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[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration

Maybe we should have a new scale for evil only? Like the RPG Chaotic/Evil, Neutral/Good, etc. Stupid/Evil/Ineffective, Stupid/Evil/Neutral, Stupid/Evil/??? Suggestions welcome!

[Millie_Fink]

Strategies for Survival

Lately I’ve been thinking about the different forms our resistance might take. It started because right now, I don’t have the mental, physical, or spiritual energy to be out there at protests, fighting the good fight. I’ve felt guilt about my lack of action on the front lines, guilt that leads to even less energy and action. No good. Recently I reframed it in my mind and it’s helped a lot. So I thought it might also help some here if you’re experiencing similar energy-sapping guilt. In a very…

[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration

Speaking of the Chevron doctrine mentioned earlier in that post, Chevron is a really good example of this very thing. Chevron was decided in 1984, at the height of Reagan’s power. Prior to Chevron, administrative agencies still had some power to interpret and reinterpret laws and agency rules, but the federal courts had more of that power. At the time, the federal judiciary was still (barely) dominated by liberals, not conservatives. The Federalist Society was just two years old and Leonard Leo…

[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration

Let me just say, that is the absolute fucking scariest analogy i have ever seen. Any doctor will tell you, we can work at the pace our nurses allow, and only with their permission and active cooperation. Take away our nurses and we instantly become overeducated and overpaid housekeeping staff. And not very good ones, at that.

[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration

A few days from now when things actually get expensive for the average consumer we will find out what cognitive dissonance can and can’t do.

[SallyM]

Um.... what.... aka, this is the dumbest thing I've ever read

Well, there you have it. Having any kind of compassion, standards or decency is exclusively a female trait and any men that have those traits are simply possessed by vagina demons. Totally a reasonable thing to believe.

[MagicFox]

Political Cartoons

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[SallyM]

Where's the questions thread?

How much mud would a mudruck muck if a mudruck could muck mud?

[SallyM]

Google, Meta, X and all the Tech Bros

The best use I’ve heard of was a group trying to make a medicine using AI to analyze thousands of chemical compounds and narrow them down to a few dozen that were worth having the human scientists actually test, which led to productive results that would have been impossible to achieve without that aid. I’m not sure if I’m remembering every detail correctly, but that’s the gist- using AI for something it’s actually better at than humans, analyzing and sifting huge piles of data. Not doing the ac…

[FSogol]

See it, post it

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[SallyM]

Google, Meta, X and all the Tech Bros

Sam Altman managed to both complain about China ripping off his work and insist that he is entitled to steal from anyone who has ever produced anything at any point, which might be some of the most spectacular hypocrisy in history. I’m sure when Elon says IP laws should be deleted he’s only thinking about ones that protect people from him.

[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration

On a rational level, I get it, but it’s still hitting me fundamentally, in whatever part of me was still holding on to the illusion that good guys win and bad guys lose, that respect and decency were still valued and valuable, that for the most part we’d learned from history and would keep striving to become better as a society. I know everyone isn’t so awful and evil, there are still many good people in the fight, and that at some point the tide must turn… but it’s getting harder and harder to…

[Nightflyer]

Thank you.

I’d like to nominate @Hanglyman 's reply, which IMHO is better than mine:

The goddamn Trump Administration

I feel this so much. I cannot understand why and how so much of the world is going fascist, as though some kind of virus is stripping people of reason and compassion. I cannot understand why anyone would want any of this or how they’re apparently fine with their heroes being insecure, stupid, lying criminals who have nothing but cruelty to offer. I cannot fathom such a huge percentage of humanity being monsters- not just misguided, ignorant or apathetic, but literal monsters devoid of every posi…

[SallyM]

I agree that that reply is great. Overall a good conversation.

[OhHai]

The goddamn Trump Administration

Honestly inelligence doesn’t look like anything and also isn’t a permanent state. Most of one’s life is attrition. People just don’t like to accept that luck and social privilege control 99.9999% of their life so they cling to any story that tells them something else.

[SallyM]

Systems of education and its discontents

[1000039233] First, on the new splashpage, Harvard publicizes how gov’t-funded scientific research benefits the general public. Headlines: “Regained mobility for stroke survivors,” “Lowering prescription drug costs,” “Keeping kids in school.” There’s barely a whisper about the humanities or social sciences here, but in my view, that’s OK–the point is to make the most compelling argument to the general public (not to represent the breadth of Harvard’s value). The FIRST link on the splashpage i…

[KeybillyJefe]

The goddamn Trump Administration

I’ll take some of that rage for you, no problem. I have more than enough to go around. I keep thinking I’m going to start running out at some point, but then RFKjr drops another quote like that and suddenly my rage meter is full again. This is one autistic person that would love to give him a five minute demo of how I can indeed wield a baseball bat. Well, not to give rfkj any credit to speak of, but I will admit that musk doesn’t actually have a job, pay taxes, play baseball, or write poetr…

[OWYAC]

That is a thing of beauty.

[SallyM]

Thinking about history

Stephen King is correct. I have not read the original documents of the Kennedy assassination, but I trust the historians who have… that’s exactly what depending on expertise means…

[mindysan33]

Thanks!