The Adventures of Captain Kit.

Some people might think I’m an optimist but I’m not. I’m a realist that’s going to try to increase the good things in this world if it kills me.

I think some of y'all would really benefit from learning the scope of power of various political offices.

Are you trying to tell me my local schoolboard doesn't have the ability to declare a unilateral ceasefire with iran?

If they try hard enough and are pure of heart... still no.

Paradoxically I think people often dismiss local elections as useless, which is also absolutely not true. Your local schoolboard might be aggressively banning books, or they might be fighting a trans sport ban. Paying attention to who gets elected to that board is important. It's just also important to know what you're electing someone to do, and what they can do.

while that's true, I'm pretty sure the original point is that people overestimate what presidents (and other officer) can actually do or affect

Let your foppish friends influence you <3

Verified: Microsoft 365 gets massive 45% price hike — and it's all to do with AI tools (Tom's Guide - January 17, 2025)

oopsie i tripped and spilled my link to archive dot org's downloadable copy of Microsoft office suite for 2007, which features no AI tools and is a powerful word processor that still holds up just fine on windows 10!

Truth. Experts can be wrong but if they are mostly right or we wouldn't have modern medicine or satellites or computer chips.

Years back, Jay Smooth called this "arrogance in ignorance," something that has stuck with me. I've always thought of it as a particularly American mindset--not just being proud of not understanding a topic, but believing that one's ignorance somehow gives one a leg up on experts. Please, y'all. If you don't know something, then you don't know!

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge’.” —Isaac Asimov, Newsweek, 21 January 1980

*jumps up and down waving my hands and yelling in a crowd* DISCORD WAS NEVER MEANT TO REPLACE FORUMS AND WIKIS!!! IT'S JUST EMBELLISHED CHATROOMS WITH MULTIPLAYER GAMING FEATURES AND LOOTBOXES AND SHIT!!! PLEASE PUT FAQS AND MESSAGE BOARDS OR AT LEAST A DIRECT EMAIL-BASED SUPPORT SYSTEM ON YOUR WEBSITE!!! 1GB NEOCITIES DOMAIN ZERO DOLLARS

boobs in masc outfits have incomparable powers. the androgyny. the fuck you to the patriarchy. the comfort. the swag. undefeatable 10/10

I am already so very sick of the whole DSA vs centrist dem fight. The other guys are selling out to big diarrhea, dismantling education and sending masked thugs to kidnap people off the street. I think the DSA and the DCCC can find the issues they agree on and fucking go from there.

I'm sorry but I do think it's extremely bad for the culture at large to brag about your ao3 stats in tradpub author bios. We don't need to give people even more reasons to be weird about ao3 stats.

It's also tacky.

image: reddit comment. "Meh. I'll make it. I always do." end ID.

too bad it’s not possible to do anything. but at least there’s music