofy bastard. I pay taxes. give me healthcare instead of buying another 700,000 tear gas canisters for the police to spray on my friends.
"There were outside agitators" is just a fairy tale for the audience so they never have to wrestle with the moral stain of cheering on the brutalization of peaceful protesters. It's what you'd tell a child, on the level of "oh no, Batman never *kills* anyone"
