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Getting an autism Dx as an adult is both validating and tough. On the one hand, all those misunderstood moments? Not evidence there's anything wrong with me (which I'd pretty deeply internalized), but at the same time, the most-prevalent feel is of grief, that I felt for so long that there is

What if hear me out here we one day decided it would be better to govern to maximize well being and happiness instead of GDP

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For the 'run government like a business' crowd, remember that hostile takeovers, loading up the company with debt, selling off its' assets, putting the borrowed money somewhere you control, laying off staff, and driving it into bankruptcy is a profitable business model if you're evil enough

new favorite use for data centers

GenX checking in

If it feels like our politics are stupid these days, it's because they are. Most of what passes for politics is just deflection away from why politicians aren't doing things that benefit most people. When they fearmonger about trans kids in sport instead of fixing monopoly abuse it's a distraction

Remember when Joe Biden proposed canceling student debt and every single Republican accused him of "bribing voters"?

Perfectly states what I've been saying for some time, now.

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.

Oh nothing, my PCP just started crying in our appointment because so few of her patients can actually afford the care and meds they need and she has to watch them erode in front of her. Healthcare access is good for patients *and* maintaining the sanity and longevity of the healthcare workforce.

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Apropos of nothing, ambulance service and prehospital emergency care should be taxpayer-funded and considered essential service everywhere. Modern EMS emerged due to racial and class inequity, its funding should evolve accordingly en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom...

really think that if democrats hold any chamber of congress next year that a condition of passing a budget is the removal of russ vought, who has a genuinely tyrannical vision of presidential power and is a focal point of the lawlessness of the trump administration

Quick post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS on the idiocy of liberals punching left.

Watching this administration try to conjure greatness feels uncannily like watching a cargo cult try to conjure wealth from the sky It's as if they have no idea how any of this shit works

The more you know... the more you should be angry as fu@k about this situation. IJS.

Maybe instead of renaming the “Department of Defense” the “Department of War” Pete should have more accurately called it the “Department of Expensive Humiliation”

I'd really be okay with AI if it was required to supply its own power without getting subsidies from people, if it was required to engineer its own cooling without taking water needed for people, if it wasn't entirely an exercise in stealing original content and selling it back at a markup

GenAI is a tech bubble of hype and absurdity. It runs on nothing but vibes and dollar signs in billionaire's eyes. But that's why we must resist it. We broke NFTs, we broke the Metaverse, we can break this nonsense too.

This one hits hard.

Dollar for dollar, money spent on police is some of the least-effective spending we can do to reduce crime- that money cannot be spent on addressing its causes (like poverty and homelessness), and police solve or prevent crimes at remarkably low rates.

So maybe let's press Colbert into running for public office He would win all day

It's a feedback loop of "They're red states, they deserve their fate" and into "So why don't we NOT provide them with real candidates &/or not push back against gerrymandering, etc" which leads into "why did GOP continue to keep choke hold on _____ state?!?" by the DNC/liberals.

Happy Mount St Helens day to all that observe On this day May 18, 1980 - 46 years

When Mike Johnson says $174k/yr is not enough and being able to trade on insider information despite it being a crime is necessary if congress is to attract 'qualified candidates' in the future, he's saying the qualification is: be shameless, corruptible, and completely out of touch

For years, the biggest criticism of renewables was simple: “What happens when the sun isn’t shining?” The answer is increasingly: battery storage. 24/7 solar power is no longer theoretical. In some places, it is becoming economic reality.

This point cannot be made enough; even though folks in the Nordics pay higher tax rates than we do in the US, they spend less and get more in return. When I added up what I pay to live like a Dane vs. what I would pay in taxes, the result was: Danes and Swedes get a much better deal than we do

Remember kids, anarchy and chaos are not the same thing. Anarchy derives from the same root word as hierarchy, but means without hierarchy. Obviously there are people who benefit from hierarchy; they're the ones telling you anarchy is mob violence probably because they'll be first against the wall

It is wrong and criminal for government agents to kidnap someone, send them to die in a concentration camp, and disappear them, regardless of immigration status. But it's still worth noting she has a green card. The government doesn't even pretend this is about deporting undocumented people.

So basically the next time you hear them talk about 'librul cities', know that that means cities run on behalf of large corporate stakeholders with moderate social views, policed by reactionaries from the suburbs that can't afford to live there