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[Mindysan33]

Nukes and Nuke Accessories

If I had a pet radioactive pig I’d name it Niels Boar.

[Sally_Mahoney]

NASA released its UFO report and now has a director of UFO research

Terrestrial AI discovering extraterrestrial AI. Maybe it takes an alien to catch an alien.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Andrew Giuliani worries about imagined gender classes in school, rather than his own sick mind (video)

I too am concerned how gender is being taught in schools. French kids get taught whether it’s le lune or la lune. German kids get taught whether it’s der Buch, das Buch, or die Buch. English kids don’t learn any of that, so when they do run into that it seems irrelevant and made up to them. …Wait, maybe I’m not concerned then.

[Melizmatic]

Neurodiversity Think Different

The problem with The Algorithm is not just that it pushes us into a bubble, but that it doesn’t even let us see how small the bubble really is. You’re implicitly contrasting The NT Noosphere against The ND Noosphere, but there is no “The” NT Noosphere, nor “The” ND Noosphere. In NT space, there are the people pushing Autism Speaks and ABA and trying to divide us into “Profoundly Autistic” and what I can only presume, from their statements and known biases, “Not really actually autistic LOL”. B…

[smulder]

@killick

If we had universal health care then we wouldn’t have to worry about signing up annually, applying to keep benefits, etc. We spend huge amounts of money to make sure the wrong people don’t get care and that makes it much harder for the right people to get care. But there are no right or wrong people, just people who need care.

[Sally_Mahoney]

A man told police his 11-year-old daughter was being manipulated to send a man photos of her. Columbus cops threatened the victim with jail for "making porn"

PSA for any parents of minor children: if this happens to your child go straight to the FBI child explotation task force or a similar state level institution. Or call the local CASA (or child advocacy center) and see if they can provide some advice. The CASA will know if any local cops can be trusted. Also cut off your child’s access to the account being used. Heavily monitor the child’s social media and Internet use. Keep a very close eye on them, this is a vulnerable time for the predator to …

[Sally_Mahoney]

MAGA supporter blames Biden for deer accident costs (video)

Deer-related accidents are up 7000% since Biden took office. 7000%! But you won’t find that in the mainstream media. Under Trump, deer knew better than to stray onto the roads. They knew he wouldn’t stand for that. But they’re not afraid of Biden. The sooner we elect a real president, one who can keep those pesky ungulates in their place, the safer we’ll all be.

[smulder]

@some_guy

Inflation. Its not like prices ever really come back down (I remember all the anger over gas going to $1 a gallon when I was a kid.) But at the same time corporations are raking in record profits, so who’s really driving inflation. They dont want to raise wages because in theory that would increase inflation more, so we just get inflation with no wage increase. Thanks a fuckin lot. And then they fret over “why is socialism becoming more popular?” David Brooks gets a burger and a drink at the airport while I take the Chinatown bus to NY and eat a peanut butter sandwich I brought with me. Fuck You David Brooks.

[anothernewbbaccount]

Men fight over photo op at famous tourist spot

The last “tourist spot” I ever went to was The Grand Canyon. In 1987. I could barely see the other side due to all the haze in the air. I found a spot where I could sit near the edge just off the path. As I sat there, families just filed past me while saying “What should I take a picture of? I don’t know what to take a picture of! How much more film do we have?” Then they would wander on a little further and repeat the process. A squirrel came up to me and sat down. He was there fo…

[Sally_Mahoney]

FCC aims to reinstate net neutrality

It worked for nearly 40 years… Honestly, I’m really over the whole “it’s too hard, we can’t do it” mindset that seems to have pervaded our body-politic lately. Just because something is difficult, doesn’t mean it can’t be done. Just because there will be push back, doesn’t mean it can’t be done. Just because we have real problems in our institutions, doesn’t mean it can’t be done. It is the RIGHT thing to do, and it should be done. If we rejected things out of hand in this country, because we m…

[Mindysan33]

This Is Fine

But, Joe Biden is not very exciting! See, he’s just as bad!! Both sides are bad! No difference at all! (/s) I can only hope no one is gonna try to bothsides this one. The fascists are fascists! They are telling us this! We need to believe them. They need to be voted out of any and all posts, from President to Congress to alderman or dogcatcher. Is it a “lesser evil” strategy? Yeah, maybe so. But, considering the nature of the “greater evil,” I am of the opinion that this is absolutel…

[Tamsin_Bailey]

@docosc nailed it again.

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@Nightflyer

@chrisbachmann

[Sally_Mahoney]

Social media "vigilante" shot and killed by target

In the real world, all vigilantes are like the fake batmen at the beginning of the Dark Knight. The difference is the real world doesn’t have a real Batman. Please don’t take the law into your own hands. The amount of bad things that can happen (you getting hurt or killed, screwing up an actual criminal investigation, tipping off a bad guy and making them harder to prosecute, and worst of all, accusing an innocent person and ruining their life) overwhelmingly outweigh the good thing that can hap…

[Mindysan33]

GOP leader McCarthy cuts deal with Dems to avert government shutdown; Gaetz vows to oust him

Oh really? https://archive.ph/gIrfp But day-to-day affairs of the country were tended to by a temporary government run by a former prime minister Hmm. The parallels between the Flemings/Walloon tensions and the Red/Blue U.S. tensions are impossible to miss. Including this piece: … which some people in the U.S. seem to be discussing as if it’s a good idea. Still… as a Texan (for now), I really can imagine how thrilled most of my neighbors would be to hear that going without an elec…

[milliefink]

Sean Hannity says it's no big deal for kids to be hit with a belt: "When did we become the land of the snowflake?" (video)

Hannity… you have argued that children are too sensitive to learn about the slave trade and the civil rights movement, that they are too fragile to hear about another kid who has two dads, and that children are irreparably damaged should they talk to a kid whose gender isn’t obvious from the first word. But the thought that children might be too traumatized by sado-sexual torture via corporal punishment. Oh no that’s the one you are ok with. Nice look buddy.

[smulder]

This object is now the fastest thing humans ever made

The relativistic correction for GPS satellites is a combination of their relative velocity and general relativistic effects because they are farther away from the Earth. These work opposite to each other; relative velocity alone would cause their clocks to appear to run slower than a clock on the surface of the Earth, but altitude alone would make their clocks appear to run faster. The general relativistic effect actually dominates, the GPS clocks run 45 microseconds per day faster due to thei…

[Sally_Mahoney]

Fake MAGA elector accused of brutal assault on process server

Yeah, that’s probably it. I’m amazed at how many people think the law works like magic spells. If I say just the right words in just the right order, I will be magically protected by or from The Law™. I have a friend who is definitely not a sov cit, but he posts drum covers on his YouTube channel, and he always includes this statement about not owning the copyright or something. I can’t even remember all of it, but he thinks that will protect him from a take down notice or infringement claim. I’…

[Sally_Mahoney]

Study finds that people "cough on purpose during classical concerts"

It may well be a psycosomatic response, but I find in situations where I must be quiet and still, I frequently end up needing to cough. My “concert prep” has long included having a water bottle to the specification allowed by the venue I’m going to. It was interesting to me to discover – after concerts restarted – that keeping masked with a kn95 really helps me in not becoming phlegmmy and needing to cough. So I surmise that the “twice as often” result is really that the dense seating in a con…

[MerelyGifted]

New House speaker nominee Tom Emmer already doomed with 26 "no" votes

The old Catch-217.