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submitted 1 hour ago • 14 comments

The older I get the more I appreciate and enjoy the Ferengi episodes of DS9. Of all the Trek races I actually think the Ferengi are some of the most complex and also evolve the most over the series. Quark is also very often an extremely astute outside observer of humanity.

submitted 14 hours ago • 10 comments

submitted 15 hours ago • 191 comments

NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!” @USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?” NEBRASKA CROWD: CHEERS WILDLY (not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)

submitted 15 hours ago • 2163 comments

yes. and while this state of affairs has many authors, i’d say that the problem became terminal thanks to mitch mcconnell’s efforts to try to torpedo the obama administration, making it his most ignominious legacy.

submitted 13 hours ago • 89 comments

in retrospect it's kind of funny that sci fi was like "imagine a world where robots gain sentience, but humanity refuses to grant them personhood" but in reality every loser techbro loser thinks chatgpt deserves more rights than like, actual people

submitted 20 hours ago • 80 comments

obsessed with utada hikaru coming out as non-binary with such anger and passion (intentional kh2 reference) they’re such an inspiration

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

The dying off of the people who fought Nazis and suffered at their hands is a big reason we are insufficiently afraid of autocrats and aspiring autocrats now. You can read this without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/w...

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

Whoa there! We don't know all the facts yet. This could be insurance fraud. After all, the owner is "no angel."

submitted 21 hours ago • 14 comments

NEW: Minnesota Republican state Senator Justin Eichorn, co-author of the "Trump Derangement Syndrome" bill that just made headlines, was arrested yesterday in Bloomington for allegedly soliciting sex with a 16-year-old girl. minnesotareformer.com/2025/03/18/g...

submitted 20 hours ago • 377 comments

Did Trump convince voters of this? Or are there perhaps a series of institutions in between Trump & voters, mediating what they hear & how things are framed, that affected their views? You could call them ... mediators ... or maybe, for short ...

submitted 18 hours ago • 18 comments

The thing he's doing here is showing up everywhere early, before the full voter file is even available and long before Pew comes out with a study, so he can set a narrative and get his company hired.

submitted 17 hours ago • 6 comments

this is a good example of how this stuff is just the subjective and arbitrary decision making of a single individual laundered through a supposedly “objective” process

submitted 17 hours ago • 69 comments

If you dipshits want to advocate for violence do it on your own page and not on mine, although my advice is you don’t do it at all. I know my own moral code and understand what political moment we’re in and how good people of conscience can still peacefully confront it.

submitted 19 hours ago • 4 comments

Axios and WaPo reported yesterday that the military took down webpages celebrating Native American history. It looks like the purge was much more widespread, however — TPM found many pages describing the military's racial integration have also been removed. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/pentago...

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

One of the things that is totally lost on Carville is that conservatives will never believe that you aren’t secretly connected with <insert marginalized group>. It’s just that when you trash them, you send the message that you won’t fight for what you believe in and you’re a fake piece of shit.

submitted 23 hours ago • 24 comments

“I’ll be back up to full speed any day now – just as soon as those autism researchers find a cure for burnout. Surely that’s what they’re working on, right??”

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

My brain literally cannot comprehend all of the bad stuff that just happened today so instead: scholastic book fair now has online wallets that you can use for your kiddos at the book fair- but also, you can donate to “share the fair” so others w/o can get books.

submitted 1 day ago • 121 comments

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will stop paywalling articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

submitted 1 day ago • 1635 comments

There’s a great interview with Nick Park about Wallace And Gromit in last month’s Empire, and this bit in particular stood out. It sums up what artists have been trying to say about AI. The mistakes and the learning aren’t things to be bypassed, but a vital part of the process 🤟

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

The thing that gets me most about the passport stuff is that it has no functional purpose beyond harassment of an already marginalized population. It makes precisely no one safer. It creates additional work for bureaucrats and results in inaccurate gov't identity documents.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

what the fuck is this (h/t @karavoght.bsky.social)

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

God I am going to miss this pharmacy, the lady who filled my anxiety prescription told me to salt my food extra for the next two weeks to counteract the low BP

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Gym is not a personality. It’s barely a hobby. It’s got a lot of elements of eating disorder and body dysmorphic disorder. Cap at 4 hrs/week Job is not a personality. Most dude to dude advice is between homosocial and homoerotic. It’s what men want in other men, not what women want. Read Romances.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

OH MY GOD

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

if by 10 tomorrow morning the democrats are not as one voice raising holy hell about this at every level of visibility — which as we all know they won’t be — then to understate the matter, that’s real bad

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard. Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.

submitted 2 days ago • 646 comments

Yep: politicians need to represent their constituents and listen to their views, but politicians also need to have strong convictions and principles and should work on convincing the electorate of the correctness of those moral positions, too.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

What’s happening at Plymouth State is terrible and has gotten very little media coverage www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Endorse 100%

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I’d be in for this — I buy a lot of books, and yet am always thrilled to buy more!

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

When asked about the benefits to society of Universal Basic Income, David Graeber mentioned this.

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

I can see Schumer’s position that a shutdown would let Trump seize more power and that that’s not worth it (I disagree but I can see his point) but to not negotiate and force some concessions on immigration, speech, and other issues was a total abdication of responsibility.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

it really pisses me off that the DOGE people don't appreciate that when you have a system that deals with 300,000,000 people, an error rate of 0.1% is 300,000 people, and if the system is a matter of life, death, and your entire financial existence, that's not a mistake you can make.

submitted 2 days ago • 42 comments

I think it has more to do with you might get locked up for absolutely no reason at all and then flown to El Salvador to die in prison even though a judge said you should be released

submitted 2 days ago • 119 comments

"they're harming the good government pupperinos" could activate like 50 million people if it gets into the wider media sphere

submitted 4 days ago • 60 comments

nearly every change made to american public schooling in decades has been to produce uneducated, fearful citizens without critical thinking skills or awareness of the world other than america. there's a reason the "my kid went to college and came back a LIBERAL" is such a stereotype

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

This is an incredibly thoughtful & illuminating thread📌

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.

submitted 20 days ago • 636 comments

The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy's bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money. He was not dead.

submitted 3 days ago • 1494 comments

50% of the time, Tesla camera based autopilot will kill a child A lidar equipped car stops every time.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I can't stress this enough. The country and the world is not being shown just how much pushback is happening. You have to share it when you encounter it. They all think we're taking this lying down and we are not.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments