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2025-09-14 12:47:07 UTC

You might be able to explain to a Christian that someone they're defending actually said some bad things, you might be able to get them to admit that the person wasn't 100% holy. You might get them to imagine the person had ulterior motives. But you will never get them to notice that their allegiance to the Christian label was so great that it caused them to dismiss your concerns, which ended up being valid. You will never get them to notice that they privileged their own sense of affinity over your very visible frustration, fear, or revulsion. At best, this will be a one-off exception in their memory. Most likely, they will still be resentful of you for having gone through this conversation.

2025-09-13 16:52:23 UTC

The person who was asking the question when Kirk was shot, Hunter Kozak, said "I couldn’t have asked a worse question". That's an interesting perspective because Kozak was making a good point which Kirk was dodging. He was pointing out that leftists and specifically trans people are a small proportion of shooters, even less than you would statistically expect all things being equal. Hunter now faces likely stalking or harassment campaigns, and needing to apologize for having asked a good question. That's a rarely discussed downside of legitimizing fascist rhetoric with debate, you will be blamed for being nearby and making them look bad, when you are simply engaging with reality.

2025-09-13 14:57:30 UTC

"Defund the police" was such offensive speech to certain people that they have been itching to go kill everyone who said it ever since. Defund the police is a political statement, made of words. Even if it sounds controversial, is it a stronger position than advocating for public executions? Is it a stronger position than "We must ban trans-affirming care — the entire country"? The right wing has been holding a grudge about certain speech and the solution they favor is executing the person who said it. There's just no way to square the two positions, that freedom of speech is a God-given right, and that certain speech deserves punishment. If they believe some positions are so extreme that they are worthy of death, why are they surprised that some of their followers identified their own speech as in that category?

2025-09-13 14:14:24 UTC

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It's incredibly admirable that when people felt 'it could be me' they responded with protest and words, and strategy. Even in the most uncharitable interpretation of 'they rioted and busted up windows and looted', it's still more honorable than how the right wing has responded here. BLM protestors faced so much scrutiny on tactics, people were expected to hold that fear and direct it in a perfectly legal way, which would also be perfectly productive, and also somehow not bother anyone.
The right wing has no standards placed on them for how to react. So far their strategy has been 'let's purge a whole bunch of people who weren't connected to the event at all'. And they are getting away with that, because by and large (white) people are able to sympathize with their fear.
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2025-09-10 18:51:00 UTC

I can't believe I'm still seeing takes about how 'we have to have a big tent' and 'now is not the time for purity tests'. What exactly is the problem with Mamdani then? Usually the people who are being told not to have purity tests are voters or posters, not anybody with power. So we should be even more suspicious of the tests that powerful people are using right? What is their explanation for not supporting him? We know the real reasons, he fails the support Israel purity test and he fails the support capitalists purity test.

2025-08-20 20:42:03 UTC

kind of interesting how all those 'stop getting Starbucks' and 'stop eating avocado toast' articles didn't really talk about car payments. their range is absurd, like $100-$1,500 per month. and a lot of people don't have a payment at all because they buy used in cash. probably because the people writing those articles have huge car loan payments.

2025-07-29 20:45:15 UTC

centrist upset when they see green air quality indicator because yellow is the middle

2025-06-17 17:10:10 UTC

if national parks get sold to private parties, the states should eminent domain them and turn them into state parks

2025-05-02 22:17:39 UTC

it was precedented and certain times

2025-04-22 12:13:05 UTC

So much reporting about how Pope Francis created a shift in the Church's perspective on LGBTQ issues. I hate that, LGBT isn't just a word that can fit in every situation. He didn't support trans people, the Vatican released a whole report about how it was bad and they were against gender-affirming care. When you use an inclusive acronym without considering if the situation would accurately be described that way you're erasing the people who were targeted.

2025-04-18 23:46:27 UTC

I am fascinated by this moment of the Blue Origin hatch opening and then Bezos walking up to pretend to open it with a wrench. This means he knew the wrench wouldn't do anything, he may have even demanded from the team that he wanted to wrench the door open and they said, 'it opens from the inside actually' and he said, 'find me a wrench, I'm getting that footage'. And then at this triumphant moment for him when he's showing off to the world, disaster strikes, the door opens before he gets up to it. And then Bezos, his reaction to this, is to still walk up there and do the wrench bit. He decides, yeah, I'm still gonna do it.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/04/17/blue-origin-capsule-door-bezos/

2025-03-17 11:49:05 UTC

The idea that Democrats need to give up on trans rights because it's not a popular enough policy position is undercut by the last sixteen years of them refusing policy positions that were wildly popular not only among their voters but also independents and even Republican voters.

2025-02-25 22:37:43 UTC

Tesla just had a bad day, down 8% and now under $1T in market cap, the lowest since Nov 7, right after the election. You may be holding Tesla stock if you have a 401k or IRA. You can see some ways that Tesla is categorized and bundled into ETFs [here](https://etfdb.com/stock/TSLA/). Funds may be referred to as 'large cap', 'clean', 'ESG', 'growth', 'climate', 'energy', 'consumer discretionary', etc.
You can see which stocks make up the funds that your money is in, usually through the website that manages your account. Tesla is often listed pretty high up in the holdings section because it tends to make up a large amount of the fund (1-5%). You can adjust your allocations (in a 401k) or sell those funds (in an IRA) and choose options that don't hold Tesla.
#tesla #stocks #retirement #divest #economy

2025-01-30 22:57:07 UTC

"better for you and the planet"
actually you are the planet. planet includes you

2025-01-22 22:54:29 UTC

A Milwaukee local news meteorologist was fired after pointing out on her personal Instagram account that he had made a Nazi salute. She was targeted by a conservative radio host.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2025/01/22/cbs-58s-sam-kuffel-is-out-after-criticizing-elon-musk-arm-gesture/77883983007/

2025-01-19 22:16:01 UTC

I kind of love the idea that whoevers started up this universe just let it evolve however it does. gift of full autonomy, just be sure to follow god's plan for you. (you open the envelope) it just says "laws of physics".

2025-01-07 20:20:20 UTC

big tech hasn't done anything since they made search engines. web 2.0 was just _us_ making content for them. no wonder your site got so popular, it was full of interesting content from other people. web 3.0 was all fake, and now they are back to repackaging other people's content to stay relevant. meanwhile, they broke the search engine stuff.

2024-12-22 14:47:55 UTC

put Saturn back in Christmas

2024-11-23 14:01:07 UTC

I got a CPAP this year and mostly it's been good. I used the r/CPAP reddit to learn about it. pretty much every day someone on there says "I just got my machine and I feel like I can't breathe when I use it", and the replies always say "turn up your starting pressure".
A lot of people get a prescription for a CPAP that says "4-20 cmH2O", but most people actually use 7-10 cmH2O. There are countless stories on there of people trying to explain the issue to their doctor or technician and just being gaslit about how nothing is wrong and they should 'follow the prescription'. Once they learn on reddit how to configure their machine it works great and is much more tolerable.
How many people abandoned treatment because they had too low of a pressure setting when their doctors arbitrarily wrote on the prescription the same thing they write on every prescription? Why do machine manufacturers continue to use default settings that rarely work?

2024-11-06 23:15:50 UTC

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I think if you have the means, buying useful things is better than having money in the bank. food, medicine, tools. Plan B has a shelf life of four years. stuff like n95s, bandages, warm clothes.

2024-11-06 13:58:35 UTC

just because we're all upset today, my biggest most massive most earnest _fuck you_ to Hillary Clinton for saying that dropping trans rights would win elections. are you winning yet? are you ready to admit that you are full of shit?

2024-09-25 14:43:49 UTC

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before we had the death penalty we had blood feuds and avengers though, people would impose the death penalty on a small scale between families or rivals. wouldn't some form of a law be needed to avoid that? call it a 'norm' is that's better, but I mean like some expectation that people resolve their conflicts with the community's mechanism and not on their own

2024-09-25 12:43:27 UTC

sorry if this is really ignorant but what do people mean when they say 'abolish'? I understand that it means 'make it not exist' but what is it asking to do? usually I see anarchists say this but usually also the means I can imagine to abolish something is to make laws against it. when an anarchist describes abolition of something are they describing a society that just doesn't have it? would we enforce its absence through norms not laws? I'm not well read I probably just don't get it, but if anyone feels like explaining I am curious

2024-09-22 03:29:35 UTC

you can't get famous or viral on fedi it will literally crash. your home server will crash and anyone you boost believe it or not, also crash

2024-09-19 11:10:11 UTC

humans can design things to last a long time, with replaceable parts, with standard connectors, made with sturdy material. but capitalism can't

2024-09-15 12:56:30 UTC

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trying to think of a double meaning on a word related to books.
Bound to Devour
A Course in Literature
Printing Plates

2024-09-13 14:03:04 UTC

the cognitive dissonance of 'covid is over' and 'all my friends have covid' is strange enough.
but the reaction to masks of either "are you sick" or "you don't have to wear that" (increasingly also, "you aren't allowed to wear that"...).
In the words of Chidi, "this broke me."
if ever you needed more proof that psychological avoidance is the most important thing. if you needed proof that negative stimulus will make the receiver blame and distrust the source. an invisible threat completely glitches human thought process, we can't.

2024-09-11 17:22:11 UTC

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yeah I definitely think it's correct for filenames. ISO 8601 for APIs too. but I think it would be very silly to write this in my normal speech

2024-09-11 17:10:37 UTC

year first date formats aren't correct, nope. the year is the least relevant piece of information in daily life, it shouldn't come first. if you are looking at historical data sure, year becomes the most relevant. but we shouldn't start with that. should your address begin with the continent?

2024-09-11 14:07:43 UTC

I'm not going to minimize the traumatic experience of seeing 9/11 on TV, or the people who lost loved ones that day.
When it comes to remembering though, let's remember the response that happened in this country. The Department of Homeland Security was started. As part of that, ICE was created. It passed the Senate 90-9.
There was an immediate bipartisan response to give the government increased surveillance powers in the PATRIOT act, which includes indefinite detention without trial. Even though it was written to sunset at the end of 2005 it was extended multiple times including by Obama, and only expired in 2020.
The war in Iraq was started with false intelligence reports, by Cheney and Bush lying to Congress and the voters. It's estimated that the war caused 150k to nearly 600k violent deaths, up to a million excess deaths in total. Numbers were consistently underreported, and many Iraqis were simply disappeared to secret prisons. Cheney is now celebrated for supporting Harris. Don't forget.

2024-09-02 14:11:12 UTC

"why are CEOs lying? they keep saying they can move so quickly with LLMs and can code stuff in less than a day"
they could be lying. but have you considered that they think that the code works because they don't understand how anything works? they may never realize the code doesn't work

2024-08-31 17:22:01 UTC

I think there's at least one simple step we could take on the reply management front. allow the OP to delete replies on their server. when I get a reply that I don't want I log in as admin and delete it. I should just be able to do that for any thread I make.
it doesn't solve everything but at least it won't stay on your profile and at least other people on your server won't see it

2024-08-21 17:54:27 UTC

history will be the judge of that! at some point in the future the story will be accurate! and people in the future will somehow have good sense! just you wait!!

2024-08-16 15:20:18 UTC

I just watched that video, he is joking about black pepper being the top of the spice range in Minnesota. it's a meme, it's a stereotype. lol how are conservatives not able to interpret a joke?

2024-08-12 21:30:34 UTC

I am trying so hard not to be sanist about this or too tinfoil but seriously I constantly notice people coughing without covering their mouths now. It's a marked difference compared to all my previous experience before the pandemic. I don't think this is me being hypervigilant I think it's really changed.
#note1s6t…u6a9

2024-08-09 23:58:31 UTC

The 'stopping the speech for medical emergency' thing has happened in all the recent rallies. It's getting to the point that I'm suspicious. do political rallies normally have a moment like that? and they always follow it up with 'this is what it's all about, we take care of each other.' It happened once with Walz, someone seemed to have heat stroke or something. and then it just... kept happening. just happened at Arizona too. I can't remember seeing this happen at a rally before so I'm skeptical that it's something that commonly happens. is this covid related? is it staged? wth

2024-08-02 17:02:23 UTC

meditation teacher confusing the whole class -
"simply let the light hit your eye, but not your mind. look but do not see"

2024-08-01 02:43:53 UTC

can you imagine if one of the prepper bunker channels just went full covid conscious and has been talking about covid since march 2020? and trying to sell people masks and talking about the cover ups. it's a bit surprising to me that it hasn't happened at all

2024-07-31 14:50:11 UTC

Unknown Illness: A Knives Out Mystery

2024-07-31 14:09:03 UTC

snide people who talk down to others in service of powerful personalities do not ever admit they were wrong. if they believed you were overreacting before, they will continue to believe it, even when the worry you had comes to pass. it's a personality trait, not a rational argument. it adjusts to new information not by changing the argument, but by finding a new avenue to pursue in condescension.

2023-09-17 01:58:08 UTC

from tumblr, “How to Spot a Smear Campaign”
https://www.tumblr.com/furiousgoldfish/662951769311248384/how-to-spot-a-smear-campaign-victimss-crimes
- Victims’s “crimes” will be enlarged, and even if they’re small missteps, they will be treated as if only the worst person on the planet would do such a thing
- Accusations against the victim will always be a reach, aka, they did ‘this little thing’ but it actually means they’re a racist/murderer/genocide supporter/fascist/have blood on their hands, even when the person’s actions never conformed to those crimes
- All and any actions of the victims will be misenterpreted in the worst possible way, anything the person does will be taken as an offense and intentions will be read as hostile and manipulative, regardless of how clear they are
- All victim’s actions will be taken out of context; ie, victim said something cruel to someone, but they take out the context of the victim being abused, threatened, tortured, forced into defense mode and finally attacking out of desperation to defend themselves and get free
- The victim will commonly get provoked into giving a bad reaction, (anyone gets defensive if they’re accused of the crimes they never did, or simply triggering insults until they snap), and the reaction will become the new ‘proof’ that the victim is in fact, evil and guilty
- A lot of pressure will be put on you to react ‘correctly’ to the smear campaign; if you don’t accept to demonize this person at once, you’re getting scrutinized, shamed for your lack of morality, told that you support all these horrid things and that you are just as despicable
- You will notice a trend of people ganging together based on their demonization of the victim; they will set a standard where you’re accepted and welcome if only you also will demonize and hate this person, and if you don’t, you’re blocked, cast out, and accused of causing harm
- It will feel very easy to accept to demonize this person, and going against it will feel risky, like going against the grain, doubting the word of the many and risking being demonized yourself.
- The smear campaign continues all the way until the victim is chased out of the community and denied a voice, even if the victim commits no further crimes, awful things will be said about them, their past ‘misdeeds’ continually brought up, until the victim is commonly believed to be worthless, and becomes completely isolated, scared of society and alone
- There will be no limit to what is considered okay to do to the victim of a smear campaign; even if the victim is accused of minor bad behaviour, it will become okay to threaten, insult, shout slurs, trigger, provoke, humiliate, manipulate, and repeat any kind of abusive behaviour to the victim, all because ‘they’re bad so they deserve it’.
- People leading the smear campaign will switch between being ‘extremely grossed out and enraged’ to showing absolute joy and satisfaction when they find a new reason to demonize and smear the victim. People truly horrified of someone’s actions do not get a leap of joy when a new disaster happens, they’re not beside themselves to abuse the perpetrator all over again.
- It will never, ever be acceptable to show any mercy to the victim. Forgiveness is out of the question, trying to understand them is out of the question. Even reading or listening to what this person is saying will be banned and forbidden, unless it’s for humiliating purposes. They will be shown as absolutely irredeemable, and associating yourself with them as evil and unforgivable. You will be instructed to block or unfollow or report the person based on what you’re told, without any significant proof.
Do not fall for smear campaigns. If a large amount of people all agree that a person is the worst, but their story is exaggerated, out of context, sounds fictional, and doesn’t show any proof, and the people switch from being enraged to eager, doubt it. Participating in a smear campaign will help the abusers isolate and abuse someone, and you do not want to be a part of it. They will also smear anyone who stands up to their abuse, so you’re helping the abusers to create a place where pointing out abuse gets you cast out of the community.