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that's literally what the motherfucker who invented "vaccines cause autism" did.

Imagine if you could like, get an automatic citizenship claiming to be a refugee from the Burger Kingdom. But noo we can't have AI in charge of important shit like keeping a firm line between Foreigners and Real People, it's only good at automating meaningless paperwork exercises like medical research and writing science textbooks.

I so rarely have fondue, and now it's ruined

hey don't cry. on december 3, 1926, agatha christie went missing for eleven days and because the uk police didn't know what to do they recruited sir arthur conan doyle, creator of master detective sherlock holmes, but all he did was conduct a séance to try and contact her distressed spirit

When you tell people Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry Houdini and Howard Phillip Lovecraft were good friends despite their unending arguments over rationalism vs spiritualism, no one ever guesses which ones held what side

It's my favorite bit of bigot logic, "my prejudices are correct some of the time, so if I assume they're correct all the time I'm correct some of the time, so I don't have to waste time and energy judging people by their words and deeds." How do you counter that? Maybe you can explain how this reductive thinking diminishes and dehumanizes people and prevents the bigot from seeing individuals who they may have some common ground with. Maybe it's enough to just let them talk through this argument until they hear how absurd it sounds. Unless they don't care.

Rather than the entire Internet, I'd like to think she took the time to hunt down and pirate every piece of digitized data. A lot that's never been uploaded, certainly not on public servers. Mile after mile of folders of trial documents, classified military hardware specs, raw footage of TV shows, game dev assets, proprietary corn gene blueprints and nude pics, just in case.

Can we kickstarter getting this scene shot for the anniversary DVD

ID / TL;DW: young Black man explains the history of voodoo dolls: they originated in England, where Black people where prohibited from learning to read or write, to help witches keep track of what ailed their patients. Eg., person goes to witch and laments headache, they treat their headache and make a small doll (called "poppet"), trying to represent them as good as possible, stick a needle in its head and put it up a shelf. When they return next week, the witch takes their poppet and asks about their headache. If it's gone, they remove the needle, otherwise they know they have to treat a rather persistent headache.

I think a lot of people are pro-life because they know they would have been aborted, that is secretly their motivation and not actually a misguided interpretation of Christian theology or a belief that life begins at conception. They’re say shit like “What if your mom aborted you?” like, okay I wouldn’t be here, that really wasn’t on the table because my parents really wanted me and was on fertility treatments to try to have me. Would your mom have aborted you? Is that what this is all about, you wouldn’t have been born if your mother wasn’t coerced/forced to carry you to term and give birth to you so you feel like everyone else should be forced to give birth to their annoying baby?

Occasionally forget people genuinely think capitalism is thousands of years old

One time I was talking about Robin Hood with some coworkers and one guy was like “he was bad because the people he helped learned to expect handouts” and I wanted to be like… okay can you explain how that flawed capitalist propaganda applies to feudalism

reminder that capitalism was literally invented in the 16th century

That’s an exaggeration. What was invented in the 16th century was mercantilism. Capitalism really dates for the beginning of the nineteenth century, with the rise of industry and cash crops over artisans and merchants. Vulture capitalism, with the notion that companies have no duties other than generating profit, is even younger.

Capitalism is only 200 years old and I have to say, they have not been an impressive 200 years

An alarming amount of people seem to think capitalism = all trade, and I don’t think that’s a coincidence.

i suggest it’s been long enough

Moving wealth upward, apparently. I think we're getting to the point where Elon Musk can keep all the money in the world and the rest of us start over.

Everywhere that's infected by neoliberalism has the same birthrate problem. They cut down on child support programs, education, healthcare, all kinds of youth programs and social programs, raise people not to even talk to their neighbors, do everything to make sure it's every man for himself and only those most capable of generating money will thrive or even survive, and then keep getting surprised people don't want to have kids. Maybe we've been trained to ask how profitable a child would be, even if we can afford to care for them to begin with, which most people can't. No it's probably the smartphones. (I can't afford a smartphone.)