MetaFilter has a good system for that, they’re effectively a non-profit and have a donation structure and paid admins and moderators.

MetaFilter has at multiple points been on the verge of shutting down, no? IIRC, you pay $5 for an account.

Yeah, I’m pretty sure that Nebula is all “bread tubers” and left adjacent.

Google automatically gives me ai search results that are piss poor.

And these results are taken at face value by a shocking number of people. I’ve gotten into niche academic arguments where someone just copy and pasted the AIs completed hallucinated response as “evidence.”

I experimented with using AI to generate basic quizzes for students on concepts like atomic theory or conservation of energy, but maybe 2/20 questions it came up with were any form of accurate/useful. Even when it’s not making shit up entirely, the information is so shallow as to be useless.

Guns don’t kill people, which is why should we do absolutely nothing that would prevent someone from accessing guns in any way shape or form, as right wingers have been arguing for decades.

(This is hilarious, because the infamous big gubmint restrictions on guns in California were things that Ronald Reagan and co. put into place because the Black Panthers reminded everyone that that interpretation of the 2nd amendment applied to them too….)

Edit: the French translation understands the meaning and intent of “boy” when used to refer to a black man.

The Paranoid Style in American Politics was published in 1964. They’ve been using it to great success for the past century, why stop now?

Yes. It’s an amazing video, as every single video he’s made is - most TERFs use the same rhetorical strategies, and knowing how Posie Parker’s brain works teaches you a lot about how the TERF brain works. It’s conspiratorial delusions (trans women are hiding every where in secret to try to sexually assault cis women, big pharma is pushing people to become permanent patients, therapists hate butch lesbians and masculine women so much that they tell them they have to be men) which they are attempt to use to explain their generalized sense of fear and anxiety.

They aren’t the Serena Joy’s but the “feminist” orgs who teamed up with her. Everyone forgets one of the lessons of Handmaid’s Tale - anti porn feminists teaming up with conservatives are what start the ball rolling. (A lot of TERF bloggers celebrate state porn id laws without realizing that lesbianism in itself will be considered pornographic).

Alex Jones has basically been “something is going to happen, and the left is either going to do something or false flag to try to blame us” over and over and over again since the inauguration. Pretty graphic depictions of the kinds of violent deaths he wishes for migrants to experience.

They think it’s okay on the off chance that they can terrorize a trans woman.

This is the woman who popularized the “adult human female” slogan that transphobes pretending to be feminist love so much.

The Nazis historically did go after universities and professors. If you ever take a class on Heidegger, it’s overshadowed by his membership in the party, and the fact he participated in carrying out the parties policy - firing all Jewish professors, including his friend Hussarl.

Colleges are places where ideas compete, and fascism cannot compete as an idea but only through force. The crypto angle might be part of this case, but we’ve already seen Florida and Texas trying to set up their own controlled university systems - fucking with colleges and professors is on the table.

It’s asinine to require me to be connected to the internet to use my computer. My work laptop was absolutely useless without the internet. There’s supposed to be a pin/password thing that lets you bypass this, but it would work maybe 30% of the time.

I also don’t get why I have to give Microsoft my name and an email address for my video game machine. (I get steam and proton yada yada, but I’m often playing anything that you can barely get to work on its native system - has anyone actually got EYE : Divine Cybermancy to run for more than ten minutes?)

Windows XP and 7 hit the mark I think. XP let you take it apart in beautiful ways, and had all kinds of wonderful eccentricities - which is also the problem, because XP was insecure af. Windows 7 got right what they figured out by Vista Service Pack 2 as far as security. Less aesthetics, less access to the internals, but also probably “better” for a normie.

The rule is supposedly that every other one is good or something. Maybe 12 will be good?

Is it a “risk” if it’s the desired outcome?

Altman doesn’t seemed to be concerned with consent in general.

In The Handmaids Tale, it’s the men who are infertile, not the women. They won’t just take their inability to reproduce sitting down.

There’ll be lots of “big balls” with the RFK Jr endorsed mumps epidemic.

Pain and swelling of the testicle (orchitis) affects up to 1 in 3 males who get mumps after puberty. The swelling is usually sudden and affects only one testicle. The testicle may also feel warm and tender.

Erdoğan is another fascistic fuckhead, so I guess we probably won’t have “remove kebab” as state policy at least.

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Tbh I’d rather be sexually harassed in the workplace than get to the end of my life and realize that the person I had children with and wanted to grow old with didn’t give a flying fuck about me as a human being.

Not that either is good, but most of us understand that our bosses view as as resources. And if you’re raised female, you’re definitely aware of that dynamic.

At one point they had the FBI working with Lewinsky’s friend to secretly record her talking about the relationship.

Depending on how much you believe David Brock - they were going to keep going until they found something. They were also happy to make up a lot of shit too - the stuff about state troopers bringing in women for Bill to sleep with, Vince Foster and the other “murders.” The entire investigation was not about justice.

Which of course doesn’t make Bill Clinton not a lecherous shitbag and sex pest. The way the world treated and treats Lewinsky is fucked up. He probably did harass Jones, if not all of the other weird mentally ill women Alex Jones types like to trot out.

They don’t have to pass laws for both cops and psychs in southern states to view being trans or leftist as an institutionalizable mental illness.

There are tons of shrinks that would happily come up with something else to call “Trump derangement syndrome” and in these southern states, there is almost no state oversight for mental health care.

(Fuck, even when it comes to children - I was talking to a journalist about my work trying to get a group home shut down - said he had been writing about it for years but the state doesn’t give a shit.)

The point was that it was flexible.

Rohm was okay because he was useful. After he was out of the picture, all homosexuals were bad. (But at the same time - the way many gay men survived the camps was basically becoming a sex slave to someone with more power. It’s that classic “it’s only gay to suck someone else’s dick, not to get your dick sucked.”)

Near the end of the war, they just needed bodies for the front. The “werewolfs” were basically going to be sent to die against Russian partisans.

Fascism is inherently self-contradictory. That’s the point. It’s about who has to follow the rules, not what the rules are.