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The scorn heaped on "Underwater Basket Weaving" was based on college courses in experiential indigenous anthropology. Reeds are traditionally softened underwater to make them flexible for bending into baskets. It's a more useful skill for most than memorizing the 3 orders of ancient Greek columns.

submitted 12 hours ago • 34 comments

Peak "We noticed you across the room and liked your energy."

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From The Archives: I Don’t Vaccinate My Child Because It’s My Right To Decide What Eliminated Diseases Come Roaring Back theonion.com/i-don-t...

submitted 21 hours ago • 127 comments

Sorry not sorry, but "centrist" Dems have just the most pathetic loser energy Why should anyone vote for them? Why do they even want elected office? They don't want to do anything because they don't believe in anything

submitted 17 hours ago • 5 comments

This is, if nothing else, definitive proof that genAI is less-than useless junkware being shoved down our collective throat for the sake of an Agenda. In any other technology this would be considered an irretrievable fail state. But this technology? This technology they push. This one gets Chances.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Evergreen.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Just cat things #art #cuteart #cat

submitted 20 hours ago • 4 comments

There’s a decent argument that Musk is the most destructive force the US government has seen in at least a century, but on the other hand he’s a bit sad, tough editorial decisions here

submitted 16 hours ago • 8 comments

My thoughts on the defunding of disease cure research, origin of COVID, the executive order on so-called gain of function research, China’s advances in biotech, the spread of avian flu, and why the US needs to shed this fictional worldview ASAP. www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/gain...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Old enough to remember when this would have been career-ending and every person involved would have resigned in disgrace. I miss last year.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

How did I not have Politico and ThirdWay blocked already?

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Always substitute “Jews” for “transgender people” if you want to understand how deranged these “debate” takes really are.

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

I cannot express how angry I am at DOGE's rampage of destruction--living in the DMV you constantly meet brilliant people just summarily dismissed from govt--and meanwhile Musk gets his soft focus coverage of how SAD he is about how he's been treated, and Third Way blames trans people for Dem losses.

submitted 18 hours ago • 8 comments

They can get away with it because if you point out the objective truth that Republicans want to kill people, you're treated like a swivel-eyed loon. Cutting cancer research? They want to kill you. Ending vaccination? They want to kill you. Ending food safety? They want to kill you. The list goes on.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

“Republicans make a lot of good points and are nice normal people who have the same opinions as Real Americans, while every Democrat is an incredibly annoying person I just made up. Also, I am a Democratic strategist who knows how to convince voters to elect Democrats over Republicans.” 🙄🙄🙄🙄

submitted 20 hours ago • 6 comments

right: "trans people should be erased from society, they are degenerate monsters" left: "trans people of all ages should be able to socialize and play sports with their peers and receive medical care with a proven track record of success" centrist: "ugh both of you remind me of hitler right now"

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

Right now? If fucking only...

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Can confirm. The lie generator that the world's largest search engine has forced on all users because "AI is the future" is confidently convinced that ... we are currently in the past.

submitted 19 hours ago • 17 comments

This is very much like the audience for Playboy magazine in the late 1960s, and for intriguingly resonant reasons.

submitted 23 hours ago • 12 comments

We now live in a country where the President can personally threaten a 16-year-old girl in the morning and by the afternoon a Democratic state will agree to target and segregate her from her peers for the crime of being transgender.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Or, hear me out, we could try a 4-day work week and UBI, 2 interventions that have been proven _100s of times_ to consistently improve both mental health and worker productivity & don't involve businesses surveilling workers' brains. Also, absolutely techies would make this into an endurance game.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

I thought of a more succinct way of saying this plus the followups: 1. Rank the people you like most in order of how much you like them. 2. Fill out the lower rungs of the ballot with anyone you're meh on who has a serious chance of winning. 3. Don't rank the candidates you despise.

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

“donald trump is so obsessed with childrens penises and vaginas that hes threatening to cut off funding until someone from his administration gets to inspect every single one” would be infinitely more effective politically than whatever the fuck this is

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

This is the key truth of dealing with narcissists. You are constantly having to suppress your inner monologue that is telling you that you're reading the situation wrong. People don't do that, so you have to be the one having a problem. It is exhausting.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Terry Pratchett once said, "Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate." In the age of Trump, this rings more true than ever. Too fucking dumb and brazen to know better. A rational system cannot deal with the kind of mind that just does what one does not do.

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"do we really wanna go down the path of implying being a trump supporter makes you a bad person?" oh my fucking god dude they're sending innocent people to foreign concentration camps based on the color of their skin are you fucking kidding me right now yes! it makes you a bad fucking person!

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

This happened because of you. You protested at TeslaTakedowns and made his name and his company’s product reviled. You protested outside federal agencies slated for DOGE cuts. You barred doors, protected data. You sued and won. You WORE HIM OUT. Don’t let them spin it any other way.

submitted 1 day ago • 236 comments

Reminder that silicon valley nazis have been plotting openly - on the record- about overthrowing the American government for decades, but they're not in guantanamo because they're rich, white men.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

bow down before the one you serve i'm gonna eat all the hors d'oevres

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

I do not care if Canada post is ever profitable. It is a public service, everyone owns it. That’s valuable in and of itself. We don’t ask the emergency room or public schools to turn a profit. We ask them to be accessible for everyone to use.

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

Treating a new Covid strain like a crime and not a public health issue is deranged.

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If you’ve never been woken up at 3am to consult on the least bad treatment option for a pregnant COVID patient in the MICU, your “recommendation” means nothing to me

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Forgive me, but have y'all not relized there's probably a 50/50 chance they're going to terminate Title IV in July or August?

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I wonder what happened to some of those grifters. And they were con artists

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Industry Today: "We won't need Junior Position In This Role Anymore, AI will do it All" Industry in about 2 Years: "We can't find skilled Senior Position In this Role, UNIVERSITIES HAVE FAILED US"

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Tired: I won't be able to find a job in a few years because no one hires programmers in their 60s. Wired: I will be fixing garbage AI code well into my 90s because all the people who might have learned how were replaced by AI.

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These feckers have already made off with my last almost-five-decades' worth of creative output to try to "teach" their hopped-up answering machine how to fake writing. If anyone ever breathed the suggestion to me that I should willingly use that soi-disant "tool"...it would not go well for them.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Also, teens have no money. It's a waste of time to grift people with no money. The manosphere is Funko Pops for people who hate pop culture almost as much as they hate themselves.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

been saying this for like 3 years now, the core constituency of the "manosphere" is not Gen Z or teenage boys, it is 35-55 year old dudes who wish they were still teenage boys

submitted 1 day ago • 279 comments

newsom isn't scared, he's doing what he wants to do (this is true of most)

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments