David Youngquist

@TheRealKitty019 I don't think you realize how many timeless classics are "leftist stories." It's like all these people complaining about "woke" when much of popular culture has been "woke" for generations.

No, it’s because every explicitly lefty, progressive story is so dreadfully, abominably, fundamentally… boring. You guys don’t know how to write characters because you don’t know how people act; your ideology pigeon-holes everyone into “nazi” or “gay”, even heterosexual characters have to be gay-like or else they’re decried as being sexist. You’re all so sheltered from the kaleidoscope of human archetypes that you write ONE character and just tweak it slightly based on whatever arbitrary boxes they tick off. Your aesthetics are homogenous, all disgusting and covered in coats of neon paint, no sense for the style or purpose of visual media. You guys don’t understand, or perhaps more accurately hate, beauty and so your entire artistic identity centres around deconstructing and perverting it. And then worst of all, the plot. You always write the same fucking plot! Plucky band of misfits commit crimes but are heroes because the big bad fascists tell you to get a job and clean up your act. You can do whatever evil shit you want because you’re the heroes and they’re the bad men who tell you no. It’s all just impotent seething rage at a society that wants to continue functioning, despite your incessant tantrums. Nuance and complexity are always accidental, and get noticed by rightists who then just claim the villains because you cannot grok why people might like a character that’s been labelled “bad”. And all of this is why you fuckers latch onto and try to claim, try to steal, apolitical- or even baseline right wing- stories, games, movies, etc.; everything your side produces to reinforce its ideology is garbage, so inevitably the baseline adherents look to what’s good. But the good stuff isn’t made for your ideology, it’s made to be good, so you make up a load of headcanon bullshit to warp and twist, to rape the creation of someone else, and force it to represent you. Nobody is afraid of being convinced by your garbage because it can’t even convince those who already agree with it. Your shit actually just stinks.

@JasonInTheHam @ImBreckWorsham The "a few weird chemical reasons" is our refinery infrastructure is designed to refine certain kinds of oil. What we export goes to places that are designed to refine it. That's kind of important.

@ImBreckWorsham We have a surplus and export. We import for some political and a few weird chemical reasons (but we do not HAVE to import). So NO. We aren't getting fucked. We are the ones who fuck.

The last shipment of oil arrived in the U.S. today. The LAST shipment of oil, for the foreseeable future, just hit U.S. soil. WE. ARE. FUCKED.

@Theodosius2024 @BrianRoemmele I'd rather employ people and not run up electric and water bills while tying up resources that would be of better use elsewhere. There's nothing artistic about AI. It's just a waste of resources and another means for the tech bros to take more of our money.

@Al_1701 @BrianRoemmele That's not true on both accounts. It takes a person with a creative idea to input the prompts and then make the adjustments to the outputs to make the art. There are different levels of quality, some great, some not so much. But for something so new, the potential is insane.

This device was banned in some cites. They called this soulless machine music. It took over a decade to allow some cites to remove restrictions. When you know the past, you know the future.

@Theodosius2024 @BrianRoemmele Except the player of the synthesizer and electric guitars are playing music composed by a people. This contraption is playing music composed by people. The computer animator is creating images. AI is letting the computer do all the creative work (and usually do horribly at it).

@BrianRoemmele Using synthesizer and electric guitars to create music, or computers to make animation and then criticizing the use of AI is so blind to history. A painter from 1400s looking at the use of computers could have the same criticisms of moderns.

@russelldobular The Democrats are too busy cleaning up the mess left the previous Republican administration and lose their majority after two years so nothing ever gets done.

Notice how the vast majority of accomplishments on this list are pre-70’s/New Democrats. The only two “accomplishments” from the modern era listed are: -Obamacare: a band-aid on a gunshot wound at a time when the Dems had a supermajority in both Houses. Part of the reason it ended up that way was Obama leaning on Dems that wouldn’t vote for it without a public option, instead of the ones who wouldn’t vote for it with one. Rotating villain-a-go-go. -Gay Marriage: A better demonstration of why Dems have lost their base you couldn’t find than the fact that this was the only other thing from the past 50 years he could come up with-a parade that had long since gathered majority public support before Dems jumped out in front of it. The kicker is they all opposed it right up to the minute the polls told them it was safe to virtue-signal off the issue. Hooray for gay marriage, but when that’s all you’ve got, folks start to get the sneaking suspicion that’s all you have, and it ain’t enough.

Goodnight everybody. #scriptchat

@Beno10_MFC The answer is 1 because y = 0.

Almost all people with high IQ underestimated this mathematical problem and ended up failing. Be smart Can you solve?

Hello all you happy people. #scriptchat

@christ621ml The simplest explanation is different regions of the Spirit World. TLOK introduced us to that fog spirit that holds captured souls for all eternity as they slowly go mad, so it's not all pleasant.

@robwolchek @wxyzdetroit @Xfinity @DetroitPistons @NBA Simple, Comcast and Scripps (the owners of the Detroit station the broadcasts ABC's programming) are in a pissing match over their contract. All Scripps-owned stations are dark on Xfinity until the dispute is resolved.

Why is @wxyzdetroit blocked on my @Xfinity cable tv that I pay $300 a month? Why do I have to watch one team, my team, the @DetroitPistons on a different network/streaming service every game of ONE round of the @NBA Playoffs!!! This is ridiculous.

@SamaHoole A lot of it is pasteurization and vaccines. Much of what depressed life expectancy was childhood mortality. Vaccinating kids and providing them pasteurized dairy took surviving into adulthood from a coin flip to an almost certainty. And what is MAHA militantly against?

"Life expectancy has doubled since 1900, so clearly modern food is working." Yes. Brilliant point. Absolutely watertight. Tell me, when you picture a Victorian dying at thirty-eight, what do you think killed him? Was it the butter on his bread? Was it the lard in the pan? Was it the grass-fed mutton? The eggs from the yard? The unpasteurised milk straight from the cow he could see from the kitchen window? Or was it cholera, tuberculosis, dysentery, smallpox, sepsis from a splinter, childbirth in a room with no soap, a boiler explosion, a coal mine, a war, a workhouse, and the entirely reasonable medical practice of being bled by a man with a leech? We did not extend life expectancy by replacing his lard with sunflower oil. We extended it by inventing the toilet, the antibiotic, and the idea that surgeons might wash their hands occasionally. The margarine is doing nothing. The margarine is, if anything, slightly working against the project. The plumbing did the heavy lifting. Give the plumber a statue.

@Manservant_H @CitizenJaneSays @IHateItMost They're going on one week where gas eclipsed $5 in 2022 when it looked like Russia was going to subsume Ukraine and the oil business engaged in a bit of price gouging in preparation of the shock that would have caused. However, Ukraine repelled the offensive.

@CitizenJaneSays @IHateItMost Explain Biden being a full dollar more. Be specific.

I’m paying close to $300 a tank to run my truck. And that’s not including gas for farm activity. I have a farm. I can’t haul any livestock ANYWHERE. Neither can my neighbors who have cattle. One of them sold all his cattle and he’s out of the business. I know many farmers who grow hay, wheat, pumpkin, corn, cattle and they’re going under. People do not understand how much trouble we are in as a country.

@CitizenJaneSays @IHateItMost No, he just lied to you, and you lapped it up. Now we're suffering because of your collective stupidity. What do the Democrats do to have garnered such blind hatred, and what do the Republicans do to have garnered such blind loyalty?

@IHateItMost Farmers notoriously get screwed but not this bad. Trump is a traitor to us all. The farmers and all people.

@aurelian427 @RichPublicity1 @QasimRashid Then why did all the Dixiecrats change their party affiliation to Republican once of the Civil Rights Acts were passed? The parties have been flipped. There's demonstrable evidence of it.

@RichPublicity1 @QasimRashid He will say the parties flipped, which is another BS liberal delusion.

A friendly reminder that the people who: •banned Black people from reparations, schools, military, GI bill, & FHA loans •who lynched & are now locking Latinos into putrid concentration camps •who locked Japanese people into camps & banned all Asian immigration •who broke every single treaty with Native Americans while committing genocide •And who are now gutting laws that helped counter that harm & passing laws to ban teaching that history... They want you to stop making everything about race.😐

@kindofmaybe @Mayoveli If only we had to a way to control how the government decides by the people selecting who represents them in said government. And you really want companies who answer to shareholders only interested in the size of their dividend checks making those decisions?

@Mayoveli "because the government decides" Yeah, that's communism. They decide what's best for you, your family, and your community. It's a dystopic approach that doesn't allow individualism. Look at real estate, China put 90% of their population in homes just to screw them over.

This cost them about $1 trillion. The truth is, you cannot build systems like this exclusively on the logic of profit. You cannot expect to break even in 20 or 30 years. Projects of this scale are built because the government decides they must exist to serve the people. And this is a problem with systems that are strictly, or overwhelmingly, capitalist. If you leave every problem in your society to the spontaneity of the market, some challenges are so large and so unprofitable that you will never have sufficient incentive to solve them.

@InstantReplay17 This isn't even the worst part of this particular chapter. You will reach an obstacle that requires you go back to the start, talk to an NPC, and have pencil and paper ready as they give you a long sequence you have to hit three blocks multiple times.

I haven’t even played the fame before but i just KNOW this is cherry picked to make the game look bad cus i’ve seen gameplay where its literally anything but this

@CalltoActivism It'll splice well with Trump claiming how horrible inflation was under Biden and how he would lower prices on Day One.

BREAKING: A DC pollster just texted me “it’s over” after Donald Trump’s speech today where he called “affordability” a “line of bullshit.” There is not one Republican lawmaker who is up in 2028 that didn’t just shit their pants. He just gave Democrats the perfect ad.

@TerrellSocialst You seem to forget that Democrats usually take power after the Republicans have FUBARed the country and they have to clean up the mess before even considering our agenda. Yet people like you sit on your asses the next midterm and hand the Republicans congress.

A lot of liberal voters keep misunderstanding why so many of us on the left are not satisfied with “vote blue no matter who.” It is not because we do not understand how dangerous Republicans are. We understand it very clearly. We see what Trump has done. We see what Republicans have done through the courts, through state legislatures, through attacks on voting rights, civil rights, workers, immigrants, LGBTQ people, women, education, and basic democracy itself. The difference is that we are looking at the pattern. Every few years, Democrats tell people, “Vote for us because Republicans are dangerous.” Then Democrats get power, but instead of passing the kind of transformative policies that would materially change people’s lives, they govern cautiously, protect the status quo, and tell struggling people to be patient. Then people remain broke. Rent keeps going up. Groceries keep going up. Healthcare is still too expensive. Student debt is still crushing people. Wages are still too low. Billionaires and corporations keep getting richer. People lose faith. Voters get angry, discouraged, or stay home. Then Republicans come back into power even more extreme than before. And then the same cycle starts all over again. This is what the left is trying to explain. We are not asking for more because we are spoiled. We are asking for more because the bare minimum is not stopping fascism. Fear alone cannot be the entire strategy. You cannot keep telling people democracy is on the line while refusing to use power in a way that makes democracy worth believing in. If Democrats want people to keep showing up, they have to do more than say Republicans are worse. They have to prove that when they get power, they will fight for working people with the same urgency that Republicans fight for billionaires, corporations, judges, and control. Because if Democrats keep winning power and failing to deliver transformative change, the country will keep swinging back to Republicans. And if it is not Trump, it will be someone just as bad, or worse. That is the pattern. That is why the left pushes so hard. Not because we do not care about stopping Republicans, but because we understand that the only way to stop them long-term is to actually improve people’s lives.

@SusieM414141 There's a plug in the bottom of the cup that is pushed up when on the nozzle and closes when removed. It's the same technology as water cooler jugs.

I just don’t get it. Can somebody smarter than me please explain? Please and thank you!

@exitstageleft67 @djtimm @ChrisGloninger It does. This is why climate works on the scale of decades. And notice we have been above the most recent 30 year average for 13 years straight.

@djtimm @ChrisGloninger Does this graph not show a steady upward trend? Genuinely asking

Al Gore didn't shift to predicting an ice age. He warned about AMOC collapse — the Atlantic circulation system that keeps Europe and North America warm. If it slows or fails, those regions get colder. Regionally. Temporarily. While the planet keeps warming. This is like saying a doctor "shifted positions" because they warned that a fever can cause chills. The physics hasn't changed. The planet is still warming. 2024 was the hottest year ever recorded. 2026 is forecast to break that record. The oceans are at all-time high temperatures right now. You don't get to mock the science because you don't understand the mechanism.