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It’s a secular apocalypse cult. There’s a good episode of Team Human about it. https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/257-emile-p-torres

Most creators that have in-video sponsors also have Patreons with sponsor-free feeds.

Saying Gen Z and Millennials are "more into gig work" is kinda like saying black people are "more into incarceration". I assure you, it is not indicative of a preference.

“Labor” is often used as shorthand for “Labor Unions”. So they mean “U.S. Labor Unions” or “Labor Unions in the U.S.”

24 hours ago:

The Associated Press notes, however, that “there would be no restrictions on statements criticizing the Justice Department generally or statements about Trump’s belief that the case is politically motivated.” Chutkan remains a permissible target for Trump’s public ire.

You Won't Believe What Happens Next!

Did they seriously use the Dark Brandon avatar? A+ trolling

Gandhi on Zionism:

My sympathies are all with the Jews.

…

But my sympathy does not blind me to the requirements of justice.

…

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs. What is going on in Palestine today cannot be justified by any moral code of conduct. The mandates have no sanction but that of the last war. Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home.

Edit: This was 1938, btw. 10 years before the Nakba.

Oh boy, you’re gonna be real disappointed if you start learning about cognitive science.

Always blew my mind at CompUSA that they had lil security boxes around the $30 games, but $200 (or however much it was) Red Hat was just chillin.

We have an entire movement in the US that says:

• Democracy doesn’t work, because people will never be heard through the bureaucratic institutions like the DOJ…
• …and rule of law ought to be administered with a gun instead of a gavel.

I don’t think you defeat that movement by assassinating its political leader. Especially out of a belief that his crimes will never be prosecuted lawfully.

Some things to consider:

• Local elections and proposals...
  • ...make a huge impact to people's lives
  • ...tend have quicker impacts
  • ...are far more heavily influenced by a single vote
  • ...can jump-start a leftist politician (or a policy position), getting them ready for state or national campaigns down the road
• Judges really friggin matter, and they aren't categorized by party, so they're a prime section for a well-informed voter to make a difference
• All elections cost money to win
  • Even in deeply red or deeply blue states
  • If the GOP lead shrinks from 20% to 15%, that will translate to more money the GOP has to spend next time around or else risk further slipping into single digits and making a new battleground state
  • Momentum really helps keep costs low. It doesn't seem like slipping from 20% to 15% should make the GOP panic, but it would
  • Voter turnout is lower in more deeply red/blue states, meaning your vote actually counts more in closing the gap
• Getting your preferred candidate in office is not the only measure of electoral success
  • Even candidates that get absolutely destroyed on election day can still shift the local or national conversation
  • Candidates that perform better than pollsters expected can influence future candidates to pay more attention to the issues that brought out those extra voters
• There aren't just voters staying home until there's a candidate worth voting for -- there are also good candidates who are staying home until there are enough voters to support them
• Milton Friedman, bastard that he was, was right about this:

  Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.

  • We want leftist ideas to already be lying around at the moment they are needed. We can't wait until after the crisis has already occurred to start organizing and showing up. It'll be too late.
  • The Patriot Act was 131 pages, signed into law 45 days after 9/11. That wasn't a reaction to 9/11, starting from scratch. Someone had a wishlist already, and they had a PowerPoint deck ready to go on September 12th full of proposals that Congress had already seen 100 times but was never ready to vote on before.

I don't think Biden has an ideological bone in his body. Supporting Israel is just good business. Simple as.

Try to imagine Trump cancelling a campaign event in order to do presidential shit. It's such a fucking low bar, but at least Biden clears it.

12 sources, but rated "mixed factuality" at best. I'd stay skeptical. https://ground.news/article/us-news-network-msnbc-takes-2-muslim-journalists-off-anchoring-duties-amid-war-in-israel_7aba2d

Most Americans can't afford a $500 emergency. Transplanting to a new state is off the table for a lot of people, especially women. If you have enough money to move, you probably also have enough money to take a weekend trip to get an abortion in a neighboring state.

The cruelty is the point. The well-being of the fetus is the excuse.

Same on Voyager

But they were, all of them, deceived, for another ring was made.

Oh hey, it’s the home I build in every survivalcraft game!

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/76908/trouble-star-trek-transporters

If the transporter takes all the atoms that make up a person, encodes them, beams them somewhere else, and then reassembles them, how can we know that the resulting "person" is the same person who went in?