double tap is in fact a strategy Russia is using

Hardly unique to the Russians. The “Collateral Murder” video of US war crimes in Iraq was from a helicopter employing a double-tap strategy on a group of civilians fleeing the area.

Also popular in Gaza and Lebanon, as employed by the Israelis. And in the Philippines, by the government against insurgents. And in India during the invasion of Kashmir. And by the Syrian and Turks in their war on ISIS. And, and, and…

Russia is a terrorist state, that must be stopped.

War is the act of committing crimes unimpeded. All states engaged in war are in the act of committing terrorism. When you hear people talk about “necessary evil”, this is the evil their necessitating.

The last rational thing Kanye said before his handlers gassed him into full incoherence.

One could conceivably argue that a healthy and resilient workforce can engage in profitable labor, while a sick and fragile workforce gets trapped in cycles of disability and poverty.

It’s been hell on the actual staff, but the NHS refused to break.

The NHS has been broken for some time thanks to repeated budget cuts and privatization of core functions.

Christ, if you could see the abysmal efficiency of business tier SQL code being churned out in the Lowest Bidder mines overseas…

Using a few terrabytes of memory and a stack of processors as high as my knee so they can recreate Excel in a badly rendered .aspx page built in 2003.

Do you have an example where “more perspective just means witnessing more atrocities”?

I spend a couple of hours a day in the NICU as a new father. It’s an experience I’ve never had before, so I’m learning what it means to be a parent.

Recently, one of the women who I’d seen at the bed next to mine on a daily basis for months stopped showing up. Her baby was attended to by a nurse.

I find out from one of the staff that the mom was flagged for intoxicants in her system at birth. She was reported to CPS. They had come into the NICU while she was feeding the baby the prior day and the CPS official had pulled her out of the room, scolded her for being an addict, and forbad her from reentering to see her child. She was then removed from the building by security, screaming and crying.

This story is tragic as told. But as a new father, it carries a much more rarified horror.

There’s definitely an argument for limiting "doom and gloom news for ones own mental health…

This isn’t simply “the news”. It’s a certain consciousness of the world around you that you develop through lived experience.

How do you profit of a company that hemorrhages a few billion a year?

Even Amazon had AWS, which was the absurdly profitable core business at the center of a cost bleeding distribution center.

OpenAI is doing nothing to generate economic value.

Where is the money even coming from?

Seems like he’s getting investment from many of the same folks who are selling him the hardware and renting the rack space. It’s just an investment oroboros.

implementing concrete solutions

So Dems need to… build the wall?

we shouldn’t all be open fucking sores that flip out over literally every single thing we encounter like an autistic toddler: all emotion, no perspective

What happens when I live in a country where more perspective just means witnessing more atrocities?

It’ll be the cutest bloodbath we’ve ever seen

When you wrestle the pig, you both get muddy but only the pig likes it.

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Facebook Ads are on par with most of what Trump sells, and they’ve got a market cap of $1.4T

Alpha Males think they’re top shit, but it’s the Gamma Male that’s guaranteed to penetrate me

Anyone have a look behind the paywall?

Running, cycling, climbing, swimming. He’s a quadruple threat.

Persians absolutely malding right now.

It’s just cool to imagine a social media tool that’s monetized SWATing.

Sadly, Marvel has fired all their good screenwriters and replaced them with overworked/underpaid animators based overseas.

Out of the blue, some BBC executive or execs wanted to censor the sketch because of “its’ visual depiction of menstrual urine”.

This feels like a Mitchel and Webb bit. Hell, if the censors burst into the scene carrying a big piece of blacked out cardboard to hold over the bottle, it would fit into the original Monty Python episode perfectly.