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Women belong in anti-ageing research; Ukrainians are good people; not the economic or cultural capital but a secret third thing
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www.reuters.com/world/europe... >Russians' aspirations for a brighter future If you like Russians so much then tell your buddy Kristi Noem to restore Kseniia Petrova's study visa and let her go back to work, assuming her lab still has funding

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

You mean she apologised for calling a cis woman manly because she's tall, right? Because she realises that splash damage to cis women who are built like swimmers is a) mean b) god's gift to TERFs, right? *clicks through* ah hell

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

So far the Conceptians are refusing to cede "multipolar" to vatnik enjoyers and are instead doing some Terra Ignota Mirai shit with it

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

I think "traitor" only works if you're a wee bit nationalist, if you believe in the first place your country is worth loyalty. But if you're the good kind of nationalist, you have an actual argument for *why* your country is so great, and you can appeal to that universal principle directly!

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

pretty obsessed with the aesthetic of 2020s mass drone warfare. in part because it's one of elements futures that would have struck people as ridiculous and heavy-handed if encountered in a work of fiction. miles-long reels of cable to control every single drone doesn't seem realistic, and yet

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

My crazy far right family, my confused centrist Australian Catholic school, and my cadre of internet American liberaltarian friends all *really* underplayed how carefully planned the US Civil Rights Movement was, and this has unfortunate implications if you want to learn from them

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

I did not listen to Americans bragging about their First Amendment for years only to have the legal precedent for the rest of the world's courts ripped away, dammit!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

You are torrenting your data from the Internet Archive to prove that there are legal uses of the technology You are also torrenting your data from the Internet Archive because your internet is shit You are Australian

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

There's a couple of *really* obvious flags to wave for a Russian or Chinese abroad to signal they're One of The Good Ones, in many ways we're lucky, but if you have e.g. nationalist-for-the-old-country parents you're in a bind.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

>I think it is foolish to [wave] the flag of a country you are arguing it would be unjust to be sent back to I think this is superficially compelling and worth arguing against

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

HUGE respect for Greta Thunberg! She has bigger balls than many man.

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Note that the people who use Democrats' gerontocracy against all leftists everywhere, happily call a 22-year-old a child. Unclear whether they think the Israeli soldier is granted adulthood through submission to their government, or whether they think the soldier is also a child, just a good one.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I'm one of those people who loves the biting wit of British anarchism, but every so often I see the kind of thing that spurred them into such a reaction and it is *bad*. Women also do it but are delegated to pulling rank as Titus 3 women -- sorry, women who understand the *facts of life*.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I wish whenever Democrats did the boilerplate "Of course I believe that violent or destructive protesters should be arrested," they'd add, "Unlike our president who pardons them if they are beating on cops for him."

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

deploying loyalist troops to opposition strongholds to stir up violence and unrest that will be the pretense to the deployment of military assets. literally any other country doing this would be plastered all over Faux News with the scariest possible chevrons

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

I've come to the conclusion that protesting your shitty government to prove to foreigners etc that dissent exists is important, actually. Doesn't make you effective or good, but proves an opposition *even exists*.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The ratfic discussion was "part of the reason you prefer the villain is because they're the only one with agency" And, I mean, that's part of why Evil Is Sexy, the women act like they *want* it and the men are a little gay and creepy because they want the *wrong things*

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

were I on Tumblr I would tag this Ianthe Tridentarius

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I regret to inform y'all this was one of the defining features of rationalist fiction, endorsed by Yud himself (I *liked* Girl Intercorrupted. I have never claimed good taste.)

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The "post a thread all at once" feature is great until you leave the phrase "I don't believe" hanging ominously in the final post

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Reason one to check the work of LLMs, and with machine translation by older methods: I'm also actually trying to learn Russian and should consume some source material.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment