The deaths in the camps that have been reported (or that I can recall seeing, anyway) have been by disease and an unconvincing suicide claim.

Makes it sound like they're setting the stage for the next generation of denialists to say, "They weren't murdered, they were only deprived (to death)."

It's pretty irrelevant for an article about violent crime, but it is nice to see the scams economy recognized as crime instead of 'innovation' for once.

The LaPierre era NRA was (aside from all that sweet, sweet embezzlement money) about establishing a well-armed SA, not an Iron Front.

Unfortunately, until we fix (read: abolish) the Senate, it might as well.

The real big challenge will be "Worse than Bush after Lehman Brothers"

There's Orange Dogbert from the cover of one of his books. And Pointy Haired Boss. Not sure if he ever wrote a picture of actual people.

Miller already called dibs on the FIFA Camp of the Saints trophy.

The political question of the past decade: Who was president in that year?

Floating this idea in a publicly accessible space is how you end up getting unsolicited messages from a stack of GPUs masquerading as a human. Gotta be careful about speaking things into being.

Genocide denialism's not-so-secret contradiction isn't just "it didn't happen, but maybe it should have" it's "it didn't happen and it should happen again"

They have completely fetishized the commodity. The finished product is the only consideration, not the care and craft that went into making it. Probably plays a role in why they generally aren't willing to pay their employees better.

Does renting a homunculus even count as necromancy?

Blind? Electrical tape over the camera. Deaf? Leave your pocket lint in your phone's mic. Dementia? It's an LLM, trying (to varying degrees of success) to cobble together decontextualized data into something that hopefully makes sense is its whole thing.

Everybody's been wondering why the administration is hellbent on bombing fishermen, but they remember who derailed their last attempt at regime change there.

Finally, somebody killed the computer