SocialistDad [he/him]

“I landed on this emotional idea of, can we, over the course of the game, make you feel this intense hate that is universal in the same way that unconditional love is universal?” Druckmann told the Post. “This hate that people feel has the same kind of universality. You hate someone so much that you want them to suffer in the way they’ve made someone you love suffer.”

This is so telling and horrifying. There are people who don’t experience hatred this strong. The fact that it feels so universal to an Israeli is alarming.

This is basically Rogan’s “I’m an idiot” dodge. Works a lot better for podcast hosts than it does for the person in charge of the US’s federal healthcare bureaucracy

Dems will immediately censure the first Dem senator to be arrested by the Trump admin

What the fuck is pickleball

I think the chief blame of an evil act lies with the person doing that act. Obviously the DNC is culpable for the genocide they helped commit. In terms of Trump, though, the DNC is just emblematic of the failures that rendered us unwilling to stop him. I think there’s a difference in them holding the blame on this particular issue vs them deserving our resentment on it. I don’t resent Trump in the same way that I don’t resent the sun for burning me when I stay out too long. He said what he was going to do and now he’s doing it. I resent the company that sold me faulty sunscreen, took away my shade, and told me to be grateful for the privilege.

By the way, the mystical words that got him let go were “am I being detained?” Sometimes these people still adhere to their civil religion. He also said he was saved multiple times by the person doing the interviewing being middle eastern and understanding the implications of what he was saying.

I was like, “this doesn’t sound like AOC” and then I finished reading

Emily Hopkins is a treasure

A lot of AI application screeners have explicit instructions to report on attempts to mess with AI and auto-reject your application

I do about twice a year. There’s a diner that keeps their prices really low and are only open from 5-9:30am every day because their regulars are all people who have been going there since the 50’s. I doubt they’re spreading satanic jam on my shit but I hope they are that’d be rad.

It’s important to remember that resistance to change is an ingrained response and that we need to give ourselves grace when attempting to overcome that response

That marshmallow clearly has issues with authority, not a lack of self control

Under no circumstances do you gotta hand it to em