Peace, Truth, Science

Kind of weird to be obsessed with AI "alignment" when we have endless current and historical problems with human alignment.

Putin is another one of those guys the Nobel Peace Prize committee keeps overlooking because they're biased against mass murderers.

The best part of this is how careful El-Sayed was to quiet the crowd when some of them, missing the point, started to turn on Tommy--a great moment of leadership, so often lacking in our political candidates.

the people responding to this defensively are nuts. i’m talking about a critical mass of democrats to make it clear that they’ll put themselves on the line to protect congresswoman omar. im glad there have been some strongly worded statements but there needs to be action.

"I can't do a damn thing about the major problems plaguing the nation" is one hell of a campaign slogan, Kenny. Ken Paxton Trashes Trump in Leaked Audio Ahead of His Visit to Texas newrepublic.com/post/216310/...

Just enjoying Ohio Buckeyes vs Atlanta Hawks.

I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

New life goal: Go a full 24 hours without hearing the song "Choosing Texas."

It's so humid here in southernish Ohio that at 74° I can see my breath.

This Labor Day, if you've ever benefited from:   — The weekend — 40-hour work weeks — Workplace safety standards — A minimum wage — Paid time off   thank a union.   Unions don’t just improve working conditions for their members, they help every American worker.   Happy Labor Day!

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

From the folks who brought you cyclospora comes a new produce-born disease with all new ways to hospitalize or even kill you.

Please don't tell me AI can now do math.

TIL hyenas are more closely related to cats than to dogs and now I'm having trouble getting the pieces of my blown mind back inside my skull.

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TV. Most of it is still crap but it used to be nearly all of it. And the good stuff today is way better than the best stuff of any previous era.

New set of lies just dropped. newrepublic.com/post/213575/...

Is Mitch McConnell still pretending to be alive? Haven't heard anything in a bit.

Back when I was a young man, CEOs made about 20 times the salary of their employees. Today a typical CEO makes over 280 times more. Here's what we can do about it.

Just the laziest reporting ever. No attempt made to distinguish DSA ideas from communism, or challenge absurd GOP claims. Also the reporter somehow couldn't find a single Democratic Socialist for comment. thehill.com/homenews/hou...

To be clear, the fires in Canada rn are in forests that normally burn about once a century. They have NEVER been managed. What's changed in the last 4-5 years is the climate.

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

Why is it when Trump is president we all end up locked in our houses?

The Chinese are hoaxing this climate change hoax so well we can't even go outside. Pretty impressive.

Lying under oath about what happened 30 seconds prior.

So high I could write a 20,000 word essay on how words just don't work.

The funniest thing would be if Balogun got himself kicked out in the first 30 seconds.

Did you know no one has beliefs besides Catholics?

I'm thinking maybe there should be a rule against presidents profiting from the office. Oh, wait. You say there IS a rule? Huh.

This is the Trump administration so let's start by not trusting anything. But IF his figures are correct: --any fraud is likely by brokers, not the insured --it may not be fraud. It may be that people can't afford to go to the Dr even WITH insurance --GOP solutions will make problems worse

The Federal Reserve is different because it could mess up the economy whereas some other agencies could just start world war III or usher in a climate apocalypse so no big deal.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court, 6-3, overrules Humphrey's Executor, giving the president broad firing powers over the leadership of federal agencies and limiting Congress's power to limit presidential firings. In a 5-4 decision, however, the court said the Federal Reserve is likely different.

Final offer to Iran: Open the Strait of Hormuz or Trump will send his pool guy to paint the bottom of it.

Just ran into this self-contradictory sentence: “For eight seconds, time stopped.”

Reminder as you're traveling this summer: Trump reversed a rule that required airlines to automatically refund you with CASH—not vouchers, not points—for canceled or severely delayed flights. (United Airlines and Delta Airlines each gave $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund.)

Administration giving the finger to every single government role.

It’s obvious. He’ll be consuming the blood of the young.

It’s too late to trade James Harden, isn’t it? #Cavs #nba

A cyclist became the 105th to die at a particular intersection but this one time somewhere once a cyclist dented some guy’s truck’s hood so you see it’s all even Steven.

“For example, Trump predicted that i and my oligarch buddies would totally suck up to him to curry favors from his administration. And, waddayaknow, we did!”

Who is more delusional: The Trump official who claims he was teleported to a Waffle House? Or the Trump official who believes Donald Trump actually wrote a book?