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a time-honored tradition for key affiliates of disintegrating Nazi regimes

It's absurd how much people take modern medicine for granted

For much of human history, cancer was largely just a death sentence.

By the 1970s, overall, it was about a coinflip, roughly 50/50 chance of surviving it.

Now, about 80% of people who get cancer survive at least 5 years. That's amazing!

Never expected this to become literally true

So there were concerns about the fact that the Trump White House was spending unprecedented sums on prescription medications, so redacted White House pharmacy records were released, and just... holy fucking shit

Went to go see Project Hail Mary. Wow. Just wow. I laughed a lot. I teared up a lot. A film that is both powerful and uplifting while also being fun and exciting. Interstellar with a sense of humor. An instant sci-fi classic.

Time is a flat circle

The DoD refused to pay for lodging expenses for the national guard, and this is the result

Trump is the ultimate display of why populism doesn't work. You need leaders who know what the fuck they're doing.

The Trump administration is evil too, of course. But it's stunning how deeply incompetent they are and yet rule the most powerful country in the world.

you don't have to like it, but this is what peak progressivism looks like

the left will go so much farther if it embraces patriotism and joy as a rallying cry to aspire for the country to be better

Short write-up about how I got xAI to briefly add "white genocide" stuff back into Grok's system prompt.
smol.news/p/the-utter-...

The Utter Flimsiness of xAI’s Processes

xAI's was happy to put "white genocide" stuff back into Grok's system prompt without second thought.

lmao

I have immense respect for indigenous cultures. However, it is deeply impractical to feed 8+ billion people sustainably and reliably without high-tech industrial agriculture.

Ultimately, this is just reactionary, conservative pastoralism wrapped in leftist framing.

YIMBYism in blue states is inherently pro-trans because it makes it more practical for trans people fleeing Draconian laws in red states to move there

They fine-tuned an LLM specifically only by feeding it out-of-date bird names, and it started talking like it lived in the 19th century

transgenderism *is* transhumanism

eyeglasses *are* a perversion of the natural order

appeal to nature fallacies are dumb, stop letting "tech bros" negatively polarize you against genuinely good and cool things

Trump: so if I recite this 'shahada' and implement a bunch of social programs, I get into heaven?

Mamdani: that's right, Mr. President

Trump: and when do I get one of those cool rugs? I always thought those looked neat. like rolling out a little red carpet for yourself every few hours

to put it in the gentlest possible terms, this is not someone whose financial safety advice you should be taking, even if she may genuinely have the best of intentions

what the actual fuck is going on over at xAI?!

The golden rice situation makes me *SO* sad.

It's estimated a THIRD of people worldwide are Vitamin A deficient, which can cause permanent damage to the eyes — in many cases full-on blindness.

We created a perfect solution to this problem, but oh no, it's "unnatural"

I saw a Cybertruck with a very well done custom paint job in purple, my favorite color.

That thing still looked like ass.

This is a BIG DEAL. Roswell used to be as conservative and stereotypically Southern as it gets. It's one of the most affluent parts of metro Atlanta.

But it's been liberalizing a lot the past 10-15 years, becoming instead a haven for upper-middle class professionals.

Still in need of a full-time remote senior/staff-level job!

My strengths are TypeScript, Solidity, SQL, C#, and Swift. Decent with Rust. I'm a good team lead too and was once a CTO of a YC company.

Boosts for visibility appreciated. Thanks SO much.

There is a “leftist” internet cult here that uses abusive tactics against other left-wing people, often marginalized ones, to keep their social circle in line under threat of the same abuse.

They accomplish nothing useful politically and just use leftism as a permission structure for abuse.