What these people do is they take something that’s vaguely true or at least has a kernel of truth in it and they give it the most sensationalistic and negative spin possible. So it can’t be “there were upsides and downsides to the switchover from incandescent bulbs”, it has to be “the greatest uglification in history”, and anyone who points out the energy saving advantages of LEDs and fluorescent lightbulbs is just trying to Silence You and smear you. It’s so wretched.

I knew some people who lived in Switzerland for a bit and they joked that it was a libertarian paradise because you can drink and smoke when you’re a teenager, the age of consent is 16 and everyone is issued a gun as part of their military service. I didn’t expect anyone to take it seriously…

Afaik Switzerland does have a unique system of federated democratic governance, one of the oldest democratic systems in Europe. The downside is that women weren’t able to vote in some Swiss cantons until the 90s.

Fire accidents seem to have the unique combination of producing extremely strong emotional responses by people in a local community, while also often being traceable to an o-ring like failure that you can over-index on.

Gee, why would people get emotional about friends and family being burnt alive. How bizarre.

Also I am not a fire expert by any means whatsoever and maybe I’m missing this guy’s point. But pretty much every account I have ever read of a fire that killed a lot of people is like “the building did not meet fire safety standards and the management had been dodging calls from the fire safety inspectors. Multiple people said the building was unsafe. On the night the fire happened the fire exits were chained shut.” Like, read about this horrendous fire that happened near where I live. There is no need to bring up o-rings. Fires in residential buildings and entertainment venues are not the same as fires on NASA spaceships.

Also fire codes do not control the size of fire engines. That’s a bad decision made by firefighters.

I don’t blame people for not understanding the complexities of a global economy that makes it possible to buy a nearly-magic artifact that no human alive can create on their own for just 16 cents.[1] It feels like there is a certain amount of Stuff in the world, and so if some people have a lot of Stuff that’s only possible because others have much less Stuff, and that’s unfair. If life is hard, it’s the fault of the people who took all the Stuff.

What a cunt.

The problem for them is that the cops are actually the army of the rich and state and national government is controlled by billionaire lickers. They could go to DSA meetings and picket, but at best they could get a DSA member to be rude to them and then complain about it.

Aella’s dumb fucking sign pisses me off. No shit the 1% pay lots of taxes, they have a lot of money!

These people are convinced it’s the poorest that are getting a free lunch.

There’s a Baudrillard one as well. I have a copy of the feminism one and I think it’s actually very good although very 90s

I don’t know very much about Nietzsche (I never finished reading my cartoon guide to Nietzsche), but I’m still pretty sure this isn’t Nietzsche

More like that cunt who pioneered leaded petrol and CFCs.

[levels of sneer unsafe for human exposure]

SNEER!

Sneer!

I can’t give this the sneer it deserves. More pics will follow

the AI Eater Speaks in a new interview.

What a great creature. Big ears, for hearing people say stupid things about AI.

This article genuinely made me furious on this woman’s behalf. It isn’t like most scenes or spaces are great at handling sexual violence, but in most spaces people would not accuse you of trying to silence and hurt men by saying you were groped!

Good website too

In the same way that in France, separation of church and state sounds good on paper but means “local government will still sponsor nativity scenes but schoolchildren will be banned from wearing hijabs” in practice.

definitely. plus the woman-hating background radiation of a lot of online communities and media for teenage boys.