I don’t know how any of this works. What’s stopping Google from doing the same thing to old phones?

Same. Even adjusting for inflation, if I went back and told myself 10 years ago what I’d be earning in 2025, past me would think it’s “buy-whatever-I-want-money.” I can buy everything I need, but I never seem to have much left over.

I agree, and to the comment above you, it’s not because it’s guaranteed to reduce symptoms. There are many ways that talking with another person is good for us.

CBT is one treatment for depression - and you should stick with whatever’s helpful for you - but it’s not THE treatment. In the last couple decades there’s been a trend towards more flexible and integrative models like ACT and IFS. These models suggest that our efforts to avoid “bad” thoughts and feelings actually causes more suffering and keeps us stuck. Integrative models focus on allowing those things to exist, or even welcoming them in.

Do you have a source on your claim that data centers recycle water? Because these researchers state that 80% of the water is evaporated, and the other 20% is discharged to municipal wastewater facilities.

To be clear, the mandate specifically bans the consideration of race in the admission process.

I wonder if it was inspired by Alvin Lucier’s “I am Sitting in a Room”

I’ve spoken English my whole life, and I’ve never referred to someone’s appearance as “exhibiting a fact.” It’s not complete word salad, but it’s close.

There are a few users who post articles like this constantly. I’m on the other side of the world, so I have no idea if it’s propaganda, just something I’ve noticed.

To clarify my use of the word, I’ll quote Adam Johnson: “The atomic unit of propaganda isn’t lies - it’s emphasis.”

I would love to know how many people actually refused to vote for Kamala for the reasons you stated. Obviously it’s not zero, but I have seen some variation of the “are you happy now?” comment hundreds of times, and I’ve never spoken to such a protest voter in real life. Or maybe they’re everywhere and they’re too embarrassed to admit it.

Instead of pointing to gerrymandering, voter suppression and potential massive election fraud, the mass of comments like yours is starting to feel like straw manning.

This happens in a smaller way with access to prenatal testing and abortions. Parents with access to those things are at least able to detect and avoid the more debilitating birth defect, while parents without access are more likely to have a child with a severe birth defect. If they’re already struggling materially, that can sometimes guarantee that both the parents and child will have no upward mobility.

The country has tens of millions of idiots, yes, but please acknowledge that Republicans have only won elections by cheating, for decades.

Also not the person you replied to, but your comment is exactly the language they’re cautioning against. If I saw your comment attributed to a far-right nationalist, I wouldn’t be surprised.

Personally I think using dehumanizing language to describe fascists is letting them off the hook. I might want to believe we don’t share any DNA, but they’re humans who arrived at a certain worldview the same way I did. It’s just that their worldview is violent and disgusting.

I don’t know the reasons for denying his release, but there’s a great HBO documentary about the parole system called Nature of the Crime. Even though parole hearings are ostensibly based on a prisoner’s behavior, attitude, rehabilitation, improvement, etc. they often get denied simply because the crime was a brutal one. Unfortunately they can never go back and change the nature of the crime, so they’re at the whim of the parole board.

Ah, it’s been at the top of my list forever and I keep forgetting. Thanks for another reminder. I will watch soon!

The boy’s mother, who attended the court hearing, suggested in an interview afterward that the social media posts were an attempt to “be cool” among peers, KOMO-TV reported.

Obviously this is mom’s attempt to undersell her child’s plans, but I fully believe this has become a legit motive for young shooters. It’s hard to fully articulate my theory, but it’s something like: the more they rely on social media for self-esteem and validation, the less connected they feel to real-life people and events. They scroll through an endless stream of videos of humiliation, war crimes, pranks, and memes while having fewer of these experiences in real life. For some young people, their greatest achievement is to post a “deviant lick” that goes viral - a shocking inside joke that will label them a “fucking legend.” Add in a heavy dose of climate doom and cynical comments like, “Younger generations are totally fucked.” If someone feels like they have no future, at least they can grab a gun and blast their anger and despair at some NPCs while livestreaming for one last chance for some online attention.

Yes, it would help if guns are less accessible, but we NEED to be working on the epidemic of social isolation.

This is actually very cohesive. Well done.

AC adapters

I’m dying. So fucking funny.

Is that what you would say to the 8- and 10-year-old who were killed on a Wednesday morning? You’d point out how they’ve been completely fucked by policies and culture they have no control over?

I’m not angry about anyone saying they’re desensitized - we all are. But to read that little children were killed and take the time to write, “I don’t care anymore,” is mean and contributes nothing.