There only being that one playbook is the exact reason why I have a patch on my backpack that reads: “Evil is boring”

Well, I guess at least you’re just a bigot and not also a hypocrite.

“Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt.
—Exodus 23:9 (NIV)”

https://www.worldvision.org/refugees-news-stories/what-does-bible-say-about-refugees#:~:text=Foreigners%20or%20refugees%20are%20not%20to%20be%20oppressed.&text=Israelites%20were%20to%20call%20on,of%20them%20in%20any%20way.

I hope you don’t call yourself a Christian.

Oof, yeah. It’ll be time to break out my N95s again

Anticipation of surge? We’re already on the downslope of a recent tiny surge up here in the Boston area:

https://www.mwra.com/biobot/biobotdata.htm

Maybe let’s try focusing on content and not personal characteristics of the presenters:

https://youtu.be/Q0yL2GezneU?t=1347&si=wZjBIJkdmK8CwzIm

I’m way more annoyed by that terrible echoey microphone

I don’t understand what you mean. We solved sexism and racism, didn’t you hear? These are no longer problems that actually exist in the world and we’re all just whining about nothing.

“Overwhelmingly, we’re seeing these challenges come from organized censorship groups that target local library board meetings to demand removal of a long list of books they share on social media.”

Maybe you should try reading sometime.

Yeah I have no idea how this was arranged, but it’s a very cool thing to have happened. God bless Mo and his family.

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“Women are specifically stating that the direct reason they’re choosing to delay pregnancy is the fall of Roe creating emergency health concerns.”

“I dunno, are you sure you can believe what women say? Did you check the “real” data?”

“The truth is you love censorship, and so does everyone else. The only question is whether you’re ready to admit it.”

https://gizmodo.com/why-censorship-is-part-of-everyday-life-section-230-1850095976

This is why antimaskers are extra fucking dumb. We were always fairly certain all the cardiac effects we’ve seen in people right after a Covid infection were because of the virus, but they chose to go out there and throw themselves in front of the train anyway.

How dare you! I would NEVER!!

(Unwanted cookies on the other hand, fair game ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

Am nurse. Can confirm. Scrubs is right about a LOT of things

Their content promotion algorithms are not protected by section 230. Those algorithms are the real problem, pushing more and more radical content onto vulnerable minds. (The alt-right YouTube pipeline is pretty well documented. Reddit, I think, less so. But they still promote “similar content”)

Oh man, let me introduce you to my absolute favorite used book seller:

https://www.ebay.com/str/secondsalecom

Also, construction leftovers on eBay are a great way to get sink faucets, light fixtures, etc. for a house.

I only have WhatsApp because I have so many non-American friends ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I dragged my mom and sister over to using it, and everyone has been warned that the second I see Meta trying to monetize it, I’m going to whine until they all move to Signal (which has pretty much identical functionality.)

I’m a nepo buyer ✋

My American Boomer parents view helping my sister and I out with things like this as a legal early inheritance transfer to make up for how long we expect their lives to go on. In that way, this isn’t really different from being able to buy things because you received an actual inheritance after your parents died.

The problem isn’t the people who are able to do this. The problem is that other people for generations have been systematically robbed from also being able to do this. We should have government programs to provide this service for those people to make up for that generational theft.

Also: Jesus, Canada, build some fucking housing what the fuck. I knew it was bad, but I assumed it was on par with the US.

Without this feature, I wouldn’t have known that Yeah Yeah Yeahs and PJ Harvey released new albums. So I’m torn. On the one hand, I’m happy artists I already love can still reach me; on the other hand, I hate that smaller artists I don’t know about yet still have to pay to play