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Septimaeus

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  • President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems

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  • Unless fully rewritten to the form of bully pulpit, this would still have been considered explicitly dictatorial, erratic and unhinged behavior from a leader, so I assume you just mean “what if dems were more action less talk” and I’m with you.

  • Evil Ultra trying to split the vote 😠

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  • 100% on all counts. But to clarify I definitely wasn’t saying appeal to AIPAC, and I’m pretty sure you’re smart enough to know that.

    Edit: which is an unsubtle way of saying “that last bit was bad faith must-win-internet-argument behavior. you know it. feel bad.”

  • President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems

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  • lol these statuses always read like trembling balled up fists on a fat angry toddler

  • My Kink: Rule

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  • “Fuck.”

    Glug. Shhhing.

    “Come here you filth.”

  • My Kink: Rule

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  • Wow the floors are so clean.

  • My Kink: Rule

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  • Bah! John ya’s. All a ya’s!

  • Evil Ultra trying to split the vote 😠

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  • I actually wasn’t considering Harris on this really at all but of course she’s the go to example usually, even though she’s now forever unelectable. I guess in my head she lost for many other reasons altogether greater in sum than Gaza.

    But really I was referring to the much greater problem we’re facing right this moment not in the past. Would-be Dem politicians are right now facing battles with AIPAC supremacy.

    I’ll just use Mamdani since we’re just getting things off the ground here. That took record breaking grassroots activism and was still use one upset in a long history of utter domination. AIPAC’s batting average is still ferocious.

    Any blue candidate is liable to face them in some way. With Mamdani it simply wasn’t relevant to the job he was applying for and he stuck to that, bless him, and NYers believed him. Mazel. But dammit if they didn’t try to make his stance on Israel THE deciding factor of the election.

    You could say Mamdani was a coward for not taking on the genocide in Gaza more fully. It’s true. But my question was specifically “is that really what we need from candidates this year?”

    Because right now are tons of candidates right now being similarly put in these weird gotcha tribunals interviews and debates about allegiance to a foreign nation, albeit an ally, when IR and diplomacy is 100% irrelevant to the job they’re even running for. Is it really every candidate’s job to take a stance?

  • I LOVE EATING STIR BARS

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  • My guess was backseat of car. Parent has lab supplies back there, including a few 10-pack boxes of these, which also work as an improvised distraction/toy just like rare earth magnets or monkeys in a barrel. Unfortunately they weren’t checking rear view mirror because work it’s stressful, so kid put quite a few down without their knowledge. They didn’t even notice until day 2 migration to large intestine and rectum. This parent is overworked and under-appreciated and I’m so glad I’m not responsible for children.

  • Evil Ultra trying to split the vote 😠

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  • My impression is that what should be simple (always “genocide no”) gets much more mealy-mouthed (e.g. “I’m totally pro Israel…but maybe let’s rein in the genocide…oh no I don’t mean Israel shouldn’t have the right to defend itself!") precisely when anyone who wishes to do good by getting elected is confronted with the reality that there’s a rampaging nationalist organization sandbagging and bullying candidates, promoting others for policy favors and effectively holding big chunks of the electorate hostage in elections.

    In practice, that means when I see otherwise good candidates use their talking points or be evasive and spineless on the topic of Israel, I’m quicker to think that they might simply have chosen a different battle, than to think they actually believe that there’s nothing wrong.

    More simply, if standing up to the nationalist bully will almost certainly end their career/role/office before they even had a chance to begin, how many do you think will divert from the issues they entered politics for just to be the one to take out the bully? I’m guessing it’s a small number.

    So while I do see it as cowardly on a personal level, and personally I’d prefer to quit politics than to get pushed around and just hold my tongue or say their lines, I also assume that it’s a decision made under duress without further evidence to the contrary.

    In short, calling candidates “pro genocide” and expecting individual candidates to take the bully head-on in any particular race feels unfair to me, or at least misguided since, if we actually want to change this situation, my generation really needs to have some frank chats with their parents about their AIPAC donations.

    What am I missing?

    Edit: typos swype errors missing words

  • How to reassure your wife 101

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  • I believe it’s a holdover from older oven technologies. Like gas ranges with an always-on pilot light and manual gas on off pipe valves you were supposed to close before travel. IIRC those were the origin many historic city fires in dense housing, and the reason for a lot of current gas safety like the sulfur/bad-eggs additive that makes unburned gas an lot easier to detect.

    But nowadays the worst that awaits those who return after forgetting the oven is generally… just a bigger utility bill instead of losing everything and maybe killing people.

  • I LOVE EATING STIR BARS

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  • Wherever their parent left them unattended, presumably.

  • I LOVE EATING STIR BARS

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  • Children eat weird stuff

  • The irony

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  • Don’t forget the bread and the milk!

  • Fear as senator discovers staggering true amount Trump spent on arming ICE

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  • “Glide Ratio Optimization in the Olympic Ski Jump via Cosmetic Penis Enlargement”

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  • Red Bull gives you diiiiiiiiiiiiicccckk…

  • Fuckers

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  • Looks like a specialist copay on private health insurance

  • “Glide Ratio Optimization in the Olympic Ski Jump via Cosmetic Penis Enlargement”

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  • Is that an artificial patagium or are you just happy to see me?

  • Making Sense of the Trans Right

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  • Agreed, the trend would be troubling, especially if the explanation is that trans individuals’ political ideologies are shifting right. But there are other explanations we might entertain first.

    For example, it’s not unlikely that the cohort inclined to identify as trans on a questionnaire has become not just larger but more ideologically inclusive via nascent mainstreaming. Meaning the trend could be mostly or entirely explained by recently affirmed gender identities, people who now feel ready/comfortable/safe to identify who didn’t before.

    IIRC mainstreaming of homosexuality saw similar trends; e.g., more openly gay republicans, leading to similar speculation of a rightward shift when it was really just an expected statistical artifact being misinterpreted.

  • Making Sense of the Trans Right

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  • It may be shocking to see someone work directly against their own interests this way, but it shouldn’t be especially shocking that they’re trans.

    Gender-normativity never had and never will have a monopoly on opportunists, trolls, and morons.