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Yup. This is the current line in the sand. We've crossed several already, to be clear, but the important one right now is this particular showdown between the Executive and Judicial branches of government. Congress is working on getting their shit together, but overall the Legislative branch has not been effective lately at holding up its responsibility as a check on Executive or Judicial powers. The Judicial side has been checkered, at best. And the Executive side is led by a reflexive fascist.

We really need the whole "checks & balances" thing to work if we are going to try and convince the rest of the world we are still a functioning democracy. I'm losing confidence that the problems of our nation will be resolved diplomatically, and I'm equally worried that we're not ready to meet this moment in time to avert some very troubling times in the U.S. of A.

lol, nerds

/s

Well now I have to read Foundation so I know the correct phrase! Mathematical Sociology. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Let's not get crazy here, how's the VIX doing?

checks

Damn. Never mind. Looks like volatility's way up! All this winning is just exhausting, I'm tired boss

As I was reading it, another phrase came to mind: sociological calculus. The study of how a society changes over time, as something akin to a mathematical function (or a set of them).

Very interesting article and worth the read. Thanks for sharing!

While some see this as an academic lifeline, others view it as France capitalizing on a U.S. brain drain under anti-science policies.

Drain our brains. Europe, Canada, Mexico, Oceania: have at it, make this world safer for us all. I bet Cuba could get some of our medical researchers, too. Cripple the Trump regime.

And then, in true American fashion, we can call the member countries in the newly established Four Eyes "nerds, lol" as we continue circling the drain!

Edit: sorry, I might be a bit grumpy this morning, he did a lot of shit over the last few weeks and it's exhausting

Demand Progress said Wednesday that the vote on the GOP-led Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution, which requires just a simple-majority vote to pass both chambers of Congress, is "the latest in a damning and telling chain of events benefiting Elon Musk."

The group laid out the timeline:

November 21, 2024: The CFPB finalizes a rule enabling the agency to proactively supervise digital payment apps;

November 27, 2024: Musk tweets 'Delete CFPB';

January 28, 2025: X CEO announces that X Money will debut with a partnership with Visa;

February 7, 2025: Musk's DOGE staffers enter the CFPB and kick off an effort to shut it down;

and March 5, 2025: The Senate is set to vote on legislation to revoke the CFPB's digital payments rule.

"Every step of the way, Musk has gotten closer to launching X Money without a watchdog to ensure that the platform adheres to federal rules mandating data security standards, disputes for fraudulent payments, consumer protections against debanking, and more," said Demand Progress.

"You need not learn to think, you need only learn to be a productive wage slave"

Thanks, no

12ft.io link

I think I get what you are saying, but also, I'm not sure my point got across entirely. The article and headline use this "from 0 to 100" verbiage to imply a rapid acceleration from being at rest (as in, 0mph) to suddenly moving at a very high velocity (100mph). And that is relating people who watch snuff films to the at-rest part of the analogy, no effort spent, just coasting along... a default state, if you will. And, of course, the real wacko ones that end up just happening to take it a bit too far are the ones that just suddenly find themselves going 100mph, having obviously had to expend a great deal of energy in pursuit of that sudden delta-v.

I'm saying, on that kind of a scale, the people that would never even consider the existence of smut and, upon hearing about it, would be far too revolted to want to have to see it, has a velocity so far in the negative that it's probably worth considering setting the 0 in the scale to the people who are all the way on the smut-is-gross-and-also-a-red-flag end of the dichotomy on this issue? That's got to make more sense than setting 0 at "they watch that nasty shit but don't, like, act on it" as the 0-point, doesn't it?

"People watching torture, mutilation, and beheading videos for entertainment" is probably not the place to be taring the scale. That's already pretty fucked up, in my book. Like, easily already at 50 and cruising higher at a rapid rate.

Nice, I was unaware, thanks!

Been moving over to LibreWolf and I'm pretty happy with it so far. I added NoScript and CanvasBlocker extensions, along with my password manager, and I'm getting settled in with it now.

Roberts agreed to put the order on hold and told the grant recipients waiting for their funding to tell the court by Friday why the order should go forward.

His decision came after the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the administration's request. The panel of three judges, all of whom were appointed by Democratic presidents, said the federal judge's order is not subject to review by a higher court at this stage of the litigation.

Roberts did not give a reason for his decision.

Corruption at the Supreme Court on display again

I think for younger people, this is probably feeling like a betrayal. Almost like, "The boss said smoking was OK as long as we stayed in the smoking area and didn't litter our butts everywhere, but then they just up and fired everyone that took smoke breaks the other day."

"Don't smoke at work" is an easy thing to say, and most people adhere to that in general. But it's still fucked up to fire the smokers, when company policy just literal days before was "it's fine, just follow these basic rules."

Older people grew up keeping their private life private a lot more than younger people today, who have grown up online having their data mined constantly. Just by the nature of having grown up without ubiquitous data harvesting devices feeding analytics companies, we had more privacy as a default condition.

These particular folks were told they had a safe space for the chats they had, and then the rug was pulled from under them.

First they came for the T's

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a T

Then they came for the LGB's

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a LGB

Then they came for the immigrants

And I did not speak out

Because I was not an immigrant

And then they came for the non-Christians

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a non-Christian

And then they came for me

And there was no one left

To speak out for me

I've been hearing it a lot, really. It seems like a lot of people are saying it! I don't trust this Krasnov guy, personally, but I'm not saying he's a foreign agent, I mean he's very, well, just look at him, right, WOW, but lots of other people have said "Look, there's Krasnov the Russian agent" and I couldn't say they were wrong, but I couldn't say much because all I know he really loves that Putin and I think it's a good thing to get along with our other world leaders, Putin Kim, Trudeau you know we love him don't we but he's a LITTLE WEAK maybe? Might an OK governer though, and maybe even the Krasnovs, a lot of people have been saying it...

Edit: we have a rogue president. I'm drunk, sure, but he could post that shit for real and it wouldn't phase the die-hards

OK but when are we getting Steven Crowder already

This is America