If you're a parent who wants to protect your kids from sexual abuse, teach them :
1- The proper names of their body parts
2- The difference between a secret and a surprise
3- To prioritize their safety over notions of politeness
4- Teach them what a safe adult is - in detail
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i will never stop being furious at large language models being successfully branded as "artificial intelligence"
they're not conscious & functionally can't be; they don't "hallucinate," they fail to generate appropriate outputs
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There's something wrong with it?
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And took Star Trek with it, with UPN's guidelines and demand for a "TNG"-style show weighing down both Voyager and Enterprise and the movie-side not giving a shit about making good movies at all.
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ohhhhhh you're a tankie, got it.
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Why did you include at least one photoshop in your montage?
Also you understand both can be terrible and it's not about supporting *Biden* so much as not supporting *the actual fucking fascists*, right?
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A good kid with good parents, clearly.
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I do have a horse and he demands his macaroni.
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Excuse you.
That's Mr. RCMP
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Yes I would like one order of macaroni and one order of cheese
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I WONDER IF MAYBE THE UNITED STATES JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SHOULD TAKE SOME MORE INTEREST IN WHO THE SAUDIS ARE PAYING WITHIN THE US
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Minecraft.
No seriously. The core loop of the game is mindless tedium when you *don't* have to be minding your inventory, and finding functional uses for all of the "junk" you dig up is instrumental to keeping the creative side from suffering.
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He is an Incredibly Moist Man instead of a Sweaty Man.
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A comic about disability and drugs in America for #disabilitypridemonth
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How many times have (typically Black) people been shot because a cop "thought they saw a gun" when it was actually a cell phone? Or been reaching for something (ID, phone, *car registration*) and been shot?
This is just going to get *more* people shot, in addition to the privacy invasions.
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Yup.
Even if you have a car insurance app, print out a physical copy to show to cops instead of showing them your phone.
Cops are just about the only government agency you'll personally deal with that's legally allowed to lie to you. Never trust them.
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I think it was before that, back when his government was first elected in 2015, but yes his response was basically to shrug it off.
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If you steal $1000, you can be sent to prison.
When health insurance companies steal $50,000,000,000, they get tax breaks, subsidies and government contracts, while the people they steal from die or go into debt.
But keep blaming immigrants and poor people for rising crime.
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Fascists want you to roll over and not exercise your rights.
And one of those rights is to vote.
Use it, protect it, fight for it.
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Conventions back in 2000s: “You have a webcomic? How cool! Of course you can be a vendor at our show! Actually, would you like to be a Guest? Our attendees would love to meet you!”
Conventions now: “You make a webcomic? Fuck you. We won’t even let you pay us to exhibit here. Eat shit and die.”
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Redwall lied to me about summer. Where are my fizzy strawberry cordials? HMMMM? Where are the honey sweat rolls, dripping with great dollops of whipped butter?
This is bullshit
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The truth🖤
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Fucking Christ.
I can't stand Biden and yet this concerted push by the press to get him to quit is making me side with him, because this shit is both obvious and scummy.
You're corrupt. You get that we can all see this, right?
Where's your Trump/Epstein reporting, for the love of God?
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if i had to pinpoint the beginning of the internet's long decline i would say it's when "search-engine optimisation" became a thing
burying the worthwhile beneath the profitable has been the death knell of every industry ever
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It’s not a gigafactory, it’s a factory.
It’s not a hyperloop, it’s a tunnel.
It’s not a starship, it’s a rocket.
It’s not a cybertruck, it’s . . . what is that thing?
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Incorrect.
They do that to get the Ewoks to not eat them and open diplomacy, but categorically *do not* actively recruit them - Wicket volunteers, then the village arrives later to rescue the Strike Team of their own accord to kick the Imperials off of their planet.
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yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler
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Battle the Canada of XAtom
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This is the classic rock radio station I would sometimes listen to when I was a kid
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So hey, here's a thing I don't think a lot of folks know: That whole "Patient Zero" thing? The French-Canadian airhost who supposedly spread HIV all over America?
That's not real. That's not what happened or how it happened.
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Happy No-More-Kings Day tomorrow!
And remember:
Patriotism is helping the country you love do less wrong. Nationalism is pretending that it's *never* wrong.
🇺🇸
"Nationalism is Patriotism for Assholes."
– Jon Lovett
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More the fault of writers and editors who took away the deeper reasons *why* Bruce doesn't kill and gladly have him sitting on his hands while psychos get away with murdering millions of people.
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a lot of people seem to think my annoyance here is with jokes about political violence, which i’m on record saying are fine and cathartic. my annoyance is with people who disengage with effective forms of politics and replace them with fantasies
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Thought experiment: Imagine if Obama, after claiming an election had been stolen from him and being convicted of 34 felonies, was granted immunity by SCOTUS justices who had taken undisclosed luxury trips on George Soros' dime. The fact that you can't even imagine this scenario tells you something.
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MSG *is* seasoning
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Reminder from a Pittsburgher who was at one point Mr. Rogers neighbor:
“Look for the helpers” was intended to be advice for his usual audience, children. We’re grown ups now. We’re supposed to be the helpers.
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these people do not intend to ever lose power again
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Official act. Immune.
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Don't forget the Sharpie.
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I have twice seen accellerationism on my feed advocated for by ostensible leftists and I feel like it needs saying:
Accellerationism is one of the single most evil, cancerous schools of thought to mutate simultaneously out of the extremes of political thought. It is absolutely vile right through.
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Daily bunny no.2537 is saving water
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bringing this here because i've had it
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Oh boy, $150,000!
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Over the weekend, I found a tiny pink plastic shoe on the ground near my office.
I placed it at eye level, on a wooden post, by the stairs.
This morning, on that same post, was this picture.
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Can't be impeached because presidential impeachment has been a dead letter since parties came into existence.
Can't be disqualified from office.
And can't be prosecuted for crimes committed under color of office.
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What you would do when authoritarianism comes to America is what you're doing right now
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