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[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.

[SallyM]

You can call me AI

I hate these stupid thought experiments where you’re somehow responsible for someone else being a awful. “Oh, you don’t think people should say racial slurs? But…what if saying a slur got you a billion dollars, would you give up the chance to help all the people you could with that?” And then we just ignore that the real problem is that there’s some billionaire who won’t help people unless you appease him with slurs for some reason. I say we tax and/or guillotine him, and as for Roko’s Basilisk,…

[SallyM]

ICE capades - travails of the detained

Brown and gay. Yeah, I would guess they labeled him as “not one of us” immediately. “You have no rights at a port of entry…” Since when is the Constitution suspended at an entry point? I suspect that, as a citizen, you carry your rights with you. That’s kinda what “inalienable” means, after all.

[chgoliz]

SCOTUS Happenings

This is a load of crap. I mean grade A, stinky as hell, bullshit. This isn’t hard. This is easy, if you care about the Constitution. It certainly hasn’t been a tough call for Sotomayor, Kagan, or Jackson. Trump isn’t doing things that are of questionable Constitutionality. He’s not taking advantage of ambiguous language in the Constitution. He is ignoring parts of the Constitution, and doing things that are explicitly in opposition to the Constitution. This is the easiest fucking call in the hi…

[SallyM]

You can call me AI

I didn’t finish it. I knew from the start that he’s wrong about heat (typically it’s at at .8 as far as I know. Why? Guess what, they don’t know. Trial and error shows that this gives the best balance between boringness and batshitness. The Markov chain has the most likely token next 80% of the time. It’s just a rule of thumb because there’s no science there). But I stopped reading immediately when he said radiologists were obsolete. Now don’t get me wrong, far more eminent people than he have …

[MerelyGifted]

Can’t understand for the life of me why this wasn’t already here

Weird, odd stuff

Catholic bishop resigns after falling in love with Satanic erotic fiction novelist Headline of the week already won.

[subextraordinaire]

Two important posts about living outside a traditional home. Thank you @PsiPhiGrrrl and @KeybillyJefe !

Injustice Systems

I watch RV news channels and they have been covering the increasing changes in parking laws at state/municipal levels, recent attacks against national park funding, and attempts to increase camping costs on public lands (or privatize them). Now the regime (and state/municipal governments) are working hard to criminalize homelessness in a way that casts a wide net that will trap occasional campers, as well as full-time nomads, vanlifers, and RVers: [They're Coming for VANLIFERS: The TR…

The goddamn Trump Administration (Part 2)

is signaling to them to keep going - and it’s not just going after the homeless. It’s chipping away at privacy rights, as well as the ability to use public and private property as we did before the regime started monetizing poverty. As @KeybillyJefe pointed out, the more people they can impoverish, take their property, eliminate their freedom, and push into prison puts more money into the pockets of the oligarchs. As a bonus, they get to test all of their new tech t…

[PsiPhiGrrrl]

You’re welcome - and thanks for the mention here!

[SallyM]

You can call me AI

Actual ethicists say that being kind to electronic devices help teach children the proper way to interact with others. The guy how shouts, “Siri you stupid $%#&, what’s the weather today?” is going to be crappy to almost everyone he meets, electronic or not. Saying thank you to a device promotes kindness to people and objects that do things for you. When I was young and dating, I dropped a few people because they acted shitty to clerks, busboys, and waiters.

[SallyM]

Weird, odd stuff

Sigh, swords are complicated. Something something category debates. In the broadest understanding, katanas could be categorized as sabers, which are (again, in the broadest understanding) any curved, single-edged weapon optimized for cutting over thrusting. There are certainly narrower conceptions of what constitutes a saber – Wikipedia gives the (over-narrow, in my opinion) definition: a type of backsword with a curved blade associated with the light cavalry of the early modern and Napoleoni…

[SallyM]

C'mon Guys (Toxic Masculinity)

This. I am not interested in appeasing the terrorists, I am interested in removing the supply of new terrorists. You do not do that by assuming that all potential members may as well already be members, and should be treated as if they are already members, and the precautionary principle demands that you treat them as if they were all the worst members just in case they are, because that excluded middle slippery slope bullshit is what leads to hospitals being bombed with no civilian casualties…

[SallyM]

Strategies for Survival

After extensive deliberation, we have determined that potatoes are actually a kind of fish.

[Millie_Fink]

Well this is interesting

I get the same feeling whenever anyone talks about how bad crime is these days. I hit my teen years during peak crime. Five of the kids I went to high school with were arrested for murder before we graduated. I got shot at a few times (never hit, but a guy standing next to me got hit). I had stuff stolen. I got jumped once. I knew Crips and Bloods, and had some run-ins with them (resolved peacefully). One time after work I called a cab because I was tired and didn’t feel like walking home and…