Anyone who seriously advocates for abstinence only education is not qualified to speak on policy. That’s it.

We really need to do something so we have fewer scumbags and fools running our government.

These ice goons are lucky all they’re getting is mild push back.

Whenever a chat bot is aggressively presented on a website, I like to ask it how to disable all AI features. Often it will tell me to click on menu options that don’t exist.

Buying drm free music is a good long term plan. You build a library you can share with friends and family.

Right. Conservatism is about hierarchy. Hierarchy is good and natural. You get shit on by your betters, and you get to shit on your lessers. Trying to change that is horrifying. It’s going to mess up the world! And if hierarchy isn’t good and natural, then all the suffering I experienced was unjust, and all the cruelty I inflicted was mere cruelty. Can’t have that. I’m a good person who deserves my lot in life. Even if it’s not royalty. There have to be royals.

It’s a shit world view built on cruelty and cowardice.

Conservatives just say things to try to justify their emotions, or to seek power. They don’t really care about truth or consistency.

I’m pretty sure fraud is already illegal and most people don’t consider those laws a dangerous stifling of free speech.

Meanwhile, Linux works just fine. Booted up, opened steam, played Elden Ring (today I learned you can parry Midra!). Worked on a spreadsheet for some personal finance. Did some coding. At no point did I see an ad or fight with the UI.

Well, yeah. Conservatives will say anything to advance their goals. Doesn’t need to be true or consistent with previous statements. They’re bad people.

We should shut down those data centers and make their operators do climate remediation work.

I read a blog post once about that. If I recall, it made the argument that conservatism is fundamentally about hierarchy and abuse. Child abuse is about hierarchy and abuse. It’s thus not surprising they go together.

The blog was more sophisticated than my memory of it, of course.

I always thought that kind of social media was a recipe for bad times. Alas, most people don’t care or think much, so here we are.

I remember as a kid I was so excited when I got a blue chocobo in FF7 (I’m old) I ran upstairs to tell my mother. She did not care, nor pretend to care. Made me a little sad, and what could have been a nice moment did not materialize.

I try to listen to the children in my life. If little nephew wants to tell me about his robots and pokemon, I’ll be there and try to engage

A rare example of when I think talking to the computer is a good interface.

Also fuck cars, and distracted drivers need to go right to the pits.

Seems like another example where the people making decisions are not qualified to make those decisions.

I did that once for some big assignment. I got a B and a “you can do better” from the teacher.

My current cat does not help with bugs. One time a giant centipede looking thing came into the bedroom, on the ceiling. He looked at it, got up, and left the room.

I see a lot of Nirvana shirts on the youth and I’m never sure if they like the band or just the shirt, either.

I did see a blue-haired youth with a My Chemical Romance shirt the other day and I’m pretty sure they were a sincere fan, though.

It’s all projection. They have poor empathy and don’t understand other people, so they just imagine themselves.

That’s because they’re obviously horrible people who do not have the best interests of the world in mind.