It all makes sense when you realize who makes the cutoff for what they consider “people.”

I didn’t even think it could mean anything other than that until I started reading the comments. Coming from Trump this certainly reads more like a “finish them!” than a “leave them alone!”

Because he knew nobody would actually enforce it.

I almost missed the scale on the left. Almost.

Yes, that’s what they want. They think that you can just will your way to mental health and acuity, so thinking “I’m struggling because I’m weak and stupid” will spur you to become strong and smart, while thinking I’m struggling because I have ____ will give you an excuse to keep struggling. They’re wrong, but that’s what people often think, at least in my experience. They don’t see it as a disease you need to treat in order to improve, they see it as a character flaw you need to overcome in order to improve. One guy told me he views “the whole ‘neurodivergence’ thing” as being like a kid who doesn’t want to eat their vegetables saying they’ve been diagnosed with “can’t eat vegetables disease.”

Teach a man to fish and you’ll have one new fisherman. Teach a man to teach a man to fish, and you’ll start a new fishery education pyramid scheme.

The vast majority of the people who would actually fight on the right side of history have been thoroughly pacified by the rhetoric that using a weapon would be unacceptably barbaric, and that if you can’t make the change you want with words, you’re just not finding the right words. We’ll be holding quippy signs and chanting about justice even as the country literally crumbles around us.

They’re wryly saying that when Trump inevitably ignores this latest of judicial orders, there will continue to be no consequences save for more angry reminders that he’s not supposed to do that.

They don’t just want to choose not to think, because then they might have pangs of regret from making that choice. They want others to tell them that women aren’t allowed to think, so that it’s no longer their decision, and so it can’t be their fault if it’s a bad one.

First we got Link’s Awakening, a Zelda game with some Mario stuff thrown in, and then we were supposed to get this, a Mario game with Zelda aspects. I wonder if they were trying to combine the two somehow.

Everyone already knows all the republicans supported it; anything under their jurisdiction is already a lost cause. What I want to know is how many people from the “left” party can’t even keep their own votes on the right side of history. It’s not news when villains are villains - it’s news when the people who say they’re here to fight back against the villains are caught supporting them, and it’s important not to drown out that important detail among a bunch of already-known regressives. People need to see that the current democratic party isn’t a viable defense against conservativism, and that we need to do something more to get things moving in the right direction again than simply trusting democrats to fix everything.

If by “we” you’re referring to the American people as a whole, then no, no we don’t. So many people I talk to are treating this like just another 4 years of republican shenanigans; I rarely find someone in real life who understands just how close we are to all-out war.

Remember, there are 2 reasons why someone might say something. Either it’s the truth, which makes no sense as you pointed out, or it’s a convenient lie, which makes perfect sense for someone who benefits from maintaining the status quo while pretending to fight against it. It’s well past the time to assume people are telling the truth until proven otherwise. It’s time to just straight-up call a politician’s lie a lie from the smell alone.

It was ruined for me when I was getting my masters in genetics and learned that “mitochondria” is plural, and the singular is “mitochondrion.” So, it’s either “the mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell” or “the mitochondrion is the powerhouse of the cell,” and neither feel right.

I think some of those purple ones should instead be labeled “If you can find a way to get it to stick around long enough for you to lick, you’ll win a posthumous Nobel prize.”

Sure, but that’s often after they’ve let him spout nonsense uninterrupted on a global platform.

“Man does thing everyone should have been doing to every idiot in power for decades.”

Long gone are the days where something being against the law essentially meant it couldn’t be done. You can scream that the things they’re doing are illegal, but at this point it doesn’t even matter; the law has lost its relevancy, and won’t stop or even slow down the people in charge.

We elected a CEO to be president, essentially adding the country itself to his business portfolio. He’s obviously going to trade a part of that power to other CEOs in exchange for favors and loyalty to benefit himself. It’s nothing more than a business deal to exploit the country and its people for profits, something all wealthy business owners are familiar with, and something Trump didn’t even try to hide his plans to do if he was elected.

Honestly, Musk’s Nazi salute kind of overshadowed every other news story coming out that day.

Then it did it’s job.