I love this one from Coriolanus:

For you, be that you are, long, and your misery increase with your age!

But his house didn’t do anything wrong!

I feel the same way about the war as you do, as far as i can tell. It is a moral outrage that the rich and powerful can kill and destroy with impunity.

Because of my work, the article is interesting to me, but it adds nothing to my opposition to economic coercion and illegal wars. i am not persuaded by it because i care more about the human aspect than the economic side.

if the article were to persuade someone else to join us in opposition to the conflicts you mentioned, though, i would say it was a good article for that reason alone.

we need a coalition of people with different priorities who are opposed to the wars, simply because that is the best chance of ending them.

I agree with your assessment and i share your fury about the situation.

One observation: repetition works. It may be hard to fathom, but lots of people voted for trump without any understanding of the world. lots of his supporters are evil, but some are stupid/ignorant/confused/misguided. trump’s support is falling - i won’t rule out that labeling his crimes and repeating the message that trump is a criminal may be working.

For this reason alone i am SO glad he didn’t die on Good Friday.

Any other time is fine with me, though. The sooner, the better.

The ruse will fall apart when the AI accidentally says something cogent.

With their nuclear capability ‘completely obliterated’ for the second time this year, Iran is now three weeks away from a bomb. Whew, world saved /s.

On the other hand, we can start talking about Trump-Epstein again - especially since the dow is well under 50k.

I know there are tens of millions of Americans who aren’t fascists and hate what is going on. Until they get together and DO something about Trump and friends, though: USA bad.

The only economic growth they are referring to is Google’s economic growth.

I would rather use a tin-can radio than fascist tech. Fuck you, Google. Reap what you sow. You helped American Nazis get in power and you help them stay in power. You deserve to disappear with them when Trump and his vile losers go to jail.

Not all of them. A tiny fraction are rich and evil, but not necessarily dumb.

I partially agree with you. When i was young, some kids smoked even though the risk was quite clear. As a society, though, we banned kids from buying cigarettes because young people often make bad decisions. it’s not even their fault - it’s a prefrontal cortex thing. we can’t just say, ‘kids were warned’

clarification- when i say it’s not their fault i am referring to them being bad at making decisions. it is partially their fault about smoking, and partially due to them having poor impulse control and an intense need to conform.

The kids are messed up when they get to school - we can’t exclusively blame the education system.

I think that people don’t have time to parent their kids. Everyone i know is stressed and over-committed. People are forced to go back to work way too early in their kid’s development.i live in a country where you get 55% of your income for about a year as parental leave - but even that is not enough. People of my parents’ generation used to toilet train at 18mo because it used to be possible to support a family on one income. that is a rarity these days

Gen Z has managed something no modern generation pulled off before.

Whether it is true or not, i love how the article reflexively blames Gen Z. Like, did they invent Tiktok and brainrot? Did they ruin the school system? Did they put microplastics in the food and water?

People are padding? i tape mine back for … uh … aerodynamic purposes

You want trust? Fuck off with Slopilot and start supporting windows 10 again.

Well, the robot ships in 2027. ‘Full autonomy’ will be released in 10 years or so when the software improves to the point that it works 90% of the time. Until then, you have to pose it.

Hootsuite should be shut down.

Working with Trump’s gestapo is a bad look for Canada. Trump brought us within a hair’s width of WW3 a few days ago threatening to invade an allied country. Now these fucks are trying to make a buck supporting Trump’s fascist state apparatus? Disgusting.

There, now he stopped 9 wars.

/s, so i don’t get slaughtered

America: your talking asshole has been randomly threatening the rest of the world. Why should we care about anything you idiots say? America is like North Korea now - nothing you say matters because nothing you say can be trusted. If shit-for-brains decides to invade someone, no amount of reasoning, mutual benefit, or diplomacy will stop him. We don’t have to listen to you any more.