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It might seem obvious that if you value something, you'll make an effort to get better at it. What's less intuitive is that if you make an effort to get better at something you're not good at, you'll learn its value.
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Ensuring that public servants hate public service seems like an amazingly easy way to defeat an entire country.

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thoughts nor prayers

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New Zealand Government plans to increase its defence spending to 2.5% of GDP. Joke 1: Finally we can afford a second Bob Semple Tank Joke 2: That explains why the Government are hell bent on shrinking NZs GDP, easier target. Joke 3: It makes sense, last year we lost a naval battle to rock.

submitted 19 hours ago • 7 comments

Prediction: the Nаzi salute will become common within 2 years. RWers will half-аss it for plausible deniability, memeify the backlash, then start fully doing it "as a joke" "to troll the libs" "for being hysterical enough to think we were doing it in the first place"

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

A great distillation of the issue!

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

this might be the only chance you've got

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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

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“Average sea cucumber-like American” is such a great descriptor.

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with destiny church's abhorrent views in the press again, i think it's important not to forget all the white megachurches that hold identical views in new zealand: life church, city impact, arise etc. they are more discreet, but they all hang out and support each other: www.webworm.co/p/holyhell

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Ohio votes for the leopards eating ohio party. Shock ensues.

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Look, I absolutely confess that I have to fight a strong urge to make that kind of post too. But at least I know that that makes me an ass and you're well within your rights to block me. So I try not to.

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...and the only way those lies took hold is with the co-operation of everyone. The facts have been there all along.

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it is *all* on X the everything app

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

elon appears to be going through his timeline and manually hiding posts from the mother of his child instead of responding to her urgent requests for help?

submitted 3 days ago • 73 comments

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but I killed my Patreon, moved it to a membership system for my online store (pepperraccoon.com), and instead of losing my patrons, everyone came over. I’ve replicated, if not exceeded, the patronage from Patreon, with fewer fees and restrictions. In one month.

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

Ya... we're pretty fucked. It's pretty obvious that the damage to the country is going to be irreversible at this point for most of our lifetimes.

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

“The end never justifies the means because there is no end; there are only means.” - Penn Jillette

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Proud of my home state: TITS OUT, AGAINST ALL KINGS

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

submitted 5 days ago • 1924 comments

Friendly reminder to get your free Covid tests before they throw them away. Covidtests.gov wapo.st/42VLGQh

submitted 5 days ago • 58 comments

am I taking crazy pills? US and Russia are not the "two sides" in the Ukraine War.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

holy shit, this was the whole meal?

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

I… am speechless? 1. Invading Canada isn’t some hypothetical game to entertain. Fuck all the way off & I hope a moose tramples the horse you rode in on. 2. NO. A hostile occupied country would NOT cheerfully vote Democrat, you absolute pylon.

submitted 5 days ago • 38 comments

It's cliche now to refer back to people who called this motherfucker a "free speech absolutist" unironically. But seriously. Find those people, and injure them. They knew, and enjoyed laughing about it.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Will say it till I'm blue in the face: Journalism should be a trade school or degree-adjacent certification, not a degree in itself. Journalists should have degrees in *other* subjects because widespread press ignorance is a major problem of our time.

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

Sign at Tesla dealership in #SanFrancisco reads, "We Hate Him Too."

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

State AGs are looking for federal workers who have just been illegally fired to stand as litigants in a new lawsuit trying to freeze further action by DOGE. DM me if that’s you and you’re interested and you’re live in one of the following states: NM, AZ, CA, CT, MD, MI, MN, NV, OR, WA, RI, or VT.

submitted 6 days ago • 47 comments

Someone just reminded me of my funniest LLM interaction ever. It was from back in 2023 when Microsoft tried to code their LLM to have "personality", which resulted in it gaslighting people over easily verifiable information. Here it is trying to convince me that the current year is 2022.

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

This is a real thing they really made and they really thought it was really good.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

If you're on Medicare, probably makes sense to get what procedures you need done now. I know that sounds alarmist. But these are the people who administer Medicare getting the axe.

submitted 7 days ago • 38 comments

cc: loners with rifles

submitted 8 days ago • 177 comments

Fuck, I'll buy it. Why not?

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Jane Eyre Jane Watir Jane Erthe Jane Fyre Long ago, the four Janes lived togethir yn harmonye... Until the Fyre Janes attackid.

submitted 13 days ago • 27 comments

BREAKING: France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain & UK sign a joint statement vowing to protect Ukraine’s sovereignty & demanding a role in the peace talks. This is leadership. It’s also unprecedented. A western alliance is having to form against a new, twin & united threat: Trump & Putin.

submitted 11 days ago • 702 comments

Respectfully (lol) maybe you could take this opportunity to instead report on what's *happening* instead of what liars say.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments