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I know in terms of leftist games normally disco elysium takes the cake but I love love love Cassette Beasts The landlords are vampire-coded and in the course of the game you literally kill capitalism. Meanwhile you have explicitly aroace characters alongside gay and bi ones Also, it’s fun

Anyone know any news outlets with really good student discounts? Talking v cheap. Currently taking advantage of how the Economist Espresso is free for students

It's interesting observing what seems to be a very large generational divide between millennials and zoomers on LLMs. Zoomers tend to be "oh well, it's here and here to stay, so I better learn to live with it" at the most negative while millennials are more often ready to channel the luddites

It's been 100 days. I brought you 78 posts at Law Dork in those 100 days. If you've not signed up for Law Dork, today's the day. There's a free option. And, if you can afford it, think about how you've relied on my work these past months and consider a paid subscription if you don't have one yet.

“[I]n crucial times, when the perishability of so many values is revealed, all human dignity consists in believing in their return. The highest duty, when ‘all is permitted,’ consists in feeling oneself responsible with regard to these values[.]” --Emmanuel Levinas, 1976

The fact is that 2A rights do not exist when it comes to defending yourself against a tyrannical government, which renders 2A pretty impotent as a legal defense and encourages the development of militias that are like "we pinky promise we won't overthrow the government 😉" while also basically going

Parking as illegally as possible to see that cute girl who drives the tow truck again.....

Let this be a warning to you all: nobody steals my charts and gets to be Prime Minister of Canada

New Yorker cartoons FTW. @schumer.senate.gov

If getting men in general to read @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com’s LC pieces on gender politics is too hard, we should get them to read this smbc comic to understand smbc-comics.com/comic/hey-3

the posters who are secretly scrutinized & mocked in all group chats, the lost souls doomed to perform their most hilarious bits over & over

Marshmallow fluff

In the online bubble it's easy to shrug off as just another legacy media thing, but more people still watch 60 Minutes each week than all of cable news combined.

Meet Ozymandias. He doesn't know it yet, but once he's had his second jab, he's going to be the new Magdalen College kitten.

Everything needs to stop until this stops.

It’s important to understand that this is the Trump administration’s plan. Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Judge Hannah Dugan, two-year-old V.L.M. They are not outliers, exceptions, or aberrations. This is their plan. New, at Law Dork —>

This one of those things where Democrats are not yet nearly radicalized enough, but the reconstruction agenda must include burning immigration law as we've known it to the ground and salting the earth. The status quo ante already treated it as a special Constitution-free zone and that won't do.

These people think a guy who can’t go to the museum because he’s afraid he’d start jacking it in public is the hero who needs society to bend around him.

Imagine what a better place we would be in right now if the relevant people had decided to resist Trump at the start of this term instead of saying “don’t overreact” or “let’s find ways to work with him.”

dismantling the global economy because it's gay & woke, replacing it with a slick-haired drunk doing push-ups & a fuckface cabbage patch doll on a worldwide disrespect tour, & declaring victory the whole time

absolutely fucking monstrous. for weeks people have been warning something like this could happen and now it has. www.aclu.org/press-releas...

THEY HAVE DEPORTED A TWO YEAR OLD CHILD BIRTHRIGHT CITIZEN This is why I have no patience anymore for people playing games with this stuff.

Well, this is horrifying.

I tremble for my country when reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep for ever.

While this is not the final guidance, it makes Falkner's maximalist and ideologically-driven interpretation of an already awful UKSC ruling clear. The fig-leaf of "there should also be third spaces for trans people" is essentially dispensed with.

I’m confused about the standard boundaries for clergy when congregants come to them with mental health struggles. And maybe my google-fu has degraded, or just google, but searching isn’t helping. Any ideas?

OK, its not a question of whether the phone is compromised. If you are the spy chief of a major country's intelligence service and your people have not compromised this phone, you should resign and find some other line of work

"Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects" marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...

jesus christ

Hegelians have yet to provide to me a single actual good argument to me about why Hegel was right