This is NOT what America is about. America is about *opens history book* uh oh *Frantically starts flipping though pages* uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh

This is one of the best descriptions I've lately ran into.

While this seems like a good thing, it is not If an armed squad can round up citizens and lock them in cages without enforcing an actual law, then they are NOT “law enforcement officers” They’re a military regime.

boy I didn’t think I could get this mad about red lobster but doctorow sure got me there

So many awful people are like "this will enable me to chat up 500 prospective dates" or apply to 2000 jobs or create 1000 autogenerated recipe/reviews websites where it only works if all of the people you are doing it to remain stuck slogging through one at a time

A series of comics of Photoshop tools as superheroes: A mega-thread (1/7)

I do think that we are kind of wired to think only optimistic people can be naive

This has never been more true than today.

Ok people keep replying to posts of LLM mistakes with "it worked for me when I used slightly different words" but if you can't point out what mistake the original person made and how to always avoid it then it's just roulette isn't it. You want medical advice from a roulette?

Democrats pass something called “The Inflation Reduction Act.” (Without a single Republican vote). And it literally reduced inflation.

Remember: a huge portion of our tax code expires next year. The main material impact of this election will be to set the terms of the extensions. You have the choice to turn the dial towards "rich people have more money" or "poor people have more money" - choose the latter!

See this is why it's frustrating when media types say more prominent stories about Trump's bad deeds are pointless as "everyone already knows all that, it won't change any minds" like here's some very online tech Twitter accounts just learning about the fake electors thing

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