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@conor64 @SwipeWright @MeghanEMurphy Sure it does. As we've seen with Trump, presidents have enormous power in terms of the pressure the people they put in charge of government agencies and the pressure they themselves can bring to bear. It's crazy to argue otherwise.

@SwipeWright @MeghanEMurphy The censorship industrial complex arguably peaked the first time that Trump was president, and certainly surged in that era. It doesn't rise and fall depending on who is in the White House.

If you think "it's over," just wait. If a Democrat wins the presidency in 2028, the censorship industrial complex will come back so fast you'll get whiplash. The woke haven't been defeated. They're laying low while they build up their armies in Mordor.

@annamlulis They're worthy of life, but it means that most parents have to make their lives about them for the rest of their lives. It means a lot of lost social and professional opportunities for many parents. It's a very hard burden to bear. The state and community don't help at all.

WATCH: Artemis II pilot Victor Glover hugs Fox News host’s baby with Down syndrome, Valentina—humanizing children like her. 80% of babies with the condition are aborted in the US This child, with an extra chromosome, is valuable and worthy of life.

@BillWillingham @HollywoodInToto They need to destroy civilization-- nukes, bio-weapons, giant turkeys, whatever-- and then make the subsequent movies about how humans and dinos navigate the post-apocalyptic world. You could take it in so many directions. Literal money printer, I tell you.

@HollywoodInToto Many reasons, but my personal bugaboo: When they decided, as policy, that a gun would never be effective against a dinosaur, they doomed the franchise with only stupid protagonists.

How do you F--- up a dinosaur movie? Yet this franchise keeps doing it

@CathyYoung63 @Timodc @Lauren_V_Egan It depends on your definition of 'bigoted misogynists'. If that group is 10s of millions of people, then it's probably a good idea.

@Timodc @Lauren_V_Egan The problem with opening up the tent to bigoted misogynists is .... well, we see the consequences of that problem in the modern-day GOP.

“If people really are arguing that the price of winning is becoming like a bigoted misogynist like Hasan Piker, then I’ll take not winning,” Jonathan Cowan told @Lauren_V_Egan. This seems like a bad message to me given the state of things. thebulwark.com/p/how-big-is-t…

@avidseries Pretty sure they just follow whatever the political mandates are coming from the president so they can get in their good graces and keep getting that sweet, sweet money.

These people have no moral core. They just go with the flow and the inexorable logic of capitalism. They're as spiritually vacant as they are dangerous.

@DegenRolf "Science writer"

Male refugees from Afghanistan and Syria in Germany show a keen interest in forming relationships with local women, but the local women show little interest in forming relationships with them. Germany, in particular, received over 1,4 million refugees between 2014 and 2016, predominantly from Muslim-majority countries such as Syria and Afghanistan. The majority of these arrivals consisted of young, single men within prime marriageable age brackets. This study examines partnership preferences of male refugees from Afghanistan and Syria who arrived in Germany between 2014 and 2016 and female residents of similar age. Overall, our results indicate a high level of openness among male refugees towards partnering with female members of the resident population, but a comparatively low level of openness among the latter towards partnering with recently arrived male refugees. This implies a substantial incongruence in partnership preferences among the two groups. Regarding the educational level of a potential partner, we found that all respondents prefer highly educated partners over those with lower levels of education. This suggests that, for refugees, securing a highly educated partner might serve as a means of upward social mobility and integration into higher-status networks in the host society. Furthermore, it is possible that highly educated women, due to their greater exposure to diverse social environments and potentially less discriminatory attitudes, are perceived as more open to intergroup partnerships, making them a more attractive choice for refugees seeking acceptance and social integration. On the other hand, the reluctance of resident women to accept partnerships with refugees is largely explained by their rejection of the ‘imported’ religious Islam. It is possible that resident women perceive the religious practices of newly arrived refugees as different from their own, reinforcing a social distance that limits intergroup partnerships. Moreover, this reluctance might not only reflect religious differences but also concerns about gender norms or perceived lifestyle incompatibilities.

@shatterdvisage @Noahpinion He has this bizarre need to shitpost. I don't know why. Maybe his girlfriend doesn't give him enough attention.

@Noahpinion Bro your epistemics have been dogshit lately. Reposting weakly sourced culture war rumors. Are you trying to pivot to the right like Drew Pavlou? You egregiously sprinkle 'retarded' into at least half of your posts too.

Dear Lord

@wil_da_beast630 The number 5 is that the family needs to come in every week and make sure their parents are ok. Warehousing your parents in a home and only visiting once a year is just asking for your parents to not get adequate care at the very least.

"Carers." The races of the predatory, hyper-sexual CNAs (allegedly) washing your ass may vary a lot. But, as a Westerner, your options really are: (1) get rich rich (2) just kill yourself when the time comes, (3) have kids and stay cool with 'em, or (4) wind up helpless here at some point.

@floridafriends Conservation land--> friend of congressman donates to congressman--> they get land for their 'cattle'---> they sell to another business and give 'donation' to congressman. It's so sleazy.

“Florida taxpayers invest billions of dollars through programs like Florida Forever to secure land for water protection, wildlife habitat and resilience – not to create a revolving door for future sale.” cfpublic.org/environment/20…

@wil_da_beast630 I mean, they wouldn't trade places with a regular poor person from 1850 if they had any sense. No need to bring slavery into it.

Last comment on this absurdity: Literally no one living in the modern United States would trade places with a Black American slave, or serf in Ireland, back in 1850. Our lives today are SO remarkably soft and easy that adult fighting men of the various human tribes can spend hours arguing, on the magic computers in our hands, about which group has it worse.

@Noahpinion I have been dealing with cancer the last few months. I am enormously thankful that I had access to AI to ask questions of about my symptoms and to run my medical results through for basically a few dollars, with almost certainly much better depth and accuracy than from doctors.

Last week two different AI founders came over to my house for tea. One told me he would like AI to be banned, and wishes it had never been invented. The other claimed that AI has plateaued and isn't very useful. Always interesting to see the diversity of viewpoints out there.

@PaulRoundy1 @DKThomp Cite...

@DKThomp Why would everyone lose their jobs and end the world? Right now, the AI revolution is increasing hiring in tech.

I don’t think there’s ever been en a technology whose builders constantly promise that, if they succeed, tens of millions of jobs will be destroyed and the world might end.

@DKThomp I would really like to know why so many Chinese people, and Asians in general, I guess, have a favorable view of AI.

@avidseries I just hope SEAsian men believe in meritocracy like white guys do.

@CathyYoung63 94-year-olds should not be riding horses. Foolish on his part.

If your medical problem at 94 is from a horse-riding accident you're in enviably good shape! OTOH falls & injuries in older people can lead to general deterioration. Sending William all best wishes

@GuGi263 Congrats, you might have killed her. Now she's gonna be approaching humans a lot more.

"It took about 4 years before Lovey started relaxing near me, and over the next year she began moving closer until one day resting with her head on my legs."

@Noahpinion What does China do with them? Why are you like this?

What's interesting here is that even though America's extreme poverty is extremely low, it's now probably a bit higher than China's. This is due to the fact that we let mentally incompetent people live on the street, because progressives see this as a form of welfare.

@Noahpinion Three to go!

@Noahpinion Big "I never thought these leopards would eat *my* face" energy.

Leftists fantasized about the whole Middle East turning against Israel. Instead, the whole Middle East ended up turning against Iran.

@wil_da_beast630 Ask Grok, I dare you.

After the Iranians took those American hostages in the 1970s, torturing many, why didn't we just...KILL them? Sink their Navy, murk their silly little religious leader, walk into their country, and take our people back. If any were dead, kill 100 Iranian upper officials for each. Some "moral" thing? It clearly would have been easily doable.