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  • Munoz-Guatemala ignored the agents’ commands, including to fully roll down his car window, so Ross broke open his rear window and reached inside to unlock the door.

    fuck these murdering fascist assholes

    rolling down the window only partially when the gestapo wants it down all the way is not a good reason to escalate the situation by breaking one of the car’s windows

    that escalation triggers the driver’s fight-or-flight response, so he tries to drive off. the only reason the agent gets dragged by the car is because he escalated the situation by breaking the rear window and reaching in.

    Ross was dragged alongside the vehicle and twice fired his Taser as Munoz-Guatemala weaved back and forth “in an apparent attempt to shake” him from the car. About 300 feet down the road, Munoz-Guatemala re-entered the street and the force knocked the officer from the car.

    was he “dragged” by the car…or was he holding on to something inside the car because he wanted to go along for the ride?

    it sounds like he escalated the situation in the first place, and then played out some action-movie fantasies he had of trying to tase the driver of the car while it was moving







  • from the 4th paragraph of the article:

    While the trend is hardly new, this campaign cycle already features a number of notable races involving candidates who are related to former or current politicians.

    it can simultaneously be true that a) this thing has been going on for decades and b) this thing is happening with increasing frequency and regularity

    like, have you heard of identical twins being a political dynasty before?

    Last month, Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, a close ally of President Donald Trump’s, said he would not seek re-election and quickly endorsed his identical twin brother, Trever Nehls, for the job. Trump quickly followed suit and endorsed Nehls’ twin, who is now the favorite to win the primary and, thus, the ruby-red seat outside of Houston.













  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Benioff

    Marc Russell Benioff is an American internet entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is best known as the co-founder, chairman and CEO of the software company Salesforce, as well as being the owner of Time magazine since 2018.

    In January 2023 Benioff announced the mass dismissal of approximately 7,000 Salesforce employees via a two-hour all-hands meeting over a call, a course of action he later admitted had been a ‘bad idea’.

    In September 2025, Benioff reduced Salesforce’s support workforce from 9,000 to about 5,000 employees because he “need[ed] less heads”. Salesforce stated that AI agents now handle half of all customer interactions and have reduced support costs by 17% since early 2025. The company added it had redeployed hundreds of employees into other departments within the company. The decision contrasted with Benioff’s earlier remarks suggesting that artificial intelligence would augment, rather than replace, white-collar workers.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salesforce

    In September 2024, the company deployed Agentforce, an agentic AI platform where users can create autonomous agents for customer service assistance, developing marketing campaigns, and coaching salespersons.

    Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff stated in a June 2025 interview on The Circuit that artificial intelligence now performs between 30% and 50% of internal work at Salesforce, including functions such as software engineering, customer service, marketing, and analytics. Although he made clear that “humans still drive the future,” Benioff noted that AI is enabling the company to reassign employees into higher-value roles rather than reduce headcount.

    haha consent factory go brrrr


  • I’m sort of speechless at how mind-bogglingly stupid every step of this process has been:

    The papers attempted to train neural networks to distinguish between autistic and non-autistic children in a dataset containing photos of children’s faces. Retired engineer Gerald Piosenka created the dataset in 2019 by downloading photos of children from “websites devoted to the subject of autism,” according to a description of the dataset’s methods, and uploaded it to Kaggle, a site owned by Google that hosts public datasets for machine-learning practitioners.

    The dataset contains more than 2,900 photos of children’s faces, half of which are labeled as autistic and the other half as not autistic.

    After learning about a paper that cites the dataset, “I went and downloaded the dataset, and I was completely horrified,” says Dorothy Bishop, emeritus professor of developmental neuropsychology at the University of Oxford. “When I saw how it was created, I just thought, ‘This is absolute bonkers.’”

    Without identifying each child in the dataset, there is no way to confirm that any of them do or do not have autism, Bishop says.





  • what if instead of taking medication, there would be jobs/functions that actually play into your adhd

    this is a false dichotomy.

    I have a job that plays well with my ADHD (working from home doing software engineering). I worked in this field before I knew I had ADHD (I’m in my late 30s, and only diagnosed a couple years ago).

    but having a job that is relatively ADHD-friendly simply is not enough. especially when so many ADHD symptoms affect my personal life and not just my 9-5 job.

    I don’t have adhd, that I know of, so I might sound stupid.

    honestly - rather than sounding stupid, you just kind of sound like an asshole. listen to yourself:

    Can’t make enough money or slaves from that tho, so just create more pill zombies.

    relying on drugging people up

    since I take an ADHD medication every day, I guess that makes me a “slave” to pharmaceutical companies or “drugged up” or a “pill zombie” in your estimation?

    if I skip medication for a day, that is what makes me feel like a zombie. most ADHD medications are stimulants. before I started medication, I was doing what I now recognize as self-medicating - drinking an absolute fuck-ton of coffee and energy drinks, but still never feeling like I got an energy boost from them.

    also - before I was diagnosed with ADHD, I was depressed, at times pretty severely. I tried all the “you don’t need antidepressants, you just need X” things people recommend - therapy, better diet, better sleep, more exercise, more outdoor exercise, and so on. none of it worked.

    eventually I gave up and asked my doctor for antidepressants (reluctantly, because I had internalized a lot of the “rx drugs for mental health issues are bad” that I think you have as well)

    the antidepressants helped, but only partially. eventually I figured out I probably have ADHD and went to a psychiatrist about it. part of what helped me realize that was that of a couple different antidepressants I had tried, the one that helped the most (buproprion) was also used in treating ADHD.

    and so in my case, “antidepressants help, but they don’t treat the underlying problem” was true - but the underlying problem also needs prescription medication.



  • How is this keyboard not popular?

    their front page explicitly says “Currently in beta state” and according to their docs installation via Google Play requires joining a beta tester group.

    that means a random user searching “keyboard” on the Play store isn’t going to see it. likewise if a friend told you “I use Florisboard” and you searched for it by name in the Play store. if you’re not already in the beta test group the direct link to the app page literally 404s.

    it’s certainly available to power users who already know they want it, but it’s sort of pointless to ask why it’s not popular at this stage of its development.