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[IronEdithKidd]

Apple's Director of machine learning dislikes return-to-work policy so much that he quit

No-one has addressed this aspect yet: disability. Disabled people have been begging for even one day a week WFH for many years. For all sorts of reasons, from the sheer amount of time saved on travel and preparation for travel, to the sheer mental overhead of being in a space where you are highly visible and isolated at the same time. As someone on the spectrum, someone just coming up and chatting to me isn’t just a disruption, it can undo the progress of a whole day. For years, disabled peopl…

[DukeTrout]

Nailed it. This could be a Langston Hughes poem:

Think of the Karens

How much, though? Does it hurt her as much as billy club to the face or a boot the neck? Does it hurt as much as living with the knowledge that one has less rights just because of the color of one’s skin? Does it hurt as much as every news story telling me yet another POC has been shot and or killed by the police, because once again some nosy-ass power-trippin’ busybody actively decided to weaponize LEOs’ already egregious propensity for lethal violence? By all means, please do enlighten …

[MerelyGifted]

Calling a man "bald" is now considered sexual harassment, rules a judge in England

Should have called him a shiny headed danger clam, that’s much more SFW.

[Sally_Mahoney]

After abortion bans, doctors "turning away" patients suffering miscarriages

Those pills induce an abortion by creating a miscarriage. They’re essentially medically indistinguishable, as the article talks about. The doctors should have still seen her. They see people who shoot themselves, who get in knife fights, and who OD on heroine. Doctors should not be in the business of withholding critical care because they disapprove of what the patient did, or because it’s illegal. That’s exactly the point.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Camping on public land to become a felony in Tennessee

I am being priced out of my apartment. I don’t live in a great area. I hear gun shots in the summer. They are old apartments with few modern amenities, and a very shitty layer of BLACK vinyl siding added to them to make them look more modern. They want to raise my rent nearly 100 dollars with the new lease. “It’S nOt Us RaIsInG iT, It Is ThE iNcReAsE iN mArKeT vAlUe!” is the reason I get for the increase. It has nearly doubled in the 6 or 7 years I have lived here. So I need to move. I have a…

[j9c]

Eyewitnesses say police refused to confront Texas gunman, who was in school for "up to an hour"

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[Mindysan33]

Most Americans want assault rifles gone, but slight changes of wording in polls vastly influence the outcome

Arguing about whether someone is using technically-correct terminology to name a weapon that is designed specifically for the purpose of killing with ease and at scale is specifically an attempt to force the conversation into angels-dancing-on-the-head-of-a-pin pedantry and irrelevancy, while deflecting attention from the really important fact that there are thousands of these weapons in the possession of thousands of people, it’s trivially easy to obtain one, and that any of those owning one co…

[Sally_Mahoney]

The teaser trailer for the new Star Wars series "Andor" looks pretty radical

Maybe we’ll get a chance to see Andor on Endor before he meets his end…or?

[j9c]

You Can't Fight City Hall: Goalpost Moving Edition

I am a lawyer @subextraordinaire @Jesse13927 @DukeTrout @KathyPartdeux @VeronicaConnor and @Brainspore are all correct. A person can sue the government in the US- federal, state, municipal. These entities do have some immunity. It varies by state. California is not the same as Texas and looking at California laws will tell you nothing about how such a suit might go down in Texas. generally speaking a government has immunity when it is doing it’s job. But when there is negligence or a criminal…

[Sally_Mahoney]

French gamers told to use French words, not English ones

That’s the problem, they pick these unwieldy phrases instead of something actually usable, like “ordinateur” for “computer.” I don’t want to be a “joueur-animateur en direct” any more than I’d want to be a “live video shower of gameplay,” but I’d be happy to be “un fleuveur” or “un couranteur.” Pick usable words and people will be happy to use them.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Very stable genius claims hammers kill more people than guns, dislikes it when Good Liars corrects him

[image] “I have a student in my class that keeps hitting other kids with a hammer over and over. I can’t get anything done and the other kids are hurt and they hate it!” “Have you tried taking the hammer away from that student?” “No, no, it’s not the hammer’s fault. Everyone knows that kids have the right to have hammers! I want to buy a bunch of hammers and give them to all the other students, and then no one will ever have problems with hammers again!” More hammers will definitely fix eve…

[ChuckV]

School board candidate checks out all LGBTQ books displayed at public library to make it a "safe place for children"

Hey, at last I can speak to a topic with INTIMATE knowledge, for this is indeed my own personal local library! The candidate is a deeply religious right-wing person who decided to use this as a campaign statement. She walked in during the Pride celebration on purpose, demanded they remove the display, and when they (rightly and proudly) refused, she checked out all the books on display to (in her words) “protect innocence.” She ALSO took all the Pride pins the library had for patrons to take and…

[Sally_Mahoney]

While AR-15s are "sporting rifles" in congress, retired general major calls them "weapons of war. Period"

The responsible hunter’s code: “You kill it, you eat it.” That requirement put into federal law would certainly have at least some people thinking twice about casually killing someone.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Monkeypox is getting a new name, says WHO

Poxy McPoxface, clearly and obviously.

[MerelyGifted]

Texas GOP's new platform: Biden isn't pres, ban trans healthcare, repeal Voting Rights Act

Next, the Texas GOP will vote to repeal the law of gravity so they will finally be able to fly.

I couldn’t bring myself to read all the comments on that article - it got way too depressing after a while - so got hip thusly:

Watch Ted Cruz get heckled again

This fine mutant nails it. Cloud cuckoo land.

[Les_Pane]

Jan. 6 Hearings MegaThread

Whether it is or not, it’s still heading straight to hell.

[Mindysan33]

[Sally_Mahoney]

Ageism in society

My first edict will be that you should not allow me to make edicts. I don’t trust me.

[MerelyGifted]

Jan. 6 Hearings MegaThread

He could beach himself on the facing seats and lean over, dunno. Take a bullet, give a bullet. It’s the circle of strife.

Ah, but here’s what’s really there on that thread:

[Sally_Mahoney]

Creating a knife using iron bacteria

People have been harping on the poor guy to move up the tech tree for years. What they don’t understand though is that he’s gone about as high as you can before you start to need a civilization. The copper, bronze, and iron ages were based on regional trade and specialization. One person cannot mine ore, smelt it, forge it, sharpen it, and hone it for a reasonable amount of effort, even if you are lucky enough to have viable deposits on your land which could be mined. Each step in that process f…