I think it’s time to consider the possibility that our grandmas and pop-pops are not tricked or indoctrinated, they just plain old support fascists.

AI is like the office worker who’s the nephew of the CEO. They’re never going to go away, but can be useful for tedious work, so long as someone checks behind them.

When the federal government shows up to help… for free, suspicion is a valid response. Not to mention that the South has experience being occupied (not for long enough).

But the government putting people in camps for bullshit security reasons? Madness.

I had to look this up, In case anyone else didn’t know. DW.com is like NPR, but for Germany.

There was relevant scandal in 2020 where the Guardian reported on racism, misogyny, toxic work conditions, and antisemitism at DW. DW responded to these accusations by cutting ties with a partner news outlet from the Middle East, and firing a handful of employees after their socials were trawled for"antisemitism". (two of whom sued successfully for wrongful termination) DW also updated their code of conduct to read:

Germany’s historical responsibility for the Holocaust is also a reason for which we support the right of Israel to exist

Which could be read as benign if we didn’t already know that Israel’s “right to exist” is a cudgel to label any anti-Zionist sentiment as antisemitic.

What about the math where Elmo spends this money on ad-buys for X?

Billionaires never simply spend money.

There is a whole industry to transport Silent Gen and Boomer treasures to the landfill. Most commonly, a waste management company is going to park a construction dumpster in your driveway the same week you die. And there are hands for hire if your children can’t be bothered to go through your crap themselves.

There are also auction and estate companies that will try to get value out of furniture. That’s dying out though because IKEA doesn’t make furniture suitable for inheritance.

This is a Neoliberal anthem: rights are for citizens; employees need to sit down and STFU.

Why do we reject tyranny.gov, but embrace tyranny.com?

IQ does show differences between the races. However, this isn’t evidence that white supremacy is correct. It’s evidence that IQ testing measures culture when it’s supposed to be measuring biology.

Race is constructed. Genetic, evolutionary, anthropological, and archeological evidence all point to shared ancestry and kinship. All the people’s of the world aren’t separated by near enough distance or time to explain a significant biological difference. And that’s ignoring the wide interbreeding that was always a thing. Remember Rome was cosmopolitan empire. Many of those Roman soldiers who marched down the first paved roads of London were swinging black cocks.

So what can we make of a so called “objective” measure of a “biologically determined” trait that hews to culture above biology? This isn’t just a bias that needs to be tweaked, the whole concept of biologically determined intelligence is a reification fallacy and IQ as an instrument is hopelessly broken and should be abandoned.

Embarrassing the Russians at sea, without a Navy of your own, is so hot right now.

IDK about projection, but if you convince people that a system is corrupt, they’re much more likely to cheat.

Considering that the Houthis have achieved so much more in the Red Sea than the Russians could manage in the Black, maybe the exchange of technical knowledge should be going the other way.

For years I’ve argued that the gun lobby is for manufacturers, not owners. This is a concrete example of them prioritizing the former over the latter.

This is not because of an executive order from Biden. This is because of the murderous war perpetrated by the criminal Putin.

If the whole Linux project died out, it wouldn’t be on the top 10,000 important things that have been destroyed by Russia.

“Sims treats everyone as if they are guilty until proven innocent and he is willing to manipulate the judicial system in order to pressure a defendant into accepting an unjust plea bargain.”

Not only is this normal and acceptable behavior in our legal system, but the system would collapse without it.

I agree that ending arms shipments to Israel is the correct action. But don’t labor under the illusion that the US can “force” Israel to do anything. I can think of numerous instances in the past where Israel defied and betrayed her patrons. And not just the US, but also the UK and the Soviet Union.

I can only think of one instance where Israel backed down due to pressure, and that was the Suez Crisis. And that took the combined influence of the US, the Soviet Union, and the UN. (as well as help from Canadian diplomats.) Not to mention that Israel was a partner of the UK and France for this adventure and thus didn’t have the final say.

I lost a lot of faith in Burns after he heavily featured some lost-cause dilettante in his Civil War series. After I saw him pictured on one of the retreats that Clarence Thomas was bribed with, I plain don’t trust his judgement about American History.

Never mind that genetics can’t reliably predict IQ. The important thing is that IQ can’t reliably predict intelligence.

1. IQ Intelligence is colloquial and subjective. It can’t be objectively measured anymore than beauty or since of humor.

2. IQ depends on their only being one kind of underlying intelligence.

3. IQ hews to cultural categories in defiance of biology and genetics.

I suspect that this is a smart TV being used as a monitor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojZVpb0cVkE

The music industry is a microcosm of capital exploiting labor that everyone intuitively understands. Even children have a sense of outrage when they find out Taylor Swift doesn’t own her old songs or that Prince had to change his name to release music.