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Formerly of the birdsite as Apark2453, but staking my claim to the full name! Lawyer, overanalyzer of godawful subcultures, always up to dunk on some chuds. If you’re into all of that too… I’m sorry, but welcome friend!
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“You know what uses a lot of water? Surgery. And if water being consumed for something useful is fine, it must be fine to consume it for chatbots”

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Are you, though? Because last time you had the chance to stand against Trump’s budget you said “it’s worse if we cave somehow so we’re going to back his budget in exchange for being allowed to offer some amendments that won’t pass” Are you guaranteeing the democrats won’t help his budget pass?

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

In what way does his direct response of “Israel has the right to exist as a state with equal rights” not answer your question?

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Criticism of the effect a person’s writing has had on a community is not a personal attack, even if you find it unfair. In the same way Azeen regurgitating transphobic claims made by transphobic activists can be described as “disgusting” but are not a “personal attack”. Hope that helps!

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

With love, no one is arguing accuracy in headlines matters because it could influence the subject of the headline. It matters because your power to (mis)inform the public does. And if that doesn’t matter to you… well, at least you found the right company to work for.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

In the context Ari is writing about (which, since context collapse is a thing, is a woman trying to get the FTC to crack down on social media and video games because her son committed suicide) it’s particularly egregious. 1/

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

If you need extra encouragement I’d honestly describe the second season as the best version of neon genesis evangelion made to date

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

“We will respond in a time, place, and manner of our choosing” has to be a line he got from a consultant. No way he repeats that twice in as many answers organically. And it’s a terrible line. No one wants to hear how strategic you’re being, they want to hear you’re going to the mat.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

If you absolutely need a fix of magical school stuff, rather than giving a transphobe money, I’d absolutely recommend the Dimension 20 series Misfits and Magic.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

On the one hand I’m sympathetic to being bad at self-advocacy while being very good advocating for others. On the other hand, I don’t run a white-shoe firm nor have ever been described as “high-power”.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Maybe a day will come that @npr.org reports brain-worm induced lies as something other than “mixed messages”

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I have some questions about sources, but even if this were absolutely true I’m trying to figure out how a kid today hears creed or nickelback based solely on “self-selecting” content.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Kings being famous for passively believing they own everything in a nation and never using any of it for their own comfort or desires. That’s why there’s never been a rebellion against any king.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Nihilism is inherently conservative. It is always the excuse to do nothing, improve nothing, help no one. It’s the big reason I push back on “everything is corrupt, nothing can fix the system incrementally” rhetoric (including “controlled opposition” or misunderstandings of campaign finance). 1/

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

As noted yesterday, it’s a mistake to think “was not motivated by, but found it acceptable to vote to bring about” means someone can be won over. If “I don’t vote for this” doesn’t mean “I would have voted against this” there’s no way to welcome them “back into” the tend they were never in.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Without getting into how godawful your aesthetic judgment is, how do you manage to become an adult (much less a professor) not knowing that the non sequitur of “you say he’s a bigot but you’re not as good as him at writing” is obviously an insult?

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

“Worth” is an interesting word here, isn’t it? If I say my car is worth $500,000 but no one buys it, we’d never frame that as me sitting on “$500,000 worth of automobiles”. We definitely don’t conceptualize someone unable to find a buyer for their labor as “sitting on $80,000 worth of labor”

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

It’s fascinating that it’s just an unguarded and more explicit version of their response to gun control/school shootings, poverty, and climate change.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

This is, I think, the key thing. “I didn’t vote for this” isn’t regret, or hindsight being they’d act differently, it’s compartmentalizing. It’s “I did vote for Trump, who said he’d do this, but that’s not why I voted for him” as a defense against shame or guilt for how their actions led to this.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Yes, how could anyone have understood that a vote for Trump was a vote for mass deportation? It’s not like major media outlets ran stories featuring the signs held up at Trump rallies calling for mass deportation or anything.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments