Air defenses needed in Ukraine are being used to shoot down US planes in a completely unnecessary war in the Middle East.

The tariffs were always illegal. Mild shock at the Supreme Court actually giving a real ruling on the law.

The Supreme Court, which has been recognized for two centuries as the authority on the rule of law, is now in conflict with the executive branch. The legislative branch, ostensibly the most powerful, has been useless for a long time now.

I increasingly worry that Trump’s get out of jail free card is Epstein. He was in the child raping demon club, and the law doesn’t apply to them. No matter how public it is, they own everything and always get away with it. The American presidency is just another lever they pull.

Let’s all hope the US Supreme Court properly defers to the Colorado Supreme Court on questions of Colorado constitutional law.

Zombie data mining shitposters will one day be the ultimate fate of all Web 2.0 users.

Your ability to accumulate data doesn’t have to die with you. Your friends and relatives can be spammed with garbage from you even beyond the grave.

Netanyahu and a disturbing amount of others see all Palestinians as Hamas. They aren’t starving civilians to death to pressure Hamas. They’re genociding all Palestinians on purpose because they don’t see them as human beings. It’s unspeakably horrible, and it’s being silenced.

The mainstream is hoping that when all Palestinians are dead or displaced they won’t have a voice to object.

If blue states were to band together and do this, it would bankrupt Trump’s fascist federal government pretty quickly. Maybe a blue state Articles of Confederation is in order.

It’s sad to think about the optimism people used to have for the internet vs. what it turned into.

Brilliant work is done in bursts. Grinding it out day after day is factory line work. While that work is noble, the way it’s conducted doesn’t apply across the board. Task-oriented jobs should trust workers to complete tasks, not punch a time clock.

It’s about control. Tech bro billionaires are the only geniuses on earth, and we all need to fall in line. Nevermind that they are literal fascists who are actively destroying the world.

It sounds like an exaggeration, but efforts to combat climate change have grinded to a halt; WW3 is becoming more likely on multiple fronts; and, the most immediate problem not being addressed, the cost of living crisis is drowning virtually everyone. The only response from the right is to squeeze regular people more and pass tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy. There is no opposition.

Burr 2028: Fuck This Bullshit

Don’t ever kill yourself. That’s a terrible waste. Go backpacking and stay in hostels, sign up for the military or an NGO, become a fucking monk, or do literally anything before you end your life. You have options besides ending it all. That’s the last option.

Traditional instruction gave the same result as a bleeding edge ChatGPT tutorial bot. Imagine what would happen if a tiny fraction of the billions spent to develop this technology went into funding improved traditional instruction.

Better paid teachers, better resources, studies geared at optimizing traditional instruction, etc.

Move fast and break things was always a stupid goal. Turbocharging it with all this money is killing the tried and true options that actually produce results, while straining the power grid and worsening global warming.

”And he is really into Pokemon cards right now, he’s going through a Pokemon phase… I mean he’s really into it, so he is trying to talk to me about Pikachu and I am on the phone with Donald Trump, I’m like ‘son, shut the hell up for 30 seconds about Pikachu,’” Vance told the podcast.

Wow. Maybe Vance should have gotten some stability in his career before he had kids. Maybe figured himself out a little better and grown as a person until he was ready.

Children are a life-altering obligation, after all. Maybe Vance would have been happier if he focused on his career first. Of course, that’s a deeply personal matter, and I would never assume that I know better than someone else what is best for their life.