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people know they don't *have* to clap like a seal and condemn any blowblack towards the pro-israeli people, right? Like you don't have to cheer it on either (and shouldn't, really), but come on if you're this sort of weenie 18 months into a genocide how could I trust you about anything else.

Questions about civic epistemology, expert authority, and the unstable relationship between science and democracy deserve more than handwaving. We often rely on the authority of science to do work that it simply cannot achieve.

Yep, posted that Ohtani pitching footage real sexy just like you asked

"you should be able to make a more compelling case" has been my go-to for judging bullshit coming from otherwise credentialed people and it hasn't failed me much

"Pallywood" with trust and safety characteristics

i can understand being skeptical of alleged palestinian accounts asking for donations. i can understand not giving them money and ignoring or even blocking them. but i dont really understand the need to actively lecture everyone that the accounts are all scams, especially when you yourself dont know

My first "vibes are rancid" preemptive block here was rahaeli after her basically hose-posting about content moderation and I didn't expect to be validated to *this* degree about it, damn!

Just because he was a German Christian IDF member who openly supported genocide and downplayed the starvation of children and wanted Gazans to die doesn't mean-... Sorry, forgot where I was going with this

everyone is correctly hating on all this AI stuff being forced into everything, but are you a big enough hater to install linux once they get around to forcing AI onto your proprietary operating system? i doubt it

everyone suddenly becomes a lot more chill with the torment nexus once you point out that the alternative to it is installing linux

#MusicSky #MayTheFourth

There's something about being told you're a conspiracist for decades, only to be constantly proven correct when the group chats get leaked, that makes you start not taking liberals very seriously at all.

this is...................................good? Temu is bad? it's good that it's no longer cheap? I am not commenting on the wider trade wars, but I will not weep for Americans who can no longer kill the planet in order to buy cheap trinkets?

Calling that dehumanization is fucking weirdo shit but fine, I'll play along: Anil, your "but you use a smartphone, though" response wasn't worth actually having a discussion over it in the first place, and if anything it should lead to doubt over the opinion you're defending with it.

It is not shocking that later in this thread he drops a few "yet you participate in society" takes

re-enabled the "AI" integration in my IDE since it got rolled into other payments for it, and its oh so aggressively fucking mid at best. How do people trust this shit be more than a fancy autocomplete.