Oh yeah, I forgot about the Episcopals

Still, I think every schism probably had people saying “But we already have [religion]” before they went down

Whether or not there are decent evangelicals was kinda beside my point (I was just imagining historical parallels), but I agree and it’s definitely worth repeating

We’re gonna get a schism and the Church of America because Trump is basically Henry VIII but somehow even more disgusting

Would you rather they weren’t concerned and talked about something else? The problem here is the god damned politicians who keep blowing off stories like this.

You have to understand how awful our public transportation systems are and how close to broke like 75% of us already were

Me neither, I feel like all the publications talking about how it’s so popular are gaslighting me or being taken by some bullshit bottled streaming numbers

Did it? I mean, it may have bought President Pedo the couple of months he needed to win an election against a historically awful opponent, but given his 32% approval rating and being stuck in a war that was supposed to distract from the detention camps that were supposed to be a distraction from the tariffs that were supposed to be a distraction from DOGE which was supposed to be a distraction from the pedophilia, I think it’s fair to say that buying a mouthpiece isn’t a durable solution to the problem of being objectively stupid

Doesn’t seem to be what this article says

To some readers, even choosing Outlook as a part of a spacecraft’s communications portfolio would seem to be an anomaly. However, it is a standard part of the “Commercial Off-The-Shelf” (COTS) software astronauts use for their day-to-day operations.

To be clear, the spacecraft and primary flight systems will run on specialized radiation-hardened hardware and rigorously maintained software. COTS just complements this with a friendly layer, like Windows and Outlook, so astronauts can check schedules, indulge in personal communications, and so on, in a familiar way.

Sounds like Microsoft products are running on the same hardware as critical systems are

This sounds like a metaphor for American politics

Except your whole argument requires migrants to still be getting paid sub-minimum wages and denied access to the social safety net which obviously isn’t something anyone left of center supports. Instead of advocating for the state to harass poor brown people yet again why don’t you direct some of your rage towards the employers who profit off of their exploitation instead.

These are legal experts and have lots of skills in this area

Nah, they’re hack idiots who couldn’t reason their way out of a haunted house and cover up that fact by just throwing fancy words and empty latin phrases at stuff until normal people just give up and assume they must be smart and serious people. Translate their arguments to 8th grade English and they sound dumb as shit because they are dumb as shit.

Yeah, I mean on the one hand I think what Dems were theoretically asking for here was stupid (more regulations on ICE in exchange for more funding for ICE when they have already been flagrantly violating laws left and right), so in terms of actual policy coming out of this I think this is the second best outcome we could have gotten (best would have been keeping DHS shut down until Trump was impeached and removed and ICE was totally defunded or until midterms and reassessing from there).

But on the other, the fact that Dems didn’t get the stupid thing they were asking for is a pretty hollow victory to campaign on for anyone paying close attention, and (assuming the House and Trump sign off on this) now we can’t point to the TSA and FEMA and etc. agencies being unable to function under this administration as further evidence they need to be removed from power as quickly as possible, which is really the only logically defensible position anyone can take.

Wasted millions on cop overtime so they could arrest a bunch of protesters and not do a goddamn thing to protect cities’ residences from ICE brutality

I would say “Now watch as these cities move their money around and defund actual useful public services to keep their police departments over-funded,” but we probably won’t get a deep dive investigation on those things like we did with this

according to some people on this platform now

But your point is well taken

total shithole

Hard to ironically quote Trump without picking up his pernicious tendencies. Like, blaming victims to distract from the real root of problems (the US government and all of its agents who did this).

What’s the difference between Chuck Norris and Chuck Norris jokes? The jokes keep getting older.

The real takeaway here is that the war isn’t doing anything to stop Iran’s violent repression

Agreed with a lot of this, but

Yes, AI will probably not be used to replace plumbers, car mechanics, carpenters, etc.

Lots of those people did get replaced already by technology, it was just called industrialization and assembly lines. What’s left now is artisan wood working and emergency repair work for plumbers and mechanics, and you can’t employ all of America’s blue collar workers with luxury stuff and emergencies.

Another thing that doesn’t get mentioned here - if AI and self driving cars work out like they want them to, goodbye delivery work and long haul trucking, which actually is a ton of blue collar jobs. Also, self checkout machines and chatbots are eating customer service jobs that less educated workers might otherwise be doing.

The biggest portion of blue collar jobs that will be tough to automate will be everything associated with construction just because they’re moving to different sites and jobs faster than it would take to get bots well trained to do that work, but if unemployment jumps and new home sales even look like they might slow down those jobs disappear fast.

My point is - if technology and labor rights get to the point the office workers are starting to feel the bite, guaranteed blue collar workers are all teeth marks by that point. Not that I would expect a CEO to talk honestly about that.

Trump denied any prior knowledge of Israel attacking South Pars, pushing back against reports that the strike was coordinated with and approved by his administration.

All I need to read to know they definitely coordinated with Israel on this and directly ordered this strike. Pretty insane that the moment the US and Israel crossed over the line of what the rest of the world is willing to tolerate wasn’t when they bombed a bunch of school children but instead was when they bombed some petro infrastructure, but not exactly surprising I guess.

Dipshits who already hated Mamdani continue to hate Mamdani. The real news here is that the prosecution was forced to drop that ridiculous felony charge down to a petty misdemeanor. That kind of “overcharging to force a plea” bullshit ought to be stopped.

“Maybe you wouldn’t be so sad about the way we repeatedly bomb children and never get punished for it if you couldn’t post about it?” - world leaders (actually)