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@achrismostafa @Kaylara0wl Right this is baffling to me as well because I have also lived outside the US and have traveled to multiple continents and talked to countless people about politics and have never once encountered someone who thinks US liberals are left wing.

@Kaylara0wl what rest of the world are you talking about? No one views american liberals as the left. theyre centrists at best

I love this line of reasoning because I have actually lived outside of the US, not just visited, and the rest of the world views our liberals as left, and our far left as incredibly stupid and self sabotaging. 🙃

"LiBeraLs are the left" Leave the USA and you'll find the rest of the world's views on our politicians. The red scare has fucked up this country too much.

@mauvaismoments “My ai told me I’m smart” is the new “my mom says I’m handsome”

@BsblWhispererer @zenrealtornyc @j_schottstaedt @joewrote The argument can be easily made that any government is authoritarian. The differences are who is being represented and what is being done with the political power.

@zenrealtornyc @j_schottstaedt @joewrote Is Norway authoritarian?

The left has some good ideas, but they can't win elections outside small deep-blue districts. Okay, they can defeat a political dynasty in a mayoral primary, but they'll never get a mandate in a city-wide election. Sure, they got a mandate, but that's in New York City. It's not like they'll win in the New Jersey suburbs. Looks like the left won in the New Jersey suburbs, but they can't win state-wide races in purple states. Okay, they defeated the sitting Maine governor, but it's not like they can win...

@Hmarie541736 @CDay152 @skumWgmi And probably not even a person.

@CDay152 @skumWgmi This person is in South Asia. probably china

HOT TAKE: nobody in 1975 needed a budget app, a financial coach, and a side hustle to afford a two bedroom apartment. this isn't a personal finance problem. it's a wage theft problem.

@RepNancyMace You can do insider trading on your own dime, not the backs of a taxpayer-funded salary program.

The House just voted against banning soda from SNAP. Why should the government fund your soda purchases? If SNAP recipients want to buy sugary drinks, they can do it on their own dime, not on the backs of a taxpayer-funded nutrition program.

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. Aaron Swartz downloaded 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta) in 2010. Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

@effthealgorithm The "didn't respond to my friend within 9 minutes" resonated SO HARD. It kills me how we constantly tolerate this enshittification of society but can't show each other any grace. We're just expected to be available to everyone 24/7/365 and we're a shit person if we aren't.

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

@HitDaWallAgain @mcordeiro73 @effthealgorithm Perhaps your boss should fire you because you're subhuman racist trash.

@mcordeiro73 @effthealgorithm ...I legitimately told my boss to hire some high school students instead. That was just the beginning.

@SaintArianaN @nigrasaurus @cosyposter Sounds like a bunch of overly emotional terminology that really doesn't mean anything. Theorizing about "stable and unstable energy" in response to a scientific study is something that a twelve-year-old in sixth grade science class could easily identify as woo nonsense.

@nigrasaurus @cosyposter Define "having a stable energy" and "chaotic energy" 🙂

"A European study found urban birds flew away sooner when approached by women than men. Men got about 1 metre closer on average before the birds scarpered. It held across 37 species and five countries. Scientists don’t know why. They controlled for height, clothing color, direct gaze, and long hair being visible.."

A Chinese court has ruled it illegal to replace human workers with AI purely for the sake of cost-cutting. The court decided that companies hold a social responsibility to treat workers fairly and pay them what they're worth.

@DanSherwood088 @EmmaVigeland I've voted for Democrats since I was 18 and I'm 45 years old. I've watched them lose power on the federal, state, and local levels through my lifetime. They've never done anything except enable the Republicans when they do have power. At what point do you learn this doesn't work?

@christiamity @EmmaVigeland Did you vote for Democrats in 2024? If you didn't, you're why they can't do anything at moment. And since you hate Democrats, I doubt you did.

The fact that no one has yet leaked the DNC autopsy shows how deep the institutional rot is.

@DanSherwood088 @EmmaVigeland They don't check his power, they enable and fund it when they have power and tweet complaints about it when they don't.

@EmmaVigeland Who cares about some stupid autopsy? You can either tolerate what what Trump's doing, or you vote for the party that can check his power. It's not complicated.

APBT Seelye's Sweet Sioux "Maisy", age 12 and still looking so good!

I will never understand how so many of y’all were hoodwinked into believing the government should not use the money you pay in taxes to create a social safety net that benefits you, fund public healthcare, lower housing costs, and make daily life more affordable.

7 years ago today. It was always painfully obvious this exact outcome would happen, but Democrats just wouldn't listen.

@Noctilicious @micah_erfan And have some other group to blame in ten years when they're still living in this decaying hellscape.

@micah_erfan To them it is. Cuz in their minds, once everyone that they don't like is gone, they'll finally be able to "Fix America"

Conservatives are so cooked they think Americans fleeing the country in droves is a W.

@billdonoley @micah_erfan Yeah the average Boomer has no concept of this crisis coming up and how bad it's gonna be. They're a huge generation and they've messed up the subsequent generations that have to provide care and services for them as they grow old and die. It's gonna be terrible for them.

@micah_erfan Population declined for the 2nd time in history. Boomers don't realize a top heavy demographic tower doesn't engender a bright future for them. There won't be enough for their care