Mmmm, marinade 😋

Fr. I’m just as worried about AI and automation as anyone, but it’s amazing how fast people were to come up with a slur for robots. I don’t think it’s a good impulse

Throwing trans people under the bus isn’t going to get the Republicans out of office. The Democrats in NC who caved on trans rights just got walloped in the primaries. Even if you don’t care about trans rights (and I think we should all care), trying to chase the mythical moderate like this is not an effective strategy to getting elected.

My friend and I bought weed once when we were 17, but we never got the chance to smoke it before a third friend ratted us out. I started drinking alcohol and smoking weed a year later when I got to college.

No way Oklahoma’s governor is going to appoint a Democrat though

Feminist is such a loaded term too, after decades of vilification by right wing media. My mother would happily say “oh yes, of course I support equal rights for women, but I don’t think I’d call myself a feminist.” (Now, whether what she believes is equal rights is actually equal rights is a different question.)

There is a strong overlap between furries and IT professionals. I’d go so far as to argue that the presence of furries in an online community is a sign that it’s a healthy one.

No, I understand that. It’s shortsighted though, to think that staying on fossil fuels is the pathway to profitability. Real innovation in the energy sector is going to be electrification, renewables, and storage, and fossil energy is already a developed industry. They’re too captured by oil and gas donor money to follow their own profit-driven logic.

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The rest of the planet understands that climate change is real and is acting accordingly. The US is the odd one out. Even then, US states, local governments, businesses, universities, etc all also understand that climate change is real and are moving forward with decarbonization. It’s the federal government and red states that are doing their best to stop what everyone else agrees is just common sense, if we don’t want the planet to cook

You beat me to it! Tubthumping always gets me fired up

I was ready to see capitalism destroyed long before I realized I was a girl lol

Is that common? I was kicked off the SAVE plan, so I had to re-enroll in an older IBR plan

Jayapal and Markey are both long-time progressives without presidential ambitions, so I actually trust that they’re sincere on this one. I don’t know anything about Jacobs.

Any centrists like Newsom who think they might get the mythical moderate Republican vote by throwing trans people under the bus? I agree, I don’t trust an inch

Let them be alienated. Trans rights are human rights, and they’re non-negotiable. Trans people are such a small minority, our rights depend on cis allies being vocal advocates, even when it isn’t easy. Social progress has never happened by backing away from an issue conservatives are mad about and waiting for them to change their minds and come around.

I do not think that live-streaming executions will make our society any healthier.

Everything is a distraction from everything else. I doubt any specific catastrophe is planned, particularly as a distraction, but the cumulative effect is deliberate. The faster they go and the more chaotic everything gets, the harder it is to stay focused to stop them. See Bannon’s “muzzle velocity” theory

Are men okay?

Having fun, isn’t hard

I… do not think that’s accurate