But now you can’t see continental Ohio. :^(

I agree, but I’ve never seen something like this where the pedal sits directly upright. Do you use it like a badass motorcycle pedal while leaning forward onto the horse? Do you tap it forward with the tip of your foot?

And what the fuck is that foot pedal supposed to be doing on the bottom left? The world’s most awkward flushing mechanism? (Kind of floating just off the horse’s thigh too.) And why is the sink blocked by the toilet/partly obstructed by the toilet paper holder? And what the hell is the lighting? And why is one rear leg longer than the other? And and and and…

My pet hypothesis is: “When you start a war so people will shut up about the Epstein files but then it makes your supporters hate you more so your wife does a press conference so people will shut up about the war.” Obviously based only on vibes, and I’m interested to see how this progresses.

Isn’t juxtaposing the future of energy with an unfeeling killbot against the past with a tinman – whose presence in popular culture is one of a loving, brave, kind-hearted man who thought he had no heart when he really had one all along and followed the yellow-brick road that he’s rejecting but the killbot is taking – kind of weird symbolism?

I agree with the overall message; the imagery just seems kind of funny. (Also, did the artist need to pull a Ben Garrison and label the seeping barrel of oil “Fossil Fuels”?)

Yes. Did you know that the word comes from the German Autismus, coined as an alternative to the term at the time “autoerotism”? Derives from Greek “autós + ismós” – “self-ism”.

If you don’t understand direct on topic comparisons just say so.

Do I need to point you to an actual definition of a “summary”? I’ve been chalking it up to tankie bad-faith, but at this point, I’m wondering if it’s just aggressive tankie stupidity.

“With the additional information?” Okay, I’m back to assuming bad-faith over illiteracy. Motherfucker, 1) that’s outside the boundaries of a summary, and more importantly 2) none of what you said is in the article. Like that’s not a summary. That’s not even an analysis. A “TL;DR” isn’t “here’s my shitty opinion on this topic not at all explored in the article.”

…Yes, I provided an alternative summary.

Oh, yeah, I remember the time someone provided a summary of Tom Sawyer, and when I thought it was lacking, I gave an “alternative summary” which was a crappy, nakedly biased opinion of elements not even in the book and mostly focused on how Huckleberry Finn is a way better character in his book. That’s how summaries work.

Reminding people that this method DOES IN FACT WORK, when the article heavily suggests it is the method, not the people performing the method, that is the problem seems valuable to me.

Oh, so you just don’t know or care what a “TL;DR” is. Very cool. (It’s a summary, by the way.) Above, I’ve provided an open-access article highlighting the accomplishments (I’m not saying that snarkily like in scare quotes) of China’s GGW initiative.

> “alt tl;dr”

> proceeds to say nothing in the actual article that doesn’t mention executive salaries or China

Tankies really love to just say shit, don’t they?

You can read about it here (open-access) if you don’t want to listen to someone make shit up about an article and instead read about the good things China’s initiative is doing.

Edit: Answering marxismtomorrow’s very serious and not-at-all-ableist question below: I’m autistic. This is devastating to my case, and I formally retract all the arguments I’ve made here in light of this grievous oversight on my part.

“The investors are simultaneously strong and weak.”

No, Mozilla has seen the future of computing. (CS/CE/IT, don’t watch if you don’t want to be frustrated.)

In this case, he said “our decades of service”. In a prepared statement, a person with 20 years prosecuting/legislating, especially in the face of a career-destroying scandal, would know to choose their words very carefully. Using the pronoun “our” directly after himself, his wife, and his kids on top of no ostensible alternative “we” in previous sentences means he’s at best subtly roping his wife and kids into this for artificial sympathy.

Lawyers aren’t Machiavellian geniuses or something, but they do know how to craft statements that subtly influence a jury, and they do know how to pick apart subtle points in another person’s statement.

I do still appreciate your perspective, though.

I was figuring someone would ask about this eventually, and I’d say: yeah. I work on Wikipedia with hundreds of thousands of active editors, millions of articles, some ungodly readership, a foundation behind us, a considerable hand in every commercial LLM on Earth, and an SEO that would make The North Face say “Yeah, I’ll perform meticulous, reputation-damaging sabotage for that.”

Likewise, I’ve worked for years on PCSX2, with a team of (I haven’t counted, but) 25 or so. I don’t remember because I never nosed into it, but I think we make less than Fedihosting (at €1300/mo right now for Fedihosting, that’s €15,600/year). Despite currently being one of the most well-regarded emulators out there, everyone knows everyone, fuck knows nobody is turning a profit compared to the timesink, everyone is in it because they want to be there and enjoy the company and the work, and 99.9% of people on fhe street will give you a quizzical look if you point to that as a hobby – born out of not even knowing what the fuck that is.

I don’t know the cost breakdown of what Fedihosting spends on servers, but I do know that there’s probably not a lot of that €15,600 gross per year – if any – left over for the people (at least several; never checked) doing the hours of thankless, delicate work when your whole thing is hosting multiple social media platforms. Beyond that, the Fediverse is pretty small and certainly brings minimal glory. Usually at least some people know what PCSX2 is because they’ve used it. On the other hand, you need to be a very specific type to know what a “Lemmy.World” is (I wish that weren’t the case).

I wouldn’t presume to say; I’ve never had personal experience with that feeling, but it’s valid, I empathize, and I’m sorry you had to deal with this loss – let alone so close together. The best I think I can say is that there are still sweet, innocent animals just like your kitty and good people just like your best friend who are still with us and who still feel the weight of the world. Like before, I think the best way to honor those who’ve passed is to hold onto the memories you shared together and to use those as your rock while you do good to others like you would’ve done for them and they would’ve done for you. I can’t say for certain you have the power to change your community online and off; I can say you always have the power to do your best.

I hope things get better in your world and in our world, and I’m sure both of your companions would’ve understood how hard things are right now. There are psychological models that deal with “I feel a way, and I don’t want to”, but I’m not a psychologist and never will be, and frigid regurgitation of clinical models at you isn’t, I’m sure, what you or anyone outside a classroom needs.

I really tried not to. I even paused the segment when it showed his book to find out it was talking about “healing through God” – which to me grossly crosses a line for what a medical doctor should be doing. I didn’t go into the video thinking “this is bullshit”; I went into it because that’s standard practice I have for reading “person says X”-type articles like this. That’s why I was in such disbelief.

I don’t even like his rhetoric about how waiting for stability is some problem in need of solving because young people need to sacrifice their lives for the greater good muh birthrate.

In sum, I think this guy’s a shithead. What I don’t think is that this guy is advocating for 15-year-olds getting pregnant like the headline and the ever-convenient typo in the quote suggest.

Just remember at this point that you’re likely to experience a flood of regrets: “I didn’t spend enough time with her”, “Maybe I could’ve saved her if I [convoluted, long-shot scheme you had no way of thinking of]”, “I treated her too harshly”, “I didn’t give her a good enough life in some way”, etc.

Discounting the possibility out of hand you have some serious skeletons in your closet, none of this is true. You’ll want to feel agency over a situation you couldn’t possibly have controlled to any meaningful extent, and when the inevitable is in sight, the only way you may see to express that is to look backward – and when you didn’t do anything wrong, you have to make it that way.

If you experience that, what you might not see in the moment – looking at a present you have minimal control over and a bygone past – is that there is another direction to look. You can look toward the future – to honoring the love, comfort, and companionship she gave your life and sharing that with and finding that in the pets and people in your life going forward.

She knows she’s lucky, and she knows you’re lucky for having had her. You did a good job.

For nearly 20 years, I have served the public – as a prosecutor and a congressman and have always protected women. I will defend myself with the facts and where necessary bring legal action. My focus in the coming days is to be with my wife and children and defend our decades of service against these lies.

Okay, I’ve only just now read one article and haven’t fully formed an opinion yet (seems quite plausible given four independent allegations with corroborating evidence), but for right now, roping your children (seemingly all under 13 judging by a photo) into “our work” a real bitch move that he has to know he was doing as a congressperson and former prosecutor. He mentions no other person – even if he could be implicitly referring to people who work with him, he has to know given a prepared statement that this is an association that sentence creates. (But even then, it’s a bitch move to invoke other people into allegations solely against him.)

Aside: Can bad shit please stop happening? Could Swalwell seriously not have allegedly done this? Really, if that’s true, man? Because it seems pretty true??

While we were distracted with Iran, Washington and Oregon joined Canada and allowed their army to begin annexing into SoCal. Western Washington/Oregon was cool with it for social reasons; Eastern was cool with it for gas prices.

(Edit: Please see edit first for where I just realized this disconnect between reading and viewing might be coming from.)

Yeah, I really think it is. It’s more evident if you watch the whole video (and I really think you should). I think he was implicating 15 to 19 rates as partial evidence that ages of pregnant women are climbing – but not problematic unto itself. Later in the video, he makes the claim that people are gravitating to waiting until they’re into their 30s to have kids. I.e. the “problem” isn’t that underage teens are getting pregnant less; a drop in teen pregnancies is just used as a symptom of the reasons people are waiting until late 20s, 30s, or never to have kids.

Points that he makes throughout the segment are things like advances in medical technology making late pregnancies much more viable, and that certainly isn’t targeted at teen pregnancies.

Keep in mind that I have zero respect for this guy and would have no reason to doubt he would support teen pregnancies as “god’s will” or whatever the shit: the cover of his book shown in the segment tells it all. Even through that lens, I just don’t see it as anything more than a poor choice of words that can be easily quoted without the full surrounding context. I don’t blame anyone who comes away from this thinking I’m wrong; he’s earned not having a slip-up taken charitably.

EDIT: We weren’t even talking about the same “it” here. Something I just noticed reading that again (and maybe why I didn’t think it was fucked-up watching it): that Mediaite version of the quote gets it wrong in a subtle but very important way. The real quote is: “But the problem is teens and young adults. [keeping in mind 18 and 19 are teens] From ages 15 to 19 – the fertility rate is down seven percent […]” Notice that there’s a full stop in there. That’s the way he says it. “Teens and young adults” in a healthy-ish sense of pregnancy (I don’t think pregnancies at 18 are a great idea, but you do you, queen) would, to me, refer to 18 to 25-ish. Whereas the lack of a full stop (that’s definitely present in his speech) implies “teens and young adults” means “15 to 19 exclusively”. That distinct cut-off actually changes the meaning of what he’s saying.

• In the segment: “teens and young adults” having pregnancies later is the problem. Here’s 15 to 19 to show that we’re having pregnancies later, and here are some social factors that could explain that which I’ll then use to argue is similar in young adults.
• In the subtly malformed quote: “15 to 19” having pregnancies later is the problem.

The “it” I was talking about was having them so close together. The “it” you were talking about was having 15 to 19 being a problem.