I would argue they knew exactly what they were doing, which was deliberately sabotaging needed public works programs by offering snake oil they never had any intention of delivering.
Could every medical professional be wrong, especially writing about or speaking over subjects they might disdain & who are un or under represented?
Sure.
Are they *all* going to get 1 million dollar degrees to fight a podcaster about a historically impoverished & disliked minority?
Probably not!
"They must have a professional stake in it" is so cynical
If every medical professional decided they were going to garner a professional stake & bad faith grift on medicine, they wouldn't bother to waste $1 million & 10 years at Yale, they'd just mouth off knowing nothing about the subject like him
Eisenhower
These privacy concerns are not just a matter of convenience, but an existential safety issue for marginalized people.
Kansas overnight implemented a bill to make illegal & demand surrender of transgender people's IDs like days ago, Discord does not need my information to feed to Palantir.
In theory the site or app could query an anonymous code from the device already set up ahead of time, then deny access to children, without the app needing to know your information. Things like Microsoft or Steam accounts older than 10 years old (and some are 20+) can be presumed to be adults.
If you're saying "Teens have too easy access to adult materials" then the device itself can know your age when you purchase & set up the device. I imagine not many teens are purchasing their own $1000 phones & phone plans.
But parents are already refusing to use those tools.
Age verification laws don't stop this though, and even if your plan is to 100% segregate all 17> users, forcing all adults into this teen category *especially* doesn't do this.
For what you're proposing to work you'd have to verify you're underage, & then ban adults from Roblox or w/e.
Fundamentally unserious people. Fundamentally unserious party.
Where to even begin?
"I want to make it absolutely clear that the idiot lunatic we're asking for your donations to help us oppose did a marvelous thing, we're all very happy the lunatic did this."
The fact the odds went from 0 to 100 basically as strikes were happening kinda *proves* how valueless predictive gambling on this is for anything but insider trading via war profiteering.
Nobody involved in this will see the light of heaven. Just abjectly sickening.
Ok so total abolishment of the entire industry then
If Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead, remember was 86.
In short order, he would have named a successor, died, national day of mourning in Iran, etc.
Now he's a martyr. A literal freaking martyr.
I'm sure this won't have any lasting consequences or influence the next Ayatollah.
Jackson @tree_bro Follow *knocks on door* Mrs Smith? I'm from Army. Your son got owned in Iraq. He showed great valor in the face of epic fail. Semper fi or whatecer 4:20 PM • Jul 22, 2011
This tweet preceeds and anticipates deaths in Operation Epic Fury by almost 15 years
In this increasingly polarized climate with a rogue administration trying to start World War 3 on as many fronts to create excuses to suspend elections & turn us fully into a dictatorship, centrists slagging off "the troops" are *not* up to the task of leading.
Fundamentally unserious people.
Post See new posts Conversation Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h From US admin official background briefing recording listening to, seriously question if US negotiators understood what Iranians were proposing. One official keeps saying acronym for “IAEA” wrong. They seem astonished Iran would not agree to the US supplying them nuclear fuel Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h They took as suspicious proposals that Iran saw as concessionary. Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h Explains why Oman FM tried to come to DC to explain what US negotiators may not have fully understood Laura Rozen @lrozen Am not saying what Iran proposed would have been enough, I dont know, but it seems US negotiators did not have the expert guidance to understand it correctly
On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.
Just IN: Six suspected insiders from the US made $1.2 million dollars betting on exactly when the strikes in Iran were going to take place
Insider trading on war crimes to promote cryptocurrency gambling addictions.
The latest stage of capitalism
The one time journalists don't use the passive voice & it's to lie.
Whenever some deluded racist says "I want to bomb a nation because my son killed himself doing stupid shit in another nation that I can't tell the difference between because the people have similar skin tones" you don't HAVE to print it or lie for her by pretending her son was 'killed'.
He wasn't killed, per say.
He died.
Because his tank went into the Euphrates.
It didn't get blown into the river, or fall into the river trying to escape combat. They drove it into the river.
And somehow that gives her comfort for starting a war in a different country? This is journalism?
GoliathFan1952 @ByYourLogic Your son was made an hero during Operation Leeroy Jenkins. His loss is an epic fail we will hold in our hearts forever Quote Square profile picture U.S. Central Command @CENTCOM · 3h CENTCOM Update TAMPA, Fla. – As of 9:30 am ET, March 1, three U.S. service members have been killed in action and five are seriously wounded as part of Operation Epic Fury. Several others sustained minor shrapnel injuries and concussions — and are in the process of being Show more 8:41 AM · Mar 1, 2026 ·Twitter for iPhone
...how did you suffer eight friendly casualties with an AIR STRIKE?
So Trump can essentially bully western allies with ridiculous trade wars and threaten to annex Canada but as long as imperial resource wars are still on the menu we'll instantly revert to being a vessel state for scraps
Every major disaster in this country over my lifetime has been self inflicted by right wing ideologues with just enough complicit or inert Democrats to enable or ratify them. That's why we've been on this doom trajectory for the last ~50 years and it'll keep getting worse if that doesn't change
Updated:
Wars can only be declared by Congress.
Taxes can only be levied by Congress.
Spending can only be appropriated by Congress.
Laws can only be passed by Congress.
Any President who refuses to work with Congress is an enemy of the Constitution and the rule of law.
Remember who you’re fighting for!
I love “cozy games” on an individual level but “cozy” used to include replaying resident evil 2 for the 5th time
now as a genre it’s starting to feel like it is locking people into aesthetic tradwife boot camp
What’s wrong, Congress? You’ve barely even touched your checks and balances
