My partner and I have never been on Twitter, which I think is a good thing in retrospect hahahaha

i was on twitter pre elon, it was still bad, but now the only thing that shows up in my timeline is religious posting, i don’t know if furries even use twitter anymore lmao.

It’s so much worse now, but i had to make an account to see a stupid tweet just to verify that it was real. I love the internet.

We also mostly stay within our immediate friend group, so I definitely am with you there. If we were more extroverted, we would have maybe met more people. But there was a single, very themed furry that we noticed

it tends to be like doesn’t it. I imagine that neurotic people have a sort of “neurosis radar” i have a weirdly eerie ability to pick out the weird people in a room full of people. It’s good fun though, i like talking to weird people, they have a lot more interesting things to say than normies do lol.

And was an incredibly cool person. And demolished my partner at beer pong like four times.

he was just gaming you the entire time lol.

nothing motivates more than disproving stupid things people say lol.

That’s the internet and the broader scientific community at large for you.

ah, bummer.

Coldplay is in it also? Man no wonder why the last season was so bad.

he was in game of thrones? When? Can we blame the downfall on him now? lol.

oh that might be the case, though anti education is a big part of the republican party right now, so it might be a multi layered joke lol.

F in chat for ed sheeran, and ugly ugly man, who made not very good music, but was loved by, some people.

Since the start of the conflict it looks like we’ve given ukraine more than $100b in funding. (not all of it is direct) (since 2022)

Israel has received $300b, which is more, but only 3x more, and this is since 1946, the literal founding of israel. Covering spending for the last two fiscal years, it seems to only be about $20b since the october 7th attack, though that’s a pretty rough figure.

in fact if we average these figures, $100b over 2 years is $50b a year, where as if we average the $300b over 78 years it’s only about $3.8b a year. Though in the most recent funding package we have given israel $12b or so in marked funding, which is considerably higher. Still not $50b though.

https://www.csis.org/analysis/past-present-and-future-us-assistance-ukraine-deep-dive-data https://www.cfr.org/article/us-aid-israel-four-charts

Yeah, well, my weirdness continues. I’ve got that ADHD time-blindness pretty damn hard, so future events which are inevitable might as well have already occurred in my perspective.

gotta love time travel, i mea-

That’s my prediction as well. Now that the Democrats are the new right-wing, the obvious competition would be a new left-wing party. It probably won’t be one of the existing “left” parties though, as they are almost all thoroughly captured by either foreign interests, state security agencies, or both.

idk that they’re the “new right” like i said i expect them to use moderate language, but then push for more progressive policy. It seems like a really successful strategy. Shit like “we don’t want the government involved in peoples healthcare” implies to me that it will be across the board, not only for abortion, but also shit like gender affirming healthcare. And that we will probably see similar things in schools as well.

Though im pretty sure the “far left” will probably splinter a bit more aggressively over this, i’m not sure how much that will do anything, or even matter, we’ll have to see.

it’s also possible that if/once trumps dies/drops out, that the republican party has to scramble to be normal again, and they either pick up a new normal (probably more moderate, otherwise they probably won’t win) pushing the dems further to the left, though im hoping some of that newer rhetoric stays put, just more progressive in general.

It’ll be interesting to watch.

The machine is only loud when it is actively scanning a patient which it doesn’t seem like was happening in this case. Otherwise it’s relatively silent.

yeah well i’m assuming that if the gun was “sucked into the machine” from the hands of the police officer, that it would have probably been relatively violent. Generally magnets aren’t very polite.

Also the big button is (in my experience at multiple hospitals) always in a different room behind a box that you have to open.

yeah i would have to know the floor layout of the specific place in order to make that judgement tbh. That was just my first insight on that one though. There’s a non zero chance he saw it walking in, police are generally pretty observant, and these buttons aren’t exactly well hidden either to my knowledge so.

it’s definitely at least in part intended. She has management now, for sure.

ugly people aren’t allowed to make music anymore?

well fuck me then.

it most certainly drew a lot of energy while the gun was inside of it lol

you mean to tell me someone who isn’t an MRI tech doesn’t know how to operate an MRI?

That’s weird.

MRIs are entirely electrical right? They just use liquid helium for cooling im pretty sure.

Obviously there are a bunch of mechanical parts as well, that goes without saying i think though. Most people wouldn’t be able to tell you the difference between mechanical logic and solid state logic anyway.

well i mean to be fair, if a rifle is ripped out of your hands, and into an MRI machine (which is going to be very loud) and you have no idea on how dangerous/bad for the machine it is. You’re going to hit the (probably) very big and very red button marked “E-STOP”

in fact the operator probably doesn’t even care about this, they probably only care about the raid itself lmao. The damage is just a function of the raid.

50 bucks is cheap compared to destroying the bed of your truck, and spending thousands on material

Ending the electoral college and changing to popular vote for the presidency is a very important goal and young people should commit to make it your life’s work, because that’s how long it will take to get a constitutional amendment done, and only if a sustained effort is made.

for now, if you want to do something and don’t want to think about the electorates, you can campaign for local voting reform in your state (which will have an effect on the electorates as well) plus then your state has better representation now.

yeah no, that should be the same, unless you wanted the senate to hold a proportional amount of seating to the house for some reason.

The senate and house are two independent bodies, they work together, and at odds simultaneously, the point is that the senate is different.

We could also just make it irrelevant by expanding Congress radically. Adding back all the seats we missed when we froze the numbers in the 1940s.

or we could just do a CGPgrey and rework the math because we have computers now.

stupid is as stupid does.

I’m not sure why this is surprising to you.