We all get those things regardless. The stories we tell ourselves about how the world works don’t affect how the world works.

Bad headline, lazy article.

introduced the legislation … to have a court-appointed neutral arbitrator – known as a special master – compel the DOJ to comply with the law.

On Friday, however, the DOJ filed a motion to block that effort in the Southern District of New York, arguing that courts lack the authority to force the agency’s hand in the matter.

The DOJ filed a motion to block a special master. That’s it. No one living in the US or reading the news could possibly be “floored” by that.

Life, joy, friends, love, art, pleasure, dopamine, oxytocin, etc.

Anything we’re doing now can still be done without the concept of free will, because we’re already doing it without free will.

I just dont understand this admittantly common argument.

Free will seems like such a psychologically damaging lie. As if blaming yourself for the outcome of every sad movie you’ve watched is somehow motivational.

Since coming to accept that free will is farcically impossible, I feel free to just go about my actions with a sense of curious enthusiasm as to what will happen next, safe in the knowledge that que sera sera - whatever will be, will be.

Generation Kill is a very watchable look at a recon unit in the lead up to the 2nd (iirc) iraq war. It’s by the guy who did The Wire. Excellent dialogue, plotting and acting.

It uses a soldier’s eye perspective to examine the systemic issues in the military - casual racism, war crimes, adult diapers and the constant incompetence of officers all come up.

In employment, Verizon said it will commit to aligning its business in California with the state’s various requirements under its diversity, equity and inclusiveness (DEI) laws, though the company ended its employment-based DEI initiatives last year in order to secure approval from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for its purchase of Frontier.

The DEI commitments Verizon will make are not expected to conflict with its promises to the FCC, which largely involved hiring and promotional practices.

So CA allows yet more dangerous corporate power consolidation in exchange for just following CA law - but not so much as to conflict with verizon’s anti-DEI promises to the regime.

What a truly progressive victory worthy of gavin newsom.

30% of US adults voted for trump.

Decades of gerrymandering, voter suppression, disinfo campaigns and no small amount of outright fraud brought the current regime to power, not the will of american people.

Because trump is largely irrelevant.

His job is distraction-in-chief. He’s just a dumb patsy - a role he’s spent his life perfecting.

His business career was just laundrering russian mob money, and his political career is just drawing fire from the rich cabal looting the american empire before there’s nothing left to loot.

There was a hilarious study the other month showing that on r/conservative, 30-60% of posts on any given day are 2 posters, who posted every single day - except the day that ukraine strikes knocked out power in moscow.

That sounds like a reasonable and healthy attitude to take.

I’ve started buying 2nd hand physical games, got a cheap record player, buy books from little bookshops, clothes from goodwill and don’t shop online. Not ready for a dumb phone yet.

I grew up in niave 90s with ‘internet will set us free’ thinking. But oligarchs turned the things i liked into poison, so i avoid drinking the poison as much as i can.

The fascists don’t care about consistency or fairness. By definiton they’re opposed to that.

They will without a doubt block anyone else from doing exactly what they are doing.

Killing multiple regime members on the court or expanding the court are the only two options if we want a supreme court that’s capable of upholding the law.

“As far as calling him out, definitely no regrets whatsoever. … I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity. And today I think I did that,” Sabula told The Washington Post.

Fucking amen brother.

Jate isn’t a name.

I doubt there were that many voters who oppose project2025 but were swayed away from kamala by thinking it’s not real.

About 30% of us adults voted R. 30-35% is about the maximum support that fascism can muster. Voter suppression won the election, not any particular policy or lie.

They’re fucking nazis and they’re doing violent nazi shit.

“ominous historical overtones” my ass. Call it what it is.

50% of the population wasn’t saying that, a widespread disinfo campaign funded by our corrupt oligarchs was spreading that talking point.

Affordability AND anti-corruption would be better.

That would give them a mandate to go after regime insiders for their many openly committed financial crimes.

But the Dems would rather let fascism win if the alternative is jailing the rich for their crimes.

This post reads like you’re trying to “both sides” a cold blooded murder comitted by a member of a fascist goon squad.

Our version with our first cat was like:

Was your human late with your breakfast more than 3 days in a row, or 5 days in the same calendar month? Call me, Baby D, Kity Attorney’s Office.

Did your human give some of your food to the outside cat? Call me, Baby D, Kity Attorney’s Office.

Did your humans prevent you from attacking the outside cat, even though he was right there, outside your window like he owns the damn place? Call me, Baby D, Kity Attorney’s Office.

Property is theft, property is liberty, property is impossible