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[SallyM]

Fall of the Fourth Estate: A Critique of Mass Media

Musk really loves the number 42 from Hitchhiker’s Guide, always with a zero after it for some reason. He also often references the number 69, the year The Cloud Minders episode of Star Trek was first aired. And of course many of his fans celebrate 1488 when the Europeans first reached South Africa.

[FGD135]

Transphobic events

Without reading the article (no subscription + don’t want to), I’m assuming “radicalized” means “still fighting for what’s right instead of pulling up the ladder, either out of general decency or the knowledge that once other marginalized groups begin having their rights stripped away, gays aren’t far down the list.” They simply cannot fathom the idea that, once they’ve very reluctantly begun to treat a vulnerable group as fellow human beings, that group doesn’t fall at their feet in fawning gr…

[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration (Part 2)

I don’t want what I grew up with, I want a world in which all the people have guaranteed human rights and human dignity is respected by all. I feel naive even saying this, may be some pie in the sky shit, but it’s what I wish for.

[Nightflyer]

SCOTUS Happenings

Seriously, though, it absolutely is. I think it’s the way most of us understand history - as something to be viewed “objectively” and outside of ourselves, rather than as ourselves being products of that history, of the world we live in being the result of historical processes that shape the world we’re in now. History is often taught as something that happened to “others” who are not us, hence it has nothing really to do with us, other than for us to marvel at it, or shake our heads about… “th…

[mindysan33]

[Millie_Fink]

The goddamn Trump Administration (Part 2)

There are always exceptions to the rule, such as teff for Ethiopians and millet for the Senegalese (and probably other millet eating countries, though I am only familiar with Senegal). I thought elote was a method of preparation, but this isn’t my area of expertise— I just monetized corn for program funding, so am ignorant of specific uses. Of course there are specific corns that are sacred for native Americans. But most people would be hard pressed to explain the difference between hard red wi…

[MagicFox]

[SallyM]

Possibly untrue science news

Docosc, I love you, but I gotta correct you: chocolate is the single most powerful development in human history. Or maybe bicycles? Carry on!

[SallyM]

You can call me AI

Replacing middle managers? Well if your job is doing what David Graeber called bullshit jobs, writing reports that nobody actually reads, well AI should replace that job. It’s perfectly suited to writing reports that nobody should ever read.

[SallyM]

The problems of the Democratic party

Addiction is weird. It’s kind of hard to fully understand exactly how it all works. I’m a recovering alcohol and opiate addict. But gambling just never flipped any of the same switches for me. I’ve played slots a few times, and I just don’t get the attraction. It’s completely random and literally rigged to favor the casino, so while you might win big in the short term, in the long term, the house always wins. Always. And the game itself I don’t find interesting at all. It’s about as fun as flipp…

[SallyM]

Speaking of Faith: discussions on religion (broadly defined)

the sooner, the better, i say… i know it has been said in these threads many times, but what exactly is it that makes these evangelical xtian ethno-nationalist twits believe the he ( and it is always “he” in their minds) needs their goddamn “help” in bringing him around to kill everyone on the planet that ain’t them?! i mean, if this “god” is infallible, yet works in “mysterious ways”, WTF is aiding and cheering the self-destruction of civilization, the entire planet and all life on it, going…

[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration (Part 2)

These kinds of gotcha stories send me! I mean I saw two panhandlers get dropped off out of a decent looking SUV but… It also doesn’t mean anything. You can have situations were 8 people live in a friend of a friend’s rent house and one of them can make a car payment but not rent etc so they all kind of pool resources like that. Like I guess to me you can still be poor and have a car. You can be homeless and have a car. The worst thing you could do if you are poor and have a car is sell that car …

[SallyM]

It's perfectly cromulent to say font

Chiquita operates all over the globe and has a perfect reputation. Perfect? Aside from running a monopoly, mistreating workers, pollution, trafficking cocaine on their ships, evading laws on land ownership, forcibly preventing workers from joining unions, paying terrorist groups, having ties to terrorist groups, ignoring congressional subpoenas in several countries, making threats, murdering opposition leaders, murdering 47 to 1000 people, using toxic pesticides, forcing 12 hour work days, p…

[MagicFox]

@mindysan33

this is the kind of thing you get when you live in a society that continually shits on and guts non-scientific education for years. People unable to distinguish between problems as they actually exist and problems that are just, basically, made up.

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[mindysan33]

[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration (Part 2)

It’s a character issue if you prefer criminal Presidents who may have assaulted minors over other options.

[SallyM]

Economics - science, theories, programs, and policies

Here’s a crazy idea: just make med school free. California could tuck that into their G7-level state budget like a grain of sand under I-5. Fund it with a tax on Health Insurance and hospital CEO’s income…

[SallyM]

Speaking of Faith: discussions on religion (broadly defined)

Trump believes in God. Talks to him every morning too. In the mirror.

[SallyM]

Olds go nostalgic for the good old days of tech

I didn’t write that comment (and was born a bit later) but I might as well have. For the longest time, I thought my nostalgia for the 80s and 90s was just typical longing for the time of one’s youth- even as a kid I knew that was a thing for every generation. The Boomers’ longing for the 1950s pervaded absolutely every aspect of culture when I was growing up. And of course as children, we don’t register most of the fears and problems that weigh heavily on our parents’ minds. But the longer time…

[SallyM]

Mathematical jokes

There are two hard problems in computer science: Naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors.