This has never happened in America before.

Yes it has…

If you think this is the first time a movement of Christians has stripped rights away thru a political movement, it makes me think you’re not aware of how long this fight has been going on.

Like, from the first colonies, expansion into new colonies, the revolution, the civil war…

At almost every major turning point of our country’s history, fighting off Christian extremists has been one of the few constants. They spent a couple decades working behind the scenes with both parties, but just because it was less visible for a while doesn’t mean it stopped and especially doesn’t erase our past.

Like…

You’re not wrong that it’s bad now, and I’m glad you realize that.

But people need to understand history to understand how to fight today.

It won’t last forever though…

A lot of the non-upgradability is the pursuit of smallest form factor. But then everyone throws a case on it anyways. Miniaturization has diminishing returns and we hit that long ago with laptops.

Eventually we’ll hit it with phones, and then it’s just a matter of time till a solid “base” with swapable components come out. There’s been a couple already, but they still require a sacrifice of size or speed/power.

That’s why manufacturers are trying to push us to watches or glasses. They need to shrink the form factor to keep up the (insanely profitable) strategy of selling a brand new unit every 2 years.

Religious people are all mentally ill.

I wouldn’t say they are for all religions…

But definitely the “true believers” of the Abrahamic religions, like if you read any of those texts and are 100% onboard its all real. Abraham was a schizophrenic who heard voices that told him to kill his son, had textbook visual and auditory hallucinations and obviously delusions of grandeur. It’s so fundamental it’s present in all the big branches, schizophrenic symptoms are viewed as a legitimate communication with God that are often commands that must be followed no matter what.

So some well adjusted people see it as “just a story” but if you sit thru that indoctrination your whole life and start hearing voices, there’s a good chance you see the voices as religious instructions.

Apple aggressively throttled CPUs when new models came out.

They claimed it was due to age of batteries and to prevent overheating. But then Samsungs started exploding and I think people just let it go.

Not sure if they still do it or not.

“You can’t fire me, I quit!”

Is basically all this is…

Ms. Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, had supported Mr. Martin’s rival in the chairmanship race early this year, Ben Wikler, the chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic Party. Mr. Martin subsequently removed Ms. Weingarten from the party’s Rules and Bylaws Committe , a powerful body that sets the calendar and process for the Democratic Party’s presidential nominating process.

In her resignation letter, dated June 5 and obtained on Sunday evening, Ms. Weingarten wrote that she would decline Mr. Martin’s offer to reappoint her to the broader national committee, on which she has served since 2002. She had been on the Rules and Bylaws committee since 2009.

Like, this is one of the super delegates who pledged Hillary in 08 after Obama won the primary.

That’s not even getting into how she’s a self described Zionist, and spends a lot of time talking about how both sides are responsible for one side getting genocided for decades as an American labor union leader… Not sure what the connection there is.

But good to see billionaire media framing her as a fucking victim.

Quick edit:

Ms. Weingarten from the party’s Rules and Bylaws Committee

So…

The ones who didn’t follow the DNC election rules for the vice chair elections that just had to be re-done?

https://democrats.org/news/dnc-rules-and-bylaws-committee-votes-to-recommend-2025-rules-of-procedure-for-election-of-dnc-officers/

Gee, I wonder why she was let go…

Good to see Martin cleaning house and fixing it so it doesn’t happen again.

If you’re actually being sincere, you might want to ask people how to articulate your view, you’d have to let them know what your view is though. Or ask for peoples opinion on the question.

First trump term I bought a modern combat rifle.

Second term I bought plates and a vest.

Doesn’t matter if you think that shit should be legal, it is and everybody else has it. Fascists are pussies, they’ll kill unarmed protesters without a second thought. But rifles and plates are a visual deterrent.

After the incident at the cemetery, he said he was taken to a cold cell in Burlington. He saw an immigration judge, who dismissed the assault charges federal agents brought against him.

Not surprising they left the judges name out, but I feel like that’s an important detail that should be included …

It’s really fucking scary that The Oregon Trail generation got the best education American public schools have provided, ever…

It was shitty then, but God awful before and after that brief window.

Lots of animals can think abstractly.

What separates humans from animals is communication and tool use. Obviously other animals can, but none come close to humans in either category.

Books is a huge example of both. Humans don’t have to figure out complicated concepts each on our own. The Internet is that on steroids, someone on the other side of the planet can read this post the second I hit “reply”.

That exchange of information through tools is why we’re ordering Taco Bell thru Uber from the couch instead of still chasing animals till they pass out.

Whether or not that’s a good thing for us and the planet tho…

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It’s trump…

If you’re trying to argue he’s loyal and won’t switch sides in an instant, well, I’d be shocked anyone but a trump supporter would say that.

trump supports whoever gave the largest bribe, or the most recent substantial bribe. Hed turn on Israel in a heartbeat if it was personally profitable

Since nothing is going to stand in their way, how can we make sure they are held accountable for generations to come?

All that needs done is America threatening to cut off funding.

If Obama hadn’t have done that, this would have all happened a decade ago

Biden openly said he’d never do that, and talked shit as VP when Obama did. Kamala said she’d be the same as Biden.

trump, depends on if someone bribes him more.

But if America gets a progressive president next with the courage to say “genocide is bad” and actually cut off Israel…

That will make Israel stop electing genocidal maniacs. The only reason they can vote for people like Bibi, is knowing no matter what they have the backing of America.

Without that, they wouldn’t constantly be attacking other countries.

It’s like if you had a annoying little brother that picks on everyone despite being small and weak, because if shit goes down, you protect them

Sometimes, you got to let your little bro learn what happens when no one else fights their fights for them…

Driving the news: Sirens sounded across Israel on Thursday night. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz declared a special state of emergency across the entire country.

“Following the State of Israel’s preemptive strike against Iran, a missile and drone attack against the state of Israel and its civilian population is expected in the immediate future,” Katz said.

Who would have guessed Israel would surprise attack another country and then immediately play the victim…

TIL! Never heard that definition, thanks for that.

Yeah, it’s pretty accurate and comes from the guy most equipped to talk about what consciousness is.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Hameroff

He’s spent the last 30 years working on consciousness with literally the world’s smartest physicist if not human:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Penrose

Like, you know how everyone knows Stephen Hawking? Penrose was the guy doing the hard science to finish up Eisntein’s work, Hawking was the “face” who explained it to people. When it was just Penrose and Hawking working on something, Hawking was the dumb guy at the table. Which is just wild.

But for the longest time people said Hameroff and Penrose couldn’t have been right because quantum entanglement couldn’t happen somewhere as “warm and wet” as the brain. About 11 months ago we found out microtubules can not only work as tubes that can sustain entanglement, it can sustain quantum superposition.

So, another decade or two and we should have a better answer for what consciousness is and what anesthesia actually does. But for now, that’s the best we can do

I mean, people already are…

We don’t have a better definition for consciousness then “it’s what anesthesia stops” and we don’t have a better idea about what anesthesia does than “stops consciousness”. So it’s a chicken/egg thing.

The thing is, anesthesia works on everything, humans, animals, plants, even single celled organisms.

Literally everything is consciousness. Tomatoes even feel pain thru our most common definitions.

So yeah, people that claim to be vegan because of animal suffering are still causing suffering and pain to life, then ending that life.

You’d need to be some super specific type of vegan where you only eat fruits because those specifically evolved to be eaten in a symbiotic relationship with animals.

But like, I’m pretty sure that would just give you organic diabetes or something.

So everyone draws their personal line wherever, but none of us really have an “ethical diet”

And Dems think he should be the nominee

What?

The billionaires want him to be the nominee, but even with their money he can’t win a fair primary.

That’s why there’s the propaganda push to make the new DNC seem responsible for the bullshit “moderates” have been pulling with the party since Carter.

Don’t forget before this happened Newsom was doing rightwing podcast circuit talking about how conservative he really is.

This is like Elon and trump fighting, two assholes the country would be better off without

Like, why did you manufacture this intractable problem by mandating clothing and shaming nudity in the first place?

You think humans invented clothing because of shame?

That’s completely backwards, we invented clothing for protection, and not seeing everything all the time led to shame when someone could see us.

Like, I’m pretty sure hermit crabs feel something similar to shame when they don’t have a shell, they need something to drive them to not only protect themselves, but to ensure they can reproduce and raise their young. That’s why humans instinctually get weird about exposed genitals and boobs, those are the most important parts of a human from an evolutionary perspective.

I get what you’re trying to say, it’s just you’re going about it completely backwards

It’s not for the right reason…

Beta was better than VHS, but Beta didn’t have porn, so everyone got VCRs.

Meta is so big they could get sued for letting users openly make porn like this, but they don’t want everyone using the ones who can make porn. Because that’s the biggest threat to their advantage in the market.

If Meta thought they could get away with it, they’d dive dick first into porn.