Says don’t follow advice from anonymous internet people.

gives advice.

Found another one for the guillotine, everybody

see it’s interesting to me because I thought it was the way it looks like it should spin that matters, with the Buddhist one looking like it should spin clockwise and the Nazi one looking like it should spin counter clockwise. Is it the 45 degree tilt that makes the big difference?

The rich people are almost all psychopaths and probably got that way because of the way wealth warps people’s minds.

https://youtu.be/IP2EKTCngiM

hey look who hasn’t been busted doing the same wrong thing on the 15th time and thought, “man y’know what it’s time to turn myself around…”

There’s already the fact that whatever algorithms there are haven’t been and likely won’t be tweaked or pushed to maximize engagement.

Heck I’m not even sure if upvotes are particularly critical to what I’m getting served…

I mean in any other timeline that would be pretty funny…

1 month later: why is our new instance filled exclusively with incels and edgelords and fuckwits?

1 year later: President Trump signs executive order requiring everyone to federate with MAGA

For me it’s just the knowledge that I have around 100 total years on this planet and a limited amount of reach in terms of geography, relationships, etc.

I can’t swing an election by myself, but with me and millions of my closest friends we can. But only if we all pull together. It’s like a paradox but not quite.

welcome to the resistance, Marjorie

perhaps they do have some cards after all

Europe, to its credit, has acted on some of the science. Paraquat — the herbicide chemically similar to MPTP — was finally banned in 2007, although only after Sweden took the European Commission to court for ignoring the evidence of its neurotoxicity. Other pesticides with known links to Parkinson’s, such as rotenone and maneb, are no longer approved.

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Among the chemicals still in use, none has drawn more scrutiny — or survived more court battles — than glyphosate.

glyphosate

After WWII there was a halcyon era where nearly every adult in America agreed that nerds had been crucial to our winning. That’s why Operation Paperclip came to be where we stole all the former Axis nerds we could find.

It also led to an unprecedented boom in education spending, research spending, etc., mostly aimed at beating the USSR at technological development. Sputnik goosed that significantly, and the Apollo program briefly did as well, until Americans got bored of Moon landings…

That was probably the first major flashing red warning light most of us ignored: Moon landings… boring!!!

Anyway, educated people started doing things that weren’t directly associated with winning the Cold War, like exposing the dangers of lead in everything, the dangers of smoking, the dangers of chlorofluorocarbons, the dangers of greenhouse gasses, etc.

That threatened the ability of grotesquely wealthy hoarders to hoard even more grotesque levels of wealth.

So they started the project to dismantle education in America.

That project kicked into afterburn once the USSR collapsed and the Cold War ended.

And so far, nerds haven’t been successful in regaining their status.

Also the villification of experts as people hell bent on leveraging their expertise to dominate our control non experts.

I recently right that a useful counter to that conspiracy their is to point out that experts should be thought of as tools to be used for different purposes. Like any tool, experts can be misused in a variety of ways, including accidental and purposeful.

it’s been an honor serving with you

it’s a combo of trolling and attention seeking. “there’s no such thing as bad press” and all that.

we should point it out, condemn it, but not engage in arguments with them about what is and isn’t a sig heil.

and when they pop up in other places trying to talk about other stuff, just bring up the fact that they threw a Nazi salute from time to time.

the most important thing is to focus on their evil policies and actions. but we can’t forget their performative evil.

I’m really hoping that Churchill’s quote about Americans doing the right thing is evergreen, because this first month (!!!) of Trump has been A LOT.

I feel like we’re really close to having tried every alternative by now, right?..right?

I think it’s more likely they’ll go after us than go after Israel, because the world doesn’t have centuries or millenia of anti American bigotry stored up that in a twisted fashion leads them to let the Israeli government do whatever it wants to poor Muslims as long as that means there’s a Jewish state.

What complicates matters is all the military power we have and the certainty most people have that Trump would order it to attack anyone who embargoes us.

for clarity he built Facebook to rate how hot women at his college were…