the 13 year old was charged at least (because the parents of the girl pressed charges, with no help from the school)

I’ve heard people say “return of misogyny” but that doesn’t capture it. I’m hearing of elementary school boys groping their female teachers. A 4th/5th grade boy jerked off on another student. Middle schoolers are telling vice principals that they’d only listen to a man teacher. This isn’t regressive. This is a new level of hell.

As homophobic and cruel as people were before, they wouldn’t justify sexually abusing children or raping anyone. There were bad leaders, but they had practical limitations that have since been expanded with technology. The Epstein sex trafficking ring is the worst sex trafficking ring in human history. It simply wasn’t possible to do acts this awful, and if anyone was suspected of such, it would be groundbreaking. Now we have radically violent hateful propaganda being disseminated to children and adults alike; by people who push their technology on children and adults alike.

We’re heading into 2026 led by a network of increasingly fascist nations with autonomous surveillance technology in all of our homes. Of all the branches of Hell we have running this Earth, Silicon Valley is the one I hate most. Silicon Valley radicalized the youth. Silicon Valley pushed Trump in 2024. Silicon Valley is covering up the Epstein story. Silicon Valley assembled our data. Silicon Valley sunk $500 billion into making AI deepfake propaganda tools. Silicon Valley gaslit us all into secondhand-thinking with their black box mechanisms. Worst of all, Silicon Valley gave their brood of neo-Nazis surveillance technology that can give a small think tank the power of a million eternal loyalists.

Waiting for the men’s rights groups to jump on that. I’d support them.

It’s just a genocide. Grabbing innocent men and torturing them in black sites far from prying eyes. Dick Cheney would be ecstatic.

ehh MTG always struck me as one of the Republicans that bought on hook-line-and-sinker. Most Republicans I know are just doing it for power and/or money. MTG is one that is as stupid as the Fox News-bingeing base. She was the first AFAIK to accuse the Parkland survivors of being paid actors; and she became infamous for that and the “Jewish space laser” thing. In terms of Congress, MTG was trailblazing with her crazy because it was genuine crazy.

I’m not surprised the Epstein files were MTG’s breaking point.Most, like Nancy Mace, are sticking the script because she’s just there for power.

AI kinda just says stuff so maybe Elon Musk asks it a question and it gives a response that makes him feel insecure? I don’t know if Musk would take it to heart in the way we’d want him to.

Everyone is twelve now.

Women absolutely have pushed to break down barriers in the trades and blue collar fields. Women are also demeaned, under-considered, and sexually harassed every step along the way.

Mamdani will run bread lines. Republicans grab you off the streets and send you to labor camps.

persecution fetish

yes - did mean “conflating”. mb.

There’s nothing those hackers can do that would be more harmful than this tech already is…

It seems you’re correlating conflating “polyamory” (non-monogamous relationships) with “polycules” (relationships with more than two people). Not all polyamory is a polycule and not all polycules are necessarily permanent; nor have their members exclusive with each other.

Sometimes polyamory looks like a marriage where both members have okayed having sex with other people. Sometimes it’s groups of “swinger” marriages where they “swap” members. Sometimes it’s just a person who regularly casually hooks up with others. I’d argue that what people consider monogamous relationships have a bit of wiggle room. Life is complicated; people are complicated.

“…but I ignored your specific instructions and instead ran the washing machine for 15 hours. That was very wasteful of me, and you’re right that was not what I was instructed to do, but I did it anyways.”

well Microsoft saaaaaays that, but they also said in the same video that they’d achieve “Computing in the realm of Quantum” so I predict multiple shitty interface updates and a few new pop-ups.

He’s doing more work than he ever did as an IRS lawyer. I hope he stays with it.

Worse. Bounty Hunters have already been wrecking havoc on the USA, years before Trump. Take everything bad about greedy corporate attitude, and give those people the ego of a police officer. This is exactly what ICE wants - with the bonus that if any case gets extremely bad press, some private citizen takes the fall.

I recall watching a story - 2 months ago, a man named Hussein Alsaadi was kidnapped from Richardson, Texas by a team of bounty hunters - they abducted him from his home on a warrant for a different man. But, again, this is not Just a 2025 problem, it’s been like this for a while.

Actually that’s a really good perspective. I was chuckling while thinking of the manosphere stupidity, but this is genuinely a good point. I hope these help a trans man.

Also the USA has nukes. No one’s going to invade us, because doing so would be a destructive act, and the final order of any armed state is to nuke its attackers. This is the same reason North Korea gets to remain its defiant self when their army could be obliterated in a few bombing runs. This isn’t even counting all the non-nuclear weaponry we have. Think of that annual budget of hundreds of billions of dollars in military spending that keeps getting raised every year…

Microsoft can revoke service for any reason, so it’s legal. Yes, this is exactly how it is done internally. The only way to bypass Mojang’s blocking is to run a “Cracked” server, where accounts are never checked, but in that system anyone can log on as any name.