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Flabberghaster @flabberghaster.bsky.social · 4h

Yes! Half the reason people are so paranoid here is because society from top to bottom really *is* ripping you off. So of course everyone views everything in bad faith.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 18d

A really striking thing about the US is how it feels like everyone is constantly trying to rip you off. You have to hold constant vigilance against scam. Absolutely corrosive to social trust and a core part of our current political problems.

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Flabberghaster @flabberghaster.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah, I mean I don't know anything about her, she may be good, I wasn't necessarily disagreeing with you. I just kind of found it funny how directly you were laying out the trajectory

Flabberghaster @flabberghaster.bsky.social · 9h

This is the canonical definition of failing upwards: she sucks we gotta promote her so she can't keep messing up her current job.

Ro Khanna is kind of trump like in that he seems to just go with whatever the last thing he heard, and he seems to be surrounded by bizarre people with strange positions

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Flabberghaster @flabberghaster.bsky.social · 10h

A family pushing a stroller and one of them has a sign like "DUMP TRUMP" and that's about it. These are the hardened criminals of the notorious A.N.T.I.F.A.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 1d

*Lil Jon Voice* States' Rights to What

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Flabberghaster @flabberghaster.bsky.social · 1d

What are you gonna do? Put my spleen back in? Don't think so. Sounds like a you problem.

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Flabberghaster @flabberghaster.bsky.social · 1d

Teachers are generally not assigning homework because they care about an 8th grader's thoughts on the Pelopenisian war. They want you to think about the material. Using AI to write your homework is like calling an uber in a bike riding class: You get from point a to b but missed the point entirely.

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Flabberghaster @flabberghaster.bsky.social · 2d

That's possible. I'm not downing ebikes, I just ended up selling it to a friend and going back to my regular bike though. Easier to get up the stairs and doesn't take up as much space, plus a friend gets to use it now

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Flabberghaster @flabberghaster.bsky.social · 2d

I love ebikes in theory because I love to not drive, so I got one thinking it'd be a great way to get around. And it was, kind of, but I still ended up pushing at a pretty hard effort just as habit from regular biking and I end up getting just as sweaty as if I'd regular biked but with less cardio 😔

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Flabberghaster @flabberghaster.bsky.social · 2d

Why do childless people need to be taxed *more* and not just raise taxes on everyone? Why is fecundity a factor at all in this? Bizarre quiverful type wonkery.

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Flabberghaster @flabberghaster.bsky.social · 2d

Usually like this poster but this idea is controversial because it sucks in numerous ways. Oh well.

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2d

My most controversial take on this is probably that while I think reproductive freedom should be sacrosanct, I don’t really have any problem with additional taxes on (high income) childless people. Someone gotta pay into the pensions!

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Stella, Sandwich Enjoyer @evilgoblin.wedding · 2d

Only a week till release

Stella, Sandwich Enjoyer @evilgoblin.wedding · 5d

In 10 days my module The Door in Murex Canyon releases via @spacepenguinink.bsky.social. A small hex crawl and dungeon in a far future post apocalyptic industriazal wasteland. Dualstated for B/X d&d and Cairn. Perfect to convert to any dungeon crawler. Check out @itsjustgart.bsky.social cover art!

A partial color illustration in black, white, and purple. A hulking mostly mechanical figure will bull horns, a sword, and a poncho along side what appears to be a pointy eared elf with a staff gaze upon a massive mechanical door at the bottom of a natural stone wall. Text atop the illustration says The Door in Murex Canyon, a 5th level adventure for BX and cairn. It's credited to Condrey, Crader, and Gilraine.

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Flabberghaster @flabberghaster.bsky.social · 4d

Even the idea of teaching critical thinking skills would easily be latched on to as the next "the woke left are brain washing kids" scare just like critical race theory and DEI did. Even "woke" itself was just "be aware of what's going on" to start with.

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Flabberghaster @flabberghaster.bsky.social · 4d

It is so demoralizing that every time o have used AI at work, it doesn't work well. And every time a co worker uses it and I have to be involved, the AI didn't work well. But my bosses are demanding that we all integrate AI into our work.

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Flabberghaster @flabberghaster.bsky.social · 4d

I'm on there! I like it! The only reason I'm on here is network effects, most news type people I want to follow are here not there.

Discoverability is the main downside to it tbh. But I like it a lot better.

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Flabberghaster @flabberghaster.bsky.social · 4d

We need our own thing that doesn't depend on people who are very vocal about their desire to turn on us.

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Flabberghaster @flabberghaster.bsky.social · 4d

It's so annoying to me that "the left" so often ends up in places where the people in charge clearly hate us. The bluesky people are embarassed of being the place where trans people and leftists ended up. The dems, the party of the left, clearly hate being the party of gays, browns, and hippies.

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Flabberghaster @flabberghaster.bsky.social · 4d

The next dem president, if we ever have one, must federalize every GOP national guard and station them in empty warehouses twiddling their thumbs. They don't get to move a muscle unless we say so. Republican states don't get to do anything without the permission of their local antifa field marshal.

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Flabberghaster @flabberghaster.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah I know, i'm just joking around on the information superhighway.

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 4d

forum wars took over the government. the 10,000-page thread spilled out into the streets. people are getting their doors blown open and hogtied so that nerds can win an online argument. they tanked the dollar and fucked the economy permanently to own you

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Flabberghaster @flabberghaster.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah I can see why someone going through withdrawal might think "Maybe if I do this while in a coma i can get my withdrawal done without having to feel like crap." It's horrible. Sadly benzo withdrawal doesn't work that way. It and alcohol are about the only common types of withdrawal that can kill.

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Flabberghaster @flabberghaster.bsky.social · 4d

If Pritzker were a real man he'd order the Illinois National Guard to sack Austin but he doesn't have the guts.

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Flabberghaster @flabberghaster.bsky.social · 4d

That was under her watch I believe.

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Flabberghaster @flabberghaster.bsky.social · 5d

I don't want to throw around Munchausen's by proxy allegations, but like... Everyone is getting sick around her all the time. It makes a body wonder is all.

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