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Cake day: January 29th, 2024

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  • All fun and games until they throw her in a cage. I hate to break it to you, when ICE is kidnapping people, they aren’t checking your documents first. They’re just disappearing you to the back of the van. If they happen to get a few citizens too, well that’s just collateral damage.

    One can hope it would result in a massive lawsuit, public outrage, and change. My bet is that it doesn’t even make headlines, Faux News slanders the woman for being an “immigrant sympathizer” and the Trump administration tries to strip her citizenship for aiding and abetting enemies of the state (you know Jesus who pays his taxes and picks fruit seasonally in Arizona).



  • Everytime someone talks up AI, I point out that you need to be a subject matter expert in the topic to trust it because it frequently produces really, really convincing summaries that are complete and utter bullshit.

    And people agree with me implicitly and tell me they’ve seen the same. But then don’t hesitate to turn to AI on subjects they aren’t experts in for “quick answers”. These are not stupid people either. I just don’t understand.






  • “Hey! You can’t do that! That very clearly violates Constitutional law.”

    “Oh, yeah? What are you going to do about it?”

    (checks Constitution) “Oh…uhhh. I guess nothing?”

    Impeachment, that’s what they’d do about it. But that would require politicians who do their job and also uphold the constitution. If the question is: what happens when everyone involved breaks the law and doesn’t do their job?

    The answer is one of two things: the people vote them out.

    If they are voted out but refuse to cede power peacefully, we end up with violence.

    Nothing about the checks and balances are broken, what’s broken is the percentage of the population that just doesn’t care their representative isn’t actually doing their job.



  • Grovel and beg for forgiveness after actively cutting NOAA budget? Personally drive a truck full of food/water/clothing for people displaced? Literally just show up and offer your condolences to your contituents (regardless of how obviously fake it’d be)?

    Like, basic human things you should be doing to show that you care about the people you supposedly represent? Vs: fuck it, I’m on vacation, they’ll still be dead when I get home.

    Guess what: politicians for all their grand standing about lazy entitled welfare recipients work about 130 total days a year, he can go see the parthenon some other time.






  • How about instead of turning this issue into class warfare as well, they just point out that CORPORATIONS are driving 90% of global emissions. Said corporations love studies like this because then they can blame the population by spewing such nonsense as “well if you didn’t buy our product we wouldn’t create the emissions”.

    There you have it folks, if you just stopped eating food, global warming would be solved. It couldn’t POSSIBLY be that governemnts should create things like emissions standards to drive down pollution.

    What’s that 70% of global emissions come from just 100 companies? Nope, it’s the richest 10% of the population that need to fix this, not the corporations (which in turn would punish the .1% who make all their wealth off those companies). Joe Shmoe and his wife making a combined $100k/year need to stop driving their car and ride that bus, that’ll SURELY fix the problem.

    https://harvardpolitics.com/climate-change-responsibility/