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  • fertility crisis

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  • I mean, I decided to not have kids because I don’t want to subject anyone to the existential horror that is life, and I feel no obligation to crank out miniature replicas of me.

  • StopAntisemitism Takes Credit for Getting Hundreds Fired. A Music Teacher Is Suing.

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  • He says he is and you really have no way to prove it one way or the other.

    Christians like to say stuff about works and then conviently ignore that Jesus had more to say about paying taxes than slavery and criticized the Pharisees for not stoning mouthy kids.

    Fact is, we gloss over most of Jesus’s actual teachings because they’re problematic to most modern people. He taught the Torah, which included all sorts of atrocious laws.

  • Sometimes, he's less a 'project', and more a 'piece of work'

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  • You're not wrong, really. I guess my point is that Trump thinks he's the smartest person in the room.

    also just a word of caution... a steady stream of propaganda (even blatant propaganda) will have everyone starting to believe it... eventually. just the way the human brain is wired. You hear something portrayed as fact often enough for long enough, it starts to sink in. especially if you don't have something balancing it out. They don't seek the truth out because it's hard to actually find it (Seriously. My grandma lives in missouri. Fox news is the progressive news service. She still believes minneapolis is a war zone, ever since the floyd riots. Even though I've taken her around to the memorial and showed her how that's not true. She agreed for about a year or so. but it sunk back in.)

  • Newsom criticised for praising Ronald Reagan, who 'facilitated mass AIDS death'

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  • Which policies has he enacted in CA which mirror or support trickle down? All I ever hear is how he’s not progressive enough, but when I look at his record I see a LOT of progressive action

    Because locking up homeless people is a) totally effective policy making and b) totally progressive.

    more directly, to the economy, his buddy-buddy relationship with the techbros is... obvious.

    • 25 million to help fund a microchip design facility,
    • 85 million on generative ai
    • downsizing a deal with google to protect local-to-ca newsrooms

    while when faced with a ballooning deficit, instead cut healthcare, education, and enviromental programs.

    Further, He dropped the ball on his promises and only signed a small handful of progressive goals. for example, allowing striking union members to collect unemployment benefits. The most common excuse was "oh we can't necessarily afford that, and employers can't either."

    Remember: Tweets are not policy... and all this fun shit trolling trump probably isn't even him tweeting it. (most likely, he's only scarcely aware of it at all.)

    It’s pretty funny watching the left split and splinter this far out, because of all the purity testing. No one will ever be progressive enough, pure enough. And if somehow they were perfect enough to appease the left wing, there’d be 0 chance of getting red votes.

    The next Dem who gets elected will do so using some centrist attitudes including towards social issues which we’re losing on badly. Might be time to get wise to that.

    The last november election day, every democratic candidate that won, won on progressive platforms. Specifically, platforms that Newsom has a shitty record on. Your argument cuts both ways.

    Also, how did all those red votes Harris got work out for her? She's an awesome president- Oh. wait. that's right SHE FUCKING LOST.

    Do you see how that argument is holding us back? Centrists do not win elections. Alienating your actual base loses elections.

  • Maybe don't assist the Nazis and then genocide Poland or something, idk

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  • wasn't Mao 40-70 million?

  • Sometimes, he's less a 'project', and more a 'piece of work'

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  • "the war on drugs" was mostly rhetoric. Like "The war on cancer" or "The war on childhood hunger" or whatever social ill they're on about. The idea against 'fighting' a social ill has always been part of the rhetoric, to express a desire to do something about that social ill. Sometimes, the efforts are well meaning (like Biden's cancer research stuff being 'a war on cancer',) and sometimes they're not (Like the GOP's war on woke)

    Or, perceived social ill.

    Trump, though is a moron and expects his base to be even dumber than he is. So when he declares a "drugs" are an "invasion" and "terrorist attack" or whatever batshit crazy lunacy he's peddling... he actually thinks people will just go with it. And the sad part here is, even if his base recognizes that he's confusing rhetoric for reality... they'll still go with it.

    I'll leave it to history to decide who was more batshit insane- Caligula or Trump.

  • Sometimes, he's less a 'project', and more a 'piece of work'

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  • didn't he declare war on the sea/poseidon and order his legion to collect seashells as 'trophies'?

  • It's Obvious the US Healthcare System Isn't Working, So Why Not Try Medicare for All? | Common Dreams

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  • What, and keep the oligarchs from buying a yacht to ferry them from the yacht their helicopter can land on and their main yacht?

  • Newsom criticised for praising Ronald Reagan, who 'facilitated mass AIDS death'

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  • Newsom isn’t exactly a paragon of progressive virtues and certainly would continue to benefit from trickle-down policies.

    It’s not hard to imagine that he actually likes Reagan’s policies here, never mind that his corporate donors gave him his marching orders.

  • Contadont deny it.

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  • kinda looks like my uncle. (Complete with the whiskers.)

  • Attorney General Ken Paxton Launches Tip Line to Stop Woke State Entities from Allowing Mentally Ill Men to Invade Women’s Spaces

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  • I dunno, but I’d probably be dropping tips about creepy old men demanding to see girl’s genitalia outside women’s restrooms.

    I’ll make sure to give them his description.

  • South Koreans hunt for old LG air-conditioners after logos turn out to be pure gold

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  • Probably make more in clicks and adds than they can make buying and scraping a very limited amount of probably-not-actually-pure gold.

    Certainly less work.

    (Edit: this is the irregular reminder to crack addicts and meth heads- flocke cameras have copper you can sell.)

  • Fuck the Aztecs, of course - but the Aztecs were not ALL OF THE SPANISH-CONQUERED AMERICAS

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  • Yeah. if that's all that happened, you might have a point.

    Ask yourself how they got the gold and how many children were enslaved for labor after the gold ran out, and how many were killed as 'object lessons' when people tried to resist. Just take a look at the Taino Genocide for an example of what I'm talking about. Spanish conquistadors were known to bash still-nursing infants to kill them. They fed natives to dogs. Burning a live and hanging weren't brutal enough, so they sometimes did both. At the same time.

    sure diseases wiped out most natives. and they may not have known about it. but I wouldn't be shocked to find when they found out, they decided to make use of it. (I mean, we did.)

  • Fuck the Aztecs, of course - but the Aztecs were not ALL OF THE SPANISH-CONQUERED AMERICAS

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  • As bad as the Aztecs were… I’m not sure the Spanish were better

  • Elect me for more petty actions

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  • But she def. made a mistake of not distancing herself from Biden (which I can absolutely understand on a personal level).

    oh yeah. that was a rock and a hard place. Either she distanced herself from biden, or she undermines him. I think the only way she could have gotten out of it was "Of course, with hindsight there are things I would have done differently. But right now I'm the vice president and I can't undermine the president; especially in ongoing negotiations." rather than "There's not a thing I would change"

  • Elect me for more petty actions

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  • Harris’s campaign was pretty well and truly fucked over by Biden, and it’s a miracle it was as close as it was.so props to Harris on that.

    Also Clinton “gave” Harris her campaign strategist staff which is why they benched Walz and his “they’re weird”. I’m not sure if it was meaning to help or just out of spite, though.

    Either way, the two campaigns were not the same.

    Edit to add:

    Clinton lost because she was a lousy candidate, and ran a campaign on rank condescension that alienated key voter blocks.

    Harris lost because Biden basically fucked it over, she got handed an absolute disaster, and was in a position where she could either undermine what little Biden was trying to do with Netanyahu or alienate a different key voting block.

    and yes, Biden absolutely would not have won.

    none of this is to say that mysogyny didn't play a role, one would be an idiot to say otherwise, but ultimately, Harris did remarkably well given the shit show she was handed.

  • California threatens Tesla with 30-day suspension of sales license for deceptive self-driving claims

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  • Mandate a full refund for everyone effective, then tack on a % fine on top of that. 10% seems reasonable.

  • earth, fire, water, wind - it's not hard

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  • (Chuckles in evil DM)

    Yes. I know it’s absurd. (The island of stability is only predicted to go out to what? 120 something? And then isn’t really stable in a practical sense.)

    That's like putting an artifact in your campaign and claiming it can heat up to 150 zillion kelvin.

    This gives me…. Ideas. I know the math breaks down before the big bang, but if anything could get that hot…I would imagine pre-expansion universe. Now how to stuff them in one?

  • earth, fire, water, wind - it's not hard

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  • Because we like our unobtainium, okay?

    Also part of it is, we don’t want to get too complicated here, the stuff only really exists to bypass things and maybe give some interesting abilities (for example, the energy output of the “corroded” stuff is unstable. It could be used to provide pulsed power for things like railguns, or as a sort of electrically-fired fuel for missiles.)

    So we stick to things people are familiar with. It doesn’t matter if it’s a superconductive wire composed of nonbarionic matter or not- it’s still going to behave a certain way, and sometimes you can get lost in the weeds explaining it, when really it’s just a handwaive away.

    I also don’t like introducing power supplies that my party can exploit for really big booms. They may have, for example, opened a portal inside a neutron star (the portals swap a spherical volume of space. So suddenly they created an unstable mass of neutronium roughly 30m in diameter in some douches fleet yards.)

    (In their defense the douchenozzle lost control of a sentient grey goo and it was the only way to keep it from spreading.)(but they did blow up half a solar system. And rendered it unnavigable past its Oort Cloud.)

  • Christmas Animals

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  • Puffins are cuter, usually less, ahem, fragrant, too.

  • Atheism @lemmy.world
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    Be scared.

    skepchick.org /2025/10/trump-declares-atheists-are-terrorists/
  • Opossums @lemmy.world
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    The future of transport!

    theonion.com /experts-say-future-of-green-transportation-may-be-16-to-1844636887/
  • aww @lemmy.world
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    Tapir Cutie

  • News @lemmy.world
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    Elon Musk's Enemy, USAID, Was Investigating Starlink's Contracts in Ukraine

    gizmodo.com /elon-musks-enemy-usaid-was-investigating-starlink-over-its-contracts-in-ukraine-2000559365
  • Superbowl @lemmy.world
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    Finally got him!

  • Superbowl @lemmy.world
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    Orly?

  • Star Wars Memes @lemmy.world
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    Stormtroopers

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    I can't wear the stupid "I voted" sticker. Because they stick it to the mail in ballot instead.

  • Bats @lemmy.world
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    ick, saw this and thought of you:)

  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    Florida man sneezes his intestines out of his body at restaurant

    www.independent.co.uk /news/world/americas/florida-man-sneeze-intestine-diner-b2568901.html
  • Superbowl @lemmy.world
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    Hooo?

  • Star Wars Memes @lemmy.world
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    Who doesn't want a lightsaber?

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    It's spring, dammit

  • Superbowl @lemmy.world
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    Loaf.

  • Cooking @lemmy.world
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    joke

    Broke out grandma’s candy thermometer….

  • Cooking @lemmy.world
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    meme

    Am I the only one that starts quoting Macbeth while making pea soup?

  • Cooking @lemmy.world
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    question

    for the chemistry types- making chicken soup. Why did lemon juice turn the light brown chicken stock almost white?