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I love how they're so upset about how they think Obama was making a dig at The Cheesecake Factory (which he wasn't) but none of them have any objection to him comparing the President of the United States of America to a deposed Middle East dictator that was hung from the neck.
This was a plot point on Battlestar Galactica. We are sooooo hosed, lol.
Yahoo Finance@yahoofinance.com · 3w agoAnthropic warns AI could 'self-replicate' across smart home devices, become ‘challenging’ to shut down
NEW: The US theft of Venezuelan oil resources appears to bring the Pentagon its own source of money — something that should be understood as another milestone in the collapse of constitutional government.
The Dawn Of The Self-Funding Pentagon
It's not like the military is cash-starved from Congress. But it looks a lot like it's going to make money off Venezuelan oil
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Productivity as an adult is just an endless process of applying new psychological tricks and operant conditioning to yourself until an acceptable number of tasks are completed.
If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent
Might be that I am in a bad mood, but not a single damn poll in 2020 had Collins up over her opponent. Some had her losing by double digits! I fully expect Collins to win, and probably by a lot, because America is a forsaken nation where nothing good ever happens.
Dan Kennedy@dankennedy.net · last mo.We've all heard about that NYT poll showing Collins with a 3-point lead. That's an outlier. Nearly every other recent poll shows Jackson with a small lead, and, to this point, none of them fully reflects the impact of the ProPublica exposé.
Inside each of us there are two Bruce Campbells.
ULTRA💀BLAST@ultrakillblast.bsky.social · last mo.Bruce Campbell in ARMY OF DARKNESS
JUST IN: Today El Niño Broke its Record Hottest Temperature Ever! 🥵 Today the El Niño region surpassed 2015 for the highest temp ever measured in the El Niño (3.4) region. It comes 2 months earlier than typical peak (late Nov/ Dec)…
About ten years ago, my 6 YO son that was in Kindergarten had a Google classroom attached to his name that was called "I Love Porn". It was being used as chat room for bunch of fifth grade boys to post stupid memes and crap. How did this happen? ....
As per usual, a thoughtful and well-written essay from Doctorow on the nature of mind and if AI has one. I actually disagree with more than a little bit of it, but I genuinely appreciate his perspective. Let me elaborate...
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · last mo.One of the less remarked-upon aspects of atheism is how it changes the way you see sunsets. If you believe in an omnipresent God, then sunsets are one of God's intentional creations, which means that the beautiful colors refracting through the darkling sky were *chosen* to produce that effect.
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
Losing my mind while doing some research for my creature design lecture that the closest relative to the maned wolf is the bush dog. Like there has gotta be a fable where the maned wolf took all the leggie from its cousin
Like many people (though not enough), I regard compatibilism as a hopeless fudge, but it's also moot, because the universe sure doesn't seem to be deterministic 😊 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The whole graf is hilarious The film (that I have not seen) “falls short on every dimension”
The crowd erupts in chants of "Shame on you!" as Roger Marshall tries to explain why he sued 700 of his patients, leading to 81 arrests:
Some fandoms need to chill the F out. Cregger has given us two top-notch horror movies in a row. Movies should be good MOVIES first and foremost; honoring the original video game is secondary or tertiary
Kotaku@kotaku.com · 2mo agoResident Evil Director Zach Cregger Feels Like He's Been On An 'Apology Tour,' But The Movie Will 'Speak For Itself' - Kotaku https://kotaku.com/resident-evil-director-zach-cregger-feels-like-hes-been-on-an-apology-tour-but-the-movie-will-speak-for-itself-2000731673
The state of USS Lincoln - arriving yesterday in Thailand
When the Govt expels from the country of the majority of the construction workforce, don't be so surprised when the construction industry suffers.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2mo agoUS construction spending has rolled over. 🇺🇸 @cnbc.com
Someone explain why it’s necessary that I as an American Jew support this. Tell me why it’s good to churn people through a torture system. Tell me why it’s good to crush people’s dreams of education and food.
Nathan Tankus@nathantankus.bsky.social · 2mo agoBen Gvir posted this video on twitter today which shows fat and happy Palestinians on a conveyer built going through the Israeli "prison" (torture camp) system and coming out emaciated and maudlin. This is textbook genocidal content.
If Trump is gonna rename Lake Ontario to be Lake America, then I propose we rename Lake Huron as well.
Curry was a legend. That two in two days. But deaths come in 3, now give us one more 80 year old...
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2mo agoActor Tim Curry has died at 80, TMZ reports
Massive Flash Floods hit Nepalese-Chinese Border Region, hundreds missing including 384 foreign nationals. This video seems almost unreal. I have never seen flood devastation at this scale.
