queermunist she/her

How’s Libya doing these days? Is it good?

So basically, you’ve made up your mind and there’s no evidence that could ever be presented to you to change it.

The 'ha’s are the point of tickling actually!

Armpits are for tickling and I will hear no counterarguments.

Don’t want to do even that? Then stop getting fast food.

That’s exactly right. Being against tipping as a concept is fine, but the idea that we can end tipping culture by refusing to tip is fundamentally accelerationist. “Surely if we torture the workers enough they’ll be forced to demand higher wages!”

Either we refuse to even be customers for places that underpay their workers, or we tip generously to try to make up for it.

I don’t think the politics of the porn can actually address the root problem, which is that we’re seen as inherently pornographic. It’s probably less bad for the porn to have good politics, but I don’t know if that’s actually the best solution to the problem. We need a lot more non-pornographic representation, but we probably also need less pornographic representation along with it.

The politics of the porn might even be irrelevant to the problem, because the problem is that our existence is X-rated. Whether the porn has good or bad politics won’t actually change whether or not they believe we need to be kept away from children.

The right-wing wants to ban us from public life because they believe a woman having a penis is inherently pornographic, because that’s literally their only exposure to us. It’s not just about the euphemism treadmill, the way porn portrays us is actively making our lives worse. We’re overly sexualized to the point that they believe they need to protect their children from us. It is dehumanizing.

Porn doesn’t have to be this way, but to fix it there would need to be a total transformation of the entire industry and media landscape. It’s a serious problem and no one wants to confront it, because they like their porn and don’t want to give anything up.

I’m against the LLM bubble. They’re gobbling up all of our compute, electricity, water, and basically all investment capital while not even generating productivity gains or improving anyone’s lives. Internet search is now dead, all my fan communities are just full of slop instead of art from artists, and the piggies that own the data centers are destroying all culture to feed their autocomplete machines. LLMs have accelerated the decay of civilization in a way that we might struggle to recover from when the bubble pops. Half the time it’s not even AI, the real work is just outsourced to some superexploited workers in the Global South.

There are some legitimate use-cases for LLM technology, but the way they’re trying to cram it into everything is actually just wrecking everything. It seems like they’re destroying the world for a worse calculator that can pretend to be your girlfriend.

It’s okay Mr Skeletal, I think a screaming skeleton is very scary.

It would have made a difference in Michigan specifically. He won by 80 thousand votes.

Far be it from me to argue against the US being a backwards shithole racist country, because it obviously is and death to Amerikkka, but I don’t like the narrative that he had some kind of mandate to govern because he is so popular. He really doesn’t. He’s started without a majority and it’s been down hill ever since.

By the by, that’s just of the people who bothered to vote. If we counted non-voters, he got 32%

Trump only got 49.9% of the vote. He has never been popular, even by capitalizing on disgust with liberals. It really wasn’t his election to lose, he’s not actually a strong candidate. He won by playing against an opponent that doesn’t want to win.

The only other reasonable explanation is that they’re too stupid and don’t know how to win elections.

If you think that the Democratic party are stupid, you are delusional.

By the numbers, yes. Trump’s turnout increased by 1 million from 2020 whereas Democrats decreased by 2 million, and the loss of Democrat turnout was what pushed Trump over the edge. He still only got 49.9% of the vote, after all.

The reason Harris lost is because people who voted for Biden in 2020 stayed home and because fewer young people voted than in previous elections, not because they voted for Trump. Democratic turnout fell by 2 million votes.

Harris chose to lose the most winnable election in history because Democrats know they can punish voters for being disloyal simply by allowing Republicans to win. If you demand too much from Democrats they will throw the election. It’s essentially a hostage situation, you must give unconditional support to the Good Cop or the Bad Cop will beat you to death. You don’t want the Bad Cop, do you?

If we don’t abolish this system we’re all going to die.

Ask me how I know you’ve never seen an argument about Russia.

Why shouldn’t they be assholes when they have to deal with piece of shit riders like you?

I would, because I don’t think this current body will last much longer.

If they replaced him who knows how long he’d be around?!

skill issue