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submitted 56 minutes ago • 0 comments

The Google AI results at the top of searches are so pointless. We have a resource (the internet!) that knows everything, and instead of going to the source, it's like you asked your stupid cousin who is trying to recall the information from a podcast he heard last week.

submitted 2 days ago • 287 comments

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

71 years old and finally achieving his dream of killing children. Not just some children here or there, like he's been doing, but thousands of children annually, systematically, by destroying one of the pillars of public health, one of the greatest achievements of humanity.

submitted 4 days ago • 56 comments

Trafficking is a central theme of the QAnon worldview, with the idea that Trump would act to stop it when in office. Instead...

submitted 6 days ago • 163 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 7 days ago • 382 comments

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submitted 8 days ago • 56 comments

Repeating myself, but the idea of Trump & Musk as "masculine" remains bizarre. They're just the toxic and immature parts with none of the traditional "masculine" virtues. They're whiny, entitled, unreliable, dishonest, self-absorbed, never take responsibility, never put duty over self-interest, etc.

submitted 10 days ago • 250 comments

God damn.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

A lot has happened at the L.A. Times, some of it taking the focus away from our excellent journalism. If you want to know what's really going on, I'd suggest you keep an eye on the Guild Eagle. First issue written by me: latguild.com/news/2025/2/...

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

The average Fox News viewer has no idea that Musk is tearing down a system that allowed this country to rule the world for the past 75 years. And when their standard of living slips dramatically in the next five years they still won’t understand because their TV will blame it on some poor scapegoat.

submitted 14 days ago • 197 comments

Threats aside, Vance is also just full of shit. The U.S. seized 19kg of fentanyl at the Canadian border last year, or 0.19 percent of the total fentanyl seized. Meanwhile, in 2023, Canada seized 27,000 prohibited weapons at the border. The U.S. seized 459 weapons coming from Canada.

submitted 21 days ago • 128 comments

leaving the cruelty aside for just a minute it's absolutely humiliating to imagine being my age or older and getting excited because you think you've been given permission to say a bad word. what are you gonna do next, ride your tricycle past the end of the block

submitted 26 days ago • 126 comments

this piece is quite good mostly because it gets at the real reason for a lot of maga support. it's not about trump. they simply hate having to think about what they say and they absolutely will not stand for having to take responsibility for their speech. not remotely deep. nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 26 days ago • 191 comments

I actually was thinking about this, like so many people got into politics and following politics in 2017 and made that their "hobby" and I cannot tell you how bad an idea that is

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

I feel seen.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

low-key one of the most insidious dumb guy beliefs of the last few decades to gain widespread purchase has been this notion that demonstrating pro-social behavior in the hope that others would notice and mirror it, one of the fucking building blocks of any kind of society, is somehow ‘fake’.

submitted 44 days ago • 488 comments

GOP lost the races for governor, LG, AG in North Carolina. so their new law: —strips governor of the authority to appoint election boards —strips governor of authority over Highway Authority —strips lieutenant governor of energy role —strips AG of their ability to oppose legislature ... and more!!!

submitted 71 days ago • 24 comments

Well this is grim

submitted 231 days ago • 387 comments

[discovering V's hideout after he has blown up parliament] Aw man, he was cringe?

submitted 75 days ago • 11 comments

The way I’d put it is…a not insignificant portion of the internet—and the world, I guess—defines themselves not by the things they do and love, but their opposition to others. When you take that away, they’re bereft of purpose.

submitted 88 days ago • 96 comments

Lindsay Buckingham has got to be monitoring the progress of a legal precedent for “this song is unlawfully mean to me” with bated breath

submitted 89 days ago • 42 comments

an overlooked aspect of all these “bluesky is an echo chamber” pieces is that the writers bizarrely think that the only reason people use social media is to talk about politics, which is true only for a subset of users

submitted 93 days ago • 121 comments